Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-08-03

form and commensurate with the
necessities of the times, and
prescribing remedies for the press
ing grievances of the hour. It is
OILY u week off. Let us preserve our
souls IN patience and hope for the
triumphal PRONUNCIATION of Demo
cratic principles. through every line
of the Presidents message.
THE road from Wilmington to
Newbern, via Jacksonville, Onslow
county, and Pollocksville, Jones
county, was completed on Saturday
and a thousand people were out to
witness the entry of the first train over
the new road into the 'sElmCity."
Now if the A. & N. G. r. r. could
be extended from this city to Sand
ford, where it would tap the G. F.
4 Y. V, and the Seaboard Air Line,
great indeed would be the impetus
given to al sorts of enterprises and
industries in Eastern North Caro-
lima and our material progress and
permanent prosperity would Re truly
marvellous.
The Board of County Justices
met in special session in this city
yesterday, DR.. j. B. Kennedy pre-
siding, elected Capt. J. E. Peterson
to fill the craftsmanship of the
Board Of County Commissioners,
vice ". T. Kornegay, resigned. Mr..
Peterson is thoroughly CONVEX
SAINT with the duties of the
office and the needs of the
county, and being thus qualified,
and fortified with Democratic faith,
we are sure he will fill the response
BILE trust with fidelity and to the
besFinterest Of all concerned.
The corner lot belonging TO the
N. C. r, r. Co., ear the warehouse
Of that company at the North end
of W. Centre street. has been leased
for a term of years by Messrs.
Royal & Borden, the widely known,
popular aud reliable furniture firm
of this city, who have now under
course Of construction thereon a
commodious two story building,
which viii be used by them as a
mattress factory and the same will be
operated on On extensive scale. The
new enterprise will be in keeping
with the characteristic gggresslve>
ness of its p~roprietors, and will, we
are sure, meet with the same gratlfy-
ing success that follows their every
undertaking.
WE learn that our cordially es-
teemed friend Henry Blount, the
~big-hearted, versatile and eloquent
editor Of the Wilson Mirr0r, has
been engaged for a series Of lectures
throughout Kansas, Arkansaw and
adjoining States. 1t is refreshing
to US, from Il purely philantbropic
standpoint, to know that there is to
90 forth from our section to
lecture to the multitudes of
our far western sister States a
man who can lift them out from
their material surroundings-away
from the "cares that infest the day."
and lead them along fowery meads
Of fancy's richest fayoring aud open
to them an inner life within their
own hearts and homes that they
dreamt not of before, charming
them with its holier emotions and
enriching them with higher aspira-
lions, that will abide with them to
bless the men DRY of Henry Blount
always.
The Caucasian asks US last week,
"if we ever opened q letter not ad-
dressed to US, and how much money
was in it, andlow long we kept it
before returning IT," Yes, we opened
a letter last winter in the dark at
the p%ostoffice, inadvertently, with-
out noticing the address, as it was
in The ARGUS drawer, It had a
dollar in it and vas for the Cau-
casian, Instead of dropping it
back in the postoftice with the usual
endorsement, "opened through mis-
take" lest the dollar might drop
out and be lost, we took the trouble
to carry it in person at the earlist
possible moment to the Caucasian
office and deliver it, with due ex-
PLANTATION and apology, to the soil
citing agert Of that paper, MIR.
Mangum, That is the only time
that we ever visited the Caucasian
office: we wanted to be sare that it
got the dolIar-and we know now
that it did, because it has adverted to
the transaction as above, and which
shows how contemplate, indeed, it
is, and, that its lilliputian spirit has
reached the minimum Of manifesto
ton.
EVERYWHERE, and with a uni
formity that is truly gratifying to
our city pride, We hear words of high
est COMMUNICATION heartily given for
Messrs. Griffin s Edwards, the. en-
ergetic and congenial young plopri-
etors of the Hotel Kennon, which
they have advanced to the very fore
front of the best hotels in the Soath
and are constantly adding to its at =
Effectiveness and conyeniences. just
now they are having fitted up in nala~
tial sly IL, adjoiplng their dining room
on the second floor, an apartment
which for artistic arrangement and
furnishings and style of finish will
net be surpassed any where in the
country. Tnis they will use for res
taurant accommodations, for tran
sient and local trade. They propose
opening this department at the ear
lest possible da1e, as soon as the
elaborate furnishings with which