Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-01-31
ARGUS BUREAU,
RALEIGH, Jan. 26, 1895.


RALEIGH, Jan. 26, 1895.
Captain l. N. Link, a promin-
ent citizen and mayor of Durham,
died at Greensboro this morning
Of heart disease. AT the time
death came he was sitting in
carriage at Greensboro awaiting
the train for Morganton, where
he was to be treated for mental
arrangement. The case was
particularly sal, one. Mayor
Link had only been married the
week before for the second time
and it is supposed that the excite
ment attendant upon his mar
riage unbalanced his mind. He
had been under treatment for
several days at Durham and yes
terday it was decided to send
him to Morganton for treatment.
He went to-day and TOMORROW
he comes back corpse, The
funeral will be held at Durham
to morrow at 9 o'clock. A good
many people left here to-day for
Durham to attend the funeral.
Yesterday morning Wake
county's famous fat baby died.
The baby was only nine months
old and weighed 66 pounds. The
parents of of the child were
Prof and Mrs. Weatherly, of
Oak Grove township. Neither
are remarkable large and Mrs.
Weatherly weighs only 103
pounds. Thursday night, the
the child seemed in perfect
health, but when the mother
went 10 wake it in the morning
it was dead. Death was caused
by congestive chill.
The revenue people here have
several reasons to assign for the
great increase lately in the num-
Der Of Illicit distilleries They
say that the increase is caused,
not SO much by the increased
tax on whiskey as by the large
corn crop. Corn is so plentiful
that moonshining is now very
cheaper and profitable business.
The sheriff, as l told you yes
terday, is garneesheeing delin-
quent tax payers. To-day many
more people were garnisheed
and a great stir has been raised
thereby.
The frame work of the new
Farina Flourlng mills is up and
the weather boarding being put
up. The building will be 100 feet
long and three stories high. The
mills will have a daily copacity
of 100 barrels of -four a day.
Raleigh is to have a new ice
factory, also. Work on it began
more than a week ago. but al
ready the foundation is laid and
it is an assured fact that the ice
factory will be in operation by
summer.
News was received here to- day
of destructive fire which occur
red at Hillsboro this morning.
Fire broke out there this morn
ing at 4 o'clock in a dwelling
The wind was very high and
famed the blaze so that it tspread
to two other dwellings. All
three houses were entirely des-
troyed.
Amoug Raleigh's industries
which people generally do not
know about are two pants fact
tories that have a capacity both
of them, of 500 pairs a day.
On the anxious bench at pres
ent are editor Goslin and Barnes
Brothers, who want the public
printing, and Otho Wilson, Wake
county's fusion boss, who wants
to be railroad commissioner.
Ohio doesn't talk much but he is
doing great deal of lobbying.
Where that ardent local fu-
sionist, j. G, l.. Harris, will come
in is yet an open question .Loge"
has been taking a great deal of
interest in the matter of having
Raleigh gerrymandered and per-
haps he would not mind being
mayor of the city.
The temperance agitation here
has raised great stir among the
saloon keepers, whom seem to
be afraid that the bill will be
passed.
II is said that reports sent out
about the fusion caucus were err
roneous in that it was stated, or
implied, that the cancus had
acted definitely fusionists. how
ever, say that the caucus did
nothing definite, that it, in fact,
was not a caucus at all but just a
simple meeting to talk things.
over and that no one was at all
influenced by what the crucus
did.
If this is SO, aud who knows?
for fusionists tells it, things are
not as clear and certain as they
were week ago. The Legisia-
ture may go to extremes of devil
ment. Thele is no telling.
1t is learned that the dwellings,
burned at Hillsboro, belonged to
Mrs. Roseman, DR.. Lewis, and
DR.. Hooker; The loss was two
thousand dollars.
The little fellows are hustling
around looking for places but
they are to the Legislators are
troublesome and yet could be
gotten rid of.