Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-09-10
LOCAL BRIEFS

The fau finder works at least
ten hours a day for the devil for
nothing
NATHAN. the little son of Mr.
and Mrs. Chas. Haskitt, is quite
sick with fever illness.
Mrs. f. E Pipkin has re-
turueG from spending the sums
mer at P4nacea Springs.
THE Populist primaries will be
held IN this city next Friday
night aud their county conven>
ton will be held on the day fol-
towing.
Mr.. w. G Britt has returned
from his purchasing trip North
and was accompanied by his
family, WIG have been spending
some aeeks visiting relatives in
Baltimore.
The New York Journal is rails
ing d campaign fund for our mas
tiouai Commltlee. aud Tor every
dollar thai the people send it for
this purpose II agrees to add
another. This is liperal, surely.
An advertising agent threw
two headache powders in 0. H.
Bartlett's yard at Muncie, Ind.
Little Loraines Bartlett swallow
ed them. Saturday, and she is
now at the point of death. The
distributor OF the powders Was
arrested.
ALL those who wish Bryan
hats al a very low price will
please leave their names and size
of hat worn at B'zzie Bros. & Co.,
or with G.. F. Herring G. S. c..
The hats ere of light weight with
silk cord for band and medium
brim.
Hon. William Jennings Bryan,
the Democratic nominee tor Press
ident OF the United States, Will
arrive in this city by special train
from Raleigh on the night of the
18th inst , and will address the
people Of This city and section on
the following day.
DIR. T. Dewitt Talmage, at
Easthampton, Long Island, res
Gently SAID: III the silver peo>
pie win | believe there will be
such a revival OF business, such
a booming of industries, which
are now inactive, and such a
shaking up OF commercial inLer>
ests that the country will be sure
to prosper
Raleigh Press Visitor: Sheriff
Page and his deputies have
certainly iried hard to capture
Chavis Alas Booker, the negro
who blew out Mahala Whites
brains last Saturday, but he ap-
peared to have escaped. "A
tobacco dealer of G~feenbnro in
the course of d trip in Rocking>
ham aud Caswel!, says he saw
at least Que hundred different
farms where tobacco is growing
and failed to G n good crop.
All in i'll, it is decided the poor
est crop he ever saw.
WHILE the wife murderer Maj
Moore nov lies sulking in his
cell in the county Jail in this city
waiting to be tried for his life at
the term of Superior Court next
week, the question that is up
permost in the minds of a
good many of the law
abiding citizens of Wayne
county, is why has not justice
been meeted out to Gil Ward, a
man Of like character and vino
committed a deed none the less
cowardly on the person of Mag
Dinkius. which has never been
avenged.
A TELEGRAM received in this
city to-day states that Charles
Manly, Il of the negroes ac-
cused of attempting to wreck a
passenger train on the w. q w.
K. R., near this city, some few
months ago, had been arrested
at Portsmouth, where he has
been living for the greater part
of the time since committing the
deed. There is a reward OF
$3.50 offered for the arrest AND
conviction Of the wreckers. The
Railroad company offers $500,
the State 5000 and the county OF
Wayne So.
The Campaign Democrat, pub
lished weekly at Norfolk, by
Paul c.. Degge & Company, and
edited by Captain Page McCarty
cannot fail to prove a valuable
and Influential factor in the
Democratic canvass. Captain
McCarty is a vigorous, fearless
and incisive writer, thoroughly
acquainted with the weak point:
in the armor of the enemy, ane
his thrusts always tell. The Cam
paign Democrat is a sixscolumI
paper, we'll printed in new clea
type, and will be illustrated will
expressive cartOoLS.
The recent Improvement
made 10 the interior of the cour
house add considerable to it
appearance. A great man.