Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1898-11-17

Goldsboro and Vicinity History In Brief
Epitome of Sayings and Doings, Wis.
and Otherwise. Run Down and Run IL
Grand
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Mrs. D. IL. Williams, of Wal.
lace, N. c., Is in the city. on
visit to her daughter Mrs. G. F.
Taylor.
Quiet has been restored ir
Wilmington, and under coming
Democratic rule peace reigns
throughout the State.
The price of tobacco on this
market is away up IN the figures.
Goldsboro is easily the best tobac-
co market in the State.
Mr., Charles Glover, a leading
manufacturer Of Connecticut, is in
the city on a brief visit to his
daughter Mrs. Walter Peterson,
and is the guest of Mayor Peter
son. 1t is his first visit South and
he is greatly pleased with Colds
boro.
Guess & Williams will run an
excursion over the A. & n. &. r.
r, to Core Greek next Sunday,
the occasion being a big camp
meeting. The train will leave
Goldsboro at $40 in the morning.
The fare for the round trip from
Goldsboro is IS cents.
The Goldsboro Hardware Cons
pany, recently Incorporated, or
gained last night, and will soon
be FULLY equipped for the con-
duct of a wholesale and retail
Hardware business in this city,
together with plumbing, roofing.
sewer and gas pipe fitting, Sc
The ARGUS cougratulates the
enterprise and tenders it cordial
good wishes. We go forward.
Mr.. Pope Washington, OF the
U. S. Navy, who was of the crew
of the Maine. and saw service on
the "New Orleans in the late
American-Spanish war. is in the
city, on a furlough visit to his
home and parents. Col. and Mrs.
J. A. Washington. Pope is iook~
ing well, and we are all glad to
see him-and he is kept talking
all the time, whenever 1.-The boys"
get hold of him.
Laura Faison, colored, recently
received a sum of money as a
result of the killing of her husband
by the falling of the cotton stor-
age warehouse last winter. She
gave a part of this money to the
mother and sister of her husband.
Mary Falson, a sister of the man
who was killed, became dissatisfied
over the amount of money she had
received and Saturday night she
attacked Laura with a knife and
cut her severely in several places.
Al unfortunate circumstance
in which a worthy young man
lost his life occurred near Pixies
vile Saturday. Mr.. VIM. Thomp>
SON, son of MIR. Jim Thompson,
went hunting Saturday and killed
a rabbit. He was holding the rab
bit IN front Of him in one hand
and his gun in the other. The
dogs were jumping up to catch
hold of the rabbit and in jump
ing up one of the the dogs struck
the hammer Of the gun and caused
the gun to fire. Death was instan-
taneous. The bereaved family
have the sympathy Of the entire
neighborhood.
It is true the southern cotton
mills as a rule make money, but
how do they do it? In the first
place, the non productive expense
of a southern mill is not so high
it lie in the north. Then they are
most of them new mills, or near
IL so, and those that are not new
Chat is, the successful ones), have
thrown ont their old machinery
and put new in its place while at
the north there are a large num-
Der of cotton mills that are run
ming machinery thirty-fve or
forty years old. It is not to be
expected that New EgIand mills
that adhere to this policy can CONS
pete with the southern mill.