Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1899-09-14
GENERAL NEWS.

Mr.. Perry Belmont has had
enough of expansion, and is now on
solid Democratic ground.
Croker seems TO have got such an
effective hiding place that folks are
beginning to ask where he got it.
Chief Justice Chambers of Samoa
has not resigned, and probably will
not do SO. He is merely absent on
leave.
A Manila paper states a son was
born to Aguinaldo at Tarlac last
month. Ten TO one like his father
he's up II arms.
In Chicago the other day a farmer
was robbed three times by gangs of
footpads. Can it be there's also a
higbwayman trust?
Matters in the Transvaal have
come to a pass where nothing but a
back-dOwn OF a fights possible. Who
is going to back down?
San Francisco set out to build a
city hall to cost $1,000, 600. The sum
Of IS, 900, 900 has already been ex-
pended, and the building is not yet
completed.
IF that Alaska disputed boundary
has been settled by granting Canada
a few more miles of ice and snow it
viii not increase the GOODNESS be-
tween that country and this.
The Oxford IN. O. Seminary,
President Hobgood writes, opens
with a boarding patronage 20 per
cent. larger than any previous open
ing in the long history Of the school.
The Rennes correspondent of the
london Daily Mail says that Drey-
fu's lawyers have learned that Germ
uschi is a harmless mailman who has
been under surveillance for some
time.
George KolkeF, of Cincinnati, has
Japanese eagle, which, he says, was
shot by Admiral Dewey. The pen is
twenty-one inches long and gold
mounted
1t is said that papers containing
French military secrets were convey
ed to the German Governments
through the medium of dolls. This
is the most interesting paper doll
that Paris has invented.
Only an accident can prevent this
years corn crop from breaking all
previous records. The Chicago Tri-
bune's canvass of States which pro-
duce the bulk of the crop justify a
prediction that the crop will =appro-
ximate $500. 900 bushels.
The Shamrock, the British boat
to race with our Columbia for inter
national honors, has shown such
speed since she got into racing trim,
and has made a few preliminary
spins, that the New York betting
odds against her have shortened
from 2 to 1 to 5 TO 4.
General Charles P. Eagan, Com
missa1y General, who has hardly
been heard Of since his gentle and
i~nnocuous court-martial and his
supposed retirement to the solitude
of a Hawaiian sugar plantation,
called on Mir. Alger in New York
last Wednesday. Owing to recent
events III the career of the Elk Sec
rotary, the call, it is supposed, was
of purely social nature.
The Ocala (Fla.) Star says: Pro
lessor Josiah Warn has returned
from Orlando and viii take up his
residence in Ocala, and will begin
the manufacture OF his patent tents
for protecting orange trees. Pro
lessor Warn has travelled and inter
viewed many orange growerssince he
left Oeala, and has received already
enough orders to keep him busy for
some time.
The Philadelphia Record observes
that the prediction that the proposed
scheme to unite all the New England
cotton mills has not had the pre-
dicted effect of stopping the migra-
ton of cotton mills from New Eng
land to the south, but that recently
several mills in that section have
folded their tents and stolen away
to this region. What is Goldsboro
doing to get some Of them?
Esterbazy has rewrittan for Black
and White, which has Illustrated it,
a portion of the boedereaa, with the
object OF substantiatlng he assertion
that the bordereau was written by
nm, and emphasizing tie fact that
hls handwriting has changed but
little since 1884 Photographs of the
document have been forwarded to
Rennes together with declarations
made before a Commissioner of
OatAs.
The Raleigh Post says: Frank FL.
Cameron, Jr., sol of Gen. T. H.
Cameron, has been appointed First
Lieutenant in the 35th United
States Infantry for service in the
Philippines. Mr.. -Gaaeron served
with great galIantry and credit to
hmHelf IN the Saptlago campaign as