Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-10-10
GLRANINGS
Items OfIntereSt Clipped
From our State
EXCHANGES.

Exchanges.
The Treasurer and the Attor-
ney General decide that the Wild
West show must pay 5000 circus
tax to county and State.
Treasurer Worth sends a cir
cular to all sherifs urging col
lection of $3.50 tax from all deal
ers in pianos and organs.
w. G. Briggs, the Winston in
ventor of the Briggs cigarette
machine, has invented another
machine, which, he says, is equal
to if not better than his first
patent.
Wilson Advances: We are very
sorry to announce the death of
Mr.. S. V. Tyson. of this place,
which occurred at the residence
of his daughter, Mrs. Murray,
yesterday
The change which takes place
on the Southern Railroad on the
9th will greatly interfere with
the connection between Raleigh
and Wilmington, as the paeposed
change will put the train from
Greensboro in Raleigh Cot 3 p. m
Lumberton Rohesonian We
learn that there was never be-
fore such a disposition on the
part of the farmers to settle up
with the merchants. We learn
that one man received oyer $4O0
on last years account last Sat>
day.
The Ladies' Memorial AS
ISOLATION at Raleigh has chosen
Gen. Collette Leaventhorpe as
the subject for the next Memoir
ial day GRAFTON. Gen. Leaven-
thorpe was an Englishman who
had been in the United States
one year before the war.
Concord Standard: During
the construction of the new mill
at Cannonville, only one accident
has happened. that being a col
ored boy falling from the scat
fold. Fortunately the boys
head struck first, or else there
might have been great damage.
Winston Sentinel: Mr.. John
G. Miller, cashier of the First
National bank, has been offered
a lucrative position with the Ho-
tel Jefferson Co., of Richmond,
Va. He has the proposition IN.
der consideration and will prob
ably accept, if the directors of
the First National will consent
to accept his resignation. The
resident directors held a meeting
yesterday afternoon, but ad
journed without taking any def
rite action.
Wilmington Messenger: The
numerous friends of Mr.. Geo. II.
Cardwell, were shocked last ev-
ening upon receipt of a telegram
by his brother, Nh. Guy A.
Cardwell, announcing his death.
After a long illness he passed
away yesterday about {. 30p. NJ,
at Sweet Chalybeate Springs.
Virginia. Upon receipt of the
telegram Mr.. Guy Cardwell left
on the z o'clock train for Rich
monk where the funeral will take
place tomorrow.
Murfr eesboro Index: A dis
astrOuS fire occurred in the town
ofJackson, Northampton county,
or Sunday night. The Episco-
pal church, the academy, the re-
sidence of Mr.. Frank Ridley, a
coach shop, Moore's cotton gin
and about thirty bales of cotton
we're burned. No insurance ex-
cept on the church, which was
insured for only 1000, The
church was a handsome one and
had two beautiful memorial win
dows. There was a large clock
in the steeple, the gift of Mrs.
Burgwyn: which cost $500. The
fire originated in the cotton gin
and is thought to have been the
work of an incendiary. The loss
is a heavy one to the town.
Charlotte Observer: In answer
to a telegram from the Washing
ton Times, Rev. DR.. Talmage,
who has just accepted the assist
ant pastorate of the First Pres
byterian church of that city.
wired it thanking it and the
other Washington papers for the
generous things they have res
gently said of him, and incident-
ally remarked that 1.-The printing
press is the front wheel of the
Lords chariot" Yet a North
Carolina minister has recently
said from the sacred desk that
1.-The most constituencies thing
outside the penitentiary is the
secular press of to>day." There
is a difference of opinion here.
But it all goes in a lifetime e.
It is very certain, says the
Richmond Dispatch, that the to-