Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-02-08
GENERAL NEWS

That proposition of the Beers to
direct a river through Ladysmith
means the soldiers there must take !
water whether they want to or
not.
In Abilene, Kan, where. as in
most small towns, the population has
acquired the habit of going in a body |
to the railroad station every day at
train time, the aldermen have pass
ed an ordinance making it a INSIDE
meanOr for any citizen to go to the
station except on business. This has
been done in the hope of. reviving
the Industries of the place.
The theory that the Count de Cas-
tellane came over to get hold OF
money and that he is badly in need
of 1t has gained many adherents
since the fact became known that
there has been a secret conference
Of the members of the Gould family
which was attended by the count
and by John +. Dillon, who, with
George Gould, is a trustee of the es-
tate.
Governor Roosevelt's see in
ousting Lou Payn from the office of
State Superintendent of Insurance
is generally regarded at his first
really decisive victory over the ma
chine since his election. The reas-
oning friends of Mr.. Payne, who are
now the enemies of Mr.. Platt, say
nothing more than wait" but they
put a good deal of ominous meaning
into the word.
No time should be lost in investi-
eating the story which comes from
San Francisco that the food and
Thomas by Miss Helen Gould just
before the ship sailed for Manila and
intended as gifts for the soldiers on
| board were sold to them for money.
Three hundred of the turkeys given
by Miss Gould rotted and were
thrown overheard, presumably be-
cause the men did not buy them fast
enough, and yet such Of the pri-
Yates as had money paid as high as
thirty-hve cents sometimes for a
| piece Of turkey.
England has now in South Africa
or on the way thither the largest
army she ever has put in the field.
The figures gwen III the House of
Commons place this force at more
than double the whole number of
| troops that were sent to the Crimea,
| and of curse IS beyond all compar-
ison with the numerically small ar
mics that Wellington commanded.
Without doubt this is the largest
army that was ever embarked IN SO
remote a war, and no war involving
quite the same military difficulties
has ever been fought upon SO large
a scale or under the same condi-
tons
uniformed as their opponents assert,
they may be credited with having
invented their reported plan of dam
ming the Kip river, below Lady
smith. in such a way as to flood the
beseiged town and drive the soldiers
and other inhabitants out of the
bomb proof castle into the raised
places of the open where they may
be shelled at leisure. But since Dom
Paul and his people are pretty close
Bible students they may have got
the hint for their idea from the re-
verse process of Cyrus the Great.
the Persian monarch, who shut off
the river flowing through Babylon
and marched his army into the city
through the dry bed of the stream.
Every lover of literature will be
glad to learn that the banker poet,
Edmund Clar.nce Stedman, has quit
Wall street forever and intends to
devote the rest of his years to work
Of a more congenial character than
the mere making Of money. His gen
tie, am1able nature has kept him in
the ranks of literary men all the
while he has been watching the ticker
and the margins of his customers.
When the market dragged his
thoughts moved in iambic measure.
While he was always a part of the
busiest business world, Stedman
never missed a reception night at the
Authors Club or failed to be at
home at the w~ell-known hour on
Sunday to welcome those lovers OF
books who enjoyed the pleasure Of
his company.
Miss Virginia Montgomery, Of
New Orleans, is the creator of the
monument to be erected at San An
. tonic, Texas, to the Confederate he
roes of the civil war. The unwilling
of the monument will take place in
the spring. The shaft is being erect
ed under the auspices of the Local
chapter Of the Daughters of the Con
federacy. When this organization
decided to honor the memory Of
their heroes Miss Montgomery sub
mitted a doing and it was accepted
Miss Montgomery is a kingswoma1
of the heroic Montgomery who fell al
Ouehec in 1775. She Was born III