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

remodeled and fitted up for the
fall trade.
Mr.. @ O. w. Brown, the fore
man Of Il ARGUS. brought to
this offiea from his garden in
this city to~day the first ripe
grapes en- this season.
Mr. 'Iordecai Witherington
and Mes srs, Ben and George
Soptnerls nd have returned from
Richmond with several fine
horses ft their stables in this
city.
THE suicide this morning of
Handy joyner, colored, is re
ported fl ON the farm of Mr..
Curtis Howell inStonyCreek town
ship, this county, the particulars
Of which re not given.
DR. b. F. Arlington has NOV
Ell his de- tai office over the Jew
~ estab 'shment of +. L. D.
Giddens On West Centre street.
His office is handsomely fitted up
and IS We y conviently located
The s, uthern Express Com
pany of his city has ordered
through apt. j. W. Lamb an
other fine draught horse to match
the one .ey have and will here
after VIC k d double team for
their was on.
Mr. Zachary, of the Powhatan
Lam Der Company, has arrived
IN Colds 1Oro and is engaging
WOrkmeh to commence the build-
ipg of tn: Odd Fellows Orphan
Home 1t expected that ground
will be broken on Monday morn>
ing and that the work will be
pushed r.,pidly to completion.
TIE pc ice of the city are now
busy taking the dog census, and
all those .yho have pet CANNES and
want to | orpetnate their existence
would do well to pay the required
amount aid have them registered
on the lis, exempted from cour-
martial Badges by which eye
shall kno them can be obtained
at the J ayor's Office upon the
payment If 81 or 50, according to
sex
MIR r O. Fields, formerly of
the jewe nv store of Mr. W. p.
Granger If this city, has accepts
ed posi- ion as travelling sales
man for the Paul r. Howard
Pants &c cmpany of Norfolk. Mr..
Fields b his punctuality and
business decCrum has won the
respect and confidence of the
trading Tublic of Goldsboro. and
his many friends here bespeak
for Dim { q equal success in his
new and aore responsible posi-
ton.
MESSE5. T. B. Parker and T,
Il. Jones of Fork township, who
have bee in attendance as dele
gates to he inter denominational
Sunday School Conference at
Boston, Mass, for ten days,
have re urned home safe and
well 7 icy express themselves
as delia hted with their trip.
They sa1, however, that, from
com pariSon, the South is in the
lead towards more widespread
and var ed industrial develop
ment.
Comptroller Eckels, who is
now in Chicago for the purposi
of ende ,voring to induce the
Democra .ic Convention not tc
declare IL favor of the free coin
age of ST yer, is quoted as says
ing that ne does not consider the
gold eau ;e as lost, for the reasol
that he annot believe that The
delegate will refuse to listen te
reason. Evidently Mr.. Eckel
has not attended State conven-
ton rece ntly which was controll-
ed by tn. advocates of silver
otherwise he would entertain
different opinions from those ht
is quoted as having expressed.
Il is mored that A. j. Bal
four, Hi st Lord of the Treasur.
is about 20 resign the Tory lead
ership because Of the Govern
ment's failure to pass the Edu
cation Bill. It would be a quee
freak of ,ortune if the Conserva
tive maj srity should go to piece
on such a question as this; bu
Balfonr is the strongest man i
his party. With all his faults
and they are many, he has neve
been acc lsed Of lacking in cour
age, and his retirement at thi
time wo Id mean a serious los
TO Toryism,,