Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1894-08-09
LOCAL BRIEFS.

sion to Morehead City on Aug
ust IA. Messrs. Peterson and
Hollowell are the managers. The
fare is only $1.0o.
A MISSION meeting will be
held at Holy Innocents' church,
Lenoir county, commencing at
1890 o'clock Wednesday, August
%, and continuing several days.
They are expecting several able
ministers. and the public are
cordially invited to attend.
MIR. E. T. Atkinson desires
us to inform the public that a
competitive examination of APP
plicants for the Wayne county
appointment to the Normal and
Industrial College will be held at
the Graded School building in
Goldsboro, August 18th, begin
ming at 9 o'clock a. m.
The 18th annual meeting of
the State Sunday school con-
vention will be held in Durham
on the 21st, 22d and 23d of this
month. An interesting and in
structive programme has been
arranged. The Sunday schools
of this city wilt be represented.
We are authorized to say that
Hon. B. F. Aycock, who was
nominated by our Fremont cor
respondent in Thursdays ARGUS
for Congress-, is not a candidate
for that distinction. but is mani
mously and actively in favor of
the denomination of the present
incumbent, Hon. F. A. W GODDARD.
MIR. Joe Rosenthal, of the old,
reliable and popular firm of H.
We'll & Bros, of this city, left
yesterday for the North, to be
absent several weeks in pur-
chasing the fall stock of goods
for the firm. 1t is no small task
to fulfill this duty, for no firm
in the State carries a larger and
more varied stock than Messrs.
H. We'll & Bros, but Mr.. Rosen-
thai is fully capable to meet the
requirements.
AN exchange gives its read
ers this problem: IA farmer
and his wife owned a hog and
wanted to weigh it. The man
weighed 100 pounds and his wife
139 pounds. They put a board
across a fence SO that when they
sat uDOn each end of it the board
exactly balanced. They then
changed places, the wife taking
the pig in her lap, just balancing
the board again" What was the
weight of the porker?
CAPT. S. G.. Fry. the courte
Gus, congenial and popular con
ductor of the r. & D.. passenger
service, is on a vacation sojourr
in Virginia, together with his
family. He spent his vacationlas
summer with his family, at Beau
fort. His run" is being supplied
byCapt. las. Weaver, a young gen
tleman of practical railroad ex
perience and enjoying many
friends with the travelling public
The many frieuds and admirer:
of Mr.. w. A. Turk I gratifiec
to know that he has been retain
ed as general passenger agen
of both divisions of the Southern
Railway. This a great compk
ment to Mr. Turk, but n
greater than he deserves. He i!
one of the most capable railroad
officials in the country and one o
the most genial and courteous o
men. Long live Turk, and ma,
his shadow never grow less.
THE North Carolina Stat
Firemen's Tournament to be he'll
in Winston-Salem the latter par
of this month bids fair to b
largely attended. The Twin
City Sentinel says that the volun
teer firemen of both Winston an
Salem are working hard to maxi
the tournament a success. TIL
fire departments Of the tw
places have themselves contrib
uted sixty dollars towards tn
tournament and the other cit
zens will also help to make it
success.
AS the Charlotte Observer pc:
tinently remarks, the brothe
who, in opening the Populi'
State convention Wednesda
prayed long and earnestly #
the Populist party and its su
cess, should learn the famili;
petition: Teach us what v
should pray for as we ought
There are many of US who,
our prayers were answere'
would be ruined. Brother No
ris doesn't know what he do
need. He whose ambassador
is knows better than he do
himself what is not good f
him, and in His goodness W
deny him in this case, what
asks for"
THE wrath of the Engli:
newspapers, and especially
the Tory organs, against Il
RECKLESS elf-assertion" of j
pan in the East is not a little m
sing. It has been the custom
England for many generations
assert herself in a most aggre
sive fashion wheneveror where
er her commercial interests I
quired. That this island kin
dom at the other end of t
world should undertake to exc
else a reasonable influence in b