Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-01-30
81 ARGUS.
DAILY AND WEEKLY.
LOCAL BRIEFS

THE civil docket is progress
ing in oar Superior Court.
"THE Deacon" that so delight.
ed a Goldsbsro audience last sum
mer, is heading this way.
FINE breaks" have charac :
terized our tobacco warehouse
for the past several days.
Another popularity about
Davis use of the Monroe doctrine
is that he also wants it to apply
to ST. Louis.
While saying he'll show the
Cuban insurgents no mercy,
General Weyler really may turn
his back on them no worse than
Campos did.
Bosphorus means an OK ford.
If it's true Russia has made a
treaty with Turkey, it will be
something John Bull may find it
hard to get over.
AS Britain is having trouble
through the whole alphabet of
nations from Ashantee to Vene-
zuela, it will need to settle them
a doubly wise head.
AS the big gun of the Indiana
was fired successfully it sug>
gests the query whether they'll
succeed in firing another big In
diana gun in ST. Louis.
The business men of Goldsboro
carefully weighed the subject be-
fore they went into it, and
now that a market has been S
tablished they are going to push
it for all it is worth. 1t is their
determination that Goldsboro as
a tobacco market shall reach the
top notch. Planters of tobacco
should remember this and bring
their tobacco to Goldsboro.
Prof. Routgen, of Vienna, is
said to have discovered in at
mospheric space a power hither-
to unknown. By means of this
power certain rays of light pene-
trate organic matter and other
opaque substances in the same
manner that ether penetrates a
solid wall. It is said that the
human skeleton may be seen per-
fectly by means of this discov-
cry, and that already a bullet
imbedded for years in the ankle
of a man has been photographed.
The value of this discovery will
be of inestimable benefit to medi-
cal science, and we await with
interest a further demonstration
of it's pracUicabiliY.
LITTLE "Grif" Porter, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. E. G. Porter, met
with a serious accident Mon
day morning. He and his older
brother Erwin were being driven
to school by a colored boy, when
two loose mules came down
the street meeting them at
a headlong speed, and one
of the mules ran right into
the buggy wheels, on the side on
which Grit was sitting, although
the cclored boy did all in his
power to avoid the collision.
Grit was knocked out of the
buggy and rendered uncon-
scious by the fall, and re
NAMED so for several hours.
Mr. Sol. Einstein. near whose
house the accident happened, ran
out and picked the little boy
up and carried him home. Medical
aid was quickly summoned, but
at first it looked serious for the
child. We are glad to know that
he is greatly better to-day, and
with quiet rest it is thought he
will soon be himself again.
The Populists, too, have found
a convention city, and Uncle Joe
Sibley is in the enjoyment of a
corresponding degree of happi-
ness. 1t was a matter of doubt
for quite a period what Mr.. Sib-
ley would do with his share of
the invitation to help find p con-
vention home for the Third
party, but there is a clearness in
the atmosphere now because the
doubt is removed. The Popu-
lists will hold their National con
vention in st. Louis on the 22d
of July, and the call sent out
bids ''all men and all organiza-
tionsin pursuit of financial reform
to concentrate in the convention
and become one of the vigorous
political factors of the year"
Mr.. Sibley has declared very
strongly for the single issue of
the free coinage of silver. This
is a hopeful sign, provided MI.
Sibley sticks long enough to his
declaration. The Populists will
certainly stick to that issue
whether Sibley does or not, as
they have nothing else to stick
to, for with free silver out of the
road the Populist would be in
the unfortunate position of being
a party without an issue.
THE Chick Comedy Company
that had the boards of the Mess
senger Opera House all last week
came to sudden grief Saturday
night by Manager Chick jumps
ing the town with the weeks re-
ceipts and leaving the company
without pay and without funds