Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-01-25
GENERAL NEWS

Exposition managers and our com |
there because, despite
certain alleged rules and promises
as to alignment, Turkey is being
permitted to build it's pavilion as to
overshaaow the latter and make it |
look like an annex or side show.
However much sympathy may be
felt for the struggling Beers among
the American people. Congressional
action in their behalf certainly
would be in exceedingly bad taste.
How would we have felt had Par
lament by formal vote expressed it
self friendly to Spain during our
recent war.
A bill has been introduced in the
New York Legislature to require
the date of the canning to be placed
on all canned goods. This is, of
course, to prevent the sale of old
goods as fresh ones, but it does not
appear that the measure furnishes
any means of preventing the fraud
O. dating the cans ahead.
There is much discussion as to
the probabilities of this years CEN
sus. Estimates vary all the way from
100000 to 8O,OOO,OOO. So far as the
real welfare and greatness of the
country is concerned, it doesn't mat
ter one whit which of these esti-
mates is nearer the truth. Quality
and not quantity is the thing to be
considered.
William e. English. son of the
former Democratic Vice President
ial candidate from Indiana, has re-
turned to the Treasury Department
a check for ST, ,173 sent to him as
pay for mis- services as captain of a
volunteer company during the war
with Spain. He says he will not &C
cept pay for service to his country
in time of danger.
Some of the cares of the newspa-
per editor are indicated in suit
for $4,000 damages for libel
brought by Solomon Bu1khalter, of
Lafayette, Ind, against the Daily
Journal, of that city, because in
, serial story running in that paper
the name of the late Mary Burkhal
ter is mentioned in association with
other characters in the fc ton in
way, it is alleged, to cf.st obliquy on
the family name.
Objection is made by some of the
citizens of East Orange, n. j to
acceptance of Andrew Carnegie's
offer of $4,000 for the building of a
library there, on the ground that
because nearly all the residents are
| well-todo and can have all the books
they want, no such institution is
needed. The acceptance of the gift
involves the supplying of site by
the citizens and the guarantee of
| S., 900 year to support the library.
The war in South Africa has di--
| verted attention from the operations
F., of the American army in the Philip
pines. Yet nearly every day brings
fresh evidence of continued activity
there, and while there have been no
pitched battles, the aggregate of
shirmishes, each with it's proportion
of casualties, shows that it is no
are engaged.
The movement begun by the
| Daughters of the Confederacy of
| Virginia to erect a monument to the
poet priest, Father Abraham Joseph
| Ryan, is one which will receive the
cordial endorsement of every true
Southern man, woman and child. No
nobler spirit ever lived than the be
| loved poetlaureate of the Southern
Confederacy. as he was aptly term
ed B is writing, his deeds and his
memory are a precious heritage to
the Southern people,
A Pittsburg concern has received
an order for some wire glass strong
enough to walk on and freproof. to
be used on the Tower of London.
Thus American visitors to the Tow
er will add to their recollections of
julius Caesar, William the Conquer
OR, Lady Jane Grey, Sir Walter Ra
leigh, the Traitors gate and the
IBeefeaters. the memory of good,
solid Pittsburg glass with steel wire
wound with asbestos yarn imbed-
ded in it.
The Republicans of Florida, al
ways early in the field in a Presi-
Dental campaign, held on Friday at
st. Augustine, their State Conven-
ton for the choice of delegates at
large to the Republican National
Convention. They recognized the
.'color line" to the extent of choos-
| ing two white and two colored rep
resentatives. The proceedings of the
CONVEX Jon were orderly and har-
monious. There were 10 contests to
be carried to the National Conven-
tion at Philadelphia and no contro-
versis over the instructions of the
delegates.
i Tt is not surprising to observe the
name of Lord Rosebery cropping uI
in the English naWSnanarS and ir