Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-05-23
LOCAL BRIEFS.

The Standard manufacturing
company is now turning out from
500 to 1000 barrels and baskets
per day.
CONS Financial School, F."
that little book SO much talked
about has been add ed to the 7
M. c.. A, library.
A LITTLE colored child, years
old, was accidentally burned to
death on the plantation of Mr..
w. F. Rose, in Fork township,
last Friday.
The Sheriff is investigating
the shooting Of John McCullen,
from ambush, near Mt. Olive,
reported in yesterdays ARGUS.
1t is thought that McCullen can
not live.
THE latestnews from John Nc
Cullen, who was shot from am
bush while at work in the field
last week, near Mt. Olive, is that
he is improving and strong hopes
are entertained for his recovery.
AT Golfers landing Neuse
River, Friday tight, Mr., A. j.
Fulghum scooped in a 25-pound
rock fish, with a skim net. The
fish measured three feet in length
and was the largest rock on rec>
ord in these parts.
A COLLoRED man at work for
Mr. Jno. r. Smith, tearing down
an old building in this city yes
terday, got caught under some
of the falling roof and was pain
fully and perhaps seriously in
jured.
OUR young friend and towns
man. Mr.. E. E. Pugh, of the
Goldsboro Furniture factory,
has entirely remodeled his home
and greatly beautifed the prem
ises and has now one Of the most
attractive residences in his neigh
borhood.
QUITE a number of enquiries
are being received here from the
prospecting party from the
Western States, who spent a day
here last month. They were
greatly impressed with Colds
boro and our surroundings. and
they and others are looking in
this direction for homes and
farms, We go forward.
THE death of Patsy Cooper,
an old and respected colored mo-
man, So years Of age, occurred
Saturday, at the home of her
son George Griffin in this city.
Her remains were taken to the
old plantation burying ground in
Duplin county for interment.
Thus are the old landmarks pass
ing away. Ere long they will
all be gone.
A FISHING influenza seemed
to swoop down on the commun-
ity yesterday like a cyclone, and
most everybody in town stimuli
taneously concluded to go fish
ing, and scores more would have
gone had they been able to get
conveyances; but every vehicle
in every livery stable in the city
was taken.
ONE of the most gratifying ev-
licences of returning prosperity
is the increase of wages in many
industries. This advance in
wages indicates clearly improved
industrial conditions. Business
of every kind is improving, and
the advocates Of a radical
change in our financial system
are finding a harder row to hoe
every day.
Mr.. w. G.. Broadhurst, of the
Seven Springs section, reports
to us a novel and hitherto un-
heard of occurrence. His sor
had a SOW that had a litter of 1!
pigs beside a log in the woods, anc
achicken snake that is supposed
to have hibernated in, the log, OF
under it, went into the pigs bee
and killed the entire litter. Th'
snake wrapped itself around thu
neck of each pig and choked it tx
death. and when Mr.. Broadhurs
went to look after them he fount
the whole Is pigs dead in the be-
and the snake in the midst O
item.
Our people are honest if no
wealthy, and want every dolla
paid to them to be worth 10
cents. They have no silver t.
coin and cannot possibly feel al
interest in the western silve
mines. If the government is t
go into the wholesale business O
guaranteeing prices, the farmer
of the South had far better wor.
for cotton than silver. The gov
ernment has the same right t
say that a pound of cotton sha
be worth ten cents that it has t
sly that 3714 grains Of silve
y shall be worth one dollar.
IRON is finding it's way fror
Southern furnaces to market
that never saw a pound of pi
iron before. One company i
Alabama sold 100 tons of iron
week ago for delivery in Liver
pool and the Tennessee Coal an
iron Company has sent an ager