Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-07-23
LOCAL BRIEFS

MRS. Nancy j. Horn, OF Mag
nolia. is in the city on a visit to
the family of her son Mr.. Wiley
Horn.
THE steamboat draw at Coxe's
bridge has been so arranged and
tested that the same can be raised
in seven minutes.
IT is not thought now that
crops on Ners river will be eff
fected by rise of the river as the
water is said to be falling.
Rev. Junius Millard, former
( Goldsboro boy, but now pastor of
Baptist church in Baltimore,
is in the city on a visit to friends.
THE Southern Railway has re
sumed it's daily service by the
York River Line of steamers be-
tween West Point and Balti>
more.
THE city is having marked i'm
provement made to the streets
in different parts of the town and
still there is room for a good deal
more.
MRS. VIM. Wooten, of Ports
mouth, Va, who has been visits
ing her parents, Mr.. .andMrs- j. w.
Gulick in this city, returned home
to day.
WE did not know until to>day
that we had so many oetS in
Goldsboro. we have heard of sew
eral striking poems on the poll
Cal situation.
HIS many friends are glad to
see out again Capt. J. @. Collier,
who has been confined to his
home for the last few days by an
attack of illness.
Mr. NJ F. Pugh, a merchant
of Newbern. has accepted a po
position with the Goldsboro
Furniture Fac ory and will in a
I w days move his family to this
city. &
II Hollowell and Peterson
would run two excursions a
month to Morehead during the
Summer, the people in this sec>
ton would gather at this summer
resort in large numbers.
Mr.. A. - Ward desires to
give notice to his patrons that
hereafter his barber shop will be
closed on Saturday nights AT
11:3O o'clock. and that no one
will be admitted after that hour.
DR.. J. M. Parker is spending
some days at Seven Springs for
his health and his many friends
in this city will be glad to learn
that he has been very much ben
efitte1 by the health restoring
waters.
DURING the recent freshet n
Neuse river there has been a
great deal of round timber
brought in rats to the Enter
prise Lumber Company's boon
at Old Waynesboro from quite a
distance up the river.
IT looks somewhat city like
these afternoons to be on the
railroad in front and watch the
large crowds of operatives dis
perse in different directions when
the whistle at the Wayne Cottor
Mill is sounded at z o'clock.
And so Virgil Pea Kline, {
long neglected ard almost for
gotten statesman of Cleveland
Ohio, has. for the sake of the
little flash of notoriety it vii
give him, permitted himself tt
be catalogued as a Democratic
bolter. Ia ia, Virgy; we will
endeavor to worry along with.
out you.
Those mercenary newspape
editors who have hitherto claim
ed to be Democrats, but who nov
refuse to support the nominee
of the Chicago Convention
should read the Cleveland Lead
er, and thus be brought to real
ize the low. vulgar, and viciou
companionship into which the.
have drifted.
THE news comes from Nahum
to church that there is big re
vival Of religion in progres
there. The doctrine of Sancti
fication that was so ardently ad
vocated by Rev. A. B. Crumple
in this city, some weeks ago, ha
found it's way out there and no
a few have made a profession O
faith and some have elaine
sanctification. There are larg
crowds in attendance daily, som
coming f.cm quite d distance
and the interest is said to be O
the increase.
The puny little speech tina
Mckinley made TO the Forake
Club of Cleveland the other day
was simply betryal of th
weakness of the speaker and
confession of the conspirac
hatched by the money power TO
the impoverishment and subju
cation of the people. Althoug
the speech was not more tina
three minutes long. it had bee
copied by a typewriter an
was held in the speakers hand
during its passage through hi
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