Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-07-26

LAS gone lar enough 10 D11glG0n the
prospects of Democratic victory very
perceptibly.
In less than a year the terms OF
service of more than one half of our
army in the Philippines will expire
and a great many of them have made
up their minds not to re-enlist.
At a luncheon given by MI. and
Mrs. Blow in London last week to
the committee of the hospital ship
Maine, each guest received as a
souvenir a little figure of a China
man with a halter around his neck,
Out in California the fruit raisers
are Kidding their trees of many kinds
of pests by marching a brass band
around the orchards playing rag
time tunes. That is entirely easy of
belief, but how do they then get rid
Of the rag time band?
James L.. Baker, of Atlanta, who
is under sentence of death for the
murder of his wife last May, now
seeks to be pardoned so that he may
preach the gospel and engage in
evangelistic work, and it is said that
efforts are being made by some of
the citizens of Atlanta to secure at
least a communication of sentence.
Sangoff, the Bulgarian journalist
who wrote the article on the relation
OF the nose to character, recently
published in a Sofa paper. said in it
that persons with long noses are
often bad characters. Because
Prince Ferdinand has a long noge
the prosecutor considered this lese
majestic and Sangof was arrested,
ried and sentenced to three days
imprisonment.
A man who hired a berth in a
sleeping a from Cleveland to New
York and did not get it and had to
sit up all nj hit in consequence, has
sued the company for damages and
secured a verdict of $3.50. The de-
PENDANTS application for a new trial
has been refused on the ground that
the judgment isnot excessive in view
of the discomforts forced on the
plaintiff.
Richard Mansfield, who is cruis-
ing on his yacht, the Wayfarer, invit-
ed some people at Newport to come
aboard and dine with him when he
reached that port last Sunday. just
before he went ashore to get them
he had a violent quarrel with his
cook and when he returned to the
yacht with his guests there was no
cook and no dinner. During his alb
sence the cook had thrown all the
overheard and then, hail
ing a passing craft, had been put
ashore.
"No battle of the war in South AT
RIGA nor any of the reports of the
in Pekin has attracted 500
people to the newspaper bulletins in
Park Row." says the New York
World. "Yet last night thousands
of persons stood for hours watching
the bulletins from the second-class
prize-fght attended by $4,000 spec
tators In Madison Square Garden"
The New York Times, by the way;
reported the fight in just fourteen
lines, exclusive of the head.
It is said the Republican campaign
managers, now threatened with ner-
vous pr~ostration through fear of
what Governor Roosevelt may say in
his campaign speeches., have at last
hit upon the happy plan of arrang-
ing the Rough Riders schedule SO
that he will speak successfully at
widely separated points. This will
afford the colonel opportunity for
spectacular dashes back and forth
across the country, which will de
light his heart and fill him with the
idea that he is strenuous and yet re-
suit in the least possible output of
words.
The last peculiar performance of
Terrence V. Powderly is causing
some speculation. He went to q
meeting in New York of a local as :
sembly of the Knights of Labor, of
which organization he is no longer
a member, asked permission to speak
ten minutes: got it and spoke for an
hour, asked permission to see the
charter, got it, and kissed the char