Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-07-25
GLEANINGS.
Items of Interest Clipped from our
State Exchanges.

The cashier of a bank at Peru,
Iowa, has absconded with ten
thousand dollars of the banks
fund.
The first bale of new cotton
was sold at Galveston, Texas,
last Saturday for one hundred
dollars.
Mr.. G. K. Capps has been APP
pointed general freight agent of
the S. A. L. railroad, with head
quarters at Portsmouth, Va,
Gov Carr has refused to COM
mute the death sentence of An
derson Brown, and he will be
publicly hanged at Salisbury on
July 25th.
Durham Herald: O. J.. Carroll
has written to some CT the dep
uty marshals of this city request
ing them to give a bond. The
marshals consider this an Unjust
ice, as they have to handle no
funds, and one of them, if no
more, has refused to give the
required bond, and sent in his
resignation.
Walter Montgomery shot him
self in the leg at Charlotte for
the purpose, it is believed, of in
ducing his wife, who had left
him and gone to Chester, S. O.,
to return to him. He took laud-
anum some time ago. but his life
was with some difficulty saved.
Salisbury Herald. Miss Mary
Tufhnger, a maiden of 60 years,
who lived alone at her home near
China Grove, was found dead
lying in her doorway last Satur~
day afternoon by Mrs. Caroline
Bost, who lives near by. The
cause of her heath has not been
learned. It is thought that she
died on Thursday.
J. D. Arnold, the mau who &C
cidental shot David Ree> es Mon
day night in front of the Cen
trail Hotel. Charlotte, was ar
raingned before Mayor Wedding
ton Tuesday morning and put
under a bond of $500. It was
clear that the shooting of Reeves
was accidental, therefore the
bond was not made heavier.
Charlotte Observer: The deed
making the Charlotte Columbia
& Augusta railroad, the property
of the Southern was filed yester-
day in the Register Of Deeds
Office. The road was sold, it will
be remembered, under a decree
of foreclosure on the 10th day of
July, 1894, in Columbia, S. c.,
at which sale the Southern Rail
way company became the pur-
chaser, for the sum of one hun
dred thousand dollars.
Lenoir Topic: During Mr.. T.
K. Burners stay in Lenoir last
week he was shown specimens
of ore, taken from the Higgins
and Du]a gold mine near Hart
land, and he pronounced them
fine, about the finest he ever
saw. There's millions of the
golden metal in Caldwell county
and the people r very much
interested in gold just now
From every section of the coun-
ty comes the news that the corn
crop is fine, the best for sew
eral years. The corn, the farm
ers say, has the best color they
ever saw.
Another new cotton mill is be-
ing built by the Steeles, on the
stream between Rockingham and
the Yadkin river. It will be the
fourth mill they own on that
stream, and will be the largest of
the four. The work of digging
down a hill for a foundation is
now IN progress. The new mill
will be three stories high and
the walls will be 400 feet square.
This new mill is about one mile
from the Yadkin. The railroad
company has put ill a side-track
there, and the work of brick lay.
ing will begin in few days.
Smithfeld Herald Mr.. p. S.
Heath has six acres of upland
corn from which he expects to
make forty-eight barrels of corn
eight barrels per acre. At So
per barrel the corn will be worth
$144. This is profitable farming.
This corn has only been plowed
twice during the season. Such
com beats cotton clear away.
The secret of profitable farm
ing is in small acreage, thor
oroughly cultivated and well
MANFRED. Lands near here have
been known to produce twenty
barrels of corn per acre.
Wilmington ReUiew: We were
shown to-day a stalk of broom
fourteen feet high, raised
by Maj. G. w. McClammy, of
SCOTS Hill, with a brush pro-
nouDced by an expert in the
broom factory here extra fine.
We understand the Major is
pleased with the experiment. We
hear that this crop is grown sue
cessfully in only three States,
Illinois Indiana onI Tonnoccoo