Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-03-01

has behaved like a good citizen; if
not. the money will go the State.
During his long term Connolly has
been a model prisoner.
! Perhaps 1t was because London,
KY, is a prohib ton town that a
majority Of the Legislature could
not be enticed to that place.
AS Senator from Alabama John T.
Morgan has made a world wide repu-
tation as a statesman and has shed
more lustre upon Alabama than all
other public men the state has fur
nished combined.
The Duke Of marlborough and
his light housekeeping outfit, ac-
cording to the Washington Post,
rolled down the side of q kopje the
other day and the noise produced
| drowned the roar of the artillery.
DR.. Arons, who was a professor
of physics in the Berlin University,
has been removed by the Ministry of
the State because he is a member of
| the Social Democratic party and the
affair is causing more or less discus
sion, although the university does
not depend on subscriptions. as do
one or two educational Institutions
in this country which have taken the
same course
During the debate in the Virginia
Legislature which resulted in the
defeat Of the bill to punish wife-beat-
ers IN that State, Repre- sentative
Powell, of Brunswick county, Great
ed more Or less Of a sensation by
declaring that IN his district there
are few wives who do not systemat-
ically chastise their husbands. All
the women have clubs and whips and
know how to use them, he says.
G. Arthur Pearson, of the firm of
Messrs. c.. Arthur Pearson, limited,
is going to begin the publication of
a London morning newspaper. to be
called the Daily Express. Mr.. Pear
son wrote a short letter to this effect
to Alfred Harmsworth, proprietor of
the Daily Mail, with the suggestion
that it might be of sufficient general
interest to publish, and Mr.. Harms
worth gave the desired ADVERTISE
ment by printing the letter in the
| Mail.
Paris papers intimate that the at
tempt of the theatrical managers in
| that city to raise the prices of thea
tire tickets is in view of the expected
crush to be caused by the Exposi-
ton, and with the idea of fleeing
visitors. The managers say, how
ever, that they SIMPLY want the pa
irons to pay the tax of n tenth of
the theatres gross receipts, a tax
which goes to charity and which was
imposed at a time when theatres
were regarded as inimical to religion,
when it was supposed that money
spent on theatres would lesson aims
giving.
The condition of Haddon Cham
bers, the dramatist, who is i'll at
Nice. can hardly be encouraging to
his pheslcians. In a sick-bed inter
view with a New York World re-
porter he says the life depicted in
such a play as "Sapho' ought not to
be portrayed on the stage, yet he
tried hard to get his doctors per-
mission to see Melba in "Traviata"
last Wednesday night
When a troupe Of Japaneze aero
bats visited the White House this
week one of it's younger members,
wandering over the mansion, met
the present incumbent and asked
him who he was. The reply given
with a great deal of confidence, was
My name is William Mckinley" It
doubtly pleased the President to be
able to announce something, at last,
of which he is absolutely sure.
In the New York State conven-
ton, which is to chose four dele
gates-at-large for the national Re
publican convention an attempt
may be made to indorse Colonel
Roosevelt for a denomination for
Governor of the Empire Safe. Such
an attempt, however, would be so
clearly irregular and out of place
that Louis F. Payne, late Superin-
tendent OF insurance, at least will
~strenuously oppose it.
Sir Walter Besant. the leading
spirit of the Atlantic Union, now be-
ing OF organized in England, says the
chief purpose of the association is to
Introduce visiting Americans, who
would otherwise spend their time
at their hotels. to the social and
home life of England. Branches of
the union will be established in the
larger cities of England, and it is
hoped that this country will recipro-
cate.
Princess S~alm-Salm, who is now
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