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4 Subscription $1.50 per year. WE MUST WORK FOR THE PEOPLE'S WELFARE, W. II. Kitchin, Owner. VOL. 1. SCOTLAND NECE, N O., THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1885. NO. 40. SCOTLAND NECK. n. AclTanlasres. I-oont!oik and People. This section lias more real advan tages and fewer drawbacks than anv section in the State. We 1 no towering mountains am1 gush ing springs for the sights5 er and inva- lid to seek to grat' heal liismalad- ins tanev ana We have no moun , CI... 1 ' ' v t - with ravines, gorges. eaves nd rocks. No, we can't climb nr .on the rugged peak, where sky and land kiss, and go one eye on the old and the other on the new Jerusalem. No, we have no hills here where we can burn from heat oil one side and freeze from cold on the other side. But we have that which is just as good. We have pure air and water as good as inany section of the State two great life jiii.l health giving elements, indis pensible under all circumstances. The doctors all agree and all oth ers who are informed, that Scot- lami Neck is as healthy at least as iiny portion of the State. We have live doctors in or near this place and from the health of this section they have all been reduced to hall rations, and if the health of the community increases from what it is now, they will be compelled to starve, emigrate, or draw upon their reserve funds. 1IT. 1 1 -m e are nor lesnng wnen we as sert without fear of refutation, that this is the healthy part of North Carolina. We are located between the Tar and Roanoke livers, right on the backbone of the highland between the two. The water that falls from the clouds in - the town? runs about half to the Tar, and the other4half to the Roanoke. Before the Avar this was the most wealthv and intelligent part of the State. It took its name from the first immi grants who settled here from Scot land, and from the fact that all this section known as Scotland Neck is in tne oend ot the Koanoke river and opposite the bend. The bend of the river is very much in the shape of ahorse shoe and the town is located about three miles from the heel of the shoe. This is the finest cotton producing section in all the cotton belt of the State, and the Roanoke lands could be made the granary for all the State. Ve have some of the most enter prising merchants anywhere to be found. D. Edmondson & Co., N. B. Josey & Co.,M. Hoffman & Bro., F. Stern and E. B. Higgs & Co., are hue business men, and mil of push and drive, and are making a reputation among our people for fair dealing and business qualities unsurpassed. The first three firms mentioned are among the most thrifty, public spirited, inter prising men in North Carolina. Some of these firms actually sold meats here for less than it could be bought in Richmond, Norfolk or Baltimore. Our other merchants, who did not handle meat bv the car load bought of them, because they could save by so doing. Not only can we buy some things cheap er than we can North of us but we can sell our cotton here to these same men and others who buy, for more money by two or three dollars a bale, than it will net us when we ship to Commission Merchants. It is useless to enumerate the ad vantages of our section in the way of business. They are unsurpassed. We have direct communication with the outer word, by rail, water, telegraph and mail. Can hold con versatioii with all the business centres of the world. No com munity has more facilities and ad vantages lor social enjoyment, mor al and religious development, and literary attainments. We have more pretty ladies (and they don't arm-clutch either) and handsome boys than any other section in the State. We furnish husbands from a mule driver up to the legal profes sion, and we can supply wives fit to grace a King's palace or a peasant's eottage. As to churches and schools we stand in no need. We have within the corporate limits one very line mixed school, taught by Miss Sallie Speed, than whom there is no better in the State. Then we have Vine Hill Academy, presided over by Professor Billiard, one oi the most promising young teachers and leaders of advanced thought in all the State. This school is for males only. Then we have a female Academy presided ov r by Misses Lena Smith and Eunice McDowell. Two young ladies more accomplished, refined, and qualified to discharge the duties devolving upon them, are not to be found in this wicked world of our These are some of our sch "facilities. Now, if you are -not too choice in your religious -aotlons we can sat-isfyyouas-roClim.cli; Do yoube lie e ir apostolic succession, with a S"!lc leap to make the link eom V.ete froti Christ to this writing i TMu we can accomodate you. Our Episcopal brethren are ready with armsout-strercueu to receive, you. A.nd you could not fall in better hands, for none are more generous, kind, hospitable and clever. They have since the old Church was burned down, rebuilt the same; and now have nearly completed in the town one of the most substantial, commodious,and handsome Church es in the State. Do vou believe in sprinkling and working for dear life to gain a glori ous entrance without a spot , or blemish into the kingdom above! riien our Methodist brethren are ready, anxious and waiting to greet you, ana nave you jom in me heaven inspired song: ''We need thee, we need thee every hour." And no better people, more earnest, patriotic and religious, live in any section. Do you believe in Calvin's theory of predestination, that God decreed and foreordained all things to come to pass as they do come . to pass ' Then Ave can most assuredly satisfy your conscience. Mere is our Old Side Baptist brethren and Presbyterians. Ilonest, faithful, upright, God loving, God fearing. The best people in the world to pay their honest debts and go to Church on Sunday. They too will give you a cordial shake and a kind welcome. . Do you believe in Baptism by emersion and salvation by grace, through faith, and election by the foreknowledge of God, and then the most incessant work and . . des perate struggle to come out victor in the end and receive the crown f Then here stands the .Missionary Baptist to greet you with smiles and hand shakes and join in with you in the song "Glory Hallelujah." jsoav it any one is not yet located in life, we don't think he or she could do better than come and make our home his or her home, our inter est Jus interest, our God his God. That is if there is any grit in your craw, and mettle in your make-up. It you have neither ot these quali ties stay away from this place, we would prefer your room to your com pany. There is no better people on God's foot-stool than the Scot land Neck people. Even our col ored people are a great deal better citizens ami neighbors than any where else in the State we have been. On the Rail. "Keep a sharp lookout while on the run?" echoed an engineer. Should say we did. The man that tries to run an engine without keep ing his eyes peeled gets left sooner or later. I've heard about fellows out west, tnat woum start one on a run with a board reaching across from the driver's seat to the fire man's, and a deck of cards, but I never tried that. Just to show you how necessary it is for a man to keep his eye on the rails ahead of him let me tell you a little story. "I was running along one night in Unio some years ago. it was a blowy, rain'", nasty night, and in times like that a man is doubly watchful. Tor hours I never took my eyes from the wet, glistening rajls ahead of me, except, of course, when we stopped. at stations. All at once I saw in front of me how far ahead I couldn't tell a glimmer of light. It was inst a sparkl I barely saw it before it disappeared Wus it a lightning bug? I hadn't seen any that night. What was it ? That I couldn't answer. But my instinct told me to stop the train, and stop I did. It was mighty lucky I looked at it that way, for that glim mer of light commenced the oddest way. You couldn't guess it in a week. A farmer track when was walking along the he discovered a ' short bridge so badly . washed, out by:the freshet that to run upon it meant a wreck. He tried to start a fire with papers and his clothingjbut couldn't do it. He had one match left. He kept that till I got close to him, his plan being to strike that'- match, hold it in his hat, and wave it across the track as he had seen the brake man do when ihey wanted to signal stop. It was his hope that I would see the blaze before it was blown out. "He no sooner struck the match than out went the blaze. It was merely a flash, but I saw it and the farmer had saved the train. What if I hadn't made it a rule to keep my eyes peeled along the- rails every minute while running?" CJtj'caro Herald. ' . X , AN ACCOMPLISHED THIEF. She landed at the hotel of our quiet village on a Saturday morning. She appeared to be " a 3-oung lady of two or three and twenty, slightly above the medium height, of perfect form, with large, piercing black eyes, ana a wealth of raven tresses float ing 'over her shoulders. A large canvas-covered trunk followed her in to the hall, and, after she had been shown into the parlor, the register, with pen and ink, w It's brought for her signature. She nodded pleas antly nodded with a smile that completely captivated the impress sible clerk and then, in a very pretty" Italian hand, she wrote her name "MissJ Clara Du bois, Phila delphia, Pa." ... Later, a the landlord politely es corted her to the supper room, she informed him that she had heard of his house that it was quiet and well kept, rnd that she had come for a short rest and respite from the din and turmoil of the great city. The good host was grateful and very glad the young lady had hon ored his house with her presence. He woul d do what he could to make her stay comfortable and agreeable. Very soon Miss Dubois got ac quainted with the guests of the house and proved herself as intel ligent and entertaining as she was pretty. She played well upon the piano-forte, but did not sing. She played chess, too, though there was only one person in the house to play with her. Boarding at thediotel was Mr. Aa ron Huntley, lie kept the principal store in the village, and was our postmaster. He was a man of five-and-forty, rotund, and good-looking, and had been a widower ten years. He had been a successful trader, and had been careful of his money, which he worshiped. And it was Mr. Huntley who play ed chess with Miss Dubois. One evening Aaron Huntley came from the parlor where he had -been playing chess, radiant. He had proposed and nad been accepted. He managed to keep the sweet, bless ed secret for four-and-twenty hours, and then he let it out to the landlord and was congratulated. The store keeper was i happy. He walked as one who treads on air. lie was smiling and gracious to his customers and even generous. After this Miss Dubois was much at the store, and, in her playful, hap py way, she assisted often in the postoffice, which was a square room partitioned off in onp corner of the building. And so the da3rs went on and Aaron . Huntley was certainly the happiest man in - the village. But one morning a thunder clap fell upon him. He went to the store finding the rear door ajar. He went to his safe and found that it had been opened and the money all taken the savings of years ! "Fully $10,000 had been stolen from the safe. Miss Dubois was early at the store and when she hdard of her lov er's loss she endeavored to console him. .. , 'Don't worry, dearest," she said. "When my father come3 1 can help you, if this loss cripples you it shall be only for a time." "But, Clara. I would not have it appear that I married you for your "Naughty man, hush ! Will you not let me love you a little?" What could he say more? When the stage arrived that even ing an old gentleman, with white hair and beard and wearing an enor mous pair of green spectacles, was helped out and, leaning heavily upon hi3 stout oaken staff, hobbled into the hall. He signed his name upon the register in a trembling, strag gling hand : "Dr. Seth Bumpus When supper was finished Miss Dubois took Mr. Huntley's arm and retired to the parlor, and presently afterward the whitehaired man nam" ed Dr. Bumpus followed them. The two had seated themselves upon the sofa, and the latter took a seat on a chair between them and the door, and at the same time a stout, dark-faced man, in a free-and-easy su.t of dark flannel, had stopped upon the threshold and was standing in the open doorway. : Miss Dubois saw these two men saw the position they had taken and her teeth came together with a snap and her lips, were compressed and pale. . "Sir," said she, addressing the whitehaired man, "you stare at me as though you had met me before.' And, as she spoke, her right hand stole down by her side toward the pocket of her dress. "Look, my dear, and see if you don't remember me." With this the white wig was lifted off, the green spectacles and the white beard re moved, revealing a compact, sinewy, keen-eyed man of about 40. In the next instant Miss Dubois had a - pistol in her hand, and was cocking it ; but the man in the chair and the man at the door had both been watchful of her. They were upon her before she could do any mischief, and after a sharp, furious struggle a struggle in which the two strong men had severe work to do a pair of racket irons were upon her wrists. Mr. Huntley for the second time that day had been thunder-struck, so completely struck that all power of defending his promised wife was lost to him, and he did not even re cover his power of speech until the ignoble irons had been snapped upon her wrists. "In the name of mercy," he at length gasped, "why do you treat a lady thus?" "A lady ! That's good ! Say, 3-011 are Aaron Huntley, ain't ye?" "Yes, sir." "And was robbed last night?" "Ye-es, sir." "Well.I am Capt. Joyce of the New York detective force, and this fair companion of yours has been giving me considerable of a waltz latelj as he can tell you." "He !" "Yes, sir he, Didn't ye evet hear of one John Ropert, otherwise calK ed Liverpool Jack?" "I have read in the papers of a big reward having been offered for Liverpool Jack," answered Mr. Huntley, wonderingly. "Well," returned Capt. Joyce, "Here we have him as large as life, and he would be full as natural if it wasn't for this feminine masquerade. Oh, he's a keen one, he is, sir ; but I fancy we'll sing him a song of Sing Sing now, and, if I ain't greatly out we'll find your lost money for you." And so Aaron Huntley lost a wife, but he regained his $10,000, though it was a long, long time before he regained anything like his old pride and self-complacency, for he had, indeed, for four weeks, been wasting the love of his ten der heart npon one of the most accomplished rogues that ever crossed the Atlantic to America. Ex. DISENCHANTMENT. She'stood on the cool piazza As the shades of evening fell, Ant1 1 gazed on the lovely maiden, Entranced b3T her beauty's spell . The balmy evening zephers Played with each golden tress; And her azure eyes were swimming In a sea of tenderness. Her lips just slightly parted, Were tinged with the coral's flame, And I Lhought that her cheeks' bright blushes The hue of the rose would shame. While gazing in admiration On the rare and radient lass, I thought sweetest music only Through those coral lips could pass. But a sudden change came o'er her, Gone was the smile so bland; And she smote in sudden anger The back of her lilly hand. And she cried, "Ha ! ha ! I've got you. You'll trouble my peace no more; You're the same darned old mosquito That I tried to mash before !" An Arizona editor publishes this prospectus: Any galoot who wants the Rip snorter lor a year can liave it left at their bar-room on payment of three red chips in advance. Nows's your time to chip in. Boys, she's a dandy. Advertisements will be stuck in at liberal terms, and dust and mules taken in exchange. CYou ducks who haven't paid up your subscriptions want to hus tle. We warn you that we know who you are and we are going aut collecting in a day or two with a new force of Colts ready for all slow customers. We mean busi ness. tdPFuneral notices must be ac- eomnnnied bv the address oi the corpse, not for publication, but as a guarantee ot prompt payment. PF'We are personally responsi ble for all news published in these columns. Office hours from 10 a. ni.. to 2 11. m. Jack Joslyn,. (alias strapping Jack.) Mr. Abe Lee, of Adams Creek, sent up a bout load of fourteen hundred ice riud watermelons yesterday, con signed to Hugh J. Lovick. New Berne Journal. THEY IIAIIVX CAUOHX OX. We first came upon a young far mer afoot and in somewhat of a hur ry. Two or three of the fingers on his right hand were badly shattered and he had not stopped long enough to envelop the hand in a rag. He said something about "three miles! and the doctor" as he passed us. Driving along for about half a mile we came -upon a dead mule in harness, with a great splinter driven clear through mm. There was a boy about 12 years of age seated on a pile of rails near by, but he was wiping blood off his heel and didn't seem to hear our questions. Half a mile beyond this was a log cabin. One side was bulged in, the windows shattered and the door in kindling wood. There was a dead dog and four or five dead chickens between the door and the gate. "Hullo! the house!" called the Colonel as we halted at the gate. After a long minute a woman came out. She had several loose teeth, which were bleeding freely, and she had the frightened look of a school ma'am treed by a bear. "Been a cyclone here?" asked the Colonel. "No." "Somebody shooting?" "No." "Can't be no political meeting?'' "No." "Well, what in Halifax is the row, then?" "Nuthin" 'cept the old man and the boys has got some dynamite to blow up stumps with, and they're sort o' green at the bizness." Ex. A Good Story. On the boat coming down from the Flats the other evening was a young man and a black bass. They were a pair. That is. the young man had in some way accumulated the fish, which was dead. He was such a guileless-looking young man that several parties thought to guy him and his catch. The fish was hanging to a peg, and with it a pair of small balances which enable a fisherman to weigh his victims, providing they don't go over twenty pounds. "Catch it all alone?" asked one. No reply. "Pull very hard?" asked a second. No reply; "Were you very much over three days about it?" queried a third, and so it went on for ten minutes, while the fisherman had nothing to say. At length one of the crowd remark ed: "That bass will weigh all of half a pound.'' . "I doubt it," replied another. "Say, fisherman, what are the fig ures?" hl- "Two pounds," was the solemn answer. "Get out?" The man pulled a $10 bill from his vest, and laid it on his knee and said: "If he don't, the money is rours. Put up !'' After some hesitation, a shake purse of $10 was raised, the fish hung to the scales, . and he showed an ounce oyer. The crowd kicked on the scales, aod the fish was weighed in the steamer's pantry. The figures held good, but he was weighed over again when the boat landed, and the money had to be passed over. "How did3rou do it?" asked a po liceman when the crowd had dis persed. "Simply poured seventeen ounces of bird shot down his throat," was the reply ; and he let the fish's head drop and the shot pattered out on the wharf like a young hail storm. Ex. We are glad to know that the flag for the military company has arrived. The flag is a beauty and the com pany have good cause to feel proud. It cost $122.50, which amount was raised mostly by the young ladies of the town. - It will be presented to the company in a formal way next Friday evening. W e have not learned who will make the presentation speech. Greenville Stan dard. One of the Eastern county papers told us the other day of a leaf of Granville county tobacco which was 32 inches long and 18 broad. The Rev. T. M. Myers tells us of one he measured vesterday, on the farm of Mr. J. W. Smith in Madison This was 38 inches long and,20 wide. And when the leaves on either side were stretched out in opposite directions thejT measured six feet from tip to tip. Ashville Citizen. The Scotland Neck Democrat has thrown away its patent outside. Dollar WeeUy. THEY MET. In driving out into the country on the Graud River road a few days ago a Detroit lawyer encountered a horse and buggy driven by a woman. As she was driving on the wrong side of the road he made up his mind not to give up his rights. , As a con sequence the two horses finally came to a stand-still with their noses rub bing each other. The lawyer stared at the woman, and the woman start ed back. Then he pulled a newspa per f.-om his pocket and began read- g. In a minute she had her knit. ting out and was industriously at work. Ten long minutes in a broil ing sun passed away and the lawyer looked up and asked : "How long are you going to stay here?" "How long are you?" "All day." "And I'll stay here a whole week." He read and she knit for another ten minutes and then the lawyer call ed out : "Do you know that I'm a law yer?" "I don't care for that," she repli ed ; "I'm the wife of a Justice of the Peace." "Ah Ah excuse me, madam ! Really, but. if I'd known you belong ed to tile "purfesh" this would not have happened. Take this side, madam take the whole road !" "Oh, no, no, no : I'm sorry I de tained you. Here drive o.i, and excuse me if I have been guilty of unprofessional conduct. Detroit Free Press. A GROWN G EVIL. Under the heading "Justice," the Lexington Dispatch of last week lias a well written and entirely just crit icism on the way justice is not ad ministered in our superior courts. Of twentyfive cases disposed of on the State docket, at the last term of Davidson Court, it says seventeen were discharged upon payment of costs. The same has been noticed in other courts until an impression is gaining upon the public mind that solicitors are using criminals as a sort of semi-annual source of reve nue. The law breakers have them selves come to look at it in this light, and as soon as court comes they has ten to the solicitor's room and sub mit. True, as the Dispatch says, people are asking what is the use of having laws and courts where the majority of the law breakers, go un punished? Bad men are very quick to avail themselves of any lenity ex tended to them and equally quick to try their chances for a second es cape from justice in case they are overtaken in crime. There are cases where such exercise of mercy are ap preciated but they are growing la mentably scarce. The solicitor can not know all the facts, and men don't care to make enemies of the criminal class by becoming voluntary infor mers. There should be some change in the law to remedy this growing evil. W ho can suggest the best? Hickory Carolinian. NEWS OF THE STATE During July only ten convicts es raped, of all at work on the roads in the western part of the State. News Observer. A large amount of freight passes through, and from Durham daily. We certainly need another road. Durham Recorder. Mr. Cornelius Stephens comes to the front with the largest watermelon we have seen this season. It tipped the beam at 49 pounds. Reflector. The deer are so thick in some sections of Craven County that they hang out scarecrows to keep them out of the melon patches and the peas. Reidsville Dollar Weekly. One day last week two very dark cullud geramen. were in conversation near our office, when one said to the other; "Is ray face smutty?" The other replied; "What you talkin' 'bout nigger, somebody done ben' gone marked your face wid a chalk." Rocky Mount Clipper. Mr. C. F. Finch was in the Advance office Saturday and informed us that he had an oil well on tue land near his mill in this county. He has not bored for the oil yet bat he says the indications are sufficient to convince him that he has "struck ile." If true, this will be one of the most valua ble pieces of property in the coun try. Wilson Advance. READABLE PARAGRAPHS. Colled from our Exchanges Through out the Country. Paid. A lawyer, and sometimes a doctor, settle a bill in an unexpec ted way: A butcher enters a lawyer's of lice. "Sir," lie'asks, "when a dog does any damage, is not his owner re sponsible?" "Certainly." "That being the case, as your dog lias just, carried off a magnificent leg of mutton from 1113' shop, you owe me two. dollars." "Nothing could be more just," replied the lawyer; "and fortunate ly, that is exactly the price of Hie, consultation I have just given you." A Pack of Cakds Well Eatived. "Why do you pick that up?" asked a reporter of a man who hnd just stooped down and taken a fugitive nine of clubs out of the mud. He was carefully cleaning the card with his pocket-handkerchief. "It's a habit I have contracted," he said, laughing. Long ago I no ticed that a day rarely passed that I did not see a playing-card lying iu the street, I wondered if it were possible to make a whole pack by picking up all I saw. I went to work to try it. At first it socmed easy enough, and I picked up plen ty of cards of different kinds, but as my collection grew larger the task be came more difficult, and I found cards of the same sort over and over again. It took me twelve years to find the last four cards I wanted the live of diamonds the eight of diamonds, the king of spades, and the . four of hearts. Two of these years were spent in looking for the eight of dia monds, which was all I wanted . to complete this pack. I found it three months ago in an ash barrel 011 Bax ter street, and I have now the entire pack. I was just eleven years and two weeks collecting ic, and I would not sell it for $1.000. Nero York Sun. He Wanted a Thuxder Rod. "You see," said the farmer to the ' lightning rod agent, "It ain't light ning that I'm afraid of, it's thunder, Thunder allers paralyzes me. I don't wan't no lightnin' rods-" "Well," admitted the agent; "I think myself that thunder is more dangerous of the two. What you want is thunder rods," "Have yougot thunder rods?" "Oh yes ; the brassstipped rods arc for lightning, and the nickel-tipped for thunder ; but the latter cost a lit tle more.', "I guess yon kin put up a few of them thunder rods," said the farmer. "I don't mind payin' a little extra so long as I feel safo." " Mr. Thoman, of the civil service Examining commission whose most marked characteristic i3 firmness gave some applicants for ofiiee the other dry a question like this, "What is the compound interest at 9 and three elevenths per cent per annum on $3, 479, 210, 788, 4G2. 011, 55G, 497, 241, 728 for 3 years, 9 months 7 days, 19 hours, 47 minutes, and 23 and one nineteenth seconds?" He ipught to be hanged. Fixing Too High a Valve. Wife I wish you would get your life insured for $5,000, my dear ! , Husband I was thinking of get tins; it insured for $10,000. Wife Do you think you can? Husband Certainly. Why not? Wife I supposed the companies refused to insure anything for more than its worth. Mr. Wia. P. Robbs, in Spartan-, burg county while hauling logs last week near upper Island Ford, on Main Broad River, met with an acci dent which resulted in death. lie left home at 7 o'clock in the morn ing, at 10 o'clock he was found with a large log on him, which had slip ped from the wagon while he was trying to fasten it. It caught him and he was unable to extricate him self. He died the same evening. Mr. Robbs was a good citizen and his death is greatly lamented. He had relatives in this county. New Era. Mr. Rabb, while unloading stocks from his wagon at a saw mill in Spar tauburg county, S. C, on last Satur day, was crushed to death by the stock rolling over him down the in cline plane. He died in a f iw min utes after being crushed by the log. Shelby 4urorx. 4
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