Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1899-12-14
CENTRAL NEWS.

John G Wh1ttel returned home
from revival service on Friday
night and began to read his Bible
Whi,e reading he was seized with a
choking sensation and died.
DR.. e. B. Andrews, superinten-
dent of the Chicago public schools.
has declined to talk concerning the
report that he will be offered the
position of Chancellor of the Ne
braska State University.
The Duke of Manchester, who is
now in New York, and who was re
Gently informed that his favorite
sister was dying, is i'll and was not
| able to sail on Saturday as he had
expected. HIS departure was post
poned until Wednesday of this
| week.
A bill has been introduced in the
French Chamber of Deputies to vote
| $4,000 francs year for the main
tenance Of French schools in South
America. lhis is for the purpose Of
fostering and developing French in
fuence IN the Southern continent,
which is threatened by "Ieutonic
aggression.
It it reported that the hotel keep
ers of Paris have formed q trust and
agreed to charge their guests min
imum Of S5 per day without meals
during the Exposition. This is an
other illustration of the rapid adop
| ton of American institutions by
foreign countries.
The notion of Aguinaldo's mother
that he would not be such general
nuisance if he were educated enough
to resist the bad counsels of his
Ministers, shows what the maternal
| limitations sometimes are, and con-
tain a hint for new field Of useful
ness for the Mothers Congress
movement.
The Baptists of Brooklyn are go
ing to build $3.50, 900 church which
will have a roof garden where ser
vices mag be held during the sum
mer evenings. There will be four
elevators to carry people up and
down. The pastor, the Rev. A. g.
Dixon, says no drinks OF any kind
Will be sold.
Two trolley car motormen of Bos-
ton have been suspended from the
congregation of the Broadway Tab
ernacle church, of that city, for run
ming their cars on Sunday. When
the young men got their jobs they
were warned by their pastor not to
work on Sunday. They applied for
that day off and were refused. Both
men have families.
It is perhaps as a concession to
public opinion and precaution
against further uproar that Admiral
Dewey has taken a pew in ST. Paul S
Roman Catholic Church, Washing
ton, and another in st. Johns Epis-
copal church in the same city. But
this leaves the Presbyterians. Bap
: fists, Methodists and several other
denominations still to make objec-
ton.
A South African correspondent of
the New York World says that some
British troopers, trying to emulate
} Funston during the battle of Mod
der River, swan the stream under
fire. but finding things too warm
; when they were nearly across, they
, were forced to retire and Joining
hands, swan back" General Funs-
ton will have to try again if he wants
to keep the record.
Prof David Wolfe Marks. of Lon
don, who has just entered his eighty
. ninth year. is still in possession OF
his faculties, but he seldom otficiates
in the Reformed Congregation (Jew-
) ish) in London, which he founded
: About year ago, had the professor
ship Of Hebrew in University Col
lege, London. Many years ago DR.
. Adler, then chief Rabbi of the Eng
: lish and German Jews, ex-communi
Gated him for his liberalism.
If bill to be presented to Con
gress goes through, which seems
likely, the Bureaus Of Steam Engi-
neering and of Equipment, as indie
Q pendent naval bureaus, will be prac
tically abolished, and the matters
9 handled by them will be turned ov
= erto new Bureau of CONSTRUCTION
Hichborn will have exclusive con
. troll The bill, it is expected, will b.
y fought with some energy, but since
secretary Long IaVOfS IL, WILL prop
p ably go through.
d General Butler shows the charac
v teristics of soldier in his rebuke O
the civilians who persistently accus
Ia the Beers of dishonorable conduct
= cit is not contrary to civilized war
u fare" he writes in reference to som
70 recent charges. ''to shoot horses, bu
9 it is contrary to honorable conduc
N to abuse brave enemy" This j
It said in the right spirit It is not th