Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-04-27

bOrO Titles In their spacious an
brilliantly lighted armory Thufsda,
night, complimentary to MI. ant
Mrs. Will Freeman and Nh. and
Mrs. Walter ID. Creech was witnessed
by a large concourse of visitors
and greatly enjoyed by all, as was
also the excellent music rendered al
intervals b, the Seem City BanjC
Club" In the competitive drill o.
tours, the 2nd four, composed o.
Messrs. Brown, Stroud, Tudor alo
Gulick. carried of. the honors, while
in the catch drill Of the whole com.
pany, Mr.. John Quick won the dis
tinction and was greeted with rounds
of applause.
The postofice is the voice of civil,
ization, the post route but the means
that gives it u~tterance. At the
postofEce distant friends meet and
hold sweet commune; at the postof-
fee the minds of business men of
distant States and nations meet and
the exchange of the commercial
world is transacted at the postoffice
the blushing maiden hears the words
Of love that makes her heart glad,
and the widowed mother hears glad
tidings from her distant SOB; the
postoffice therefore should be made
attractive, commcdious and pleasant;
all its surroundings should be in
harmon with Its important and
sentimental associations; in a word,
the streets in front of, near to and
about the postofice ought to be
paved, and that right away.
IT was u pleasure yesterday
morning to visit that always busy
hive of progressive industry the
G%oldsboro Furniture Factory, which
Is n of the truly great labor en-
ploying manufacturing enterprises
of the South, and which is again en-
larging its capacity for the thir l
time since it was first constructed,
some seven years ago. The product
of this factory in the way of SER
yiceable furniture compares and
completes successfully with any like
factory in the United States so that
it is daily filling orders all over the
Southern States and far into the
northern centres of wholesale trade.
In the finishing department yesters
day we found one of the handsomest
pieces of furniture we have ever
seen, a substantial, highly ornas
mented and superbly finished triple
book cast of black walnut-all of
home growth and workmanship,
which was made to meet a special
order of Mr.. Henry We'll, of this
city, for his own home library. Il is
upon such enterprises is this.that the
prosperity of Goldsboro and her fu-
ture progress depend.
The front window of Mr.. L. A,
Foust's grocery store On Walnut
street, adjoining the court house
square, vas smashed one night last
week, and the store entered and
some meat and other articles stolen.
On Wednesday night about 1890
O'Clock, while Messrs. W. T. Vel
verton and J. A. Harrell were stand
ing talking at the "Centennial
Pump" they heard the smash of
glass in the nelghborhood, the sound
coming from Mr.. Foust's store.
Their suspicion was at once aroused,
and n of them kept watch while
the other went in quest of a police
man. Officer Denning was soon
found who quietly reconnoitred and
captured a colored woman in
the very act. She was at
once arrested and from her
confessions it seems that other color
ed women are implicated, and are the
perpetrators doubtless, of the several
store breakings and thefts that have
occurred in this city recently. The
matter will BE thoroughly investi.
gated.
Nor since the stirring days of
1861, has there been such a scene as
was enacted in our streets Monday
afternoon. The sidewalks were
packed with women and children
and men in citizens attire, while
the streets were astir with noisy
moving t~rains, and marching sol,
diers. The occasion was the depar-
ture of the Goldsboro Rifles, and
the passage through of the rest OF
LIST Regiment of State Guards, te
the scene of disturbance a. James
City. Anxiety sat on every counte-
Lance. and the soldiers had a sterr
determined look as if they expected
to faithfully perform their duty
however disagreeable it may prove
to be: It was a source of relief t.
all to see Governor Carr with his stat
in charge of the troops. Every ONT
felt that the fine sense and wise tenn
per of the Governor, coupled with
his high position would go far to-
s1ds allaying any tendency to
disturbance.
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