No soothing strains of Maia'e eons
Can lull its hundred eyes to sleep.
VO! . XV
GiXLDSBORO. .N.:C THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1905
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This ARGUS o'er the people's riptiu,
Doth an eternal vigil kesp
WUSEHSUI
1
OBTAKTHUHAS STJRKEN
DEKED AT LAST TO,
THE JAPANESE
LAND FORCES.
stoessel Sends Out a Flag of
Truce, Proposing the Ap
pointment of Commission
ers to Consider the De
tails of Capitula
tion. These Met
at Noon.
Port Arthur, whose hill? have for
months run red with the blood of
the bravest of two warlike nations,
has at last succumbed to the fierce
tenacity of the Japanese attack. Gen
eral Stoessel most stubborn in car
rying out the will ot his sovereign,
has seen the advance of the besieging
army gain in momentum and energy
until to hold out longer would have
been a crime against humanity. Th
conditions of the surrender are not
yet known, but in all quarters jtis
V ... it ll. J. ,l nt Am
anticipated mat iney axe esucu o wi
onorable soldier may accept from a
.roue anH victorious enemv.
) TVitrio .Tan. S fneral Nori re
ports as follows:
LAt 5 o'clock in the afternoon on
January 1, the enemy's bearer of a
flagpf truce came into our line and
handed a letter to an officer. The
same reached me at 9 o'clock that
night and is as follows:
" 'Judging by the general condi
tion of the whole line of hostile po
sitions held by you I iind further re
sistance at Port Artnur useless, and
for the purpose of preventing need
lees sacrifice of lives 1 propose to
hold negotiatioos with reference to
capitulation. Should you consent to
the same you will, please appoint
commissioners for discussing the or
der and conditions regarding capitu
lation and also appoint a place for
such commissioners to maet the same
appointed by me.
" 'I take this opportunity to con
vey to your excellency assurances of
my respect.
(Signed) , " 'STOESSEL.'
Shortly after day General Nogi
sent a bearer with a flag of truce to
General Stoessel accepting the terms
and appinting as commissioner Maj.
General ljichi and accompanying
him were some staff officers and civic
0-5 cials. They will meet the com
missioners of Gen. Stoessel January
2, noon, at Shuishiying.
Sokio, January 3. (Morning.)
The Kussian commissioners appoint
ed to arrange the terms of the capitu
lation of the Russian forces at Port
Arthur signed the compact of sur
render at 9:45 o'clock last night.
Berlin, Dec. 19. A convivial cir
cle at Dortmund sent General Kuro
ki, in September, a card of enthus
iastic congratulations on his military
successes and has now received the
foollowing answer:
"On the battlefield in Manchuria,
November 5, 19Q4.
"Howl rejoice to be congratulated
at so great a distance, upon our vic
tories.. As you know, we are pupils
of German tacticians, hence I have
double pleasure in being congratu
lated by German men.
"With special regards, your obedi
ent servant,
(Signed,) "KUROKI."
The above letter from General
Kuroki removes alldoubt if any ex
isted, that General Kuroki is still
alive. He was persistently reported
to have been killed during the fight?
ing of October 4th last.
Washington, Dec. 28. The State
Department has been officially in
formed tjiat mines have been placed
in KeluiJ? harbor, northeast coast of
Formosa! and that shipping has been
jiotified.
F 1 WORLD.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
DIVERS SOURCES.
Che Latest Telegraphic News ot ths
Day Boiled Down to a
Focus For Busy
Readers.
The biggest circus that Washing
ton has seen in many a day will be
the inauguration of Theodore Roose
velt, March 4.
The RUssian editor still keeps one
eye on the door when writing re
form editorials, although he has laid
aside his muzzle.
If Colonel Watterson would im
bibe enough absinthe to feel it he
might come to the conclusion that
Paris is btill frisky.
No one is asking Tom Lawson to
write a bookv His magazine articles
are good reading for all but the
'Standard Oil crowd.
Nan Patterson's proposed bonds
men in the wilds of West Virginia
evidently appreciated the Florodora
girl in the big sextette.
While Tom Watson is preparing
populist copy for his new magazine
it would be a good idea for him to
look around for a lew advertisers.
Scotland Neck, N.C., Jan. 3. The
four saloons in this town closed Sat
urday night, and the county com
missioners yesterday refused to grant
license to any one to sell liquor in
Scotland Neck.
Thomas R. Purnell, Jr., the eld
est son of Judge Thomas R. Pur
nell, of the United States District
Court, died yesterday morning at 10
o'clock, at the home of his father on
Fayetteville street, in Raleigh, sud
denly. Hope Mills, N. C, Jan. 3. An
other wreck occurred here this morn
ing at 9 a. m., through freight No.
209 running into the rear of an extra j
which had stopped to "received or
ders. The crew saved themselves
by jumping.The train being on down
grade and the track slick, the1 acci
dent could not be avoided. The engine
was badly wrecked and some cars
were smashed and burned. This is the
fourth wreck that has occurred in a
distance of two hundred yards
less than two years.
AYCOCK & DANIELS.
in
Old Law Firm Renewed With
the Governor's Return,
y With the return of Hon. Chas. B.
Aycock to his old home here, after
his four years as Governor of the
State, the law copartnership exist
ing prior to his election to the high
office which he has so signally graced,
will be resumed and the old firm of
Aycock & Daniels will again "hang
out its shingle," Mr. F. A. Daniels,
than whom there is no riper English
scholar nor more conversant lawyer
in the Stdte, having formed no other
professional partnership during the
four years that Mr. Aycock has been
away.
All our people will welcome the
Governor and his family home again
with sincere pleasure, for we are not
only proud of him as our fellow citi
zen, but we have realized that at all
times he is just as proud of Golds
boro and loves his "home folks"
best of any.
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DR. F. D. SWINDELL.
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An Able Preacher of the Great
Methodist Church.
For twelve years Dr. F. D. Swindell has been a citizen of Goldsboro,
filling in that long period the positions
St. Paul church, of this city, and presiding elder of the Newbern district
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The good wishes of Goldsboro go
new home and new field of labor, and not only of Goldsboro, but of the en
tire Newbern district, as well, where Dr. Swindell is held in highest
esteem by all the people, regardless of church affiliations.
RUSSIA'S RIOTOUS REVO
LUTIONARIES. The outbreaks in Russia are per
haps regrettable at this particular
time, when the czar is considering a
scheme of constitutional reform, but
he is a man who constitutionally
hesitates and the occurrences of the
last two months may spur him to
quicker consideration of the mem
orial presented by thezempstvos. He
will scarcely grant representative
government in the fullest sense, but
he will undoubtedly try to conduct
an autocracy while srrantinsr civil
liberty in a qualified form to the
people. Th3 two cannot well work
in double harness, and one or the
other will suffer. It will probably
be the grand dukes and the other
reactionaries who make up the pres
ent bureaucratic machine that sup
ports the autocracy. ,
The new minister of interior,
Prince Sviatopolk-Mirksky, is un
doubtedly a liberal. He undoubtedly
favors some form of representative
government, but the ring of reac
tionists, headed by the grand dukes, !
is still powerful. There will be a
compromise and reform will pro
gress in Russia, as elsewhere, step
by step,and every step will be con
tested by the class beneficiaries of
the existing system. And departure
from the general policy of the burea
ucracy will be memorable, and all
have more or less confidence in the
good intentions of the present em
peror. The pressure upon the emneror
was never greater towards reform,
and it will not be suprising if the ex
pected manifesto doe3 not indicate a
line of political progress that will in
the course of time put Russia in line
with all other nations. Russia is to
day the last stronghold of absolut
ism. SAD DEATH.,
The Crrim Reaper Takes a Sweet
spirit rom H.arth.
Wadesboro, N. C, Dec. 30. Mrs.
James A. Lockhart, wife of ex-Congressman
James A. Lockhart, and
daughter of the late Judge Thoma:
S. Ashe, of the Supreme Court of entirely healed, boils have disap
North Carolina, died here to-day peared, is in better health now than
after aa illness of three week. for many years, and cannot say
Mrs. Lockhart was a woman of enough in praise of this wonderful
t large mental capacity, also a faith fulj
Christian. ,
of Missionary Secretary, " pastor of
AH of these positions he
has filled with marked abil
ity and great success.
When Dr. Swindell and
his estimable wife came to
Goldsboro, his two children
were little boys; now they
are grown men. In fact, Dr.
Swindell has been here so
long that we have come to
look upon him as a Golds
boro man, and that is just
what he is, for he loves
Goldsboro and Goldsboro
loves him.
Ever since he came to
Goldsboro, in a quiet, mod
est way, in the spirit of the
Master, Dr. Swindell has
gone in and out among us
doing in every way all that
he could for the betterment
of all classes of our people.
By the law of the Meth
odist church, he has been
sent to serve another charge,
of Wilson.
with him and his family to their
IS DANGEROUSLY ILL.
Little Louise Aycock, Who is
Suffering From Diptheria, is
in Serious Condition.
Raleigh News and Observer.
Little Louise Aycock the four-year-old
doughter of the Governor,
who as reported on Sunday, is sick
with diptheria at the Mansion, was
stated yesterday to be in a serious
condition, although she is not con
sidered to be critically ill. The at
tack, which developed suddenly, has
become severe and dangerous. Every
thing possible is of course being done
to aid in the little girl's recovery.
She is being attended by Dr. Henry
Tucker, of Raleigh, and is also con
stantly under the eye of Dr. Albert
Anderson, of Wilson1, who is a
brother-in-law of Mrs. Aycock, and
came here to give his niece his
undivided attention.
Governor Aycock, who was South
at the time the attack developed,
could not be reached by telegram on
his way home and had not seen the
papers when he arrived. -The first
that he knew of the sickness of his
daughter was when he saw the dip
theria card on the door of the Man
sion. People everywhere throughout
the State will sympathize with the
Governor and his wife and hope sin
cerely for the speedy and happy
termination of their anxiety.
The little girl, although very sick,
is in fine physical condition and is
said to be bright and cheerful and
bearing the pain of the disease with
great courage facts which go far to
make stronger the hope for her re
covery. '
Wilmington, N. C.
Mr. M. Y. Johnson, foreman at
the city rock quarry, Wilmington,
N. C, suffered for five years with
terrible varicose ulcers on his leg. He
tried all the remedies he ever heard
of: tried the best physician in town-
continued to grow worse, and it was
feared his leg would have to be am-
K.toH TT was literallv covered
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his bed. A friend told him of the
virtues of the Globe Tonic, and he
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A HEAVY GALE
SWEEPS OVER THE NOKH
WEST "WITH TER
RIFIC FORCE.
Three Men Are Killed. First
Heavy Rain For Months
Commenced Falling In
. the Early Part of
the Day on the
Ohio River.
Chicago, Dec 59. One of the
most severe storms of recent years
has been raging through the State
since early this morning, and has
caused much trouble' to street car
companies, railroads and telegraph
companies.
In its extent the storm was the
most widespread of any during the
last fifteen years. Counting the fog
as a component part of the storm, it
stretched clear from theRockyMoun
tains to New York, and from Win
nipeg to New Orleans.
The fatalities reported here as due
to the storm are three men killed.
They are:
Alexander Steiner, a teamster,
Thomas Walsh, a laborer.
Frank Cavanaugh was killed at
Muncie, Ind., by an oil derrick fall
ing on him.
At ten o'clock the storm was re
ported as subsiding at Kansas City
and other points north and south of
that city.
The storm reached westward from
St. Paul until it reached almost the
entire Northwest.
In the Ohio river valley the first
heavy rain in five montns com
menced falling early in the day and
continued throughout the night.
Willow Dale Cemetery.
Editor Aegus:
About a year ago, when it was de
cided to relieve the city adminstra-
tions of the care of Willow Dale
Cemetery and turn it over to a Board
ot managers, I was apprehensive
that the change would not enlist
more attention and service from a
special Board than from the old
manner of caring for this sacred
place. I have, therefore, watched
carefully its management since and
have, ere this, as no doubt many
others have, been impressed with
the marked improvements made.
The present officient managers are
receiving, as they so well merit, the
commendation of all who visit this
beautiful spot that is eventually to
be our resting place.
The Superintendent cannot be ex
celled in industry, carefulness, and
politeness.
Those who have not visited the
cemetery during the holidays ought
to do so at an early date, for it can
be said, to the credit of ail our peo
ple, that they do not complain at the
expense necessary to keep Willow
Dale Cemetery in a neat condition.
I am prompted to write this be
cause I know from personal experi
ence that when public servants have
rendered the best service of which
they are capable, they are gratified
at sincere expressions of apprecia
tion. J. E. PETERSON.
Card of Thanks.
I wish to thank the public for their
kindness to me, in giving me work
to do during the past year. Think
how you would have felt if you had
not have been able to stand on your
feet all day to do a man's work as I
have been. I feel thankful to them
that have given me work to do, and
if some of you were in my condition,
vou would be thanKtul too. 1 run a
wagon and haul sand and clay in ,
yards.
I would be very thankful for your
work if you have anything in my
line to do. Orders left with Mr. L.
B. Bass will be promptly "attended
to." .
Respectfully,
B. F. PHELPS.
JOHN J3. BAKER DEAD.
A Brave Soul Has Gone to Solve
the Mysteries of the Beyond,
From Monday's Daily.
There died in this- city yesterday
morning, January 1, 1905, at six
o'clock, one of the most heroic souls
and patient sufferers this community
has ever known, Mr. John B. Baker,
in the 63rd year of his age.
Mr. Baker had been utterly help
less for more than 15 years, and
more or less a paralytic for well
nigh forty years; yet through all hia
long years of suffering he was never
known to complain, and was ever
cheerful and jovial.
He was a Soldier of the Confeder
acy, with a record that perhaps fewa
if any, other member of all tnat gal
lant army of immortal heroes could
boast; he was orderly seargent of hia
company, and was in every battle
and every skirmish in which hie com
pany participated. He never showed
fear, and did some deathless deeds of
heroic daring that stand unexcelled
in the annals of that long and brilli
ant struggle for the supremacy of the
"Lost Cause" the cause that was
right.
Mr. Baker was the oldest son of
the late Col. Jesse Baker, and is
.survived by his venerable, invalid
mother, three sisters and three broth
ers, a wide circle of relatives and a
host of friends.
Death came to him on New Year's
morning as a welcome angel of in
finite relief, whose visit he had long
prayed for, yet abiding in the Provi
dence of God to send in His own
good time.
The funeral was held from his late
home this afternoon at 2 o'clock, and
was largely attended by our citizens
in general aud byTuos. RuffitiCamp
Confederate Veterans, who paid to
their dead comrade in arais and
heroic deeds every mark of respect.
The floral tributes were very
many aud very beautiful and the
services were conducted by Rev.
W. F. Fry, pastor of the First Bap
tist church, the interment being
made iri'the family plot, beside his
late father, in Wiliuvv Dale Ceme
tery.
DIES OF HYDROPHOBIA.
Child Bitten On Finger By a
Small Dog About Nine
Weeks Ago.
Greensboro, N. O, Dec. 30. John
Reeves, the seven-year-old son of
New Reeves, died this morning at
his home at White Oak Mi lis, of hy
drophobia. About nine weeks" ago
the boy was bitten on "the finger by
a small yellow dog in pl iy, it was
thought. Last Wednesday the boy
became strangely afflicted, having
convulsions and chokiugg. Dr. Ker
nodle was called to see him, and at
once feared hydrophobia.
A consultation of physicians, con
sisting of himself, Drs. Harrison, a
specialist, of Greensboro, and Dr.
Booth, of Oxford, was had. After see
ing the boy yesterday, they all
agreed it was a case-of hydrophobia,
and in an advanced stage. Heroic
measures were resorted" to, but the
child, after a night of terrible suf
fering, died this morning.
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Administrator's Notice.
O j vici Jl oi CUB
Superior Court ol Wayne County. N C aa
Executor , of the estate of .Ellen P. Smith,
deceased, notice is hereby given to all per
sons having claims against said estate to pre
sent thm to the undersigned on or be
fore the 3rd day of JiAuary, 19C6. or this
notioe will be pleaded in bar ot tfceir recovery.
All persons Indebted to suid estate are re
quested to made immediate payment,
'l'hls January 2nd, 1605,
E. B. Smith,
Administrator of Ellen P.Sinith, deceased
Fremont, N. C.
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