Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1894-02-22
LOCAL BRIEFS.

MONOPOLY doesn't want the Will
sen bill to rass because it's getting
the 60 by.
IT has Fever been charged thai
every man who arts his hair III the
middle is an idiot.
THE tricks Of DIR. Slade created
great wcnderment among his au~
dience here M,nday night.
NATURALLY the nation will feel
enlightened over the Wilson bill the
less xait put upon it in the Senate.
DRs. Reed, Mckinley and Harri-
son can't understand if. There's the
national patient getting better, when,
by their diagnosis, he ought to die.
REMARKS about the weather are
generally exhausted when a blizzard
ome 1t so completely cover the
ground.
AS Easter this year falls on the
25th of March, the "Easter Bonnie"
as a spring decoration will not be
"ln it."
WIEN you want to buy or sell
anything it would be well for you
to Consult the advertising columns
Of THE ARGUS.
boom. t at wins. When you see a
professional loafer, you see a man
that complains of hard times and
cash is a stranger to him"
ANOTHER newspaper man has gone
wrong. Frank 2. OBr'ien, late of
the Birmingham Herald, an
nounces that he will II 4 70: Con-
gress.
Mr.. Wilson has gone South in
search of a warmer climate, after
having made it warm for the protec-
tionists for the past few weeks.
THERE is a contestant for a safe in
the Maryland Senate whose name is
Mud. He has one advantage. His
name won't be changed, whatever the
result.
A CABLEGRAM announces that
Admiral DaGama was wounded in
the neck in the last fight at Rio. He
also got it in the neck in that little
affair with Benham.
The income tax is class legislc-
ton only in the sense that 1t will
cause a class of tax dodgers to cons
tribute their just share towards the
support of the government.
THE work of laying brick for the
foundation of the new three story
brick store at the corner of West
Centre and Walnut streets was COM
manced yesterday, under the super
vision of Messrs. Porter s Goodwin.
AT least thirty persons rerished
in the storm just passed off, when it
was out in Oklahoma How many
more will die as a consequence of its
severity is conjectural. 1t was a
great blizzard 1t is good to live in
North Carolina, where such things
do not befall.
The fare for the round trip to
Newbern and return on the special
train that will leave here every
morning during.tLe week at 7.4O
O'Clock Is $1.7Gs including one ad-
mission to the Fair grounds. The
special will return every evening
leaving Newbern at SIS o'clock in
the afternoon.
Now IS the time for every houses
hold and every individual in the
city 10 re most careful about fires
See that your hues are all RICH
and, that your fire places and s'ove
are not lett in an unsafe or uns
guarded condition while fires are
in them. See to this, everyone.
Mr.. Frank Caldwell, the lire man
of tie electric light plant, in this
city, climbed the sleek and tapering
fag pole at the corner of Walnut and
West Centre streets Saturday, 100
feet high, aud adjusted a pulley on
the top of it. This was quite a feat,
and manvw watched it with great ad-
miration for the elm ber's nerve and
with much nervousness for his fate.
The a & N. g. R. r passenger
train that came into this city yes
terday was The h~andsomest line OF
cars that have been seen here in a
length Ct time, They were shin
ming new right f ON the shops, and
but for the upsightly old box car.
used for a fish car, in the lead there
was not a flaw to be discovered in
the whole train. Cannot the A. &
n. G. starin a point and get a Der.
ter looking fish car?
THE Richmond & Danville Rail
road Company, always progressive
and alive to the interest and welfare
of its patrons, has erected a nam,
moth cattle pen neal their warehouse
il this city, whereby stock shipped
over their line to this point can be
unlo.ded with ease and perfect safety
This is a move in the right direction
and is highly commended by those
interested in shipping and receiving
stock in this city.
WELL, what have the soreheads to
say to the nomination of Senator
White, of Louisiana, an ex-Confed-
crate soldier, to the Supreme Court
Bench of the United States? Does
it cot prove that Grover Cleveland
IL not IN lpapue with the Hmachina'