Vol. XVII.
UP TO HOLTON.
CHAIRMAN STMMONS CHAL
LENGES TUB REPUB
LICANS. A Joint Debate Asksd Between
Republican aid Dem?cratic
Nominees on the State
Ticket: Butler's Bluff
Called.
Raleigh Pos't
F. M. Simmons, E?q., chairman
of the Democratic State Execu
tive Committee, yesterday wrote
a letter to A. E. HoltoD, Esq., of
"Winston, N. C, inviting a joint
debate between the Democratic
and Republican nominees on tbe
Stale ticket.
The Republicans, who have
been laughing at Butler's effort
to divert the Democratic nomi
nees from a debate with the main
Republican show to tho eide-show
of that parly, will have an oppor
tunity to laugh aga''n. Butler's
artful effort to engage the Demo
crats in joint debate with the
dummy ticket nominated by his
handful of followers, which was
made up largely of McKinley office-holders,
has been more than
met by Mr, Simmons.
If the Republicans are half so
anxious as they confess to dis
cuss the issues in this campaign,
they will not hesitate to accept
the challenge. Ex-Judge Spencer
B. Adams, the Republican nom
inee for Governor, can meet
Hon. Charles B. Aycock, the
nominee of the Democracy for
Governor, if he so desires.
The Republican bluff launched
by First Lieutenant Butler, has
been called. Iu's up to Mr. Holton
now.
Fourteen Tornadoes. -Kansas
City, May 7. No less
than fourteen tornadoes are re
ported to have been seen yester
day m central ivansas ranging
through Saline, Ellsworth, Rice
Barton and Pawnee counties. So
far as learned William Helfrick
and wife, who lost their lives in
the destrnction of their home,
north of Ellin wood, were the only
persons killed. Over twenty peo
ple are reported slightly injured
near Ellinwood. Rain and hail
following the storms did great
damage to crops.
Ex-Congressman Cu ber son Dead
Jefferson, Tex., May , 7 Ex-
Congressman David B. Culber
son, father of United States Sen-
atorC A, Culberson of Texas,
died this morning. He has been
suffering from grippe and for
the last two or three days has
been unconscious at intervals.
Nj R'ght to Ugliness.
The woman who is lovely ia
face, form and temper will always
have friends, but one who would
be attractive must keep her health.
Jf she is weak, sickly and all run
down, she will be nervous and ir
ritable. If she has constipation or
kidney trouble, her impure blood
will cause pimples, blotches, skia
eruptions and a wretched com
plexion. Electric Bitters is the
best medicine in the world to reg
ulate stomach, liver and kidneyB
and to purify the blood. It gives
strong nerves, bright eyes, smooth,
velvety skin, rich complexion. It
will make a good-looking, charm.
in" woman of a run down invalid.
Only 50 cents at J. H, Hill &
Son's drag store.
DR. ALDERMAN RESIGNS.
He Will Accept oi Tulane Uni
versity. Chapel Hill. N.C., May 7. In
quiry made today at President
Alderman's office regarding; his
decision, the following self-explanatory
letter was given out:
"Hon R. H. Battle, Secretary
Board of Trustees, Raleigb,
N. C.
"My Dear Mr. Battle: I beg
to offer to the board of trustees
my resignation as president of
the University of North Carolina,
to take effect on J une 15, 1900. I
take this step after patient study
ia order that I may accept the
presidency of lulane University
of Louisiana, to which I was
elected on April 5, 1900. This
decision has been reached in the
belief that it is just to my pro
fessional life and to wider op
portunities for educational ser
vice that I make the change. I
have tried very hard to do the
right thing all along large lines
and to eliminate from this pro
blem the commonplace and the
sordid.
"If I have seemed to take un
due time to act, it is because
time has been needed to see with
even partial vision the path to
tread. I have a firm belief that
every thoughtful man who has
had this matter in mind at all
will know something of the hurt
of mind and heart through which
I have passed and the cocflict of
duty and emotion in which I
have struggled. It is the hardest
thing I have yet had to do in
my life. I do not need to say that
my heart has been touched by
the evidences of appreciation, all
too generous and undeserved.
from the people of the otate
whom I have labored for since
manhood, from your honorable
body so helpful and just to me
always, from the body of -alumni
and from the faculty and stu
dents of this institution, whose
service I have known to thejoy of
striving for. I count this apprec
iation the finest reward of a life
of some toil and struggle for the
upbuilding of my native State.
"With assurance of my per
sonal esteem, I have the honor
to remain, '
"Very sincerely yours
"Edwin A. Alderman."
THEY SAY.
Most women can change their
mind faster than 'they can make
it up,
A San Francisco woman pro
posed to her elevator boy, and the
Baltimore News says he took her
up.
It is now hoped Lord Roberts'
adyance will be sufficiently rapid
to excuse us from pronouncing
Thaba N'Chu.
One woman went to the gener
al conference at Chicago wholly
regardless of St. Paul's remarks
on that point,
It is no reflection upon chara
tableness of human nature to
say that pretty near everybody
is run down in the spring,
However mucn a woman may
prjtest against her sex's reputed
love of new clothes, it is al
there if she is a true woman.
Women start in cleaning'house
by picking out a lot of old things
to throw away, and usually end
up by dusting them and carefully
replacing them in the closet.
This Abgus o-'er the people's rights,
Doth an eternal vigil keep
GOLDSBORO, N. C. THURSDAY, MA Y lO. 1900.
With the Boys of the Slxiies.
Git my old knapsack, Mary, and my
uniform of gray.
Git my battered helmet, Mary, for
I'll need 'em all to-day.
Git my canteen an my leggins', reacL
me down my rusty gun,
For I'm going out paradin' with the
boys of '61.
Never mind them blood stains, Mary,
never mind that ragged hole,
It was left there by a bullet that
was seekin' for my soul.
Just brush off them cobb webs,
Mary, get the bonnie flag of
blue,
For I'm goin' out paradin' with the
boys of '62.
These old clothes don't fit me, Mary,
like they did when I was young.
Don't you remember how neatly to
my manly form they clung?
Never mind that sleeve that's empty,
- let it dangle loose an' free,
For I'm goin' out paradin' with the
boys of '63.
Pull my sword belt tighter, Mary,
fix that strap beneath my chin;
I've grown old and threadbear, Mary,
like my uniform, an' thin.
But I reckon I'll pass muster, as I
did in days of yore.
For I'm goin out paradin' with the
boys of '64.
Now I'm ready, Mary, kiss me; kiss
your old sweetheart good bye,
Brush aside them wayward tear
drop; Lord, I didn't think you'd
cry,
ain't goin' forth to battle, cheer
up, Mary, sakes alive,
I'm just goin' out paradin' with iVe
boys of '65. 1..
From the ''Lost Cause."
PROGRAMME
Of the S. S. Conference at Salem Church,
Goldsboro Circuit, Thursday, May
11, 190O.
9:30 a m Devotional services. Wel
come address, by M. E. Star
ling1. Organization, reports
from different schools .
r. .
xx a. zxi uu.l xias ju.eiixuju.mixi uu-
complished through the Sun -day
School, by Bey. S. T.
Moyle.
11:30 a. m Christian education and
its bearing on the well being
of the State and the progress
ot tne cnurcn, oy vv. owm-
dell.
AFTEKNOON.
2 p. m Devotional services. ,
1st. The influence of early teaching
in the development of children,1
by Bev. F. B. N'cCall.
2nd. Exercises by the Schools of
the Circuit.
3rd. General remarks on the S. S.,
led by Bev. H. M. Jackson.
4th.- Election of Officers. .
Benediction.
GENERAL NEWS.
A moral for humanity in an eclipse
of the sun is that it's when we are
under a kind of cloud- that people
are most apt to notice the spots on
us.
sMaude Adams finished her season
in "The Littl Minister" last week,
and, it is said, will never play it again.
She has appeared in it 841 times, and
the total gross receipts have been
over $1,000,000.
Since Mark Twain announced his
candidacy for the presidency other
humorists are falling into line, and
among .the most promising is M.
Quad, who promises, if elected, to
put a tax on all dialect stories.
Poultney Bigelow, writing in the
New York Times about the Boer
war, says South Africa asks for se
curity and peace, and adds that she
might reasonably ask also that
Cronje be exchanged for Cecil
Rhodes. .
The suggestion made by a Havana
papers that now is a good time to agi
tate tor Cuban independence, since
the mass of people in the United
States favor it, and the politicians
will not care to oppose it so soon
before the Presidential election, is
not without adroitness. ' -
No soothing strains of Maia'sson,
Can lull its hundred eves to sleep' '
HfMiflOflD GOIlLISIO
At Fremont And Criminal
Carelessness the Cause.
The Norfolk Shoofly lias a Rear
end Collision With the South
Bound Freight A Brave
Engineer badly Shaken
up and Conductor
Loses His Foot.
The Rail Road - Authorities
Clearly to Blame
Dally Argus of Tuesday.
Rather an unusual number of
citizens were around tbe depot
last night awaiting tbe arrival of i
the ehoofly tra:n from Norfolk,
which is due here at 8 o'clock.
Some were expecting the coming
of relatives; some bad been wriu
ten to to meet friends, and others
were out to see what prominent
Odd Fellows would come in from
along the line on their way to the
State Grand Lodge. Consequently
the-non airival of the train on
time , and its prolonged delay
causeu cuusiueiuuia cuixixuwut, u-
qmry anu uneasiness, yvxi.cu ueep-
i : i - u a i
S caed-a the time wore on.
Nothing could be learned as to
the cause of the delaj until tbe
ehoofly arr'ved from the South at
9:27, and from passengers. oh this
xraiu u was gieanu luat tutu xiu
1 - 1, 1 J L 1 3 I
been an accideDt at Fremont, but
particulars were still meagre.
Finally, when tne delayed train
did arrive, after midnight, it
was learned from passengers on
hoard that, t.hfirfl had been a
fearful rear end collision, the
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Norfolk passenger train, which
had the right of way, having run
into the rear end of a heavy
train of trnck cars south-bound,
with two engines pulling V, and
, wbieb had made Fremont all
righf, aud wa3 there given or
ders to make Pikeville ahead of
the Norfolk shoofly, but before
tbe heavy train could get under
war. and after. the engineer had
signaled in his flagman, the Nor
loik train came bearing down.
There were no signal lights on
the rear end of the freight trair,
as there should have been, conse
quently the engiaeer of the Nor
folk passenger train had no warn-
ing of the danger, until from the
light of his head lamp he saw the
dead obstruction on the track
ahead of him, Instantly here-
versed bis engine and bravely
L L 3 -v. u-L -
atari I- on1 tornhlo. starinor him in
the face. His engine buried itself
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und way into the car ahead, and
the crash jammed every car be
hind him and gave the passengers
an awful jar and fearful physical
and mental shock, but otherwise
no other personal damage was
done; save to conductor Ben Will
iford. who at the moment of tbe
crash had just come cut of the
first class car to attend to the
passengers who might be getting
on and off at Fremont, and in the
shock his foot was caught between
ar.a naEA. flF m-
"-"ff 1 -
inafc above the ankle, which was
done by Dr. Whitehead, of Rocky
un aa cmmnnaA in
Rt.Hn 1 1 v. and came on the wrecking
?Jv ka onanr
" Ca Wil rd is a -mos. ex-
npllnt man. and has manv warm
friends in this city who deeply
sympathize with him in his dis
tressing misfortune,aswell aswith
his devoted wife. Reports from
him to-day are that he is doing
as well as could be expected.
In sizing up this collision the
Argus has come to the delib
erate conclusion that the Rails
road authorities are primarily to
blame; first, for running a train
with a rear car an old mail car,
we learn as a caboose without
any appliances on the sides for
adjusting signal lights; secondly,
for ordering this train out of
Fremont so close in the face of
the approaching passenger
train's schedule as that the
latter was upon it before it
could get started, and that tbe
train crew is to blame the flag
man especially, for failure to ex
pose his signal light.
v.
n -u . j .i -
folk tram who stood so nobly to
his post of duty is Mr, Beasley,
who is also a sterling good
fellow and has many friends
among our people hore who know
him.
COMMISSIONERS'
rOCRT.
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Goldsboro, N. C, May 7, '00.
The Board met in regular ses:-
sion; present: E. A. Stevens,
chairman, J. B. Gardner and J
I P. Smith.
AcC311at8 were audited and al.
lowed to D A CoblP) forworkon
Orphan Home road, $15 00, J P
Smi,h & Sonjpocr house supplies,
lg Q R D porte- Cox brid2e
-
guardj 1 00; L D Sammerlill)
N?U Hope fence, 20 73; E M
Head, poor house account, 60 06;
B F Scott, sheriff, April iail fee3,
120 60; J H Lane, Stony Creek
feDce, 4 92; Goldsboro Hardware
Q bfid acct 7 g3 Epstein
Bros, for convicts, 15c; Argus
Puplishing Co, monthly acct, 14,
17, B Finkelstein, for convicts,
1 00; Goldsboro Undertaking Co,
pauper coffin, 3 00; B F Scott,
I cuff Kaifc n on.
Uli 'o, .
U1HW. ",c"
27 80; Goldsboro Electric Co, for
Court room, 1 00; Standard Mfg
Co, poor house lumber, 45 25;
n ir r i j
Dr.W J Jones, county Health
Supt, 20 00; M J Koberts, brdg
acct, 2 30; J Slaughter Co, work
for county, 2 50; Smith & Yelver-
too, county supplies, 52 47; "W
H Huggms, county supplies, 9 88;
M rtie Turnage, pauper, 1 00, Dr
Thos Hill, coroner, in Wm Sutton
inquest, 20 10; D W Cobb & Co,
for county, 5 50; Enterprise Lum-
ber Co, bridge lumber, 12 63; I
F Ormond, U SU, acct hied,
7 00; S H Blow, work on Davis
Bridge, 7 00; J H Aycock, bridge
iumber and work, 33 00; A T
Guffin. bridge lumber, 2 05; J
W Gardner & Son. for convicts,
"R 1? Knnff." KhfT AnrW Clemrt.
expenses 29 30, T W Uzzell,
I
Whitehall foot way, 33 00; Henry
I 4- Kill nmiffn1 Q ll fl I f 1
Price, burying pauper, 2 00; L
1 Urantaam, oriage lumoer, iu,-
97; B Futrelf, bridge and raft,
10 80; W H Edgerton, bridge and
raft, 4 50: B W Southerland, bdg
a ,f d nn. w tt -pw rv,
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q co.cri TJi
UUUV1 I'F""!" " "
briage laTioer, 4 ojs; m d ner-
ring, bridge guard, you; o s
Johnson, bridge guard, 1 58; J J
Ivey, Whitehall bridge lumber,
if2 79; Town of Pikeville, lnm-
1 ' Zl " t, , '
Der 3 95. Ueo & uood, xreas,
casn to panpers, 189 00; R L
Kennedy, hauling, 1 00; H T
I Tnnoo U'ni.ir ofiP noff 4.9, 7.q.
rir Willi Smr w ia
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bounty eaitnpuperintenaentior
one year irom wis aaie,
I Matthew Jmnett and is. B.
NO 145
Raiford granted free license
to
peddle in Wayne County.
John L. Phelps appointed reg
istrar of stock law territory in the
portion of Saulston and New Hope
townships, subject to Lenoir
county stck law.
J. J. Davis (Stony Creek) re
leased of 1899 poll (ax.
Tbe Board then adjourned.
Published by order of the
Board.
G. C. Kornegay,
Clerk, &c.
GENERAL NEWS
The use by the Prince of Wales of
a pair of field glasses at a large pub-
lie banquet, in order to observe some
of the ?ar a'way guest is dollbtlesa
only a prelude to the use of mega
phones and ear trumpets during the
speecn at such functions.
Some of the newspapers are ex
cited because Admiral Dewey may
have said publicly in St. Louis lasfe
week: "We ca" whip any nation in
the world." It does not seem, to
be sure, that the Admiral thus de.
livered himself, but even if, he did,
what of it!
Robert B. Roosevelt, uncle of New
York's Governor, and a staunch
Democrat, feels sure that his ne
phew will not be the Vice-President
tial candidate on the .Republican
ticket can be beaten with a good
Democrat at the head of the opposi-.
tion.
The Canadian Government, find
ing no firm in its own territory that
could do the work cheaply and
quickly, ordered a lot of official maps
of Alaska from a Chicago farm, but
whfi;i it. found i.hat. t,he lioundarv
Hue was shown according to the
American contentions, ot course
of this map had been printed, an
other 100,000, showing the boundary
as claimed by both countries, were
struck oft, but as yet even ithese.
have not been accepted. !
Men can be cured privately and pos
itively at home cf all weakness and
disease. Write for new free book, Drt
J N. Hathaway 22 South Broad St.,
Atlanta. 6a.
Kudyard Kiph'ng having left
South Africa is selling to a num
ber of American papers a lot of
s(ale stuff on the war in that part
of the world, the facts of which
were printed in the press dis
patches months ago.
Bailey, of Texas, when he enis
ters the United States Senate, will
be the youngest member of that
body, which will furnish a better
reason than ever for still applying
to him the sobriquet of "Babe"
Bailey,
The methodical habits for which
the Sultan of Turkey is noted in
ciade tQe mvaritble practice of
refufcio2 to nav his debts whea
called upon to do so. We have
eome subscribers wbo are ditto.
There is no occasion for Tom
Watson to feel lonesome as a po
htical corpse There are otherj5i
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His Life Was Saytd.
Mr. J. E. Lillv. a Drominent
citizen of Hannibal, Mo., lately
had a wonderful deliverauce from
frightful death. In telling of it
he says: "I was taken with Ty-
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monia.Mv lunsrs became hardened.
i wa8so weak I couldn't even sit
up in oeu. in ot Ding neipea me. x
expected to soon die of Con-
P1'0' wfl.n 1 hearl oft D,r
King s New Discovery. One bottle
gave great relief. I continued to
nae ;f &nA now am weii flnd
strong. I can't say too much in its
praise.' This marvelous medicine
I is the surest and quickest cure in
the world for all lhroat and Lung
Trouble. Regular sizes 50 -cents
and $1.00. Trial bottles free at
J. H. Hill & Son's Drug Store-
F every bottle guaranteed.
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