Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-08-31

place, a handsome memorial window
as a thank Offering for his deliver
ance from death, ir memory of those
who died, and IN gratitude to the
Statesyille people.
QUITE a numerous colored exe
cursion from Raleigh visited this
city yesterday morning and spent
the day in al orderly and apparr
entity enjoyable In the
afternoon a spirited game of base
ball was played between the
Raleigh and Goldsboro clubs,
which resulted ina score of s to II
in favor of Goldsboro. In fact, we
believe cur colored base ball club
is the best in the State.
LITTLE Louis Henry, infant son
CT Mr.. and Mrs. f. L. Castex, at their
home on William street in this city,
Sunday night. responded to the
S~ayiour's call--so sweetly %consoling to
Christian parents always when their
loving arms are made vacant By the
visitation of the white winged angel
of death-"suner little children to
come unto me and forbid them not,
for of such is the Kingdom of
| Heaven" The funeral will be held
from the home this morning at 10
o'clock, Rev. B. r. Hall officiating.
The tt ue lnwardness of the finano
cial and business disturbance we are
experiencing just now, will b. made
to appear in due time, and be cor
rectly understood as a concerted ats
tempt OF the protected corporations
and combines to dishonor and break
down the Democratic Administra-
ton. 1t is a desperate game, and is
being played with desperate determi-
nation, but its success will neces-
sarily be brief, while the condemnaS
ton that will follow will be eternal.
In reference 10 u editorial brief
about the young men who went into
the chair rolling business;u Chicago
and "struck,' we found the following
item on our table yesterday +: "In
Justice to the chair pushers, who
vent on a strike in Chicago the
other day, we would say they did not
do so until our friend L. E. Pridgen
arrived, whose corporosity was more
than they could stand We have
not been able to see "Lon' to find out
the truth of this assertion, and con-
sequently we simply give it as we
found it..
In Fork township yesterday,
while the wife Of George Wooten,
a very respectable aud industrious
colored farmer, was engaged in the
field and had her little child with
her, the child strayed to a neighbor-
ing ditch and falling in was
drowned without attracting the
mothers attention. She was not
long in missing the little one.
and thinking it had gone to the
house she hurried there. whare an
other child is quite i'll with fever
but in vain she hunted for it, until
her husband and grown son came
from another field and joining the
search at length found the child
drowned as above stated.
The Electric Fire Reel Company
of Eastern Goldsboro, had another
one of those delightful barbecue
pic-nics on the "shady side" of Stony
creek yesterday which, besides The
membership of the company, was
attended by IL large number OF
Invited guests. The event was
-given by the company in celebra.
ton of the 21st birthday of one Of
its most energetic and popular mem.
Der, Mr.. Louis Collins, who is also {
favorite member Of the Goldsbore
Rifles and highly appreciated by al
who know him. Of course Louis
was the recipient of many and varied
: good wishes, in each and all of which
The ARGUS joins heartily, anc
hopes that he may live long and pros
? per always.
t IF Democrats would read carefully
aud retain in their minds the proyis
ions of the national Democratic
platform they would find that Cleve
t lands message is right along with
that platform and is SO exact anC
exactlng that it has literally knocked
political Congressman fair in Tx
| forehead and sound, the key
!, note of pristine patriotism thai
! is raliying growing support
: to the untaltering principles Of
true Democracy-that is ever thu
5 victorious promoter of sound politi
cal ethics in times Of supreme peri
!, our free institutions such as is nov
f impending, but from which Groves
a Cleveland with his Democratic co.
| horts in Congress assembled vii
! surely deliver us in yet a few days
Mark ii!
THE finance committee Of tn,
Board of County Commissioner
were in session in this city yesterda,
to audit the tax books Of the COUNT
and have a final settlement with Mr.
w. t. Dortch, who for four years
, two successive terms, has filled tn
responsible and onerous position 0
. Tax Collector for the county, AM
) who has always, during his incum-
$ bency Of office, been the first in tn
State every year to settle with tn
State in full. But it was not It'll
a yesterday, on his final settlement witt
the county, that his splendid worl
; was made manifest in its entirety. o.
a reeapitnlation of his accounts j