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OXFORD, N. C.. MONDAY MOKNING, MAY 8, 187G.
NO. 24.
Th5 Morning Clarion,
By WILLIAMS & ROBINSON,
(office in TUE-Sl'IAN IIALI, BUILDINC )
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tion.
Democratic Conservative Meeting.
I'he Democratic Conserv'ative voters of
^’fanville are re(]uested to meet in mass con-
^’'-'ntion, at Oxford, ^Monday May 29th, to
appoint delegates to the State and C'ongres-
^■onal district (.’ouveution, to be held in
‘\aleigh the 13th and 14th days of June next,
^iul to transact such^ business as may be
'■^eeiiK'd necessary.
l!y order of Co. Ex ; Committee.
J. S. A.mls, (Jh’m.
April 20th 1875.
DISTRICT CONVENTION.
A Convention of the Democratic-Conser-
'’fitive \'oters of tlie h'ourth Congressional
‘district will be held in the city ^if Raleigh
'“'1 'I'uesday the 13th day of June next, far
purpose of nominating a candidate for
Congress and a Presidential Eieclor, and se-
ecting two delegates to the St. I,ouis Con-
'’5>ition. A full attendance is earnestly de-
^'*'^‘d Each county 'i\ill be entited to one
\ote for every one hundred votes and frac-
ijart over fifty given for Merrimon in
1872,
i'y order of tlie District Executive Com.
II. A. LontjON, 1r., (,'hairman.
^Iarch3ist. 1876.
^OCAL & STATE SQUIBS!
HURRYGRAPHS.
Granville is to have a chain gang.
Nothing new in O.'iford except
Pneumoni .1.
Don’t throw your orange peel on
sidewalk.
We are pleased, to welcome to our j
^^change list the Milton Chronicle. ''\
is a neat and readable paper.
i-'alem has ripe ,tomatoes. Oh for
some ‘‘martises.”
We were plea'ed to meet in our of
fice last Saturday our friend Bobbie
Clay.
Smart cat. A lady in this place
caught her cat dipping her fore paw
in the cream pot and then sucking
off the cream.
Mr. 15. F. Persons is building a
handsome dwelling just out of town,
on College street. We like such
Persons in our community.
Superior court adjourned the latter
part of last week. Every body that
was in attendance has left and O.x-
ford is again quiet and serene. Hard
on “ye local.” No news.
Mr. Geo. B. Hicks, son of our
townsman, Mr. Nelson Hicks, died
in this place on '•last Saturday of
pneumonia. He was in the 22d year
of his age. This is the second death
in our ir.idst during the last week.
We hereby give notice to the Rad
icals that in the t oming campaign no
quarter will be asked, and none giv
en. If we loose we are no woise cff
than DOW.
I'he Tobacco Plant hears of an
old woman of sixty }cars, living-
near Knap of Reeds, in (jranville
county, who lighted her first match'
on the 27th of April. . She don’t l)e-
lieve in such things.
We are very glad indeed to hear
from “Cramplon,” uiid hope tlie
chap will be a ?nan and let us hear
from him often. JJenl with the word
Crampton lightly as it is a tender
subject with the Senior.
Malt-Hop-'Fonique —For 1 )ysi)ep-
sia. R'3t;ommenled as an im[>rove-
ment on Ale and Porter for general
debilitv.
' Wn.LlAMS BRYAN.
21 IW.
A large lot of N. C. Bacon, Haras
and Sides just received at
[201W] Williams & Bryan’s.
A Competent Juror.—Henry
Richardson a negro who served on
the last grand jury, occupied a rather
ubiquetious position. AVe had been
taught that it was the duty of the
grand jury to ferret out crime and to
protect the innocent from the machi
nations of the vicious and the corrupt.
But in these days of crime and pecu
lation they have a novel way of
drawing the jury. You can never
convict a thief of stealingmeat ifone
of the jury has partaken knowingly
of the hospitality of the rogue. This
man Richardson served part of the
week in the grand jury room, and a
part in jail as a criminal. What a
shame has been brought upon our
free institutions. 'J'he character of a
grand jury man should be tniimpeach-
ed and unimpeachable, but to serve
the ends of modern justice those in
authoritj^ see fit to have a “friend
and a brother'’ in the right place.
It ‘‘fatigues imagination.”
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE'.
Oiian(;k C. II., Va., May 5, 1876.
Since the receijit of the first issue of your
sprightly little slieet, I iiave intendcil ih'op-
ping you a line or two by way of congratu
lation; but up to the present something has
always prevented me, and now I have noth
ing to write that would, I suppose, interest
your many readers in the Old N('rth State,
but as you are Ironi this section of tlie Old
L>ominioii, of course, any news from your
old stamping ground will l.e of interest.
\\'ell, to b(;gin 1 will say, the health of this
county is unsually gooc'. The frost that tell
iiere on the night of the 30th ulto., kill-'il all
the vegetables that had made their apjjear-
ance aboveground and nearly : 11 of the fruit.
It seems that we are not to ha\'C another fuii
crop. (,)ar clim.'sto has undergone a won-
derlul change in the last tew years. The
wheat prospect is gootl. ’J'h.e young ladies
of the village \viligi\-e the young gents a ho]>
to night at the Kiilgeway i I:\li, ^\•ish your
elder “Jceins” could I)o here. 15y the way;
1 hear your Junior “Jecnis” is now a Pap—
whicli is papa abreviaied—if it is yo, ])k-ase
tender my congr; t ilations tt) Ma and I’a.
With best \vishcs fi.r y.iur success I am,
Your^ Truly,
CRAMPTON.