Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-08-09
GENERAL NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE WORLD.
News of the Stage, Social, Political and
Otherwise, Culled From Our
Daily Exchanges.

Henry 6. Blasdel, the first Cover
nor of Nevada as a State. has just
died in Oakland, Cal. He vas born
seventy five years ago and went to
the coast in 1850.
Daniel Howell, of the New York
city Post Office. has resigned after
an unbroken service of forty-seven
years. The principle that few die
and none resign is partially kept IN
continuance, however, by two Off
Gals in the same department, one of
whom has been there fifty and the
other ffty-fve years.
IF the wife of William III. of Ger
many goes to England shortly with
her three youngest children she will
pay the Queen a visit, in order that
the little Princess Victoria may make
her great-grandmother's acquaint-
>ance, as her Majesty, it is said, has
never seen the only daughter of her
eldest grandson.
Lord Hopetoun, the first Cover
nor General of the Australian Com
monwealth, is a descendant of John
de. Hope, who in 1887 came over to
England from France in the train of
the Queen of James V. The first
Earl was Charles Hope, whose father,
John Hope, was drowned in the
wreck of the frigate Gloucester, on
which a number of persons Of dis
~7tinction had embarked with the
Duke of York mesa.
A Japanese, Klichi Abe. of Tokyo.
recently applied to the First Bank
for permission to make a deposit of
5000 yen (S1,5OO) for a period Of $50
years at a rate of interest of 5 per
cent per annum. The bank granted
the application. As the deposit and
interest will be left untouched dur.
ing that period the depositor's de
scendants are to receive about 1,2OO,'
100000 yen $780, O0) altogether al
the expiration Of the term.
That somewhat prevalent slang
term lobster" is alleged to be al
least respectable in age. Joh1
Adams, in his argument in defenst
of the British soldiers on trial TO.
murder because of completely in tn
"Boston massacre" mentions tn
word lobster as one of the cpl
thets applied by the citizens to tn
soldiers. The use of the word LOB
ster'' as applied to q soldier has bee
shown by a Bostonian interested i
the subject to have been found a
far back as 1912.
Mr.. Keneth Morell Mackenzie, so
of the late noted throat doctor, VIII
attended on the father of the pre-
ent German Emperor in his last il
ness, ran up a bill Of nearly $3.50 fC
drinks at an English public hous'
and when the landlord sued for pa,
ment pleaded a statute of Georg
IL, the socalled Chipping act
1751," in his defense, by which q
~innkeeper cannot recover for deb
for liquor amounting to more the
SIS. The statute is still on the bool
and the trial Judge was Obliged
admit that it is good law now.
MI. Eltwood Pomeroy, of Bosto
refers to some queer freaks of leg:
lation in a recent article. The Mi
souri, Legislature in 1897 serious
debated a bill ining widows al
ma1dens not less than 500 nor mo
than $500 for rejecting a man,
Tennessee Senator would 'sforE
any person to linger or loiter on a.
street, alley, road or lane in the vi,
nifty of any young ladies' boardi
school," Thesesinstances are not
par with the famous bill of the N,
York representatives making it
penal offense to put less than tt
teen oysters in a stew.
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