Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1897-07-29
GoLDsBoRo. N. c.. THURSDAY JULY 90 1897.
WHERE HEALTH Is FOUND

Mosquitoes or Wary POliti>
clans: Good Crops and Happy
Farmers The Special School
Tax Not Popular.
Seven Springs, N. c., July %.
DEAR ARGUs-This finds your
correspondent comfortably stu
ated in the pleasant abode of
"Rurai Retreat" or what would
be more appropriate Travellers
Rest" for no pains are spared by
the genial and ever-courteous pro
prietor Mr.. FL. j. Ham, both in
the spreading of the table, where
the best the market affords is
served in the most tempting and
inviting style, and the personal
supervision with which be takes
pride in making it comfortable
and home like to all whose good
fortune it is to be numbered
among his guests. We lay no
claim here to the exhilarating
breezes of the grand old Atlantic,
with its surging pillows, but there
reigns here a quiet, as one climbs
the eraggy hills and views nature
in all its rugged grandeur that can
be equalled in no summer resort
where the pesky gnat abounds, or
the musical (2) note of the mos
quito are waited to the breeze. No
ward politician here meets your
gaze, 'holding up" the corner, as
he "plots against the whites,'' and
strives in his mind to find access
to purse strings of the unwary,
upon whom he must subsist.
None of these familiar beings and
unseemly objects meets the vision,
but us one drinks of the pure wat
ers of The 'Ninth Spring" God
gift to humanity-new life is im-
parted to the weak, and they are
again made strong, and the weary
finds bouyant spirits creeping in
among them, as through its won
derful medicinal properties, new
life, vigor and manhood are res
stored, till he awakes some bright
morning to find that he is himself
again, and life is indeed blessing
rather than a curse.
Last Saturday night, a bold
thief entered the store of Mr..
Joseph Allen, at White Hall, and
robbed his money drawer of S15.
A loafer around the village was
suspected, and after being quietly
shadowed, the suspicion proved to
be we'll founded. Mr.. ,Allen,
however, being possessed with a
big, generous heart, and having an
abiding good will for the financial
interest of Messrs. Hollowell &
Peterson's excursion, would not
suffer a warrant to be issued for
so small sum, and tho bold in
truder was allowed to enjoy the
fruits of his gains in a pleasant
trip to the seashore with those
popular excursionists.
The heavy and continued rains
of late will no doubt work de-
struction to old tobacco, and cause
cotton much damage in this Sec
ton.
1t is with deep regret that we
chronicle the continued illness OF
Mrs. W. r. Simmons, of this
place, who has been confined to
her home for a number of days,
and whose condition is still
quite critical at this writing, but
somewhat improved. Her many
friends are solicitous and wish
for her a speedy recovery. In
reference to the above case, it is
due Mr.. Ell. J. Ham, the popular
proprietor of Ninth Spring, in
view of the fact that it is rumor-
ed the Ninth Spring water was
the indirect cause of the lady's s
| illness, to say that the rumor is
without the semblance Of truth
| and a falsehood of the first water,
as her physician recommends
and she is daily receiving and
drinking of tho Ninth Spring
water. We know of no stronger
and more appropriate words to
apply to the scandal-monger
than the language of DR.. School
craft. the poet, who thus char
acterizes him:
''I hate the tattler, whose bad thirst
of fame,
Seeks rest in publishing his neigh
boris shame,
Whose task it is to catch the latest
/ tale,
/ The rumored doubt, or inuende
stale,
To face the darling falsehoods al
they rise,
| TO ponder scandal and toretail lies.
"a strange compound of william, fop
and clown,
Struts on, the busy-body of th,
town.
/ The general sentiment In Chi:
community is against the pro
posed additional school tax, ant
| will unite, almost to a man ii
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