Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-12-13
GOLDSBORO. N. G. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 49, 1900.

which it was designed and it would
have been more dignifed to take it
dawn at once. rather than leave it to
decay.
Champion James J. Jefries indig-
nantly denies the rumor that he is
engaged to be married to Miss Dor
othy Drew, the actress, and he thinks
that Miss Drew ought, in modesty
and propriety to have denied the
rumor, when it was called to her at
tention instead of encouraging it,
The agent at Charleston, S. c., of
the Plant System, has an elephant
on his hands. It is monster ele-
phant, and neither the Atlantic
Coast Line nor the Southern Rail
way will take the beast because the
car in which he travels is too large to
be handled. It is said that the Car
will not go through the tunnels at
Baltimore.
A st. Louis surgeon has discov-
cred a new anaesthetic. While per
forming an operation recently he
had an attendant pound a piano to
the tune of Because She Made
Them Goo-Goo Eyes," 'I'm Living
Easy" and other similar selections,
which had the effect of entirely
keeping the patients mind off Of his
other troubles.
Senator Frye announces the in
tention of the ship subsidy crowd
to loot the treasury Immediately.
They intend to press the bill to pas
sage at the short session, and there
seems to be no way to prevent this
heavy raid upon the peoples pock-
cts unless Mr.. Pettigrew decides to
expend his parting Senatorial breath
in talking it to death.
The recent death of Cadet Oscar
i. Booz. of Bristol, Pa, has brought
out before the public condition of
affairs at West Point that should be
exhaustively inquired into by a
committee of Congress, and the evil
corrected by the most stringent leg
islation. Many complaints have been
given to the public about the brutal
ity of hazing at both West Point and
Annapolis, and it is quite time that
Congress should absolutely elimi-
| nate this brutal feature from our
naval and military education.
| The census returns of Texas pre-
sent some curious facts. For in
stance, Bailey county has but four
residents; Cochran has twenty-five;
| Andrews has thirty y-seven; Lynn has
seventeen, and Dawson has thirty
six. twenty-five other counties have
populations of less than 500 each.
Some counties have no running
stream within their borders, some
are hundreds of miles from a rail
road. and others are almost wholly
inhabited by prairie dogs, jack rab
bits and rattlesnakes. Tom Greer
county, the largest N the State, ii
larger than the whole State of Ohio
and has but 6,9O4 inhabitants.
, Mrs. John A Powers Mills, aget
, eighty-two years, has cooked seven
ty-fve Thanksgiving dinners, says
correspondent writing from Alegha
ny. n. Y. She was seven years oil,
when she prepared the first one
i, Mrs Mills did other useful thing
besides cook Thanksgiving dinners
for in 1856, when she was Mrs. job
A. Powers, she was physician, an
began to practice in the city of Blu
falo. But always on Thanksgivin
Day she laid aside her professions
g cares long enough to cook the din
) ner. On Thursday she entertained
y large party of friends besides he
S own family.
L ALondon special says: The ques
l. ton of precedence at Washingto
between Mrs. Dewey and Mrs. Mile
W was referred to A p. Burke, editt
a of Burke's Peerage, who said: 9
IS the President likes to give prec
% dence to any other lady in the Stat
p than Mrs. Dewey Or Mrs. Miles
r. would be doing nothing wrong, a
I'd cording to our rules, but if M,
Dewey were to apply to me for
personal opinion I should say ths
m the army being the senior service
in America, General Miles wife tax
OF precedence over Admiral Dewey