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

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Northern part of the city yester-
day shortly after - o'clock. She
leaves a number of children,
sons and daughters, all grown
and married, and a wide circle of
relatives to mourn her loss, The
funeral will be held from her
late home this afternoon at 4
o'clock.
For those who have seen the
best part of life recede, Spring
unearths shallowed memories.
1t may be the breath of a flower
I-twitter of a bird-some one of
it's many subtitle influences that
calls wildly to remembrance the
Springs that r no more, and
brings back the old-time rapture
again which the vernal season
awoke when life was new. For
the youthful, it opens an alluring
vista of joy and hopes. To them
it is the season over which Hope
reigns supreme. But it is as
fleeing and t%ransitory as it is
delightful. Its joys are soon
tasted, its happiness spent, its
glory done. And you whose
hearts n in their Spring
enjoy thy youth, it will not stay;
Enjoy the fragrance of thy prime,
For, 0, it is not always May"
In the death of DR.. Silas w.
Cox, which occurred at his home,
in Grantham township, Saturday,
after a protracted illness of a
complication Of complaints,
Wayne county has lost one of
her purest and best citizens. He
was a man of high intellect
and sterling character who
devoted his life to the service
of God and man for the love
of both. His venerable father
survives him to whom he was
a constant companion and in
whose care he forgot self
and yielded the ambition of life.
He was of the society of Friends
Amiable as a girl, gentle as a
woman, heroic in Christian viz
tue, in the prime of manhood he
has passed to the glory of the
saints. He will be sorely missed
in the neighborhood Of his home,
especially among the young,
whose teacher and guide he was
in the Sunday school and in daily
living; therefore it may be truly
said of him in the words of Holy
Writ that, ''having instructed
many to Justice" he shall ''shine
as a star for all eternity"
ABOUT two years ago Mr.. H.
A. Pennock moved out here from
Philadelphia and purchased from
Mr.. A. J. Harrell the tract of
farming land known as 1.-The
Smith place." beyond Webbtown,
and addressed himself at once to
the culture of fruits, vegetables,
grapes, strawberries, flowers and
poultry. For one who knew the
place then to visit it now would
be in the nature Of a revelation
and beholding results it would
not be hard to imagine Mr.. Pen
mock possessed of the tabled
Aladin's lantern. He has over
5000 grape vines in thriving
condition, embracing a number
of favorite varieties, as many
peach trees, or more, rich in
growth and promise at maturity,
roses in abundance, that he ships
or sells to local customers daily,
luscious strawberries, spreading
acres Of potatoes and beds of as
paragus, chickens of a dozen diff.
ferent breeds and all the finest
of their kind, and more '.odds anC
ends" than a column of type
could enumerate. 1t is a rea
treat to visit his place ano see
what he has accomplished in sc
brief a time upon a soil that was
considered impoverished - an6
was rendered useless for grow
ing the bane of the Southern
farmer, cotton. What Mr.. Pen
mock is doing other farmers Cal
do and will do, as observation an(
experience teach them the virtue
and profit and real pleasure O.
farm life in growing diversified
crops.
WHAT would our farmers thinl
Of the United States passing
law forcing those to whom cor
was sold to pay for a bushel 70
| every half bushel of grain they
; bought? In other words calm;
two pecks a bushel instead O
} four pecks? And not only this
! but also make the miller grind tn
| corn free of toll, and then fore
| the public to accept these tw
pecks of meal as a bushel? That
exactly what the silverloons ar
: endeavoring to get the Cover
:. ment to do for the owners of tn
silver mines. They wish to allo7
the silver barons to take a dollar
worth of silver bullion to th
minis and have it coined free int
two bright silver dollars.
+ would be money making bushes
!. for these fellows, but the peOpl
> would have to suffer the cons'
quences of a deprecated cul
i, rency.
Woodland Crumbs.
. WOODLAND, N. c., May 2.
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