Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-12-14

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pledging their earnest and active
support to the school. This mean
more than a passing compliment 70
this worthy colored minister and ed
ucator of his race in our midst, as it
comes from a body of delegates that
speak for $4,000 adherents in North
Carolina.
By an accidental fire at Grifin's
siding, on the A. & N. G. r. r. bes
low Dover, the Goldsboro Lumber
Company lost a half-million feet of
lumber yesterday morning. 1t is
not known how the fire originated,
but it is thought to have been Gauss
ed by a spark from a passing loco
motive. The lumber was partially
insured with Grafton & Crawford, of
this city.
MEssRs. r. Kerstead and r. Ber~
caugh, of Newark, N. j., are regis
tered at the Hotel Kennon and nur-
pose spending some time here on a
hunting expedition, for pleasure.
They could not have selected any
place better adapted to quail shoot
ing than thia section. The Kennon
has large game reserves of It's W
where sportsmen guests can always
find abundant supply of game.
AT the election held by the Goldss
boro Rifles to fill the vacancies of
1st and 2nd Lieutenants, the choice
fell upon Mr.. J, W. Quick, Jr., for
the fo1 nler and Mr.. Louis Collins
for the latter. Both these young
gentlemen are excellent so'di, RS,
wellsdrilled and very popular with
the boys and consequently the COM
pany may be expected to hold its
own and 60 forward under their
aggressive aid to the captain COM
handing.
HON. Walter Clark, Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court, was in
the city yesterday, returning to his
home in Raleigh from attending
Conference in Wilmington. This
distinguished legal light has many
warm friends IN this city, who re-
member him gratefully for the great
and lasting good he did our COM
munity in behalf of claw and ORDER"
some eight years ago, when holding
court here as a Superior court Judge.
The private car "Manitoba' of
Mr.. A. L. Mohler, of st. Paul, MIMI,
vice-president of the Great Northern
Railroad, passed through the city
yesterday en- route for Newbern. hav-
ing that gentleman and his family
on board. where they purpose spend~
ing the winter. They left IS inches
of snow in St. Paul and the Their
mometer at we'll, no matter, they
are now in Goods country" and,
too, in a royal old town for warmth
of hospitality and co~ngeniality Of its
people.
MEssRs. Ed. F. R. Dave and
Ellef Hanson returned to the city
yesterday from a successful pross
pecting tour to Chatham county in
search of gold, and they report the
"fnd" of some rich placer "dig-
ging.." They have secured a
long time lease of TIE property, and
will begin mining operations on an
Extensive scale with the opening of
the new year. These young gentle
men will spend the holidays in
Goldsboro, which they have grown
to like very much since their advent
among US, while IN the mean time
perfecting their arrangements for
their mining enterprise.
Two white men, Herbert Russ and
Ernest Jones, just outside OF Kins-
ton got into a dispute while hauling
fodder from a field Friday, as to
which one should get down and
open a gate through which they had
to pass. High words ensued, and
both got down to fight. Russ drew
a knife and Jones got one Of the
long cart rounds-that are used
for hauling fodder and other forage
and with this he felled Russ to
the ground, killing him with the
blow. Jones was Immediately ap-
pretended and is now in Kinston
Jail under the charge of murder,
awaiting trial in the next term OF
Superior Court.
WHERE was Alex. Richardson
when Mag. Dinkins was being bru.
tally beaten and murdered on his
very threshold, where she had fled
for protection !? He seems to have
been cowardly cringing within doors.
afraid to come out and lend the negro
Raiford Yelverton a helping hand to
restrain the murderer. That such a
bloody deed should have been perpe-
ltrated under such circumstances,
with two men, other than the muir
; derer, at hand, is a lasting shame
upon the commonest specimen Of
manhood. Even the negro Raiford,
who when his own person was in
jeopardy so easily and often "laid
Ward upon the ground"-why die
he not lay him there before, even il
he had to kill him to save the un.
fortunate woman?
>. The suicide of an English-borr
Hebrew, Adolph Goldsmidth, occur.
red in Selma, Friday night, about
O'Clock. He lett this city on the at.
ternoon train and got off at Selma
Where at the above hour his dead
body was found on the steps of ar
unoccupied store building. He was
the advance agent for "The Fort
J unes of War" company, that went to
pieces several days ago in Danville