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

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hard winter than an icy winter lead
ing to a hard fall.
A money-pocket State is hardly
worse than a hip pocket State, such
Kentucky tends to be.
AS a rule the Queens speech is
brief. She does not do too much
talking through her crown.
Spion Kop not being the key to
the Boer position was partly the
reason for Butler making a bolt for
the Tugela.
Any proposition to hang Krugeris
by the need of first catching
their hare. Then, again, the hare idea
lacks point in Dom Paul doing no
running.
Despite the continued absence of
Aguinaldo and the diIigent search
that is being made for him South
African war news is now printed on
the first page of the Manila Freedom
and gets the biggest head lines.
Andrew Carnegie believes that the
truly helpless, those VINO live by beg
ging of aims, or who are mentally
incapable, should be cared for by the
State and not the Individual, and
that while they should be clothed,
fed and educated they should be is
solated and not allowed to marry.
The appointment Of General Der
nardo Reyes as Minister Of War of
Mexico is generally taken to mean
that he will be the successor, at the
end of the next four years, of Presi
dent Diaz. Diaz has long reposed
the utmost confidence in Reyes and
will make the new War Minister his
personal representative while he IS
away on his tour.
Sometime ago W. D. Smith, a
Macon (Ga.) barber. threw vitriol in
the face of Mrs Susie M. billiard,
disfguring her for life, and partially
destroying her eye-sight. He was
tried two days ago for his offence,
and, after beng out eight minutes,
the jury brought in a verdict OF
guilty, and Smith was sentenced to a
life term in the penitentiary.
When the Rev. A. III. Grant, of
Montclair. N. J., performed the mar
rlage ceremony for a couple in that
town the other day he asked the
bride if she would love, honor and
support" the groom and she said she
would. Support of the husband by
the wife is not a new idea, but this
solemn promise to do it is a distinct
step in woman's development.
Paderewski kept an audience in
Columbus, Ohio, waiting forty min
utes last Saturday night because he
could not find his cane, and woulC
not leave the hotel without it. In
deed, he sent word that there would
be no performance, but when he was
notified by telephone from the thea
tire that his walking stick was there
he put in a belated appearance.
Brigadier General Hawkins, u. S
A., who commanded the brigade il
which was the Seventy-frst Regi
Santiago, has at last found time
now that he is relieved, to come for
ward and say that the Seventy-frs
showed no c~owardice during that en-
gagement and conducted itself com
mendably. He also says that som,
of the Rough Riders we're seen run
ming away.
Henry Clay is the father of al
isthman canal, for in 1926, while Sec
Rotary of State, he began negotia
lions with the Central American re
publicans looking to the construc
ton of canal across the divide. Il
1850 Colonel Childs made the frs
canal survey, and the route he sc
lected is the one that the govern
ment will soon select, nameley, tn
one that lies along San Juan river.
According to the Kansas City Sta
the body of Nelson Kneass lies in
Missouri grave, and the Nelson
Kneass Monument Association j
engaged in erecting over it "a hane
some memorial to the author of BE
Bolt'". Considering the fact tbs
Thomas Dunn English, who wrot
the now famous song, born j
Philadelphia and now lives in Ne
Jersey, this is an unusual honor an
conferred in an unusual way.
The proposition now being dl
cused in New York and Paris fl
holding a Franco-American revolvt
contest by cable is gaining in favo
If it should finally be tried it ougl
to furnish to Count de CASTELAR,
. and to the editor of Figaro an exec
j lent and new means of fighting the
: duel without waiting to come with:
t sight of each other. The cable cos
would be offset by the absence
cost for the surgeons services.
i. Under General Sanger's directit
the Cuban census supervisors ha,
completed the preliminary enumer
ton of the population OF Cuba. ar
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