The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-08-20
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A boiler explosion at Troy Monday
killed five men and injured four
others.
Mr.. B. N. Duke OF Durham has do
mated $500 to the Odd Fellows Orphan
Asylum at Goldsboro.
The directors of the insane asylum
at Raleigh have decided to make adj
ditions to the male department OF the
institution to cost $4,000.
Policeman Blackwelder of Charlotte
has worn the uniform forty years, and
the Observer of that city proposes that
he be retired on a pension for life.
The crop bulletin gives very dis
couraging crop report OF the State.
1t now looks like crops have been con-
siderably cut OFT all over the State.
The Confederate Monument erected
in Windsor by the BERTHE County Con-
tederate Veterans Association, was I'M
yelled last Thursday. The Grafton of
OF the occasion was delivered by Hon.
Thos. w. Mason.
The Populist, a paper published at
Lumberton, says that Rev. c. III. Mar
tin, Congressman from that district,
ought not to be requested by the peo-
pie to give up the gospel ministry to
which God has called him. The paper
suggests that the Populists ought to
nominate some one else in Mr. Mar
tins place.
Mr.. William H. Hayne, of Augusta,
Ga, son of the beloved Paul Hayne, is
in North Carolina spending some time
at Blowing Rock. Mr.. Haynes poetic
powers are inherited, and the Charlotte
Observer hopes that "the sublime seen
cry of the Land of the Sky will in
spire him to awake the strings of his
clear harp in divers tones"
Capt. Junius w. Goslen, editor, of the
Union Republican of Winston, fell as
he stepped from street car Monday,
his head struck the stones on the side
walk and he received injuries from
which he died in about three hours.
He was the leading editor in the Re
publican party in the State.
A special to the press from Winston
a few days ago said:
"Mrs Susan Walker, widow lady
of this city, has been an invalid for
six years, suffering with spinal disease.
To-day she astounded the members of
her family by getting out of bed and
without assistance. Mrs.
Walker has great faith in prayer and
she tells her friends that she had been
earnest in her supplications
to God for the past few days. She be-
lieyes her walking is simply an answer
to her prayers"
Two men, Rufus Hackney and An
thony Harrington, we're in love with
the same girl near Carthage. She gave
$25 to keep for her. Meeting
she asked him for the money. He told
her he had lost 1t. His rival, Harrington,
coming up at that time ordered Hack
ney to give over the money to the girl
Or he would kill him. Hackney pro-
tested that he had lost it. Whereupon
Harrington drew long knife and cut
him about the neck. Hackney ran
into the woods. Harrington pursued
him, killed him, returned and told the
girl what he had done and made his
escape.
Readers OF this paper may remem-
Der that some months ago we publish
IN account OF strange noises at a Ger
ain point of the Central Carolina rail-
'oad not far from Wilmington. The
experts had vain1y tried to
ascertain the cause, but could not.
The Greensboro Patriot has printed
he following in regard to the solving
If the mystery
"a section of the Carolina Central
l1vision of the Seaboard Air Line, near
N. c., has attracted much
interest among railroad experts for
ome time by reason of peculiar noises
made when trains passed over it. The
ection is about six miles long, and the
passage of trains over the rails was &C
by squeaking and grind
ng noise, the cause of which has only
ecently been discovered. On account
# the mysterious sounds this section
# the track had the reputation of be-
ng haunted among the residents of |
hat section of the State. Recently |
7ice President st. John. of the Sea-
'oard Air Line, had the track careful |
v examined nv exnerts. and if wac