Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-01-24
BRIEFS.

her sister Miss Matte Spicer,
who has been visiting her, az
rived in the city yesterday after
noon on a visit to her parents, DIR.
and Mrs. j. D.. Spicer.
Mr.. D.. T.. Sasser, the efficient
and popular bookkeeper OF
Messrs. Royal & Borden's ex-
tenSive furniture establishment
in this city, has just returned
from a business trip to the east
ern section Of the State, and
reports a fine trade and bright
ening prospects.
MIR. A, C. Ward, Democratic
ex-Sheriff of Fender county, who
was elected to the Legislature
from that county in the late
election, and unseated Friday by
the Fusion majority of that body,
was i'll the city yesterday, re
turning home. He was in good
spirits, and hopeful for the u
cess of the party in '96.
The increase of cotton manu-
featuring in the South during
the last four years has been al
most without a parallel. In that
brief period the number of cot
ton mills in the South has in
creased from $50 to over 400, and
the capital invested in them from
Sol, 600, 900 to nearly 500, 600,
900.
CONSIDERABLE repairs are
being done to the A. & n. c. r..
L. track running through this
city. This excellent road under
the efficient administration of
president w. S. Chadwick, is
abreast of the times and is a
great factor in the upbuilding of
GOldsboro.
The farmers of the South
haveit in their power to help
themselves intellectually by q gen
eral adoption OF the policy Of less
cotton and more cereals and
strict adherence to it. II they
w Ill GIlII1h IllS I1ClQIC1 ONC1 W.
cannot doubt that they will adopt
this method of self protection.
OUR young friend and county
man Mr.. Robt, L. Hooks, Of Fork
township, has purchased the fine
farm of Mr.. Willis Brogden and
will take up his residence there
on and cultivate it this year.
Bob is unmarried-and, in fact,
is rather young yet, but it would
look like he has something in
contemplation.
WHILE some of the New Eng
land newspapers are advising
the cotton manufacturers OF that
section to go slow in construct
ing mills in the South, the men
who have made a practical in
vestigation Of the question con,
tinue to proclaim the advantages
of the South for cotton manu-
features.
The death of, perhaps, Wayne
county's Oldest citizen, the ven.
cradle Edmund Coor, occurred a
his home, in Fork township
Thursday, aged So years. He wa;
highly esteemed by all who knew
him and leaves an honorable
name. His funeral was held Fri
day afternoon from the HON,
and was conducted by Rev. NJ
M. Mcfarland. Of the NJ. E
church circuit.
WHAT the Raleigh Neecs an
Observer yesterday did for Ge'
Zee French was a plenty" [
showed up his '.186S" recort
from tie Record-facts that are
facts and have passed into his
tory as such, there to remain
and go sonding down the ages
And what will Gee Zee" havt
tie say about it now on the foo
of the House? 1t is in order 70
him to rise to a point of per
sonal privilege" but what vii
he say? The Record is agains
him-but what does Populism
communism, anarchy care 70
records.
II is nov in proper order 70
the ..J~cfc1sonian Democrats" i
the General Assembly, judgin,
from their course in that bod
and their fusion barters of prin
ciple, to read Thomas Jefferso
out of the party-and Andre1
Jackson, too. For Thomas Jei
ferson was a gentleman, a states
man and a patriot; and so wa
Andrew Jackson. And speakin:
of latter day statesmen, etc.
would it not be in order for som
one to write a new Du9lcjGd t
preserve them from the oblivio
whittier they are trending?
THAT old '68 legislative pei
sonality Gee Zee French. of Me-
Hanover county, who cucumber
a seat in the lower House of th
present General Assembly, is sal
to have gotten mighty mad an
snorting yesterday on the foo
of that body and INDUCED IN III
parliamentary language thu
fairly sized and emitted bin
smoke-and all because his re,
ord of yore. i'll the capacity of
legislator of '6S. is being re
viewed and brought a-fresh t
the minds of those who remem
Der it as an experience, as We