The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1901-03-28
State news.
Happenings Noted IN A wsek.
cULLED FROM EXCHANGES
DEATH OF A MINISTER.

cULLED FROM EXCHANGES.
DEATH OF MINISTER.
Washington Progress Rev. Angus
tus Latham quietly passed away on
Sunday morning March IL, about eight
o'clock. Mr.. Latham was about fifty
three years old. He was happily mar
r1ed to Miss Maggie Wind'ey about
twenty years ago, who still survives
him. He united with the Christian
church in hts early manhood and soo'.
after he entered the ministry, which
position he held until his death.
SLATE lis YEARS OLD.
Oxford Ledger: Capt. John w. Full
Ter informed the editor that he has a
we'll preserved slate, not crack In It
aud with the same frame around II
which has been In his family 1l5
years. It was his grand fathers when
be was a boy, who lived to be 50 years,
and then his father used it in his
school days, aud also his own children.
This is the oldest perfect slate we ever
heard OF and more marvellous still to be
used by three generations and meyer
80 much as being cracked.
STRANGELY AFFECTED A BY DOG BITE.
Tarboro Southerner: Little Ellen,
the five-year daughter of L. E. Bar
row, near St. Lewis, bitten by a sup
posed mad dog about six weeks ago,
died last Friday.
i After being bitten she was taken to
Baltimore, where they found no trace
of the rabies in her system. A lew
days before her death she became
strangely affected, had spasms, epecial'
ly after drinking water.
SIZE died in convulsions. Some be-
lieve she had bydrophobia, and others
} meningitis. The physician who at
tended her did not say positively what
] her ailment was.
sPINsrER AT 81.
Goldsboro Headlight: Mr.. A. J. K
, Rhodes, of near Mount Olive, has pre-
sented to US sample of goods tina
Mrs. Sidia Outlaw. of Wolfscrape town
r ship, Duplin county, spun and wove al
! ter she was ninety-seven years old. Dur
I ing the time she knit fifteen pairs o
socks. Mr.. Rodes tells us that he know
this to be fact as he witnessed 1t him
self. He also informs us that this re
, markable old lady has one hundred ant
. forty children, grandchildren, AM
). great-grand-children and also twelv
4 great-grand-chlldren of the fourth gen
T Grafton. Mr.. Rhodes states that thi
lady will be ninety-eight years old mex
4 August, and is in good health and cal
:, move around tho house 40 we'll as
:, twenty-five year old girl.
a LARGE LAND DEAL IN CUMBERLAND AN
HARNETT.
|, Greensboro Correspondence Cha
d Iotte Observer Mr.. James F. Jordan
I of this city, has just closed a de.
= whereby Mr.. William Johnston, {
:, Liverpool, England, president I
Johnston's Steamship Line, becom,
,, the owner of 0,O35 acres OF land in tt
= region OF Spout Springs, in Cumbe
y land and Harnett counties. The Ian
$ was purchased some years ago by tt
e Consolidated Lumber Company, I
: Philadelphia. The amount of none
( involved in the deal Is not state
II though it is a snug sum. The land
u of the same character as that found
y Southern Pines and Pinehurst. N
IS Johnston will expend thousands OF dc
10 lars in developing the property.
at A CURIOSITY.
8 Tarboro Southerner: Near the lii
r. OF the E. g. railway between Maccl,
tie field and Turnage, on the farm of Il
ID late Dennis Mercer, now owned by
S. widow, is huge round pile of ligl
wood placed there So years ago to maj
tar kiln. It is in the shape Of
inverted truncated pyramid abo
fifteen feet In diameter at the base, Al
:. twenty-five at the top, and nine or t
ieet high. Tho resinous wo
is as sound now a. it "
when put there. At the rate t
small bundles of this klndling wood {
sold here in the stores, there is at lea
IN $500 worth Of 1t.
Mrs. Mercer, for some reason, v
ny not sell nor permit the huge pile
al I s disturbed. Near it is a small pi
he. tree whose bark is worn smooth
people climbing up it to see how I
. hugh pile appears on top.