Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-10-04
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DIVERS SOURCES.
News of the Stage, Social, POliti-
cal and Otherwise, Cu1led
From Our Exchanges.

The coal consumer near the bard
coal districts pays not only the
freight but all the damages.
The football season is about to
trample out what little life there was
in the Presidential campaign.
Chicago thinks Joliet is oversmart
when it counts Chicago converts as a
part of it's own beloved people.
It is remarked of Hanna that as
public speaker on the platform he
has habit OF holding his hand out.
Other parties give prominence to
various subjects, but the Prohibi-
tionists continue to claim that the
paramount issue hinges on the crook
of the elbow.
William A. Clark, the copper king,
recently had himself photographed
in the costume Of one of the ancient
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he is descended.
An onion. trust is now under pro-
cess of formation, according to the
New York World It ought to be a
strong one, and will make it more
expensive even to shed tears.
That ruling of Mays Landing
n. j., judge that the remarks made
in her sleep by a defandant on trial
before him for theft may be used as
evidence against her, has been
greatly mitigated by the action of
the jury in acquitting the accused.
Tolstoi's new book, ''The Slavery
OF Our Time," which will be pub
ished in England next month, is a
sequel to the work that appeared
some ten years ago called "What
Must We Do, Ihen?" and, like the
latter, is an inquiry into the results
of modern industrialism.
Irving H. Harrison, a telegraph
lineman, of Hackensack, N. J., has
ridden hundred thousand miles or
bicycle in less than four and &
half years in the pursuit of his daily
labors. This is over sixty-fve miles
a day. Harrison generally carried 6
lot of tools and sometimes a ladder
with him.
Mr. Hanna went down town, il
New York the other day, to talk pol
itics to the business mems meeting
It was one of those gatherings
which, at the luncheon hour, ar
held sometimes for prayer and some
times for fun On tins occasion i
was for fun, and the business mel
in spirit of frivolity didn't do
thing to the great chairman.
There is sometimes a complain
made that the legal profession is be
ing overcrowded and that, as il
many more vocations, the blanks ar
numerous while the prizes are few
It would seem, however, that in try
ing to work out the complicate
problems of modern life mankind i
doing all it can to justify the CON
mon ambition to become lawyers.
Comptroller Bird S. Coler, of Ne,
York, who was beaten in his race fo
the Democratic nomination for Go
ernor of New York State by Croke
has said in a speech to his fello
citizens that he might want the
cooperation next fall. This is take
to mean that he may be candidai
for Mayor, and with the present col
dition of affairs in the metropo1
the intimation is sufficiently di!
quieting to the Tammany crowd.
Thomas and Richard Hodnett,
Australia, are fighting to establis
their claim to the estate of the
sister, Miss Mary A. Fitzgerald, wi
amassed a fortune in New York as
modiste under the name of Mn
Connolly. In order to raise mon,
60 carry on the fight the two brot
ers have mortgaged all legacies th,
may derive from the estate, Il