The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1882-1884, 1883-04-12

to cure Cold or Cough 1T once. W.
should recommend DIR. Bulls Coug
Syrup. This valuable medicine is in
dorsed by the physicians and you ca,
rely on its doing the work every time.
The community will doubles
be pleased to learn that the Large Bricl
MILL" owned by Noah B,ggs Il Co., ha
changed its schedule for grinding from
twice week to every day. Meal, Flour
Brand, Hominy &C., can be obtained a
any time.
/ The April number of The Wax.
Forest Student is pleased to say the
following Of THE COMMONWEALTH
T. 1--WE look over every issue of his pa
per. and are glad to note its improvement
since he took it in charge. Its scope is
much wider than that OF the average
town paper in North Carolina, and IN its
intelligent observation it's readers Ger
tainly get the worth of their money"
i We appreciate such a notice, as we
know something Of the talent in their
''staff."
Here is what . boy answer ed
when asked why Geography was I'M
portant:
"Well, in the first place, If a person
wants to 20 to England, if he do not
know anything about Geography, he
would probably think that all he would
have to do would be to take his horse
and start by Halifax and go across 4
couple Of creeks and he would think he
was half way there, or in other words, he
would think to go by the South Pole and
come round by the North Pole and then
come through Australia, and by that
time he would get tired of travelling and
stop in Greenland"
Had you been standing in the
store of Noah Blggs & Co., a few days
ago, as company of young ladies stood
gazing with an admiring eye at the new
goods " OH would have heard the exclama-
tions, ''How beautiful the prints are this
season What taste they always display !!
Wonder if all their stock will be as we'll
selected as their prints?' In answer to
this. we invite you, one and all to call in
1 few days and the goods will show for
themselves.
AT the April meeting of the
Board of County Commissioners, the fol-
lowing appointments were shade fer as
sessing and listing the real and personal
property in this sections:
SCOTLAND NECK TOWNSHIP ALFRED
White, j. P: u. Edmondson, s. P.
Brinkley, assessors. Tax Lister, w. II.
Shields.
PALMYRA TOWNSHIP: e. P. Hyman,
J. p; Jas Henry Allsbrook, Jas. l..
Bowers. assessors. Tax Lister, q. w.
Lyman.
RosENEATH TOWNSHIP :-R. II. Pur-
| ring on, j. P; William Hodges, Wiley
J. higgs, assessors. Tax Lister, w. T. |
| Whitehead.
BRO. Daniels, of the Wilsom Id |
cance, says that we must have been !
asleep to let any one impose upon US
ry playing off pulling hard against
che stream" as an original contribu
ton. Bro. Daniels comments on our
stupidity and then publishes what he
calls the poem worthy of a world
vide celebrity We didn't see 50
much poetry in it, we confess, but
published it because we thought it a
commendable effort on the part of
one jtst beginning to call upon his
Muse. We don't know what our con-
temporary knew of the poem, but we
Know he has published the piece just
as We did. Whether We were impos-
ed upon or not has little to do with
1T, hut the admirers of Bro. Daniels
yell known and beautiful poem
have been imposed upon much worse,
for the rythm of the piece was very
imperfect, indeed, as handed to US.
However, We see it in the A,lsuuc e
just as we published it after TRINA to
improve the rythm.
The quarterly examinations
have closed in our schools, and we have
just made out the reports of the students.
While 1t is never expected that every boy
will get an extraordinarily good report.
we can say that we have seldom seen bet.
ter reports for boys. And we have ex-
ahmed some papers handed in during the
examinations. which challenge competi-
ton with any papers we have ever seen
from the hands of college students. who t
have had the advantage of years of train |
ng under the care of rigid professors.
Every student here is required to stand a q
'lgld written examination at the end of
each quarter; and this. combined with the
marks on daily Rotations, makes the
grade for each student. We send the> j.. s
eportS to the parents or guardians of the t
Students that they may see just how thew
IRE progressing in their studies, and as.,
what their department is. If. however I
he reports for the quarter just closed do
lot grade the students as high as they
AVE formerly been graded, we hope that
parents will not think that their bows
AVE not made progress; for it is our Gus
ON to mark very closely so that bows l
trade means something. We have had 1
several perfect examinations,
OUR Periodicals Eon THE
y EEK.-We have just received the
April number Of Tho W,,7 u.l