LOCAL BRIEFS.
SMITH BORDEN.
Items of 'n erest in and Around
the CitY.
Strawberries are j-leuti l'ul, but green
peas are short.
Spring is here, sure enough, Maj.
Larry Bass has been fishiiiK-
The Civic Improvement League
should not be in name only. There
are a great many emergencies at hand
that might profitably employ their at
tention and engage their services. Get
busy.
Mr. C. C. M'xn-f. oj Charlotte, one of
the several oaiid il ates for Commiss
ioner ot Agriculture, spent last niyht
and most of today in the city "Iection
eering." He has a good many friends
in this section.
Candidates for county offices are be
ginning to smile upon the dear people
and shake hands and be inquisitive
about your health fir.d that ci your
family. Well, why not have h merry
campaign? Every citizen is free to
seek office if he so desire.
Mr. John Hicks, a very popular
young gentleman, possessing many
triends and enjoying a wide acquaint
ance throughout this section, a gradn
ate pharmacist, has taken a position
with the new drutj store ot the Lane
Drug Company, near the postoffice.
The new City Pharmacy, formerly
MacKay's, on Walnut street, now un
der the supervision ot Mr. W. V. Wil
liams, of the Palace Drug Store, is re
ceiving yet further improvements, and
is one of the most attractive drug
stores and refreshment resorts in the
city.
The aforesaid Dallas A. King, who
went to the penitentiary, from this city,
tor robbery, lor a term of years, and
who, after serving his sentence, moved
to Richmond.Va., seems to have again
resorted to his old ways of getting easy
money, but this time he is in even more
serious trouble. His daughter's lather
in-law was found shot and robbed in
Richmond and was taken to a hospital
where he died without regaining con
sciousness. Detectives Mrere put upon
the case, and now thev have Dallas in
jail under strong circumstantial evi
deuce.
A
HOME MATTER.
MRS. CURTIS LAST NEGHT
iteleign is Failing to Sustain Her
Public Sclwols-lt Is Up To
Raleigh.
(Special to The Anui:s.)
Raleigh, April 25. Because the spe
cial tax election failed to carry in Ra
leigh township last Tuesday, the city
graded schools will shut down on Fri
day, May, instead of Friday, May
29, as originally planned, four weeks
being clipped off from the term.
Dr. C. Alphonso Smith, of the State
University, was to deliver the annual
address, but now there will be no
closing exercises.
The Board of Aldermen had given
the school committee power to borrow
money after the dispensary had closed
and cut off the schools' .revenue, but
it was decided at a special meeting of
the committee last night to not borrow
the money.as there would be no way
of paying it back.
A regular meeting ot the committee
will be held next "Wednesday after
noon, when the work ef the next ses
sion will be planned. The term will
probably not be longer than seven
months, unless some way is found to
raise revenue.
The action of aldermen in increasing
the tax rate twenty-five per cent just
prior to the election is regarded as the
principal reason why the special tax
election failed of carrying.
The school term in Wake county wi'l
also be reduced six weeks except where
elections carrying special tax are
voted.
Coxgeess has gotten down from its
high horse and voted an appropriation
ot ?7,000,000 for the building of the two
battleships. The Big Stick made them
dismount.
The greatest rascal in the Stat of
Georgia at the present writing, accord
ing to the Atlanta Journal, ia Joe Brown,
who is running against Hoke Smith in
the primaries for the gubernatorial
nomination.
The "country" people of Raleigh
township were afraid it might make
their feet sore to walk on good mac
adamized roads, which accounts for
them turning down the proposition, on
Tuesday last, lor the issue of bonds for
the building of good roads.
O
Bera the
Bignatvs
The Kind You Have Always Bought
FOB BENT Office over my Jewelry
store in rear of Dr- Vi ton's Dental
office. Water and lights. L. D. Gid
dens. a9tf
UETTUCE Fresh and fine.
f""" 1 Mrs. Moscow Wilso
Beautiful Home Wedding of Wide
Interest Solemnized
The prettiest home wedding surely
ever witnessed in Goldsboro was that
of Miss Rachel Moye Borden, only;
daughter of Mrs. William H. Borden, )
of this city, and Mr. 13. Ehrlich Smith,
son of the late Bishop Coke Smith, ot
Virginia, which was solemnized at the
palatial Borden residence on James
St., Wednesday night at 8:30, Rev. Dr.
F. D. Swindell, of W ilson.a former pas
tor here, assisted by Kev. JS. H.Davis,
pastor of St. Paul M. 15. church, offi
ciating.
For many weeks there had been
widespread interest in the culmination
of this happy event, for the beautiful
young bride numbers the whole com
munity as her friends, with whom from
childhood she has been an abiding
favorite. The personality of gracious
ness and kindness towards all worthy
ol her thought, cheerfully ready at all
times to assist in person or in charity,
wherever the need was commendable,
the sunshine of her ever happy dispo
sition and her superlative beauty and
the yet more admirable charm of her
utter unconsciousness thereof won for
her the good will of all with whom she
came in contact, and their best wishes
for her happiness will abide with her
through life.
The commodious residence had been
rendered a veritable dreamland of be
wildering beauty in its adornment of
cut flowers and growing plants and
myriads of electric lights. The front
parlors on either side of the spacious
hall were used as reception rooms, and
here were displayed the bridal pres
ents so many, so varied, so lovely as
to exhaust enumeration and beggar
description, mute yet eloquent tribute
to what measure of esteem the young
couple are held by their immediate
triends, not to speak of the wealth of
gifts from members of their respective
families.
The rear parlor on the left had been
converted into a bridal chapel, the
way to whose altar was ribboned fori
the approach of the bridal pair, and
when the officiating ministers took
their position there, and love's old
sweet song ot triumph, as recognized
in the thrilling notes of the wedding
march, resounded throughout the peo
pled chambers and halls, teliing that
the moment of the ceremony was at
hand, all eyes were turned and all in
terest centered upon the beautiful
home altar, arched and canopied with
with white roses aud brilliant with
many electric lights that shimmered
amidst the flowers and threw their
shadows along the "tufted floor," as a
flower-way meet for her to walk to tke
love-arowning of her young life who
was the light of that home and the
joy and solace of the fend mother who
stood by, at that home altar, to seal in
approval with a mother's kiss the com
pactthe same as she herself had known
in the years agone the old, old story,
yetever new. And it there be one
thing above all others that God has
given us as the highest exemplification
of goodness and sweetness and light
and faith, gladness and joy and heaven
resounding glory in this world, it is a
mother's tear-bedim rued kiss bestowed
upon a bride-daughter at the parting of
the ways, at the lintel of the new life.
The whole scene was like some old
master-picture that we have looked
upon and stood reminiscent before, but
rendered tenfold stronger by the living
presence that peopled it. The proud
structure of refined and Godly society
is builded upon such scenes the bride
at the altar, in surpassing and unsur
passable lovliness; the groom gallant
and cultured of ancestry, and of unre
strainable pride and happiness in his
priceless achievement, around them
both loved ones and friends of a life
time who loved them; who that looked
upon the scene will ever forget the
beauty and the sentiment of it all.
It was a simple ceremony, without
attendants, other than the sweet little
flower and ribbon girls, cousins of the
bride, little Misses Claude Aycock,
Mary Michaux and Ethel Miller.
The bride was gowned in a duchess
lace robe over taffeta, with bridal
veil caught up with lilies of the valley,
and she carried a shower bouquet of the
same flower, and as she stood before
the officiating minister and spoke the
vows of the bridal, her beautiful face
flushed and radiant under the excite
ment of it, she was the ideal personifi
cation of superlative lovliness. Her
going-away gown was of blue voile,
with hat and veil to match.
Mrs. W. H. Borden, the bride's
mother, was most becomingly gowned
in a handsome black lace robe over
gray taffeta.
After the ceremony the bridal pair
were showered with cordial congratu
lations, and were also beshowered
with the conventional rice throwing as
they took the north bound train at 10
o'clock for a bridal trip, after which
they will make their home in Norfolk.
Vs., where the groom holds a respon
sible position with the Roper Lumber
Company. -
She Is "The Sword of the
Spirit", Eloquent end
Irresistible.
Thronged Congregation Greeted Her
In This City At the First Baptist
Church and She Captivated
and Captured Ail.
From Saturday's Daily.
The appointment for Mrs. Nannie
Curtis, of Texas, to speak on Prohibi
tion in this city had been hra'ded for
some days, and, in consequence, she was
greeted in the First Baptist church last
night by an audience that overflowed
that spacious edifice and the auditorium
of the Sunday school room adjacent,
and from the moment she stood up to
talk to them till tue last words fell
from her lips she was listened to with
increasing interest and swayed her
hearers with varying emotions, as the
wind sways the soughing forests.
We could not, if we attempted, give
even a synopsis of the eloquent, fer
vent, irresitible, winsome talk ol .this
wonderfully endowed and matchlessly
eloquent woman, She is indeed a
veritable "Sword of the Spirit," and
she is accomplishing a work in further
ing the cause of Prohibition, that will
abide as a living monument to her
memory long after she has passed to
her reward exceeding great, for we
are told that they who instruct to
righteousness shall "shine as a star
for all eternity."
As Rev. Dr. F. D. Swindell, of Wil
son, says of her: "It was the best and
most effective speech I haveever heard
on the subject. Like the two pillars of
the temple, it represented strength and
beautv. It also combined humor and
pathos. Sometimes the audience would
bubble with laughter and then they
would be stirred to tears.
"She convinces by the torce ot 1 er
reasoning, and moves you by the per
suasiveness of her appeal.
She carries you by the very con
tagion of her enthusiasm.
"Some of her passages had the es
sence of true eloquence.
"From the beginning to the close
there is minute attention and unflag
ging interest. You lose sight of time
while you listen, and regret whensbe
stops. They miss much who hare the
opportunity to hear her nd fail to do
so.
"The Anti-Saioon League isjindeed
fortunate in having secured her ser
vices, for her work is bound to tell
greatly in the campaign for prohibi
tion." "
GOLD EXPORT.
$10 REWARD S
The Argus is authorized to pay Ten
Dollars for the arrest and conviction,
or for such, information given the so
licitor as will lead to the conviction of
the person or persons guilty of hedg
ing. Little River, thereby preventing
the free passage of fish up and down
said stream. Jv-
In the first nine months of the current
fiscal year the exports of cotton, bread
stuffs, meats, dairy products and coal
oil exceeded those of corresponding
months in 1907 about $25,000,000, and
they outran in value those of 1906 by
about $75,000,000. These tacts are in
teresting in view of gold exports.
After the panic of last October we im
ported about 9100,000,000 in gold, and
not a dollar of that great sum bad been
returned in official exports until an
engagement of $1,000,000 was made on
Wednesday of this week.
The interest taken in the matter is
languid. Money is accumulating in
New York, and Paris does not greatly
desire gold. All feel that New York
could readily ship without inconveni
ence $25,000,000, or even more, to Paris,
thus putting the bankers of that city in
better position to float a new Russian
loan, which is said to be a probable
event of the near future. Some ot the
$100,000,000 in gold imported after Octo
ber will no doubt be returned, and in
this lull of produce shipments, especi
ally of cotton, gold will doubtless go
instead. Produce shipments have been
heavy, but in March and thus far in
April they have been light. No one,
therefore, need be troubled if some part
of the post-panic $100,000,000 is returned.
Lovingston, "Va., April 25. Judge
William G. Loving, manager of the
"Virginia properties of Thos. P. Ryan,
will leave Nelson county on May 1st
and take his family to a distant state.
The notoriety of the murder trial of a
year ago, in which Loving was acquit
ted, has worn on the Judge, who has
been living with his family in retire
ment since then.
New York, April 25. Dr. E. A.
Spltzka, the brain specialist, announced
today that he will commence a cam
paign all over the country for the uni
versal abolition of hanging. He says
that hanging is the most inhuman
brutal death that oan be visited on a
man, criminal or not. The heart of a
man hanged beats thirteen to fifteen
minutes after the springing of the trap.
He says it is all wrong to suppose the
victim dies with the tall of the body.
He will try to have all States substi
tnte electrocution.
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