Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1902-09-25

DIR. G. L. Kirby, Suerintendent of
the North Carolina Insane Asylum
at Raleigh, and was occupied by
him until he went to Raleigh. It is
said to have cost $15, 900. The ques-
ton of moving the building as it
stands now has been discussed, but
no contractor has been found who
will undertake the job.
The Goldsboro Graded School OPP
enedMonday morning with the largest
enrolment in its history, and with
all members of the faculty, complete,
at their posts. The new buildings
are beautiful and the old building
has been thoroughly renovated and
within a short while everything will
be in systematic working order. The
new school at Greenleaf has been as
signed to Miss Sallie Kirby. Super
intendent Foust is greatly pleased
with the prospect for the term. The
ARGUS wishes teachers and pupils
alike, a happy and prosperous year.
1t is altogether reasonable to be-
1ieve that the Democrats will draw
much more freely from the Populist
ranks than will the Republicans.
Some of the leading Populists are al
ready coming over to the Democrat
ic side, and others are expected to
follow as the date for the election
grows near. Since the negro is elm
mated from North Carolina politics
the fight will, of course, be between
the two big parties, and the indica-
tions are that the Democrats will
poll three votes to the Republicans
one.
That mule "Pat," which every
body knows in Goldsboro, and which
belongs to the boys in Col. w. T.
Dortch's family, came down Walnut
street Thursday a. M. attached to the
children's cart, with the family cook
driving and with Miss Clara Shaw,
the popular and vivacious steno-
grapher in the law Office Of Allen &
Dortch, occupying a seat in the rear
end of the cart. 1t is needless to
say that the turnout attracted much
by both the friends of the mule and
Miss Clara, who are numbered to the
full extent of their acquaintance.
: Governor Aycock has appointed
the members of the board Of direc-
tors of the Atlantic & North Caro-
i lima Railroad Company for the COM
ing year, beginning September "a.
They are Messrs. G. M. Busbee, Ra-
leigh; w. H. Smith, G%oldsboro;
l.. Harvey, Kinston; James A.
Bryan, Newbern; J. G. Parker, DIV
ers; T. W. Dewey, Newbern; r. W.
Taylor, Morehead City; Daniel B.
Hooker, Bayboro; J.. w. Granger,
Kinston, States proxy. The only
change is that of Daniel b. Hooker,
of Pamlico, in place of L.. G. Daniel,
the latter having moved his resi-
dence from that county.
The old Great Eastern, a wooden
structure which was one of the first
buildings erected in Goldsboro, still
stands with all its delapidated ap-
pearance and frowning ugliness as an
ornament to East Centre street and
as a companion for the new City
Hall. This old building has been a
source of IVORY to thepeople ofGolds-
boro for years and when the city de
cided to build the City Hall or the
adjacent lot the owner OF Old Great
Eastern promised to tear the build
ing down. The promise was nos car
ried out punctually and the Board
of Aldermen had the contractors to
quit work on the City Hall until the
old building was torn down. The
work Of tearing down was begun but
was not completed and the old build
ing is still standing. There are hun
dreds of people here who will bring
a sigh of relief when the old build
ing comes down, if it ever does.
J The white man Jim Pritchett, who
killed his wife on the farm of Mr..
E. c.. Exum, near Faro, in this
county, an account of which appeared
in Saturdays ARGUS, was brought
to the city Saturday night by Sheriff
Scott and committed to Jail without
bail. He shot his wife some time
during Friday night, while drunk,
because she refused him $50 which
he had given her to keep. Saturday
morning he took his little 6-year-old
daughter over to a neighbours house
and left her there, and she there told
of the killing, as stated Saturday,
Pritchett at first pretended to know
nothing of the killing, but he has
since said that he killed his wife anC
;. went into the canal where he was
found, intending to kill himself, but
went to sleep-in his drunken con.
dition, and was captured before he
awoke. He came to this section
from the western part of the State
: last year to engage in tobacco cul
: ture.
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