Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-02-01
GENERAL NEWS

at Wilmington N. c., and at Savan-
nsh, Ga, for 514 cents, the highest
price since April, 1888.
So general has the war feeling be-
instead of a dove of peace at
that Hague conference, it rather
looks as if it had been a stool
pigeon.
A sale was made at Columbus, Ga,
one day last week of 10000 bales of
cotton at II cents per pound. The
purchaser gave In payment his check
for $133, OOO.
The ST. Louis Car Works, which
has been building a great many troll
ley cars of American design for Eu- |
cities will soon establish a
branch in England,
Mr.. John D. Rockefeller will give
the University of Chicago $780, 900 as
a result of the recent acquisition of
the Gurley archaeological collec
ton, which includes specimens of
seven hunded thousand Mississippi
Valley fossils.
The grand jury of Bibb county,
Ga. urges the Legislature of the
State to submit to the people the
constitutional amendment estab-
fishing the whipping post in Georgi
for misdemeanants under the age OF
sixteen.
In a special message to the Legis-
lature of South Carolina Governor
insolvency advocates the official
support of the General Assembly
for the proposed exposition to be
held in Charleston in 1901. No ap-
preparation is asked for.
The Ordinance Committee of At
lanta City Council recently met to
| consider the proposition to separate
the races on the street cars and pub
lie conveyances of the city. The
matter was finally referred to the
| Board of Police Commissioners.
Each battalion chief of the New
York Fire Department is shortly to
| be supplied with a pocket telephone,
which may be affixed to any fire box
and will then enable the operator to
talk directly with headquarters. The
| attachment is simple and the device
may be carried in an inside pocket.
While the Prince of Wales is I'M
doubtedly the arbiter Of fashion in
London and beyond his attempt to
boycott GA RoyalFami]y,'now being
produced at the Court Theatre be-
cause it made too much fun Of roy
atty, has resulted only in a big ad-
vertisement of the play and it is
having an enormous success.
A few years ago Benjamin F.
Small left st. Louis, leaving debts to
the amount Of SGT, 1000. Recently his
wife has returned to the city aid is
paying off all his debts with six pei
cent- interest. She offers no expla-
nation further than to say that hel
husband is an honest man and that
his good name is dear to her.
Governor Gambler, of Georgia, has
issued an order to the Aojutant
Generals Department instructlns
the department to proceed at once
to uniform the State militia. It viii
require about $4,000 to provide I'm
/ forms for all branches of the State
troops, numbering about 1000 men
The Philadelphia Record, which
has recently been trying to work III
an interest among the merchants O
that city in southern trade, says tina
progressive merchants have come tt
the conclusion that there is impera
tive need of a steamship line between
) Philadelphia and the more importan
ports along the Southern ~seacoast
Sensation has been caused in boil
society and business circles in Lon
don by the posting on the Stock Elk
change Of two women clients of well
known brokers because they hav,
been unable to meet their losses. I
has never been done before. Tn
, women in question are Lady Eliza
, beth BERTHE. sister of the Earl o
Lindsey. and a Mrs. Mauby who i
t not so we'll known.
Delegates from the faculties of tn
leading universities of the country
at a meeting in New York last weel
: adopted rules concerning colleg
athletics which are likely to cause a
upheavel in present methods. Chic
; of these is a decision that in futur
the college athlete must maintain
satisfactory standing in his class
and if a special student he will b
: required to have been in his un
!, versity at least one academic yea
: and to have passed such examine
lions as have been held.
It is proposed to change the civi
s charter of Vancouver, B. c., so ths
men whose wives own property ma
Il have two votes. Thus the henpecl
ed husband whose vote has alway
heretofore expressed his wife's opi1
ion at the polls will now be able t
nullify it by his own vote withou
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