Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1898-04-21

lie W0dluG1 n6NSI SGIS COlIl
enough to nip the society bud.
A NEW lumber mill is being
erected on Neuse river, near the
city, on the site Of the old Street
& Hyman mill.
THE sad news reached this
city Friday. by telegram, OF
the death of the venerable moth
er of our esteemed toWnsman,
Captain J W. Lamb, at her home
IN Chinquepin, Duplin county, in
the 77th year Of her age. Cap
tain Lamb was with her in her
last moments.
kilograms are constantly COM
ing that this or that vessel has a
speed of a particular number Of
knots an hour. Therefore, for
the information of those who are
not familiar with nautical par
lance we rise to say a knot'is
6O96.7 feet; a mile $3.50 feet; diff
ference 106 feet. Knowing this,
it is easy to compute the war
vessels speed.
THE anxiety of Mr. Thomas
Hill to retain his leg, which was
badly lacerated in that. shooting
ARRAY at Newbern, was met by
sympathy and admiration from
the public, and now, after suffers
ing many weeks without any
signs of healing, it became neces-
sary to amputate it, be has the
coincidence Of the-entire COM
munity and all hope to see him
soon restored tSIhealth.
PIoUs mothers will provide
their sons with bibles and copies
ofEhe ARGUS when they go to
the coast to hold the fort"- iflca-
tions, but they should also not
forget to provide them with mos
quito netting and cheese-cloth,
as long before they get sight OF
the Spanish mosquito feet Of
torpedo boats they will have in
Vulnerable engagements with the
feet mosquito aud his small
brother, the gnat.
AFTER lingering illness, Mrs.
Julia Thompson, the mother OF
our townsman Mr.. w. r. Thomp
son, breathed her last in the early
hours of Saturday morning. She
was pious woman and cOnsci-
entious Christian holding men,
bership with S.. John M, E.
Church, from which the funeral
was held Sunday afternoon, and
which was attended by large
concourse of sympathIzing rela~
tives and friends.
THE alert systems companies
are advertising cheap "Sunday'
railway excursions from Rich
mond, Va, and elsewhere, tc
Norfolk, and other parts of the
coast, to enable the public gen
orally to see the war prepara'
tions going on there. It is pro.
bable these specials will be ex
tended to embrace passengers
from Goldsboro and elsewhere
in this vicinity.
A TRAVELLER who arrived to
day from Florida said he par
took of strawberries there dur
ing the early part Of last Janu
ary. The fruit was worth fifty
cents a quart. where raised, anC
about one dollar a quart in the
large cities north. The rate was
about fourteen cents quart boz
to get the berries to market
Notwithstanding Florida had two
severe freezes in January. tht
thermometer indicating 19 de
grees above in the vicinity o
Fort Myers. whSre il was three
degrees colder than 200 mile!
north of there at the same time
there were many shipments o
strawberries from different part!
of the state in February. Thi!
information was evoked by tn,
traveller noticing the paragraph
in Yesterdays ARGUS relative t.
the shipments of strawberrie:
from this section at the presen
time.
IF those who smoke, and neve
indulge in. anything less I'm
than a genuine all Havana cigar
propose to continue in that prac
lice, they had better lay in a.
ample supply at once, as tn
real article is becoming yer.
scarce. However, If the genuin
article runs out they can lear
to enjoy the true American ciga
made from Havana and Sumatr
fobaccos raised in Florida, an
that is the equal. in all respects
of the choicest cigar that can .
produced from tobacco raised j
anv other part of the world. Thl
IS what an expert tells as. 4