Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1892-12-15

ordered for the Christmas trade, and
consisting of articles too numerous
to mention and too beautiful to
describe-flom a picture for the
wall to a cabinet for any room in
the household, one can spend hours
among their delightful stock and
feel refreshed for the visit.
IT was the late Mr.. Redding G.
Pittman, whose death at Rocky
Mount we recorded yesterday, that
planned the Notifications of Fort
Fisher during the late war, and
after the capture it was pronounced
by engineers of the Federal army to
be the finest piece of engineering
skill displayed on the Atlantic
Coast.
The Board Of County Commits
sioners at their recent meeting
elected Mr.. NJ. L. Lee to fill the va
cancy on the County Board of Edu-
cation vice W. r. Allen, Representa-
tive-elect from this county, resigned.
Mr.. Lee is in every way competent
to fill the position ana will make an
agreeable and aggressive member Of
the Board, as he is thoroughly in
sympathy with the advancement Of
public education.
The Atlantic Coast Line has now
a full fedged "city Office" on Walls
aut street, in the building formerly
occupied by The ARGUS, where Capt.
I. W. Slocumb, tbs efficient and
always courteous and obliging agent
of that popular line, may be found
during Office hours for the transact
ton of business. This new departs
ure is quite a convenience to our
business men, and they appreciate it
heartily.
PRESIDENT Winston, of the N. G..
University, has been invited to ads
dress the Nineteenth Century Club,
at New York. This is indeed quite
a distinction, for, IS the Raleigh
NeaCs- Observer says" the most promi-
nent celebrities discuss questions be-
fore that body, and President Wins
GOu Is uOW W GdhC lis dppIopl1oe
place in the galaxy. That North
| Carolina will have reason to applaud
| the result of his effort need not be
said'.
THERE was a special meeting of
the Board of County Commissioners
in this city yesterday which had for
its purpose the investigation of the
county poor house. In consequence,
Mr.. Jerre Summerlin was elected
Superintendent of that institution,
and it is the purpose of the Board
to make it, by close business man
agement, self-sustainlng, instead of
being a charge upon the taxpayers
of the county, as it has been of late.
THE friends of Rev. J. S. Dill in
this city, where he Was formerly
pastor of the Baptist church, were
glad to greet him on his arrival here
yesterday afternoon and to see him
looking SO hale aud hearty %. He
says that Mrs. Dill, too, who was
delicate when here, is in most ex-
cellent health in their California
home, witch VII b. a source of
SINCERE pleasure to that good lady's
hosts Of frlatd s among our people,
where she will e.rr be held in affec-
t~ionate regard, together with Mr..
Dill.
IT is with inexpressible regret and
deep personal sadness that We chron-
icle this morning the death of Mr.
Redding G. Pittman, which occurred
Sunday afternoon at his home il
Rocky Mount, of apoplexy. with
which he was stricken Friday night
and remained uneor scious TIL death
He was a highly cultured, generous
hearted, genial gentleman, aud d de
won't, Cody man in his latter days
He was So years of age and was I'm.
married. None knew him but t.
love him, and in this city, as we'll a
elsewhere throughout the State
where he had hosts of friends, hi
death will be sincerely mourned.
THE tenacity with which Presi
dent Harrison, as shown by his re.
|: cent message to Congress, sticks t.
the high tariff and Force bill policie
! of his party, shows conclusively tina
: he has not learned anything from tn
J result Of the election that defeate,
him for the Presidency, The ma
who seriously argues that the Nc
: Kinley law embodies the idea Of tax
alton to which this country viii
finally commit itself and who be
~lieves that the Force bill is bot
right aud expeditions, fall, far b
: low the loosest definition of states
manship, and stands convicted Of b.
:. ing a narrow and bigotted partisan
AT the regular annual electiy
meeting Of TIE lodge of the Ancien
Order of United Workman Of tn.
city the following officers wei
- elected for the ensuing year: Ma
. Fl. Z. Grant, P. NJ. W.; G. j. River
bark, NJ. W.; F. W. Hilker, Fore
man;Rev. G. L. Hoffman,, Oversee
- Jos, Isaacs, Guide; Willis Edmund
son, Recorder and F1nancier;
Fuchtler, Receiver. The appointi'
officers of the lodge have not y
been designated, and, consequent
will be published later. The A.O.I
w. has a $4,000 insurance featur
and is II of the largest seer
n orders in the United States.
TuF Suprema Court of fbo TTnito