Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-07-26
GENERAL NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE WORLD.
News of the Stage, Social, Political and
Otherwise, Culled From Our
Daily Exchanges.

Abdul Hamid's heart bleeds for
China, but not his pocket.
Signor Tagliapietra, the opera
singer. has made complaint to the
New York authorities about the
noise made by the Salvation Army
near his apartments. IF m1nicipali-
ties should start in to eliminate such
noises they might not stop short
rel of opera singers.
Architectural plans have been pre-
pared in New York for a $500, 900
brewery which is to be built at Cape
Town, South Africa, by English par
ties and also for a $500. 900 plant to
be erected in Japan. All of the
equipment and material for each of
these concerns are to be purhased in
America.
Ducinda Taylor, who was once the
slave Of Henry Clay, has been sent
to City Infrmary of Cincinnati. She
is ITO years old and blind. When
Colonel Bolivar Buckner married
Henry Clay's daughter the Taylor
woman was given to Mrs. Buckner
q a wedding present. She remained
with them until slaves were liberat-
Sed. The old woman smokes a pipe
almost necessarily.
The London newspapers while
treating of the recent steamship
burning have had great trouble in
locating the position of Hoboken
and in determining whether it was a
town. a river, a mountain or a State.
It is something they meyer heard Of
before. The London Daily Chronicle
contents itself with this: Among
the higher classes in New York there
are thousands who have never been /
in Hoboken."
Judge Jelke in the Court of Com
mon Pleas in Cincinnati invited all
present who felt disposed to take off
oAOA OOHUo duO S1O III Gu0lr Su1rO
sleeves, and as the jury before whom
a case was being tried did not re-
spond promptly the Judge took off
his own coat in order to do away |
with any hesitation. Soon principal ,
and defendant, witnesses, jurymen
and counsel were without coats.
The stenographer being a woman
did not have any on.
The actual time and distance of W.
K. Vanderbilt's record-breaking run
on his automobile FROM Newport to
Boston and back to Newport again
are a little hazy. The distance be-
tween the two points is sixty-nine
miles by rail and about eighty miles
by the highways. Mr.. Vanderbilt's !
rate Of going is variously given at
from a mile in two minutes. Either
way it is pretty fast going and nearly
equal to the average railroad train,
but it IS a pity the timing was not
accurate.
While he does not seek emporium
titles to display it, Captain Behr, of
the Russian cruiser Variag, has a
pretty wit. On his return home a
night or two ago he found a local
newspaper reporter camping on his
front porch. The reporter wanted
information on a subject that to the
captain appeared rather silly. Said
the reporter: eff the United States
decided to hold the Varing because
of war between Russia and China
would you be justified in slipping
away to the other side, once you
g outside the three mile limit. on
the occasion of the cruisers official
trial?' From whom did you get
this information your laundryman?"
~queried the captain. But the re-
porter was squelched and and he
fed without venturing an answer.