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ADVERTISING Commonw: IF YOU ARE HUSTLER YOU W1I.L ADVERTISE YOUR Business. IS TO BUSINESS -WHAT STEAM IS rATTTT KAL Machinery, That Greai Propelling Power. THAT CLASS OF READERS THAT YOU Wish your Advertisement TO KEACH is the class who read this paper. PROFESSIONAL. rju. W. O. M. DO WELL, (!li'C North corner New Hotel, Main street, Scotland Neck, N. C. g ""Always at his ollice when not .rfesion:iUv engaged elsewhere 0 U. A. C. LIVERMON, r-339 wsxjxsT 5vA w;c Wiv T-S OrncK-Over J. S. Bowers & Co's store Oilioe hours from !) to 1 o'clock ; 2 to i o'clock, p. ra. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C. D AVID F.ELL, 'Attorney at Law, ENFIELD, N. C. iv.n.-cs in nil the Courts of Hnli h -in.l adjoining counties and in the eii.Mi-eine and Federal Courts, Claims collected in all parts oi me oiaie. w, A. DUNN, A T T 0 Ji N E Y-A i'-L A W.' Scotland Neck, N. C. Practice wherever his services are required. D R. W. J. WARD, Surgeon Dentist, ENFIELD, N. C. Office over Harrison's Dm? Store. gDWARD L. TRAVIS, Attorney and Counselor at Law, HALIFAX, N. C. Money Loaned on Farm Lands. OWARD ALSTON, A ttorney-at-Law, HALIFAX, N. C SCOTLAND NECK STEAI DYE WORKS Mouening Goods a Specialty- Get price list. Address Scotland Neck Steam Dyeing Co. 1-2-1-1 v Scotland Neck N. C BRICK ! HAVING INCREASED MY FACIL- ITIES I AM NOW PREPARED TO FURNISH DOUBLE QUANTITY OF BRICK. 3A.lso will take contract to i?fumish lots from 50,000 f "or more anywhere within j?;g50 miles of Scotland Neck Can always furnish what you want. Correspond-jJ ence and orders solicited. jjafM D. A. HADDRY, l-10-'J.ly Scotland Neck, N. C. mention this paper. ISAAC EVANS, GENERAL CARPENTER. A specialty of Bracket and Scroll work of all kinds. Work done cheap and every piece guaranteed. - 7 ly Scotland Nkok. n. a. E. C. CAELISLE, Calet Mater aid MeMer. FURNITURE OF ALL KINDS. Upholstering and General Repairing. A FULL LINE of METALLIC, WAL NUT AND POPLAR CASKETS. Aho Cheap Coffins of All Sizes. o r. t: nnunnon Iff T!. E. E. HILLIARD, Editor and Proprietor. VOL.. XJJ. New Series Vol. 1. THE EDITOR'S LEISURE HOURS. Points and Paragraphs of Things Present, Past and Future. The Norfolk Pilot recently gave a very interesting article on the oyster and fish industries of Virginia. We give some figures taken from the arti cle as to Norfolk's interest in the oys ter industry : "For shucking and preparing these oysters lor other markets, there are about twenty firms engaged in this bus iness in Norfolk and its suburbs. The total catch for a season will average about 2,000,000 bushels. The season lasts eight months, say from September 1st to April 30th, and boats carrying from ten bushels to hundreds of bush els are constantly emploj-ed to supply the demand for this and other cities. In 1S78 the estimate made of our oys ter trade was $ 350,000 and in 1880 had grown to the surprising amount of $2,- 300,000 per annum. Our State author ities reported in the last year named that there were 18,8G4 persons engaged m lisnenes, an ot wmcn are in xiue water Virginia. Norfolk being the cen Ire of this great business, the report gives the capital employed at $1,914,- 119, and the value of the products more than $1,000,000." "KING COTTON'S SLAVES." Such is the heading of an article in the New A ork Independent J uly du, 1S9G, by Wallace Putnam Reed, of Con- vers, Ga. The writer declares that the Southern farmer is a slave to cotton, or rather under cotton as the medium he is a slave to the merchant. He repre sents the Southern merchants as merciless- Shylocks, grinding the farmers of that section under the wheel of intoler able oppression. He says the South ern farmer has only one cash crop and that the merchant takes advantage of t and compels the farmer to produce. cotton for six cents even if it costs ten cents to do it. Some parts of the article are true. The farmer in some sections ot the South certainly has no other crop that will bi-ing him as much ready money as his cotton crop ; but there is no such general state of affairs as the Indepent- ent's correspondent describes. The ar ticle has a tendency to prejudice West ern and Northern farmers against their chances in the South and thus may serve to hinder them from coming here. All of which is very wrong and unfair both to the great possibilities ot the South itself and the opportunities it of- ers iarmers in oiner seuuuus iur uu- woving their condition. The article has been thoroughly and successfully answered by Mr. R. H. Ed munds, 'editor of the Manufacturers' j Record. I We give the concluding paragraph of Mr. Edmunds' reply to Mr. Keed : "As to Northern farmers in the South, for ten years or more colonies and individual settlers from the North and West have been moving to the South in constantly Increasing num-, bers, and to-day scattered all over the South there are many thousands of prosperous and happy Northern iami- ies living well and making money. The writer has had within the last three years many hundreds of letters roin Northern farmers who have ived in the South from one to fifteen or more years, who bear eager and enthusiastic testimony to the won derful agricultural advantages of the South the "cotton territory" of the South in soil, in diversity of products, in early maturity of crops and cheap ness of producing them, in length of growing season, in low cost of living. They have proclaimed that they were Infinitely better off than thev would have been if they had not moved South, that they were contented and happy, and that on no account could they De induced to give up their Southern homes. Hundreds of these letters have een published, with the names and ad dresses of the writers of them. "The space available for this article is limited. It is impossible to make any enumeration of successful and pros perous Northern farmers and commu nities of Northern farmers in the South, or do more than point out one or two acts in the great mass ot evidence that might be brought out to prove that the armers in the cotton territory are no . . zi'i r IT . onger, as a class, me "oiaves ui jviuy Cotton ;" that such of them as still re main in this bondage have open to them abundant avenues of escape af- led by a great variety of profitable ,ps ; that the cotton region is mar- . i vt.Jusiy ncn in couuiuuns lavuiauic w successful agriculture independent of cotton, and that these conditions are being more and more every year real ized and profitably availed of by farm- erironjother parte of the country' . ' SCOTLAND STRANGE CASE. WHERE JOHN HAS BEEN. A True Story. Harper's Magazine. After the battle of Bull Run, when the whole country was holding up its hands in dismay and breathing hard m i v r i i , , ... me nrsi realization that the war was not, after all, to be a pic-nic for the Northern troops, I, together with many other doctors and surgeons, rushed Into Washington from distant cities. I was taken one night, by a kind old Negro woman to her cabin on the edge of the city. She came to me in tears. "Doc tah, I des wisht yoh come an' see my John. He 'pears mon's'ous cur'ous an' he act des like he 'stracted." At her cabin I found her son, a tre mendous lellow, as black as coal and evidently an athlete, with no evidence of a wound upon him, but with a ten dency to bear off to one side as he walk ed, an apparent inability to talk, and possessed of a persistent effort to march and keep time to martial music, which he could not do. Aunt Martha, as she called herself; and asked me to call her, told me that her son had always been strong and healthy, and when he left Washington with the army he was perfectly sound and "des like de res' of de folks : but dey fetch him back to his po' ole mam my des like yoh see him, doctah, an' I des skeered plumb outen my wits, dat I is." I examined John carefully and could find not the least thing the mat ter with him, and half believed he was shamming. The room was whitewashed, and I noticed a streak entirely around it that was so evenly drawn that attracted my ittention ; but in the stirring events of those days I really paid scant heed to so trifling a case as John's, and so ap parently trivial an indication as was that level streak on the wall. His mother was still talking. "De reasons dat all de table'an' cheers is in ?e floor, doctah, is dat John he des runs inter all of 'em if dey close t'de wall. 'Pears like he des 'bleeged t' skim along close up as eber he kin. Dat dar streak is whar his elbow scrapes along all day an' all night, 'cep' when somebody's sittin' holding' his han' er feelin' his pulst, like you is now." Young and inexperienced as I was, even this did not give me a clew, and I left Aunt Martha and John after giving some trifling advice and remedy, both of which I knewr to be whollv innocuous. I spent severals years in Paris and in Germany after rhe war, and it was not until 188-that I was back in Wash ington. We had an international con vention there at the time, and were taken to yarious public institutions, among which was a little asylum for poor and insane negroes. In one room, as we were passing the door, I happened to observe on the whitewashed wall a well-worn streak drawn so level and circling the room so perfectly that it called to my mind a vision which I had wholly forgotten. Memory was coming back to me and slowly taking up the threads of the war days, when one of the resident physicians, who had missed me and re turned, said, as he joined me at the grated door : "Strange case. He has been like that for years. No one knows why. He is perfectly harmless as to taking care of himself, and he walks and walks, day and night, and always bears to the left. If we let him out he'd bear off to the left and go into the riv er or the fire, or lose himself in the woods. He neyer talks, although we have never found anything the matter with him. He eats and sleeps pretty well. Strange case." Before noon the next day we had John's small room looking like a hos pital operating-room, and the great black frame lay on the table under the influence o'f ether. Five of us stood around him, and I told them my theo ries and plans. My colleagues warmed to the idea and the work. I cut open the right side of the thick skull, and sure enough a splintered piece of bone from an old depressed fracture pressed into the brain. 1 lift ed it, dressed it with aseptics, and re placed skull and scalp and nlaced him in his bed. Then we set about reviv ing him. We were all intensely an xious to know what the result would be, and five note-books were ready in five hands. Presently John opened his eyes and stared about him. Then he asked and it was the first articu late word he had uttered for over twen ty long years "Whar did de army move to yisteday?" I was too excited to reply, and no one else apjeared to grasp the full meaning of his question. Presently I said : "Toward Richmond, John, but you were hurt a little and had to stay behind, and we have been doctoring 'EXCELSIOR" IS OUR MOTTO. NECK, N. C.,; THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, you. You are all right now. How do you feel ?" "Fus rate, thankee, sir: fus rate Which side licked yisteday? Ourn?" "Yes, John. But you must not talis now. I'll tell you all about it to-mor row." I stayed in Washington a month to watch his case and?a3k him some ques tions, but he neverlunderstood one them. The battle of Bull Run had been "yisteday" to ; him, and if he had dreamed, the dreams had taken flight at the touch of the knife and fled from the lifted skull. ; 1TT1 11 - vv nen ne oegan to wane he had no farther tendency to trend to the left His health, which was always good enabled him to recuperate with great speed from the operation, and he is to day supporting Aunt Martha by driv mg the carriage of one of the best- known Senators at the capital. I stil look upon John as about my most val uable piece of stage property (so to speak) in surgery. m i t .mere nas never come a glimmer o memory to him of the twenty odd years that he was a mere cir61ing au tomaton. The war and his experience up to that time when he was struck on the head, most likely by a piece o spent spell, are as if they were yester day in his memory, and his mind is as clear and as good as the average of his race and condition : but where that mind was, and how it was occupied during those years, is a never-tailinj query to me, all the more perhaps be cause it does not trouble or puzzle him in the least. Helen H. Gardener, A QUESTION. If you will kindly tell me, please, What animal I am, I shall be very thankful I'm grandma's "blessed lamb." My brother Archie says "that Kid" Upsets our whole big house : And when I tease mv grandpa, I m just his "little mouse. give Aunt Bess :i letter, and She says, "Thank you, rny doer," And then I'm papa'b "monkey," hich certainly is queer. And uncle Charlie says I'm stubborn As a "good-sized mule. My mamma calls me her "sweet-heart," When I've been good at school. Now, this is all confusing To a man who is so wee, 1 call myself just "Teddy;" Pray, what would you call me? The Queen. A High Calling. Charlotte Observer. There is something very frank and manly and straight-forward in the con fession of the Hon. John B. Gordon, of Georgia, to a reporter for the daily press, and which appeared in this pa per recently, wherein the distin guished Georgian, with some feeling, stated that he felt that his life mission was to promote good feeling between the sections of our common country once so bitterly alienated by civil war. He truly, but yet modestly, xpressed the opinion that he had done the State some service" in this waj', and hoped, although well along in the years ot his lite, for continued ength of days in which to prosecute this kindly mission. Deep down un der the selfish natures of us all, if we be true gentlemen and gentlewomen, and to the manner born, there is an in ner court, a holy of holies, somewhere close to the heart, perhaps, where amid the everburning incense of love, a nry- al purpose has its throne, receiving the constant homage of pure thoughts and kindly wishes a purpose to make the world better for having lived m it. The Golden Rule is graven over the portal that opens into this sacred shrine. 'erhaps this is the abiding-place of men's Jgood angels. It is too rarely, alas, and only in our better moments, that we draw aside the curtains to show the world the good that is in us. It is such a suspicious, uncharitable world, which so often does not recog nize cood when it sees it. But such a glimpse we have in the confession of this gray haired Southern gentlemen, one of nature's noblemen, whose name, when some day the Angel makes out the list of those whom God approves because they loved their fellow-men, will, Ben Adhem-like, lead all the rest. If we might only live so that, when Ave are gathered to our fathers, men, in re calling our life-work, would involun tarily be reminded of the story of the Good Samaritan, then indeed should we have proven that life were worth the living, and after its fitful fever we should sleep well. Electric Bitters. Electric Bitters is a medicine suited for any season, but perhaps more gen erally "needed, when the languid ex hausted feeling prevails, when the liv er is torpid and sluggish and the need of a tonic and alterative is felt. A prompt use of this medicine has often averted long and perhaps fatal bilious fevers. No medicine will act more surely in counteracting and freeing the system from the malarial poison. Headache, indigestion, constipation, laziness yield to Electric Bitters. 50c and $1.00 per bottle at E. T. White head & Cos Drug Store. - J Written for The Commohwealth. LETTER FROM CHIjNA. THE CAUSE OF THE WAR. The First Firing. IV. It seems that China and Japan both claimed to have a great interest in Ko rea, which is a very rich countrv. So in June, 1894, Korea asked aid from China in quelling a small rebellion vmua sent y,uuu troops. Japan pro tested this was a violation of the treaty of more than 30 years ago under which neither power was to send troops with out letting the other know. These troops seized Souel, which is the capi tal of Korea. Then began troubles be tween Peking and Tokyo, the capitals o China and Japan. While the two gov ernments were arming each was pre paring troops and the Chinese thought to slip 2,000 men into Korea before the fighting began, by. sending them in the British steamer Kowshing. They thought the Japanese would be afraid to fire on any steamer flying the Brit ish flag and that the troops would be landed without being interfered with and that if the Japanese men-of-war in terfered with the transport they would involve Japan in a dispute with En gland. The Chinese shipped their picked men of artillery on this steamer, placing them under two generals, who had instructions not to surrender in any event. When the steamer Kow shing entered the Korean waters early in the morning on July 25th, three Japanese men-of war the Narriwa, Yo shino and the Takachibo, were cruising off the coast not far from Yasau, when they saw the Chinese men-of-war, the Tsi-gum and Kwang-yu. Then a skir mish took place in which the Chinese got the worst. The Kwang-yu was sunk, the Tsi-yum took flight and was SI nted by the lvowshing which was ust entering the bay. The Narriwa on sighting the Kowshing, signaled her to heave to and she obeved the order. I'he Japs sent some of their officers on board the transport and told the crp- ain he must follow them to Jape. he captain saw there was no use to esist and was about to obey instruct ions when the two Chinese generals ob jected and said they would die before they would submit to the Japanese and they placed guards around the British captain and Chinese officers gave in structions to the soldiers to cut their hroats if any one carried out the or ders of the Japanese. The Japs tried urther persuasion and finding it use- ess fired into the Kowshing and sunk her. The captain and mate and 120 soldiers and sailors were saved. Most of the soldiers were allowed to drown. The captain and mate were very kindly treated by the Japanese. The Japs paid them for all they had lost on the steam er that was sunk. The captain said when the steamer was sinking he sprang: from the bridge into the water and on coming to the surface found the Chinese firing bullets at him from the deck. I have seen the Kowshing as she lay after she was punk. I will never forget the war between China and Japan, lor I saw the most of it. C. T. Cubkik. Cuba to he Devastated. Selected. A campaign of total destruction of property will shortly be inaugurated in Cuba by the Cubans. The Provision al Government of the republic has so ordained in a proclamation dated in the Province of Santiago on July 13 By this destructian a two-fold object is to be obtained. The loss of an im mense cash income is expected to shorten Spain's warfare, and the conver sion of the island into a wilderness to compel her to withdraw her armies. All classes of property, whether for eign owned or not, are liable to be treated alike, as all pay tribute to Soain. The dread necessity for whole sale destruction is laid entirely upon the need of the further and complete ruin for Spain of the money producing power of. Cuba. The proclamation further prohibits any preparation for the coming sugar season, either m planting, cultivation or care of the sugar cane ; forbids cane grinding during the coming season, and holds all planters who disobey all or any part of the proclamation to be traitors subject to the penalty of death. Marvelous Results. From a letter written hy Rev. J. Gunderman, of Dimondale, Mich., we are permited to make this extract : "I have no hesitation in recommending Dr. King's New Discovery, as the re sults were almost marvelous in the esse of my wife. While I was pastor of the Baptist Church at Rives Junction she was brought down with Pneumonia succeeding la grippe. Terrible parox ysms of coughing would last hours with little interruption and it seemed as if she could not survive them. A A friend recommended Dr. King's New Discovery ; it was quick in its work and highly satisfactory in results." Trial bottle free at E. T. Whitehead & Co.'s Drug Store. Regular size uOc and $1. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $i.oo. 1896. NO. 41. The Davis I c r ROCKY MOUNT, N. C. I'desire to say to the Tobacco Growers of Halifax and adjoining counties, that I am better prepared than ever, to rot vou the verv HIGHEST M 1!KFT PRICES for vour tobbacco. We have plonfv ot Buyer?1, and with more tli-in SEVENTEEN YEARS EXPERIENCE in (he Warehouse bu.-iness. I do not hesitate to tell you that Rocky Mount i the market and the Davis Warehouse the place, to sell your tobacco. ISO-GIVE ME A TRIAL AND I WILL PLEASE YOU. OTROMrT ATTENTION GIVEN TO ALL SHIPMENTS.. Your Friend, 9 10 NATIONAL BEMOOEATIC TICKET. FOR I'RKSIPEXT : WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN, OF NEBRASKA. FOR VICE-PKESIPKXT : ARTHUJl SEWALL, OF MAINE. State Democratic Ticket. a For Governor : CYRUS B. WATSON, of Forsythe. For Lieutenant Governor ; THOS. W. MASON, of Northampton. For Secretary : CHAS. M. COOKE, of Franklin. For Auditor : R. M. FURMAN, of Buncombe. For Treasurer : B. F. AYCOCK, of Wayne. Supt. Public Instruction : J. C. SCARBOROUGH, of Johnston. For Attorney-General : F. I. OSBORNE, of Mecklenburg. For Supreme Court Judges : A. C. AVERY, ot Burke, G. H. BROWN, of Beaufort. for conoress seconp pistrict FRED. A. WOODARD, OF WILSON. County Democratic Ticket. For the Senate CLAUDE KITCIIIN. For tho House W. H. THORNE, DR. R. A. PATTERSON. For Sheriff C. W. DUNN. For Register of Deeds J. FRANK BRINKLEY, For Treasurer B. F. TILLER Y. For Coroner J. H. FITZGERALD. JEWELRY AND SILVERWARE!!! WATCHES AND CLOCKS PUT IN PERFECT REPAIR. We have engaged the seryices of Mr. J. D. Perry, from the Chicago Watch Ma kers' Institute, where ho took a thorough course, and is prepared to do ALL KINDS OF REPAIRING And Engraving. His office is at our show window in front. AH work is guaranteed. ff-GIVE HIM A CALL E. T. WHITEHEAD & CO., 4 25 t f Scotland Neck, N. C. AfTO ITS CTTRB To the Editor : I have an absolute remedy for Consumption. By its timely use thousands of hopeless cases have been already permanently cured. So proof -positive am I of its power that I consider it my duty to send two bottles free to those of y5"e who have Consumption.Throat, Bronchial or Lung Trouble, tf they wm w (nensino express and postoffice address. Sincerely, TaocuiLitc i3erisuewYorfcJn Work Seso Your Advertisement in Now. Warehouse, Buckner Davis. 1 English Spavin Liniment removes all Hard, Soft or Calloused Lump and and Clemishes from horses. Blood Spavin Siubs, Splint. Sweeney, Binir worm lilies, prams, Through, Coughs, Etc. anc Swollen Save .r() bv use ol one bottle. Warranted the most Wfmdrful Bleinism Cine ever known. Sold bo E. T. Whitehead fr Co., Druggists, Scotland Neck, N. C. 10 1 lv. m 7 FOR OVER FIFTY YEARS An Oi.p anp WrurViiiKo Remedy Mrs. Winsioy's Snothin? Syrup has leeii used for ove fifty year by mil lions of mothers for 'their children while teething, wit j) perfect success. 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