The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1882-1884, 1883-05-03

Saturday......Mr. l. mnel Rippy has
garden peas IL inches high and ~
full bloom. This is not Inu h behlni
our brethren of the east. # 81
Roleiqh Fisitor. A friend placed
on our table this morning young
peach the size of a full grown acorn,
and ne says there are plenty more of
the same size ON the tree from which
it Was taken......Maj Winder has Of
fered one hundred dollars reward for
the apprehension of the person who
placed the obstruction on the track
nf,the Raleigh & Augusta Railroad
on Tuesday night last, just above
Apex.
Fuyettevi lie Observer The spring
rainfall has been very heavy, and the
present condition of the low grounds
is enough to make the average farmer
weep. The Cape Fear River rose rs
feet last Moniay night, and is still
very high. 1--WE learn that Ander-
son Tory who was shot by the negro
McEacnern, an account Of which APP
peared in the Observer Of the 18th
inst. has since diet from the effect
OF his wound. Hon. Geo. NJ. Rose
has been invited by the Professors
of LAGRANGE Military School. Lenoir
county to deliver the literary address
at the commencement in May; and
b, the Proie ssors of JonesbOrO High
school to deliver the literary address
a, the CONNIE ncenent there next
month.
Warrento. Guzette The rainfall
here Sunday night In eight hours was
81 inches. the heaviest that has been
IN three years......As far as we can
hear some four or five hundred
bridges were DESTROYED IN this county
last Monday, but fortunately they
we're mostly Plantation bridges ana
can be readily replaced......At the
railroad meeting Friday night the di-
rectors reported to a meeting of the
citizens that for the present they
deemed horse railway expedient.
Mayor requested to forthwith aiver
Use notice of the election to see
whether or not the citizens will rai,t\
i. Town subscription OF $4,000 Tor
, the building and equipping OF the
road. If, after the roai is built. tbs
lrei ghts AMI travel justify 1t, steam
Will be substituted .or horse power.
10 MoRRow.-TO-m morrow i, loaded
down with the things we intend to do
and to have. There is no faculty OF
the soul so over worked as this fac
ulty of expectation. If all shall come
OF the future which we are pouring
into it, we shall have a marvellous
world before long. The :are sad
acts of these days will soon give
place to islands of milk and honey
and to palaces of Of Ala ldin. When
a Young man lives in expectation Of
a fortune to come to him in middle
age, how, for the most part. it utt. rl\
RUNS his youth When man in mia
tile life dleams OF good deeds to be
With his intentlOrs, how often his
rosy future culmina'es in darkness
an;; storms, and nothing remains but
the dusty shadows OF which dreams
are matte. by the street called BY.
and.by you reach house called
Never.
Goldsboro Messenger: The first
shipment of peas from this place this
season was made last Tuesday by
Messrs. Holmes. Ease Creech and
Collins. was quite a hail
storm here on Tuesday evening, and
had it come with little more force
the truck farms in this vicinity would
have undoubtedly been ruined, but
fortunately the stones we're rather
soft, though Of considerable size, and
the speed Of their fall moderate, hence
it is hoped that not much damage is
done. ...Laura.the year oil daught
er Of MIR. II. " arrick, in the Provi-
dence sectiob, in this county. during
an unguarded moment. one day of
last week, pulled the contents OF a
kettle Of boiling pot liquor ove- her
holy, scaldlng herself SO badly that
she died the following da, ......l he
closing exercises of Sparta Institute
will commence May 9th. May 10Th.
declarations, Z o'clock. p. m. May
18th, commencement exercises liter.
AIRY address, by J. M. Leach, Esq,
Lexington, n. G.: concert Z o'clock,
p. m. Music by the Wilson Cornet
Band.
AlLermurle Enqirer: The fishing
engine used at tie fishery OF MIR. Ed.
ward " God burst her boiler last
week......On Wedn, sdsy night last,
i'll the Baptist church, Miss Ann. N.
" illiams and Capt. James NJ. Lack
land, of the Norfolk Southern Rail-
road. were married by kew. X. Van
deventer......Thc Schooner, Ned
Wood, property of Messrs. Jones and
" GODDARD. of this place, was struck
10y whlrlwild on Albermarle Sound
Oh Friday last and had her mast car
ried away, and was capsized. For
tunately she steamer f. n. Fairchilds
crme to her RI stue, and raj ed her
aud towed her in port.....On Mon
day morning last Mr. +. W. Burton
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