Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-04-02
LOCAL BRIEFS

SOME needed repairs are being
made upon the roof of our couns
ty Jail.
MISS Matte Lee is on a visit
to Miss Lillian Dillon at La
Grange.
Mr.. Chas. Dewey is on a bust
ness trip to the western part OF
the State.
Miss Julia Castex has returned
home from visiting friends in
Kenansville.
OUR Hebrew fellow citizens
are celebrating the feast of Pass.
over this week.
Bicyclist in some parts OF
Northern Michigan had a novel
experience last week. The snow
was we'll over the tops of the
fences and so thick a crust was
formed on it that the bicycllsts
were able for a week or more to
ride their wheels across lots.
One of the Wisconsin authors
who attended the Authors COM
vention in Milwaukee last week
was woman bearing the pecu-
liar name of Mrs, Frances Ha
Ha. She is known to Grand
Army men as the author Of I'VE
Love the Boys in Blue"
A recent English book on
etiquette says: Morning calls
are usually made between the
hours of 2 and 4. A gentleman
should take his hat into the room
with him. holding it in his hand
during the visit-everything else
should be left in the hail." Well,
we do not do that in this country,
thank goodness.
A man in Mitchell, S. D., in
attempting suicide by the aid of
a revolver bored a large hole
completely through his head,
Not only is the man still Lying,
but he is rapidly recovering from
the effects of the wound, and it is
the intention of the State Legis>
~lature, should the hole remain
open at both ends, to send him to
the United States Senate.
MESSRS. Ben W. and George
G. Southerland gave a very de-
lightful reception at their home
on James street Saturday even
ing 20 the young people of our
city complimentary to Mr.. and
Mrs. Bradley Saunders, of Ra
leigh, who were visiting them,
and who left for home Tuesday
afternoon.
The final test of the new cleo
trio light service at the Colds
boro Cotton mill was made last
night and everything proved
highly satisfactory. The test
was made in the presence of a
number of stockholders, and the
spacious and magnificent build
ing lighted up beautifully, and
gave additional and inspiring
faith in the fact that Goldsboro
is going forward.
MIR. and Mrs. Casper Summer
field, of Bluefield, Va, arrived in
this city Monday afternoon with
the remains of their little one
year old daughter Edith, which
were inferred in the family plot
in Willow Dale. Mr., Summer
field left here some s years ago,
and married in Virginia. They
went down to Newbern this after
noon on a visit to his sister, Mrs.
IL. Dannenberg.
THE Board of City Aldermen
in special session last night
elected Mr.. Buck Denmark to
fill the vacancy on the police
force caused by the resignation
of policeman Speight. The Board,
also, decided to condemn the land
for new streets over in Eastern
Goldsboro, and a committee was
appointed to assess it's value,
which will be paid by the city.
A NOVEL aud ingenious way
of hauling fodder was seen on
this market Tuesday. Mr.. Seth
Talton, of the Nahunta section,
desiring to bring an entire stack
of fodder to town for sale, just
cut the stack pole at the base
and toppled the whole stack in
tact on his two horse wagon, and
it made a unique load. He sold
it by weight, and when he had
delivered it he weighed the pole,
and subtracted the difference.
The Disguised French caterer
who is going back to Paris and
freedom did not exaggerate when
be said that. the people of our
cities are the '.slaves of politi
cans" When men cannot drink
with their Sunday dinners at the
club, the restaurant or the small
table d'hote places the beverage
that they are accustomed to take
on every other day, their person.
al liberty is denied at a sensitive
point.
THE death of Mrs Polly Cul>
lum, widow of the late ex-sheria
Cullum, ofJohnston county, occur
red at her home near Smithfield,
Saturday last, after a protracted
illness of pulmonary trouble.
She was a most excel