Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-05-30
LOCAL BRIEFS.

season were shipped from this
city yesterday by Mr.. N. W. Mus
grave, from his patch on William
street.
HE Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union of North Carolina
Will hold their annual Convention
at Charlotte the 10Th, Goth and
list of June. All are cordially
Invited to attend.
DO the laboring men of this
community suppose for a moment
that their wages would be
doubled when the unlimited coin
age of silver had succeeded in
doubling the cost of living?
IHE honest workingman who
receives better wages now than
ever before and who gets more
o his money now than ever be-
lore, IS not an easy convert to
the speclous arguments of the
Western silver mine kings.
HE orchestral band, that is
to furnish music for the Atlantic
Hotel at Morehead City this sum
mer, has already reported for
duty at that popular and peerless
seaside resort, which will open
Tor the accommodation Of guests
Juae 1st.
NEVER mind the weather. We
can't help it. Look not mourn
fully on the past, it comes not
back again, nor repine at the
gloomy present, which we must
endure, withal, but, like the Irish
man said. let US all hope for an
"llligant future"
Mr.. Jonathan Hooks, of Free
mont, a member of the County
Board of Education, and one Of
the most reliable and popular
citizens Of the county, was in the
city Monday, attending a called
meeting of his board.
Mr.. H. d. Dillon, of LAGRANGE.
one of the most sagacious and
af9Aent business men in eastern
North Carolina, was in the CITY
Monday, on his way to RAJ
leigh, where his younger daugh-
ter Miss Celestial is of the gradu-
atingclass of Peace Institute this
week.
The largest and the fattest
beef ever seen in this city was
an OK that Mr.. J. P. O'Berry, of
the Dudley section put on the
market Monday. He weighed
1917, lbs and was bought yMr. H.
j. Ham for his extensive trade.
He was fat and fine, as Mr..
Hams customers will realize
when they find the beef on the
maFket.
QUITE a number of Northern
prospectors, mostly interested
in timber lands, arrived in the
city yesterday afternoon and are
looking over the surrounding
timber territory. It is said that
the finest and most durable tim.
Der known to the trade is OBJ
tanned from this immediate sec.
ton.
The University Alumni Asso.
citation Of Wayne county held
their annual banquet last night
in the dining room Of the Hote.
Kennon. The attendance was
laYge, the banquet elegant in al
it's appointments, rejecting the
highest credit upon the cuisine OF
the Kennon, and good cheer an6
Infinite gest prevailed to a late
hour.
THAT is a beautiful poem
breathing with real poetry o
thought and expression-whicl
we publish this morning from
the pen Of our gifted frien'
and townsman Mr., John r
Morris. It was written ION tn
rail-" and appeared in the Ra
leigh Nea0s and % rver on tn
day after the ~unveiling of tn
Confederate Monument in tina
city.
THE Goldsboro Rifles, ever ag
gressiye and public-spirite6
have fitted up a comfortable an
spacious room on the secon
floor of the Armory building
which will be used as a reception
and reading room and be open a
ways to Confederate veterans
They are furnishing it han6
somely, and they invite anyon
who may have any war relic t
please donate or lend it to the1
for their war relic cabinet.
THE ARGUS man saw in tn
hands of a travelling man yeste1
day a ticket over the w. & "
Railroad from Goldsboro to Ba'
tleboro that was issued May
1888, t%hirty-two years ago, dur
ing the war. It had never bee
used and the holder of it was &C
ing to use it yesterday. He &C
it from some old man about Ba.
tleboro, who found it among
lot of old papers in his posses
sion.
THE price of nearly every pr
duct of this country has gone VI
and il seems that the advance
on a firm basis and will continr
for a time at least. We do NJ
Lrory ~ a cinU1a commodity til.