Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-12-24
LOCAL BRIEFS

DIT LOutO again HUH d F1SIU w IC1-
atives in Charleston, S. G.
DR.. Lee of Sampson county
is in the city on d visit to bis
brothers Messrs. Henry and M.
L Lee.
Miss Mary Midyette has re
signed her position at the N. e.
Insane Asylum at Raleigh, and
has returned to her home in this
city.
CONSIDERABLE improvement
is noticeable in the electric
lights since the advent of the
new manager, Mr.. w. G. Badger
to our city.
MRS. r. A. Watts, who has
been confined to her home for
three months by rheumatism,
improves very slowly and cannot
walk any distance yet. We hope
soon to see her out again,
IN this issue appears a christ
mas greeting from Mayor Hill,
in which he announces ttat the
city ordinance that relates to
fireworks will lie suspended from
6 o'clock Christmas " to -
o'clock Christmas night.
In the show windows of Hills
Drug Store there is on exhibition
an oil painting and a pen picture
that are the production of Miss
Caddie Fulghum. Both are a
high work of art and do not fail
to attract and interest all who see
them.
Mr.. r, W, Taylor, the whole
sale fish and oyster dealer Of
Morehead City, has supplied Mr..
n. G. Price, his agent in this
city, with some of the finest
oysters that have been see on
this market in a great while.
The restaurant of J. A. King &
Bro. use these oysters all the
time.
OUR worthy young friend and
countyman Mr.. Murray Graz
than was happily married last
week 80 Miss Omelia Peterson.
of Johnston county, the marriage
being soiemnized at the home of
the brides parents, Rev. w. H.
Davis of the Baptist church, of
tciating- The ARGUS wishes
them abundant joy and pros
perlty.
Mr.. W. S. Chadwick, the
president of the A. & n G. r.
has issued a call for a special
meeting of the stockholders Of
that road to be held at the Ken
non ia this city on the 31st inst,
for the purpose of amending and
r-visiEg the by. laws and adopts
irg such new ones, and repeating
such of the existing ones rs may
be aeemed advisable.
THE Board of County Commits
sioners in adjourned session here
Monday accepted resignation of
DR.. w. j. Jones. Jr., as county
physician, who is contemplating
moving to Wilson, and elected in
bis stead DIR. w. j. Jones, his
father. The Board elected Mr..
f.. j. Best as county attorney,
and the ARGUS was awarded the
county printing,
EVERY one should learn that
happiness in life consists in Civ
ing, not receiving. IL is e
murkab1e how those who prac
tice the grace of giving are
granted the gift of getting. And
give to those neal and dear to you
and also to strangers, Christmas
is the day of days for gifts, and
G~oldsboro merchants have for sale
the prettiest and most useful ar
ticles ever offered in the South.
Patronize home merchants.
A NEW paper, to be called "rhe
Monitor, with Messrs. E, j..
Best and Abbott l.. Swinson as
editors, is so&n to be started in
Goldsboro, as Fthe organ of the
Republicans and Populists COM
bined." This is the statement
that the above two made in writ
ing to the Board of County Com
missioners to-day coupled with a
s'bid'' for the county printing,
Blu now that the county printing
didn't go their way, perhaps
1.-The Monitor" will be like s'the
letter that never came"
MEssRs. I'll. j. Ham and Thos.
Edmundson, of this city, who
claim to have the finest pack of
fox hounds in the country, have
been bringing in the esbrushes'' by
the wholesale of late. They had
a fine chase this morning and
brought in n of the largest foxes
ever seen in these parts. They
sent him by express to Mr.. Geo.
Best, of Lac rang who has been
hunting for a fox. with his dogs
all season, they say, and has not
taken one yet. We expect George
up on the next train to get even
with the boys for perpetrating this
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