The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1882-1884, 1883-04-26

Rain!
Rain! Rain! !!
Farmers are gloomy.
Who is to be Mayor?
Gotten keeps coming TO town.
This year bids fair to be another
81.
-Clsrksville is Frightening with
paint.
SHE most attracts who longest
eau refuse.
Frogs and Ducks are enjoying
the weather.
The Graded School is the glory
Of New Berne.
"A large quantity OF fertilizers
have been sold.
Prepare for the election on nfst
Monday in May.
Corp BY the car load is worth 80
cents per bushel.
If YOU want to vote call On aar'
]. B. Dunn, Registrar.
The trees have wrapped them
selves in nan:les Of green.
SIS Reward for better sc. Cigar
than Nichols Bros Punch
Save your all coins With holes
IN them for the church collection.
The little golden back birds are
making
1.-THE groves with music ring.
-pass;ng around the hat IS one
way OF getting the cents OF the meet
ing.
7, xas Webster who said that
..the farmers are the founders OF c'vi''S'
stion.'
The Southern Baptist Cohven
-,on will meet in its annual session IN
Waco, Texas, May 9Th.
The crying baby at the public
meeting is like D. good suggestion; II
ought to be carried out.
MIR. NJ. Hoffman has been I'M
proving the appearance Of his store. Pam
is one of the things needed IN our town.
Go 10 Nichols Bros Drug Store
to buy Pnre Drugs. Patent Medicines &c
If the nose Of Cieopatra had
been q little shorter, i: would have
changed the history Of the world.--Pascal
Fresh supply Of C,n:ectioneries
Cakes o. every description. Crackers
Lemons, Oranges. &c. at Noah Blggs 4
Cos
There is a colored man in Hall
fax county who has picked out as nuei
as seven hundred pounds Of cotton io on
day,
"A colored man in this vicinit,
who is said to be lis years old gets MAJ
if you tell him he is old and can't worl
much.
The work on the Panama cana
is being vigorously pushed. We haven
time '.to 60 all round the elbow to get t.
the thumb
Mrs. J. II. House, Litt!eton. n
c.. says: II have found Browns Irol
Bitters safe and pleasant cure for gen
eral debility"
1T is estimated that it voul'
take all the taxable property Of Halifa
county to pay for the fertilizers bougt
since the war.
Rain fall for the week endin
April 2lst. 1888, 2.46 inches. Highe!
range of thermometer, 7Oe; lowest rang
Of thermometer, 45'.
MIR. John H. Ennis, SalAbur,
says: 81 have sold great many bottle
of Browns Iron Bitters and have hear
it highly recommended"
The filling of the large brio
hole near N:Biggs & Co.'S mill is nearl
completed Our commissioners inten
to keep our town we'll drained.
We say let North Carolina
represented at the Southern exposition 9
Louisville. Advertise the State if v
want its resources developed by capita
list.
Go to E. H. Nights barber sho
in postcffice building. You'll feel bette
look better, and have a pleasant tin
at home and elsewhere till you nee
shaving again.
Miss DuRuisseau. an elocutio,
list, entertained . small audience in Pit
mans Hall on last Thursday nigh
Some of her pieces were very we'll re,
dersd, especially will the New Ye,
Come Tonight.
-"SOMETHlNG EXTRA !"-Anot]
er full line of the we'll known Pal
Shirts in store. in all sizes. This is Il
best unlaundred shirt on the market {;
the money, only 500, to be had of
NJ HOFFMAN,