Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-01-18
GENERAL NEWS.

A Washington dispatch Of Janu~
airy - says: Receipts for the Law
ton fund have reached a total of
$50, 1O1, %.
When a girl throws herself at a
man who doesn't want her SO hard
that he feels ashamed, it IS said by
the other women that she stakes an
interest in him"
The late Cornelius. Vanderbilt
left $4,000 to the Vanderbilt Uni
~versity, at Nashville, and a check
for that amount has been received
by Chancellor Kirkland.
Last week there were 90 cases of
cigars shipped from Tampa which,
put into figures, means 100000
cigars. The value of these goods is
far above the average price.
Associate Justice Brewer of the
United States Supreme Court, in an
address IN a Congregational church
at Washington, last Sunday, pre
dicted that the twentieth century
will be noted for greater unity in
religious life" THE UNCONVENTIONAL
rivalry and strife of the present
century," he thinks. are to be sue
ceeded by "Christian unity"
William Waldorf Astor has been
dropped from the directory of all
the national American banks in
which he is interested, because of
the law which prohibits aliens from
oa0177ov1n n c77oh rooifono H uy;11 of
course, continue to exercise his con
troll Of the institutions in question
through his business representatives
who will be elected in his place.
The new law passed in Norway
compelling girls to show certificates
of skill in cooking, knitting and
spinning before being permitted to
marry seems hardly complete. It
should be supplemented by a law
rendering men ineligible for matri-
mony who cannot show certificates
of proficiency in building fires, stay
ing in at night and similar desir-
able accomplishments.
Scandal threatens the Soldiers
Home at Bath, n. Y, because Gen.
Sickles, president Of the Board Of
Trustees, is accused of having re-
ceived and converted to his own use
eggs belonging to that institution.
In defense Of the general it is said
the eggs in controversy were a pres
ent from a friend who owned the
hens that laid them, and the hens
were not worked over time.
A side light of more or less in
tensity, but having probably a ray
or two of pure white in it, is thrown
on the success Of Aguinaldo in elud-
ing our troops by the latest report
from Manila, that while General
Young has personally offered S., 900
for the willy chieftain, General Otis
wants him to escape IN order to
avoid the troublesome problems
that might follow his capture.
Almost unusual immigration from
Finland to the United States and
Canada is expected this year. One
steamship line has arranged to bring
over $4,000 Finnish peasants. It is
said that thousands of families will
conne here to engage in farming in
the hope of lettering their condi-
ton and especially with a view to
escaping the new political conditions
imposed upon Finland, eleven
months ago, by the Russian Govern
ament.
The suggestion by Professor Had
ley, OF Yale, that trusts may be cured
and suppressed by the social ostri
clsm of the trust promoters, will
hardly do. The promoters are suf-
fciently numerous to form a society
of their own, which, SO far as money
goes, would be 'good society,", and
the members of which would repre-
sent every known interest. 1t would
be a society, too, which the outsid-
ers would struggle as hard as ever
ito enter.
The British steamship Monmouth
sailed from Baltimore on Wednes-
day on a voyage of 14,425 miles to
Melbourne, Australia, with the larg-
est cal go of steel rails aver shipped
from an American port in one YES
sci. Under her matches were 5.1OO
tons of Maryland-made rails, which
had been converted from the natur-
al ore at Sparrows Point. The big
steamer carried also 1,49O tons OF
coal and will replenish at st. Vincent
Cape Verde islands.
S~torekeepers in several Western
cities-notably Denver and Kansas
city have been greatly annoyed O
late, says the Philadelphia Record
by the activity of a clever feminine
shoplifter who plays her vocation
with the aid of a false arm. She
wears a long cape. the front O.
which, hanging open, disclosed t.