The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1882-1884, 1883-10-04
Cotton 9 3-S.

Has your head been zamined?
Receipts Of cotton light as yet.
A tramp ventriloquist in town.
- What has become Of roller skat-
ing:
Come to Scotland Neck to buy
your fall goods.
bright and beautiful weather
along the first part of the week.
We had quite a heavy shower
with severe wind Tuesday night.
Soon we will hear no more of the
sweet e. melody of the festive mosquito.
Mr.. B. O. Savage was the first
man to mail two-cent letter Monday
morning.
We learn that over thirty mil
hons of the new two-cent stamped envel-
opes will be ready to put on the road next
Monday.
We hear of very little sickness
in this community, and believe that Scot
land Neck is one Of the healthieSt places
in eastern North Carolina.
1t is with pleasure that we wei
come into the fold The SUM- another
Democratic Journal. the first issue Of
which has just been published at Fayette-
Vile n. c. with Josiah Evans as editor
Success is onr wish.
livery body in this vicinity is
looking forward with certain degree of
eaeerness to the agricultural fairs t? be
held respectively at Rocky Mt, Tarboro
and Weldon. This place will no doubt
be well represented at each.
The Wilson papers say all man.
ner of good things about our Methodist
minister. Rev. c. w. Byrd, who was
down there last week assisting In series
of meetings. all of which is appreciated
by Mr.. Byrd's many friends and admir-
ers in Scotland Neck.
DR.. Barker the renowned phre-
nologist has been in town since W ednes-
day of last week. lectUring every evening
in Edmondsons fall to good audiences.
His lectures are real instructive AMI anus
ing. He will remain here until Saturday.
His lecture Fri lay night will be exclu'
siveiy for gentlemen.
Mr.. VIM. Hodges of this county
who received silver watch offered 10y
our merchants for the first bale of cottor
brought to Scotland Neck this fall
brought nine more bales last Friday av'
eraging over six hundred pounds each
and took from the warehouse baggln
and ties for sixty more.
Mr.. j. c. Williams, tie invento
of the Patent Fabric Measuring Ma
chine paid US visit few evenings sine
with a model Of his extraordinary piec
of inventive genius The model show
us is made on the scale of 81 inches to tn
yard, and it measures with the verlest &C
curacy every trial.
AT the regular meeting OF tn
town commissioners on Monday Mayo
Shields handed in his resignation. w
A. Dunn Esq. was elected to fill the va
cancy. A better selection could not hav
been made. He was mayor i'll 81 an
80 and made worthy and efficient mu
nicipal officer. We hope he will accept
Our clever Post Master, Mr.. j
T. Brlnkley, has remodeled the post OF
flee recently and greatly improved it L
looks and in convenience to the public
The money order office, registered lette
office and general delivery are all distme
but all in such close proximity to eac
other that the clerks can serve you at
moments notice.
Our Jewish fellow citizens, G
whom there are quite number, celebra
ed the Hebrew Rash-ha-Shanah, which
their calendar is the New Year, on Tue:
day, by total occasion of business. |
was their most welcome holiday and wa
observed as day of remembrance an
self examination. Their great Day I
Atonement will be celebrated next THU
day. This is the Jewish year 5644 a.
-Edmondson's Hall is now in tril
for lectures, travelling troops &c. 1t
one of the incest halls in our knowledge
and shows the right kind of enterprise
its owner. 1t is large and commodiou
having seating capacity of about or
thousand. The stage is l4x26 feet with
dressing room at each end. 1t can
rented at reasonable rates, for all unol
iectionabie entertainments.
We are under obligations to NJ
L. NJ. Long, Secretary of the RoanoE
and Tar River Agricultural Society, for
complimentary ticket to their fourteent
annual exhibition, which will be hel
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