Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1897-08-05
LOCAL BRIEFS
THE book store and laundry
added telephones.

Lee.
DR.. B. F. Arlington is attend
ing the Dental Convention at Old
Point.
WATERMELoNs are still plen>
tiful and the price is within the
reach of all.
Mr.. l.. L Best, of Great
Swamp township, brought in the
first half open cotton boil of the,
season from his farm to>day
The Enterprise Lumber Com
pany have brought their tram
engine to this city from Pikeville,
where they have been using it on
a tram road out in the pine forests
of that section.
PROF. Erastus Watraus. a
mental healer, is in the city and
may make arrangements to g
main over for the week and heal
the Affections of those who have
faith in his methods.
Captain General Weyler, it is
announced, will take the field in
a few days to personally direct
the military operations in the
Hayana province against several
bands of insurgents from fifty to
two hundred strong.
Mr.. z. L. M. Jeffreys, the
freight agent of the A. & N. G,
r. r. in this city, says that Mr..
Will Humphrey will take charge
OF the telegraph Office at at early
day to succeed Mr.. G. A. Hol-
land, who has gone to Norfolk
to secure employment.
Mr.. John v. Sherard, a local
Republican of some prominence,
is now PROSTATE in his room in
this city with an illness that
come upon him almost suddenly
a few days ago, and his condition
is now thought to be serious and
grave fears are entertained for
his recovery.
A VISIT to Hermann Park will
convince one of the extensive i'm
provements that are now being
made to that desirable city props
erty. In a short while we may
yet have some place where we can
invite visitors to spend a few
pleasant hours.
OWING to the contemplated alb
sence of a majority of the Board
of Aldermen this week, the finance
committee met at the Mayors
Office Tuesday and allowed the
payroll, and approved the ac>
counts presented for their inspec-
ton. The regular monthly meets
ing has been deferred until Tues
day night of next week.
THE excursion of Mr.. r, E.
Pipkin to Norfolk, Baltimore and
Washington left Tuesday at 1890
o'clock and carried quite a large
number of our business and pro-
fessional men, besides a number
OF pleasure seekers to those
cities. This is Mr.. Pipkin's sec
Ond large excursion this season
and both were we'll patronized.
The fire last Sunday night
about 10 o'clock was caused by a
slight confagration in the gro
onur-- C+nTn Of a i6nfnon r
Pey "A on John street. His
sto@ of goods, valued at about
5000, was a total loss, with no
insurance. The building which is
the property of Mr.. Jas. l..
Dickinson, was damaged very
little.
MRS. Easter Casey, the below
ed wife of Mr.. Alex. Casey,
departed this. life Monday at
ternoon at 4 o'clock. at her home
in New Hope township. She was
40 years of age and had led an
exemplary life that had endeared
her to all with whom she was ac>
quainted. The bereaved husband
has the sympathy of a host of
friends in his irreparable loss.
A PRODIGY in the shape of a
.colored girl preacher, only II
years old, occupied the pulpit of
the A. M. E. Zion church last
night and preached the Scriptures
to a large congregation. The
newspapers in the cities where she
has previously appeared have con-
tanned long accounts of her won
derful preaching, and large crowds
of white people have fiocked to
hear her.
THE proprietors of the Wayne
Cotton Mill are to be highly com
mended for their magnanimous
act in not charging the operas
tives of the mill with rents while
their plant has been standing
idle. Such treatment of employees
by employers is calculated to ems
gender pleasant relations be-
tween the two and if we had
more corporations of the same
class as the Wayne Cotton Mill
the newspapers would contain
fewer accounts of strikes and the
deprivations that follow.
THE death of the infant son of
our esteemed friend and townss