Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-06-27
In The Old North State.

Southern road went into Green's
boro Tuesday with frost on the
cars.
The work of collecting funds
to pay for a gilt to the cruiser
Raleigh progresses very slowly,
indeed.
In a mill pound 3 miles from
Hillsboro there was caught last
week a carp which weighed 274
pounds.
The editor of the Orange Co.
Observer says he needs rest and
will take it next week, so there
will be nc issue of the paper,
Maj. Yerel, of Fayetteville,
has purchased the Wilson Col
legiate Institute, and will move
his military school to Wilson.
II is the talk at Raleigh that
fusion of the Populists and Re-
publicans is at an end. There
are plenty of signs to indicate
this.
Colored fremen have been put
on some engines on the Western
North Carolina Railway. at
smaller pay than the white fire
men receive.
Mrs. n. J. Hall, Of Jefferson,
Ashe county, died last week. She
willed 81, 200 for the erection Of
a Methodist Episcopal church at
Jefferson.
Another of the incendiaries
was arrested at Kinston, Thurs
day, so four are now in Jail there.
Other arrests are to follow.
There are seven or eight more
suspects.
At Charlotte next Monday,
there will be a joint parade of
the military of that city, for in
spection. There are infantry
and naval reserves armed with
Gatllng guns.
Mr.. Turf, a Boston philan.
thropist, has purchased a large
tract of land near Southern
Pines, on which he will erect
hundreds of cottages for the ben
eft of consumptives.
Shelby, the Aurora, says, has
"seven boys, all under Is years
of age, whose aggregate weight
is 1914 pounds. The heaviest
weight 1853 pounds, the lightest
1875" Who can beat it?
The great farce known as the
harrington Committee" appears
to have come to an end. The
eight witnesses who were sum
moned, but who were never ex
amined,. were paid $144.
A mass meeting of citizen com
posed chiefly of business mer
was held in the Court House al
Wilmington, Thursday and or
gained under the name of the
Democratic Sound Money Club
The present steward, Maj. J
B. Grimes, of the institution TO,
the Blind, goes out of office il
September. after 16 years ser
vice. The chairman of trustees
saws he does not know who viii
be the next steward.
Mrs. Lizzie London wife O.
J. N. London, a prominent citi-
zen of Fallston, Cleveland county
started from her home Tuesday
mother, the 18th inst, with thu
expressed intent of visiting hel
mother. two miles away, ant
has not be heard of since.
H. N. Butler, of Michigan
who bought 80, 900 acres o
lswamp land in Columbus county
from the State, has left the Stat
and has disposed of his property
He was in the lumber bushes
} in Michigan. He had dug canal
put steamboats, in use, and bull
great sawmills in Columbus.
f The New Berne Journal says
Directly after the thunder storm
yesterday, a four foot snake.
water mocasin, was killed on tn
deck of the schooner Jennie r
Tomlinson at Congdon's wharf
by the mate Sam'l Rowland. H
had crawled up among some rop
and was discovered when tn
start was made to handle it.
President Carr, of the Stat
Fair, has appointed An executiv
committee of forty. He is push
ing the work actively, we'll aide
by Secretary John Nichols. Tn
premium list is prepared, and
n two weeks will be issued. Man
letters are coming, profering as
distance in many ways, and Their
is much interest in the fair.
UNFRAMED IN FIRE.