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Ai.pointments of the Uoard iln f;fcKaftmcnt to anv in the South. The corfl.. epaSlnient- under Air Joseph Maclean, Charw,01 ?f tbe ltlte June Musical Festival, in vnanotte, ia the best in the State. ipa? RlT w. iX. ATKINSON, Pbincipal, iUU Cbariotte, IS. Q. CHS "Vt-v - ' fRO P R I E T O H S . DAK RIDGE INSTITUTE CONDENSED NOTES OF THE PASSING LOCAL EVENTS OF THE DAY. What f Ti-aiisiriiie: Around and About lTs. in Town and t'ouuty Tlie Ivemeiit4 aott Uoiugs of Peo ple You Know, Ete. Mr. ami Mrs J. F. Cole, are on a short visitto A'heville. Miss Mary Holt has returned to Ox ford to spend several months. Capt. A. Landi'3 household is in possession of another Jittle girl Mrs. Ida J. Knott, a former resident of Ovford, was ia town Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Graham have re-turn.-d from a week's visit to ilillshoro. The stock of the Land and Improve ment Compeny is rapidly being taken up. Mr. J. M. Cuninhas thus far cured twenty-two barns of most excellent to bacco. Mr. O. O. White, our most excellent t tilor, is the happjT possessor of a boy at his home. We give a large amount of our space this issue to the discussion of the tax question. Dr. and Mrs. Dixon will sever their connection with the Asylum on the 22nd of August. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Hunt, who have been on a visit to Bertie county, have re turned home. The wood work on the Alliance and Davis & Gregoiy Warehouses is rapidly going forward. Oxford is to be aftL-ted with a two room passenger depot. We think we de serve better treatment. Mr. A.Wilkinson, one the bigtobacco farmers of Mecklenburg count', Va., call ed to see us on Thursday. Messrs. Davis & Gregory received another car load of new tobacco from the East last Wednesday morning. Dr. Eugene Grissom has removed from Raleigh to Denver, Colorado, und is practicing medicine in that city. Mr. H. E. Overton, one of the rising young Democrats of Fishing Creek town ship, called to see us Wednesday. --Mr. T. L. Daniel, of Berea, sold the last of his old tobacco crop Tuesday at the Alliance Warehouse -at good figures. Dr. A. J. Dlby, accompanied by his good lady, left for Asheville Monday. The Dr. is attending the State Farmers Alli ance. Capt. W A. Bobbitt, and Mr. John Webb are buying largely of new cutters as they hold good orders for foreign trade. The singing class of the Orphan Asylum, was in luck at Durham. Main Street Church and Sunday School gave them $137. AVe are -pleased to learn that Mr. C. F. Kingsbury will remodel the old Granville warehouse and make it a good prize house. The Flat lliver Association is in ses sion this week at Pleasant Grove church, near Mt. Energy. Large number of peo ple are attending. Miss M. E. Carter, who has been spending several days with Mrs. John W. Hays, left Tr.esda- for Graham to take charge of a school. Mr. J. A. Taylor, of the Oxford To bacco Co., is taking in South Carolina and Georgia, in the interest of the tirm. We wish him great success. Mrs. B. F. Hester, accompanied by Mrs. A. C. Parham and her two little daughters, attended the sale at the Alli ance Warehouse on Tuesday. Mr. D. G. Hobgood now sa)'s he was never willing to serve the dear people in an' office, as his private affairs at home would not allow him to do so. A. Land is & Sons have removed their large stock of furniture back into their building. They are now receiving a handsome lot for the fall trade. Davis & Gregory had big breaks of new Eastern tobacco Wednesday and Thursday. Prices ranged high and sellers were satisfied. Hurrah for our market! The Oxford Land and Improvement Company is moving right along. The news of its progress is of the most cheering character. The stock, if reports are true, will soon be all sold and Oxford will thus secure another impetus of pros perity. The good points of this Company will continue to be seen and felt for years. Everybody should say a good word for so commendable an enterprise. The colored people of Granville will hold a convention in Oxford to-morrow for the purpose of sendiug delegates to a convention to be held in Raleigh on the 26th. Mr. William Bryan, of Nash county, was on the breaks Thursday with a ship ment of fine tobacco, which sold for good money. Mr. B. informed us that he pro bahlr would cure 140 barns of tobacco. Take due notice and govern your selves according, the large pale of town lots will take place at Roxboro, N. C, on August the 20th. Be thrre or in less than six months you may wisa that you had. Mr. .1. F. Edwards has resigned as commissioner ot Oxford and the Board at a call meeting el. cted Mr. R. T. Smith to fill ihe vacancy. Mr. Smith is one of our best citizens and wi.! make a capital com missioner. We had the pleasure of meeting Wednesday on the break at Messrs. Davis & Gregory's, Mr. Elias CV.rr, Jr., of Edge, combe county, who had s. me of his new tobacco on our market, w hit h sold at most satisfactory prices. Messrs. Hundley Bros, are work ing men. They are building at the present time three four story leaf houses, two immense brick warehouses, two factories and three dwelling houses, wiih others to follow. VeriPy Oxford is on a building boom . More than one hundred lots to be sold at Roxboro on the 20th of August, go and buy you one or two without fail and when 3'ou can sell them for a big profit which you may do in a hort time you will thauk me for telling you to bu' them. Superintendent Bridgers, of the R. & D. R. R , was in Oxford Tuesday. He w;as looking after the building of the new passenger rooms, and the locating of the route to the grouuds of the Land and Im provement Compan'. We learn both will be constructed soon. Who ever knew any one to buy a lot in a North Carolina town w hen it started to build up from getting railroad facilities that did noV make a good profit to them. Go to Roxboro N. C, on the 20th of Au gust, and buy and you may reasonably expect it to pay you soon. Those that have a small amount of cash on hand and fail to attend the sale of lots at Roxboro on the 20th of August may have cause to regret it in the near futures only half cash and may make profit more than the other half before that will be due. don't fail to go. At a meeting of the Board of Direc tors of the Farmers Alliance Warehouse a few days ago Mr. Rufus Knott was re elected manager, with Mr. Alex. Lewis as book keeper, L. A. Wilkins, floor manager, in place of Mr. J. T. Ragan, and Mr. F. B. Blalock, assistant book keeper, in place of Mr. R. L. Allen. - Colonel John C. Tipton, late of the Patriot, w ill commence on the 20th instant the publication of a weekly paper entitled the Southern Democrat, at Greensboro. Of course it will be uncompromisingly Democratic in politics and will be as full of life and news as the Colonel can make it. We wish the Southern Democrat a grand success. As to Capt. W. A. Bobbitt's inquiry in the Day concerning the prize house question, we will state for the benefit of the public that this gentleman asked us before he published this article where we got the infoimation and we politely told him the name of the gentleman. If he is anxious for further information we respectfully refer him to the gentleman we named, who is able to speak for himself. Mr. W. R. Beasley informs us that he regrets to be compelled to go W. A. Parham and J. E. Callis one better on the tobacco yarn, but he likes to keep up the reputation of old Fishing Creek, He has tobacco so large on the line near his neighbor that he has complained that it is shading his tobacco and stopped it from growing It is supposed that the plants will have to be cut into four pieces in order to get them into a curing barn. A Sate investment Is one which is guaranteed to bring you satisfactory results, or in case of failure a return of purchase price. On this safe plan vou can buy from our advertised Druggist a bottle of Dr. King's New Dis covery for Consumption. It is guaranteed to bring relief in every case, when used for any affection of Throat, Lungs or Chest such as Consumption, Inflamma tion of Lungs, Bronchitis, Aslhma, Whoop ing Cough,"Croup, etc... etc. It is pleasant and agreeable to taste, perfectly safe, and can always be depended upon. Trial bot tles free at J. G. Hall's Drugstore, THE TAX QUESTION, AS DISCUSSED PRO AND CON, BY OUR CITIZENS. Views of Correspondent, Both For and Against the Levying: of Speeial Tax Bonds for the Establishment ot' a System of Water-Works. Mr. Editor I am somewhat surprised at the manner of attack you and your cor respondent made on the friends of Water- j Works in your last issue. I did not in tend to take any part in this contest, but I do like to see things discussed on their merits, and I do hate anything that tends to array one class against another. This is the first time 1 have ever heard the cry raised that a rich man wanted to vote a tax on his property so burdensome that it would crush out the poor man. Generally the cry is the other way that tho.e who have nothing will impose a tax that will be heavj' on those who have much. Now, let us lay aside abuse and asser tions, and discuss this great matter of tax ation on its merits. I will pass unnoticed the insinuations made against the prop erly owners who signed the petition, and come at once to the last and most sensi ble sentence in your correspondent's communication, "We had better stop and calculate " Yes, let us "calculate" and see whether these burdensome taxes have pulled Oxford down or built it up, and whether or not they have run the labor ing classes out of town. In 1880 Oxford had no railroad. She had two old ware houses, one of which has long since passed away, but the "Old Granville" still stands as a monument to her progress up to that time. She had but one or two in ferior leaf prize houses. She sold then about 300,000 pounds of tobacco. One steam whistle gave forth its lonety sound in her corporate limits. Probably half a dozen mechanics found employment at scant wages. There were no banks. Her enterprising citizens were leaving for Durham, Henderson, and other places, where they had better facilities. Those towns were growing into cities, and the music made by the hammer and saw in the hands of "the poor laboring man" made the wide-awake Oxonians ask: Whj' is it not so at home? The plain answer came back: You are not on an equal foot ing with us. They went to work to get a railroad. The town voted a tax and alter a hard struggle the O. & H. road was built, and tho' it gave but limited outlet, yet its effect on the growth and business of Oxford was magical. Encouraged by the benefits of this road the people deter mined to put themselves on an equal foot ing with their rival sister towns. Another tax was voted and the O. & C. road was built, and where do we stand to day V Let us "stop and calculate." Assertions and abuse may mislead, but an old saying is that "figures will not lie." 1890 will close with six large brick warehouses, equal if not superior to any in the State, to say nothing of the wooden ones, and with from foity to fifty prize houses. It is es timated we will sell 10,000,000 pounds of 1S90 tobacco. These railroads that we are taxed to build, are bringing it from every point of the compass, even from away down in South Carolina. And they are carrying our merchandise into other States The music of more than a dozen steam whistles is echoed throughout the town. A score of hammers and saws may be heard on one building, and more than a dozen trowels are piling up brick and mortar, that requires a car load of lime per week, brought over these same rail roads. Instead of "running the poor la boring man out of town." Oxford ia adver tising in all the neighboring towns for mechanics and thej' are coming in every week, and there is still room for more. We have two of the best banks in the State. Many of her citizens who had gone to other markets, have returned, and are piling up monuments to their skill and iudustrj in the shape of mammoth factories, prize houses, etc. Then six or eight old wooden buildings held her mer chandise. Now more than forty brick stores adorn her streets. Merchandise of all kinds, especially groceries, is much cheaper. The poor man saves more than enough on groceries alone to pay his tax. Yes, let us "stop and calculate." I wish I had time to get up all the statistics before we had the railroad and since. In 1880 our taxable property was valued at $839, 525. This year it will go over $1,000,000; an increase of 300 per cent, in a decade. ; Property that sold here then for $3,000 cannot be bought now for less than $4,000. Driving money from Oxford, indeed! Well, if we keep on at this rate, driving out capital and labor, we will be a Chi cago after awhile. Why, Mrv Editor, you would not be here I would not be here, and the rank and fcrle of the business men of the town would !not be here, were it not for the railroads, alid the railroads would not be heie but fr the taxes. This ex plains how it is thr.t taxes build up cities. It is a fact that no town can grow into a thrifty city withovjt going into debt. The reason is plain without debt they cannot get the improyenfents and conveniences that are necessary to invite capital and business. Don't understand me to favor a rer-Kless expenditure of money. I am far from it. Now. I j will admit that some people, and good,? deserving people, have their property advertised for taxes and go to the law ers for help in their time of need. It has bet-i so from the organiza tion of society; H will le so to the end of time. Now let tp; come down to the gist of the matter- laye these heavy taxes made Oxford ricl'ier or poorer? The an swer is in such br;ld, clear figures that you may run and reac. I am appealing now j to intelligent, unbiased men, who have the prosperity of the town at heart. Some mat, "convinced ji-gainst their will, are of the same opiuioc-still." I hope we have none of them in )xford. Now, Mr. EditVir, I haye taken up as much of jour space as I can ask at one time, and have njot gotten to the Water Works. I have Iteen trying to put in its true light the th;oty of taxation for puli lic improvements, and its beneficial results in Oxford. With your permission will say what 1 have o say about Water-Works in our next isste. 1 think it is now time to "stop and calculate." Yours truly, I J. C. Hundley. Oxford, N. CI, August 11, 1890. Water-Works or Fire-Works. If the atmosphere continues like it is this morning foj- any length of time, we will need fire-Oorks instead of water works. The poor will need their money to buy wood and clothing, instead of hav ing to pay it iti taxes for the fat bond holders, who sij, in easy chairs, in warm offices, smoking! your money. That kind of business is wihat some people call rob bing under a very mild type of law. A few days jago some gentlemen and myself were t.Ukiug about the bonded debt of Oxford' I made the statement, and I repeat itKiere, that there was not a mau, in or out f Oxford, who could tell the debt of thelown. No, sir; it can't be done. This of itself, shows that some thing is wrong fand rotten. This reminds me of what thi lale Gov. W. A. Graham said about he;vy taxes. He said that, "when the taxfjs of the country got to be burdensome t the people, there was something wrong and rotten in the gov erning power."! What a truth! One of the gentlemen j above spoken of said the town debt was j53,000, and the township debt $20,000, aid that Oxford pays nearly all of this. Th'en we came to the Market House tax. rhe very calling of that name made us -til stand upon tiptoes and treml.de as though the gho t of ; had appeared. Tlify xny the market house i tax now is only $18,000. I ask, where did they get the etra $8,000 from? We only ' voted for $10,(100 at first, and have had no other vote sincik The truth is, the voting people of this; town were badly deceived about that taxi. We weie told with big mouthed truiipets that $10,000 would build the Louse. That sum was soon wasted or stolen, and no one can tell how; But we do know that the money is gone. I am informed that it took $7,500 more principal monj?y to finish the house than we voted for that purpose, and it's a sorry job at tiiat. Voters of Oxford, just think of such an outrage; $7,5C0 of your hard earnings gonej and you were never asked one word about it, and every cent of which was trken without a shadow of law. If we vote $50,000 for the water works and w are treated by them as we were by the market house fellows, to wit: charge us $7,000 extra for every $10,000 voted for, it wfill take $87,500 to fix up the water works -for running, and then the interest on this enormous sum has got to be paid every jyear, or they will sell j'ou out. Besides! all this, it will cost you about $15 to get pipes to carry the water to your houses and then a $10 rental tax for every $ eat! you use the "nasty" water. The Good LoKl can only tell what new cost would Ke added. What poor man, white or black, can stand all this extra taxes? No, (-u had better go to "Bettie Oakley's Branch" for water, rather than the little property which you are fortun ate enough toj own, should be put up at the court hopse door and sold for the taxes which 5. ill go to yay off these un bearable and oppressive tax bonds. Then we hve what i? called the Elec tric Light tax big name, big tax but TJtfltinued on th page. EDUCATIONAL. 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