Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-05-24


carry.
The ice trust managed to get in
one scorching day in New York be-
fore it reduced slightly the price of
ice and the size of the chunk it was
necessary to buy.
Sir Thomas Upton has cabled
$1,000 to be spent in purchasing
some of the cartoons in the exhibit
Of the Press Artists League in New
York. Come to think of it, Sir Thorn
as did get off rather easy.
If no guilty man escapes in the
Cuban postal scandal, as the admin
istration boasts, then the man who
put Rathbone of Ohio in Office will
suffer. The name of that man is
said TO be Marcus Aurelius Hanna.
Spain's weakness is basic. She
clings to plan that calls for small
educated class and large mass of
illiterates. There is no hope for a
country made up in that way. Ala
bama should take warning.
The Khedive is coming to this
country, and the country will well
come His Serene Highness, but he
should remember that outside of
Utah and our province Of Sulu
harems are not popular in this coun-
try.
James Belford, who, when in Con-
gress from Colorado was known as
the 'Red Rooster of the Rockies, -
has joined the Republican party
again. He left it to support Bryan in
1896, and says now he is back to
stay.
It is said that Towne, of Mime
sota,. whom the Populists, that is to
say, one set of them, have named as
their candidate for vice-president,
expects to be endorsed by the Dem
ocratic national convention What a
giddy young man Towne must be!
A funky administration organ
writes an editorial to congratulate
President Mckinley on his recovery
from bad cold. We may next ex-
pect from the same source disser-
tation on the condition of the presi-
Dental toe nails.
Bronze life-slze statutes of Grant,
Sheridan and Sherman will be placed
in Cullu1n Memorial Hall, at West
Point, if the fund which the profes
sors are trying to raise reaches the
proportions expected. President
Mckinley has headed the list, with
$500.
Mrs. Langtry's daughter, who has
just made a brilliant debut in Lon
don society, is said to be as beauti-
full and as fascinating as was her
mother some twenty years ago,
when she went over from Jersey and
soon had all the London swells cap
ering about her.
DIR. George F. Shrady says that
no matter what happens in Wash
ington and other cities, the society
girl in New York doesn't smoke, be-
cause it is bad form. Then he spoils
this nice little speech by adding:
''She would sooner drink a cock
tail"
Charles S. Wilbur, superintendent
of the census for New York, refuses
to make the names of the enumera
tors public because they are already
in demand by advertises who want
to use them to solicit and push va
rious schemes while they are doing
their census work.
The New York Sun denies the re-
port that Wellesley College is to con-
fer an honorary degree upon Miss
Helen Gould, OF New York. How
ever, Miss Gould is to be present at
the commencement festivities next
month, and a lawn party and recep-
ton will be given in honor of her.
Somebody has told lot of people
named DeHaven that a man named
Jacob DeHaven, who once kept a
hotel in Philadelphia, loaned the
government $45O,OO0 in 1777 and
that the government still has the
money and the interest due. In an
swer to the numerous letters of in.