Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1897-12-23
LOCAL BRIEFS.

U9There will be no issue of
The ARGUS next week. A merry
CT ristmas to all.
The W. & w. Freight Office
will be closed Christmas day, and
there will be no freight trains run
either North or South. Merchants
will take notice and govern them
selves accordingly.
The different railroads center
ing here will sell round trip re-
duced rate tickets for the holt
days, tickets to be placed on sale
the 22nd inst. and good to re-
turn until the 4th of January.
Mr. E. W. Edwards, who is
dong business on Walnut street,
has decided to retire from bust
ness, and the public a secure
bargains in pants. shoes, grocer
les, notions, etc. Which he offers
to sell at first cost.
THERE are many people in the
city to-day from the surrounding
counties. Naturally Goldsboro
is the market for all this section
of country, and we ought to have
a population of twenty thousand
people within the next few years.
This ought to be the biggest to-
bacco market certainly in Eastern
Carolina, if not in the whole
State.
Mr.. Hunt, from near Apple
Tree, was in tho city to-day to
obtain help to find the thief who
entered his dwelling last night
and stole 1886. 90 from his trunk.
MIR. Hunt went out to the post
office last night and when he re-
turned home to retire he found
his trunk open and the money
missing.-Daily Argus, Tuesday
A lamentable suicide is re-
ported from Wilson. An insur-
ance man named Smith, from
Richmond, had been stopping II
Wilson for a week and drinking
freely the whole time. Saturday
evening he became desponden
and went and purchased a pisto
with which he shot himself lat
Saturday night.
Mr.. 1. R.. Baker, of the Jasol
section of Greene county
was in the city to-day. He is on
of the NEST prosperous farmers O
that section and an old origina
Democrat. He says the few homes
farmers of that section who wer
deceived and strayed away fror
the Democratic ranks two year
ago are now anxious to get bac
into the fold.
MR.. T. Torrey, of New York
representing the best electric fiji
alarm system in the world, is
the city, with a view to putting
a system for Goldsboro. We al
glad to know that our city autho.
tiles have determined upon givir
to Goldsboro such a system.
is something that we haye lor
I needed. We go forward. M
Torrey is accompanied by b
daughter, and from here they W.
go South as far as Florida. The
are both much pleased with Gold
boro, as are all visitors.
THE children and grown pc
pie, too, are beginning to Re
Christmas in their bones. Far
work is partially suspend
until the beginning of the Ne
Year, the schools are closing, T.
turkeys are mighty scared. t
little brown jugs are much in e'
dence, the children are beginnil
to foot the tin horns, the ladi
are busy baking cakes, good c
Santa Claus is busy getting t
gether guns. dolls, fire cracker
candies, nuts and etc. and SO
for the stockings, aud everythi
is in a whirl, for it is only o
days before Christmas.
OUR old friend, Mr.. GeorgeDs
of New Hope township was
town Tuesday. Mr.. Daily is a We
remarkable man. He is 63 yes
old, but he does not look to
over IS. There are many m
forty years of age whose hair
much grayer, and there is
diminution whatever in his me
tai faculties, and not a great d,
ID his physical power. Less th