North Carolina Newspapers

ADVERTISING lo i vs Business WHAT STEAM IS TO- Machinery, That Greai Propeli.k-t-? Tower. THAT CLASS OF READERS THAT YOU Wish your Advertisement TO REACH is the class who read this prr-er. FEOFESSIONAL. p W. O. MclXWJSL.L, Or'-e A on a comer ew noiei, jiam Street, SCOTLAND SiECK, N. C. rTAlwavs at his office when not profession. lauy engaged elsewhere. 0 11. A. G. LIVERMON, ii rv-r OrncE-Over J. S. Bowers & Co's store. OHice hours from 0 to 1 o'clock ; 2 to 1 "c"ck, p. m. SCOTL AND NECK. N. C. D VVID BELL, Attorney at Law. ENFIELD, N. C. '""Practices in all the Courts of Hali fax and adjoining counties and in the Sunreme and Federal Courts. Claims CO Twtf m fvii Darts oi trie state. A. DUNN, .4 TT OR N E Y-A T-L A W. Scotland Neck, X. C. Practice wherever his services are require.!. rjit. W. J. WARD, Surgeon Dentist, EXFIEJ.D, X. C. Office over Harrison's Druf Store. E DWAIiD L. TRAVIS, Attorney and Connselor at Law, HALIFAX, N. C. g)e!F'3lQ!iey Loaned ore Farm Lands. H OWARD ALSTON, Attorney-at-Law, HALIFAX, N. C H R. C. A. WHITEHEAD, DENTAL Si ;,V?. Tarcoko, N. C. SCOTLAND NECK STEA31 DYE WORKS -Mourning Goods a Specialty Get price lit. Address Scotx.asi) Neck Steam Dyeing Co. -2i-lv Scotland Necfc N. C HAVING INCREASED MY FACIL ITIES I AM NOW PRE FARED TO FURNISH DOUBLE QUANTITY OF URICK. 2sT"Also will take contract to "fumish lots trorn 50,000 fgbr more anywhere within :?-0 miles of Scotland Neck Can always furnish whatjgjf you want. Correspond--Jpp? encc and orders solicited.J -10-l!r-ly Scotland Neck, N. C. MKSffOS TI-TI.' PAPER. ISAAC EVANS, GENERAL CARPENTER. A special tv of bracket and Scroli work of all kind?. Work done cheap and every piece guanui-eed. JOHN BKIPWITH, BOOT and SHOE-MAKER. VT? gj.aj;.-t -i.vc. ?i. s i- -. fe a e m h fa r Groceries AND CONFECTIONERIES. ..-:Lht,r Norih'of SUrn'g, . xVi- t: 7 -V 1 ' ' "TiAJiu Neck, N. C H E. E. HILLIARD, Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XH. Sew Scries Vol. 1. HE EDITOR'S LEISUBE HOUBS. Points and Paragraphs of Things Present, Fast and Future. There has been nothing in the his tory of North Carolina like her politics of 1S96. Nothing in the English lan guage can express the state of affairs tuatlias existed in this State for the just six months. The best that can be said of it all is to call it "North Caroli na politics." The future of two or four years may serve to open the eyes of some of our people and show them what egregious folly they have been guilty of .for the past six years. There is no guessing what this age will see and near and do next. It does kok as if men will learn to use the pow ers of nature to perfection after awhile. V genius in Colorado now claims tLat 8 has found a way to telegraph wi; ri ant wires from one mountain top o soother in an east and .wast direction ising atmospheric strata which are al- ii-adv electrified as hi 3 cwln'ctor. The ipparatti3 employed has not been pub licly describe-.! r bu. the inventor is said be experimenting in Colorado and Utah, and he says he has transmitted messages by his method over a distance of eisrhtv miles. Wiiile the election of Major William McKniley to the Presidenc of the United States is formally accepted as the will of the people of the nation, there" are thousands and perhaps mil lions who do not believe it. We believe that if there had been no money spent lu the election except the legitimate expenses of the campaign on both Eides, Mr. Bryan would have been elected by as great a majority asMaj. McKinley's side claim ed. It is an illustration of the power of money ; and it is a time for grave duiiots whether or not any republic can bear such a strain and prosoer. It has been given out from Raleigh 1 hat the Pension Board has made out the following report : First-class pensioners, 130 ; last year, 102. Second-class pensioners, 240 ; last year, 247. Third-class pensioners, 352 ; last year, 357. Fourth-class pensioners, 1,842 ; last year, 1,674. Widows, pensioners, 2,758 ; last year, 2,766. Total first-class pensioners this year, 5,322. Total first-class' pensioners last year. 5,144. The Ladies' Home Journal tells of a concert on board of an ocean steamship, at the close oi which the saloon passen gers attempted to sing "My Country, ;us of Thee," the national air ot Amer ica, and "God Save the Queen," the national air of England. There were two hundred and eighty-six American passengers and twenty-four of English birth. Out of the large number of Americans there were not enough fa miliar with our national air to sing the words through the first stanza ; but when the English air was struck up every single one of the twenty-four, men and women, knew the words and sang it through with delight. This is rather a sad comment on our American pride. The State council of Massachusetts by the late election is entirely Repub lican for the first time in fifty years. Isaac B. Alien a colored man who was born a slave 54 years ago in Hampton, Va., was elected Treasurer. The Re publicans were amazed at his election, but his majority was sufficient to turn tfown Democratic Treasurer Sullivan. It was printed soon after the negro Treasurer's election that "when be was nominated no one dreamed that he would come within seven rows of apple trees of election," and that the Repub licans of the district would never have nominated him had they even dream ed of a issihility of his election. Moral : Be sure you are right, even in politics, before you go ahead. VJanted-An Idea Who can think of anme almDle thing to patent? Write JOHK VI MdUrtof two B7..kftnts D. O.for I III II II HI WW SCOTLAND Written for The Commonwealth. LETTER FROM CALIFORNIA. CIT7 OF SAN FEANCISCO. Wonderfully Beautiful Land. XI This is a beautiful country and a lovely climate. It is so large that one half of its people don't know how the other half live, especially in the iso lated mountain towns of Trinity and Siskiyou. On my arrival in San Francisco, after nearly five years traveling around the woild, I met a young man whom I had not seen ior more than seven years and he knew me at sight. His name is Mr. J. E. Bates, and his home is in Orlando, Fla. He is a prospector now and has made lots of money. He has found several mine3 of gold but says he old his interest in them. He has lots f money. I took a three weeks' trip ith him not long ago through a part f the Trinity and Siskiyou mountains which are called the unknown lands by those who live near the large cities. The mountains and the beds of the many forks of small riyers are full ot gold, but it cannot be very thick, or they would cause roads to be built and towns to spring up. There used to be a greater population in this country than there is now, the only evidence of which are names without places. In the middle of a desolate fiat will be a pile of stones, or the remains of a mud and rock chimney. That, the people will say, i3 Peters town or Lady- Slipper or Lake View or Halfway or half a dozen other names, as- the case may be. They all look alike and are alike desolate and abandoned. In early days there was at each a .store, a blacksmith shop and a saloon. Now there are three of these deserted villages between every two settlements. The settlements themselvs could hardly be called extensive. There will be two houses ; in one somebody lives, the other is store, post-office and saloon in one. Sometimes the mail is dropped behind ajvhiskey barrel and stays there for two or three days or until tne tar rel is moved. Tne mail comes in two r three times a week on horse-back. The lay is very loose in regard to the carriers, and if he forgets to come no one does more than growl a little. Each mine of any importance has its own little store, so the people don't o to town very often. " They use the .ack horses for transferring goods ihrough these mountains. The mer chants who live sixty or seventy miles from a railroad station, have 40 or 50 mules going to and fro all the time from June until October. These trains wind in and out among the hills, ieaving a part of the load at each mine or settlement. During the other months there is no communication with the world except by mail and sometimes a deep snow keeps that out for two or three months. The winters are bitterly cold with snow piled up to the windows and keen winds sweeping down from the icy peaks. But the people know what to expect, and dur ing the summer you can hear the beat of the wood-man's ax and the whiz of his saw to fill the sheds with wood. The houses are very rough, sometimes f logs, but the most of them are built uf boards slowly cut by the up and down mill turned by a mountain stream. Every house has a big iron cook stove to heat red and besides a deep fire-place with a back log and plenty of pitch knots. (At home we say light-wood knits.) What the men do during the long dark winter, when there is no mining, no garden work and no wood cutting, I could never find out. Perhaps they jleep, like the bears. The school houses are 40 or 50 miles apart. It was from this land the girl came who, when the first time she saw the telegraph wire, wondered why the people had their clothes lines so high. Many of the children are part white and part Indian. There are lots of them that never saw a train. It was there I saw a regular "new woman." J oe and myself had ridden late into the night and we asked for shelter in the first house we came to. It was a beautiful night for the moon and stars were shining bright. It was ten minutes to twelve and we saw a house at a snort distance away. When we arrived at the house,we knocked at the door and it was a long time before any one would answer us. At last an old' man opened the door with his shot gun in hand and inquired what we wanted. We told him and he said we could stay all night with pleasure. He was half Indian but we thought him a white man that night. At gray dawn in the morning as I was waking, the door of our room opened and I thought it was a young Japanese boy who had come in for our boots, and while I stared in shocked snrpriae a very sweet girl IMONW; "EXCELSIOR" IS OUR MOTTO. NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, voice told us to stay m bed until sh brought usr some coffee. She was i slim, brown girl of about .fifteen, in overalls and blouse, with long hair braided down her back. A sweeter, more feminine girl I never met, When we had eaten our breakfast and started on our journev she . bade us good bye and said she hoped God would be with us. This unknown land is one of the rare beauties. . Nature was in poetic, mood when she piled those masses of moun tains and crowned them with white. It is is the land of promise lor the hunters, and a place to teach one anew the beauties of nature and send him home ready to slip into his civilized life with a new appreciation of its priv ileges. C. T. Currie. TEE HOUSEHOLD. Various Palatable "Ways of Cooking Chicken. Philadelphia Record. The ever-ready alterative from heavy meats, and perhaps the most useful thing the housewife finds to vary her daily bills of fare, is the acceptable chicken,. It is excellent broiled, roast ed or fried, and furnishes the founda tion tor a multiplicity of dainty dish es. To "cut, up a chicken for frying or for a fricd3se, sever the neck from ' the body, take off the wings, and then the legs ; cut the body in two and then lengthwise through the sides. A small fowl does not require more cutting ; a larger one should have the second joi ts and drumsticks separated and the. breast may be cut across, leaving the wishbone in one part. The neck of the chicken may be cooked with a frieate, but is not served. Oue way ot frying chicken is thus : Cut a young chicken into pieces, wash them and leave them in salt and water while a half pound of fat salt pork is cooked in a spider until the grease is drawn from it. Then take the pork out, wipe the chicken dry with a soft cloth, sprinkle the pieces with pepper and roll them in fiouK Fry the chick en in the hotporK iat until they are a Ti:ce brown. When'cooked arrange the pieces on a hot platter.. Mean while rub one tablespoonful of flour with the same quantity of butter, and stir this into the hot fat in which the chicken has been cooked ; add one cup of cream and stir until the mixture is smooth, and when it is boiling strain it over the cooked chicken. Sprinkle chopped parsley over the whole and serve. Chicken fried in vegetable batter makes a delightful change. Cut a plump young chicken into pieces, wash it, and put it into a saucepan with half a cup ot hot water; cover and let it nimmer over the fire 15 minutes. When the chicken becomes cold wipe each piece and rub it with salt. Make a batter by beating light the yolks of two eggs with half a saltspoonful of salt, stirring in gradually one table spoonful of oil, adding one cup of flour and lastly half a cup of cold water, and beating vigorously. Put the batter to one side for an hour or longer. Put in to a chopping bowl one small onion, three sprigs ot parsley, and two toma toes peeled and with seeds removed. Chop the vegetables very fine and when ready to use stir them into the batter. Lastly, add the whites of the eggs beaten light. Put the pieces of prepared chicken in the batter and see that each one is is well covered. Set a spider over the fire and melt in it enough butter to cover the bottom. Place the b atter-coveied chicken in the spider and fry it slowly until , the pieces are cooked to a rich brown. Arrange the cooked pieces upon a hot platter, and pour a tomato sauce around them. A nice accompaniment of plain fried chicken is supplied by hominy balls and crisp bacon, alternating around the edge of the platter. A noted Southern way of coo&rs g chicken is as follows : Cut two chick ens into large pieces ; season them with pepper and salt, and put iulo 11 dri oping pan. Peel four large toma toes, cut them into pieces, and put them into the pan with one sliced on ion and two green peppers choppod.' Rub three tablefpoonfuls ot butter ov er the , chickens, and pour over the whole two wine glasses of wine. Cover the pan and place it in a hot oven and bake until the vegetables are all cook ed to pieces and the chicken is tender. For chartreuse of chicken, chop rath er fine one cupful of the white meat of cooked chicken. Mix with it one spoouful of chopped parsley, two spoon fnls of chicken stock, a suspicion of on ion juice, salt and pepper to taste, and and one egg well beaten. Thickly but ter a mould or basin, cover the butter with browned crumbs, and" then press a thick wall of boiled rice around the mould. Fill the space in the centre with the prepared chicken and cover it with rice. Put the lid on the mould, place it in a steamer and cook three quarters of an hour. Carefully turn the cooked chicken out upon a warm platter and pour around the form a cel ery, tomato or curry sauce, and serve. This makes a delicious course for a lun cheon or an entree at a dinner. PAH LINCOLN'S MEMORY. A PECULIAR POWER. Especially Pond of Poetry. One of President Lincoln's gifts was iin extraordinary memoiy. As he used to say, he "couldn't help remetr bering." Mr. Noah Brooks cites many interesting examples of his power of re taining things he had once heard. "One of my cousins," he gays, "John Holmes GooJenow of Maine, was appoiuted Consul General at Constantinople early in the Lincoln administration, and was taken to the White House, before his departure for his post, to be presented to the President. When Lincoln learn ed that his visitor was a grandson of John Holmes, oue of the first senators from Maine, he immediately began to recite a poetical quotation which must have been more than a hundred lines In length. "Mr. Goodenow. never having met the President before was naturally a& toniohed at this outburst; and as the recitation went on and on, the suspi cion eroseed his miud that Liucoln had suddenly taken leave of his wits." But when the lines were finished, the Pres ident said : " 'There ! that poem was quoted by your grandfather in a speech which he made in the United States Senate in ,' and he named the date and specified the occasion. "As John Holmes' term in the Sen ate ended m 1833, and Lincoln proba bly was impressed by reading the 8:eech rather than by hearing it, this feat of memory appears very remarka ble. He used to say, however, that his happening to remember a poem was no sign of any special liking for it. Once he recited to Mr. Brooks a long and doleful ballad, "In the vein of 'Vilkins and his Dinah,'" and on finishing it, said, with a deprecatory laugh, 4-I don't believe I have thought of that before for forty years." At the same time he was a great lov er of simple and hearty verse. One of 11s favorites was Doctor Holmes' "Last Iieiif." Concerning this, poem Mr. Brooks saysi "One November dav Lincoln and I were driving out to the Soldiers' Home, tlear Washington, when the aspect of the scene recalled the lines to his mind. Slowly and with excellent judgment he recited the whole poem Enlarging upon the pathos, wit and humor of Holmes, I found that the President had never seen a copy of the genial doctor's works, so far as he could remember. I offered to lend him my copy of the poems, a little blue-aud-gold book ; and the next time I went to the White House I took it with me. "About a week afterward I called one evening, aud the President being alone, we 'settled down for a quiet chat. He took from a drawer in his table the blue-and-gold Holmes, and went over it with much gusto, reading or reciting several poems that had struck his fan cy. "Finally, he said that he liked 'Lexington' as well as anything in the book, 'The Last Leaf alone excepted, and he began to read the poem ; but when he came to the stanza beginning, Green be the graves where the mar tyrs are lying ! v Shroudless and tombless they sunk to their rest, his voice faltered, and he gave me the book with the whispered request, 'You read it ; I can't' "Months afterward, when several la dies were in the Red Parlor, calling up on Mrs. Lincoln, he recited that poem without missing a word, so far as I could remember it. Aud yet I do not believe that he ever saw the text of 'Lexington'except during the few' busy days when he had my book." Mr. Brook's furnishes also a pretty story about Lincoln's first hearing of or.e oi Lon fellow's poems. "I think it was early in the war that some public speaker sent Mr. Lincoln a newspaper report of a speech delivered in New York. The President, apparent ly, did not pay much attention to the speech, but a few lines of verse at the close caught bis eye. These were the closing stanas of Longfellow's 'Build ing of the Ship,' beginning with : Thou, too, sail on, 6 Ship of State 1 Sail on, O Union, strong and great ! "'To my surprise, he seemed to have read the lines for the first time. Know ing the whole poem as one of my youth ful exercises in recitation, I began, at his request, with th'e description of the launching of the ship, and repeated it to the end. As he listened to the last lines: Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears, Our faith triumphant o'er our fears, his eyes filled and his cheeks were wet. He did not speak for some minutes, but finally said, with simplicity, 'It is a wonderful gift to be able to stir men like that.' " " nnrv TTTl SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $i.oo. 1896. NO. 48. The Davis ROCKY r.10URIT, W, G. I desire to say to the Tobacco Grower of Halifax and'adjoinmg counties, that I am better prepared than ever, to get yt 3 the very HIGHEST MARKET PRICES for your tobbacco. We have plenty ot Buyers, and with more than SEVENTEEN YEARS EXPERIENCE in the Warehouse business, I do not hesitate to tell you that Rocky Mount is the maricet and the Dayis Warehouse the place, to sell your tobacco. GIVE ME A TRIAL AND "PROMPT ATTENTION 9 10 JEWELRY SILVERWARE!!! WATCHES AND CLOCKS PUT IN PERFECT REPAIR. We have engaged the seryices of Mr. J. D Perry, from the Ch" ago Watch Ma kers' Inst. cute, where he took a thorough course, and is prepared to do ALL KINDS OF REPAIRING And Engraving. His office is at our show window in front. All work is guaranteed. "GIVE HIM A CALL E. T. WHITEHEAD & CO., 4 25 tf Scotland Neck, N. C. -TO- My Friends in HQETH CAR0U9A ! I am prepared at my new quarters to serve my old Friends and customers irom North Carolina with the best Tonsorial : Service. You get a QUICK AND EASY SHAVE, -AND YOUR HAIR CUT AT ANYTIME Remembering your liberal patron age in the past I hope to receive it still. No. 62 Roanoke Avenue near cor. ot Avenue and Main Street, Norfolk, Va. DOLISON WHITEHEAD. HOW THE DIPPER SAVED THE FARM. Father was sick and the mortgage on the farm was coming due, I saw in the Christian Advocate where Miss A. M. Fritz of Station A., St. Louis, Mo., would send a sample combination dip per for 18 two cent stamps, and I order ed one. I saw the dipper could be used as a fruit jar filler ; a plain dipper ; a fine strainer ; a funnel ; a strainer funnel ; a sick room warming pan and a pint measure. These eight different uses make the dipper such a necessary article that I went to work with it and it sells at very near every house. And in four months I paid off the mortgage I think 1 can clear as much as $200 a month. If you need work you can do well by giving this a trial. Miss A. M. Fritz, Station A, St. Louis, Mo., will send you a sample for 18 2 cent stamps. Write at once. Joiix G. N. 10 22 13t gUDSON'S ENGLISH KITCHEN, , - 187 Main St., NORFOLK, VA. Is the Leading Dining Room in the City for Ladies and Gentlemen. Strit ly a Temperance Place. All meals 25c. PCTHrdson's Surpassing Coffee a Special t v. 1 16 ly Notice. In pursuance of an order of Court made in the special proceedings enti tled Amos Cherry vs Levy Cherry and others, now pending in the Superior Court of Halifax county, 1 will on the 21st day of November, 1896, sell to the highest bidder in the town of Scotland Meek, that store house and lot in which Albert Hill is now doing business, be ing lot No. 12 on Block 46 according to the plot of said town. Said sale Is made for the purpose of partition among the devisees of the will of the late Wiley Cherry. This 19th day of Oct., 1806. Claude Kitchin, 10 22 it. Commissioner. IF YOU ACE DSTLBI 'rn will ADVERTISE TOUB Business. o Sknd Youa Advertiskmext ix Now. Warehouse, I WILL PLEASE YOU. GIVEN TO ALL SHIPMENTS. Your Friend, Buckner Davis, English Spavin Liniment remove nil Hard, Soft or Calloused Lumps and and Clemishes from horses. Blood Spavin Surhs, Splints, Sweeney, Ring worm titles, Sprains, an Swollen Through, Coughs, Etc. Save 50 by use of one bottle. Warranted the most wondrful Blemism Cure ever known. Sold bo E. T. Whitehead A Co., Druggists, Scotland Neck, N. C. 10 1 Iv. FOR OVER FIFTY YEARS An Old and Wkll-Tried Remedy Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup ha lieen used for over fifty years by mil lions of mothers for their children while teething, with perfect success. It I soothes the child, softens the gum. auays an pain cures wind colic, and I the best remedy for Diarrhoea. I pleasant to the taste. Sold by Drug foists in every part of the World. Twenty five cents a bottle." Its value is incalculable. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, and take no other kind. (R) 9 2C ly VV All 1 AldU" XX. KJ11J WVlttWIt m . ing to represent Combined Contract comprising two f the largest invest ment and life insurance companies in America. Address Tho. A. P.Champ !in, Sun'f. Fir. 1" (Kooms 12 to 15) McGili BuiS.:-i:ii', Washington, D. C. - 1 IEF IN SIX HOURS. Distressing Kid no v and Bladder dls irtses jtiicved in six hours by the "New Gukat South Ameuican Kidney Crj:x." This new remedy is a great iurprie on account of its exceeding promptness in relieving pain in the bladder, kidneys, back and every part of the urinary paaos in male or fe male. It relieves retention of water and pain in passing it almost immedi ately. If you want quick relief and cure this is your remedy. Sold by E. T. Whitehead and Co., DruwifciM. Scotland Neck. N. C EM m8: pi a ITJ j Designs eeni to any address FR !E. In I writing ior them please give ape ol de ceased and some limit a to price. 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