Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1899-09-28

Cotton has been selling on this
market for 6B, which was the pres
vailing price of the staple from
country carts throughout the day,
and is the highest price, paid for
cotton reported from any market
in the State.
The school trustees of Fork
township will meet at Pine Forest
on Thursday afternoon, October
S. at 2 o'clock, and they request
that all school committeeman of
The township meet them there on
that day fer general consultation
and to get the school work under
way.
Marriage licenses have been Is
sued in Wayne county the past
week as follows: White-H. E.
Workman to Katie Sasser. Col
ored-Becton Dawson to Mary
Jones, Mack Mackay to Julia
Hall, Council McCullen to Mollie
Garner, David Fort to Clarissa
Rayner.
DIR. J. M. Parker sustained
some painful if not serious in
juries this morning while out
riding horseback. In crossing
the Smithfield railroad the horse
became frjghtend and made a
odoen lurch which threw Dr..
Parker to the ground on his
back. He had to be taken home
In a carriage and is now in bed.
The ARGUS is glad to welcome
the return to its columns of the
weekly letter of our widely ape
preclated correspondent at Walter,
DR.. W. B. Crawford, whose sus-
pended letters have been greatly
missed, and ARGUS readers every
where have often enquired of US,
"What has become of sKlllick-
inicks'" hence we are sure they
will read this announcement with
real pleasure.
The marriage of Mr.. H. E.
Workman, a young mechanic of
this city, to Miss Katie Sasser,
daughter of Mr. Bosz Sasser, oc-
Cured Tuesday morning at the
heme of the BRIDES sister Mrs. B.
F. Best, Rev. F. D. Swindell Of
floating. There were a number of
invited friends present, who
showed their esteem for the happy
couple by bringing many hand
some presents, and who wish for
them long life and happiness al
ways. They left on the 1890
train to visit the groom's relatives
in Virginia.
Mr.. Joseph Faison, of Sampson
county, is here. Joe, as his friends
love to call him, went to school in
Goldsboro when a boy and has
many ola school mates here. Mr..
Falson is one of the farmers in
Sampson county, who in the dark
est hours of Democracy stood firm
for the principle of thu great
Democratic party, and proclaimed
fro"o the house-tops that the pull
ing away from the Democratic
party by a number of white peo-
pie would put the old Radical par
ty in power again. But the white
people of North Carolina have
learned at great cost that in the
Democratic party alone is the
hope of the State.
The national patriotism of
Goldsboro is asserting itself as the
day of New York's reception to
Admiral Dewey approaches. AL
ready q number of our business
houses are displaying the national
colors in artistic decorations. No
tably among these are Messrs. II.
Weilt& Bros. and Mr.. A. A. Jo-
seph. The former have in one OF
the large show windows of their
dry goods department the Olympus
designed 10 white goods, with
Dewey's picture prominently dis
played and the whole decoration
set off with a background of u. S.
flags. In MI. Joseph's window
the decorations are the national
colors IN handsome feur-in-hand
ties, with Dewey's picture in bold
relief.
The Messenger Opera House
will tender to it's patrons a suitable
attraction in ssThe Great Southern
Minstrels," which is to play an
engagement here on October 4th.
All lovers of bright and tuneful
music will thoroughly enjoy TIE
entertainment, as particular atten.
ton has been paid to that portion
of the program. The company's
quartette has made a most envi.
able reputation for itself wherever
heard, the ensemble singing being
almost fawless, while the ~soloistl
which include Master Tommy Nc
Kenna, the famous boy BARTON,
of New York, ere all vocalists O
the highest order. One of the hes
~orchestras, 16 in number, eve,
carried by a minstrel company
will render selections from famou