Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-05-02
ONE of the results of the cold

- lQd ldSG december ana
which practically destroyed tn,
orange crop, will be, it is said
that the farmers have turne,
% their attention to vegetables, an,
70 the prediction is made that tn,
present vegetable crop will b,
twice as large as that of last year
I whilst the melon crop will be tel
g times as large. One of the disad
y vantages that the truck farmer
o of Florida have labored unde.
: has been the remoteness O.
large markets, but with fas'
freight lines to the North anl
West this disadvantage can bt
4 removed in part, with the result
L of benefiting the Florida farmers
as we'll as the consuming masses
f in the great centres of popu
. lation.
. AS we have so often asked be
. fore-why not a canning factory
. for Goldsboro? It is one of the
saddest possible commentaries
+ on our enterprise when canned
fruits and vegetables from the
North and West are sold here in
car load lots, while thousands
of prime stuff are allowed to &C
to waste right here in our fields
every season that could be made
a source of abundant wealth and
comfort to the owners of a can
ming factory and the daily bread
winners it would employ in the
factory and in the fields. Again
we say, why not a canning factory
for Goldsboro?
In 1879, the year of the re-
sumption Of specie payment, sill
yer was worth on an average
ST. IL an ounce. Last year the
average price of silver was SO cts.
an ounce. And yet corn, oats, lard
and pork we're cheaper in 1879
than they were in 1894. For ex-
ample, corn, which brought
1880 a bushel in the New York
market in 1879, commanded so. &c
in 1894, the prices mentioned be-
ing the average for the years
named. For oats the average of
the earlier year was 81 c and of
the later 1920. The same lard
which sold for 6.62c in 1879
brought 7.75c in 1894, and the
pork which in 1873 was sold for
1888 was in 1894 up at the $14.-
ID mark. OThese are figures
presented in the Statistical Alb
~stract, which is prepared by the
bureau of statistics at Washing
ton.
THE ARGUS is panied mex
pressibly to chronicle the un-
timely death of Jas. Griswold,
IS years and 10 months old,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Edw. B.
Griswold, formerly of this
city, but now residents of Smiths
Mills, S. G.. The deceased was
born in Goldsboro, and was a.
boy of sterling worth and manli-
ness. He was engaged in the
service of the Railroad, and died
away from home, in Tennes-
see, Of typhoid fever, after an
illness of two weeks. He was
thought to be improving when
a relapse came to him and
sudden death followed. His rel
mains were taken to his home in
Smiths Mills, for interment. The
bereaved and sorrowing parents
will have the deepest sympathy
of many friends here in this sad
visitation that God has seen fit
to send into their lives and
home.
FIRST day of May MAY
Day." What a myriad of
thoughts and reflections and re-
trospections the returning ami
versary arouses in us who have
left aside the things of a child"
and have crossed the bourne of
Remembrance wakes with all her busy
at the breast and turns the past
to pain"
How ''our thoughts go back, in
wavering flight along the vanished
years" to the glad careless May
Days of childhood, that can come
not back again, forever and for
ever.
"Old sorrow 1 shall meet again,
And Joy, perchance-but never, never,
Happy Childhood, shall we twain
See each others face forever.
Aud yet I would not call thee back,
Dear Childhood, lest the sight of me, |
old companion, on the rack
OF Age should sadden even thee"
Sic ait mundi. But the capacity
Of life is vast when it is utilized:
il is only short when wasted.
ONE of the good results that
usually follow a severe winter in
this portion of the country is an
fruit crop the follow
summer. In view of the fact,
therefore, that the past winter
was more than ordinarily SEVERE
in Our State, and that the cold
weather extended until late in
the Spring, we may reasonably
expect an abundance of all kinds
of fruit next-Summer. So far as
our own immediate section is
concerned, the prospects now
are that there will be a plentiful
yield of all kinds of fruit the
coming season. It is true that
at times killing frosts occur as
as the latter part of April,
but it generally happens that