Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1892-12-01
LOCAL BRIEFS.

Cotton sold for 81 cents on this
market yesterday.
AND still the general Joy of the
people increases that CleYeland is
elected.
The comet is still at large. So
are hundreds of our delinquent sub
s~criuers.
REPUBLICAN office-holders have
o he Observation-Disclosures turkeys
will be decapitated before they are.
The stores of our city are begin
ming to display Christmas goods,
which gives cheer to the hearts of
the young, that the glad feast is near
at hand.
The death of Mr.. Alfred Wilkins,
who used to drive the mail hack to
Seven Springs, occurred at his home
in this city Tu- sday, of pneumonia,
after a brief illness.
WE regret exceedingly to chroni-
Gle the death of our good friend and
countyman Mr.. VIM. Hosea, which
occurred Friday night, of paralysis,
ut his home near Pikeviile.
HFR young lady and gentleman
friends of the city were delightfully."-
entertained Thanksgiving evening
bv Miss Anna Privett at her hos
pitable home on George street.
The price of cotton still goes
STEADILY upward aud the effect there
Of is felt in all Departments of COM
merce in this city. Our merchants
tell us that trade was never better.
The extremely cold weather
Thanksgiving Day curtailed the
pleasure of quite Il number of sports
men in these parts who had antici-
pated a big time in the fields with
gun and dog.
THE pumping station of the
G%ollsboro Water Works, on the
banks of Little river. nave been put
in telephone communication with
the company's chice in this CITY,
which is indeed a great convenience
THF Board of County Conn is-
sioners will meet in regular molili Y
session next Monday in this CITY;
when the new members of the Board
will be installed and the recently
elected county officers will be 'sworn
in"
WE regret to announce this norm
ing the death of MIR. w. H. room,
which occurred Tuesday at his
home in this city, after a protracted
i lness. His funeral was he
With Masonic homo S yesterday morn
Ing at II o'clock.
The death of Miss May Gay, of
Wilson, which occurred at her
home IL that town On Saturday
last, of consumption. will be learned
OF with sincerest regret by many in
this city, where she had a wide cir
Gle of admiring friends.
THE comet did not sstrike" the
earth Sunday night, IS predicted it
would. Neither have any of our
army of delinquent subscribers
ststruck" this office in response to
our rather humorous, but none the
less well-founded scalp In Sundays
ARGUS.
The annual NJ. E. Conference for
the Eastern division of the State will
meet in this city next month. The
committee of arrangements are now
daily on the rounds placing dele
gates among the homes of our citi :
zens, who will give them a cordial
welcome.
OUR citizens will learn with real
regret that the thriving town Of
Winston has been again visited by a
disastrous fire, which swept away the
fine new hotel that was the pride of
the town, and which was but re-
Gently completed. At this writing
we have been unable to learn the ex-
tent of the loss, which is necessarily
large.
THE A. & N. G. r. r. locomotives
that came into the city yesterday
were draped in mourning by reason
of the death of M. Basil Manly, the
Master Machln;st of that road, a
notice of which. from the Newbern
Journal of yesterday, we publish in
this issue. All who knew him in
this city are deeply grieved at his
untimely death.
The Episcopal ladies Of the city
are making extensive preparations
for the opening next week, in the
Einstein building, on West Centre
street, of "Christmas Bazaar',
which will be- replete III a bewilder-
ing galaxy of attractions. There
will be Jap. goods, fancy goods,
toilet articles, books, ornaments, etc,
all of which will be offered for sale
at winning prices. the cause in
which they are enlisted is worthy of
liberal patronage.
ONE Of the most creditable works
of art, in oil pai,ting-a rival of
the masterpiece of which it is a
copy-is now on exhibition in the
spacious and palatial-fnrnfture store
Of Messrs. Royal & Borden on West
Centre street. 1t is a copy of Rosa