Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-02-08

of sliding along the interior surface,
and it is claimed that the projectile,
being thus less retarded. will go fur
Their and faster, it is probable tt at
the invention will be examined and
tested by the government.
It has been decided by the COM
mittee of ways and means, instead
of making Puerto Rico a customs |
district of the United States. to es-
tablish a special tariff for that island,
States from Puerto Rico. or into
States, are to be subject to
levied on foreign imports in the I'm
countries will be subject to the en-
tire duty, the being for the
use of Puerto Rico.
A strange accident is reported
from. Gate City, Ala Mr.. Walter
Jones a leading citizen, was cleaning
a revolver and his little girl was
playing with a set of blocks. He was
| sitting in a chair in front of an open
crate, and the child was on the floor
at his side. Mr. Jones thought he
had taken all the cartridges from the
revolver, but had left one in it He
was testing the weapon to see how
the trigger worked, pointing it at the
fire. The bullet hit the arched fire.
the hearth and from the hearth to
| +hn ob31l1a h4oI ~ono4ro%r~ 4ho
temple. She died next morning.
The rate at which the exports of
creased last year should prove very
clearly designates the direction in
which further increase of our foreign
commerce is to be sought. The ex-
norts of manufactured goods for the
calendar year 1897 reached $3.50, O0O,-
600 an increase Of more than twenty
five per cent. yer the exports Of the
previous year. The average rate
was more than one million dollars
per day, and the increase was con-
slant during the year The exports
for January were S25. SOC, $50 and for
December $35, 552 ,O53.
Buffers retreat across the Tugela
inevitably recalls, to those old enough
to remember it, Burnside's recross-
ing of the Rapphannock after his
dreadful failure at fredericksburg.
The attempt at Spion Kop was not
so desperate as Burnside's attack
upon the left of the Confederate
line on Mayne's Heights, that sacri-
feed eight thousand men needlessly
and without result. The British
losses are horrible to read of, but
they seem almost trivial when we
remember the numbers the Army of
the Potomac left behind on that
t bloody field. Burnside's losses at
fredericksburg were IL. 653, and the
! Confederate losses 1854. And Fred
ericksburg was not one of the great
battles of the wal, It was only one
of those terrible experiences by
which we slowly learned the gravity
: of the task that had been SO lightly
l undertaken.
A conference of the nations of the
] world was held a short time ago at
t The Hague to promote the peaceful
Q settlement of international disputes
and also-and this was the primary
' object of the call-to recommend 6
cessation of the increase of arma
ments. A treaty of a pacific nature
drawn up at this conference is now
under consideration by our Senate
( Some more practical illustrations O.
: the results achieved for peace are
given in the current news. Tn
u war between the British and tn,
, : Beers is the most striking of tn
/ events that have followed the peac'
Il conference. In the direction of dis
Il armament, we have the additions
Is naval preparations of Russia and ia
u pan. the determination of German.
to double her navy, and now tn
French scheme which provides TO
~ six battleships. five armored cruisers
and torpedoboats and torpedoboat
d destroyers without number. Pei
10 haps even the Gar himself did no
Of expect any immediate abandonment
n of war as a result of his well-mean
- conference, but nobody could hav
as predicted quite such an outburst {
,e warlike preparations SO close upon
ID general Celebration of the blessings {
at peace.
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lose their health Hoods Sarsaparill
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