Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-08-01
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State Exchanges.

The Baptisrs will put up a 81
900 building at their o~rphanage
at Thomasville.
Another cotton mill is to be
built at South Concord, on the
old fair grounds.
The Seaboard Air Line has
made the payment of taxes on all
its property in North Carolina,
aggregating $12, 966. As.
The State Auditor has licensed
~ building and loan associations
to do business in this State. OF
these 10 r from other States.
The Shelby aurora says that
K. Kendall, of Cleveland, shipped
38, 200 pounds of monazite to
Dresden via Baltimore and
Bremen, Germany, Friday of last
week. Prices are as good as
ever Tor SOOd SAND.
Durham Globe: The last of
the w. T.. Blackwell estate was
sold at the court house door at
public auction at noon Saturday.
The lot containing eight acres,
back of the graded school bull
ding, was bought by J. B. War
rem, the price paid being 81, $50.
Raleigh Press: Capt. William
Williams a mining engineer who
has worked at nearly all the
principal mines in this country
and in Africa and is thoroughly
familiar with tin ore. says that
the Kings Mountain tin mines
have a rich grade of ore and in
large quantities. Capt. Williams
has a tin pan that was made in
California in 1870, from the. first
tin produced in United States.
Wilmington Reuie1O: A little
white boy about z years old,
neutrality-suspicious., was drowned
yesterday in the surf at Ocean
View. He had been ordered not
to go into the water. but slipped
off by himself. His cries for
help we're heard. but he disap-
peared before help could reach
him. His body has not yet been
recovered. He was staying with
his brother-in-law, Mr.. John
Turney, at the Atlas House.
Durham Sun: Some time since
the Wrought Iron Range Com
pany got out an INJUNCTION
against the Sheriff Of Person
county to restrain him from col.
lecting the peddler's tax on their
company. Judge Starbuck has
dissolved the Injunction, which
means that the case before him
was decided in favor of the coun-
ty and the State, and as it stands
now the Range company must
pay the tax.
Charlotte Mews: Mecklenburg
farmers who want Is, 20 and 25
cents apiece for the cantaloupes
they bring to the city make big
money compared to the farmers
in the eastern counties who ship
their canteloupes to Richmond
for sale. They were selling at
the commission houses there
yesterday at 25 cents per barrel.
Jake Fasnacht bought a barrel
at that price and had them on
exhibition at his store this morn
ing. They are fine, large, sound
specimens.
The Weldon Mws says that
Mr.. John Pettitt, of Halifax;
who has lost about 60 fine hogs
by cholera, has received a letter
from a man residing near Nor
folk, who "seein' as how" Mr.
Pettitt's hogs had the cholera
and we're all going to die, had
decided to take them down on
his place where they could get
a change of air, provided Mr..
Pettitt would pay transportation
charges and furnish feed during
their stay. and not send any
chicken eating" hogs under any
circumstances. He was to have
half of the survivals and Mr..
Pettitt ''tother" half.
The Salisbury correspondent
of the Charlotte Observer of Sat-
urday, says: News reached here
to-day of the death by violence
of Mr.. Henry Hornbarrier, far
mer living near Union church,
this county. Mr.. Hornbarrier
was in town Wednesday and
sold some corn and while re-
turning home in the evening
was struck on the back of the
head, and from the effects of the
wound died this morning. A
man by the name of W. L. Cos
per, it is said, was with him.
Coroner Dorsett went out this
afternoon to examine the case.
AS yet he has not returned.
Sheriff Monroe has notified his
deputy in that neighborhood to
look after the matter.