Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1899-10-19
GENERAL NEWS.

NIL NAA A. ~
Lady Randolph Churchill, who
has repeatedly denied that she was
engaged to be married to young
CORVALLIS West, now declares that
the engagement is off, and this, with
the reported i~nconsolable grief of
the young soldier, surely ought to
settle it.
Judge Lynde Harrison, one of the
executors of the will of the late
Henry B. Plant, is authority for the
statement that nc proceedings have
been taken before the Probate
Court OF by an appeal to the Su-
perior Court of New Haven, Conn,
to attack the will.
Mrs NJ. Ormsbee, a popular So
ciety woman of Springfield, Ohio,
cut John Knapp, a prominent mer-
chant, three times cross the face
with a small whip because the mer-
chant kicked her dog. Suit and
counter suit charging assault and
battery have been fled.
The citizens of Houston, Texas,
are trying to buy the cage in which
Dreyfus was confined on Devils Is
land. They have already written to
the President of France about it,
offering a large sum for it, and if
they receive it will place it on ex
hibition in this country. Now if there
really was no cage the French gov
eminent should manufacture one at
once.
It having been decided that the
official emblem of the Pan-American
Exposition at Buffalo is to be re-
produced in plaster, two models are
now wanted who shall be the two
most beautiful women in the United
States. A blonde and a brunette are
needed and all the press agents in
the country are at work already try
ing to turn the incident to their own
advantage.
Miss Mcclellan, of New York, is
proposing an endless chain-has al
ready started it, in fact-to raise a
fund with which to present a gold
loving cup to Rear Admiral Schley.
The sum asked for in each letter is
ten cents and should the amount
collected prove too big for the cup
1t will be used to purchase a house
for the admiral.
The Rev. Dr.. De Costa, of New
York, has Withdrawn from the Epis-
copal Church, although he appears
to advance the idea that the church
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principally to the Briggs controversy
he says 'the Episcopal Church has
made a new departure and I cannot
go along with it."
Some prominent French politi-
clans have visit President Loubet to
ask him to declare general amnesty"
in order to restore "peace" to the
country. The request is, of course,
understood to refer to all the peo-
pie concerned on either side in the
case and taking the whole
into consideration amnesty
and peace" do not seem to be too
strong.
A sensationational preacher in At
recently said from his pulpit
that Governor Gambler served punch
at a reception recently given at the
Executive Mansion. The Governor
denies. He says that there neve has
been a drop of punch in the Mansion
since his occupancy began. He is at
loss to understand why the
preacher should have made such q
The Rev. DIR. Charles r. Kings
ley, of New York, in a recent adj
dress concerning children and their
welfare, has raised objection to the
use of the prayer sNow 1 lay me
down to Sleep because it fills the
child with notions of death. 1.-The
main petition of the child is that
God should take him if he Does"
says the doctor. "But there is moth
ing about how he should live"
Rudyard Kipling will address a
political meeting in London next
Friday in support of the govern
ment's policy in the Transvaal dis
pute. In view of the novelist's disin-.
clination or inability to live on this
side because of his brother in-law
no one would be surprised to see
him make the best of the situation
by going in for politics in England.
Among other things it might result
IN a new lot of most surprising
copy"
An Ohio man by paying $75 has
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