The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-09-09
NEWS NOTES..
Items Picked Up Here and There and
Gathered From Cur EXCHANGES.

S bales of cotton last year.
+ A colored druggist at Winston
: Salem has been fined for selling co
E caine to colored people.
; Miss Edith Royster has been elect
ed assistant superintendent of edu
cation of Wake county.
: w. T. Rigsbee, a wealthy young
white man of Durham, has been
fined $500 for retailing liquor.
A charter has been granted to the
American Aeroplane Company, of
Wilmington, capital stock $125, 900.
Mrs. Helen Kelly Gould, of New
York, has been granted a divorce
from her husband, Frank J. Gould.
The Omaha World gives out the
news that E. H. Hartman, the rail-
road king, has cancer of the stomach
The Alabama legislature has ad
Journed after passing the most dras-
tic prohibition laws ever enacted by
any State.
Auditor Dixon says there will be
about 1900 Confederate pensions
this year, which is an increase of
about thousand.
President Taft has accepted an in
vltation to visit Wilmington. The
city is already making preparations
to entertain him.
Miss Sarah HURLEY, aged "a, and
E. G. Joems, aged 25, both inmates
OF the poor house in Washington
county, Ga, were married recently.
Mr.. Brandon Means received by
express last week two young rae
coons from Mr.. Miller White, of
Clayton. They are as tame as
dog, very pretty, and are being
much admired. Concord Times.
Rev. James Samuel Amzi Hunter,
for p years a missionary of the AS
sociated Reformed Presbyterian
church to Mexico, died one day last
week at the home of his daughter in
Gastonia. He was 62 years old.
A new tWo-cent stamp will be is
sued by the Postoffice Department.
to commemorate the Hudson-Fulton
celebration, which will be held in
New York from September 25th to
October 9th, 1909. Postmaster-G Gen
eral Hitchcock has given the order
for the new issue.
The Government cotton report is
sued August 25th gives the condition
of cotton as 637 per cent. Of nor
NAL, as compared with 76.1 per cent.
on Aug. 25th, 1908 and 1877 for 1907,
and 1876 the average of the past ten
years on Aug. 25th. North Carolina
is put down at 73 per cent.
Fifty out of sixty-two applicants
passed the examination before the
North Carolina Supreme Court to
practice law last week. Among the
applicants who stood the examina-
ton there were nineteen from Uni ,
vesity of North Carolina Law School
and twenty-five from the Wake For
EST Law School.
Denis A. Hurley, the society and
club man of Charlotte, who was in {
licted for attempting to kill his wife, I
Catherine Jordan Hurley, was fined t
5000 and costs in Mecklenburg supe- t
'ior court for assault with deadly |
Weapon. 1t is understood that Mr.. /
md Mrs. Hurley have arrived at an
agreement by which she surrenders v
Ill right and title to his property in 9
,erests on the payment of $3,OOO.- +
Raleigh News Item.
Col. A. H. Boyden is gathering
material with which to write his
ory of North Cardinals part in the
oattle of Gettysburg. 1t is big
but Mr.. Boyden has
lad assurance of cooperation from !,
number of the States first soldiers :
md citizens and he feels that despite
he difficulties attending the task he :
will be able to present with fidelity =
o facts and comprehensively North :
Cardinals part in the great closing .
lct of the drama. Salisbury Post.
The report from crops throughout
he two counties is that the largest d
mount of fodder in years will be s
harvested this week and the condi- s.
ions have been all that could have
,een asked for the gathering in of f
arge crop. The report from cotton n
, not as gratifying and in some "
arts. where cotton has been plowed il
within the last few weeks, 1t is re-
orted that the plants are whiting
nd diving as the result OF the con- g