The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1901-09-19
Live Items Of State News.
News From Outside The State.
GATHERED FROM EXCHANGES.
COTTON AT WILMINGTON.

COTTON AT WILMINGTON.
Wilmington Star: Cotton receipts
continue very short and to such de-
gree as to excite general con- ment. It
is estimated that the season is at least
three weeks later than last year. The
receipts yesterday were only 800 bales
against 2,438 bales on the same day in
1900. The receipts for the week end
ing yesterday were only 1,18O bales,
whereas for the corresponding week
last year 1887 bales we're received.
The receipts since September LIST ha We
been 1858 against 22,474 bales during
the same period last year. The quota
lions now are only 81 cents against lO4
cents on the same day last year.
How Few PERSONS ESCAPE a Tooth
ache how many suffer unnecessarily.
BY The use of PERRY DAVIS PAIN-KIL-
LER the pain is almost instantly STOP
ped and a com piete cure effected. For
a swollen Jaw or face due TO liberated
teeth, Pain-KilIer acts ike magic. Do
not suffer moment but get a bottle.
Avoid substitutes, there is but one
Pain-Killer, Perry Davis. Price 25c.
and Soc.
SCHOOL FOR FACTORY CHILDREN.
Albemarle Cor. to CharlotteO Observer :
The Wiscassett Mills have just finished
an elegant two-thousand-dolIar school
building near their mills for the use of
the children OF the operatives. The
Efrd Manufacturing Company is also
erecting a similar building on their
property. The schools will be con-
Quoted on the graded school plan and
will be conducted exclusively for the
mill children. It is understood that
Mr.. Brandon Means, OF Concord, is to
be the superintendent. There will
also be three or four young lady teach
ers.
BLOWN TO ATOMS.
The old idea that the body some
times needs a powerful, drastic, purga-
tive pill has been exploded for DR..
Kings New Life Pills, which ale per.
fectly harmless, gently stimulate llvel
and bowels to expel poisonous matter,
cleanse the system and absolutely
cure Constipation and Sick Headache
Only 25c at E. T. Whitehead & Cos
drug store.
COTTON MILLING LONG AGO.
Wilmington Star: In copy OF thu
Peoples Journal and Advertiser, pub
lished weekly in Wilmington in th'
year 1884, by Thomas Loring, is TIT
following notice of the establishment
OF an extensive" and perhaps the frs
cotton mill in the State:
| "COrToN FAc-oaY.-An extensive
cotton factory has been established a
Greensborough, in this State. Fiv'
hundred and twenty-eight spindles an,
fifteen looms are in operation and be
tween two and three hundred pounds o
thread can be manufactured in day.
To those acquainted with the exten
OF the cotton milling industry now il
North Carolina, the above will be O
interest.
NASHVILLE, TENN, June ~, 1885.
DR.. c. J. MoFFErT, st, Louis, Mo-.
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DAVE MITCHELL DIED.
Kinston Free Press: Dave Mitchell
the negro shot by an unknown whit
man at the A. 4 N. G. depot Sunda
night, died Thursday night about
o'clock. His remains were taken to hi
home at Morehead City Friday aftel
noon. This has been an interestin
case. Shot on platform that was file
with people, some being actually witt
in a few feet of both parties, it is nc
only a mystery at this time who di
the shooting, but there seems no pro-
pect of the perpetrator of the deed eve
being found. The negro was confident a
the time until Thursday that he woul
live, but then even his giant constitr
; ton and determination gave way. Hi
appeals to be given food at the last me-
ments were pltiful. He said he kne,
he must die but he did not want to di
hungry. The dead negro leaves . VIII
and child. While it was reported tina
he was fneOl0nt on the train On whicl