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VOL. XVII. GOIiDSBORO, X. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER SO. 1899. NO 122
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MURDER OF CAPTIVES
The Charges Against Met
calf Followed By
Others.
FrlTate Thorn Declare on Oath
lie saw Captain Bishop
Shoot Two Helpless
Filipino Prison
ers Charg
es of cow
ardice. San Francisco, Nov. 23. The
accusation that Colonel Wilder
S. Metcalf, of the Twentieth
Kansas regiment, deliberately,
killed an unarmed Filipino pris
oner during the Philippine cam
paign, avers the Examiner, has
resulted in the disclosure that
two surrendered Filipinos were
shot by Kansas men atCaloocan;
That a War Department inves
tigation was held, and that the
men involved including Captain
Bishop, of Company M. and Cap
tain Flahders, of Company I,
were exonerated, Continuing the
Examiner says:
General Funston, who has
been a staunch defender of Col
onel Metcalf, reiterates his charge
that five officers of the Kansas
regiment were guilty of coward
ice during the fighting between
Manila and San Fernando. From
Topeka, Kansas, comes on affi
davit from Private Donald H.
Thorn, of the Twentieth Kansas,
in which he sweats that he saw
Captain Bishop fire three shots
into the bodies of two prisoners,
who were lying helpless on the
ground in the rear of the Ameri
can firing lines.
KIND4 WOKDS -THANKS.
Dear Joe Akgtjs: Now that
you have reached an enlarged
edition of your valuable paper,
the Argus is still at the head of
the list, and as a first class fam
ily newspaper, will continue to
"fill a long felt want" that our
city and county should be prouder
of than ever. Its unlimited degree
of usefulness and influence will be
more strongly felt than in the past
and as a Democratic worker it is
strictly "in it'' at all times and
under all circumstances, and may
it continue to grow. Truly Golds1
boro and Wayne county are to be
congratulated.
Let them cont'nue to "pull to
gether" and tbey will "go for
ward" 'till they reach the very
pinnacle of fame, upon the top
most round of the ladder, with
"Excelsior" for the watchword,
and there can be m such, word as
fail in its vocabulary. Truly, the
Argus has grown to be a power
in the land and will steadfastly
increase as the years go by. That
it may live long and continue in
prosperity is the wish of
A Subscriber.
Mt. Olive, N. C.
Chamberlain's Fain Ha1 m Cures
Others, Whj Not You ?
My wife has been using Chamber
lain's Paia Balm, with good results,
for a lame shoulder that has pained
her continually , for nine years. We
have tried all kinds of medicines and
doctors without receiving any benefit
from any of them. Cue day we saw an
advertisement of this medicine and
thought of trying it, which we did with
the best of satisfaction. She has used
only one bottle and her shoulder is al
most well. Adolph L. Millett,
Manchester, N. H.For sale by M,
. Robinson & Bro. and Goldsboro
Drug Co. in Goldsboro, and J. R.
$mith in Mt. Olive. N. O.
NOBLY DONE.
The Argus tips its bat to the
Philadelphia Times, from which
we copy the following that ex
plains itself:
"Sergeant Bill Anthony de
served a batter fate than that
which overtook him. He had cer
tainly earned a grave outside the
Potter's field and bad a 'right to
expect escape from the Morgue
and dissecting room, even though
neglect drove him to take his own
life. Thousands of men in this
broad land, where service to one's
country is more or Jess appre
ciated, would have saved the he.-,
ro's body from humiliation had
the thougbt of its fate occurred
lo them. But not a man said a
word and the body was ticketed
for the city dead house and Pot
ter's field when The Times stepped
in and did a proper, natural thing.
'The Times has bought a grave
and will bury brave Bill Anthony
at its own expense. It is a mere
bit of sentiment, perhaps, but
never the Morgue, dissecting room
or pauper's grave for this man's
body.
"Sergeant Anthony, wo give
you the salute to the dead!"
Kill Anthony was the "sergeant
of the watch" on board the U. S.
Battleship Maine, whose report
of her blowing up to Captain
Sigsbee will be told of him in the
annals of all time.
Hurrying to the Captain's quar
ters, amidst the consternation and
confusion and pandimonium and
death that prevailed, and calmly
giving his superior officer the of
ficial salute he said: "Sir, I have
the honor to report that the ship
has been blown up and is sink
ing."
The poor fellow, perhaps de
ranged from the effects of that
terrible experience, committed
suicide last week, in Philadelphia.
Reflections of a Bachelor
New York Press.
Jjove is poetry, marriage is
prose. And a man without either
can never appreciate the other.
The trouble with a problem
novel is that its generally too
much problem and not near
novel enough.
No man really appreciates
what a wife might to him till he
gets sick and has to pay twenty
dollars a week to a nurse to sit
and make him take his medicine.
To be happy, a man before he
falls in love ought to keep both
his eves wide opeD, when be is
engaged he ought to keep one
eye half open, and after ha gets
married he ought to keep both
eyes shut.
Used By British Soldiers in Africa
Capt. C. GK Dennison is well known
all over Africa as command er of the
forces that captured the famous rebel
Galishe. Under date of Nov. 4, 1897.
from Vryburg, Bechuanaland, he
writes: "Before starting on the last
campaign I bought a quantity of Cham
berlain's Colic. Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy, which I used myself when
troubled with bowel complaint, and
had given to my men, and in every
case it proved most beneficial."
For , sal6 by Gjoldsboro Drug Co. and
M, E. RobinfcOn & Bro. in Goldsboro,
aid by J. R- Smith. Mt. Olive. N. C,
Tetter Salt-Rlieum and Gemma.
The intense itching and smarting in
cident to these diseases, is instantly
allayed by applying Chamberlain's
Eye and Skin Ointment. Mary very
bad cases have been permanently cured
by it. It is equally efficient for itching
piles and a favorite remedy for sore
nipples, chapped hands, chilblains,
frost bites and chronic sore eyes. 25cts.
per box. For sal by M. E Robinson
& Bro. and Goldsboro Drug Co. in
Goldsboro and J, R. Smith Mt. Olive N.
An Open Letter to Secretary
. tJage.
Corntassel, N. C. Nov. 16, 1899.
Mister Secretary Gage: -I'm
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in a tignt place, ana x ve peen
reading about the gamblers of
Wall-st, being in a tight place,
and you offering to let them nave
$25,000,000 to help them; cash
tbeir chips-; so-I thought I would
lay my case before you, and
maybe vou would help me out,
too. Five years ago I bet my
muscle and indusiry against
manifest destiny, "that, I could
pay for a lOOacre farm ai the and
of five years. I pulled off my
coat and, with the help of a good
wife and a pair of mules, I went
in to wio. The first year I made
a good crop of cotton and enough
hogs and bominv for another
year's eating. My cotton uniy
brought me five cents a pound,
and I was told that I bad pro
duced too much: my muscle and
industry bad been too active,
and where I though I should reap
a reward, I garnered disappoint
ment insiead, and my cotton crop
only brought enough to pay the
interest on the price of the farm:
and buy my wife and children
clothes and shoes for the winter.
Witb the buiding of spring and
the rising of the sap, my muscles
and my industry opened the jack
pot of chance, with new hopes,
and, although manifest destiny"
sent the April cold rains to kill
mv cotton, and the bud worms
nipped mv low-ground corn in
the bud, I raised the ante, re
planted my crop and battled with
crabgrass and hog weeds the
summer through, and housed
another good crop. But the
gamblers of Wall-st, aod our
loving cousins ait Liverrooj; were
bulling and bearing the cotton
market to such an extent that
my product again only netted
enough to pay interest on the
debt hanging over my little home.
From year to year I have
fought the fight, while I watch
ed my children growing up in
ignorance and my wire ageing
beneath the cares of povertv,
ana now the nve years are out
and tbe debt is due, and a panic
is threatening me. I know there
are only a few hundred thousand
of us farmers in the same fix, and
the financiers of our great country
must be looked after first, Bu
honestly, Mister Secretary, doi.'o
you think that a man who ha
a wife and fivo children to ca-e
for, to feed aod to oiothp, io
educate, so thv mav grow iaio
intelligent. wz-nsb'p, ia.-souif
what of a ''finaucier" f nedoes it
on an income of $300 a year,
without cheaitog a n-ighoor in a
horse swap or leaving his bills
unoaid? ,
I know the treasury reports
show a per capita circulation of
20 or more, nut it
doo'c circu-
late down here to
aod we have to do
that extend
on about $6
or $8 per capita. I cito under
stand it exactlr, but it seems to
me that our constitution meant
to guarantep tqual rights to all,
ana l aou c see wny tne specu
lators, the men who play beyond
the limit of ratioualism and re
compense, sbould seek relief at
the hands of the gcvernment
when their haads
it is found thy
are ca'leo aod
were biuffiag
with a bobtail flush
I notice the banks of New
York, for the week ending Nov.
11, hold "nearly three million
dollars less than legal rf quire
ments." Does this mean thtthey
are that much below the 25 per
cent, reserve required by law?
If it does,Mister (Secretary, don'c
you think somebody has been us
ing somebody's money that they
bad no right to user
I don't exactly understand
these things, but me and a neigh
bor was talking these matters
over the other night, and we
came to the conclusion that if
you were going to use the gov
ernment funds to help the Wall
st. ox out of the Sunday ditch,
we as contributors to that fund,
ought to know why a panic in
Wall-st. is any more detrimental
to the interest of good citizen
ship than a stringency of money
among the producers, and how
the government has any more
right to go to the aid of Wall-st.
gamblers, who haye no tangi
ble values at stake, than it has
to come to the aid of we farmers,
who are battling against low
prices for the products of our
brawn and industry.
I am in a tight place, too, Mis
ter Secretary, and if vou help
these fellows in Wall-st. without
helping me, I shall always think
you "hadn't ought to. '
- " Yours truly,
Benj. Pinebdrr.
A FEW REFLECTIONS.
Dear Argus
Standing on the middle ground
between the old and the new
South, I am following the thread
of memory from one to the other
and naturally draw a few com
parisons. I remember well tbe
dignified old gentleman that is
spoken of now as the old Southern
gentleman. We call to mind his
stately bearing, his courtly man
ners. He was willing to take time
to sr. eak kindly, he was one of
that type far above anything that
can emenate from the dude ci
garette smokers of this day. We
look around us for the men who
are to continue this type of men.
We find men who by the restless
rnsh of surroundings we fear can
never develope into the old time
gentlemen.
Again, our memory clusters
around those noble old women,
who so silently and modestly
presided as queens over those
homes of the long ago. Their
lives were filled with the noble
calling of women. Around them
the young people gathered for
advice, their kind consideration
for others was proverbial. In the
mad rush of the present she still
looms up, her modest demeanor
makes a halo of brightness about
her memory. Her style may be
relegated tu the past, the modern
artist may try to distort ber
style, deft hands may try to
weave a fabric to obscure ner.
But noble Southern chivalry
will not suffer it. She can not
be improved upon. Her patient,
modest disposition, so womanly
was more precious, because in
those days u had a valu9 more
pr celss than rubies or finegok'.
We wonder if the times have
changed us,, or have we been in
oculated with new ideas and
systems. Has the cold north
win3 brought us the new ideas.
Has tbis evolution been a deve
opment or have these things
drifted to us, and shall we forget
the noble qualities that made the
people of the south the highest
type of nure Anglo Saxon de
cendents? In many respects let
these old customs be apart of our1
being. Then as the old South
merges into a new South and a
newer South, we could be recog
nized even if another Rip-Van-Winkle
should visit us. The
noble qualities and manners of
these old people shine as distant
stars, but we can borrow light
from them to make ' our lives
more radical as we appreciate
the wis words of Solomon to
convey Widsom. Lat 'us not in
this restless age cut loose from
all of the old moorings. It will
be well for us to preserye invi
olate some of the distinctive traits
of our ancestors. If they are
our prototypes in many respects
it should not be denoted degen
eracy, for the past has pre
sented many qualities worthy
of the emulation of this and
future generations, .
Ignis Fatus.
And now the Dewey babies
must be renamed.
Theodore Thomas Is the tail
end of the Dreyfus case.
OFFICE KS ELECTED.
Farmers' Mutual TTlre Insurance Associa
tion of Wayne County.
The Wayne county branch of
the Farmers' Mutual Fire Insur
ance Association, which met here
on the 15th instant, re-elected
James M. Wood, president; N.
J. Smith, secretary and treasurer;
A. J. Brown, local agent, and the
following township supervisors:
Goldsboro A. M. Prince, E.
L. Edmundson, D. L. Edgerton.
Foik H. T. Jones. Geo. Lt.
Becton, W, M. Grantham.
Grantham Dr. J. B. Kennedy,
F. B. Jordan, M. E. Cox.
Indian Springs J. H. Ed
wards, Edward Holmes, W. R.
Simmons,
New Hope N. McN. Buie,
Oscar Sutton, Benj. Casey.
Saulston B. A. Parks, J. F.
Hill, Geo. F. Butte.
Nahunta J. W. Aycock, O. L.
Aycock, Z. P. Davis.
, Pikeville Albert Aycock, Theo
C. Hill, J. T. Dees. ;
Great Swamp Green Cope
land, Barnes Aycock, J. K. Pope.
Stcny Creek H. D.- Ham, J.
H. Johnston, B. H. Lancaster.
Brogden J. P. 0'Berry,,Wm.
Holmes, Geo. W . Parker. .
The report of the retiring sec
retary and treasurer, A. J. Brown,
for four years ending September
I, 1899, was very gratifying in
that it showed a phenomenal
growth and success of the Asso
ciation. The capital stock now
amounts to something over S260,
000, and the annual cost. of insur
ance has only averaged $1'40 per
thousand dollar?.
Some amend "aen s to the Con
stitution and by laws were recom
mended and adopted which will
be sent out to each membt r.
Fremont Items.
Mr. C. C. Aycock is building
an addition to his residence.
Mrs. J. B. Exum, of Saulston,
visited friends in Fremont Tues
day. Miss Eleanor Greene visited
friends in Wilson oyer Sunday,
aid returned to school Monday.
Mrs. Greene and Mrs. Mann,
of Wnitakers, N. C, are visiting
Mrs. Morgan, at the Academy.
The wood work of twenty-five
new desks was delivered at the
Academy recently and the cast
ings are to arrive soon. These
are neccessary to meet the grow
ing requirements of the school,
Road builders should examine
some work done on our streets
recently. Several loads of leaves
were hauled into a low washed
out place &nd thtn about six or
eight inches of dirt was spre; d
over the leafy bed There is no
patent, so far as we know, peud-
ing on the process, consequently
any who desire to do so may use
it.
Dr. L. O. Hayes, who recently
bad an operation performed for
Appendecitis, returned Friday
from Dr. McQuire's Hospital in
Richmond. The operation was
entirely successful and, while the
wound is yet tender, the Doctor
is beyond all danger and will soon
be ready to take up again his
growing practice, The com
munity rejoices to have one of
our most successful professional
men, whose life was at one time
nearly despaired of, restored to
health and usefulness.
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Fremont, N. C. Nov. 27th.
General Vance Dead.
Asheville, N. C, Nov. 28
General Robert B. Vance died at
his home this morning after a
lingering illness. He will be
buried with Masonic honors
Thursday afternoon. General
Vance was a brother of Senator
Zebulon Baird Vance.
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Pea Threshers
and
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They thresh field peas ,and wax
beans successfully. Hand, steam os
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write me and 1 will call and show
you their work.
OSCAR SUTTON, Agt.,
Soven Springs, N. C.
Gloady Toilet Ammonia
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But it will clean your Car
pets, Hair Brushes and
Soiled Clothes, better
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l"No dearer than ordinary am
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JEK'NS FA S EUES, Props.
E. Centre t-t , Godsborb, N. C.
Farm for Sale or Lease.
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In Indian Spring township, 7
miles South of Goldsboro, part of
old Cobb place, 175 acres good river
land, don't overflow.- 125 acres up
hill clay subsoil. Good, for any
corp. Best pasture in the country
fine for truck and dairy, the farm i
a good stand for a store and gin
Terms easy." Three settlements oii
place. Apply to
MRS. PAVID WRIGHT SMITH,
- Goldsboro, N. C.
"NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION.
Notice is hereby given that the
firm of Hall & Prichard, general
merchandise, doing business at Fai
son, Duplin county, North Carolina,
has this day dissolved partnership,
by mutual consent. All persons oik -ing
this firm will please settle ta
once,
HALL & PRI CHARD,
Nov 24, .$9 -Faison.N.C
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