The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-26


was no preaching at night and no service
in the Methodist church at all.
The Advance says that Mr.. Wiley
Edwards, of Wilson, sold fine trotter
to Cincinnati man for fifteen hundred
dollars. She is three years and nine
months old and can make $40 and has re-
ceived little training,
We are glad to note that steps are be>
ing taken to rebuild the burnt district in
Tarboro. There will be much improves
ment in the replacing of the buildings
progress and improvement heing charac-
teristic ofthe rarboro people.
And now we learn that some Of the
Scotland Neck boys, at least one, want
TO stay from home this vacation BOYS
too. Actually want to stay in the town
where they attend school. Who can
guess why? we'll. it beats u>-we should
smile.
sensible writer says that whoever
loses sleep either by overwor!l, from trou-
BILE. dissipation or any other cause, Is
thereby shortening his life. Be careful
Young men. and don't lose sleep by keeps
ing too late hours if you can possibly get
in on time.
On Saturday night of last week there
was considerable fall of snow. Sunday
during the day there was very little fall.
Sunday night about 6 o'clock it began
showing again and continued for several
hours. making the snow equal to. if not
leeDer than last weeks snow.
Elizabeth City surely must have anon
de plume maniac. A certain clever young
nan IN town has received letter from that
city evidently written over name not
real in that section. and the letter inti>
mates that some one in Scotland Neck
would like to have a 'wren for the kitchen.
Messrs. E. B. Higgs & Co.. have since
heir little fire taken precautions against
another. by having everything examined
carefully and all faults CORRECTED in their
store especially around the stove pipe.
Wonder if to some other merchant we
could not say. Go thou and do likewise.
One of our enterprislng merchants has
whole halt bushel of tops. spinning tops
Bows here can't appreciate them. They
he .ops-go begging at half cent apiece
5v exerting our utmost efforts we nigh
.et up little enthusiasm for tops, W,
used to be in our boyhood days a top
throWer.
We can't see why some knights of the
iuill' persist i'll trying to instruct people
III the osculatory art. We suppose that
father Adam kissed mothe~ Eve and every
living man since that time has done like
wise. Of course very few have kisse.
others than their wives. mothers and Sis
shut it seems to us kiss is kiss for
a that
The very unsightly dorble-barrelled
>hanty in front of Mr.. w. II. Kitchin's
store has been removed and taken some
where for school house for the colored
urchins. The vacancy is much more pleas
ing to the eye than was the building. We
learn that Capt. kitchin will soon build
spacious machine shops on the site. Such
shops will do the town much good, and
100, 1t speaks Of enterprise.
To- E,,lnp Oh y -, N 4 -
on Main Street occupied by E. b. Hlgg>
i Co., caught fire fro n a stove pipe with
N, and came very near being serious af-
fair. Numbers Of people hastenec. to the
cry Of tire, and it was soon extinguisheu
without harm to anything or any body,
ave the unfortunate colored man who ran
up into the garnet and skinned one or two
Of his legs By falling through the plaster>
Ing.
Our highly esteemed county contempo>
rary the Roanoke News has Just entered
upon it's fourteenth volume-its fifth vols
ume under the presant management. It's
clever proprietors and Editors, Messrs
Hall & Sledge, have succeeded in max ing
the News one Of the best and sprightli>
est papers in the State. 1t is ably edited
and lastly srranged--the local columns
are especially interesting. No exchange
brings to our sanctum more news. We
congratulate the News and wish it the
success IN the future which it richly de>
serves.
We notice in one OF our exchanges from
our capitol city that tho editor asks for a
continuation on newspaper bOrro wing.
We will not send in to our brother editur
an essay on the subject for fear of subject
ing ourselves to the same criticism chat he
seems to fear if he should write boldly
about the natter-the criticism of writing
from motives for personal gain, but we
give the following anecdote, by which we
hope our esteemed contemporary and our
selves may both be ben Gifted:
Then it Became Easy.-A great news
paper reader was out hunting recently,
and storm coming UP he crept into a
hollow log for shelter. After the storm
abated he endeavored to crawl out, but
found that the log had swelled so that
it was impossible to make his exit. He
endeavored to compress himself as much
as possible hut with ind :ffarant cucoaSS