Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1894-10-25
THE ARGUS
DAILY N WEEKLY
LOCAL BRIEFS.

Opera House Friday night Q.
this week, which will be ad
dressed by Hon. G.. B. Aycock
1t is needless to say that every
body in the city and the vicinity
will be there. Everybody in The
county is invited.
THERE we're sixty-five negroes
and twenty-six whites at Dudley
Tuesday to hear the Rep-Por
combine candidates speak-and
most of this crowd were
straight-out Republicans and un-
terrified Democrats. It is so al
over the county. The ''Confus-
lonists"' are-well they amt in it
at all.
The straighout Republicans of
the county had quite a rally in
this city FRIDAY night on the
court house square, Hon. j. E.
OHara, ex-Republican colored
member of Congress, Col. Geo.
T. Wassom and Rev. G. billiard
were The speakers. They repu-
dated che Populist combined and
urged all Republicans to stand by
the straight Republican ticket
and the principles of the party.
THEIR hosts of friends in this
city and section sympathlze
deeply with Mr.. and Mrs,
w. I. 1elverton in the
death of their infant daugh-
ter, four months old, which oc-
Cured early Monday morning
at their home on John street.
Suffer little children to come
unto me, and forbid them not.
for of such is the kingdom of
Heaven" The funeral was held
Tu S lay morning at 10 o'clock
from the home, Rev. r. c. Bca-
man, officiating.
The marriage of Miss Bar2en.
eldest daughter of our estimable
friend and countyman Mr.. Jesse
j. Barden, of Fremont, to Mr..
j. L. Bryan, representative and
rising young man of Greene
county, was solemGized Thurs
day evening at the home of the
bride. THE ARGUS joins the
happy young couples many
friends in wishing them a full
measure of joy and prosperity
always.
On our editorial page this
morning, under the head Of
Solid Reason" We publish an
article from the Wilmington SfurI
that should cause every patriotic
reader to go to work at once and
cease not to work till victory is
achieved on the 9th Gay of Nov
ember. We have less than two
weeks now in which to work
and long years afterwards in
which to repent Of our apathy or
enjoy the fruits of our energy
and effort now fer the cause and
triumph Of Democracy.
OUR energetic and worthy
young friend and townsman Mr..
VIM. L.. Humphrey, eldest son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Hum
phrey, who has been filling the
position Of billing clerk and tele-
graph operator under Mr.. Chas.
G. Smith, at the A. & n. G..
freight depot in this city for the
past Is months, has been ad-
vanccd in the service and placed
IN charge of the freight office of
that company at Morehead city.
His many friends here will be
pleased to learn of his promo
ton.
FRIDAY morning at 81
o'clock one OF Goldsboro's oldest
landmarks, Mr.. Joseph D. Den
mark, aged 78 years, passed
away, leaving a wife 20 years Of
age, four sons and three daugh-
tiers, many grandchildren and
several children, a
wide circle of other relatives and
many friends to mourn his loss.
he was a sunny-natured, gener-
Gus, kindly old gentleman. who .
never grew old at heart, though
his years of late had weighed ,
heavily upon him. The funeral
was held from his late home
on Elm street Saturday, afternoon :
at 4 o'clock. {
IT is needless to say that Hon. '
Chas. b. Aycock, who spoke at 8
Fremont yesterday, was greeted
by alarge crowd of the yeomanry f..
of Wayne and that his splendid :
speech accomplished telling re- {
suits IN the way Of bringing hon !
estly inclined and patriotic pop !
ulists to a fall realization of the =.
hideous designs Of the Office seek !
ing crew of bosses who r ]
crouching behind TIE Republi- {
can-Populist unprincipled com I
blne in this State and county. His :
speech will not soon be forgotten I
in that community. It's influence I
for good will not cease with the :
election. The principles he pro- =
mulgated will be treasured by !
those who heard him and be :
woven into the lives and hearts :
of the rising generation. :
The Wilmington Star well t
"Apathy is dangerous t
and over confidence almost if a
not quite as dangerous as apathy. b
1t was apathy on the part of b
some and over-confidence on the d
part of other Democrats which i!
cut down the Democratic major C
lty in Georgia about 5000 at the a
asst election. and encOu1aOod tho !;