Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-10-18

ALL 4A1G HSONA0 ~ NA~ SOA
the Register of Deeds Office for
Wayne county shows that up to
this time more crop liens and
mortgages have been cancelled
against farmers than for the en-
tire a last ~year--or in sew
eral years past.
The Board Of School Directors
of ttis city have decided to in
crease the faculty Of the white
graded school by one teacher, and
to this end SUPERINTENDENT Foust
adyertises in this issue an examin-
alton of applicants for Tuesday,
October %.
We are drawing close upon a
presidential election and yet # it
were not for the Senatorial con-
test we would know nothing about
the election, here in Goldsboro.
Such political apathy has never
been known before on the eve Of a
great crisis.
The death OF Mr.. john Little
page, a brother Of the late Mrs.
Geo. D. Bennett, and we'll known
in this city, where ne had SO many
friends, occurred last week, and
the interment was made IN the old
homestead burying ground near
Charleston, W. Va.
A quiet home wedding was SOL
emnized il this city last Thursday
evening at 6 O'Clock, the contract
ing parties being Miss Jennie
Wilson and Mr.. W. FL. Smith,
Rev. F. W. FAIRIES officiating.
The ARGUS and the many friends
Of the bride and groom wish them
long life aud abundant happiness
and prosperity.
The negro murderer Tom
Smith, from Johnston county, who
was tried and convicted in this
county, his trial having been
moved here, and sentenced to be
hanged, and an appeal taken to
the Supreme court, which sustain
ed the sentence, bu5 recommended
the criminal to Communication to
life imprisonment, will not be
hanged, Governor Russell having
adopted the latter ourse
Mr.. W. j. Jordan, editor Of
the Snow Hill Standard, and who
combines farming with his edi-
torial work, was N the city to-
day with a large lot Of tobacco,
which he sold at satisfactory
prices on the market. He brings
news that operations on the road
bed of the Great Eastern Rail-
road are being pushed with ali
possible rapidity and that the
work is now within a mile of
Snow Hill. The site for the de-
pot was laid off in that town yes
terday.-Daily Argus, Oct. IL.
The memory of the coolest in-
habitant' will be ransacked in
vain for a hotter and more disa-
greeable summer than the past
one. Weather wiseacres who hold
that the average OF heat and cold
is invariably maintained tell US
that we are going to have, as a
match for our not summer, a
most v e winter, It would not
be surprising, We are at winters
threshold now. The first flush OF
autumn is upon the woods, the
fields are rooed in the colers Of
fall, the invigorating air of Octo-
Der is abroad and pumpkins vii
soon be ripe. It is a fair begin
ming.
Doctors and lawyers indulge II
high sounding words. This is in
client to a learned profession. A
man who can hide his meaning
behind polysyllabical declaration
is a much brighter man than on
who can say only what he means
This seems to be usually conceded
Browning's reputation as a poe
largely depends on his ability tx
hide his meaning. If his meaning
was clear, there would be NJ
Browning clubs: and he would b.
quickly classed among the vulga
poets. Talleyrand it was, who sal
that Language was invented to con
ceal thought, and this idea has nc
been wasted on the medical an