Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-05-10
GENERAL NEWS

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Secretary Long sat down hard on
Captain Chadwick for going into the
news papers to criticise Admiral
sSchley.
We shall see in November how
good a fortune teller General Grosve-
ner is in his Mckinley re election
representations.
AS the Republicans seems so glad
to get rid of Pingree, the Demo
cratic jubilation over capturing him
may be abated somewhat.
American corn is gaining great
popularity at the Paris exposition.
Those efete Europeans will find out
what is good after a while.
The report that Cecil Rhodes is
now anxious for "a peace of any
kind are probably without founda-
ton. He doubtless continues to
want the whole thing.
The killing of twenty American
soldiers in one garrison in the Phil
'ippines yesterday is ~deplorable. but
can we blame the Filipinos? Have
not men the world over the right to
fight for their libarties?
It has been figured out by fnan-
-cial statisticians in this country that
the expenditures by Americans
abroad, brought about by the Paris
Exposition. will amount to $40, 00O,-
900 in excess of the average yearly
sum spent by European tourists
from this side.
The colors to distinguish contes-
tants in the automobile races in
Paris for the International Cup, Of
fered by the Automobile Club of
France, have been decided upon.
They are red for America. blue for
France, white for Germany and yell
low for Belgium.
Statistics being gathered by the
Board of Health of New York indi-
cate that three thousand more deaths
from influenza have occurred during
the grip epidemic prevalent since
February than during the CORES
ponding period of last year from the
same cause. This will make the
death rate from this particular NAL
,ady from Is to 20 per cent higher.
At a bal poudre to be given by the
Colonial Danes and the Daughters
of the American Revolution, at New
Brunswick, n. j., to night, the men
were to have worn court costumes OF
the Ellizabethan period, with wigs
and breaches, but because of the al
legged lack of symmetrical yigor in
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be permitted to wear long trousers.
though the wigs will still be re.
eQuired.
Herman @. Norman, who is said to
have been the best dressed man in
London while there and who is now
the third secretary the British en-
bassy at Washington. takes a valet
and a change of clothes with him
according to the New York World.
whenever he accepts an invitation tC
a dinner dance, so that he may ap
pear at the dinner III a Tuxedo jacket
and at the dance which follows In
full evening dress.
The new law for New York pro
hibiting the sale of the plumage O.
certain wild birds for use in mill
merry has been signed by Governor
Roosevelt. It will take an arnitholo
g1st to tell what may and may no
be worn or, at least to determine, b.
an examination of the feathers
whether the law is being violated il
each particular case that may com
up. The wearing of the plunage o
sparrows. COWS, hawks, gulls, black
birds, cranes, ravens and kingGsher
is not prohibited.
Records by months of contribu
tions to the Dewey arch fund ar
curious. The contributions for tn
moth of November last footed u
$4,000. For december, when tn
Admirars engagement to marry wa
announced, the amount was $40, O0C
For January, when the Dewey hous
was deed to Mrs. Dewey, it was 81
900. For February it was $40, 00C
for March it was 24,3OO, and fo
April, when the Admiral's candidac
for a Presidential nomination wa
announced, the sum was 81, $3.50.
Night Sweats, loss of appetite, wea