Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1894-10-04

Mr.. Arnold Borden Bag Cams
,Galore-They Rode the Billows
of the West India Hurricane
with DIR. CIV. Blacknall as their
Boswell.
Raleigh News and Observer.
"You know Col. Jim Holt, the
Chief marshal of the State fair"
said DIR. Blacknall, sitting out in
front of the Marlboro House last
night.
well, Col. Jim's a great hun
ter, and he's got hunting para
phanalia, lots of it: guns and
shells, and leather belts, and
bird bags, and lines to string
ducks on, and corduroy clothes,
and these acknowledging hats,
and funny-looking dogs, and
these little dog whistles, and
rubber boots, and two or three
other things.
Every once in a while Col.
Jim gets together some of his
friends and takes along two or
three negro boys to help tote
game and goes off on one of
these new fashion hunting eXpn-
ditions."
Last Tuesday he took Col.
Moses Cone, the man who sells
all these Alamance plaids, and
Maj. Walter Holt and Maj. Ed.
Holt, of Company Shops, and
Col. Arnold Borden, of Colds
boro, and then he got his three
game-toters and the whole shoot
ing match went down to More
head to fish and hunt"
''They had SO much of every
thing when they got there that
old man Porter, and the other
Morehead folks thought that it
was Col. Buck Bobbitt, Of Ok
ford, and the Third regiment
come down to go in camp again"
The negro boys commenced
unloading shotguns and rifles
and pistols and chem little fobat
guns and five or six o seven OF
these transparent setter dogs,
and bundles of corduroy cloths
and bags, belts, duck lines, and
shot and powder, and great big
boxes of these paper shells, and
several barrels ofpolinaris water
and a great big sugar bucket full
of loaf sugar and some of these
little sugar MASKING pessels and
several tumblers and some COB.
lets and two boxes Of cigars anC
some smoking tobacco, and then
they commenced unloading q lot
of these fishing poles that's
made like one of these joint
snakes, and a lot of this Yankee
fish bate-artifcial flies and bugs
and things-and some roach
buckets and dip nets, and ther
they unloaded two or three tents
and some household and kitchen
furniture cots and blankets anG
spiders and skillets, and these
little pigeons. and some of thes'
stiff coats with pockets tina
reach all around their tails, ant
several Of them schOOner-lOOk
ing hats, and a bottle of lithi;
water. and several other bottles
then they had several pairs o
these iong-legged boots that yo1
button your suspenders to, am
some rubber coats, and then Col
Arnold Borden carried down on
or two packs of Col. Geo. Ben
-inett's deer hounds and two o
-fthree bushels of this pone brea
to feed 'em on. l tell you, Major
:. they were fixed for business"
Next morning Arnold com
5 tout with one of these old job
Suggs horns and you could hav
: heard him a mile saying tool
. toot, tooooot, toot. You see the
have to blow two short toOts
: then one long toot and then al
, other short toot, that's the reg
.Iular tune, and then all of Ben
;, net's hounds come rushing u
a howling'and a yelping, am
: ious to get in the woods.
They all put on their cordl
clothes, but Col. Cone Il
didn't have his, and Arnold Bo.
den's wouldn't fit him. an
7 started a deer hunting. Arnol
was to do the driving and tt
others were to watch out for tt
deer"
l well, they hunted and hunte
n and hunted till away yonder abo,
) o'clock in the evening befo1
the dogs barked. Finally the
heard 'em yelp and start rig
towards the gunners. Arno
heard a gun fire and said to hir
le self, Thar, by George, they
lie got him." Colonel Jim had sh
5, both barrels at the deer but
only made him run faster till
got about where Col. Cone stoo
ie He let drive at him and doV
4; come the deer, but he was hard
l. down before he landed on his fe
a-running. Col. Cone let hi
o. have the other barrel and doy
a he came again, and lay there
II Col. Cone got to him, when
W started to get up again. Color
IL Cone didn't want anything easi
n than to hold that deer, especial
~ as he was so badly wounded,
st he jumped or him, and caug
OF hold of his horns. This kind
at nettled the deer, and summon
Id all his remaining strength
arose with Col. Cone on his bae
and commenced parting t
bushes down toward Mecca:
creek. The Colonel forgot to
oO al. first. and now he could