Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-03-15
NEWS.

Ruskin's appointed literary execu-
tor is professor Charles Elliot Nor
ton, of Harvard University.
Objection is also urged against the
daisy as a tree coinage emblem, IL
hat it is a thing that does not grow
in public estimation.
Literary circles are more or less
agitated lest the promised autobio-
graphy of Mrs. Carrie W. Gait, pres
ident of the Women's Stuff age Lea
que, be In nine volumes.
A picture by Sisley, "The Flood
which was sold by the artist in 1876
for SIS and resold at a public sale in
Bordeaux in 1890 for $18, was sold
once more in Paris this week fo1
$8,6OO. It is needless to say that
Sisley is dead.
Littlo Helen M. Francis, aged 8
years and 8 months, vino left New
York last Saturday without escort
for Stroud, Oklahoma, has reached
her destination safely. Helen's
mother was dead and she went on
visit to her grandmother.
"The Excavator's Organization OF
Greater New York" is a new society
formed by italian laborers for the
purpose of obtaining work for it's
members on the Rapid Transit tun-
mel. It has fixed the rate of pay at
% cents an hour and 27 cents for
overtime.
Mrs. Bella Pagan, of Wilksbarre,
desiring to make a fourth venture in
matrimony, made application at one
and the same time for divorces from
her three former husbands, all OF
whom are still living, and was over
-joyed to find that she was legally
married only TO the first one.
Our roll of casualties in the Phil
lpplnes up to date shows that we
have paid dearly for the exploit OF
imperialism. The total of deaths
among our soldiers there is 1,466
and the number of wounded 1871.
Grand total 1897. And are not
through yet.
The edition Of the Topeka Capital
which the Rev. NJ. Sheldon is to get
out next week is to have a sort Of
rival in the Atchison Champion
which during the same time will be
conducted as the devil would rur
it This ought to be easy, especial
ly If the editor is to be the printers
devil.
G.. w. Stevens, the newspaper cor
respondent who died recently il
South Africa, married, when he was
% years old, a oma over so. The
union was a happy one. The widow
who is possessed of ample means
devotes herself to philanthropit
work at her home in Merton Abbey
near London.
Senator Pet igrew, having investi
gated the Spanish war, the civil wal
and the Boer war, has acquired the
habit of "rubbering" to such an ex
tent that it is feared in Washington
that he may moi ask for an oficla
inquiry into Emperor Williams
reasons for proclaiming this the
twentieth century.
A committee appoited to invest
gate the matter reports that the pro
portion OF women students at Yves
leyan University rose from 7 pc,
-cent.in 1888-99, and that unless some
thing is done to check it the inst1tu
ton will be transformed into a wo
mems college. The natural inquir,
concerning this would be. What if
does.
Diamonds have grown so common
that their loss no longer affords ever
a momentary advertisement and TIL
profession has now taken to losing
parlor-cars, the most costly thin!
that an ordinary person can imagine
If we have to pay so much to be in
parlor car, imagine the luxury O
owning one-and of having it burn
ed up.
The vote upon the Currency bill il
the Senate, a measure reafrming tn
fact that gold is the single standar,
of value, and providing with grea
care and efficiency for it's mainten
ance, was the most remarkable com
ment upon the cause of free sill
yer that has been made since Pres:
ident McKinley's election. The vot
that passed the bill was forty-four t
twenty-siX.
Men can be cured privately and pos
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