Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-10-17
BRIEFS.

WE'VE got the best town in
the State.
THE Goldsboro Oil Mills are
now running on full time.
A spacious addition is being
built to the Tobacco Warehouse
to be used as a grading room.
MISS Hattie Edmundson OF
Greene, is in the city. visiting
her sister Mrs. Twill Winslow.
THE Presbyterian ladies are
preparing to open an elaborate
Christmas bazaar about the 1st
of December.
THE season of horse back rid
ing is at hand, aud already the
ladies of our city fond of the
healthful pastime are taking ad-
vantage Of it.
SINCE the rain the fox hunt
ers of the city have been in high
feather. They go out almost
every morning and never fail to
bring in a ''bruSh"
PoPULIsT politics are relies
gated to the rear, since cotton
has been bringing g cents, and
the outlook all along is prosper
Gus.
SHERIFF Lane. of Craven
county, passed through the city
to-day, with seven convicts from
his county en- route for the peni
tertiary.
Mr.. r. J.. Switzerland, Of Mt.
Olive, the leading merchant of
that thriving town and the larg-
est individual taxpayer in the
county, was in the city Tues
day
COTTON has passed the 81 cent
mark and is still going upward:
and Cleveland is still President
of these New Nited States"
Great is Cleveland and Demos
racy.
HON. Aug. Seymour, U. S.
Circuit Judge, will be here on
Friday to hear pleadings i'll the
case of the steamer'-Commodore'
held at Wilmington unoer sus
picion OF being in league with the
Cuban insurgents.
The death Of the venerable
George Parker, of the Brogden
township neighborhuod. occurred
yesterday morning. He eat
heartily of fish on Tuesday night.
went to bed feeling perfectly
well, was taken suddenly i'll in
the night and died in a few hours.
HER many friends and Gus
toners will he interested to learn
that Mrs. Sue D. Petteway is
now receiving and displaying a
beautiful and varied line of mil
linery and dress goods, Japan
csc ware, work and lunch bas-
kets and notions. at her old stand
on Walnut street.
MISS Sallie Stevens, Of Gran>
tham's township. sister of our
good friend Mr.. j. A. Stevens,
was elected at the meeting OF the
board of trustees last Friday to
the vacant position on the faculty
of the Go1dsboro Graded school,
as the result of last Tuesdays
competitive examination.
VIZ regret deeply to chronicle
that Mrs. Dr.. Frank Boyette was
summoned to her old home in
Chatham, Va, Sunday evening
by the death of her mother Mrs.
G. D. Bennett, aged 80 years.
Her many friends here sincerely
sympathize with her in her great
and irreparable sorrow.
OUR young friends Messrs. Da-
Wis and Britt, from the country,
have opened a beef market next
to Mr.. Joseph Edwards store
on East Centre street. They are
both very courteous and reliable
young gentlemen and are des
tined to do their tuIl share of
trade in the community.
OEx-Congressman B. F. Grady,
of Duplin county, who is now an
active and prosperous farmer. as
he was before his election to
Congress. honored our city with
a visit Monday. and made some
heavy purchases of needed farm
supplies. He says he finds
Goldshoro a fine market town.
THE stability of Goldsboro's
tobacco market as one of the very
best in the State is now estab-
lished and the farmers for miles
around r now favoring US with
their tobacco. Nearly all the
leading manufacturing centres
have bidders on the floor of oul
warehouse and others RE coming
in constantly.
COTTON is inevitably the king
1t can't be combined against. The
entire world must have cotton
Through cotton the South il
rapidly becoming the Commercial
King. Cotton at So, 80 per huns
dred weight is great, But cotton
at 10 cents a pound is greater