Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-03-28
OUR EXCHANGE TABLE.
Item. of General Interest Cleaned
From State Papers.

Items of General Interest Cleaned
From State Papers.
h grade school at Hickory has
closed on account Of scarlet lever
The Statesville Landmark remark
that if the Charlotte bank people had
taken thought they might have known
that a man who spelled Frank with a c
instead of a k was liable to do some
thing wrong.
The Greensboro Record calls attention
to the fact that Friday night last was
the second anniversary OF the famous
Tar Heel Club banquet at the Gullford-
Benbow, at which h guests OF nono'
were Vice-President Charles W.. Falr'
hanks and Hon. John w. Yerkes' com
missioner of internal revenue.
A fire in Newbern Friday oe'
s+roved the Cotton Oil and Fertil1zel
Works. The destruction OF the eApeh-
sive machinery constitutes the bulk o.
the loss which altogether will prooaoiy
rooob s4O 600. a portion of which Is Gov
cred by insurance. Many oaies wv
ton were burned. The origin OF the Liz
is still in doubt, it is ny oh
+bat II NAV have started from a not ooA
in the machinery. There were aoou'
aoo tons of oil meal and oil cake oe-
s+roved and a vast quantity OF OIL. AS
soon as possible work will begin 10 re-
move the debris and rebuilding VIII
commence at once.
The Sampson Democrat says that Oh
Monday last the bondsmen OF eheiin
Aman met in Clinton and pa1o 'ne
county treasurer $4,000. Inns ooihs
dome tho funds are now in hand to meet
oil the present needs in b way OF
school expenses, and 1t is TO % nopoo
that orr schools can confidently run on
and also that other branches OF tne
conafv,s business can be kept going
tho embarrassment. The payment
of this money is a hardship on "a oonos-
men, though it is an obligation TO Wnlcn
they voluntarily bound themselves anu
thew are to be congratulated for seeing
The situation in it's true light n 1or
up like men and doing prompt
" Just what they have promised TO 90
without having to be forced by law to
do so.
The grand Jury over at Elizabeth City
the other day recommended AGO.
Ition of the chain gang system II the
amusement is not improved. 1t de-
clares hat this mode of punishment is
against the best interests of the COM
munity. The public exhibition of a
malefactor undergoing punishment 1t Is
said is considered to be a questionable
punitive method as regards It's soclal
and moral aspect, and the adoption OF a
different system whereby prisoners can
be kept proftably employed and pro-
perly managed away from the public
view is earnestly recommended"
This is indeed a novel recommends
ton. The object of punishment is not
only for the purpose of dealing justice
to the criminal but also of deterring
crime: so that persons seeing the
"chain-gang'' at work in public view
have before them a warning of what
they may expect if they violate the
law.-Editor Argus.
The Wilmington Star of yesterday
{Sunday) morning says: This morn
ing Just after midnight, on the sidewalk
on the south side of Castle, not fifty feet
from its intersectinn with Front street,
close to the yard ence surrounding the
residence of Mrs. Bell, Immediately on
the corner, b body Of Ed Davis, 6
young white man, was found dead. His
neck was broken and there was an ugly
seal on the left side of his face from
which the blood had flown freely. Thu
cause of his death is unknown, but thu
case will be still further Investigated by
the Coroner to-day. In the large crowt
of people who gathered on the corne
even at the unseemly hour, the opinion
was expressed that the man had beer
foully dealt with, while others though
that returning to his home, he had fallel
against the side of the fence and tina
his neck had been broken by the fall
the cut on the cheek probably havinl
been caused by his sharp contact wit
the rough palings of the fence"
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