Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-05-10

Count Leo IOlStO1 is to be invited |
to visit Chicago as Ethe guest of theI
University of Chicago.
The initiative and referendum are
now considered out of date unless
the imperative mandate goes with
them.
The patent medicine men are go
ing to make a concerted effort for the
abolition of the war tax on all medi-
cinal commodities manufactured and
sold in the United States.
Although the Paris exposition is
closed as yet at 6 o'clock in the even
ing the theatres of the gay city are
not doing the business that was ex-
pected, and it is now feared that
when the great fair is open at night
the receipts at the play houses will
show a still greater falling off.
LieutenantjGovernor Woodruff, of
New York, who does not like to be
considered young during the pur-
suit Of his present ambition, took
occasion to tell some Brooklyn
ladies to whom he was making a
speech the other night that he was
forty two years of age.
In an application for a writ of
mandamus in favor of a native Porto
Rican confined in a prison at st.
Paul the United States District
Court of Minnesota has decided that
the Constitution of the United States
| extends in all it's provisions over the
| Island of Porto Rico.
Nine volumes, newspaper clippings
of the daily reports of the Molineux
| trial have been prepared for the at
| torneys for the defense. Each vol
ume has 200 pages and each page is
a foot long and three columns wide,
| which makes a total of.4,0S2, 400
words, or a strip a column wide and
| over a mile in length.
Among a quantity CT mail sent from
| Washington to st. Louis under the
Congressional frank of Representa-
| tive, Vandiver, of Missouri, and la
| beled public documents" is alot
! of wearing apparel, although such
matter is not listed as among the
things which may be dead headed by
members of Congress. Some of the
| clothing is that of a woman, too.
At the sale in London of the art
collection of Mrs. Bloomfield Moore
some big prices are being realized.
The rosewater ever and dish pur-
chased in 1884 from the Marchioness
of Londonderry's collection for
81 1900; the pair of Sevres vases for
merly in the collection of Nine. de
Pompadour brought SIS $40, and SIM
liar articles realized correspondingly
good figures.
George FL. Nixon, of Franklin, N.
H., who has been forced to leave
one after another of the preparatory
schools for the West Point
Military Academy because the
students believe he is a mu-
latto, has finally given up the
struggle and returned to his home.
He is of a dark complexion. but de-
clares that his father, who is dead,
was a Spaniard, and that his mother
is a native of Ireland.
It is probable that not even Tam
many was prepared for such haste
in connection with the rapid transit
tunnel as is exhibited by Alphonzo
Cubello, who applied for ~naturaliza.
ton papers five minutes after he had
landed from Italy. He went ur
Broadway in an automobile, he saic
meaning a cable car, and as soon as
he received his preliminary, he ex-
claimed: CHOW I can go to work or
the big tunnel. Which way is to the
placer
The general conference of the
northern branch of the great Meth
odiste church, church fully si1
millions strong-is in session in Chi
cago, and very many interesting sub
jects are brought daily before it
The question of closer union be
tween the church North" and tn,
church "South" very naturally pre-
sents itself, and will continue to pre-
sent itself until the great church Ii
one again. In spirit and belief anc
tradition it is one now, standing a
the head of the Protestant bodies o
the country.
Keep your blood rich and red b,
taking Roberts Tasteless Chill Tonic
: 25c. Pleasant to take Cures chills b,
purifying the blood, and producing ap
? petite, health and vigor. Try it, Ant
get the genuine. with red cross on label
Dewey's popularity in Chicago
and Three Oaks is mistaken.
Your blood is thin and yellow, you
system weakened, your appetite gone
your liver idle, and you are all out G
O order when malar1a turks in your sys
. tenn Drive it out with Rogers Chi