Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1902-06-19
STATE NEWS OF INTEREST.
PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS
FROM TAR HEEL
PAPERS.
Odd and Interesting Happen
ings Reproduced by Use
of the Scissors.
Fayetteville Observer {:

Fayetteville Observer:
James Maultsby, o of Alderman
T. II. Maultsby, while hauling sand
Tuesday morning from the vicinity
Cooks warehouse, on the banks of
the Cape Fear, dug up two or three
cannon balls-solid shot and shell
heavily encrusted with rust and clay.
How long they had lain in their bed
can only be matter of conjecture;
perhaps an expert in the munitions
ofwar could fix their date and trace
them to their beginning.
Wilmington Star.
A two-year-old son Of Mr.. George
Trask, who resides a short distance
from the city on the Federal Point
road, was bitten by a large ground
rattlesnake last Wednesday afternoon
while he was playing near the edge
of his fathers house. The snake
was killed soon after the child was
bitten. The little fellow was brought
to Wilmington and given medical
attention by DR.. Chas. T. Harper
He was doing very well yesterday.
Weldon News.
A negro named Powell, who lives
near Aurelian Springs, awoke Sat-
srday morning and found his wife
dead in bed by his side. He ran for
her mother, who lived near, and just
as the Old woman entered the house,
where her daughter lay dead, she sud
denly fell dead. Two sudden deaths
in the house caused the greatest
alarm among the other negroes in
the neighborhood and they began to
pray earnestly, believing it to be a
warning.
Raleigh Times.
One of the many strange coinci-
dences in the names of those who
have been tied with the nuptial
knot is that Of Miss Pancake and Mr..
Brown, whose wedding took place
in West Virginia recently, While
this is no attempted travesty on the
names of individuals concerned it
seems appropriate to the occasion
and is herewith submitted:
Miss Pancake now is Brown,
The reason we all know,
She did arrange to make the change,
Because she had the dough.
Raleigh News and Observer.
A negro lineman met a horrible
death yesterday afternoon at the cor
ner of Morgan and Mcdowell streets,
directly in front of Rev. DR.. Pitten-
gers house, Two men were way
up on the cross pieces OF one Of the
4allest poles belonging to the Inter
state Telephone Company, helping
to pull up slack wire, when, with
one loud crack, the pole snapped
sasunder high ZIP, about at the plat
form. One Of the men jumped and
was dashed to death On the pave
ment below. The other chung to his
place and was unhurt, as the piece
broken off fell against an electric
light pole, and was caught by the
wires,
Sceptical readers have little faith
in the ark story, yet it is a fact that
in the mines under the great plains
and deserts of Montana, Wyoming
and Mexico they are digging out the
skeletons Of animals a hundred feet
long, and pine tops with chunks Of
rosin as big as a mans fist; and up
on the Rocky Mountains, above tim
Der line, ten or twelve thousand fee
above the level of the sea, there are
beds Of saddle rock oyster shells an
the remains of aIligators that once
were frisky and smiled in the youth
of the world. Meanwhile NOAH
continues to have his name printed
in dictionaries and encyclopedias
and holds the record as first sailor tc
navigate unknown seas.