Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1897-01-14
LOCAL BRIEFS

& Son in tina. Cit, has returned
to his rome in CHS city.
MR. L. L. Mallard, the lead-
ing merchant # Wallace, who
euioys a lucrative trade and is
very popular with all who know
him, was in the city to-day call.
ing on our ho!esale merchants.
To the regret of their many
friends of this city, Miss Nancy
Beat and Miss Lizzie dadley, af.
ter spending a few peasant days
with their uncle, Mr.. 81. ].
Ham, returned to their home at
LAGRANGE
Err. w. r. Thompson, the en-
ergetic proprietor of the grocery
establishment at the corner OF
Centre and Ashe streets, is cons
fined to his home by LaGrippe.
his many friends will regret to
know.
HANDSOME invitations have
been issued by Mrs Ellen w.
Moore announcing the marriage
of her daughter Miss Carrie
George to Alderman j. w. Nash,
at ST. Stephens Episcopal
church on Wednesday, the goth
inst.
MISSES Fannie and Addie
Freeman. accompanied by their
father. DIR. Freeman, of Wilson
cpunty. spent Sunday in this city
the guests Of their cousin Nj. B.
81. Griffin, at the Hotel Kennon,
and left for their home at noon
to-day.
Mr.. Bright Thompson, over
seer for B G. Thompson, became
entangled in a stock cutter
Tuesday and sustained painful
aud serious injuries on his left leg
and left shoulder. Medical aid
was summoned from this city ana
be is now resting quietly.
Mr.. F. L. Perry, of Newbern,
formerly steward of the Hotel
Kennon, was in the city to-day
distributing handsome Autographs
advertising the tenth annual
fair of the Eastern Carolina Fish,
Oyster, Game and Industrial As
ISOLATION, which will be held at
Newbern on the 22nd of February
I'D continue for six days.
y
The annual Tobacco book of
the GoLDsBoRo ARGUS, embrace
ing complete information on every
phaze of the tobacco crop, from
the plant bed to the warehouse
floor, will be published within the
next few days, and placed direct
in the hands of every tobacco
grower, or prospective grower, to
the fullest limit of Goldsboro's
trade territory.
SEVERAL hundred people from
this city Sunday vislted the
government holster "Neuse,"
which is now at anchor in the
waters of the Neuse river near
the =. Lattice" bridge, waiting
for arrangements to be perfected
SO steamer a proceed up
the river. The Board Of County
Commissioners are In .cotnmuni
cation with the government au..
thorities and are trying to com
promise matters SO as IT, prevent
the tearing down of the bridge.
The death of Mrs. q. liz JOY
nor, wife of Mr.. Dave Joyner, the
bill poster, occurred ut their home
in Eastern Goldsboro at $3.50
o'clock last Thursday. She had
for months been an invalid from
internal cancer, add the merciful
visit of the white-winged mes
senger relieved the suffering that
human efforts could not assuage.
She leaves a husband and children
and a number of relatives
to mourn her loss.
The STORY OF the Reforma-
ton, or Life of Luther" by Mrs
81. E.. Monroe, illustrated. must
cal and spectacular, presented by
one hundred local participants,
will have the boards Of the Mes.
senger Opera House on Monday
and Tuesday evening, February
1 and 2. This eveLt gives prom>
ise of being the most meritorious
and attractive, as we'll as in
structive and edifying that
Goldsboro has aver known, and
should tie gr, eted. as we have
no doubt it will be. by u crowded
audience.
A NEGRO man. who claims to
have come to this country from
Cuba, has been the principal at
traction on u streets to-day
with a musical ontfit that is as
wonderful as it is novel. With
an ordinary lard can with a wire
stretched across the top and an
ordinary tin funnel he initiates q
brass band in the distance and
makes music that his hearers
never tire OF hearing. The world
il full of music and has been
since the time when the "stars
sang together" but no one ever
discovered that with such simple
contrivances ~ a lard can and 6
tin funnel the inspiring music 81