Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-02-07

Items of Interest Clipped from our
State Exchanges.

Greenville Reflector: Senator
and Mrs. T. J. Jarvis returned
last night from Washington,
City.
Maxton Blade: We learn that
the cotton factory here has more
orders than it can fill for some
time to come.
Southport Leader: The shells,
recently contracted for by the
city authorities, have arrived,
and the sidewalks and crossings
about town are being repaired
nicely.
Smithfeld Herald: Mr.. B.. F.
Barbour, of the Ezra section,
died at his home on last Satur-
day evening of pneumonia. He
leaves a wife and two children to
mourn his death.
Winston Sentinel: The town
of Stoneville will test the validity
of the bonds she voted for the
building of the Roanoke &
Southern Railroad. The case is
to come up at this term of Rock.
ingham court. The bonds call
for IS, 600.
Asheville Citizen: A party OF
10 Buncombe people will leave
Asheville next Tuesday fol
Houston, Tex, which city is to
be their home. Among those
who are going are F. M. Foster
and family and Carter Penlano
and family of Asheville.
Wilmington Messenger: So Jete
Pritchard, of Tennessee, is now sit
ting in Senator Jarvis seat who sue
ceeded the able and lamented Vance
and has won in a few months an ex
cellent rank for practical long
medicines, Democratic zeal, and a
a parliamentarian, has retired. Nortl
Carolina is a very heavy loser. Flo
as experienced and able men in pub
lie life as Senators Ransom an
Jarvis to have to give way to tw,
men of the calibre and character Q
Pritchard, of Brownlow's State, an
Marion Butler, is a mockery c
craftsmanship and an example of tn
suicidal performance of "the iron
of fate"
Wilmington Star: In the deaf
of w, J. Parker, briefly an
nounced in the Star of yesterday
the county of Bladen lost one O
it's most useful and honored cit
zens. For more than two genel
ations he had been identife
with her interests, and there wa
probably no man in the count
whose death would have create
more universal regret. The &c
itor Of the Star had known him a
: a personal friend fol more tina
thirty years: and for more tina
two-thirds of that period he ha
been a daily reader of the paper
and one of its staunchest SUI
porters.
Fayetteville Gazette: Mancheste
was the scene of a fatal fight Sunda
evening. 1t appears that John Can
eron and George Brewer, two youn
men who have been at outs with eac
other for some time, met Sunda
evening and after passing several h,
words, engaged in a fight, which r
, suited in the death of Brewer. Can
, eron set out Monday morning fl
this city to surrender to the sheri
and was met between here and the
: by Deputy Sheriff Clark to whom
t surrendered himself and was brougl
: to this city and is now in custod
!, Meantime, the coroner's jury in Sc
sion at Manchester declared the xii
ing to be ~jlstifable. Cameron CO.
tends that he killed Brewer iu sci
: Ldefense. He says that Brewer threa
ened tie kill him, and drawing a pa
: of brass knucks struck him sever
blows. Cameron says he retreate
but on Brewer following and stri
ing at him he turned round al
stabbed Brewer in the neck. Anotl.
version of the fgh: % that 1
0 ter Brewer struck Cameron. Cam
ron rushed upon him and stabb'
him several times