Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-01-17
LOCAL BRIEFS.

gay.
MISS Bulah Sanderlin, daugh-
ter of Hon. George w. Sander
lin, is in the city, the gnest OF
her aunt Mrs. w. T. Faircloth.
ACTIVE preparations r ex-
tensively in vogue among our
local truckers, getting their
ground ready for the planting of
another crop of truck.
IF Connecticut follows the ex-
ample of Massachusetts in trans
ferring her cotton mills to the
South, the people of that State
will be obliged to return to the
wooden nutmeg business.
BY an exchange of courts be-
tween Judge Winston and Judge
Starbuck, the former will pre-
side over the term of Superior
court which begins in this city
next Monday.
Mr.. Willis Edmundson has
leased the Capt. r. ?. Howell
farm, on the other side of Little
River, and has moved his family
out there. He will plant fifty
acres in truck this season.
The water in both Little and
Neuse rivers is still on the rise,
and has already overfowed the
banks, so that all cOmmunica-
ton is cut off by county road
travel, and even the railroad
bridges are threatened.
THERE + now twelve prison
ers in our county Jail, most OF
them awaiting trial at the next
term of Superior Court, which
convenes in this city tomorrow
week. with Judge Starbuck, one
of the new ISSUE" presiding.
THE following have been APP
pointed Justices Of the Peace for
Wayne county: John w. lsler
to fill the unexpired term of B.
A. Pards, resigned; James Long,
Jr., to fill the unexpired term of
A. T. Uzzell, resigned; n. Men.
Buie, to fill the unexpired term
of Thos. Sutton, deceased.
THE Harriette Weems Com
pany, in a splendid repertoire,
including OtheIlo and Lady Of LIZ
oas, have made a three nights
engagement with the Messenger
Opera House, for January p, %
and %. This company comes
highly recommended, and will
play to popular low prices.
THE city is profusely billed,
both for Hi-Henry's famous min.
strels-the best on the road, anC
for the HarrietteW eems company
for three nights. So our theatre
going population have a season
of enjoyment in store for then
at an early date.
A PARTY of gentlemen from
Wilmington, Del, consisting O.
Mr.. A. G. McCausland, superin
tendent of the W. & n. r. r.
Col. Enoch Moore, and Messrs
r. W. Smith, B. Briggs and VIM
Lawton, passed through the city
yesterday afternoon, with guns
and dogs, en- route for Onslov
county on a ten days hunting
trip.
IT is always a pleasure to Thu
ARGUS to note and welcome The
coming of desirable citizens tx
Goldsboro to permanently locate
here. DR.. J. T. Parker, who so re
Gently filled a ten days appoint
mentin his brother DIR. j. M. Par
ker's dental Office here, was so wei
pleased with our city and peopl,
that he has concluded to com,
here and locate.
UP to this writing Mr.. JOIN
W. Bryan, our excellent post
master, who is also a progressive
farmer and successful fine stool
raiser, takes the lead in heav,
porkers. He killed a 3-year-ol,
Berkshire last week that tippe'
the beam when dressed at SO
pounds. Why should not tn
farmers of North Carolina b
prosperous and independent?
WE lay before our readers thi
morning the salient paragraph
of the new County Government
bill that has been introduced an,
is now pending in the Reo-Pop
Fusion Legislature. 1t speak
for itself and shows to the care
full reader how many avenues O
opportunity for fraud are afford
ed to the dominant party. Well
we shall see what we shall see
They've got US, and we mus
abide the consequences and Ibid
our turn"
IN Buffers Ethiopian, now pub
lished at Raleigh, in defending
the election of the burly negro
Abe Middleton as assistant doc
keeker over a one-legged Popu
list, who lost his leg on the Con
federate side in the late war
says that in 1892" something
somewhat similar occurred. Well
this is not the first time the Eth
opidn has ever slipped up.
Marion Butler and his Ethiopian
xui1 hoth fool tho nffootc Of thai
Abe Middleton protege. But hov
about that 1892" incident? Die
any one ever hear of it before?