The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1882-1884, 1883-06-07
warming will seize HIM for the land
Of his birth.

yearning will seize HIM for the land
of his birth.
New Berne Journal: The yourg
crops, except in low and stiff lands,
are weathering the cool weather very
saccessfully......The Spring Term of
the Superior Court convened on
Monday morning. Judge Phillips
presiding. The State docket will
consume the entire first week, as it
numbers over seventy cases. Mr..
w. H Ernul is foreman of the Grand
Jury. His Honor's charge was ex-
haustive and instructive. ...Sylves.
ter Lawhorn, who appealed from -
a judgment Of eighteen months i'm
prisonment in the county Jail of Du.
plin county for the shooting of Her.
man Bryan, has jumped his appear
ance bond to Spring term, 1883. Of
the Superior Court for that county,
and taken to parts unknown.
Kinston Free Press Lenoir county
boys have nearly all returned from
the University.-Lenoir furnished
ten and seven of them we're from
Kinston. .....Some fellow wonders
why women are not more extensively
employed as local editors. They can
pick up more news in one hour than
the majority of local editors can in
two days. They have such fertile
Imagination they can always make
Eews anyway......The negroes gave a
festival at the Court House last
Thursday night and, we are ashamed
to say it, it was patronized by the
white men of the town more than by
the colored. If northernor had have
gone to that festival and done as those
men did they would not have been
noticed on our streets. Inconsistency
thou art jewel"
LEG TORN OFF IN A SINGLE MILL.
On Thursday last Mr.. Ed. Stire.
walt, a prominent citizen Of Cabarrus
county, and VINO Is well known. in
Charlotte, where he does good deal
of his business, met with a distress.
ing accident in his new single mill
at Mill Hill, by which he lost one OF
his legs. from the knee down. He
was working with the machinery,
when, by some unaccountable acct
dent, his foot was caught in the saw
and was torn to pieces, together
with the ankle and part Of the leg.
DR.. G.. G.. Smith attended to the
wounded man and found it necessary
tn amputate the leg below the knee.
Mr.. Jacob Stirewalt was in the city
Thursday, and knew nothing of the
accident that had occurred to his son
until he reached home.-Journal.
Observer.
Gold Leaf: Mr.. A. j. Kivett, a
well.known contractor and builder
from Durham, is here this week with
the plans and specifications of very
handsome ten-thousand dollar court
house. which he will make bid on
for Vance county. Let us not be too
sparing with the finances, but while
we are about it let us have durable
and creditable ''temple of Justice fol
our young and prosperous county
......In difficulty last night, Alex
Hicks was severely cut in the side
and about the head by Haywood
Cook. Hicks wound IN the side is
of serious nature. and it is tho light
he may die from it. George Floyd
and Stephen Cook we're arrested ant
held as accessories to the affair. Al
colored. The various Sunday
t schools Of the town will have uniOf
| pic mic and excursion to Oxford mex
/, Thursday, June 9TH. 1t is expected
j. that large crowd will take advan-
E tage of this opportunity to visit ou
! sister town on a grand holiday frolic
The Sunday school children are look
> ing forward to big time.
Wilmington Star: We learn tba
our friends at Point Caswell are pre-
pairing for Fourth of july celebra-
: ton. Mr.. Geo. NJ. Rose, of Fayettc
> Vile, is to deliver the address,.
:, Officer Everett, of the police force
: showed us pair of spectacle frames
yesterday which he says are claimed
to have been worn by one of the ma
;. ternal ancestors of family now re.
t siding in this city who came over il
the Mayflower..... The modset bu
r welcome sum of $12, collected a
}. Waco, Texas, by Rev. DIR. Taylor, 70
o monument to Rev. Elias Dodson
). was converted by the festive. frocic
y some types. in our last issue, into tn
+ handsome sum Of 81, 200 to erect {
4 similar testimonial to Rev. Ella
o Dodge whoever that may be-. Rev
o F. WE Peschau. of St. Pauls Evan
geliCal Lutheran Church, of this city
o has declined the Presidency of tn
( North Carolina College. at Mt. Pleas
q ant, Cabarrus county. recently ten
!. derec him, preferring to remain witt
his present charge in Wilmington
$500. The storm of Saturday Afternoon
Y last did considerable damage. A grea
n many fences were Frustrated. and tn
l. driving rain beat through a grea
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