Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1899-03-16
OUR LOCAL OPTIC.

d nuS1Ci1 IOWu. 1ueI6 are more
people studying music here thar
ever before. We have good talent
and good teachers. Goldsboro is
all right anyway. We go forward.
The papers of Havana speak in
highest terms of the music fur
nished by the First North Caro-
lima regim ent band. On the return
of the band to this State, Prof.
Coe will tour the State, giving
concerts in the principal towns.
A gentleman from the Seven
Springs neighborhood says that
shad fishing is very fine in the
Neuse. On last Thursday Cor
nelius Moses caught Is fine white
shad in a skim net The usual
high water in the river has been
very favorable for the shad to
make the run up the Neuse.
On next Friday afternoon,
March II, the great British Guard
Band-the largest musical organ
ization of its kind in the world,
will appear in the Messenger Op-
era House in this city at o'clock,
travelling in special train. Our
citizens should give them a royal
welcome.
Hon Frank Thompson passed
through on his return from
Raleigh to his home at Jackson
vile, n. G. We know he will re-
ceive a hearty welcome at the
hands of his constituents. No
county in the State was better
represented in the House of Rep
resentatives than was the good
old county of Onslow.
City politics are beginning to
overshadow the acts of the recent
legislature. AS the change in the
city charter provides that the
mayor shall be elected for two
years, it is quite probable that
number of gentlemen are Gin the
hands Of their friends Well, the
way to have good men in Office is
to have our people take an inter
est in politics.
State Senator and Mrs. Jas A.
Bryan, Of New bern, returning
from Raleigh, on their way home,
spent several hours in this city
betwee n trains Saturday. When
Mr.. Bryan will take charge as
president of the A. & n. G. r.
r , under the recent legislative
enactment in this regard, has
not YET been determined; as
president Patrick. the present in
cumbent, will not surrender the
road until he has exhausted every
legal procedure.
Our popular townsmad Mr..
Nathan O'Berry has been com
missioned under the Great Seal of
State as member of the North
Carolina Commission to the
Worlds Fair at Paris. This is in
deed a high honor, and worthily
conferred; and as Mr.. O'Berry
always meets the full requirements
of every public duty conferred
upon him, we presume he will
now take up The study of French
in order TO out-French the suave
and 1.-THE Frenchman when be gets
over there.
The Legislature in its closing
hours granted charter to Julian
S. Car, w J. Edwards, w.
Adams, E F. Young, ]. W.
Perry and f. K. Borden, to build
the Atlantic and Western railway
from Go!dsboro through Wayne.
Johnston, Harnett. Moore and
Montgomery counties, thence ia
direction OF Charlotte, Salisbury
aud Concord, thence to the Ten
nessee line, the capital stock is
81 100000 This company will at
the special session in June 1900
renew its effort to purchase the
Atlantic and North Carolina rail
way as part of its line.
A week ago tosd day the people
Of Gsldsboro were right much
wrought up over the small pox
scare and number of people now
nursing sore arms were vacci-
mated. With each subsequent day
the excitement has grown less
and less and to-day the subject is
rareiy mentioned. The several
suspected cases that gave rise to
the first rumor, aud more or less
alarm, have shown no further