Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1898-03-31
LOCAL BRIEFS

self with Mr.. O. E. Franklin.
from Charlotte, for the purpose
of conducting a drug business a
Mt. Olive.
THE following marriage IL
censes have been issued in Wayne
county for the week ending
March 80: White-Wm. g.. Kit
inert to Sarah Edwards, Jno. W.
Southerlapd to Jennie Horton
Wm. Urbansky to Charlotte Ed
wards. ~Colored-Richard Rhodes
to Repsy Warren.
MEXICAN Chick and his com
Dany of international stars will
have the boards Of the Messenger
Opera House next Friday and
Saturday nights The people OF
Goldsbcro remember Chick and
his laughable performances IL
this city on former occasions and
he comes this time with a larger
company and will no doubt give
even a better show.
The rain that has been so much
desired, because SO much needed
for early crops has at length come,
and is most seasonable. II moth
ing befalls between this and mar
keting time there will be a great
crop Of truck of all kinds and
fruit. in fact, no year since the
great crop year of '65 has been so
promising OF retarns to the farmer
for this labor. So mote it be.
The death of Mr.sW r. Davis
occurred late Saturday evening
at his home in Brogden town
ship. He was about 81 years of
age and had been in falling
health for the past two years,
therefore his death was not un-
expected. He was the father of
our townsmen Messrs +. B. and
W. H. Davis, to whom is extend
ed the sympathy Of their many
friends. The funeral was held
from the home Sunday after
noon conducted by ReY. j. E.
pastor of St. John M.
E. Church Of this city.
NoTH1NG affords the ARGUS
more pleasure than to chronicle
the success of Goldsboro talent at
home or abroad, and this talent is
so abundant that as to cause fre~
quent mention. 1t is in the art
of millinery that the ARGUS wishes
to direct attention this time, at
the establishment of Messrs. NJ.
E. Castex & Co., are two Colds
boro girls who have made for
themselves a reputation Ill this de-
line of business which is
very gratifying to their numerous
friends among the purchasers Of
millinery. They are Misses Mary
Farrior and Pearl Creech, one
Of whom always accompa-
MES Mrs. -Castex to the
centres Of fashions on
her spring trip and the other on
her visit in the fall. By this
means they are both amply in
formed as to the prevailing fash
ions. They are esteemed alike by
their employers and ty the pub
lie.
NAVAL Cadet Pope Washing
ton, one of the survivors of the
once beautiful battleship Maine,
destroyed in Havana har-
Dor on the night of February Is
by Spanish demons, arrived at
his home here last night from
Annapolis and Washington, where
he had spent the past week, He
says that Congress and the peo-
pie are not in sympathy with the
presidents conciliatory dealings
with the Spanish government.
The torn and twisted remains of
that former proud and stately
looking vessel, and the newly
made mounds in Havana cemetry,
over which yearning hearts in this
country are still bleeding with
sacred sorrow, are direful pict-
ures that illustrate the treacher-
GUS feeling of hatred entertained
for America and Americans by
the arrogant Spanish wolves, and
they are too fresh in the memory
of our people for anything, but
revenge to touch a responsive
chord in their hearts or receive
their approval.
THE boy at Ii years of age who
can ontwit a fox is bound to be a
pretty smart boy, and to repeat
the outwitting is to give reas-
surance of his ability. Mr. George
w. Parker, of Brogden township,
discovered last week that a goose
he had setting had been robbed
of her eggs. He communicated
the fact o the family and his
thirteen year old son. Her
man, went down to the nest
to reconnoitre. He soon espied a
fox's track and surmised that
reynard Was the robber. He took
the goose away altogether aud
baited the nest with another egg:
next morning the egg was gone,
and the fox's track was there.
Then he improvised a trap fo3
the fox: next morning the fox
was there-captured. But Her.
mans keen eye discovered thai
another fox also bad been there