Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1905-02-16
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nas been elected colonel Of the Firs
regiment to succeed Colonel Robert
son, who has recently been appoint
ed acknowledgement by GOverno
Glenn.
New, York, Feb. 8. Justic
Levintritt, III the Supreme Court TO
day, decided that the question as t.
the mental condition IF BrOdie l.
Duke shall be submitted to a jury il
a trial term of the supreme Court.
An Ohio probate judge has refused
to issue a marriage license to al nab
itual drunkard. Here is at least ont
man who Will not be permitted t.
rum the life of a woman who thinks
she can reform him by becoming hi
wife. .z@ss~-
N The. landlord and tenant bill o
Mr.. A. L. Uzzell, of this county, ap
plying to a number OF eastern couL'
ties, reeeiveda favorable report FROM
the Senate committee yesterday, al
| ter Scotland had been taken out o.
the bill and Halifax had been added.
Reading, Pa, Feb. 9.-Mrs. Kate
Edwards who is under sentence to be
hanged with Samuel Greason, a ne.
gro, on Thursday next for the mur.
der of her husband, made a state
ment to her counsel to-day in which
it is said she exOnerated Greason
from completely in the murder.
Washington, Feb. 9.-The Town
send bill, the sO-cal1ed admin1stra-
ton measure, investing the inter
state commission with the power to
f x...railway freight rates, Wen
through the House OF Representa-
tives today with a rush. ii every
detail the program of the Republi-
can eauer Wao ,arr1eu out.
Jack London has been nominate.
for mayor of Oakland, Cal, by the
socialist party. The possibilities for
authors are broadening every day.
Since Mr.. Roosevelt settled down in
the White House every writer Of
books now has a chance to be Presi-
dent.
The house at Verona where tradi-
tition says that Juliet hearkened to
the wooing of Romeo has fallen into
decay, and it is feared that the struc-
ture is doomed, but the immortal
love-making of these two is still
being emulated with unabated en-
thusIasm.
Suppose that real detectives were
cunning as those we find in books.
suppose that criminals were as in
teresting, as fascinating and at times
as chivalrous; suppose that people
were as good, the women as beauti-
full and the men as brave; suppose
things happened as opportunely, and
suppose people in real life had as
much leisure to do romantic things
as they have in books. What a de-
lightful place this old world would
be!
Oklahoma and New Mexico will
soon experience the joys Of electing
a full State ticket and local politics
twill be booming with a vengence,
but there will be every little doing''
in the way of Refreshments" il
Oklahoma for the next tWenty-one
years. The United States is not
averse to that irrigation which
makes the desert to bloom, but seems
'1sot'' against the irrigation thai
makes nose bloom, especially noses
III Oklahoma.
The man who invented chewing
gum is dead, leaving his wealth be
mind him. Perhaps he was not al
telephone, or the man who invented
the telegraph, or the steamboat, O.
the Gotten gin, or the sewing ma
chine, but still he was something o
a philanthropist in his way, for it is
awful to contemplate what a greaI
many individuals would do if they
did not chew gum. Moreover, he
made a fortune, which Is also some
fhino worth while