The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-07-29
NEWS NOTES.
Items Picked Up Here and There and
Gathered From Our Exchanges.

OtduHlOil, va, SOeS uIy ny d ma
jority of 20 votes.
Hon. w. J. Bryan is contemplate
ing another foreign lecture tour.
The subway connecting New York
and Jersey City has been completed.
Mrs. Mary B. G.. Eddy, the found
er of Christian Science, is SO years
old.
]. T. Holleman, cashier Of a bank
at Anderson, S. c., has defaulted in
the sum Of $35 ,OO0.
There is a lively fight going on in
Rockingham county over the build
ing of a Macadam road.
DR.. w. H. H. Cobb, a venerable
and well known physician, of Colds
boro, died en- the 21st inst.
The electric chair in the peniten-
tiary at Raleigh has been prepared
and is now ready for business.
AS result of fierce hurricane
around Houston, Texas, 22nd, twelve
were killed and number wounded.
Several towns of the State are suf-
fering from a flour panic. The high
price of flour is said to be the cause
of it.
Harry Thaw' mother has issued a
twenty page booklet entitled, THE
Secret Unveiled" in which she says
there is a coWardly combination
against her son.
The annual meeting Of the State
Association of County Commission
ers will meet at Wrightsville Beach,
Monday and Tuesday, August 9th
and 10th.
Judge W. R. Allen has ruled that
the $500,000 State bond issue for the
enlargement Of the hospitals is valid
The case will be taken to the Su-
preme Court.
During thunder storm last week
tightening struck and killed two val
liable COWS belonging to Mr.. Hugh
Peoples, of Hickory Mountain town.
:'h'r. Chatham Record.
Frank r. Hopper journeyed l 900
miles to Seattle from Pocupine,
Alaska, and Miss Marion Morse came
1000 miles from Kansas City last
week to bring a romance to a sue
cessful end.
Mrs. Annie Allen, wife of Sam AL
len, Of Greenville, committed suicide
Wednesday evening Of last week by
jumping in Tar River. No reason can
be given for the rash act. She left
a husband but no children.
A quarrel over an old COW at Un-
ion, Miss, resulted in a street duel
as a result of which two men, E. J.
and Peter Mcdonald, brothers, were
killed and two others, Cornelius
Chisholm and Joseph Miller, were
perhaps fatally wounded.-Gastonia
Gazette.
It has been discovered in Scotland
county that an average of six negroes
to one white is the school attendance.
In one school district 13 whites are
enrolled while 1O6 colored children
answer to their names every day.
And this in Scotland county! Next
thing you know the bottom rail will
be on top.-Greensboro Record.
The cotton mill business is still
maintaining a slow improvement in
condition while the price of cotton is
easily maintaining a high level.
Meanwhile new cotton mills are be-
ing chartered and the outlook for
the manufacturing industry in the
South becomes more encouraging
each year. Charlotte Chronicle.
Merrill M. Nash, of Norfolk, and
Miss Lena P. Griggs, of Geogory, N
c., were married in Elizabeth City
Wednesday, the ceremony being per
formed by Rev. |. N. Loftin. Mr.
and Mrs. Nash came to Norfolk
where they took bay line steamer
for a Northern trip. pn returning
they will make their home in Ports
mouth. -Virginian Pilot, 23rd.
About this season, the reports that
usually come from the condition Of
crops in the cotton belt are good
This year, however, it is different
Cotton is not picking up' to any
considerable extent and that the
crop is going to be anything but {
record-breaker is now quite certain
In this section especially, owing tt
excessive rains, the cotton crop will
hardly average more than two-thirds
-Goldsboro Headlight.