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The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1901-03-14
SCOTLAND NECK N. G.. THURSDAY. MARCH IA, 1901.

vows they were pledged to &C immedl-
ately to the front whenever called, at
their own expense, and furnishing their
own horses, arms and ammunition.
They used rifles and carried ammunni-
.tion in horns and pouches. No bag
gage or baggage wagons imreded their
march across the mountains and hills.
They neither asked nor expected pay.
When Greene decided to fight tho
British he informed these minute
men" by secret messengers, and imme-
diately the hardy mountaineers got
ready TO, battle. While the men were
preparing to leave, their women folks
we're busily engaged in moulding rifle
balls for them. Dus:ng - fight at
Guilford courthouse, In order to save
time, it is said that many Of the "mln-
ute men" carried bullets in their
mouths.
In connection with the task to which
Judge schenck has devoted the last
years of his life has been the constant
aim to refute the oft-repeatad charge
OF cowardice on the part Of the North
Carolina militia during the battle of
Guilford courthouse. These raw troops
were placed in the front line of battle
and ordered to fire twice upon the ad-
vancing foe and then fall back, receiv-
ing the first shock of the battle. Their
orders were carried out with telling
effect on the British forces. If there
was disorder and confusion when they
fell back, it was due to the fact that
they were unframed soldiers and unac-
quainted with the rules of battle.
Judge Schenck, after much patient
has established the fact that
the North Carolina volunteer riflemen,
from the counties of Wilkes, Surry,
Stokes, Forsyth and Gullford, were the
very last soldiers to leave the field OF
battle, and that the last man who
poured out his blood Is a libatlon to
the liberty of his country was Richard
q volunteer rifleman from
Surry, who fell and died under saber
stroke from one of Banister Tarlton's
dragons.
Greensboro. N. c., Jan. IA, 1901.
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THROWN OUT OF EMPLOYMENT.

Wilmington, N. g., March g.
Special to the Press AS a result OF
the failure of the River and Harhcr
bill to pass between seventy6ve and
one hundred men at Wilmington, New
Bern and other places along the North
Carolina coast will be thrown out OF
employment. Former appropriations
have been SO nearly exhausted that
what is left will be reserved purely for
emergency purposes. Only few men
for service as caretakers will be retain
ed. All government boats in North
Carolina waters, with one or two ex-
ceptlons, will be tied up and concen-
srated either at Wilmington or New
Bern.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1901-03-14
tDa,ly except Monday. tDaily ex-

+Da,ly except Monday. tDaily ex-
cept Sunday.
Wilmington and Weldon Railroad,
Yadkln Dlyislon Main Lne---Traip
leaves Wilmington, . 90 a. No., arrives
Fayetteville II O5 p. M, leaves Fayet.e-
Vile II 25 p. m, arrives Sanford ! 43
.. IN. Returning leaves Sanford o.
p. M, arrives Fayetteville 4 90 p. m,
leaves Fayetteville 4 90 p. M, arrives
Wilmington % p. m.
Wilmington and Weldon Railroad,
Bennettsville Branch-Train leaves
BennettsvllIe 8 O5 a. m Maxton 905
a. M. Red Springs 9 so a. m, Hope
Mills 10 55 a, M, arrives Fayetteville
II 10 a. m. Returning leaves Fayessc-
vile As p. M, Hope Mills 5 55 r. m,
Red Springs b 35 p. m., Maxton 6 Is
p. M, arrives Bennettsville Is p. m.
Connections at Fayetteville with
train No. IS, at Maxton with the Caro-
Ina Central Railroad, mt Red Springs
with the Red Springs and Bowmora
Railroad, at Sanford with the Seaboard
All Line and Southern Railway, ut
Gulf with the Durham and Charlotte
Railroad.
Train on the Sc -:land Neck Branch
Road leaves Weldon :55 D in., HaIifax
4 III D. M, arrives Scotland Neck at
5 :OS p. m, Greenvllle 6 81 p. M, Kins-
ton Z :55 p. m. Returning leaves
Klnston Z so a. m, Greenyille s :52 a.
m, arriving Halifax at ii :18 a. M,
Weldon IL ::3 a. M, daily except Sun.
day.
Trains on Washington Branch leave
Washington 8 10 a. m. and 2 :aN p. M,
arrive Parmele 9 10 a. m. and % p.
NJ, returning leave Parmele 8 :3I -. m.
and 6 80 p. m, arrive Washington
IL :O0 a. IN. and 80 p. m, daily ex-
cept Sunday.
Train leaves Tarboro, N. c., daily
except SUNDAY 80 p. m., Sunday,
is D. m !, arrives Plymouth Z 40 p.
M, 6 10 .. m.. Returning, leaves Ply.
mouth daily except Sunday, Z go a. m.
and Sunday 9 90 a. m, arrives Tarboro
IO:lO a. M, IL go a. m.
Tram on Midland N. G. Branch
leaves Goldsboro daily, except Sunday.
5 100 a. m., arriving Smitbfield 6 10 a.
m. Returning leaves Smithfield Z 80
a. m. arrives at Goidsboro s :25 a. n.
Trains on Nashville Branch leave
Rocky Mount at 9 GOA. m. ) 40 p. M.
arrive Nashville 10 20 a. m, 4 :03 pm
Spring Hope II 90 .. M, 4 % p. 10.
Returning leave Spring Hope IL 20 o.
M, :55 =. No., Nashville ii AS a. m,
rs p. m arrive at Rocky Mount
Il 10 a. H. 100 p. m, daily except
Sunday.
Train on Clinton Branch leaves War.
saw for Clinton daily, except Sunday,
ii 40 a. m. and :25 p. m. Return
ing leaves Clinton at b 40 a. m. and
z so a. m.
Train No. Is makes close connectit n
At Weldon for all points North dai'ys
all rail via Richmond.
| III. M. EMERSON,
Gen1 Paee. Agent.
j. r. KENLY, Genl Manager.
IT. n. EAERSON. Traffic Manage
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1901-03-14
A Tip to Dead Beats.
Oxford Ledger

Oxford Ledger.
Stop at once borrowing your neigh
boris Public Ledger, aad have the man.
hood not to dead beat the editor Al y
longer. There Is nothing in this world
that beats dead beat, and the worst
G nemy the newspaper has, with one
exc eption-the smart Alex who never
was inside of print shop who knows
exactly how to run newspaper. The
fellows you hear standing around d
crltlcizing the county paper are the
ones that do not subscribe and rush
to borrow it before subscriber actual
ly has time to read it himself. Come
off nov, you old hardened dead beat,
aal subscribe if for only 6 months at
so cents and let tee editor really make
6 cents. out OF you?
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1901-03-14
A BOLD THIEF.

Chatham Record A very bold theft
was com,tted near Cumnock few days
ago by a young man supposed to be
from that nelghDorhood. He borrow
ed (?) mule and wagon at night, and
proceeded to the farm of a Mr.. Sea.
groves and got him bale of cotton,
carried it to Sanford, and sold it. He
then disappeared in the direction OF
Norfolk.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1901-03-14
1. w. GLEASON,
A MIsFlT.

Greensboro Record.
Marion Butler says hazing is good
thing, mildly administered, for 1t takes
the conceit out of man-that he
knows because he tried it at Chapel
Hill. Must have been a misfit. The
only thing :hat took the conceit out of
him was the election of '9S, followed
by that of last year.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1901-03-14
STATE OF OHIO, City OF TOLEDO, ss.
lIICAS EOJ1NTY

STATE OF ONO, City OF TOLEDO, ss.
LUCAS COUNTY.
FRANK j. CHENEY makes oath that
he is the senior partner of the firm of
F. J. Cheney & Co., doing busines ir
the City of Toledo, County and State
aforesaid, and that said firm will pay
the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOL
LARS for each and every case of
Catarrh that cannot be cured by the
use OF HALLS CATARRH CURE.
FRANK j. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed
in my presence, this 9th day of Decem-
ber, A. D. 1886.
SEAL A. w. GLEASON,
A~) Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally
ard acts directly on the blood and
mucous surfaces OF the system. Send
for testimonials, tree.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0.
CO. Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1901-03-14

The lingering cough following grippe
calls for One Minute Cough Cure. For
all throat and lung troubles this is the
only harmless remedy that gives i'm.
mediate results. Prevents consump-
ton. E. L. Whitehead & Co.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1901-03-14

Counterfeits of DeWItt's Witch Ha-
rel Salve are liable to cause blood poi
soning. Leave them alone. Tt orl-
ginal has the name DeWltt's upon the
box end wrapper. It is harmless and
healing salve for skin diseases. I'm
equalled for piles. E.T Whitehead &
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1901-03-14
MAPLE SUGAR MADE IN OXFORD.

Public Ledger: A few years ago Mr..
r. Broughton, while on a visit to his
father in Pennsylvania, the day he was
going to leave for home went into his
maple sugar grove and dug up quite a
small tree. He set 1t out and 1t grew
nicely and has become quite nice
tree. Friday Mr.. Brouehton concluded
it was old enough to make sugar, so he
pulled off q few of the limbs and hung
I bucket under the ends Of them to
catch the juice and made up several
cakes OF as nice maple sugar as you
.vill find anywhere. Never heard OF it
being made before in the State.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1901-03-14
TIE EDIToas's LEISURE HOURS.
Points ard Paragraphs Of Things
Present, Past and Future.

And now the state OF Maryland pro-
poses a ballot system that will disfran-
chise perhaps fifty thousand voters,
and it is said the majority of them will
be negroes. It is stated as follows:
"The radical changes from the pres
ent system of voting in the ballot law
lie in the provisions abollshlng party
embIe1ns, requiring cross marks to be
made opposite the names of each can
didate and denying to voters the assist
ance of ballet clerks. 1t is believed
that these provisions will mako it
practically impossible for an illiterata
voter to properly cast his ballot and Iii
becomes a law it will dlsfranchiss
probably $4,000 voters In the state,
most of whom are negroes"
At the annual celebration of w ash
1ngton's birthday by the Dialectic and
Philanthropic socitles at Chapel Hill
on February 22nd, Mr.. Whitehead
Kluttz, member of the law class, deliver
ed a most striking address on "TLe
Spirit of the Old South in the New"
His closing sentences made reference
to the strength of the character OF tha
men who come from the rural districts,
from which we reproduce as follows
at is the city that threatens our in
stitutions. ] am glad the New South
is largely rural, because I pray it may
give the nation men like those that
came forth from the Ioins OF tho Old
South. Such types do ne+
of the rush and roar of the city streets.
Mediocrity and vice reign there. It is
from the solitudes that they come
they draw their strength from the soil.
It is the man that comes out of tie
country with inspiration and purity
shining IRON the face that has always
won in the city's work and the world =
vork. Out of the shades of Nazareth
came the Son Of Man ; Gut of Ger
man village blacksmith shop came
Martin Luther from the meadows of
Stratford came William Shakespeare
oat of the American back woods came
Abraham Lincoln. The New South
will yet be the savior of this republic
and the bulwark of the worlds free
DOM"
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1901-03-14
ASSAULT AT ROPER.

Plymouth Beacon: On Friday night
last at Roper, a negro and Mr.. Good
man, one of the statesmen III the Roper
Store Co.'S. store, had some unpleasa1
words. The negro left the store in
dignant, but returned later and did his
trading, and the matter seemed to have
passed off. After the store closed Mr..
Goodman was walking down the street
when unexpectedly he was assaulted
by the negro, who gave him a terrible
blow In the face with a brick, and ran
4 warrant was at once Issued for the
negro, but he has succeeded in keeping
out of the way, though the officers
have searched the county over for him.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1901-03-14

CA 6ToH IA.
R..r. s. IhSkiaa Yeu Han AiAals Dpltt
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1901-03-14
State news.
Happenings Noted In A Week.
CULLED FROM EXCHANGES.
SHOOTING OVER CARDS.

Graham Cleaner: In q shooting
ARRAY at Marshall Will Wllkerson was
shot in the knee shattering the bone
by Bud Shelton, Of Flagpond, Tenn.
Wilkerson then shot Shelton in the
neck. The ball touched the epinal
cord and Shelton is likely to die. Tie
fight arose out Of gambling game.
It is said that both men had been in
trouble before.
CRUSHED UNDER WHEELS.
John Tate, young white man,
aged about - years old, attempted to
board freight train at Burlington
last Wednesday about sunset. He
missed his aim and fell under the
wheels. He was so badly mangled
that he died that night. The train was
running about % miles an hour.
CORN COB CURIOSITY.
Clinton Dem ocrat: The Democrat
was shown curiosity last week In the
way of section OF walnut tree some
30 inches in diameter in the center OF
which was imbedded perfectly pre-
served corn cob. When the tree was
small some one had bored hole into
1t with an augur and driven the cob
Into the hole. The tree grew over it
and the cob was preserved. It has
been there for years. It was found
by Mr.. Lem Hobbs OF South Clinton.
TOO CARELESS WITH THE GUN.
Goldsboro Argus: While hunting
last Thursday Zeb. Vance Hill, about
~ years of age, son of our good friend
Elder Jacob F. Hill. of Saulston town.
ship, was accidentally shot by a COM
panion, Walter Anderson. The load
struck him In the head, tearing ont
his right eye. It is a fearful wound,
manning him for life, if indeed, it
proye not fatal. He was bright,
popular and promlslng young man,
and the terrible accident is greatly to
be deplored.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1901-03-14

Some of the "modern methods" of
teaching in the schools of the present
seem little too intensive to one who is
willing to be called fogy for his CID
time ideas. There are men OF fine intelll-
gence and towering ability living new
who doubtless studied the "blue back"
speller for months at time with no
other book at all. And when they ad-
vanced farther the entire makeup of
their school equipmal Tas the Speller
and Detiner, an arithmetic and copy
book-fcols-cap paper sewed together
by their mother or sister-and a goose
quill pen. And in those times to study
arithmetic and "learn to cipher" meant
the use CT slate and pencil. Children
in those days were not loaded down
Will u uOZ6A AlAOl0VU OOOAS dl1 VI U0
studied and recited from every day.
Pencils and tablets and blotters and pen
wipers and erasers and many other ap-
purtenances OF a latter-day school
child's equipment, were all unknown
In these times.
The truth Is lot Of the extras
through which children are now requir-
ed to wade and tangle and stumble are
all unnecessary.
Sixty, fifty, forty years ago even, the
town and city schools were far behind
what many of the country schools
SHOW to day if you count the number
Of studies, etc. child must carry.
What sort OF comparison would
the school boy outfit OF Nat Macon, W.
N. III. Smith; Zeb Vance, or hundreds
of other great North Carollnians stand
with the full equipped school child's
rig of 1901? And how many in a
hundred of these intensified pupils
will ever be able to equal such men in
intellectual attachments?
But then we are in the way Of the
times, you know, and We mast keep
along. One sometimes sighs for the
freedom of the days Of long ago. Will
the pristine virtue Of simplicity ever
come back againa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-15
CUBAN ARRESTED.
On Suspicion of Meddling in South
American Politics.

New York, Nov. ia dispatch to the
Herald from Panama says: General A.
ban, governor of Panama, has arrested
Caesar Fernandez Del Rio, native OF
Cuba and acting agent for the PACING
Mail Steamship company.
General .Alban has learned. it is said,
that the compromising letters had been
sent from points in Central America ad-
dressed to Won Iindeman, cashier of the
company He went out to the office OF
the company and made a demand for
the letters. 1t was found that they had
not been delivered. but in a drawer in
Del Rios desk, according to the govern
which, when opened, were found to con-
tain other letters. one to Del Rio from
a noted insurgent mentioning former
correspondence and another for Domin-
go Diaz, chief of the insurgents in the
department of Panama
Del Rio was arrested by General AL
ban personally, and placed with COM
mon criminals in an underground cell.
He applied, through u S. Consul Gud-
ger for release under guard until the
steamship company could get a man
here.
General Alban said he would consent,
if a deposit of a. 900 in cash was made,
municated with the Liberals Del Rio
was later allowed to go to his office with
a policeman. The deposit, however, was
not made
General Alban has invited Consul
Gudger to be present at the company'S
office after the arrival of the next
steamer to see other mail from the same
he has assurance that important matter
is on the way He gave the consul
copy of all proceedings in the case in
Guiding the testimony.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-15

I know that in general way. We have
sold considerable seed wheat.
Wheat is successful here he contin-
ued. Just yesterday we bought the crop
of Val Snyder, whose farm is near Grant
Vile. The crop averaged Al bushels to
the acre
There is one thing" said a wheat
raiser that farmers should not lose
sight of. And that is the Hessian fly. 1t
is an important factor
From experiments that have been
made it has been learned that to allow
stock to feed on the wheat in the fall
tends to go long way in Kidding the
country of the pest The fly is in the
with the blade by the stock and is
killed by the action of the juices of the
animals stomach
1T has also been recommended that the
stubbIe fields should be burned off after
each harvest and the ground plowed deep.
This is a strong measure in the extermi-
nation of the fly.
1t is important that the farmers not
lose sight of the fact that little precau-
ton may result in a big saving for them.
Only few years ago the crops in 1ndi-
and Ohio were destroyed by the Hes
sian fly. and it is to be hoped the expert
ence will not have to be undergone here.
And it need not be if the proper is
exercised at the right time
The chinch bugs and low prices had
more to do with the giving up of wheat
culture in Shawnee county than the Hes
sian fly
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-15
Shawnee County Farmers Plant
More Small Grain.
Much Larger Acreage Than
Usual SOwn This Year.
PROSPECTS ARE GOOD.
Reports Indicate That Fall Has
Been Favorable.
Wheat SoWn For Pasturage
Will Be Saved For Harvest.

"A revolution is being worked in the
crop map of Kansas" said Major T. J.
Anderson, government statician for
Kansas today And especially may this
be said of Shawnee county," he con-
tinued-
Wheat and alfalfa" he declared
ARE fast replacing corn to a great ex--
tent. In Shawnee county where the
acreage of wheat harvested this year
was only about one per cent of the
area of cultivated land, from to 10
per cent is now sown to winter wheat.
1t is true a great portion of this
wheat was sown purely for feed just
after the dry spell in January he con-
tinued. but undoubtedly it will be al
lowed to stand and a crop harvested
from it next year Wheat now has
good stand and is in excellent shape
thanks to the good rains that came the
latter part of July and since If farm
ers do not allow the wheat fields to be
fed upon while the ground is muddy
nor allow the stock to eat the wheat
too close, there is no apparent reason
why an excellent crop should not be
harvested here next year.
Il drove out towards Rossville the
Dtker day" the Major continued "and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-15
NOT TILL CHRISTMAS.
Will Appointment of a Bishop For
Dubuque Be Made.

Washington, Nov. 15-It is believed
that the papal brief appointing a bishop
for the new Dubuque, Ia, diocese will
not be received before the last part of
November at the earliest, and probably
not until toward Christmas time. The
last mail from Rome failed to bring any
developments in the matter, which has
been pending action ever since last win
ter, and as October is a period of vaca-
ton in vatican circles. it will be well
toward the close of the month before
any official adviceS on the subject reach
this country and in the ordinary pro-
cedure of the pontiffical administration
the time may be even considerably later
The names of the candidates submitted
by Cardinal Martinelli have been before
Pope Leo for long time. The utmost
secrecy is observed always in such mat
tiers but it is believed that DR.. Garrigan
of the faculty of the Catholic university
here is one of them. The three candi-
dates are understood to have such wide
ly differing claims for recognition that
even among the best informed authori-
ties of the church no prediction has been
hazarded as to who will be chosen for
the honor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-15
CAUGHT IN ICE.
Sugar Vessels Experience While
Rounding Cape Horn.

Philadelphia, Nov. 15-The first yes
sci to be caught in antarctic ice this
season, a remarkable experience, owing
to the fact that the ice was within 100
miles of Cape Horn was the sugar
laden bark Nuuanu. which was locked
at the Spreckles sugar refinery today
after a run of 129 days from the Ha-
waiian islands. The Nuuanu left Hon
olulu in June last, and after having en-
countered two severe gales in the Pa
cific ocean was caught in the field of
ice in the early part of September
while rounding Cape Horn on her way
to the Atlantic ocean. Far to the south
nothing but drift ice could be seen. The
sea was smooth and there was no sign
of land.
The weather was fair at the time, and
this abled the Nuuanu to work her
way into clear water. Capt. Joslyn, the
vessels master, calculated that the ice
was about 500 miles south Of Cape
Horn.
The Nuuanu's run was over 1900
miles. She is the first of a fleet of
sugar laden sailing vessels from the Ha-
waiian islands to Philadelphia and New
York, which it is said are to displace
steamers, which have found the trade
unprofitab bic owing to the long run
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-15
NO USE TO SHOOT.
Weather Sharp Moore Says Bombard-
ment Won Stop Hail Storms.

Washington, Nov. 15.-Prof. Willis L.
Moore chief of the weather bureau,
and his assistants combat the theory
of efficacy of shooting as a means of
destroying hail storms, and say none
of the reports of experiments in Europe
has shaken their opinion.
Prof. Moore will issue a report short
ly on the subject celebrating his views
of the Investigations and experiments
that have been conducted along these
lines. He vigorously denies that shoot
ing has any effectiveness in destroying
hail storms or in bringing about rain,
despite a rather prevalent belief, and
says that it is not worth while for the
vineyard districts of this country to
adopt such measures as are proposed
in France for the protection of viticul-
fr1r