Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1894-03-15

known ana popular merchant o
Shine, Greene county, has purchase,
an interest with Mr.. Il. Hunter Hal
in the general merchandise bushes
) at the corner of John and Walnu
streets, in this city, and the new firm
will be known as Hall & Lancaster
M. Hall is well-known to the trad
ing public that make Goldsboro thel
market town for miles around, ant
is thoroughly reliable in all hi
transactions. The ARGUS is glat
to note the formation of the new
firm and wishes them abundant sue
cess.
EVEN when the times are no
bright it is best not to repine, Cheer
fulness always gives comfort. Blu
the times are bright for Goldsbore
so there is no reason in fact or
which the constitutional croaker car
base a plausible complaint. The
weather is fine; the farmers, who art
the backbone and bulwark of the
country's progress, are out Of deb
and hustling; the crops are under way
and growing; the health Of the com'
munity is good, and Grover Cleve,
lazd is President. He carries a wise
head, a cool brain, a patriotic heart:
an uufinching nerve to do the right
and wouzd rather do the right than b.
President. Why need We, then, fear:
The country is safe.
THE matter Of Collector Simmons
confirmation is still chung up" in
committee room, awaiting, out OF
senatorial courtesy" the retlrn O.
Senator Vance, who is on a health
Soiourn in Florida, and who is q
member Of the committee having TIE
appointment in hand, and who is OF
posed, on personal grounds only, to
Mr.. Simmons confirmation. 1t is a las
mentable fact that the much-talked-
Of courtesy Ct our legislative bodies
is of a character in which the coun-
try can find neither pride nor profit
Our entire State politics is stirred tc
the depths over this unwarranted
delay in the Simmons case. Mr..
Simmons should have been confirmed
promptly when first appointed last
fall-aad he should have been APP
pointed a year ago.
THE Raleigh correspondent of the
Wilmington Messenger, the Char
lotte Observer, aid other papers.
for two consecutive days, in speaking
of the election of DR.. Geo. L. KIRBY
as superintendent of tie North Caro-.
lima Insane Asylum at Raleigh, ha,
referred to him as filling the poi
ton of Superintendent Of the East
ern Insane AsJ lum, of this city.
Several years ago the Legislature
at Raleigh changed the name of
this institution to the eastern Hos
pital." DR., J. F. Miller has been
It's superintendent for six yeaIs. and
has RI Gently been reelected for ar
other six years term. The Raleigh
CORE pendent is given to making
serious mistakes and to writing very
sensational reports on the slightest
scintilla of occasion.
THAT the delay in the considers
ton of the tariff in the Senate. conn.,
mittee was a direct invitation to
stock gambling is apparent to al, but
that any Senator encouraged delay
for that purpose Or took advantage
Of his knowledge of the committees
action for purposes Of gain, no one
will believe, The imputation is an
affront not only to the Senators but
to the American people, and there
was only one thing that the Senate
could do with Mr., PETERS proposed
investigation and that was to lay it
on the table. It was a foregone CON-
c~lusion that such an investigation
would discover nothing, and the
self,respect Of the Senate forbade
that it should entertain the idea.
A COMBINATION of the exports of
the first seven months of the present
year with the corresponding re-
rod Of 1898 by general classifica~
ton is interesting. The exports OF
the products of agriculture were
$414,470.219, as against $397.507,-
973 for 1898; mining, including
petroleum, $13, 539,498, against SILL
593,373. forest, $16,O13.494, against
$16,931,O 23; fisheries, So, 716, 244,
against $3,705,31O, miscellaneous,
So, 590.3 800, against $1,920,52l, and
manufactures. $110,964,77O, against
$8S,278,11O. In only one Item,
that Of fisheriesi is there any decrease,
while the aggregate increase over the
first seven months of 1898 reaches
$41,264,227.
APRoPos of Mr.. McMullan's ads
mirable letter appearing in this issue
we suggest that, it those newspaps
ers posing as Democratic and pro-
tossing fealty 10 the party wou'd
stop finding only fault with the
administration CT Mr.. Cleveland
and publish all the good and ems
couraging things that a SO justly
be said of it, politics and bus~
mess alike would take on
quickly a more encouraging out
look. Besides, this course would
e~ngender and keep up a good state
of feeling among the newspaper fra>
ternity and among Democrats gems
orally all over the State. A State
campaign is soon to open and nc
time should be lost in harmorizing.