Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-05-24

D00Q.
Richard Yates, the Republican
nominee for Governor of Illinois,
was class mate of W. J. Bryan in
the old Illinois College.
Armor-Plate Carnegie favors, of
course, the re election of Mr.. Nc
Kinley. He makes scapegoat armor
plate that the softnose shells scorn.
General Grosvenor has a rival in
the prediction figure business in
the spirit Of the late Daniel Webster.
So long as it is not Webster Davis
all is we'll
The cable is silent as to the recep-
ton the Duke of Marlborough will
receive at home. As a returning hero
he can proudly say that he saved
every valet.
President Steyn's latest capital,
Lindley, has also fallen, and his mar
gin for capitals is growing beauti
fully less. He may yet have to fall
back on Timbuctoo.
After the Rev. Mr.. Sheldon has
solved the servant girl problem, any
other little matters that bother the
American people will be attended to
on receipt of requests by postal
card.
Mansour, the horse that ran third
in the Grand Prlx of Paris in 1894,
and came in only length and half
behind Match Box, which sold for
$4,000, is now pulling public cab
in the streets of the gay capital.
Washington is stirred to the CEN
ter, so to speak, by the social rival
ries of Mrs Hay and Mrs. Hill. The
latter is holding her own, although
Mr.. Hill is only an assistant to Sec
retary of State Hay. She scorns of
fetal rank.
Frank Jones, delegate at large
from New Hampshire to the Repub-
lican National Covention, has offered
to pay the transportation and all
hotel expenses of all the other New
Hampshire delegates during the
time of the convention.
Although Chief Justice Brantley.
of the Montana Supreme Court, has
been appointed as one of the Judges
who are to select the names for the
Hall of Fame to be erected in New
York city, there is no reason to be-
ieve that the name of w. A. Clark
will appear on the selected list.
The American employees of the
De La Val Separator Conpar Us
works at Poughkeepsie struck IN a
body when the Swedish flag was
hoisted to the top of the fagpole on
the factory, and they stayed out un-
til the banner was lowered and the
Stars and Stripes run up in its place.
The reason why Admiral Dewey
has to pay the market price for fire
wood, while all the other naval of
fcers get it at reduction of about
fifty per cent, is because of the Ad-
mirals exalted rank. In the present
season, however, the ruling is of
small moment. If it were ice, now, it
would be serious.
Loch Lynn Heights, little noun
tain town in Maryland, has had a
sharp lesson on the evils of politi-
cal Indifference Only fifteen votes
were polled at the town election last
Tuesday, and when they were count
ed it was found they had elected a
ticket put up by somebody for fun
and composed entirely of negroes.
The election, it appears, is going to
hold.
The erasing of the name of Dewey
from the official sketch plan of the
new navy arch to be erected in the
Charleston Navy Yard to commem-
crate the deeds of our most famous
sailors is causing indignation in
Boston and elsewhere. The order
for the erasure is believed to have
emanated from Washington. Con-
gress appropriated $4,000 for this
arch last year.
How Mr.. Clark, of Montana, must
envy Mr.. Quigg, of New York! The
latter, yielding finally to what SEEM