Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-09-17
LOCAL BRIEFS.

What has become of Tommi,
Reed? He's almost as silent a:
Grover
A blaze of intense enthusiasm
will mark Bryan's course through
North Carolina.
II is an acknowledged fact by
men who have travelled over the
State and are in position to
know, that Goldsboro pays higher
prices for tobacco -Stan any other
marked in the country.
THE recent advance in the
price of cotton brought several
hundred bales to this market to
day and our business houses have
had a heavy trade in conse-
ouence. Cotton sold for 7:65 to
day.
Mr. Jos. Edwards has return>
ed from tAe North. where he
perchased extensively of fall and
wlnteI goods, and on Tuesday
and Wednesday his estabiish>
ment will hold Opening days.
TO which the public are invited
to cali and inspect.
DIED at Burns Place, Lemon
county. Friday Sept, 11th at s
o. NJ. Mrs, Bette G. Whitfield 5,
wife OF Col. N. B. Whitfield ana
sister OF DIR. w. III. H. Cobb, Mr..
w. P, Lane and Mrs, D w
Smith, Burial will be at Holy
Inocents Episcopal Church, Les
noir county, Sunday 4 o'clock p.
HON. B. r. Tillman, of South
Carollua, aud other prominent
speakers, will address the people
at Klnston on the 24th inst. Ii
is intended to make the occasion
a graud Democratic rally. Mr..
JOS. NJ. Parrott, president of the
Democratic CLUB of that place.
writes the ARGUS that they will
have cannon and brass bands and
glorious time
PROF. Thomas Sharpe. the
newly elected principal of the
Goldsboro Graded School, has
arrived in the city to acquaint
himself with his duties that are
10 commence one week from next
Monday morning. The people
of Goldsboro welcome Prof.
Sharpe to our midst aud hope
that our association may be both
mutual and profitable.
Mr.. F. B. Edmundsou, the
hustIing general merchandise
dealer on Walnut street, has re-
Gently returned from his pur-
chasing trip to the Northern
trade centors, and is now receiv~
ing aud unpacking tremendous
stock CT dry goods and notions
for his extensive trade. Mr..
Edmundson is firm believer in
the printers ink and is satisfied
that it will sell for him the large
stock Of goods he has bought.
Mrs. L. Fl. Castex, accom- :
panied by their milliner Miss
Pearl Creech, has returned from
the Northern cenlers of fashion,
where they have been spending
the past few weeks visiting the
metropolitan millinery establish
ments of New~York City. and
informing themselves in regard
to the latest styles, modes, fab
RIGS and fashions. They have
spent longer time this year
than usual in New York, where
they haye had all their pattern
hats trimmed in the latest styles.
Raleigh News and Observer:
The queerest and finest patient
that was ever sent from Wake
county to an insane asylum was
carried to the Eastern Asylum at
Goldsboro yesterday. She was
a young colored girl, Amanda
Scott, only fourteen years old.
AS she stood Leside the deputy
who had her in charge, she look.
ed almost nke baby. She meass
ures only about three and half
feet in height. But her mind is
as badly deraLged as if she were
full sized. Deputy Rowland car,
ried her to Goldsboro. There is
another patient in that Asylum
just about Amanda's size DR.. j.
f. Miller, the superintendent,
says he will have to make two
cradeIs for the dimutive pair.