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VOLUME V--NO. 3.
FURNI 1'URE, DRY OOOD8, &c.
Absolutely Pure.
A cream ot tartar baking powder, Highest Oi
all in leavening strength. Latest D. S. Govern
ment Food Report.
Bargains in Furniture !
Will remove to Co
zart Block on or about
February 1st.
In the meantime, to
reduce stock, I offer
goods at extremely low
prices.
Special bargains in
Sideboards, Parlor and
Chamber Suits.
You will find it to
your interest to give
me an early call.
Thanking you for past
patronage, I ask a con
tinuance of your favor
and will always try to
merit same by giving
valuable goods at the
lowest possible prices.
JOS. A. WEBB,
THE FURNIURE DEALER.
A BIG THING !
I have a store full of
Dry Goods, Shoes, Cloth
ing, Notions, &c, which
must be sold at some
price, so come along
everybody and get
them.
Having bought the
entire stock of goods of
B. G. Medford at 60 cts.
on the dollar, we will
sell same under New
York cost.
No merchant in Ox
lord ever offered such
inducements before.
L. E. WEIGHT & GO.
Plant Bed Fertilizer !
I have in 100 pound sacks the
STAR Al OWL BRANDS,
So well known for its good productive
B8
qualities among our farmers. Now
is the time to supply yourselves.
Call and see me.
R. H. McGuire.
OXFORD,
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.
THE PASSING LOCAL EVENTS OF THE
DAY.
What is Transpiring- Arouiirt and
About Us, in Town and County
The Movements and Doing's of Peo
ple Yon Know. Etc.
Mr. John W. Markham, of Durham,
who last year had a branch store in Ox
ford, has made an assignment.
The Presbyterian worshiped Sunday
last in their new lecture room. We trust
they will soon be able to hold service in
the church room proper.
Revs. R F. Bumpass, of the Metho
dlst Chui ch, and Joseph Rennie, of the
Presbyterian Church, preached to the
inmates of the poor house on Sunday
afternoon.
The learned Judge Winston in a well
written article in the Biblical Recorder,
advocates in strong terms the establish
ment of a Reformatory for youthful
criminals in this State.
IVIrs. Wesley Whitaker, of Raleigh,
died on Tuesday. She was the daughter
of the late John P. Lawrence of this
county and was a worthy member of the
Methodist Church. She was 43 years of
age.
Our friends are all invited to call
and renew their subscription for election
year and advise your neighbors who are
not subscribers to take it. The Public
Ledger has enlisted for a year of hard
work and wiJl permit no department of
news to be neglected.
The Town Commissioners are dry,
but their streets are dreadful wet. Cut
off your revenue by refusing to grant
license when the drug store will have the
privilege of selling it the town reaps no
benefits, the tippler gets his toddie all
the same, and your names will be mud
with a big M , as the rock crusher will be
for sale.
Mr. J. C. Hundley is moving in the
matter of -a new hotel for Oxford. He is
full of energy and we trust he will be
successful in getting up a stock company
to build it. We suggest that the hotel be
built as near the center of the town as
possible. A good substantial, neat and
well kept hotel would be a winning card
for Oxford.
We send out 1000 sample copies
this week to different section of Granville
and reader if you are not a subscriber
now is your opportunity to secure at
reduced rates the Public Ledger which
is laboring zealously for the welfare of
our whole people. Read our offer in
another column and send in your sub
scription at once .
J. F. Cannady, a large tobacco raiser of
Granville county, was in Winston a few
days ago looking after the price of the
weed. He remarked that leaf was selling
higher here than on any market he knew
of at this time. Mr. Cannady also be
lieves in fine horses and before leaving
purchased a beautiful pair of them from
R. M. McArther. Sentinel.
Since the escape of the prisoners
from the county jail, Mr. Moore, has
used every means to apprehend them
and has succeeded in capturing two.
La3t week he overhauled Daniel Pollock
at the Blue Wing Copper Mines, who is
now located at the work house. Jailor
Moore, moves quietly but surely and
will no donbt capture the other three.
In case the Commissioners should
refuse to grant license the work of pave
ing the streets will come to a stand still
owing to the loss of revenue. The drug
stores will then become popular resorts
and the town will be minus the tax and
drinking will go on as usual. To stop the
drinking of whiskey you will have to first
stop the manufacture of the firey fluid.
The Couity Allianc met here on
Thursday last, and well attended. The
spirit of the meeting, we learn, was quite
hopeful and evidences of future progress
were plentiful. There does not seem to
oe any abatemen in the cause in the
county, and the order is in a flourishing
condition, and will march bravely on to
success, despite the multitude of those
who decry only evil to the Alliance.
N. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1892.
Let every progressive citizen of Ox
ford aid Mr. J. C. Hundley in his effort
to build a fir3t-class hotel.
The Oxford Female Seminary opened
on Wednesday, under the management
of the founder. Prof. F. P. Hobgood. A
arge number of scholars present.
The College Street Female Seminary
s now enjoying a good patronage. Rev.
T. U. & Mrs. Faucette cannot be excelled
as teachers. They now occupy their new
buildin
Messrs. Cannon Hopkins, L. A. Wil-
kins, George Hundley, George D. Pittard,
Gas Hobgood, D. Y. Hunt, A. P. Overton,
J. M. Sears, Leroy Crews, J. T. Morris,
Young Badgett, J. T. Williams, W. W.
Brummitt, R. T. Crews, David Crews and
B. T. Fuller called to see us Thursday.
A farmer remarked on one of our
warehouse floors Tuesday. "I tell you I
had a time getting here with my load of
tobacco. I got along fairly well until I
struck the tax roads of Oxford township
and I thought the bottom could not be
reached. It was pull dick, . pull devil to
get through." This shows that it
is a waste of time and the people's money
to work county roads without a rock
crusher.
We ask you to read our announce
ment elsewhere, and urge you to assist
us in extending the circulation of the
Public Ledger. We want 1000 more
subscribers in Granville and hope every
body who desire to see a first-class news
paper published at the county, seat,
laboring to build be Mi to wn and county
to come to our assistance. We need your
aid and encouragement. Will you help
us ?
Our citizens have contributed $1,000
to aid the Young Men's Christian Asso
ciation, just organized in Oxford. The
room is conveniently located on Main
street and will be supplied with all the
latest periodicals, and newpapers, and
will naturally become a favorite resort
for our young men. The President, Mr
J. M. Currin, is one of our purest and best
citizens and will zealously work for the
upbnilding of the Association.
The theory that the survival of the
fittest should work in all business is
wrong. A newspaper does more for a
town than any other ten kinds of busi
ness. Thi3 of course will be questioned,
yet is true. The people owe to news
paper more than they ever pay. It fights
for its town and is always for enterprise.
It sees no one side of any question of
public improvement, and it recognizes no
faction, set or creed when the upbuild
ing of the town is being considered.
Globe.
Gratifying to all.
The high position attained and the uni
versal acceptance and approval of the
pleasant liduid fruit remedy Syrup ot
Figs, as the most excellent laxative
known, illustrate the value of the quali
ties on which its success is based and are
abundantly gratifying to the California
Fig Syrup Company.
Mrs. A. J. Critcher died suddenly of
colic paralysis on Thursday. She was 49
years of age, and was a good woman
Spring medicine is now wanted, for, if
you are out or sorts ana reel oaaiy, r. f
F. is the remedy to take and get strong
and invigorated.
That "Tired leeliiisr.'
The newspapers are having a good deal
of fun nowadays over that "tired feeling,"
so much spoken of in medical advertise
ments, in connection with the ill-health
of females. It may be a source or hilar
ity to witty paragraphers, but not so to
suffering women, who, by overwork, and
a disregard of the laws of health, have
lapsed into a condition bordering on in
validism. What most women neeu is to
be relied of some of the slavish work that
is piled upon them and a free but judi
cious use of strengthening tonics, such as
P. P. P. (Prickly Ash, Poke Root and Po
tassium) the greatest blood purifier and
invigorator in use. Superb as a builder
up of women, bringing back lost energy
to the body, and color to faded cheeks,
restoring the appetite, and thus renewing
in her that healthy vitality long lost. P.
P. P. cures all blood diseases, such as
Rheumatism, Syphilis, Gout, Scrofula
and all ulcerous affections, even vanquish
ing that melancholy enemy of man, Dys
pepsia. All druggists sell it.
Scrofula cured, even in its worst forms,
by P. P. P., and you will be strong and
healthy in a short time by the use of P.
P. P. For sale by J. G. Hall.
PERSONAL SAYINGS.
OF PEOPLE IN AND OUT OF THE
TOWN.
Brief Mention of the Movements of
Your Friends and Acquaintances
who Visited You and Whom Yon
are Visiting'.
Dr. J. B. Williams has retured from
a business trip to New York.
Mrs. S. W. Cooper, left on Friday
for a visit to New York City.
Mr. Simpson Adcock is now the
owner of the old Wortham place near
Berea.
The father of our townsman, Dr. J.
M. Emmitt, died at his home in Fayette-
ville on Saturday last.
Mr. G. Rosenthal is now treasurer of
the Oxford Orphan Asylum. He succeed
ed Hon. Baldy Williams.
Mr. A. W. Graham has fell a victim
to the gripp and was confined to his home
several days doctoring the malady.
We are gratified to learn that the
good Mrs. Harret Hicks, who has been
quite sick several day with the grippe is
rapidly getting well.
Col. E. E. Lamb, of Elizabeth City
brother of Mrs. Hargrove, and Chairman
of the Asylum Committee of the Grand
Lodge of Masons, spent several days in
Oxford this week.
Mr. J.Y.Paris, of Paris Bro., who
has been confined to his room 8 or 10
days with the grippe from which he had
about recovered, is now suffering with an
attack of bilious fever.
Messrs. J . L. Pittard, of Adoniram ;
W. T. Hunt, of Tar River; Stephen
Minor, of Hargrove; W. A. Parham, of
Watkins and W. O . Bobbitt, of Fishing
Creek, called to see us on Friday.
Mr. Geo. W. Pittard, who is now
connected with the iron miming syndicate
of Northern Granville, put in apperance
in Oxford on Monday. He says mud is
more abudant just now than iron.
Mrs. Walker Mttchell, who has been
suffering some time with a stroke of
paralyis, now has a severe case of the
grippe and is quite sick. Her daughter,
Mrs. J. W. Brown, of Stem, came to Ox
ford to visit her was taken with the grippe
and has also been quite sick.
Presbyterian Aid Society.
: We publish below the names of those
who have contributed to Presbyterian
organ funds since our last issue : Mr
Frank M. Baker, Baltimore, $10.00; Ci
J. Bakier, Baltimore, $1.00; Mr. Wilson
Philipps, Texas, $5.00; Mr. Walter Cayce,
Richmond, $1.00; Mr. John Wingo, Rich
mond, $1.00; Mr. Wm. Dean, Richmond,
$1.00; Mr. M. T. Smith, Richmond, 1.00;
Mr. Chris Haggie, Stovall, $1.00; Capt.
A. Landis, Oxford, $1.00; Dr. Ed. White
Oxford, $1.00; Dr. Mack Hay?, Oxford,
50; Mr. Ra wis, Oxford, $1.00; Mr. Tom
Lawrence, Oxford, $1.00; Mr. C.J. Ward,
Oxford. $1.00; Mr. tred Day, Oxford
$1.00; Mr. B. G. Medford, Oxford, $1.00
Mr. Jim Powell, Oxford, $1.00; Mr. R
L. Allen, Oxford, $1.00; Mrs. L. H
Smith, Oxford, $1.00; Mrs. W. T. Alston
Oxford, $1.00; Mrs. James White, Oxford
$2.00; a friend, Oxford, $.100; Mrs. M
T. Smith , Richmond , $1 .00 ; Mr. Turner,
Orange county, $1.00. Two mistakes
made in last week's paper. Judge R. P,
Dick, of Greensboro, gave $1.00 instead
of $8. Edwards & Winston, $1 00 instead
of Edward E. Winston.
Mineral Prospect in Granville.
Mr. W. Raker informs us that the
mineral prospects in Granville county
grow blighter every day. The force of
employes at the Blue Wing copper mines
have been increased. They are U3lng
white labor now, and find it more satis
factory. New machinery has been put
in. The ore gets better the deeper they
go. At the iron mines near Adoniram
the vein is said to be 120 feet wide, and
the ore of high grade and free from
impurities It is now known that the iron
belt extends from Adoniram to Knap of
Reeds, and lands have been leased by the
Pennsylvania capitalists in the latter
section. Mr. Raker is reported as saying
that there is more iron ore in nothern
Granville than at Birmingham.
$1.50 PER ANNUM.
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