Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1894-12-06
II ARGUS
DAILY AND WEEKLY.
LOCAL BRIEFS.

and whose home is in this city,
returned yesterday from a two
days Thanksgiving hunt IN
Duplin county, and the ire
turns" reported and duly anthem
ticated are 237 birds, 1 turkeys
and one deer. We believe this
takes the cake"
THE Chick Concert and Pat
ent Medicine Company, that are
holding forth in the Messenger
Opera House this week, are
making a great hit, and give a
really m~eritorious programme.
Everybody goes to their enter
tainments. The ladies enjoy the
performance, and the best of or
der is maintained. Admission 10
and Is cents.
THE new beef market of Mr..
Hiram J. Hama branch Of his
Arlington market-one door east
of the Law Building, on Walnut
street, is now in full operation
and is being favored with a large
run Of patronage. He keeps a full
stock Of all kinds of meats, and
by his success is furnished add
tional proof that Goldsboro is the
best market town in the State
The total corn crop raised in
the Southern States proper this
year is estimated by the depart
ment Of Agriculture to amount to
1873, 100, 991 bushels and it is also
claimed that this corn crop is
worth more than this years cot
ton crop. The cotton crop has al
WAYS been considered the great
crop Of the South, but this year
corn is king.
THE entire plant of the Cuu-
casion is 10 be moved from this
city to Raleigh, and it will open
up business there with the New
Year, in a daily capacity, as well
as a weekly. Its editor, MIR.
Marion Butler, with his family
will move there also: and thence,
perhaps. about next December,
they will move to Washington,
ID. c., for Marion to rival his
Populistic confrere PETER III
the length Of his Senatorial
whiskers.
AT the home of the brils'
brother-in-law. Mr.. Hiram J.
Ham, in this city Wednesday af-
ternoon last at 2.30 o'clock. Mr..
James Sutton, sheriff Of Lenoir
county, and Mrs. NJ. A. Gray, of
Kinston, were united in the holy
bond Of wedloch, Rev. r. C..
Beaman. pastor Of St. Paul NJ.
E. Church, officiating. The
happy young couple took the af-
ternoon train for Kinston, where
they will reside. The contract
ing parties have many warm
friends in Lenoir county and
throughout this section whose
best wishes will be with them on
this happy occasion. THE ARGUS
extends it's congratulations.
WHAT the people want: More
corn and less cotton; more pota-
toes and less politics; more pork
and less poetry; more beets and
fewer dead-beats; more mules
and less mulishnesS; more con
idence and less confusion; more
money and less murmuring:
more charity and less criti-
cism: more harmony and less
hatred; more affection and less
affectation: more backbone and
less backsliding; more piety and
less prudishness; more sense and
less sound; more wisdom and
less wind; more people and fewer
populists; more Democrats and
fewer demagogues.
THE annual conference of the
NJ. E. church, South. for the
eastern division of North Caro-
lima, is in session this week al
Durham, having convened yes
terday with Bishop Wilson, one
of the ablest Of that church's di-
vines, presiding. There was 6
large crowd Of ministers and lay
delegates passed through this
city yesterday en- route THF
ARGUS has been promised a spe
cial daily report of the most in
teresting features of the sittings
of the conference.
THE Mission services, morning
and evening, in St. Mary's Ro
man Catholic church we're largely
attended Sunday. The choir wa:
assisted by Mrs w. L. Morr S
of Barlow, Fla, andMisses Char
lotte Edwards and Fannie Gid
dens Of this city, the organ being
presided over by Mrs. A. B
Freeman. The music was very
fine, and the solos Of the twc
young ladies above were par
ticularly appreciated. Fathe-
Quinn, of Newbern, was thu
celebrant, and preached in thu
morning on Faith and in tn
evening on Prayer" His ser
mons were lucid, practical ant
forceful. At the 7.30 service
this evening Father Mickle, o
Virginia, will preach on Chris
our Brother" The public ar
cordially invited.
SENATOR Walsh's paper, tn
Augusta Chronicle, does not an
ticipate great results from tn
Ruddey plan Of forming a cottol
trust, and keeping twenty pc.
cent. of the cotton i'll the back