Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-05-31
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some quarters to be a conspiracy
against the oyster trust.
When Senator Hoar was asked
what he had been reading lately he
said: For serious work David
Harum,' for light reading and amuse-
ment I've been going through Glib
bon again"
In a police court in Washington a
young fellow named Robert Jackson
was fined $40 Tor having walked up
a night Waterman. Perhaps this is
the kind Of Waterman they have had
at the Havana Post Office.
In Chicago where men are largely
finding employment as chamber
maids and cooks and employment
agency has just furnished a woman
to do ploughing and other field work
for a farmer living not far from the
city.
General Alger has disposed of over
a hundred quare miles of timber
land he owned in Canada because, is
he explains, he has been frozen
out" of the timber business there
by reason of the lretaliatory legisla-
ton of the Canadians against our
tariff laws.
It can hardly be scheduled
as news that the Tammany del
egation to the New York State
convention will opposethe nom
nation of Controller Coler
for Governor nor indeed is it news
that the Tammany opposition will be
successful.
The wardrobes which the Count
de Castellane has just bought for
$3.50, 900 are. according to furniture
experts, the most magnificent ever
made. They were manufactured for
Louis XIV. and are of tortois shell
veneer, almost entirely covered with
carved brass.
That the purpose Of the promised
visit Of the Khediye Of Egypt to
these shores is to take back all the
Streets of Cairo girls he can find can
hardly be possible considering the
magnitude Of the Job. At the same
time everybody here would gladly
lend him a helping hand.
The moving pictures of the Wild
U7oo4 fo- Az 4olio~
of which are being made at the Ed
son laboratory in West Orange, N.
j., are going to be the biggest on re-
cord. There will be 5000 separate
pictures on a film $4,000 feet long,
all in one piece, and the figures when
thrown on the serene will be life
size.
T. Fl. Roddy, the Chicago Irish
man who is to become chief (by cleo.
tion) of the Winnebago Indians Of
Wisconsin. has just received a chal
1enge to mortal combat from Thun
der, a young chieftan of the tribe
who aspires to the place won by the
WAAUO "dA Ii NAdA1CbSC1 ouSSOSU
a meeting at the grave of old Black
hawk with tomahawks.
Having invited the Boer ENJOYS
to visit them and having heard thai
the invitation has been accepted thu
City Council of Boston now dis
owe that it has no money to spen6
for their entertainment and that th,
Mayor will veto all attempts to rais'
it for such purpose. Even the Eng
lish they talk in Boston is made
quate to properly express the feel
ings of the Councilmen.
Senator Depew in making a speecl
in Washington over the telephon
to members of the Transportation
Club of which he is president, a
dinner in New York. appears to hav
broken the record. The distance i
about 225 miles. AS there we're onl
sixty receivers and about 100 diner
the Senator was obliging enough t
make the speech twice. It was flu
of jokes.
It is rather curious that while tn
Holy Synod of Russia has at las
placed the ban of the Greek Churc
on Tolstoi the thing was done wit
the least ostentation possible b,
cause of a fear that it would excit
the wrath of the peasants. Thong
Tolstoi publicly Joined the Orthodo