Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-08-09
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q dollar by nOneSL LABOR.
Henry G. Blasdel, the first Cover
nor of Nevada as a State. has just
died in Oakland, Cal. He was born
seventy five years ago and went to
the coast in 1850.
The sole survivor of the eXpedl-
ton of 1847 for tit relief of General
Zachary Taylor in the City of Aexi-
lea is James S. Barker, of Missouri.
He rode from Missouri to Austin,
Texas, on horseback to enlist.
It is probable that the next gener-
alton will see the Gould fortune
pretty we'll cut up, there being so
many heirs. The richest of these
will be Kingdom, George Gould's
oldest child. His father is rated at
$40, 100000.
Daniel Howell, of the New York
city Post Office. has resigned after
an unbroken service of forty-seven
years. The principle that few die
and non resign is partially kept in
continuance, however, by two Off
Gals in the same department, one of
whom has been there fifty and the
other ffty-fve years.
IF the wife of William III. of Ger
many goes to England shortly with
her three youngest children she will
pay the Queen a visit, in order that
the little Princess Victoria may make
her great grandmother's acqualnt-
ance, as her Majesty, it Isl said, has
never seen the only daughter Of her
eldest grandson.
Dora E. Yates, of the University
College, Liverpool, has just received
her M. A. de gree at that place, and
is the first Jewess to gain that honor
in England. In this connection
it may may be mentioned that
the Princess of Monaco is unique in
that she is the first Hebrew to sit on
a European throne. She was q Miss
Heine.
The Rev. ". II. Murray, who is
supposed TIC have been killed in
in. China invented a system of repre-
senting the sounds of the Chinese
language by raised dots. It was
found that by this means a bl1nc
Chinaman could learn to read in less
than three months, whereas a China
man who can see takes years to mas
ter the ordinary written language.
A Japanese, Klichi Abe, of Tokyo
recently applied to the First Bani
for permission to make a deposit 0:
5000 yen (S1,500) for a period of 25t
years at a rate Of interest of 5 pc
cent per annum. The bank granted
the application. AS the depost an(
interest will be left untouched dur
ing hat period the d~epositor's de
scendants are. to receive about 1900,
100000 yen (S6OO,O 0O) altogether a
the expiration of the term.
Willie Sing, a Chinaman, of Bris
toll, Conn, has an acre and a half o
land, on which he raises many Chi
nese vegetables. The heads of let
tuce he raises weigh almost tel
pounds each. He also raises a variet,
of beans the pods of which measur
about ten inches in length. He rase
citron. ginger root and numerou
other Chinese market vegetables. 70
which he finds a a ready market i
the cities of Connecticut.
Lord Hopetoun, the first Cover
nor General of the Australian Con
monwealth, is a descendant of job
de Hope, who in 1887 came. over t
England from France in the train {
the Queen of James v. The frs
Earl was Charles Hope, whose fathe:
John Hope, was drowned in tn
wreck of the frigate Gloucester, o
which a number of persons of dil
tinction had embarked with til
Duke of York in 1852.
That somewhat prevalent Sian
term lobster" is alleged to be
least respectable in age. job
Adams, in his argument in defens
of the British soldiers on trial f
murder because of completely in Il
"Boston massacre" mentions Il
word .lobster' as one of the eI
rthets applied by the citizens to Il
soldiers. The use of the word so
.ster'' as applied to a soldier has BET