Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-02-01
GENERAL NEWS.

Cuba and Sumatra tobacco. This
was in 1896. On this ten acres he
cleared S. ZOO.
A hard-hearted California congre-
cation has demanded the res1gna-
ton of it's pastor because he would
dance and yell "Hello!" at his friends
on the streets. Personal liberty
seems to be at at a discount in CAL
ifornia
1t is suggested by the Colorado
Springs Gazette that Mr.. Rockefel-
ler's gift of $1OO, 900 to establish a
chair of psychology in Columbia
University is with a view to investi
cation of the question as to whether
corporations have souls.
Bishop Warren Gambler, of the
Methodist Church, South, is off for
Havana, to establish a church in that
city. He takes with him $4,000 rails
ed by his personal efforts in Georgia
This will be the first church and
school of the Methodist denomina-
ton to be established in Cuba.
According to Henri Rochefort,
who has made an investigation of
the statistics, two hundred and
eleven French officers threw up their
commissions in the French army at
the beginning of the South African
wal and enlisted with the Beers.
Possibly this explains the subsistence
of the Dreyfus case.
The explanation of the application
of nearly four hundred members of
the seventy first New York regiment
for pensions must be found in the
fact that the bulk of the regiment
lay down at the battle of San Juan
hill and caught cold while the negro
regulars were marching over them
and trying to kick courage into
them.
The going to and fro between the
United States and the South Afri-
can Republic ought to signify some
thing, but probably it does not. Mon
tagu Whyte is in Washington and
Webster Davis is in Pretoria. Mar
cum, lately Consul there, is hasten
ing home. and hay, his successor, is
On the road to the Transvaal- And
everybody is guessing what they are
going to do.
Everything that Sir Charles Dixie
says regarding the foreign policy of
his own government Or ours is wor-
thy of respectful attention. He is
not in power &c day, but a change
of Ministry or leadership is liable at
no distant day to bring him to the
front again. He has outlived the
disfavor in which circumstances
plunged him, and to-day carries on
his shoulders the levelest head in all
England.
The girls of Vassar College. who
had been forbidden by the faculty
to play basket ball because of an
injury received by one of the stu
dents during a game last year, have
at last, through constant agitation,
succeeded in getting permission to
play again. The walls of the hall
where the games take place will now
be padded SO that there will be no
danger OF the girls humping their
heads.
P. @. Torrey, of Wisconsin, has
received notice that the government
will pay his claim arising out of the
| destruction of the schooner Thank
full by French pirates in 1898. Mr..
Torrey, who is a descendant of the
people who owned the Thankful,
will receive ST., $50. The claim, it
seems, was presented by this govern
ment to the French Government
and paid long ago, but the money
was not turned over to the heirs.
r. D Blackmore, who died in
London last Saturday, was best
known as the author of Lorna
Doone," though he wrote several
other good novels. Lorna Doone'
had no C itself until the mar
rage of the Marquis of Lorne and
the Princess Louis in 1871, when
the mere coincidence of the similari
ty of names brought the book into
wider public notice and it was recog-
nized as al English classic.
The noble red man. is to be repre-
sented at the Paris Exposition after
all, but not in his original war paint
and whoops. The brass band of the
Carlisle Indian School, some sixty
strong, will go to the French CAPT
tai with their musical instruments
and with a glee club to sing college
songs. There will also be an Indian
maiden, who will play violin solos
from the best composers. This
while it may not be as picturesque
as though Buffalo Bill had had the
arranging of it, will undoubtedly
furnish the French with a valuable
object lesson as to the softening AND
refining influences of civilization.
The st. Paul Dispatch puts botI
tsense and honor into the following
paragraph: This government can.
mot be wheedled by sentimentalists