The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1897-12-02
LOCAL NEWS.

suddenly i'll in church and soon died
Her remains were inferred Tuesday.
DIssoLvED.-The firm of J. S. Bow
ers 4 Co., dissolved last week. Mr.. J
5. Bowers will continue his brokerage
business at the same place.
FIRE AT TIILERY.-The barroom O,
Mr.. N. 4. Stedman at Tlllery caught
tire Sunday night from a stove flue
There was no serious damage but 8
narrow escape.
HOUSE BREAKING IN WELDON.-Mon.
day two colored men were lodged in
jail in Halifax for breaking into the
house of colored woman In Weldon
named Ellen Flagg.
ACCIDENT AT TILLERY.-A colored
man whose name we have not learned
had his arm broken in some machin.
cry at the lumber plant of the North
Carolina Lumber Company at Tlllery
Tuesday morning.
Mr.. MATTHEWS CARD.-Attention if
directed to the law card of Mr.. Paul v
Matthews who has located at Enfield
for the practice of law. The COMMON
WEALTH wishes him success in his
chosen prOfession.
APPOINTMENTS the Methodist
Protestant Conference in High Point
the following appointments were made
for this county: Halifax Circuit, Rev.
w. L. Harris Llttleton Circuit, Rev.
G. III. Whitaker.
MOONsHINERs ROUTED.-Mr. J, j.
Daniel, OF Halifax, the efficient reve-
nue. officer of this district a few nights
ago demolished three illicit distilleries
near Littleton, and captured some
liquors..
HEAVY Loss.-Mr. Ed. Gorham, one
of the jurors on the murder case in
Tarboro last week, farms on Judge
Towards lands in Edgecombe, and
while he was on the jury his gin house
was burned with 125 bales of cotton.
DEATH IN EDGECoMBE.-Mr. Thad
of Edgecombe died Friday
last OF hemorrhagic fever, aged about
30 years. He lived about six miles
from Tarboro, and left a young wife
to whom he had been married only
about six months.
CARRIED TO VIRGINIA.-Emporia cor
to Sundays Richmond Dis
patch said: "Sheriff S. w. Lee return
I'd from Halifax, N. c., yesterday af-
ernoon, whittier he went to bring back
,wo men accused OF car breaking on
he Atlantic Coast Line"
Branson's Agricultural Almanac for
1898 has some new items OF much val
1e every year, and is thus kept fresh
md interesting to the people in all Sec
ions of the State. 1t may be secured
rom Rev. L. Branson, Raleigh. We
the receipt of a copy.
KILLED TWO DEER AND TWO TURKEYS.
"A hunting party that went from
Neck Tuesday was quite sue
,essful. They hunted on the river and
brought down two deer and two turkeys.
The lucky men who shot and brought
Town the deer were Mess. G. T. Law
ence and John Speed.
A BIG HoG.-Mr. K. jenkins has
opened the count On big hogs this seas
N. A few days ago he killed one
welve months old that weighed 1872
pounds. He made 225 pounds of lard
rom him. There is enough waste from
he kite hen of almost any home to
make several hundred pounds of meat
,very year.
WISHES TO BE BURIED AT SCOTLAND
NECK.-News comes from HilllardstOn
n Nash county that Mr.. Ed. Fender,
ormer resident of this community, Is
,lowly wasting away with consumption
He has gwen instruction that when he
lies his body is to be brought to Scot
and Neck and inferred in the Episcopal
cemetery.
BIG TURNIPs AND MANY PEANUTS
The Rocky Mount Argonaut OF last
week said: "a correspondent Of the
Roxboro Courier tells of turnip
grown by D. NJ. Baird, of Halifax coun-
ty, that weighed 225 pounds. The cor
says the crop of peanuts
grown by VIM. T. Whitehead, of Hall
fax county, averaged 400 bushels to the
acre.
HOTEL wALDoRF.-Next week Is
court week at Halifax, and Mess. Hale
Brothers say they will have things in
order for those who stop at
Hotel Waldorf. They give good fare
all the while and will make special eff
fort next week, which means good
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