Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1897-07-08
BRIEFS

The colored excursion to More
head City was we'll p~atronized
and the managers, Guess and
Williams are highly gratified al
the results.
MEssRs. Ed. S. Abel, of Smith
field, and Jno. w. Carr, OF Gin
ton, two distinguished lawyers:
were visiting the members of the
Goldsboro BarTuesday.
Miss Mary Paschall, a charm
ing and popular young lady OF
the Stony Greek section, is spend
ing a few days in the city on q
visit to Miss Matte Smith.
The Standard Manufacturing
Company will suspend operations
while the boilers to their plant
are being moved off the grounds
of the Rice Mill and placed in q
different position.
A WIND and hail storm struck
the plantation of Ex-Sheritf c. s.
Powell, of Johnston county, Sat
urday evening and completely de-
stroyed his crop, killed a calf and
did considerable damage to his
dwelling.
Rev. G. p. Jerome, Messrs. F.
NJ. Watson and Jno. B. Hooks,
of Fremont, passed through the
city Tuesday, en- route for home
from Morehead City, where they
have been spending several days
with friends.
The employees of the Colds
boro Furniture Factory will have
holiday for a week and their clev-
er and competent foreman Mr.
A. J. Winslow with his wife will
spend the time on the sea-
shore at Wrightsville.
A STAG barbecue, of which
Messrs. j. w. Perry and W. A.
Edwards are the managers, is to
be given at Poplar Springs, near
Princeton; on Thursday. Exten-
sive preparations have been made
for the event and a large crowd is
expected to be present.
Miss Fannie Massey, who has
been visiting Mrs. 6. w. Brown,
had to leave to-day for her home
III Princeton on account of a
threatened attack of fever illness.
The many friends that she has
mac Aduring her visit here hope
THAI he will be spared the state
of impaired health that now
seems evident.
Iris with exceeding pleasure
that THE ARGUS announces tha'
GU bright young friend and
townsman DR.. Paul G. Hutton
has decided TO locate in Colds
boro for the practice OF his pro
fession. AID ilas opened an office
in the drug store Of Mir. II. Q
Shannon. We wish our young
friend RICH. cordially q full share
OF practice aud the largest meas
r Ie Of success.
THE Sunday flyer of the A. &
n. c. r. r., will next Sunday run
the schedule heretofore adver-
tised. This recent departure by
the management of that road is
growing in favor with the public
and each Sunday a larger number
of people from this city and along
the line avail themselves Of the OPP
portunity to spend the day on the
seashore at a small cost.
The death of Mr.. John Deans,
the Is year old son Of Ex-Sheriff
Deans, occurred at the home OF
his father on Sunday morning.
The deceased was a bright young
man of promise and his untimely
death is a source of great affiiction
to his aged parents, who have all
that human efforts can do to as
suage their grief. The interment
was made in Willow Dale Gene
terry and was attended by a large
concourse of sorrowing relatives
and friends.
AT Princeton on last Sunday
morning an old pistol which was
out of repair caused the death Of
a colored boy named julie Cog
dell. The pistol was in the hands
of Jack Scott, another colored
boy, and the hammer slipped
from under his thumb and dis
charged a cartridge that entered
the left eye of Cogdell and
carsee his death in an hour at
terward.
Two young sons of Mr.. Tobt
Blackmon, who lives in Gran
than township, ran away Satur
day evening and went bathing il
the creek, and were drowned. TIL
picture is a sad one to contem
plate and must wiring the heart
of the fond parents with deep an
guish. Every year at this season
the newspapers T called upol