Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-03-12

IL year old o of Mr.. Thos.
Head, of this city. with pneu-
monia.
MISS Lib Lane, who has been
quite sick for some days at her
home with Mrs. N. r. Robey, is
improving, her many friends
will be glad to learn.
THE Sunday School of the First
Baptist church, of this city, will
begin the publication of a reli-
gious weekly this week. the first
issue to appear nexJ Friday.
DIR. W. J. Jones will give a
lecture at the Odd Fellows Hall
on Thursday night, March 18th,
at s p. M. on the order of the
Knights of Dixie, to which every
body is cordially invited, espe-
cially ladies. Come out and hear
him.
IT will be of interest to local
fine stock fanciers, doubtless, to
learn that Alix, the worlds fast
est trotter, was sold last week in
New York, at auction, and was
bid off by Mr.. Lewis G. Tewks-
bury for the small (?) sum of if
teen thousand dollars.
THE death Of Mrs. J. W.
Blount. of Snow Hill, sister of
our towusman Mr.. Thos. Ed
mundson, occurred at her home
there on Monday, after a cen
tinued illness of some weeks. Mrs.
Edmundson had been with her
several days, and her brother
left Immediately upon hearing of
the sad news.
The sudden death of Mr.. J. K.
Miller, who away back in the
COS, Immediately after the war,
was engaged in farming near this
city, occurred last week in Wash
ington, d. c.. where he was EN-
gagged in one Of the Government
departments fcryears- He and his
wife We're much esteemed by all
who knew them here. His wife
and son survive him.
THERE is a very sick man in
the Emergency Hospital. He is
an Assyrian. He cannot speak
d word ofEnglish. He is sick unto
death, and his poor wife. who is
with him, aud can speak no Eng
lish either, is Frustrated with
grief. All possible cale and
medical attention is being given
him, but the physician in charge
fears the worst. 1t is a sad-in-I
expressibly sad case. What a
God-send our hospital is to such
poor strangers in a strange land.
THE distressing intelligence
reached here Monday that the
remains Of a white man named
William Joyce, well known in
this city as a competent carriage
painter. had been fond in the
ashes of a shuck pen at his home
near the Quaker's Bridge in
Brogden township. When last
seen he was intoxicated, and it
is supposed that he went home
and finding nobody there went to
the shuck pen to sleep, where he
probably lost his bottle of liquor,
and in making a light to find it
only furnished the means for his
cremation.
AS will be seen in this issue, |
tile Atlantid Hotel has changed
ownership, and by the inter
change of titles Mr.. Earle A.
Humphrey of this city becomes
a large owner in this valuable
seaside resort, than which there
is none finer nor more popular and
promising for future de-
velopment on the Atlantic coast.
That it will be run this season
right up to the highest standard
of comfort and excellence is as-1
sured. THE ARGUS congratu-
lates Mr.. Humphrey on the sue
cess achieved in securing the
control of this valuable property.
The blood hounds got ia agood
ard rapid piece of workTuesday.
Sheriff Scott went out that morns
ing to the Fremont section with
a capias for one Stacy Demilt, a
white man who is wanted in
court circles for larceny. Stacy
was on the alert, and when the
Sheriff came in sight he made
off in a dead run across q field
and into a swamp. Tile Sheriff
gave chase and fred several
times to scare him into surren>
der, but Stacy needed not and
thought he had made good his
escape, and crossing the swamp
and coming into another field
where he found a colored man at
work, he told the latter that he
had escaped, and was fee
ing from the Sheriff. What"
said the negro You try
ing to git away from de
"sheruf' dis near to Fremont
where dem blood hounds is?"
"What blood hounds? said Sta
cy, 81 have heard of no blood
hounds" Well" said the ne
gro, don't stand so close to me,
dey might get our tracks mixed
when they come along-if you
haint hearn of 'em you'll hear
dem arter you mighty quick, for
you know the sheruf has done
gone and got 'em fore this,
and you might as well go right