The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1893-11-02
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May the earth lie lightly on its head
The Weldon Fair is ia full blast
this week. Rocky Mount Fair next
| week.
Trinity football team has beaten
the University and are now champions
Of the State.
The man who does not take his
home paper should be ashamed to bor-
row it from his neighbor to read
The ''late financial trouble" is not
yet over; at least, in our immediate
pocket book.
! 1t is about time for the tax collector
to announce to the patriotic citizen
that pay day has come.
The farmer politician generally
raises short corn and tall grass on his
farm
Send in the news as it occurs in
your nelghborhood. Well pay you
for your trouble handsomely-in
thanks.
A number Of persons went to Cher
rvs X Roads Sunday to attend the
Baptist Union meeting there
Early risers on Tuesday and Nednes-
mornings saw big frosts, the largest
that have appeared this season.
We have heard good farmers say
that the cotton crop is shorter than
they expected even q month ago. 1t
is not so good as last year.
Roanoke river threatened to go be-
yond the banks last week, but fortu-
nately it is now behaving itself decent
~ and settling back Ill its bed.
Football has been declared brutal
game by the President of one of the
colleges Of Princeton University. That
institution will 10 longer have a team.
Senator Jones of Nevada, the indie
defatigable talker in behalf of silver
legislation, owns gold mine in Cabar-
rus county, this State
We should appreciate our excellent
schools. Other towns are not so bless
ed in that respect as ours; so we
should give them our support heartily.
If cotton has been waiting for the
Repeal of the Sherman law to go up
in price, it can now get itself on the
move. One week more VIII tell the
tale of that law.
North Carolina is about to become
one of the great gold producing States.
When we realize on the ores as de-
scribed on our first page, our people
may become gold bugs.
Mr.. Paul Kltchin had marrow es-
cape with his life last Friday. He was
caught in band at the brick mill and
thrown violently against a post, but was
not seriously hurt.
At the December meeting of the
Halifax county Medical Society, which
convenes in Weldon, the first We'd
nesdav in December, DR.. w. O. Nc
Dowell will read a paper on Albumenu-
ria of Pregnancy.
Wilmington is rapidly becoming a
formidable rivel of Norfolk as a cotton
market Heretofore, nearly all the
cotton from this section has been
shipped to Norfolk, but now Whining
ton gets about one half of it.
Intelligent farmers of this commune
ty say that the peanut crop was injured
about seventy-five per cent. by the
storm Of Oct IS, and by the heavy
rains since. The stack has been wet
almost through by the driving rain and
the peanuts are rOttlng or mlldewlng.
Dr. Hyatt performed very difficult
surgical operation on Mrs. Amos Phil
lips, of this county, about five weeks
ago, removing a twenty pound tibrOid
tumor from her abdomen. She re-
turned home last Monday perfectly
cured. DR.. Hyatt probably has the
largest surgical practice IN the State,
and his practice is constantly increas-
ing. He has nicely equipped sana-
forum for the treatment of diseases of
the eye and general surgery. 1t is the
ONLY institution of the kind in the
State.-Kinston On. CO. Free Press.
Land Posted.
All persons are hereby forbidden I'M
der penalty of the law to fish, or hunt,
either with gun or dog, on our lands
which are bounded by the lands of
William Black e Co., Walter Clark,
Jas. Gotten, Dolphin Tootle, the Whit
oLer track Whites Mill Pond and