Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-06-25
LOCAL BRIEFS

of. Mt. Olive. were in the city
Tuesday.
MRS. Geo. G. Royal and chil~
dren left to~day for Chapel Hill
to spend a few weeks visiting
friends.
The contract has been let to
MIR. Henry King for building
the brick walls of a dry house for
the Standard Manufacturing
Company in the Northern end of
the city.
SOME very beautiful night
blooming series we're to be seen
at the home of Mrs. E. M. Leh-
man in this city last night and
were viewed and enjoyed by a
y select number of visitors.
The 4th of July comes on Sat>
urday this year and those pas
~tronizing the colored excursion
leaving here on that day for
Morehead City will stay over
that night and return the next
evening with the loss of only one
work day.
IT is said by those who attend
ed that tie large colored excur-
si1n t hat left here Monday for
Baleigh was the most orderly of
all the orderly ones that leave
Goidsboro. The department of
the crowd was the subject for
favorable comment by Raleigh
people.
The tobacco warehOuS in this
city recently used as tabernacle
by the Crumpler meetings looks
vacant and deserted to-day. The
few solitary footballs across its
broad floors aus seemingly
strange echoes to resOund where
of late a surging mass of hu
mainly mingled their voices in
shouts of happiness and songs
Of praise.
MAJOR H, L. Grant has re-
turned from the Republican Ma
tiopal Convention at St. Louis and
has had gathered around him to-
day small groups of local Repub>
l~icans. to whom he vas explain
ing how it happened. Political
parties seem slow at times in
distributing rewards for faithful
service rendered. Aud then ITO
the noble mind, rich gifts wax
poor when givers prove unkind.'
The bolt in St. Louis recalls
the fact that it is the first revolt
in National party convention
against party discipline and
opinion Tor thirty-six years, UNI
less the Prohibition split in Pitts
burg a few weeks ago it is to be
considered, The Democratic Ma
tional Convention. which met at
Charleston in 1860. witnessed the
secession of the delegates of sew
eral Southern States, because of
dissatisfaction over a declaration
of principles concerning the
slavery question.
Mr.. r. E. Pipkin will run his
annual excursion from this city
to Asheville on Tuesday,
July 21st. These excur-
sions afford an opportunity
at a nominal cost to view some OF
the grandest mountain scenery
in the world. The Land of the
Sky" is pregnant with interesting
scenes to those familiar with the
geography oil u State, and
should fail to take advantage OF
this opportunity to learn the les
son taught by the wonders Of
nature.
THERE are plenty of new build
ings going up all over town an6
all kinds of laborers are employ
ed. Goldsboro has bided her time
and now a substantial boom" i:
in progress that is the result O
the many attractions and induce
ments that she holds out to in
vestors of capital. No city in thu
State has a more varied line o
crude materials for minor indus:
tries, aud none in the South ha'
better railroad facilities
The holiness prayer meeting
held in st. Paul church thi
week are largely attended
There were a good many of MI
Crumpler's followers presen
and several of them testified t
the consciousness of having ex
perienced the perfect peace an
holiness of heart that ne taugb
as a possible attainment for be
levers, A got.d many penitent
crowded around the chancel an
a general good feeling prevaile
with the entire audience. It
said that the meeting resemblee
and was nothing less than a con
tinuation of, those recently close
in the tabernacle. The questio
has been asked, Where will tn.
religious enthusiasm end?
Kate Swan, a New York new:
paper woman, is the first perso
to have her heart Photographic
by the X-ray. The operatio
required a current of 5000
volts of electricity, AMI the ligl
was so intense that it penetrate
the woman's body, two photo
graphic plates, the platehold'
and illuminated the inclose
compartment under the opera