The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1894-11-22

Mr. W. =. Whitehead is clerk at he
Evans House in Weldon and will be
glad to see his friends any time.
OSE YEAR.-"illie Kicks. the color
ed boy who was tried for stealing pants
from Mr.. X. Jenkins, was sentenced in
HALIFAX court last week to one year in
the penitentarv.
BEST PEOPLE HE EVER sAw-Mr. S.
s. Alsop, of Enfield, who spent two
days here during the Baptist Associa-
ton, says the Scotland Neck people are
the cleverest people he has ever seen.
New sTABLEs.-The McCleary-Mc-
Clellan Live Stock Company in Nor
FOLK, whose adj stands in THE DEMO
Graf have just replaced their fine
stables that were burned some time
ago. They are as well fixed as ever.
FOUR TURKEYS AT a sHOT-Mr
Moore of Martin, who lives near Ham
llton, killed four turkeys at one shot a
few days ago. Rev. w. J. Smith pass
ed soon after his good shooting and he
gave the good clergyman one of his
turkeys
ATTORNEY Brown KILLED-In Kin
stOn last week Mr.. Brown, an attorney
practicing in the Lenoir Superior court,
got into difficulty with deputy sheriff
Waters, the difficulty growing out of
some unpleasant reference which Brown
had made in a speech against Waters
Brown struck Waters with a chair, Wa
tiers drew his pistol and shot Brown
through the neck from which he has
since died Waters Will plead self-de-
Tense.
A FIRST CLASS HUMBUG.-We do not
wish to give any free advertisements,
but take enough space to say that a
first class humbug in the shape of a
manipulation, "took in a
good crowd at the female academy last
Thursday night. He advertised some
thing fine and he gave tit was so fine
it could not be seen Or heard. The
photograph man and the boy that call
ed him pap" wheeled out of town next
too soon to receive cOngratu-
lations.
A DEAR HoG-An interesting suit
was decided in Superior court Tuesday
between R. w. Brown and G. w. Pear
son. The subject Of litigation was a
hog which Brown found in Pearson's
pen and cI.imed for his own Several
weeks ago the case was tried in Wei
don before Justices Gary and Gooch
Brown gained the case and Pearson APP
pealed. The hog will weigh about 400
pounds. There we're thirty or forty
witnesses in the case and five able law
yers. The suit has cost several hun
dred dollars. The jury decided that
the hog was Browns and worth S25.
Free Lecture.
Prof. w. L. Poteat of Wake Forest
College will lecture in the Male Acad-
envy tonight (Thursday 22nd) His
subject will be- "The School as a
Manufactory Of Power" Prof. Poteat
is one of the foremost thinkers and ed
ucators Of the State, and indeed his
reputation as a scientist has become
somewhat national. There is a treat
in store for all who attend Lecture
will begin at 7 O'Clock. Seats are
free and the public is invited.
Enfield Lumber Company.
Some months ago Jackson Brothers
& Co., of Salisbury, Md, bought out a
lulIDti l11lc1cSU kI1OW IL CIIO AIl11lClu
Lumber Company. 1t is being opera
ted under the same name with head
quarters near Halifax. They have lald
4 miles of railroad track from the
Scotland Neck "Y" going westward
and the road will be continued to Ring
wood. The company has employed as
many as 100 hands at one time since
work was commenced there.
They have purchased about 70 mil
lion feet of timber, enough to last them
several years. They have contracted
to furnish the Atlantic Coast Line fifty
thousand feet of timber daily for the
first year and one hundred thousand
feet daily afterwards. They haul their
logs by Scotland Neck and over the
Norfolk & Carolina railroad to Whaley-
vile, Va.
They have most unique plan Tor
building shanties for their hands The
shanties are built about oXlb and SO
constructed that they can be raised so
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