Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-05-24
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Political air castles may be told
from the other kind by their always
being rooted with states.
If a Vice-President is not heard
much of after election, his being put
at the tail end of the ticket in itself
suggests being sat down on.
Considering the part the censor
played in the Transvaal war, when
the final review of the army takes
place the telegraph batteries should
not be overlooked.
The employees Of a shoe factory in
Cincinnati struck last week because
they we're assessed FIVE cents a week
to pay for ice used to cool the drink
ing water. The ice furnished has
been growing less of late and the
strikers wanted to furnish their own
ice. They were out only a few hours
when they won the strike.
Some of the surplus of
the United States are to be employ
ed to pay oft twenty-five millions Of
indebtedness. This is the only prop
err thing to do with surplus revenue
after it has been collected. The
other thing that might be done is to
reduce the revenue by cutting off
some of the superfuous taxes.
The Rev. George Fletcher Shep-
herd, a Methodist clergyman Of
Deansboro, n. Y. has sent $40 to a
bank at lion to be kept until claim
ed by merchants from whom he pur-
Joined fruit when he was a small
boy in that town. If there are no
claimants in thirty days the money
is to be given to the public library.
The distinguished English sur
geon, Frederic Treves, at the Reform
Club recently denounced those Eng
lish ladies who have gone, unasked,
to the front in South Africa. He &C
cused them of merely seekivg ex-
element. Indeed, we hesitate about
quoting his language, because he
said "these social locusts were a
plague, really a terror, hated Iworse
by the patients than by the doc
tors"
General Buffers reoccupation OF
Newcastle, with the repulse of the
Beers from before Mafekilg, in
Bechuanaland, marks the end of Mr..
Kruger's effort to drive the British
out of South Africa. Sentimental
talk about republics fighting fol
their independence should not be
allowed to obscure the real purpose
and expectation with which the Boe1
leaders undertook this war, which
| was not simply to exclude the Out
t landers from all participation in thu
!, affairs of the Transvaal, but to ex
tend the Boer or Afrikander powe:
over the British colonies.
? Congress is likely to adjourn earl,
in June. A tacit understanding ap
. parently exists in the House be
3 tween the Republican and Demo
cratic leaders to defer any new leg
t islation that is liable to postpone ad
4 iournment to the second session. L
the Senate, nothing stands betwee.
= a speedy termination of business e1
Z cept the Nicaraguan Canal bill. I
g is very doubtful if this will ge
t through, although Senator Morga:
is firm IN his determination to fore
!. it's passage. The subsidy shippin
bill is almost sure to be hung up III
| til next December. The same is tru
of the pure food bill. It is confde1
d TALLY given out that the Presider
q is quite willing to have the Philip
. pine resolution deferred for tn
Ii present.