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This is one of 'he safest and most reliable Life
Ins ii r.-i nee i mi .anies doing 1'iisiness in the Slate.
Jf you desire to take out a poliey lie Mire to give
me a call, as it will he nionev in your poeket.
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Finest am! hesj variety of fresh meats always
on liand. Keinenil.er the place, the stall former
ly occupied by (.'. K. Alley. We strive to please
our pat rons.
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Samples of spring goods of Hie latest designs.
I 'all and leave your order, as I can make up goods
as cheap as can be done anywhere. Work guar
anteed. Klo miliar J3ros.,
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i.lHMl bushels he-1 seed oats; ((H bushels best
wlnle corn: 'i..''Ht pounds best bay: Hour, meal
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meat, iiiolassc
which we wiil sell at prices that cannot be
eipialled.
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.Manufacturer of and dealer in
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r.e-1 material n-ed. All work warranted. Ten
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A lull line or Suirar, Coffee, Molasses, Syrup.
I'hee-e, Hominy, Klc. Water-Ground Flour and
Meal of superior quality. Our prices we guaran
tee to lie as low as the the lowest.
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I have iu store a lull line of Dry Hoods, Grocer
ies, Hats, Shoes, Notions, and in fact everything
usually kept In a general store.
CONDENSED NOTKS
OF THE PASSING LOCAL EVENTS OF
THE DAY.
Wltaf 1m Transpiring AreniKl ami
About V. in Town him! County
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ple You Know. W.te.
tWFor other locals see 4th page.
Bov. Dr. Marsli has returned from his
visit to Chatham county.
Rutherford County Farmers' Alliance
is building a roller flouring mill.
The Daily State Chronicle is improv
ing daily, and we wish it g.oat success.
The conversions resulting from Fife's
meeting at Berlin on are put down at
150.
Mr. W. W. Kitchen, a rising young
lawyer of Koxboro, was in Oxford on
Saturday.
The largest farmer in Person county,
Col. John S. Cunningham, was in Oxford
on Friday.
The enterprising diug firm of Furman
fc IIars have swung to the breeze a neat
and attractive sign.
Capt. E. O. Page, of Jones county,
who at one time did busines here, died at
his home last week.
Mrs. Ida J. Knott has been paid the
$12,000 insurance on the life of her late
husband. Mr. Fielding Knott.
The tiouble over the post mastership
at lialegh has ended by the confirmation
of A. V. Shaffer, by the Senate.
The back-bone of the fertilizer pool
is broken temporarily, if not for good.
Fifty-two licenses have leen issued.
The Roxloro Courier says Mrs. J. S.
Critcher was called to her home in Gran
ville last week to see her sick brother.
The energetic firm of Hundley Bros,
will soon put in a 40 horse power engine
to run their brick machine and saw mill.
The large tobacco factory of W. II.
S. liurgwyn & Co., in Henderson, will be
opened Wednesday with appropriate cer
emonies. Our clever young friend Mr. J. C.
Biggs, came over from Chapel Hill Fri
day and spent Saturday and Sunday with
his good mother.
Governor Fowle said at the New
Berne Fair that there are more white men
now at work in North Carolina than there
have ever been before.
The farmers are elated at the cold
snap ; they think it will take a snap judge
ment on the bugs. It may also take a snap
j udgement on the wheat.
Mrs. S. A. Elliott, who h?s been con
fined to her room for several weeks on
account of sickness, we a"e more han
gratified to learn is improving.
On Thursday evening Mr. Claude
Leach's little son, while at the market,
was badly bitten by the large red dog be
longing to Mr. Charles Turner.
At Alamance court last week there
was only one man on the grand jury who
had ever served as a juror before. The
foreman had never done jury duty of any
kind.
A negro woman who "exod listed"
from Tarboro and went to Texas, got word
back to her friends that "flour was hard to
get in Texas as a five-dollar bill was in
Tarboro.
The town of Goldsboro has bought a
new fire-alarm bell,weighing2,100 pounds.
wrestling about the j
location of the tower upon which it is to
he mounted.
A large number of people came to
town on Friday expecting to see Jordan
Pritchard hung, not knowing that his
counsel had taken an appeal to the Su
preme Couit.
Mr. Bart Durham, a live young far
mer ot Durham couaiy, was on our sales
during the past week, and was more than
pleased with the prices received for his
load of tobacco.
A new street Is now being opened
between the residences of Mr. John W.
Hays and Dr. J. M. Hays, running from
College to Broadway. It will be a splen
street for residences.
The pupils of Mr. Fred N. Day's
Horologicul School have been trying
their hands on making a small steam en
gine and have succeeded admirably. It
is now running all right.
Tuck vs. Walker from Person ; argued
by Graham and Winston for plaintiff and
J. W. Graham for the defendant. Hari-
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snvs. Hanison fron Granville; argutd
by Batchelor and Devereux for plaintiff,
and E. C. Smith and Graham and Winston
for defendant.
Owing to the cold weather the breaks
of tobacco have been small for several
days.
March, thus far, is the champion
winter month. The cold marched in on
Saturday ; the rain changed to snow, and
on Monday morning the thermometer
registered twelve degrees.
Goldsboro is said to he moving to
build a handsome monument to the late
W. T. Dortch, of that place, recently de
ceased. He was one of the ablest and most
favorably known lawyers of the State.
A Lexington special to the State
Chronicle says, the grand ju'.y failed to
find a true bill against the men charged
with lynching liobt Berrier who hilled
his stepmother he e some months ago.
Rev. Jesse A. Cunninggim, Presiding
Eider of the Waneuton District, will
preach in the Methodist Church this
(Tuesday) evening at 8 o'clock. Members
of other churches are especially invited.
We regret to learn of the misfortune
j of Mr. Geo. II. Hafgh, who has been in
Oxford several weeks in the interest of
the Provident Insurance Company. His
home in FayeUevJlle was burned a few
days ago. He was for some time editor
of the Fayetteville Observer.
Col. J. S Amis lias been mentioned
in connection with the chairmanship of
the State Executive Committee. The
Wilminj'ton Messenger says: ''We know
of no more sagacious, prudent, able, hon
est and honorable gentleman than Col. J.
S. Amis, who has genuine genius for pol
itics if any man in e State has.
Col. A. II. A. Williams, of Oxford
passed through on his way home j ester
day. There is splendid congressional
timber in "B. Id y." 'Tis he that can black
Brer Blower's eye for him. In an elec
tion, Granville will give him a thousand
majority. Durham Globe. You are tight,
he is just the man to carry this district
by a handsome majority.
At a meeting of the Chamber of Com
merce in Greensboro the past week Mr.
C. I). Benbow moved that the committee
on statistics and information be instructed
to confer with Dr. Hays.J of Oxford, as
to making this point of locating the hos
pital or infirmary which the Chamber
learns that he proposes establishing at
some central point in the State. We sup
pose Dr. Hays will remain in Oxford as
he is one of our most progressive citizens
and is a strong advocate of the upbuild
ing of his native town.
Any style of vehicle made to order by
Owen, Barbour & Smith.
The best Corn Planters on the
at Owen. Barbour & Smith.
market
The Commonweal! Ii Club.
This club held a meeting last Friday
night and several important matters were
discussed. Major N. A. Gregory and
others made some remarks on the propo
sition from a manufacturer of cotton and
woolen goods in Pennsylvania to remove
his mills to Oxford if sufficient induce
ments were offered.
Mr. J. C. Hundley distussed water
works, taking the ground that Oxford
build and own the system whenever it is
established. We say in this connection
that the town cannot afford to be taxed
for this purpose just at present. Instead
of water works why not add $20,000 of
the Baptist College fund to the capital
stock of the Hicks' Tobacco Factory and
make it rank among the large factories f
North Carolina "? We would then benefit
directly the interests of our farmers by
manufacturing a large amount of their
tobacco,as well as increase the prosperity
of Oxford.
Dr. J. M. Hays suggested that it would
be well to get up a map and statistics and
information of Oxford, written up, pub
lished in pamphlet form and distributed
throughout the United States. The mat
ter was referred to a committee.
It was agreed that the Oxford Female
College and the factories be made the
special order of business for the next
meeting of the Club Friday night.
Eupepsy.
This is what you ought to have, in fact,
you must have it, to fully enjoy life.
Thousands are searching for it daily, and
mourning because they find it not. Thous
ands upon thousands of dollars are spent
annually by our people in the hope that
they may attain this boon. And yet it
may be had by all. We guarantee that
Electric Bitters, if used according to di
rections and the use persisted in, will
bring you Good Digestion and oust the
; demon Dyspepsia and install instead
j Eupepsy. We recommend Electric Bitters
' Dyspepsia and all diseases of Liver
1 Stomach and Ividneys. Sold at .0e. and
$1.00 per bottle by J. G. Hall Druggist.
CROUP, WHOOPING COCGU and Bronchitis
mmediately. relieved by ShUon's Cure.
Pavxs Thomas & Co.
Dabney Ripples.
Sheriff Smith, of Henderson, passed
through town Tuesday evening, he was
not in pursuit of any one, but twelve lesn
hounds were in pursuit of him.
Mr. Jesse Kelly was here Wednesday.
looking for one of his farm hands wTho
had left in the night with a pair of boots.
He was not overtaken.
Mr. James Ellis, of Gram "die, and Miss
Ida King, of Vance, were married, Wed
nesday evening at Mr. Cis Grissoms'.
On Sunday evening Mr. E. G. Butler's
little girl while carry tlte baby in the yard
let it fall from her arms its head stricking
a sharp rock inflicting a bad wound near
the temple. Mr. & Mrs. Butler took the
train for Henderson with the child that
being the quickest way to secure medical
aid.
The new parsonage presents a very neat
and coy.y appearance since it has been
painted. Mr. Harris, the minister on this
circuit, will take possession the first of
of April.
What few tobacco plants were left after
the heavy rain have all been kilied by the
recent frost. The farmers are sowing
them over, and many new beds are being
burned.
It is feared spring oats have been badly
damaged by the frost in this section.
Toncs.
Big stock Buggies and wagons and
prices the lowest .at Owen, Barbour &
Smith.
Fr Sale Two good Farm Horses for
sale on easy terms. Apply to T. L. Oan
nady, Wilton, N. C. 4t
Popular Creek oles.
Mr. J.E. Callis, sold 2,078 pounds of
tobacco at his barn door for $33 50 round
which netted him the neat sum of $S00 3.
We are glad to learn that Mr A. C.
Parham, who has been a sufferer with the
grippe, is improving.
Mrs. A. C. Parham has returned from a
visit to Mrs. Tazzie Watson, in Chatham
county.
The Health Seat Alliance continues to
grow in strength, and are doing u good
work in the interest of the farmers, urg
ing all of them above all to raise their
home supplies.
Mr. William Woodliff, one of the old
citizens of this neighborhood, died on
Tuesday of cancer of the face.
Mr. A. J.Wright is now engaged in
nursing a case of the grippe.
The Baptist Sunday School is in a
flourishing condition with A. J. Wright,
Superintendent and J. E. Callis, assistant.
The tobacco plants in this section that,
were not covered were nearly all killed
by the cold snap.
An entertainment will be given on the
5th Sunday at the Baptist Church in aid
of the Missionary society of the Sunday
School, under the supervision of Mrs.
A. C. Parham and Mrs. J. E. Callis.
The best Cooking Stoves made are sold
by Owen, Barbour fc Smith. Be sure to
call and examine them.
Full stock Buggies and Carts at Owen,
Barbour & Smith.
Have You Been Tliere ?
This is the wav the Atchison Globe le
wails an attack of grippe: Backward,turn
backward, O time in your flight, give me
the nose that I breathed through last
night. Bring back the smeller that two
days ago, knew not the torment of a con
tinual blow. Wipe from my moustache
the moisture of sneeze, put wooden splints
on my poor weakened knees. Hub my
red nose as you oft have before with tal
low, dear mother, oh, it is so sore. Back
ward, turn backward, O tide of the nose!
1 am so tired from my head to my toes.
Tired out with mopping and coughing
and sneezing, weary from handkerchief
continually sneezing, I have grown weary
of sniffle and snuff, of wiping my bugle
until it is rough. Stick my poor head in
a Irish pillow slip, and sew it up, mother,
I have la grippe.
Car load Farm Wagons at Owen, Bar
bour & Smith.
See the Disc Harrows at Owen,Barbour
& Smith
All Analysis.
Following is an analysis of the water
from the well of St. Stephen's rectory:
Total mineral matter per gallon, 8.40
grains, existing mainly as bi-carbonates
of lime and magnesia; also present in
small quantities: sulphate of lime, chlo-
j ride of soda and bi-carlonate of iron.
A water with enough medicinal proper-
ties to give it a local reputation.
II. B. Battle, Director.
A Nasal Injector free with each bottle of Shi
loh'a Catarrh Remedy. Price 50 cents
Davis Thomas & Co,
NEWS ABOUT THE STATE.
WHAT
HAS TAKEN PLACE WITHIN
HER BORDERS.
A CJeneral Fpitome of Reeenl Occur
rences Around anil About lTs. From
Hie 31 i ii ii in ins to tlie Sea. as Culled
from our Ntate lapers.
A probably fatal fight in Alexander
county Sunday. J. J. Ross was the vic
tim, and his head was pounded to jelly
with a stone. Two brothers, John and
Dennis Locheart, have been arrested for
the crime, and will be held until it is
known whether Boss' wound is as serious
as is now supposed. A shrewd piece of
detective work has just been done in the
county of Chatham, resulting in the rout
ing of a notorious gang of counterfeiters.
It was accomplished by a Government de
tective, w ho in disguise found out all the
secrets of the couuterfeiters. The di
rectors of the Eastern Insane Asylum at
Goldsboro for colored people met at that
place the past week. The report of Supt.
Miller showed that there were 2ol patients
in the institution, and he stated that the
negroes exodus had had no elfect upon
the number ;of applicants for admission.
A train near New Beine ran over
and killed ii man, who was thought to
have been drunk. Warrants have been
issued for all five of revenue officers who
formed the raiding party at Hillsboro last
week, when negro McMannan was shot,
and the case set for hearing before Judge
Armfield to-day. Greenville, in Pitt
county, is stirred up over a white cap sen
satiou. Several notices have been posted
around the courthouse there stating that
there are wife-beaters in town who are
notified to leave or take the consequences.
Near Weldon on the 7th the remains
of two negro infants,supposed to be twins,
were found in the woods. Judge Spier
Whitaker, Chairman of the State Execu
tive Committee, has resigned. The exec
utive committee will meet in Raleigh on
June 10th to elect his successor. At
Durham last week the store of Smith &
Chisenhall was broken into by a burglai
and a large sum of money was stolen from
under the head of Mr. Chisenhall, who
was sleeping in the store, and who did not
wake till the burglar had gotten the money
and gone. The grippe is playing havoc
in a camp of 300 convicts, who are work
ing on an extension of the Cape Fear and
Yadkin Valley Road near Mt. Airy. One
hundred and fifty are down with the dis
ease. J:. P. Davis, who has been con
victed of murder in Chatham county, has
been unable to get an appeal to the Su
preme Court, and will be hanged on the
28th. The county commissioners have
ordered the execution to be public, and
to take place in the town of Pittsboro.
Michigan capitalists have established a
bank at Mt. Airy. Two convicts, while
trying to escape, w ere shot and killed a
few days ago on C. F. & Y. V. Railroad.
The blasted and blackened condition
of the tender vegetation shows the work
of the recent freeze. The loss in fruit in
the Piedmont section will count up to
millions of dollars. The gold fever has
spread wherever there are any traces of
the precious metal. Mining experts have
canvassed this State and have found
gold in small but not paying quantities in
all probable places. An eight year old
son of Mrs. Pink Smith, of Lincoln coun.
ty, fell and bit his tongue so seriously that
he bled to death. Chatham county re
ports the champion rabbit-catcher, a ne-
gro, who will not have a gun, and goes on
the hunt without dogs. He can run down
and take mre rabbits than any other hun
ter can with both gun and dogs. Elijah
Moore, who was hanged three weeks ago
at Greensboro, for murder, was a colored
soldier in the Union army, and his widow
has received $3,C00 pension money in
consideration of the services of the de
ceased . Goldsboro is moving to secure
the celebrated Davis school. They have
already raised f 5,700 for that purpose by
subscription. In North Carolina there
are nineteen National Banks, with a capi
tal of $2,426,000, ar.d having a surplus of
$593,518. They have $4,122,000 deposits
and lend out $5,857,000. They have in
their vaults about $555,000. The business
of our State banks amounts as follows:
Capital stock $1,628,772, deposits $2,787,
000, loans $3,577,000. The entire banking
business of this State shows a capital of
$4,650,000, deposits $G,900,000, loans $9,
434,000. Do you need a Truss ? If so call on J.
G. Hall, Oxford, N. C, as he has some
thing entirely new and guarantees a per
fect fit in every instance.
Shiloh's Cure will Immediately remove Cronp
Whooping Congh and Bronchitis.
Davis Thomas Co,
SEWS FROM T5IE CO I XT V
XeiliIorliool v utSse:ei Uy ilse
Ledger's ('oiicsihuiiU siU.
From fttovnll.
Mn. Editor: After an ai'.serce of two
months, and all the depressing evjiesi
ences of three successive attacks of "La
Grippe," I came out to my h'-me in the
country, where, in the mid.-t. of su.-h re
vivifying influences as the fresh, pure
air, the singing of birds, the burst in d'
early buds and flowers, del ghtful
satisfying di aut'hts of health--ivinir ;-u-r,
cheering sounds of ea kliuir hens, sug
gestive of wholesome and appetizing
breakfasts of ham and eggs, the frisking
and Ideating of young lambs, and many
rural sights and sounds, aii hcrful and
pleasant; and then in tl.e advent of the
cold wave and the snow .storm, a roaiing
hickory fire, and an hundred other com
forts in which I rejoice and give thanks
that I am still alive to enjoy them, and
am each day and hour legaining the
heal'h and strength that had so nearly
succumbed to the ttrange and resistless
power of La Grippe. And 1 have been
sui prised and pleased to see the un
mistakable j-.igiis of prog! ess and prosper
ity in our community, in spite of all ad
verse influences. Passing through the
pretty village of Stovall, 1 saw several
new buildings going up, some of them
already completed I think; among them
a large store for dry goods, erected and
owned by Mr. Mc Daniel, very near to
w hat once promised to be an Episcopal
Church, but which now, alas, seems to be
given over to decay. Why is it that God's
work is so olien crushed out by opposi
tion or neglect, or else is the very last to
be considered if at ali?
The Baptist Church, however, is flour
ishing and grow ing, and may perhaps be
the saving of that pretty village, so
thrifty and promising in its, worldly in
terests, and in healthfulness and beauty
of location so desirable.
The Presbyterian Church also, though
poor in exterior and greatly reduced in
size from its former roominess and com
fort when known and beloved by its older
members as old ''Grassy Creek," of his
toric memory, yet is still blest with good
preaching at regular intervals, and is
doubtless doing good work, though it
may be in a small and quiet w ay.
Messrs. Moseley k, Co., who have been
doing a thrifty business in the mercantile
line, have left Stovall and gone elsewhere
to invest in cheap goods; but their loss
will not be greatly felt, as a good and
profitable trade on a more solid basis is
rapidly building up, and tl.e respective
houses of Messrs. Stovall & lloyster in
dry goods, and Mr. Richard Gregory in
drugs, medicines, confectioneries and
fancy wares, with others coining on in
various lines, wiil soon develop the busi
ness resources of the village, and with its
other advantages, develop it also into a
live, active, flourishing railroad town.
We are greatly indebted to our good
friend Mr. W. Ii. Gregoiy, for having se
cured the building of a biidge, strong aid
reliable, across Grassy Creek, just at the
old ford so much used, but which had
eyer before been suggestive, even when
passable, of the "slough of despond." Mr.
G. ceitainly merits the graceful thanks of
all northern Granville for his efforts and
success in this matter.
Over on this side man' of our neigh-
bors have been shocked and startled by
the unexpected release from justice of the
horse thief and houe burner, w ho was
fully convicted at the last court of having
stolen a horse, but upon some absurd
quibble of the so-called 'Liw," was
turned loose upon a community which
hasforyeais suffertd from his bold yet
cunning deeds of outrage and rascality.
His threats of bolder and greater outrages,
have produced much talk of lynching,and
if this awful mode of dealing out real
justice is carried out, those who brought
about the release of such a felon should
be held responsible, instead of those who
try to piotect their families and prop
erty. NOUTII GUANVILLK.
A Serai ol'I'siper Saves ISor I.ii'e.
It was just an ordinary scrap of wrap
ping paper, but it saved her life. She
was in the last stages of consumption,
told by physicians that she was incurable
and could live only a short time; she
weighed less than seventy pounds. On a
piece of wrapping paper she read of Dr.
King's New Discovery, and got a sample
bottle; it helped her, she bought a large
bottle, it helped her more, bought another
and grew better fast, continued its use
and is now strong, healthy, rosy, plump,
weighing 140 pounds. For fulhr particu
lars send stamp to W. IT. Cole, Druggist,
Fort Smith. Trial Bottles of this won
derful Discovery Free at J. G. Hall Drug,
store.