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THE SEMI-WEEKLY PUBLIC LEDGER. I SUCCESSOR TO THE NSW? OF OXFORD, i JOHN T. MUTT, - Editor and Proprietor. ISSUED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS. KATES OF SUBSCRIPTION I.V ADVANCE. One Year (by Mail), Postage Paid fl-o Six Mouths A semi-weekly Democratic journal devoted to the mtemaU educational, political and agricultural interests of Granville and surrounding counties. Advertising rates reasonable and furnished on application. OXFORD, N O., - MAY 30, 1800 EDITORIAT. NOTES. The Senate will load the tariff with amendments and then fire it. The fault with the Panama Canal scheme is they can't even water the stock. What a grand thing it wonki be for national pride in population to get Reed to count the census. The Chicago waiters are still wait in o- for work. And the Chicago hotel guests are &till waiting something to eat. for McKinley and Speaker Reed should mandamus the Senate and compel it to pass the House tariff bill or count it out. When the farmers all get rich through the tariff there will be plenty of Banks of America in which to deposit their wealth. The Farmers' Alliance appears to be moving on and learning the benefit of hanging together. Fourth-fifths of the country population of Illinois belong to it. I,EE-AMERirA'.H GREATEST MAX. 'The bitterness of war feeling is over certainly with the South, for which section The State undertakes to speak. It is, we believe, over at the North despite the fact that oneo in a while some small-spirited poli tician there attempts to foist himself into notice by essaying to rouse it. The Union can now look back upon the past struggle, and the two sec tions haye just cause for pride. The South claims that General Robert E. Lee, the commander of the army of the Confederacy, was the greatest man America has ever produced, and the South can, therefore, congratu late itself and the rest of 1he country which in time will award Lee this rank. Truly great men are those whose influence extends not only in the time of their lives, but afterwards; are those whom coming generations knowing, know to love and to accept as standards; and in the emulation of whose careers the emulation must admit of no wrong action or the imitating life can never reach the standard set up for achievement. During great movements of people, whether such movements have taken a purely political result, or nave meciiiitated war. men have come f ! into pi-ominence, and have been heroes in the popular estimation, THE CONFEDERATE WOMEN. No history of the war would be complete without a tribute to the Confederate Women. It would be injustice to them to say that they M ere simply patriotic, for while they were of all patriots the greatest, they gave the Sonthern cause the benefit of much more than their good wishes No women at any time in the history of the world ever surren dered as much for a cause as did the women of the South. There have been instances where hundreds have indeed made every sacrifice, but this is the only instance where a nation of women worked and fought for a nation. There was undoubtedly not one woman in the entire South dm ing the last year of the war of whom it could have been said she lived in luxury. The wife of the President of the Confederacy sold her family silver for the cause. The invalid wife of the General of the Confed erate army spent her small strength in knitting socks for the Confederate soldiers. Little girls occupied their play hours iu picking lint for Con federate soldiers' wounds. Saints good, beautiful, patient, cheering, oy proved angels on the battlefields and in the hospitals. They starved at home m order to send their scanty food to the army. Worn an broken and yet after the contest their char- by privation, they wrote letters beam acters have steadily lost in holding ing with hope and gladness to the Damaged female affections don't come as high as they used to. A Philadelphia jury has just assessed a crawfishing lover five cents for his change of mind. A photograph of the tariff should have been taken when it left the House. It would have come in handy for purposes of identification when the bill returns from the Senate. The Senate is bothered over its silyer bills. They ought to get the services of the right kind of a cashier and he would soon eliminate from discussion the silver and the bills, too. The census takers receive two cents o name, except for the names of soldiers or soldiers' widows, for which thev are entitled to five cents. The work of taking the census will begin on Sune 2. The requirements of the Boston law that drink must be taken seated will possibly decide the disputed legal point as to what constitutes in toxication. If the drinker can't get up again he is presumably drunk. A needle, one and one-half inches long, was recently removed from the side of Mrs. Counselor Cole, of Fred ericksbury, Va. Mrs. Cole says that she swallowed the needle forty years ago and has never felt any inconve nience from it. power, each succeeding year debili tating the moral or intellectual fibre when the erlances of succeeding generations became more critically d robin sr. Twenty-five years have camp and resounding with defiance to the foe. No country ever had such loving daughters, no cause such tireless champions, They were the last to be reconstructed. Some of gone by since the war between the them have never been leconstructed. States. Twenty years have elapsed Some of them never will be recon- since death removed Lee, the com mander of the Confederate armies. Each following year has added to the high sum of the world's estima tion of his greatness. His private life, his public acts have been sub jected to close scrutiny since with the result that the fame of the man as a soldier has been enhanced, while steadily and surely the quanti ties necessary to round the whole st rue ted. Richmond State. A PARALYZIAiG SCHEME. Hon n Man Marie 25 People Swear lie was Drowned. J. C. Meekins, Jr., sheriff of Tyrell Co., gives t'.ie State Chronicle the particulars of the strangest and most sensational oe currence in Tyrell county that was ever recorded in these columns. It isn't ex ile ro- ictly a case of Enoch Arden, hut it is character have been apparent, and quite as odd, and the element of crime Rnhprt F Lee stands revealed as makes it all the more wonderful. The Why does Clarkson not go into the business of publishing Republi can newspapers himself? According to his own statement there is a long felt want to be filled in this direction, and we know of no law to prevent Mr. Clarkson filling it. A Finland paper mentions a curious stone in the northern part of that country which serves the people instead of a barometer. This stone, which they call "Jlmakiur," turns black, or blackish gray, when foul weaklier is approaching; fine weather has the effect of turning it almost white. An Augusta, Ga., farmer is a dreamer from away back. He says that all the dreams of any value to him come in his slumbers of early Sunday. He has a large cancer on his neck and dreamed of the things to cure it. He got up, fixed up the medicine and it is cured. He says he can sure any cancer that comes un der his notice. A clerical correspondent of the New Yore Tribune thus writes: "We parsons find it rather hard to win the approval of you newspaper fel lows. If we preach about the ini quity of Sodom and Gomorrah and the sins of the ancient Jews you say we live in the past instead of the present. If, on the other hand, we preach on the concrete sins of the present day you say we are sensation mongers. And if we avoid both these faults by asserting generally that it is a good thing to be good, and a bad thing to be bad, you say we are dull and vapid." America's Greatest Man. If carping sectional jealousy should dissent, we ask: Can you name one as great ? In the comparison the life of Lee must be yiewed in its entirety, and so too his character. We must see him in triumph and in misfortune. We must see him when he faced the world's judgment and God's judg ment. We jnust see him when he accepted the blame for the loss of the most decisive battle of the war. This man took all responsibilities and kept them. He exposed himself to shield others. Calm, serene, he di rected the greatest of the world's battles, or heard the appeal of a private soldier with the same degree of exalted conscientiousness. Duty to God, his country and his fellow man, as he saw that duty by the light of the sacred volume which guided his life, was his aim. Unlike Ca?sar, Frederick or Bonapaite, he was a man of ability without personal am bition, other than that his life and calling should in all things be right. The aim of the three great soldiers named was to conquer for self. Lee's aim was to defend from the invader the domain and the liberties of his people. The story of his great and good life cannot be studied too close ly. The more it is read, the greater our intimacy with his ronnded char acter, the more confidently Vir ginians can point to Lee as America's greatest man. lee's death-bed command. It is one of the strange an beauti ful coincidences connected with the deaths of Lee and Jackson that in their dying delirium each referred to Gen. A. P. Hill. "Tell Hill he must come up," said Lee. And so, too, Jackson gave a command indicating that Hill was the general wanted. Del irium battlefields these were in deed, but the last words of the great soldiers indicated that the vision of man they saw was vivid, undisorder ed, and that man was A. P. Hill. "Tell A. P. Hill to prepare for action," was the death-bed command. Brave, true, unmurmuring A. P. Hill! Always reliable, these great generals knew. Always wanted when the fight was to be close, when surprises were feared. And to-day A. P. Hill lies in Hollywood in a monumentless following is the incident that has thrown the county into great excitement: AlwHit 12 months ago a man named J as. Dillon, of Tyrell county, insured his life for $3,000 in the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co. Ahout four months after he had taken the insurance he fell off a hoat, feigned that he could not swim, and hart to be pulled out of Alligator river to prevent his drowning. The next day, lie turned a boat over mile from shore, and j'elled for help to Mr. Sawyer who was a quarter of a mile away. 1 he gentleman responded, hut Dillon secretly swam ashore and could not be seen by the geutleman Miiose as sistance he had called. Mr. Sawyer sup posed he waa drowned and was perfectly willing to swear to it. Notice of his death was sent to the company and they refused to pay. Action was brought by his widow and the case stood for trial at Spring term of court, the widow alleging that he was drowned. A week before court, Dillon's body was found on the place where Mr. Sawyer saw him sink in the water. The body was identified by twenty-five people as that of James Dillon, by the shape of his skull, color of his hair, from bis bald head, be cause two front teeth were out, and from his clothing and theii contents. Dillon's papers and pocket knife were in the dead man's pockets. At court, counsel for the widow took a non suit because the body had been found and could be identified. It was supposed the company would pay at once. The evidence of health and identification was forwarded to the company who wrote that they would do as advised by Pruden & Vann, their attorneys at Edenton. There is no doubt, with this evidence, that the company would have paid the money if nothing had occurred. On last Friday, to the surprise of all, Dillon returned safe and sound, "limb, wind and weather." There is no doubt hut that Dillon, hearing of the non-suit at court, thought it was an end to his claims, and there would be no hope of collecting the money, and so believing returned home. Dillon's statement is that he swam ashore the day that he turned the boat over, put his hat in the boat, and left the boat half full of water. Then he con cealed himself in the bushes and waited for Sawyer to come up. He was convtnc ed that. SawjTer thought he was drowned, and determined to stay in the woods so bis wife could get the insurance money. Five mr.nths later he claims to have found a drowned man floating in Alligator river, lie removed the hair from his head so as to make it bald, and also his whiskers, any inhabitant, and by the solemn gjlim mer of his lantern came to the conclusion that the corpse presented a striking like ness to himself. The sequal shows ftjtiat he tvas right, for twenty-five people jviere willing to swear that the body was f that of James Dillon. The body was found by Capt. os Etheridge, who expected to get J$-00 which had been offered for the bod' of Dillon. Dillon is very jubilant over deceiving the people. The people of his neigior hood are veryT charitable and whetufver one loses a horse, they all chip in find buy another; and when one gets sick they work his crop; or one's house is bnrijed, they build him another. Thinking Dillon wTas ueau, out or cLarity lor his widow, tney nau planted ins tann and on fast Tuesday thirteen of them were in Dillln's field working his crop, while he (DU:&n) wTas in the bushes looking at theiu.jt says that he was glad to see his workfi gressing so finely in his absence md would have been perfectly satisfied c$ild he have told them how he wanted pthe croD cultivated. if- The news of his return created rjite an excitement, and threats of lynching, and tar and feathers were freely induced in. b rid ay, the day of his return, "5s? Ill long be remembered in the usually qjdet village of Columbia as "Black Friday." Added to this excitement was the assign ment of one of the prominent merchants of the town; and two fights by four prni nent citizens, making a record for the day: $ 2 Fights. 1 Assignment. 1 Resurec tion. i a if Resolutions ly Wake County Alliance. Whereas, The Farmers' Alliance isfaot a politicial organization, and its minion is not to act in partizan politics; and Whereas, Its membership is complf-ed of individuals from all political parses; and !f Whereas, Its members and its fridnds are opposed to alt class feeling as wefi! as to all class legislation ; therefore be it Resolved, by the Wake county Farm ers' Alliance in regular session assembled, that we will not attempt, inside the ance, to nominate airy candidate foiiny political office in the gift of the people of this county, but that every true Alliance man, who loves his county and his own best interests, will attend the prinfary conventions of the party of which! he is a member and use his influence to n.m inate such men only as we can depend upon to carry out the measures grovng out of those principals; and be it further Resolved, That we will not use Four influence for or against any candidate j for the nomination because of the ela or the profession to which he may belong. And be it further f Resolved, That we have confidence in the intelligence and honesty of th- nlem bers of our order, and believe that tjhey may he safely trusted to control! its ? ac tions for the best interest of the perjple. Therefore, we do recommend that all 4uch of the partizan newspapers as are corltin ually offering their unasked advice, fand by their insinuations and inuendos are stirring up class feeling, to exercisi in future sufficient discretion as to plove themselves capable of attending to tfieir own business; i A. C. Green, Preside. J. J. Dunn, Secretary.' A. LANDIS & SONS' AD V'ERTISEMENT. A. Landis & Sons. 1890 AND SUMMER GOODS ! jfjQf e o The Largest Stock of Millinery Goods ever opened in this town. 2,227 Ladies' and Misses' Trimmed and Untrimmed Bonnets, Hats and Caps. O CD CO w bJO c $-4 CD f-r-3 GO if . f 'WiT IS--?; ' V. f f & CD CO THE LEADER. 19 3 O ; CD CD grave lonely in that lonely place, and taking his own hair and whiskers and separated by acres from the skeleton hosts of the Confederate soldiers' section. This should not be so. The suggestion has been made that A. P. Hill's body be removed to the soldrers' section. There let him lie. "Come up!" He obeyed that command whenever the stuck it in the decomposing flesh of the corpse. Then he knocked out two of the front teeth r.f the dead man, and remov ing the clothing from the corpse dressed it in the clothes he had worn on the day of his disappearance. He then at night conveyed it to the place where he was supposed to have been drowned, which place is one of the most desolate The prevalence of scrofulous tair-t in the blood is much more universal han manyr are aware. Indeed, but few per sons are free from it. Fortunately, bow ever, we have in Ayei's Sarsaparilla,1 the most potent remedy ever discovered tor this terrible affliction. f rmna K im f Durham Medicated 'ii?arel ls? i The most pleasant convenient and effectu al remedy that has been offered to'-the public, andean be used with perfect im punity by ladies or children. Are pure)' vegetable and contain no opiates. USase cure for Headaches, Sleeplessness. Catarrh Cold in head, etc. For sale by FuHnan & Hays. ; - - - - NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. More Than 300 Different Shapes. Can Suit Anybody in Styles and Prices. mm A big reduction in all styles of dress goods. We have just received a big- lot of ladies' dress goods which we are selling at less than the same goods cost early in the season. Call and see our big bargains. Our New York buyer sends us something new and cheap every day. We are offering this week 20 pieces of China and Japanese matting at greatly reduced prices. Be sure to call and examine these bargains. We offer for the next sixty days at reduced prices One Thousand Ladies' Corsets ! ! as follows: 200 ladies' corsets at 47 cents, worth 60 cents. 200 100 R. & G. 100 ladies' 200 P. C. it 69 75 29 $1. 75 $1. 40 Absolutely Pure. A cream of tartar hakim? powder. Iligheft of all hi leavening treriih.--L7. s. (jovernmeift Je port, Ang. 17, LSM'.t. aiu--ly Old Commander gave it, and'died in and barren wastes in the lowlands of obeying it. 1 eastern North Carolina, seven miles from tJQRtOl A THOROUGH, PRACTICAL INSTITUTION for both sexes. Open the entire year. Penman ship, Bookkeeping, Shorthand, Typewriting, Arithmetic, Spelling, English Grammar, Rank ing and Correspondence. Students can ei!ter at any time. Pleasant rooms. Good board in pri vate families for $3 and upwards. Graduates as sisted to positions" Write for circulars to may30-tf i. w. PATTON, orfolk..V. .100iif?fent.brands for $1-00, worth $1.25 and 100 French woven at 75 and 89 cents, worth $1. I OVF T!!!JSANT "PIeceq TinBoiTt I I IjiousanU 1 jeclO luiiiioIN I I VERY CHEAP! VERY CHEAP! 2000 new style Challies at 6 and 8 cent3. 1000 yards new style Challies at 12c, worth 20 cents. 1000 Pieces odds and ends, Lilse Thread and Silk Gloves and Mitts at 10 cents per pair. 500 pairs children's hose at 5 cents per pair, worth from 10 cents to 25 cents per pair. Our prices are downward all the time. A. LANDIS S SOW
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