The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1907-04-11
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ence is in session this week at Pine
hurst.
The cold snap last week greatly
injured fruit in some parts OF the
State.
Mr. W. B. HARPER succeeds Mr.
j P, Virgins as editor Of the Max
ton Chief.
Greenv;Ilc, Klnston and Washing
Ton are making lively fight for the
eastern training school.
Mr.. H. B. Hardy, the we'll knewr
newspaper man Of Raleigh, is to be
married April 18th to Miss Mabel
Pickard, of Jackson, N. c.
Senator'S. M. Beasley, OF Currituck
county, went to Arkansas in search
Of his little son Kenneth, but the
boy he found there was not Kenneth
The likeness was striking, but it was
not his child.
| Governor Glenn has appointed Rev
! D. A. beng, Of Graham, and Prof.
?. S. Blair, of Guilford College, dele
gates from North Caroliona to the Ma
tional Arbitration and Peace Confer
ence at New York to be held April
IA.
FROM the Tarboro Southerner we
earn that the public school house in
Rocky Mount township, near the
fam Of E. L. Draughtridge, was
destroyed by fire last Tuesday.
There was 5000 insurance on the
building.
The recent gift Of ac,C0O,OOO by
Andrew Catnegie to the Carnegie
Institute raises the amount of his
benefactions in Greater Pittsburg
to S32, 100000 the largest sum. it is
said ever given by one individual to
one place in eli history.
Several car loads of exhibits for
the jamestown Exposition have been
sent out from Raleigh. The allow
ance Of $4,000 ta the State Agricul-
tural Department for our exhibit
there will be used to the best adj
vantage. The floor space will be 40
IS feet.
Last Tuesday on Mrs. J. w. Pow
ellis Falling Run place, two colored
women went fishing in Swift creek.
One of them fell from a steep bank
and drowned in two feet of water.
Her hands stuck in the mud, and
being a large woman the other one
couldn't pull her out, so she ran
mile for assistance, which came too
late. -Tarboro Cor. News and OBJ
server.
At Teachey's a few days ago a
young man named Dobson lost his
life in a peculiar accident. While
climbing a ladder with gun in hand
in order to reach the top of his
fathers barn he lost his balance and
fell to the floor not retaining hold of
the gun. The weapon was discharg-
ed when it came in contact with the
floor and the load from one barrel
took effect in the side of the head and
he died within a few minutes.
Some people in Greensboro depos-
tied with a fortune:teller
large amount of valuable Jew
elry, it was said to the amount of
ten thousand dollars, in order that
he might more accurately prophesy
concerning them. When the time
for the prophecy arrived the for
tune-teller was out of place. The
Charlotte Observer remarks that
those people ought to be ashamed to
prosecute the fortune-teller.
Something more than two years
ago Chalmers White and Thomas
White were convicted in Rowan
court for murder and sentenced to
the penitentiary for six years. They
had served two years, and applica-
ton was made for their pardon.
Governor Glenn prosecuted them
and so asked to be excused from
considering their application, and
turned it over to the Council of
State. After hearing the applica-
ton and going over the evidence
they recommend pardon, and Gov. |
Glenn accordingly granted the par
Ion.
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