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Doth an eternal vigil keep
No soothing strains of Maia'sson,
Can lull its hundred eyes to sleep' '
VOL. XVII.
GOXiDSBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15. 1900.
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TO ATTACK BULLS U.
Feeling is More llopeful in Lon
don on Account cf Great
Confidence Keposed
in Roberts and
Ki.cherer.
London, Feb. 12. Not a line
of news has been received from
South Africa since yesterday; at
any rate none has been published
The feeiiug is more hopeful in
consequence of the wide spread
belief that Koberts and Kitchen
er have now a firm grip of the
helm and whatever happens the
campaign will be waged under
careful and comphrehensive
plans in which all forces will co
operate. Both sides" seem' col
lecting themselves for the at"
tack. The left horn of the Boer
army is creeping through Zulu
land threatening the British
right at Chievely. Joubert, with
six thousand men, is reported
to be endeavoring to attack Bul
ler.Boer aggressiveness has been
developed and repulsed at Rens
burg, while from the most im
portant points in campaign, ins
eluding Modder River, news is
received of their ceaseless activ
ity and redoubled vigilance.
These reports create hopeful
ness in Graat Britain, rather
than anxiety, for the impression
prevails that Boer aggressive
ness will give British troops
their long sought opportunity
and tend greatly to assist the
broad plan of campaign which
Roberts may be expected to set
in motion soon at Modder River.
Modder River, Feb. 11 Unless
all indications are deceptive, one
of the greatest battles of the war
is about to be fought near here.
The British are gathering here
m force under the personal com
madof Robert?, includingMethu
en'army and large reinforcements
from Caps Colony. The British
plan seems to be to make a des
cent upon Bioerafontein. Tho
Boers are sending every avail
able man in the direction of Kim
berly. Jingoism and the Canal.
We must have the Nicaragua
canal. It has become an imperative
neces3ty, not only because of our
territorial acquisitions in the West
Indies and in the East Pacific, but
because it has become indiepen
sibla to our commerce that is now
unexampled in its advancement.
The people of the nation are
pretty much of one mind as to the
necessity of this country absolute
ly owning and controlling tbe
Nicaragua canal. England, that
could have reasonably questioned
our right Io the exclusive owner
ship and control of the canal, is
quite willing to waive it, asking
that it shall be an open highway
alike in war and peace. A new
treaty' with England providing
that this country shall own and
control the canal and maintain it
las an open highway in war and
peace, is pending in the Senate,
'and it has called out the fiercest
assaults of the jingo journals and
babblers of the land.
He Fooled the Surgeons.
All doctors told Renick Hamil
ton, of West Jefferson, O., after
suffering 18 months from Rectal
Fistula, he would die unless a
costly operation was performed;
but he cured himself with five
boxes of Bucklen's Arnica Salve,
the surest Pile cure on Earth,
and the best Salve in the World.
25 cents a box. Sold by J. H.
Hill, & Son., Druggist.
The Bonner Horses.
N. Y. Sun.
To-day is to see the closing of
an interesting chapter of local
history, of which the like will
probably never be written again.
The horses of the late Robert
Bonner are to be sold, which
means that the largest, most cost
ly, longest-lived, best and conse
quently most famous "stable" of i
trotters ever kown is to be dis
persed and ended.
The Bonner horses feaw nearly
half a century of time, and their
unrivalled excellence, coupled
with their owner's great pride in
them and his relations with the
world outside of horseflosh,
brought them the acquaintance of
many of the most distinguished
men of the period, native or for
eign. The wellnknown picture of
Dexter at speed after the reins
had been passed from Mr. Bon
ner's hands to Gen. Grant's, won
derfully expressive of the horse's
stride and temperament, was typ
ical merely of similar scenes in
which other noted persons figured,
with other animals between the
shafts. Mr. Bonner first bought
horses a littls after 1850, when
America began to be conscious
that in the development of her
trotters there was a possibility of
epeed and profit of serious na
tional importance, and his death
came when this development had
been carried to the point where
"'-ther progress is so slow, dif
ficult and doubtful that breeders
feel that perfection, which remains,
of course, unattainable, at least
cannot be far away. He began
driving when it was in the fashion
for horse-loving residents of New
York to gd to the tracks in what
is now the Borough of Brooklyn.
He lived to see the trotters, shut
out first from Brooklyn, next
from Manhattan Island, and 'hen
from the region north of the
Harlem, finallv found on Mjn-
hattan again, at Speedway Park,
a footing that is ample and des
tined to last for all time.
The equal of Mr. Bonner's sta
ble is not likely to be seen again,
for the reason that we cannot ex
pect to see another man in whom
arc combined his wealth, taste,
ambition and extraordinary inten
sity in the attainment of a desired
end, Mr. Bonner was a man of
very large business affairs, not
only m connection with tbe Led
ger, but with bis other properties;
but his porticular fancy for
horses seemed to absorb his ener
gies, if not to be bis foremost in
terest and distinction. His actual
personal feeling for a horse we
never knew. We never saw him
pat the neck of one. But among
all the celebrated artists of the
track, including Mace, Doble,
Splan and Hickock, andGeers and
his contemporaries, if the moderns
are to be classed with their prede
cessors, there was in our opinion
not one whose hand was as mas
terful as Mr. Bonner's, as reso
lute in controlling in an impet
uous spirit, as delicate in smooth
ing a troubled gait and as elec
trical in its stimulus to speed.
He was the abelest driver we
ever saw.
The rate of vibration of the rat
tlesnake's tail is said to bo sixty
per second. If yon donbt it count
for yourself.
tiWW THE GflEflT.
His Speeches in Raleigh
Yesterday Won All
Hearers.
MEN WHO WENT TO
CRITI-CON-
CISE CONFESSED
YERSION
And Went On Record That They
Would Sin no Mere. He Has
United the Demccrats of
the State as no Other
Living Man could.
Let there Be An
End to Carp
ing.
(Staff Report).
Daily Argus of Wednesday.
Hon. William J. Bryan address-
ed two immense audiences yester
day in Raleigh. At 4:30 he spoke
in a tent to a multitude, and at
night the Academy of Music was
thronged.
At both speeches, from the ut
terance of his first word to the
close, he swayed his audiences at
his will.
A prominent Republican, who
holds a State office, remarked last
night, that he had heard both
speeches and never again would
he criticise Bryan.
Continued the Republican, "I
believe he is absolutely sincere,
and is without egotism."
Taxation, the money question,
militarism, and imperialism were
Col. Bryan's themes.
He advocates a change in the
Federal Constitution in order to
impesa a tax on incomes ;he stands
just where he stood in 1896 on
the money question free coinage
of silver 16 to 1; he favors the
promise now to the .f hilipinos
that as soon as a stable form of
government can be established
that the government wiil be
turned over to them, and that the
United States Government will
protect the Pnilippine Govern
ment, just as our Government
has protected the South Ameri
can countries from the "land
grabling nations of the world.
Mr. Bryan is in fine form, and
appears as fresh and vigorous as
if just entering upon a campaign.
People of all parties were uu-
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ammous m saying that tne
speech last night was the great -
est one they ever heard. Many
people who do not agree with
Mr, Bryan are broad enough in
.
their views to realize and admit
that he one of the ablest men
this country has produced.
To Be Prepared.
For war is the surest way for this na
tion to maintain peace. That is the
opinion of the wisest statesman. It is
equally true that to be prepared for
spring is the best way to avoid the
peouliar dangers of the season. This
is a lesson multitudes are learning, and
at this time, when the blood is sure to
be loaded with impurities and to be
weak and sluggish, the millions begin
to take Hood's Sarsaparilla, which
Durifi.es. enriches and vitalizes the
blood, expels all disease germs, creates
a good appetite, gives strength and
energy and puts the whole system in a
healthy condition, preventing pneu
monia, fevers, and other dangerous
diseases which are liable to attack a
weakened system. t .
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Philadelphia's promise to the
Hon. Mark Hanna has not been
turned into cash.
TO COTTON GINNERS.
The past ginning season again
demonstrated the incomparable
superiority of The American Cot
ton Company's Roundlap bale,
Not only were farmers benefited
who had their cotton put up in
Reundlhp bales, but eveu the pa
trons of old style gins profited by
l:.e presence of Roundlap compe
tition. Although last year The Ameri
can Cotton Company largely in
creased the number of its presses
iu the Scuth installing all that it
was able to build the demand in
New England and abroad for cot
ton baled by this process greatly
exceeded the supply. The Com
pany is preparing this year to add
largely to the number of its
presses. Tbe Company's works are
running day and night building
presses, which will be leased to
responsible ginners, who own or
f re prepared to build modern gin
houses in good cotton districts, on
a rental which is ultimately re
paid by tbe cotton buyer in the
premium for cotton in Roundlap
bales.
Information concerning leases
will be supplied by Messrs. C. E.
Johnson & Co. , Raleigh, N. C,
THE AMERICAN COTTON COMPANY.
MOL1NEUX MUST DIE.
Jury Finds Him Guilty in tte
Firss Degree.
New York, Feb. 10. After
sf ren hours and a half of delib
eration, during which they care
fully studied the handwriting ev
idence, the Molineux jury found
him guilty at 10:45 to-night.
Molineux took the blow without
flinching. His father took it like
an old soldier. The mother and
wife of the prisoner were not
present. At the close Recorder
Gofl departed from the usual
procedure on the side of mercy
an(j permitted the father to follow
the son to his cell.
It was the most impressive
scene, perhaps, in the history of
criminal procedure of the present
time, coming as it did at the end
of the longest and most bitterly
i ought murder trial on record,
when the foreman of the jury,
turning in his place to Iook the
defendant in the face, said slowly
and with great distinction in ev
ery word: "We find him guilty of
murder in the first degree."
When the jurors entered the
court-room their faces wore a set
expression. Not one of them
looked toward the prisoner and
1 Ms father. When silence was es
tablished the prisoner was
brought in. He walked rapidly to
the chair between his father and
Counsel Weeks. Leaning over, he
whispored to his counsel, his
eyes scanning the jury. A few
minutes later the recorder entered
PTid ordered the clerk to call the
roll. Tne jurors answered to their
1 11 i.1 .AWtnn
names, ana men m wicmou
an-nrmnaed the verdict. Several
jurors dropped glances as they
met the eyes of the prisoner; and
one of the jurors' eyes were full
of tears. Molineux's counsel
asked that the jury be polled,
which was done. The recorder
then asked Weeks if he had any
requests to make in the matter of
passing of sentence.
Molineux, who had reaumed
his seat, loaned over and whis
pered to Weeks: "Ask him to
sentence ma to death immediate-
lv " Weeks shook his head and
said to the court: "Any day your
Vinn'nr sets is satisfactory." The
recorder then set February 16,
&nd ordered the defendant re
moved "
VERY HIGH
AUTHORITY.
GREAT CHICAGO FIRM
Writes a Letter to The
Goldsboro Argus.
w;e go FOWJIlD I
In the work of building cities,
Chicago is the wonder of the
world.
In the world's history no other
place ever grew so quickly to be
one of the important cities of the
globe.
Many of the great commercial
houses of Chicago are household
words everywhere, and draw trade
from every part of the civilized
world. ,
One of these firms is the firm
of Sears, Roebuck & Company.
Below we publish a personal
letter just received from them.
Read it. The letter contains food
for thought. It says in plain
words, of three-thousand five
hundred local newspapers that go
into the offices of Sears, Roebuck
& Co., there ia rn better log at
newspaper than the Abgus.
But should Goldsboro not have
more than a local newspaper?
Within the memory of people
; living in Goldsboro, Chicago did
not contain as many people as
Pikeville or Dudley now has.
Now Chicago is one of the biggest
ci'ies in the world. In fact, until
Brooklyn and Coney Island, and
several other places, were annexed
to New York, Chicago was the
biggest city in the Western Hem
isphere. Suppose in her early days the
business men of Chicago had
been dominated by a spirit which
made them content with papers
only local in character would
Chicago be what she is to-day
the wonder of the world?
It has been the dream of the
founder of the Aegus to make
the paper an ideal one, not only
local, but bearing upon its pages,
as regularly as the rising and the
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seeing ui m uU,
news ol all the world.
Then the Daily aegus wouia
go into almost every office, facto-
ry, shop, and intelligent home in
all this magnificent section of
Eestern North Carolina, of which
Goldsboro is the natural teade
, centre.
A daily telegraphic service
would enable us to make the
Akgus the pride of our people.
It is with the business men of
Goldsboro to say whether or not
we shall make it so. What say
you, men of Goldsboro?
In local, literary and typo
graphical features, of the three
thousand five hundred papers
from all over the country that
go regularly into the offices of
Messrs. Sears, JSoebucic & uo.,
the AbOTS stands m the 0EE-
fbont, and has won, unsolicited,
the generous compliment bestow-
ed upon it in the annexed letter.
We have accomplished this single-handed.
With the active co-operation
of the united business men of
Goldsboro whose delay in this
regard is but a stumbling block
in the way of their own greater
success and the progress of the
town to greatness we could make
the Aegus, what it is our ambi
tion, from a purely patriotic
standpoint, to see it, one of the
really great newspapers of the
country: and Goldsboro as a city,
and her people as a community,
would be the principal beneficia
ries: Chicago, Feb. 8, 1900.
The Aegus, Goldsboro, N. C,
Dear Sir: A copy of your cur -rent
issue happens to come to this,
the advertising manpger's desk, and
in looking it over we feel prompted
to express our satisfaction at its
general appearance. While -we use
our careful judgment and utmost
discrimination to select only the
best class of publication?, still so
many of our papers fall short of
those qualities that go to make up a
good sheet, that it is really gratify
ing to handle a paper like yours,rep
resenting at once the highest type
of local journalism.
As you may be aware, we are ad
vertising in upwards of 3.500 news
papers throughout the coantry, all
of vhich are carrying our 15.50
Burdick Sewing Machine advertise
ment, the same as you are, and
among these papers , for style make
up and matter, both literary and
typographical, we are pleased to ac
knowledge your paper stands in the
front rank, and we feel convinced
that, while the excellent valu6 we
are giving in this $15.50 Burdick
Sewing Machine accounts for many
of the orders received from your vi
cinity, a large share of the credit is
due to our advertisement with you.
Wishing you continued success,
lours very cordially,
SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO.
Per. Li. E. ASHER,
Advertising Manager.
27. N. C. INFANTRY
Editor Argus : As you may
know the histories of the diffar-
ent regiments during the war
from 1861 to 1866, have been
written by some member of each
regiment and a publication of
said histories has been auihor
'zed by the Legislature of North
Carolina, the State paying noth
ing beyond the cost of printing,
etc.
It has been suggested that
photographs of tne tffiaers, and
members of each c juipauy .of
said regiment should accompany
the sketch.
As historian of the 27 N. C,
Infantry, I have been directed to
get such photographs for that
regiment,
I respectfully ask tht any
members of the 27. N. C. Infy.
residing in vour seatiou who
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haye photographs of themselves
or ot dead relatives belonging
to said regiment, taken during
J the war and in Confederate uni-
form, will communicate with me
or with Thos.W. Slocumb.Golds-
boro, N. C. The cost of the wood
cut for printing the photographs
will not be paid for by the State,
but must be paid for by the party
furnishing it, or by friends
Jas. A.Graham,
Historian 27, N.C. Infy.
1414 N. H. N. W,
Washington, D. C,
Newborn, Greenville and Kins-
ton papers please copy
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