Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-07-09

MISS Ella Tew, of this city,
left this afternoon to visit friends
in KinSton.
AT last ground has been
broken for the erection of the
Odd Fellows Orphan Home.
Mr.. W. A. Brown has opened
a grocery and confectionery
store next door to the old bank
building on West Centre street.
Mr.. Dock Smith and family
haye returned from a short So
journ al Ocean View. Wrights-
vile. where they had been in
search Of health.
The Sanctifcation services al
St. John church last night were
we'll attended and much interest
was manifested. Services to.
night at $50 o'clock.
JUDGING fromthe number OF
tobacco dues manufactured and
sent out from this city there has
been a great quantity of tobacco
raised in this section this year.
On account of the sickness Oh
one of her children Mrs. F. L.
Castex has returned from Rich
mond, where she went last week
to spend some time in the study
of music,
THE furniture for the National
Rank, manufactured by the
Goldsboro Furniture Factory,
was placed in position this morn
ing and IS something extremely
handsome.
Mr.. W, A. Bennett, travelling
representative of "Octagon
Soap" who with his wife has
made his home in Goldsboro for
the past season. left to-day for a
trip to Virginia.
Mr.. Claud Baker, an employe
of the Wayne Agricultural
Works, is Frustrated at the home
of his brother>in-law MIR. j. w.
Saddler IN this city with an ats
tack of meningitis.
Edgar A. Wolnble of Raleigh
succeeds the late Augustus G.
Higgins of Onslow county as
cle1 K in the Office Of the collector
of internal revenue there. Wom<
BILE got the highest figure in a
civil service examination last
November.
The Hebrew ladies are practic>
ing daily for the Dress Rehear-
SAL" an opera for female vnices
exclusively, to be presented in
the Messenger Opera House on
the night OF Monday, July 20,
for the benefit of Oheb Sholem
congregation of this city.
QUITE a number Of patients
along the lines of railroads cons
tiguous to Goldsboro and within
the circulation of the ARGUS are
in this city to day to consult with
the eminent specialist DR.. Fl. ..
Hyatt, OF Kinston, who is now
stopping at the Hotel Kennon
and who is rmong our most lib
eral advertisers.
THE crowd of visitors that are
continually focking to The At
lantic Hotel at Morehead City
are so we'll pleased that few re-
turn. Quite a colony from Ala
hama and Georgia passed
through this city this afternoon
en- route for the hotel. There are
more States represented there
this season than ever before in
it's history. The comforts ALT
unsurpassed at any resort on the
Southern seacoast, and the ats
fractions of fishing, sailing and
bathing we're never so inviting
as now.
Mr.. Thos. j. Sasser, general
book~keeper of the well~known
and extensive furniture estab-
lishment of Messrs. Royal &
Borden in this city, who has
been confined to his home byfeve1
illness for the past several
weeks, is again at his post. This
information will be received
with great pleasure not only
throughout this city, section and
State, where he is well-known
and cordially esteemed, but
throughout the several other
States embraced within the volus
minous trade of the above firm,
which territory he regularly. Wis
it's in the course of the year.
But what is .Balfour's poison
is ChamberlaIn's meat, and il
will be well to keep an eye or
that self-assured gentleman dur
irg the coming weeks. He is
not unlikely to get out of the
South Africa middle with bis
usual smartness, and If Balfoul
is to reliuquish the government
leadership Chamberlain will be
his logical success Indeed,
as the Salisbury programme
weakens and Chamberlain's in
dividual successes increase he
nears the realization of an ambi-
ton to get into the Premiership
itself. And Lord Salisbury's
programme, both as regards his
foreign policy and internal af-
fairs, has been badly battered
Although Weyler can do moth.
ing with the patriot armies, be
6oiopt military nofon.