Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1897-11-25
LOCAL BRIEFS

LENoIR court is in session this
week.
SWEET potatoes are abundant IN
market. They r sweeter, too,
for the season than we have ever
known them. This is due, we
presume, to the extreme dry
weather.
A NEGRO man was hanged il
Harnett county-:his judicial
district-last week for the un-
provoked murder of a fagmau
on the "short cut" some months
ago. The The execution was pri-
vate, in accordance with the law,
and took place inside the Vii.
Some Florida oranges are in
market again. Florida will
have a small crop this year, and
nearly a full crop next. After
the destructive freeze a few
years ago, the Florida people did
not lose much tine in c-y ing over
split milk.
Mr.. A. M. Shrago returned
Mondayfrom northern cities, where
he has been purchasing a "flling
in" order of fall and winter goods.
He has already received some OF
these goods, which he is unpack-
ing and displaying at his place OF
business on Walnut street.
The alarm of fire at 9 o'clock
Tuesday morning vas caused by
sparks from a stove fue igniting
the roof of . tenant house at the
extreme North end of Williams
street. The neighbors extin-
guished the flames before the
fire department arrived, in fact
the fire was put out before the
alarm was sounded.
DR.. Jno. B. Person, Rep-Pop-
Fusion, coroner of Wayne coun-
ty, who tried to hold down that
Office and at the same time be pill
prescriber at the penitentiary
farm near Halifax, has lost both
places. He was forced to resign
the one, and has been kicked
out the other for immoral con-
duct. Let the music proceed.
Mr.. John II. Balance was shot
and killed by moonshiners near
Kenly, Johnson county. Mon
day morning, while engaged with
other revenue officers in cutting
up an illicit distillery. Two
other officers, whose names we
have not learned, were wounded.
Mr.. Balance was a brave an eff
Gent officer and a Wayne county
boy.
THE family of Mr.. John Cox
arrived back to old Wayne coun>
ty yesterday from Kansas, where
they emigrated some three years
ago. Mr.. Cox will follow them in
a few days with Kansas stock.
They say there is no place like
Wayne county. The highly col
ored pictures of the wealth and
prosperous condition of that far
off State faded before their Wis
ion when they put foot on its
soil.
The Goldsboro Graded Schco'
still holds it's merited and recog-
nized position right up at the
head of the educational process
sion that is characteristic of the
age, and every now and then
leading educators from other
public schools honor our pro.
gressive institution and &C
away impressed and benefited
Our latest visitor was Prof
Mangum, superintendent of the
Wilson schools.
Down in the swamps of the
Dudley section of this county are
quite a number of large beach
trees, many of which bear deer
eugraven on their trunks rames
initials and dates cut there b.
boys of the neighborhood al
along through the rolling year
and the passing generations
There is one tree that bears tn
name of Edmund Cox, 1885,
2 70 years ago; and another tina
of, ''Dave McKinne, 1857"
Mr.. Needham Outlaw had start
ed to drive to Snow Hill Tuesda
morning and had gone only as ia
as DIR. j. D. Splcer's plantatio
when his horse became frighlene
and ran away, throwing Mr.. Out
law out of the buggy and break
ing his arm. Kind friends brougf
him back to his home 10 this city
where medical aid was summcne
and he is now resting we'll.
CONSTABLE W. j. Flowers,
Mi. Olive. brought Caste
White, a negro, to this city Tue'
day and placed him in Jail. Whit
had been stealing corn and
default of 800 bail he was locke
up. This violator of the law con
pletes a list of twenty who al
now safely lodged in the count
Jail to answer to the complain
against them at the Janua1
& term of the Superior court