Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1894-02-01
TIE ARGUS
LOCAL BRIEFS.
DAILY AND

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Hoke left on the afternoon train tor
his home in Lincolnton.
1T is the dutyof every citizen to
take q hand in politics but the
trouble with so many of them is that
when they do, they put their foot in
it.
GEN'L W. G. Lewis, who went up
to Tarboro Saturday to attend the
funeral of the late lamented Capt.
Jas. S. Battle, has returned to the
city.
We regret to learn of the death
of Mrs. D. III. Graves, of Selma,
whose husband is a wellsknown and
highly esteemed cotton buyer in this
city every fall.
The first dawn of good times will
bring back to Cleveland the truants
who, in the hard times upon US, have
forgotten what he has done for them
and Democracy.
Mr.. W. S. Chadwick, of Beaufort,
president of the A. & n. G. r. r.,
was in the city between trains yester-
day, returning from a business trip
to Washington, ID. Y.
Mr.. Jno. G. Parker, Deputy Rev
nue. Collector for the adjoining dis
erict, was in the city yesterday. en-
route for the lower section of his
district on business.
The Democratic House is doing
nobly. If the Senate were a little
more Democratic. there woLI1 be no
doubt about the prompt and thor-
ougb reform Of the tariff.
CONGRESS hes another boundary
dispute on it's hands. It is to deter
mine the boundary between "sena.
toriaI courtesy" and the duty of
senators to their constituents.
REV. C. L. Arnold is expected to
arrive this afternoon and will open
mission services in st. Stephens
Episcopal church tonight, to which
the public are cordially invited.
PETER, of Kansas, in a recent
speech, announced that he sees in
the future "a wave of tire and
blood. The Kansas Senator must
have had vision of Goyernor Waite.
MISS Nellie Grow, of Norfolk, is
visiting Miss julia Castex. Miss
Grow made many admiring friends
here on the occasion of her former
visit who are glad to greet her
among them again.
DAVID Christie Murray says that
"there is no school for a novelist
which can equal that of journalism.
There are those who think there's
NO training for a reporter equal to
that of fiction writing.
In the case Of Henry Ballard and
Jno. Miller, colored, convicted of
cotton stealing in the Superior court
here Friday, Judge Hoke Saturday
sentenced them to imprisonment fer
one year in the penitentiary. Miller
appealed.
THOSE of our merchants who dea
in fertilizers would do we'll to let it
be known at this time through the
advertising columns of the DAILY
and WEEKLY ARGUS. Truckers and
farmers generally are now enquiring
where to buy fertilizers.
The New York newspapers have
made an admirable division of labor
in their task of helping the unim-
Moved. the Herald having a free
clothing fund, the World a free
bread fund, the Tribune a free fuel
fund, and so on.
Mr.. T. A. Green, of Newbern,
president of the banking house of
Green, Foy & Co., of that town, and
a member of the Board of Trustees
of the Oxford Orphan Asylum, was
in the city yesterday, on his way to
attend a meeting Of the trustees of
that institution, which meet to-day
for the election of a Superintendent.
The famil. of Rev. r. G.. Bea-
man, pastor of st. Paurs M E,
church, arrived from Durham yes.
terday, add are temporarily boarding
with Mrs. M. NJ. Hood, at the Ar
lDRUOus Willie VIC ACPoii0 eA1O pas
sonage are being completed. The
ARGUS joins with their many friends
here in assuring them IF a cordial
welcome to Goldsboro.
REMEMBER that the sole aim of
advertising is to make money
Thousands have grown rich By ia
dicious use of a newspapers coll
umns. Now is the time and TIE
AReUs is the paper to place your ad-
vertisement in so as to secure the besi
results, as it reaches the trading
masses of Wayne and adjoining
counties.
The remains Of Mr.. Gustavus
Rountree, of New York, brother OF
Mr.. George Rountree, Of Whining.
ton, formerly of Kinston, passed
through this city Saturday en- route
for Kinston. to be inferred by the
side of his mother in the family plot
in the cemetery of that town. He
was 20 years of age, and died of cons
sumption at Seven Pines, where he
had gone, under advice of his ply
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