Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1905-04-13

well digger, dropped dead at his
home over in WebbtoWn Mon. night \
about 10 O'Clock.
DIR. j. R.. Stockard, who has been +
confined to his home by illness for
several days, is able to be at his Of
fee again we are glad to note.
If the present weather continues it
will not be very long before our
truckers will be shipping garden
peas. Beans are also looking tine.
Mrs. Mary B. GrisWold and MIR,
Geo. @. Kornegay are remodellns
and considerably charging their re-
spective handsomehomeso on William
street.
The death of Jno. G. Fort, an ole
colored man about 81 years of age,
occurred at his home in SaulstoI
township Monday afternoon at =
O'Clock.
Good progress is being made on thel
criminal docket thus far. Judge
Moore and Solicitor Jones are both
hustIers III the despatch Of public
business.
The Goldsboro Ice Factory started
up for the seasons run yesterday
morning. The ice dealers of the city
are also getting things in readiness
for the summers trade.
The District Meeting Of Knights
of Pythias, will be held this year at
Tarboro, April the 21st. Rutfin
Lodge No. s, K. of p, of this city,
will be we'll represented.
DIR. Jno. H. Hill, Capt. T. w.
SIocumb and DR.. w. H. II. Cobb
left this afternoon for Asheville as
delegates from GoldsbOrO Council
No. 500 Royal Arcanum to the State
Grand Council that convenes there
this week.
A young negro about IS years of
age created considerable excitement
on Walnut street this afternoon by
falling on the sidewalk with a fit.
He was taken into an alley by two
companions and was alright againIn
about a half hour.
The marriage of Mr.. Will Holdings
worth, of this city, and Miss Leila
BarWick, of Indian Springs town
ship, was solemnized at the home Of
: N1Is AOlAoO AAOAAAASo0 "a II III AAAAO
city, Sunday afternoon, Justice j. E.
Peterson, officiating.
The great "Boer War''-more
spectacular than Buffalo Bill's" Wild
West'' and one of the most instruc-
tive of eXhibitions-is coming to
Goldsboro within the next few days.
1t will give n exhibition, and tina!
will be in the afternoon.
Have you seen the street show
window display of Mr.. j. e. Hage
the photograph artist, which hi
correspondence in this issue calls at
tention to? No GOldsbOrO citizen cal
a thrill of pride that the artist VIII,
executed it is a GoIdsboro boy.
The city primaries, for the nomi
nation of Mayor and one member c
the Board of Public Works, is onl,
a few days of-next Monday, App.
18th, The following Monday might
April oath, the primaries for b
nomination of Alderman Will b
heldatthe different voting precincts
The price of cotton is about at
standstill-7 50 being the %prevailin
standard. But day by day it col
tinues to come in, some days Onl
about 8 or 4 bales and then agai
from SO to 100 bales will roll il
After awhile it will all have bee
marketed and there will be none
hold, just as the mill men and cap
talists expected.
The alarm of fire Saturday nigI
at midnight was from the residenC
of Mrs. Gresham, next door t0. d
j. N. Johnson's, and, as usual, tn
volunteer fire department WEI
promptly on on the scene and 500
had the fire out; although conside.
able damage was done. The propert
belongs to the Baptist University Z
Raleigh, being part Of the lat
Chief Justice Faircloth's bequest.
Forty years 20 yesterday-o
Sunday April 8, 1865 Gen'l Robel
E. Lee, the South's ideal leader, an
history's unequaIed soldier, at th
head of his shattered array Ofpeerle
but broken heroes, surrendered
Gent q. s.. Grant at AppoInatto1
where today North Carolina is III
yelling a monument to her soldier
in that memorable war. The peaC
that followed has brought prosperlt
to North Carolina through her OW
peoples indomitable energy an
marvellous character, and to tt
South in general.
Some one entered the residence
Mr.. Carl SWinsoninthe northWesteI
part OF the city last night and sto
TWO pistols and about thirty dOlla
from the bureau drawer. MIR. SWII
son is employed at the electric ligf
station, on night service, and h
wife went out to spend a short tin
at a neighbours house near by. Whe
she returned home, about 8 o'clOcl
she discovered that the house Ia
been ~ransacked, and upon furtht
investigation she found that tt
money and two pistols were gon
The thief perfected an entrance b
pricing open the back door.
Dan >Teachey, who killed b
Rivenbark, in Duplin county,
March 4th, 1903, and Will Exuu
who killed Guy W~alston, in LenC
county, on September 3rd, 100
both white men, will pay the pc
atty of their crime on the gallo
the 18th of next month, unless the
is executive clemency, in the for
Of a pardon Or respite. Both Wa
convicted of murder II the fl
degree, and their attorney ap9ast