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--,-..-. - sir Jv-: ,tll Subscription $1.50 per year. WE MUST WORK FOR THE PEOPLE'S WELFARE. W. II. Kilchin, Owner. VOL. 1. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1885. NO. 43. 7 I 9 1 1 a ' A I fK f I v -A A fV v SI .... y l 1 Y M "V A M M STOCK LAW- Spc 1 . That it shall be unlawful . . 7- rn n 1 1 1 fl TITO iii for anv 't'e SCOLTiv x" the counties of Halifax and War- ten- cc. 2. Any person may take up ulV live stock running at large in saul comities and impound the same ; aiul such impounder may demand H-pntv-five cents for each aoiuial so taken up, and twenty-five cents for t-ch animal for every day such stock i-j kept impounded and may retain the same with the right to use it un der proper care until all legal char cos for impounding sai d stock and for damages caused by the same are paid, said damages to be ascertained bvtwo disinterested freeholders to be selected by the owner and said impounder, said freeholders to select fin umpire if they cannot agree and their decision to be final. Sec. o. If the owner of said stock be known to said impounder he shall immediately inform such owner when his stock is impounded and if said owner shall, for two days after such notice, wilfully refuse or neglect to redeem his stock, then the impound er, after ten aays written, notice posted at three or more pub'uc places within the township where f laid stock is impounded, and, describing the said stock and stating place, day and hour of sale, or if the owner be unknown, after twenty day s notice in same manner, and also at the court house door, shall sell the stock at public auction, and apply the pro ceeds in accordance with, the pre ceding and succeeding sections, and the balance lie shall turn over to the owner if known, and if tbe owner be unknown, to the county commission ers for the use of the school fund of the district wherein said stock was taken up and impounded, subject in their hands for six months to the call of the legally entitled owner. Sec. 4. Any impounder wilfully misappropriating any money, he may Teceive under this act, or m any manner wilfully violating any of its provisions shall be guilty of a misde meanor and fined not exceeding fifty dollars or imprisoned not exceeding thirtv days. Sec. 5. Any person unlawfully re ceiving or releasing any impounded stock, or attempting to do so, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not exceeding fifty dollars or imprisoned not exceeding thirty days. Sec. G. The word stock in this act shall be construed to mean horses, irmles, jacks, jennets, colts, cows, sheep, calves, goats and all neat cat tle and swine. Sec. 7. It shall be the duty of the hoard of Commissioners of said forthwith to erect a good and lawful fence around said counties, except on the Virginia line and the lir.es of territory of adjacent coun ties in which the stock or no fence law prevails, and aloug all streams which are or may be declared lawful fences; and to defray the expense of tise same, they shall levy and collect an assessment not to exceed twenty cents on the one hundred dollars of taxable valuation of the real estate of the counties. Sec. 8. Any citizen or citizens of the teritory herein described, are hereby authorized and empowered at their own expense to construct said fence or any part of it along the line indicated by this act or to erect gates on any of the highways on said line offence. Sec. 9. If any owner of land along the line of teritory described in this act, shall object to the build ing of any fence herein allowed, his land not exceeding twentv feet in width for the fencing herein provided for, shall be condemned upon the application of any person to any justice of the peace of tbe township, in which said land is situated, ana said justice of the peace shall at nce proceed to summon two disin- wrested freeholders, who shall to gether with him lay off and condemn 8ich land for fencing, after giving to the owners of such land or lands, or Ms or their agent9, two days notice, nd they shall assess such damage as they think just. oec. 10. That any person who shall wilfuli. Lermit his or her live stock to run at large within said waties, shall be deemed guilty of "usuemeanor, and upon conviction wmt)e fined not exceeding fifty "ouars, or imprisoned not exceeding -"iriy aays. ec. 11. That Fishing Creek ua its tributaries within said coun ties between the counties of Halifax, Nash and Edgecombe shall be deem ed a lawful fence. Sec. 12. That all laws and claus es of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed, . and- this. ct snail be in force from and after the first day of September, 1885. Ratified the 21st day : of February A. D. 1885. STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, Office of Secretary of State, Raleigii, March 5th, 1885. I, W. L. Saunders, Secretary of State of the State of North Carolina, do hereby certify the foregoing to be a true copy lrom the records of this office.- W. L. SAUNDERS, Secretary of State. . . . A EDITORIAL GUN, Sterrett, the red-headed superin tendent of the Dallas Times, has bought or borrowed a breech-loading- shotgun that shoot six times. It a- half-sister to the Winchester rifle. The noise made by this gun when feeding it with cartridges, is similar to tuac oi an aiigaior cnewing on a 'razor back," a dilapidated hand-car on the Waxahachie Gap, or friend Sterrett's bazoo in a club-meeting. last wees sterrett ana tms gun found their way to Henderson coun ty on a camp-hunt. They were giv en a large bay mule and one spur on his right foot, and the injuries on the left leg are remarkably f e w, con sidering that the mule went kind of "catawampused." Sterrett and the gun were put on a stand out of gun" shot of any one else. . As the. dogs and deer approached Sterrett- began to manipulate his gun. The railroad was only some two miles distant, and the people in the neighborhood thought that an engine had jumped the track and right of way and was out in the woods. Soon six explo sions were heard. .... Sterrett had shot ! All 4 I 1 1 ' ' . me uounas escaped to camp, and Sterrett had only wounded i one i. ft. J. 4 . AM ouerreit s uae pair oi nounas were both unhurt. The one that was hurt didn't know Sterrett and aps proached too near. About six hours afterwards Sterrett and the gun came into camp. Their excuse for being so late was that Sterrett had to change the spur from one foot to the other in order to keep his course. Sterrett has been hunting heretofore with a horse pistol, and the gun is a bout to get the best of him. The party, stayed on the hunt for several days but they could not influence the hounds to go into the woods with Sterrett and the srun. Monday last, Mr. II. C. Davidson of Davidson township, was in States ville, and rather lute in the aft noon left for his home, Mr. James Sherril, of his neighborhood, riding with him in his buggy. A short dis tance this" side ""onSttcpu'etdVTC roads, about dark, a yoUng' man baited them from the railroad track, as they were riding along the public road, and asked for leave to ride Mr. Davidson declined to take him in. hie insisted ana was answered that there was already --two in the buggy and no more could be car ried. The stranger told the travel crs to go on then, coupling this with an epithet so opprobrious - that-Mr; Davidson jumped from the buggj and started for him. As he -did so the stranger fired on him with a pistol, the ball passing through the fleshy part of the right , arm. below the elbow... The wounded, man rush ea upon tne rascal wmie - no was trying to fire again, jerked the pisto out of his hand and began to lay about him with, las buggy whip whereupon his assailant turned and fled, making good his escape. .Mr Davidson stopped at the residence of E. L. Cloninger, Esq., near by, had his arm bandaged and . went on home. His wound is not serious. Landmark. ELI PERKINS IN RICHMOND. Further on we came 16 a very large building and a very ancient building. "Is that a tobacco factory, too?" I asked the driver. "No, sah, dat's a ineetin ' house, sar ; dat's whar Patrick IIenry made his great speech, sah." "What did Patrick say?" I ask ed. J. - ' "Why he done say, 'Giv me liber ty or giv raedctb.' " " "Well, which did they give niton r" nv criv him bof. sah, bof."- Pittsburg Dispatch. .' 'TWAS IN 57. He was leaning against the railing of the Nevada Bank and a 'passing eporter knew he was a poineer the moment the reportorial' glance lit upon him. The reporter knew, more over, tnat ne was a tutea . pioneer. and, consequently, had no hesitancy n leaning Hip against" the -railing ikewise, arid remarking without the formality oCa introduction : 4 r "Glorious climate, Isn't it. Judge?" "Oh, yes," he promptly responded, Glorious climate-glorious climate of California. . Nothing like it." : 'Have you been down long?" J "No. Jest came yesterday. Haven't been here before . nign . on lorty years. ' Came dpwnto pull the rope or. Casey in '56, you remember. Twas 'long here some place, I reck on, but these dod-gasted new build ings kind of makes me disremember, you know. . Oh, them was the days ! We didn't have no . murderers pran- cin' thestreets unhung in them days. No common sheep-thieves, were run- mn lor Congress then. .ver .run a Vig'lance Committee, voung fellow?" The reporter blushingly confessed his inexperience Well, I hev. Say, 4 you haven't got an extra chaw, about you that you are not using precisely at thi s moment, hev you?" The reporter mide haste to accom modate him, and, thus refreshed, the old pioneer took a fresh grip on the supporting post and began : It was away back upon the Yuba River in '57. I had just- been run-, ninga Justice mill, and just complet ed my term of office, and the fellow who they put in didn't know more about law than a jackass knows about virtue. Well it was along in them times that the Vigilance Com mittee was at work down here at the Bay, and the thieves and rapscallions took to flockin' up to our section of the country, and began to steahn' j whatever we had worth stealin'. The committee of two hitndked. "This yer Justice of the Peace wasn't doin' his duty, anyhow, and 1 so I took it on myself one day to call a meetin' of the boys down in Scurvy Bill's gin-mill. After Scurvy had treated all around once and Colonel Higgles had reciprocated twice, 1 got up and called the meetin to or der. I drew attention to the , fact that the thieves and bunko steerers were a flockin' up from the Bay and pourin' into our homes like flies in the millc plEcherj stearin our sheep and endangerin' the rawbones of our jackasses .cd ; the " coppers on our dead mothers' ' eyes'. I told f 'em as liQvy them fellers from Murphy's Flat, witti tlieif secret Jway of dealin', po ker from the bottom of the pack, was a,lead$n' outmost Tespeetable citi zens into the highways and lowways of bankruptcy. I. brought' ' to 'their notice the awfuT consequences of al lowin' them joung bucks from Marys ville to come over with, their ..waxed mustaches, insinuatin' their foul car casses in the peaceful, sublimity of our hearthstones, where purity, yir- ug, honesty, 4 economy .and? reform reigned, to steal away the Jiearts of our-daughters and , our wives. I brought tatheir observation , the un deniable fact. that, the soiled doves of Frisco .were a fillin' . the . whole eamp with anger , and a .. gnashin' of teeth. I showed '.em all these things, and then just "put the (question to the boys fairly and pintedly as to wheth et they, as- men, fathers, brothers and. mothers, was a goin' to stand idly by and see our glorious country defiled, our sheep and horses stolen, our homes' debauched and our glo rious climate covered with arnica. I jest put the - matter pintedly, I did, axed 'em plainly, as man to man, what they proposed to do, . whether to grin and bear it or buy the hemp After a silence Pike Smith set np the drinks, and then Judge Haw- Kins rose ana lowea tnat ne, as a man, was not a goin' to . endure the tyrant s heel - upon our necks, the rascality o f tbe. Murphy Flat " poker players to drain our exchequers, the tentacles of the , TMarysvule ten aenooi.s auu octopuses to tnroiie our daughters Cor .our neighbor's daught ers in, cases wjieie some of us didn't hev any of our owirtand out glorious climate, covered with arnica, and dis grace . lie . movea, . that , we, run a Vigilance I Committee' and drive all these evidences of effete, civilization beyond' 'our " coofihesl f, WeIl,' ' sir, would you ' believe that committee was organized right off th'e .spot, Dut W . C - ezit was secret couldn't tell you all. Scurvy set , up the drinks in honor of the occasion. , , j ,. TnE COMMITTEE ACTS. . , "In about a week we were inform ed that a fellow from Frisco ; had troubled va ; mule-driver for $4. 75 in coin and sQm'e the dust. " We kind of took . coeniz'ance ' of the " fact and charge of the fellow from ; Frisco. But we gave him a fair trial, allowed lim to pick his own jwy, but by six o'clock that night we had condemn-. ed him to be hung at six next morn in We gave' him the ' right 1 to say his prayers, and six of us were sta tioned in the school-house to ' take care of him. We eot along 1 alright until near mornin when the fellow made and excuse to go outside. Three of the boys went out with him, but in some way . he 1 contrived to break loose and run. - They empti ed their revolvers but he got away and was gone. t Bright .and early next morning all of the Vigilentes had turned out in force to have the honor of jerking the rope. We met in the school-house, and when the President came, up to me ' smilin' an' a rubbm' his hands, ; sayin', 'Ah, Mr. Brown, now justice will have its re ward and the iron band of relaxing law will again stiffen ; this will show that there is a premium for honesty in this community : -wuereis the con demned?' I felt a little puzzled to explain, and rather , stammered ; I am sorry, Mr, Evans, but he is gone.' Ah !, cried -President Evans, 'that is an idea, .brown, just say that ; we'll all say it, It'll kee.p the myrmidons of the law from interfer ing. But, say,' he said, lowering his voice, ,did he die hard?' 'But he is really gone got away escaped deeamped !' I exclaimed. 'That's right, Brown,' he replied, enthusiasm tically, 'just stick to it but I'm-sor ry I missed the show. But stick to it we all will. Tell 'em all he es- caped.' 'But he did !' I roared. 'Rul ly !' he replied, 'the devil . would be leve you.' ; . . "Well, sir, would you believe it. that to this day you would never convince the boys but that we actually hanged that fellow from Frisco? And, what is worse, the ungrate ful cuss never turned up to deny, the ie.7 San Francisco Examiner. , COME BACK. Bill Nye. I wish that you would insert the following personal in your valuable and widely read paper : Personal Will the young woman who used to cook in our family, and who sent away ten pounds cf sugar and five and a half pounds of tea ahead of the game, please come back, and all, will be .forgiven. If she cannot return will sue please write, stating her present address and also give her reasons, for, shut ting up the cat in . the refrigerator when she went away? ; If she will only return, we will try to forget the past and think only ' o the glorious present and the bright bright futures Come back, arah, and jerk the waffleiron for us once "more ? Your manners are peculiar, but we yearn for your doughnuts, and yon style ot streafced ija Re - suits us ex actly. " You may keep the handkerchiefs and the collars, and we will not re fer to the dead past. " "H We have arranged it so that when you snore it win not aisturo the night police, and if you do not like our "" children we v will send them aWay.' - -"" :v ' ; v " " "" We realize that yon do not like chil dren very well, and ours especially gave you much pain because they were not so refined as you were. " We have often wished, for your sake, that we had never had any children ; but so long as thejr are in our family, the neighbors will rather expect us to take care of them. Still if you insist upon it, we will send them away. We don't want to seem overbearing with our servants. We would be willing also to give you more time Tormental relaxation than you had before. The intellec- tuai strain mciaent to tue mem oue who makes gtavyfor a lost "and un done wor'.d must be very great; and tired nature must ar last 'suceumD. We do 'not want to succumb. ' If any one has got to succumb, let us do it. All we 'askfsihat you' let us know when youare going away, and leave the crackers1 and cheese where vwe can find them. J . - - It was rather rough on lis to have you go awav when we bad guests in the house, but if vou had not taken the key to thecooking department,. , - c ..... we could haye, worried along. You ought to let us have company at the house sometimes if we let you have company when , you , want to. Still, you know , best, perhaps. You arc older than we are, and you have seen more of the world. We miss your gentle admonitions and your stern reproofs sadly. Come back and admonish us once more, at so much per admonish and grocer ies :, . . We wiil agree to let vou select the tender part, of the steak, and such fruit as seems to strike you fa- orably, just as we did before. W e did not like it when you were here, but that is because we were young and did not not know what the cus tom was. - - If a lifetime devoted to your wel are can obliterate the injustice we have done you, we will be glad to yield it to you If you could suggest a good place for us to send the children, where they. would. be; -taken care of, and where they would not mterlere with some other cook who is a friend of lurs, we would be glad to have you write us. , My wife sars that she hopes you will feel perfectly free to use the piano whenever you are lonely or sad, and when j'ou or the bread feel depressed you will be welcome to come into the parlor and lean up against either one of us and sob. We know that when you were with us before we were a little reserved in our manner toward you, but if you come back it will -be different. We will introduce you to more of our friends this time, and we hope you do the same by us, young peo pie are apt to get above their busi ness, and we admit that we were rong. - . ; Come back and oversee our fritter bureaujonce more. Take the portfolio of our interior department. ' ' " Try to forget our former coldness. Return, oh, wanderer, return I CORRECT. We leara from' the : New York Journal of Comnierce that the author of the well known. lines addressed "To a Pretty WaltzerV in 1S00, bore the signature of Sir H. E., Bart, which may have stood for Sir Henry nglefield. The lines are as fol lows: - . What! the girl I adore by another ; embraced? ' ' What! the balm of lier lips shall'an pther man taste? . What ! touched in the twirl by an other man's knee? What! panting- reeline on another ,, thanme? ' ' - Sii', sbe73s yoirys: from the grape . , you have i)ressed the soft blue: From the rose yon have shaken the ... tremulous dew: " What you have touched you may . t tale: Pretty W altzer, Adieu. - . . '.Star.' ' TI1E GREAT FAMILY PAPER IS THE NEW WEEKLY DISPATCH. ONLY PER YEAR. t Eight Pages of Solid Reading Matter. 5 THE BEST' TAPER IN TnE SOUTH. Tlie Richmond Weekly Dispatch. Is now published in eight page form. It is just double its former size, and contains about .sixty-four columns of solid reading matter. The subscription price remains the same one dollar per annum. It is our" intention tb'make the Weekly Dispatch more than ever a first-class home and farmers' paper. It will con tain each week complete market reports, the latest news, . foreign and domestic, State and city, together with interesting miscellany, . embracing special features in the farmers? department, household matters, ladies' .fashions, an interesting story,1 and the like. .In a word, it is our aim "never to. let well enough alone. The paper will be improved in mattea and typographical 'appearance just as in size. Above all, the Dispatch promises to de fend in the r future - the fair name of Vir ginia and champion the cause of right for her people as ifr has always done in the past Daily 5.00. per year, weekly 1.00. per year." Address - -; THE DISPATCH, " " J Richmond, Va. SEVENTEEN MULES For Sale by O -. W. II. KITCIIIN W. H." KITCHEN,1 DEALER W GENERAL. MERCHANDISE, SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, Keep constantly on hand a full line of Ready-made Clothing, from boys size up, I have on hand a large and select stock of Calico. Ladies' Dress Goods, including, Plaids, Lawns, Buntings, Nuns Veiling,Trim mings, Notions and Fancy goods, Hats, Boots. Shoes &c- HEADQUARTERS FOR Pant Goods of all kinds, and Hard ware of all kinds, including, AXES, HOES, NAILS, TACKS CARPEN TERS TOOLS, LOCKS AND HINGES, of every description, POCKET AND TABLE CUTLERY, TRACE CIIAINSt LOG CHAINS, ROPE AND TWINE. BOLTS SCREWS AND FILES, HOLLOWLY ARE AND WOODEN- WARE, SHOVELS, PLOWS, SPADES AND FORKS, -- And five thousand other articles. :o: OILS. Linseed, Cylinder, Machine Oil and the Oil of Gladness. :o: MILLS. -o- My Gristmill, Wheat Mill, Saw Mill, Cut off Saw and Lath Saw, all at work every day, turning ou the best Meal and Flour made in the country. Lumber and Lathes always on hand. Can get your Meal, Flour or Lumber at any hour in the day. Black Smith Shop connected with mill. Work done at low rates forj CASH." Horses and Mules shod.k This is the place to bring your work, if we can't do it, Pearce, one of the best Smith's in the State, just twen ty steps distant, in Peter Smith's shop, can. CARTS and WAGONS Always on hand and also made to order as cheap as you wish. We also have on hand cheap for cash, one Forty horse Tanner Boiler good as new, one twenty-five horse Engine. Also one 1 wo- Year-old first class Tanner Engine and Boiler twelve horse power, . ready for work Also one Tanner RacuetB&v Mill, Saw and Carriage. . Also one twenty bane po2r Tal bot Boiler, Engine, Saw Mill, car- riage with screw head blocks. Also one driving wheel eight feet in diameter, twelve inches on face, six inches bore in hub, weighs three thousand pounds, good as new. Also one driving wheeL ten inches on face, eight feet in diameter, four inches bore in hub. Also one driving wheel, seven feet in diameter, ten inches on face, five inches bore. Weights of last two seventeen and thirteen hun dred. . , -, -;-.-.. f , HODGES & HODGES, WHOLESALE HATS 49 Commerce Stkef.t, Noiifoi.x, Va. G RE EN WOOD SCHOOL. -TnE FAT.I, TT.UM- Of Greenwood Schocfl will begin on the 1st Monday in August, MISS SALL1E SPEED, Pki.ncii'AI,. DENNIS Sz HORN Keep constantly on hand Buggies, Wagons, Carts &c, which they will sell cheap for Cash, or on time to re- ponsible parties. We are thankful to our friends for past favors and lope a continuance of the same DENNIS & HORN. OOK1IERE! STOP!!- 100 Heifers Wanted from one to three years old. Also, 10!) Sticrs from one to three years old. All persons vi - hin to sell will please call on Vv. 11. MTCiUiN. Scotland Neck, N. O. NAG'S II E A I) . iss.j. Splendid and sale Sea l'atlilnir, Fish and Game in abundance. Kitty J lawk. Koanoke Island, and other Historic Sur roundings easily accessible. The only reliable route to this delightful Seaside re sort is via the ALBEMARLE & RALEIGH R. R. Roanoke Steamer Plymouth to Edenton, thence over Norfolk and Southern R. R. to Elizabeth Uity and thence by Old Do minion S. S. Company's Steamer Shen andoah every Saturday. Schedule lor in effect Thursday June 25. Passengers will leave Tarboro every Friday at G p. m. on regular train, arriving at Nag's Head on Saturday at 0 p. m. Returning the Shenandoah leaves Nag's Head every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday morning, making cUis-e con nection at Elizabeth City with train for Edenton. Fare from Tarboro to Nag's Head and return $4.00. Tickets Good for the Sea- m Jit, All 1 son. ThcAJonuuctor on Aiucmane ana Raleigh Railroad will sell tickets on train to parties getting on cars at Stations be- low Tarboro, upon same terms aud con ditions as from Tarboro. J. II. PETTY, Gen. Sunt. T. J. CHANDLER, Gen. F. & P. Agt. NEW A D YERT1SEM ENTS. it AILROA1) HOUSE, SCOTLAND NECK, N. C. LAURA BELL, Pkoi'riktkkss. MRS. Good beds, pohtc and attentive servants, the best table the market affords, and good water. Neatness one of its special aims. Stop at tiie Railroad House. D A.V1D A. id A DRY, BRICK MAN UFA CTUREK. Will take contracts for furnishing i'dck as chcip as the next man, and give tc-tter work. Satisfaction guarantee"!. The best brick in the market made by him at lowest prices. Give him a trial. Brick always on hand and for le in any quantity. Scotland Neck, N. C. June'2.'), l.SS."5. UFE and FIRE I am representing the strongest, most liberal, prompt and reliable companies .n the IJ. S. Call at my ollicc, take out a policy an secure your property. A policy in the TEtna Life Co., is more secure than all the Banks in the Union. J. II. LAWRENCE Agt, Scotland Neck. N. C. MISCELLANEOUS. NOTICE. 33 YEARS AT THE BUSINESS. Look to your interest ami don't be DECEIVED. NEW MAN but an OLD BUSI NESS. . . R. B. Pierce can ne foim l at Mr. P. E. SMith's shop where lis has a Good Stock of the bes; Mat-rial which he will make up .n liuies. Wagons, Carts, &e. at short noLice and offer the most reasonable Terms Horse Shoeing a SPECIALTY Call and sec me, it will be to your Interest. Respectfully, II. B. PIERCE. W. II. KITCIIIN". W. A. DUXN, KITCHIN & DUNN, ATTORNEYS A COUNSELLORS AT LAW, Sjotlanl Neck, N.' C. (Office on 10th Street, firt door above Main Our rates for advertising are very lib eral, which will be made known on application.
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