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Court of Common PIeas-Judse studley.
 This court came in yesterday morning at 10 o'clock.
 The case on trial was one of foreclosure brought by the WestVille M. E. church "a.
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Prompt relief in sick headache, dizziness, nausea, constipation, pain in the side, etc., guaranteed to those using Carter's Little Liver Pills. One pill dose. 25 cents.
 Wholesale by Richardson $ Go. all drug gists at retail. ap4 Sd 1w
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GrxbsIsrs' GniSe.
Starin's New Haven Trans
 pOrtatiOn Line.
Daily Except Saturday,

P .EK@A Leave New Haven from Starin,s Doet . It 10:15 p. 10. The JOHN E. STARIN Capt. McAIister, every Sunday, Tuesday and Thurs, day The ERAsTUS CORNING, Capt. Spoor, every Monday, Wednesday and Friday Returning, leave New York from Pier Is Soot of Oortland street, at g p. m.-the sTARIN every Mof- gay, Nednesday and Friday, the CORNING eveF " Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday. The on1v s1nS.yy night boat from New York " ~@s Fares with beRth in cabin, a: with nrreh fin sksks room. q .60. Excursion tickets Si50 - 's Free Coach I6aTes the depot st S:I, h. m Ta.va, commencing a$ S:30 D. m. s - -"~1' Tickets sold and baggage checked to Philadelpht..
 PAssenge~ by Fair HaVer and WestviIIe car1 csn boat, '--A sA1s 1ster W&rrcnB Jour uptown ofice;, St the TonfJna Hotel, and at S0o and 351 Chapel street.
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 je16 NeT Hsv3ene Gors,
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Stinging, irritation, inflammation, all Kidney and Urinary Complaints cured by '.Buchu- paiba." $1.
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That Husbanf Of mIr
EIias andRuRs

Is three times the man he was before he be gan using "Wells Health Renewer." $1 FlrT
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No family dyes were ever so popular as the Diamond Dyes. They never fail. The black is far superior to logwood. The other coIors are brilliant. a6 6d1W
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Mother Swans "

Mother Swans Worm syrup. InfaIlible, tasteless, harmless, cathartic for fsverishness, restlessness, worms, consti patton. 25e.
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As true and efficient tonic, and one that excels all other iron medicines, take Browns Iron Bitters. as 6d1w
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N. s. Heren, of Beverly, Mass, writes !: ''Your Wheat Bitters are excellent for Indi- gestion.'
 Mrs. 0. B. Hamilton, 5s Brown street, Portland, Me-, writes 'T have used your Wheat Bitters and highly recommend them to all. al 12d2w
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Forty Years Experience Of an Old Nurse

Forty Years Experience or an Old Nurse.
 MRS WnSsLows SOOTHING SYRUP is the pre- scription of one of the best female physicians and nurses in the United States, and has been used forty years with never failing success by millions of mothers for their children It re- HeVes the child from pain, cures dysentery and diarrhoa, gripping in the bowels, and wind coIic By giving health to the child it rests the mother. Price twenty-five cents bottle.
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 gums and balsams, and it's power is wonder full in curing backache, sprains, bruises, neu- raleia. pain in the side or soreness anywhere. Thousands testify to this. ap3 Sd 1w
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Church of the Messiah.

Last evening pleasing literary and musi- cal entertainment took place in the lecture room of the Church of the Messiah. The violin playing of Viola Sanford was exceed ing fine, she showing great aptitude for the instrument. The song by Miss Miller, of the New Haven School of Music, was well re- ceived by the large audience. "Jane Con- quest" was read by Mrs. Sanford in her usu- al pleasing manner and is always enjoyed by all The programme was made up as fol lows:
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Chicago Grain and Provision Market
 Call B bard. Closing prices telegraphed by O. E. Foss x Go. to Edwin Rowe. and Stone street. New York.
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The Voltaio Belt O., Marshall. Mich., will send Dr. Dyes Celebrated E1ectro-Voltac Belts and Elec- trio Apprances on trial for thirty days to men tyoung old) who afflicted with Nervous Debili- fY. Lost Vitality and Manhood, and kindred troubles, guaranteeing speedy and complete restoration of health and manly vigor. Address as aboveS N. B. No risk incurred thirty days trial is allowed.
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Steamboat Lime for New KOrs

steamboat Line for New FOra
 Fare ST. including Berth.
 Tickets for tho Round Tr4R, @1.sS. r%M The steamer ELM CITY Cant wor garmarth, will leave New Haven at 1z;Oo P. @, sunday. excepted. statereoms sole of1ce of Peck Btahops q19 Chapel street.
 Steamer CONTINENTAL Captain Stevens lsayas New Haven at 10:16 A m-, Sun days excapsed
 FROM NEW YORK-The O. H. NORTHA6 Isxv.s Peek Slip Ut p. n., and the CONTINENTAL at II.oo ct 19 o'clock midnight.
 Sunday Night Boat for New York
 The steamer NEW HAVEN, Capt. Post Ieava,N.u Haven at 10:30 ?. Statelooms sold at tha EIioti House. Free stage from Insurance BuiIdino Ohan.i street, commencing at p. m. "f'' Tickets are sold and baggage checked through Ao kAtladelphiA, fbeth rcutes Baltimore and WsShinS- jy9 S SAH Fl wapD ..
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uttered involuntary words oAly, but
none which could be understood or
accepted as intelligent. On rising
in the morning after sleeping soundly
at night, he is regularly dressed, like
a baby, and led to his chair, where
he Immediately sinks to sleep. When
hunger prompts, he rises, proceeds
to the pantry, eats, returns to the
chair, sleeps and when night comes
is undressed and goes to sleep again.
In winter and early spring, or before
the nature of his strange case was
known, many visitors were admitted
to see the person who could sleep so
long and live, but of late no one is
allowed to see the patient save the
immediate members of his family.
The period of his lethargy at this
writing. covers l91 days.-N. Y. Her.
aid.
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SUBJECTS FOR THOUGHT.

1t is an argument of candid, in.
genuous mind to delight in the good
name and concentrations of others
to pass their defects and take notice
of their virtues; and to speak or hear
willingly of the latter; for in this in.
deed you may be little less guilty
than the evil speaker, in taking
pleasure in evil, though you speak it
not.
Appearances seldom ought to de-
termine our judgment. When the
honor, probity, orreputation Of some
one is the matter in question, it ought
not to be pronounced without a
thorough investigation of the subject;
and in that case s,lsn,cions arc
never certa.iinties.
---feople who do great and heroic
things are not people who neglect
little duties and 60 about looking
for adventures, they are people who
are always steady in doing the duty
that lies next them.-Church Mes-
SengeT.
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BOOTHS HABITS.

Booth made comparatively little
money in Europe, and the rewards
of acting there are very inferior to
what they are in this country. He
is content, however, to exercise his
mind in distant countries without
too low attention to p, cuniary profits.
1t is impossible for him to drink even
a thimbleful of liquor, and he knows
it SO we'll that he derives but little
enjoyment from his stomach or
senses. He may touch little beer
now and then. In early life he drank
hard, and it is said that his mind
grew clearer. like his fathers, a. he
drank the more, but the death Of his
wife in Boston, while he was playing
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1882-1884, 1883-07-12

"RIGHT SMART" MEANS Four
TEEN.-Among the peculiar South
ern phrases that have been grated
on Western slang is right smart"
1t has always had an indefinite
meaning, but recent trial for tres
pass in Calaveras Co.. CAL, defined
it precisely. 1t seems that the hogs
of one ranchman had ravished the
field Of neighbor. A witness swore
that lie saw the band of intruding
swine, which he decribed as fright
emart chance of hogs" When asked
to put this into figures he declared
that in Arkansas or Missouri it
means fourteen. The Judge so
charged the jury. as the witness was
acknowledged to be an expert on the
subject, and they brought in a verdict
of full damages for the plaintiff
San Francisco Chronicle.
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Hamlet for sixty nights in New
York, awoke him to the feeling of re-
gret and self.correctlon. 1t is the
gossip that he was in love with an
actress named Ida Vernon, and
having had a quarrel with her, met
his first wife, the mother of his
daughter, Edwina, in a Southern
theatre, and hastily married her. His
second marriage was not happy
one, his wife being jealous and some
what sitting on his spirits, and, to.
wards the end, there was more than
Indifference, some say real dislike,
between the two. He is a widower
for the second time.-Neau York Let
ter IN Philadelphia Times.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1882-1884, 1883-07-12

"HOME SWEET HOME" When
Mr.. Topnoody had settled down af-
ter supper Thursday evening, his
wife, after few preliminary coughs,
remarked:
'Mr. Topnoody. have you thought
anything about where we would spend
the Summer %
"Yes, my dear, l have given the
subject some deliberations
''And have you decided on place,
dear ?''
eyes, love, l have"
"Oh, you sweet thing! Where is
it to be %
cat home, love; the dearest place
on earth, the conservatory of our af-
fections, in which bloom the freshest,
fairest flowers of hope and happinesss
contentment and satisfied serenity.
Drummer.
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FLIRTATIOUS MARRIED WOMEN.

No class of the women of the beau
monde do more harm than do those
married women who amuse them
selves by carrying Oh harmless
Hirtation"- designation which is~sas7
misnomer, for no Irritation can be
harmless where one of the parties to
it is married woman. There may
be nothing essentially wrong in the
affair no harm may accrue either to
her or to the man upon whom she ex-
ercises her power of attraction; but
her husband is made unhappy and
she becomes the subject of unpleas-
ant comment. 1t is frequently said
that pretty young married women are
much more attractive to gentlemen
than it is possible for young ladies to
be. The reason assigned for this is
that men can talk to them with less
restraint, can adopt towards them a
free.and, easy tone, which renders
them agreeable companions. The
truth of the matter Is. that men may
with impunity lavish upon married
women attentions which, if offered
to single women, would be decidedly
committal and as society men are
not often burdened with money, and
are not prepared to set up establish
ments of their own, they avoid the so
ciety CT young girls. and, joining the
train of some gay young matron. are
contented with such crumbs of COM
fort as she sees fit to bestow upor
them. 1t is almost incomprehensible
that any man of sense should be viii
ling to become one of this retinue
who are permitted to carry my lady's
shawl. or hold her fan, in return fol
assiduous devotion; but they art
battered by such distinction.
makes them fashionable. No unmar
rled man should he blamed for carry
ing on Irritation with a married
woman, when she takes the iniatia-
tive; but woman should be censur
ed who. having voluntarily exchang-
ed the freedom Of girlhood for th'
responsibilities of wife, disregard
her husbands claim on her time ant
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COUNTY,.

Superior Court Clerk and Probate
. Judge-John T. Gregory.
Inferior Court--Geo. 7. Simmons.
Register of Deeds-J. NJ. Grizzard.
Solicitor-A. J. Burton,
Sheriff.. J. Lewis.
Coroner-J H jenkins.
Treasurer-E. D. Browning.
20. Supt. Pub. 1nstruction-D Clark.
Keeper of the Poor House-John Ponton
Commissioners-C Aaron Pres
colt, Sterling johnson, DR.. W. r
Wood, John A. Morfeet, and NJ
Whitehead.
Superior Court-Every third kMonda,
IN March and September.
Inferior Court-Every third Monday il
3 February, May, August and November
Judge of Inferior Court. N. Hill.
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HE WOULD BE A GENTLEMAN.

The other day Miggs came down
town, and jubilantly announced that
there had arrived an heir to the
goods, chattels and chooses an ac-
tlon'', of the firm of Miggs and his
wife.
"What is it % inquired one of the
sympathizing friends.
"Girl, by gum!'' joyfully remarked
Miggs.
"Aw!' said several Of the crowd
contemptuously, and then they
derided Miggs. cas- men will do" for
not starting his family with boy,
who would tie tin cans to dogs tails
and grow up to be president.
The rallying of his friends made
Miggs feel like he had committed a
crime.
Just thea old Major De Baligeithy
drew Miggs ash and said:
.sMine friendt, ven dey meek &c
mooch fun nit you like dot. l dell
YOU vot You do. You dell dem dol
ven your poy lie do COON ne Will pt
shentlemans, .vor he hash stood
aside and let de ladies' pass tust
Then Miggs rejoined the crown
and drank beer at the expense o
some other fellow all day.-Georgie
| Mn5Or.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1882-1884, 1883-07-12

WHAT IS ART?

Let us compare the answers to this
question given by two eminent
French artists of our day. "Art,"
says NJ. Harvard, SIS the pursuit of
the beautiful. So also says the
Dictionary of the Academy, or to
the same effect. But NJ. Harvard
qualities the beautiful. It is not, he
explains, something outside of us
objective it is subjective altogether.
Whatever excites the sentiments
which harmony, elegance, grace usu-
ally excite, this is beautiful. The
beautiful exists only to the degree
these emotions are aroused. To call
them forth is the end of art.
The definition of Eugene Veron Is
not very different. 1t is this: art
is emotion translated either into com.
binatlons Of lines, forms and colors,
or into rhythmical movements, sounds
or works."
The measure Of excellence Cf a
given work Of art is therefore the de.
gree of power with which it expresses
the emotion which called it into exis.
tence. The methods by which It does
this are of little moment. Nor does
it aim at anything beyond. When it
represents the emotion of the artist,
when it evokes the same in the Oh.
server, it's mission is ended.
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JOHNS HOPKINS AND THE SOUTH.

The board of trustees of the Johns
Hopkins University, at Baltimore,
make an announcement which is of
interest to North Carolinians. 1t is
to the effect that in accordance with
the request of the founder Of the Uni.
versity twenty scholarships, called
the ''Hopkins Scholarships" freeing
the holders from charges for tuition,
we're opened at the commencement of
the University TO young men who
need the assistance. and that proba-
bly, an equal number will be annual
ly bestowed.
The scholar ships will be distrihut.
ed among such candidates ''froln the
States of Maryland Gncluding the
District of Columbia), Virginia and
North Carolina as may be most de-
serving of choice because Of their
character and intellectual promise"
No publicity will be given to the
names of those who are appointed or
rejected, but private announcement
will be sent to each successful candi
date.
These scholarships may be held for
four years, but are liable to be forfeit
ed because of deficiency in attain
ments, or of unworthy conduct.
In addition to the scholarships
above named. eighteeenhhoo,n.crary hon Hop:
kins scholarships have been institut-
ed for the encouragement of conspic-
u6us merit among undergi aduate
students who regularly mstriculate.
Six of these scholarships will be
annually offered to such candidates
''from the States of Maryland, Virgin
ia and North Carolina as may be
most deserving of choice because of
their character and intellectual prom.
ise." Two scholarships will be Offer
ed annually to candidates from each
of the States named.
The value of each scholarship will
be $3.50 per annum and free tuition :
and in case the holder of scholar.
ship withdraws from the University,
for any reason, during the course of
session, such part of the allowance
will be paid as seems equitable to the
executive committee.
We do not know that any North
Carolinian has ever taken advantages
of these opportunities provided by
Mr. Hopkins. but that they are val
liable there can be no question. Johns
Hopkins is now one of the leading
universities Of the country, and is s
university il the best sense Of that
| word.-Neqys and Observer.
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NORTH CAROLINA RIVERS.


Carolina! Land of waters! Here the
strangest rivers are:
Arrarat and Alligator, the famous steam
Of Tar
Broad and Rockey here are rivers; here
are rivers old but New.
Yellow, Black, and silver Green, and
Whiteoak, Bay an Reddie too,
Here the whirllng, wild Watauga, leaping
Elk, and crooked Toe,
Tahkeeostah,i by the Paint Rock, and
the wingless Pigeons flow,
Tennessee and swift Hiawassee, gulf
ward all through mountains go:
Where the Cherokee still fingers is the
nimbie Nanthala.
In the land of Junalnskee is the Valley,
gurgling gayly.
In the dismal lakeland is the viney fes-
tooned Scuppernong,
In the cloud-home and the sky-land
Swannanoa skins along,
In thh pine-lands over marl-beds ruby
wine like Cashie creeps,
In the fern.land from the balsams Tucka-
seegee grandly leaps.
Here Oconaluftee laughs, and wee Cheo-
wee frets and clashes,
And mid towering canons Linville's sill
very spray spurts and slashes,
And here John with sands all golden,
meath the Rhododendrous dashes.
From Virginia come Meherrin, Nottoway,
the deep and slow.
In the gray and yellow hill-land, where
tobaccos golden grow,
Tubing Dan and Mayo, Fisher, Mitchell,
Flat and Emo, go.
Here is Yadkin winding ever like a ser
pent mid the hills.
Here Catawba, pearly pebbled from a
thousand brawling rills.
Here's Uwharie with its hurry, here the
lazy Waccamaw.
Here are heard the humming spindles on
the busy Deep and Haw.
Here in the field and Swamp and forest
are the Lumber and Pedec,
And upon her breast Coharie, Colly and
| the MmgO wee.
Here the Cape Fears storied waters
grandly go to open sea.
Here Contentnea and Trent, pouring into
Neuse, find Ocraroke.
Where the herring comes in spring time
are Chowan and broad Roanoke,
North and Newport, Yeopim, Pongo.
Pasquotank, and Pamlico,
Pcntiego and queer Perquimans-here
the millions come and go.
Dripping, gurgling, gushing, rushing,
tumbling. creeping so they be,
Cardinals Matchless rivers from their
fountains to the sea.
*The Indian word is Torpoeo, or Tau
queoh.
THE Indian name of French Broad.
| SThe original Indian Is Saxapahaw.
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THE POSITION FOR SLEEPING.

A German, Baron Reichenbach, has
occupied many years in studying the
art of bed-making, or rather bed.place.
ing, and maintains that improperly
placed beds will shorten mans life.
He says: If mere magnet exercises
an influence on sensitive persons,
that earth's magnetism must certain.
~ make itself felt on the nervous life
OF man. In whatever hemisphere you
may be, always sleep with your feet
to the equator, and let your body lie
as ''true as needle to the pole" The
proper direction of the body is Of the
utmost Importance for the proper cir
culation of the blood. and MANY dis.
turbances in the organisms have been
cured by simply placing the bolster
at different point of the compass
from that it had occupied. Let such
as have hitherto been in the habit of
sleeping with their head where their
feet ought to be, take to heart the ex.
ample Of the late DR.. Fischwester, of
Magdeburg, who died recently at the
age of 100 years. The most unhealthy
position. we are told, is when the
body lies east and west. Some OBJ.
servers assure us that to sleep in such
a posture is tantamount to commit
ting suicide, and that diseases are
often aggravated by deviations from
the proper posture.-Er.
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ENERAL DIRECTORY.
SCOTLAND NECK

Mayor-W. H. Shields.
Commissioaers-Noah Biggs, NJ. Hoff-
man, r. NJ. Johnson, X. Allsbrook.
Meet first Tuesday IN each month at 4
o'clock, P NJ.
Chief of Police-R. J: White.
Assistant Policemen C. W. Dunn, W.
E. Whitmore, G. Speed. Sol. Alexander.
Treasurer-R Nj johnson.
Clerk-K. Allsbrook.
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NOTICE.

WE have one hundred town lots for
w sale in this town. Some of them
are very desirable. This is a rapidly
growing town, and persons wishing to
secure good places for residences and bus
mess stands. and to make good invest
ments, will do we'll to call on us.
KITCHIN & DUNN.
July 5th, 1882.
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EARTH's RICHEST GOLD MINE.
A Bonanza in the Transvaal-Unpre
cedentedly Rich Quartz.

From Colonies and India.
The property in the Transvaai, from
which we reported some time ago on
good authority, that enormous quanti.
ties ofgold-reacbing in certain cases
as much as 1000 ounces to the ton
were likely to be taken, has been &C.
quired by an English company, whose
engineer and geologist, sent out to
examine the prospects of the under
taking, have sent home most satisfac.
tory reports on the subject, 1.-TWO
diggers," says one Of them, ''employ-
ing seven Kaffirs, had just cleaned up
for the week EEK sseeyyeeaatty-three seventy ounces OF
gold, and their means of WORKING
most inefficient. 1t is by far the rich
est place l have ever seen, and the
amount it will produce is something
fabulous" One large reef has been
discovered running through the prop.
erty and traced at the surface for
oyer two miles. A series of trenches,
cut through it at the surface, prove
the width to he from two feet to
eig ghteen feet. This reef is composed
of quartz, strongly charged with Iron,
some of which, having been washed,
has yielded very fair prospectsof gold
sufficient, as estimated, to produce
from two ounces to three ounces to
the ton. The engineer is of the opin-
ion that this reef, when developed to
a debth of so feet to 100 feet. will
prove of more value than the whole
of the smaller veins at present being
worked. Some quartz reefs which
have been already partially worked
give, according to the dlggers. 200
ounces to the ton. The proportion,
indeed, is what they admit having
got from the quartz which they pick
out in their sluicing. Besides the
quartz there is large quantity of al
luvial soil, some of which is reported
to contain the extraordinary quantity
of an ounce and half to the cubic
yard. If these prospects are realized
in practical working the Lydenbure
Gold fields may claim to rank among
the richest in the world, even it the
exceptional return of 1000 ounces
to the ton should, in full working, be
reduced in practice to the 200 ounces
which pioneer diggers have realized
or even to one.tenth of that proper
tion. Some of the alluvial washings
on the "Lisbon" property have beer
proved to yield the unprecedented
quantity of 1000 ounces of gold t.
the ton. According to the certificate
of the assayers, the average yield o
thirty eight samples, taken under tn
SUPERVISION Of the late Cold COmmls
] sioner for the Transvaal under th'
Bristish Government, is forty-eigh
and a half ounces of silver to the tol
or ore. The refuse. till recent!
thrown away by the miners on TIN
spot, contains sufficient gold to pa
a handsome profit on the working o
the stuff.
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A New York Justice has sent
woman to Blackwell's Island for SIX
months because she shook her fist NJ
him. A Justice of the Peace has big
advantages, compared t" a married
man.