Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1894-05-03

turned to the city and taken a
position with the new ice house
of Messrs. B. H. Griffin & Co.
REV. DIR. F. D.. Swindell, pre-
siding elder of this district,
leaves to day for Memphis,
Tenn, to attend General Confer
ence.
Dr.. w. H. H. Cobb went up to
Raleigh yesterday to attend the
State Grand Council of the Royal
Arcanum.
ARE you in business? Let tie
people know it by advertising. II
your business is not worth adj
v~ertising, advertise it for sale.
QUITE a spirited colored re-
vival is in vogue over III Eastern
Goldsboro. conducted by Rev,
O. B.. Aston. of Enfield. Thir-
ty-six have professed conversion
up to this time, and still the
meeting goes on.
MISS L tIlllie 1lOoS1lS "1oI1Co
all who have children to send to
her Kindergarten class to have
them at her rooms this morning
at 8 o'clock, so all can start to-
gether. Her rooms are back of
ST. Paul's church.
THE Board of City Aldermen
wore in session last night, which
was the last regular meeting of
the present Board. The Board
to be elected next Monday will
organize within a day or two
thereafter for the election Of a
Mayor, City Clerk. City Tax
Collector and police officers.
MAY Day! How the word
thrills the pulse and touches the
chords of tenderest emotion in
the breast of the average individ-
ual, while his thoughts go back
in wavering flight along the years
and dwell fondly on the May days
oelong ago, recalling the delicious
sensations they once experienced
among the orchard blooms,
s'In life's early morn when the bosom
was young"
THE man is shallow who does not
recognize the tremendous growth
of religious sentiment within the
past few years. 1t is a growth,
too. to check which will require
something more than the satire
of Voltaire or the materialism of
Strauss and Renan, each of whom
Ingersoll has plagiarized and
diluted. There is a heart-crav-
ing among men for religion, as
much to guide them in this life
as to assure them of the here
after.
THE proposed Southern In
dustrial Congress-, to be held al
Augusta May 80, is worthy of en-
enlargement by all who have
the interest of the South at heart.
The practical good that results
from such conferences is not tC
be under-eStimated. The faith
of Southern men in the cities
of the South is itensified by
such exchange of information
and views, and faith, we know
is what moves the mountain O
difficulty. Goldsboro should bt
represented in that Congress.
The Young Mems Christian
Association has secured but eight
hundred and thirty-fve dollars il
pledges for the present years
work. twenty-five of last years
contributors have dropped out
reducing this years contribution:
by $4,000; Twenty-Five Others
have cut their current subscrip
tons to the amount of 500. so
This of course means curtailmen
in the work of the Association, a:
it was already being manages
just as economically as possible
An arrangement has been made
which will result in the saving
of $4,000 to this years work
and permit the Association t.
continue it's existence. At the so
licitation of President Riven
bark, Capt. j. B. Edgerton an.
Mr.. Henry Well, owners of tn
Arlington Hotel, with thei
characteristic liberality and in
terest in Goldsboro's young men
realizing full we'll that the As
ISOLATION is accomplishing grea
good, have offered the spaciou
hotel office, dinining hall, toi1e
and reading rooms for the use O
the Association for one year, TO
the merely nominal rental O
5000, which offer has been &C
cepted and the Association vii
at once proceed to take posses
sion. The Board of Director
are determined that the year
work shall be just as vigorousl,
pushed as the peoples fnancia
aid will permit.