Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-03-22
GENERAL NEWS.

Brother Sheldon has forbidden
the use of tobacco in the Topeka
Capital office during his occupation
of the editorial tripod.
Mrs. Hannah Parmelee, of Ha-
wanna, ILL.,, who is 81 years old, has
just cut two teeth. Mentally, also,
the old lady is IL her second child
hood.
While not many papers of the
country regard as serious the re
appearance Of Ben HarrIson's ice
wagon even a mention of the once
famous vehicle IS sufficient to pro-
duce cold chills in Washington ad-
ministration circles.
It is rumored in London that
Mrs. CORVALLIS West intends to
present Mrs. Lengtry's daughter,
Jeanne, at the next drawing room.
Also that the Queen may decide to
forbid the presentation.
Some days have elapsed since the
arrest in New York Of young girl
for selling gum without a license,
but as yet there is no news of any
movement looking TO the i~ncarcera
ton OF the chewers.
lob Sloane is going to build a
magnificent villa Or Coney Island.
He has already bought the ground,
engaged an architect and deposited
$4,000 with q trust company for
the commencement of the work.
According to an official announce
ment made by George Wydham,
Parliamentary Secretary of tie War
Office, England will have IN South
Africa when the Eighth Army Di-
vision reaches there a total of 2OS,-
900 troops.
Why have none of the New York
papers pointed out, IS yet, the incon-
gruity Of rechr1stening such a fast
ship as the Paris the Philadelphia?
Are they too busy keeping up with
the swift developments oI the war
on vicce in the metropolis?
General Fred Grant tells n in
terviewer IN the Philippines that he
is not 4 candidate for the V1ce-Presl-
Observation-Disclosures. ana is doing moth
ing to secure IL, but lIlat he should
like suol . nomination lust as any
other man naturally woAla.'
The three talles6 men IN the House
T Richardson, of Tennessee: Berry.
of Kentucky, and Bell, OF Colorado.
all Democrats; while IN the Senate,
Clark, OF Montana. also a Democrat
will not, despite his expenses, be by
any means the shortest-n he gets
in.
Kuhn, Loeb & Co.. Of Wall street
New York, have given to the widow
of a recently deceased employe a pen
sion Of $1,000 a year, which Is the
full amount of the salary he was paio
when alive. This is one of the oval
street methods which need not be
viewed with alarm.
The silence with which has been
received Governor Roosevelt's an
nouncement that he does not wan
to be President is certainly unani
NOUS enought to be eloquent. The
colonel could easily be more siren
uous than the present incumbent i
thst is why the job does not seen
attractive.
Everybody at the Lotos Club din
ner to the Gridiron Club last Satur
day night who was big enough t.
make it worth while, was ~satarizeC
numerically. When Governo
Roosevelt told the Washington cor
respondents that he knew them o
old they shouted: 'Of course yo1
do; we made you"
Queen Wilhelmina, of Holland,
represented as viewing with anxiet
the approaching visit of the Shah O
Persia, who is expected to pay hi
respects to her on his way to tn
Paris Exposition. She remember
with a housewives tenacity tina
when the late Shah paid a visit t
Antwerp he was put up in the King
palace, and that after his departur
the carpets, upholstery and furni
ture had to be renovated.
The Congressional committee ha7
ing charge of the affair reports ths
at the time President Mckinley ap
pointed Postmasters in Logan an
Provo, Utah, he was not aware tbs
the appOlntees were charged wit
polygamy. The report further say
that in the communities in whic
the appointees lived it was commo
repute that they were polygamist
Men can be cured privately and DO
itively st home of all weakness an