The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-26
NEWSY GRAPHS.
HERE AND ELSEWHERE
WISE AND OTHERWISE.

MY success Is owing TO hDeraIIty IN
adyertising.-Ro Bonner.
After all, the best way to know the
real merit of Hoods SarsaphrilIa, is to
try it yourself. Be sure to get Hoods.
FINE COrToN.-The finest cotton we
have seen this year is Oh Mr.. \, Biggs'
Smith farm near town cultivated by Mir.
w. E. Davenport. 1t was 80 inches high
last Saturday.
MEETING OF CONFEDERATE EETE3-
ANS The meeting of Confederate Vetcr-
ans at Halifax July 4th, is important.
In another column VIC publish a card by
Capt. w. r. Bond, Secretary of Halifax
county Veteran Association, and call
special attention to same.
BEAN sHOOTERs.-The prevalence of
bean shooters with the small boy is
attracting attention in the town. Pro-
miscuous shooting with them is danger
Gus both to persons and property. We
think the town commissioners would do
well to pass an ordnance against the
carrying and use of them in the town.
THROWN FROM HIS CART.-One day
last week as Mr. y. E. Pope was driving
rather fast, turning a corner suddenly he
was thrown from his road cart and pain
| fully hurt. DR.. j. Stewart Hall was
called in, and tells US that Mr., Pope's
injuries though painful were not serious,
and that he will be out soon.
COMPANY G.-AH the members of old
company G. of Bird North Carolina Caval-
ry are urgently requested to meet in
Scotland Neck on next Saturday, 28th Of
June, at 5 O'Clock, p. m. to take pre-
liminary steps for a reunion of the entire
Company. Signed, OLD SOLDIERS.
Scotland Neck Township Com
ventiOn Will be held On .BuIy
T2th at 10 o'clock, IL. M.
VINE HILL ACADEMY.-Thisl IS a home
institution and so speaks for itself Prof.
W. c. Allen has recently been strongly
endorsed by the Board of Trustees. The
school is more prosperous than it has
been within the past dozen years, and
| the new conveniences which Prof. Allen
has added are worth much in the consid-
Grafton of those putting their boys under
a competent instructor.
WAKE FOREST Observation-Disclosures
. oo1JoI 70 IF oil
Forest College in this issue.
Its growing popularity is we'll known
throughout North Carolina and several
other Southern States.
There is no better college in this coun>
! try. Those wishing to educate their boys
can do no better than to send them to
Wake Forest College.
HoRNER SCHooL,--The old and popu~
lar Horner School of Oxford comes before
issue.
This S one of the finest schools in
North Carolina There were more than
| 100 in attendance last year, and the ef-
ltCEliCJ VI VIC oSAlOO1 III CNSl way NCCpS
pace with the times. The faculty is able
| and thorough. The hundreds of eminent
men all over this State and many in other
States that have been educated there are
monument to its usefulness and thor
oughness.
CURIOSITIES.-Mr. n. j. Lewis, who
| has recently come from Florida, has
shown US a handful Of quite interesting
curiosities. He has most beautiful shells
from the Halifax river. He also has
| fragments from the Spanish coat of arms
from Fort Marion at St. Augustine.
A COQUINA fragment, which in the
| Spanish means shell fish, shows a con-
glomeIation of shells and fragments of
all sizes in compact form with which Fort
Marion at St. Augustine was built near>
ly 400 years ago.
Mr.. Lewis also showed us the skin of
large rattlesnake which he helped kill.
The snake was feet Inches long and
81 inches in diameter, and had Is rattles
and button.