Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1899-05-11
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Miss Julia Howell, the expert
stenographer at tbe law cffce Of
Messrs Aycock & Daniels, offers
her services 70 the public who
may need type writing Of any
description executed at short
notice.
The carpenter Mr.. D. H. wills
liams, while at work repairing the
residence Of Mr.. Rufus Ham last
week, fell off a scafold ten feet
high and received injuries On his
arm and leg which will keep him
in bed several days.
The death Of Mr.. r. V. Cox,
well known liquor dealer of this
city occurred Thursday at bis
boarding house and his remains
were taken to Greensboro, bis old
home, for interment next morning.
He leaves wife and five children.
The death Of Mr.. Stephen L.
Thompson occurred at his home
in East GoIdsboro last Friday
at 9 o'clock, in the 45th year OF
his age. He is well known as the
proprietor of "a small grocery store
on cemetery hill, which he had
been conducting for several years.
Charley Thompson, the mulatto
youth who was serving a sentence
in Jail for stealing chickens, made
good his escape from jailThursday
while the road gang were being
brought in and locked up. He
played off sick that day and was
left out in the corridor, from
where he made his escape while the
jail was open.
The hosts of friends Of Capt.
and Mrs. J. G, Collier will deeply
and sincerity sympathize with
them in the death of their baby,
which occurred last week at their
home in this city. Such grief,
however, is too sacred, too deep.
too heart wringing for human
effort to assuage, and consolation
can only be found in the words
of the Master himself, who said
"Suffer little children to come
unto me and forbid them not, for
Of such is the Kingdom of
Heaven"
The Democratic members Of the
new board of Aldermen, and
thanks to the last General Assem-
bly,, they are all Democrats, met
last week at the Mayors Office in
caucus and decided to continue all
the employees Of the city in office,
just as they are now, with the ex-
ception of Mr.. S. w. Draper, tax
collector, who will be superseded
by Capt. A. J. Brown, and Messrs.
Allen & Dortch, city attorneys,
who have been succeeded by Col,
A. G. Davis. Police Officer J. nj
Swarengin, who will be dropped
from the force only because he has
been an extra and his services are
not needed at this time Of the year.
1t is with unusual pleasure anC
bride that the ARGUS chronicles
!, 1e appointment to-day of oul
vo. ing friend, and Goldsboro boy
Mr. James Tyson Dortch to the
Unite. 1 States Military Academy
at Wes, Point from this congress.
sional di. Vfict. The appointment
was made W Congressman White
on the sire. 9Th of the fine com
netitive exam >lDation Mr.. DortcF
recently stoo, I for the U. S
Naval Academy Al Annapolis, ane
is recognition tfaerlt thai WI
sincerely appre, |&ted oy Mr
Lortch's many frieL &s throHgn-
out the State. dyson, :s"5 he i
known to Us all, the yo, 7s!&12st sot
of the late Hon. w. T. L sCitch, il
now at Chapel Hill, wherG he has
been a student of the Univ 'ersity
for the past two years. He goes Il
West Point in June.
a man and his vito and ten
children, bailing from Stanton,
Va, and travelling in an old fash
ioned covered wagon, passe(
through this city late Thursday
afternoon on their way to-lhey di1
not know where. Thoy were sim
ply rowing, wandering, looking TO
a place to locate and had no
found a place to their liking. Al
the property they possessed wa
the wagon. When they campe'
at mig ht if vacant house WIS no
near at hand the old man and hi
eldest son slept under the W ago
and his wife and children slept i