Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1897-09-23
LOCAL BRIEFS
CRASH suits surrendered tc
to day.


The Supreme Court is now en-
gagged on the civil docket. The
criminal docket was completed
Saturday.
A TELEGRAM to Mr.. j. f.
Dobson from Washington informs
him that he a appointed post
master at this place to-day.
Mr.. Hugh Humphrey, Jr .,who
is a telegraph operator in New
York, is.on a visit TO his parents
in this city. Hugh is looking first
rate and his friends are glad to
see him home again.
HER many friends will be glad
to know that Mrs c. w. Grains
ger is nearly recovered from her
recent severe illness. She ex,.
poets to go 70 Raleigh in a day
or two to visit relatives.
COTTON steadily declines in
price, but the dry weather has
been well nigh universal over the
cotton producing States, thereby
eating off the crop, and it looks
like the price will advance.
SEPTEMBER, with Il big r ! But
it will not be always thus. Do
not yet awhile pass the ice-man
with disdain, for, as we have had
some hot days, and don't you
forget it, "there are others"
IT is 10 doubt very interesting
to the people on ship board in
the neighborhood of Cape Hat
teras. The kilograms bring news
Of a hurricane along the coast.
Life on the ocean wave" is de-
lightful-in good weather.
The colored Morehes.d City
excursion next Sunday of Guess
q Williams will have special cars
for white people This is the last
opportunity that will be present
ed this season for visiting the
wave>washed shores Of the At
lantic al SC small a cost.
TOBACCO is still bringing good
prices on the market aud there
is a large quantity sold every
day. The cold wave with cOntin =
ued dry weather will have the
effect of cutting off receipts and
the indications are that prices
will go still higher.
THERE is a vacant county
scholarship a. the Agricultural
and Mechanical College to be
given a young man from Wayne
county. Applicants for the schol~
arship must present themselves
at the Court House on Monday
the 9th inst. for examination.
SHERIFF Scott left this morn>
ing for Raleigh with the follow
ing conyicts for the penitentiary:
Chas. Musgrave, burglary. life;
Jesse Cox, 10 years; William
Haywood, s years; John Ru.
dolph, larceny, 3 years, Geo.
Cnauncey, larceny, 3 years; Geo.
Rudolph. larceny. 1 year; Tom
F'aisor, larceny, / year.
uTHE death Of the infant child
of Mr.. and Mrs. J. r. Parker oc>
curredMonday night at the home
in Eastern GoIdsboro. The fun>
eral was held from the home last
Tuesday at 4 o'clock. and the in
terment made in Willow Dale
Cemetery. The many friends of
the grief-stricken parents ex>
tend their sympathy.
AS it happens SO often that
dray horses become frightened
and destroy valuable household
articles in course Of transpOrtas
ton, it has been suggested that
the city draymen be put under
small bond for the faithful per-
Torrance Of duty and for the
proper are of articles placed in
their charge. Ii is a matter WOrS
thy of the consideration Of our
honorable Board Of Aldermen.
THE blackstone of the hot
weather is broken, and the cool
cloudy weather looks as if the
equinoctial is not far away. AS
Uncle Remus makes Brer Rab>
bit say by the Spar grass" it
looks like fall, and it feels like
fall" A linen buster does not
look as comfortable as it did a
few days ago, the sight Of a load
of wood does not make you
sweat, and the big water mellon
does not make your mouth water
like it did q few days ago. Thus
does taste change with the seas
son.
The low price of cotton de-
presses all kinds of business. If
the Republican administration
has caused wheat to go to a dol
lar a bushel. why does not 1.-The
Grand Old Party" wave Its magic
wand and cause cotton to go to
ten cents a pound. The man who
argues that the Republican adj
ministration has anything to do
with the high price of wheat
must be demented himself or
must think he is talking to a lot
Of idiots. It would be just as
sensible 10 argue that the q DIP.
is responsible for the extensive
drought, or the yellow fever in
the South
TIE travelling nuhlic and the