Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1897-08-05

pin, was in town Friday.
Mr.. Wilson Reayes was in town
Friday.
Miss Julia McGee, of Colds
boro, came down Monday evening
to visit relatives and friends.
Miss Belle Smith, of Goldsboro,
came down Monday evening to
visit relatives.
Quite a number Of our town
folks spent last Sunday at Seven
Springs, among them were Mr.. j.
d. Aaron and daughter. Miss
Maggie, and their guest, Miss
Gertrude Bagby, Messrs. N. 6.
Davis and w. W. Loftin,
A negro, by name of John
Smith shot Peter Hall, another
colored man. Sunday morning in
the public road, near the colored
Free Will Baptist church. They
bad some words Saturday night,
and they met al the church Suna
day morning anI Smith asked
some Of his ffiGu15 to go With
him after some cider, which they
did. After they had gone a short
distance Smith shot Hall, firing
twice aud snapping once, one
oaIl taking effa1t ct was size 32)
striking Hall just below the neck,
a little 10 the left and above the
heart. Hall turned and started
back TO town aud got as far as
the cemetery aud fell, the crowd
thought dead; but after being
carried iuto phad WINS house,
he revived and there is a fair
chance Of his recovering. The
doctors probed for the ball but
failed to locate it. He was then
brought down tCwu to Manly
Cox's restaurant, where he.
boards. Smith is still at large and
is seen every night and somes
times ia the day by the colored
people, but they will not tell
where he is. supposedly through
fear. Smith, it is said, went to a
house Monday night and asked
the woman where her son was
and when told he was not there,
he told her he had killed more
negroes than enc and then had
two balls for her son. aud said
there were three others that he
expected to kill before he left
from around here. It seems that
Smith is a desperate character.
He came from Raleigh. where ii
is said he is a fugitive from JUS
tice for shooting a man; it is also
stated that he is al ex~convict,
having served a sentence in the
penitentiary. 1t seems that
operates strictly among
his colored brethren and 8 good
many of them hold him in great
fear. He is we'll armed and says
he will not be taken, and be-fur
Their stated to a colored woman
Monday that a coIored man hired
him TO shoot Peter Hall, but he,
of course, would naturally make
some such excuse.
Mr.. Marcus Ham, of Marion,
n. c., spent Sunday in town
with his friend Mr., J A. Mcs
Intyre.
Mr.. G. R. Pearsall and Mrs
F. l.. Pearsall and children left
Monday for a two weeks visit to
their sister Mrs. Annie Whitley,
Of Jacksonville, N. Q.
Miss Bessie Kornegay, accom-.
panied by her cousin Miss Lizzie
Moore, left Saturday to visit
friends and relatives in Colds
boro and Kinston.
There has been sold here with> |
in the past twelve months more
than a hundred buggies, besides
a great many that have been
bought from other places. I don't
know of a better opening in the
State for a buggy factory than
Mt. Olive. Why some energeticl
business man has not started al
business Of this kind is a wonder. |
It is a chance for some one il
this line of business to make al
good thing. Don't delay, but
start now for the fall and springl
trade.
There is a good deal OF COM
plant among subscribers Of THE
ARGUS about not getting their
paper. We wish to say that it is
not the fault Of THE ARGUSI
folks. Enquire at post office for|
your mail and insist on Post
master looking especially for you
and The ARGUS. and nine times
out of ten you will get your
paper.
MIR. H. c. Broadhurst left Sun
day, accompanied by his little
sister Inez, to visit his sister, Mrs.
Capt: Walker, of Rocky Mount.
Misses Beulah and Pattie San
derlin, of Washington, D, c.,
came Saturday evening, to spend
some time with their aunt, Mrs. J.
+. Oliver.
The ladies are especially request
ed to edll at j.. r. Smiths drug
store and examine a beautiful line
Of witch cloth, for clean
ing and polishing ~silverware, jew
elry, bicycles, etc.
Your attention is especially
called to the advertisement of Mr..
Thomas Hughes. He is a blind
man, and has high recommends
tons as a piano tuner.