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- - ' I .1 By JOHN T. BRITT, ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING ina vr rhv Main. Postage Paid $159 v a r.-a amnnvivTinN IN ADVANCE .MW A 1 - 1 Six Months ... .75 jgp-Advertising rates reasonable and furnished on application. We are not responsible for the views of corres pondents unless so stated editorially. OXFORD, N. C JAN. 20, 1893. Hogg, of Texas, is trying to break into the Senate pen, but the indications are that he will have to take it out in grunting. The State of Pennsylvania spent last year for all purposes $10,743, 759.08, of which $5,379,672.08, or over one-half was for public schools. The Democratic elector who cast a solitary vote for Cleveland in the Ohio electorial college must have felt lonesome. He broke the record of forty years. James W. Wilson has heen elect ed by the North Carolina legislature to succeed himself as railroad com missioner. His term is for six years. He is chairman of the commission. Our exchanges all agree that the present is one of the coldest win ters for many years. It is said that a good crop year always follows a cold winter. There is some conso lation in this. Susan B. Anthony has been ap pointed maneger of the New York State Industrial School by Governor Flower. There will not be much fooling among the boys of that es tablishment when Susan gets her eyes upon them. Editor Watterson is in a sportive mood. He offers to bet the star eyed goddess and every shred of hei new inaugural ball costume against a last year's Harrison and Reid elec tion ticket, that the next secretary of the treasury will be John G. Carlisle, of Kentucky. The odds are handsome. Private Secretary Half ord is to be a paymaster in the army, with the rank of major, at a salary of $4,500. There were three vacancies. The president filled two of them and the third will be given at the proper time to Halford. It means a reduc tion of $500 a year from his pres ent salary but it is for life and is considered a very desirable berth. A ventriloquist took a mean ad vantage of a confiding Boston wo man by selling her a parrot which could repeat the Lord's prayer in half dozen languages. After the man left the parrot couldn't be en ticed to say beans. The ventrilo quist did the praying in the half dozen languages while the parrot struck an attitude and looked se rious. Congressman W. C. P. Breckin ridge : "When I am asked wheth er I can tell who will be the mem bers of Mr. Cleveland's cabinet, I am like a certain man who attended a wedding. When the minister asked, who gives this woman away? some fellow way back said in. a low voice, lI could, but I'll be duriied if I do.' Now, that is the way I stand on the cabinet." California lias taken the lead in two most important political re forms. At the recent November election her people declared, by a vote of 187,598 against 13,342, in favor of the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people. At the same election her people voted, by 151,320 against 41, 059, in favor of an educational qualification for voters. mi T1 1 1 . - - J- - ... T" ' MM M " THE ALLEGED CHEAP FARMS. A run-down farm may seem cheap and so attract a farmer who has little money to invest. But he had much better buy less land of greater fertility, and then limit himself to the amount that he can properly manure and caltivate. Too much and too poor land have been the rocks on which many a farmer has sunk'Vhis time, labor and capital and lost his all. To have any land that cannot be made the most or, or at least brought toward this ideal con dition, is the greatest of all misfor tunes in the business of farming. REDUCE TIIW ACREAGE. 13. G. West, secretary of the Cot ton Bureau, National Farmer' Alli ance, has issued an address to the order advising a reduction of the acreage of cotton planting. He says that the southern states produce 55 per cent, of the staple available for use in this country. He holds that the cotton mills in the south are desirable, but unattainable, this not being a manufacturing country. The salvation of the southern farmer is the diversification of crops and living at home instead of de pending upon the pork packers of the south for food. He points out in support of this argument that the reduction of the crop this season resulted in a marked increase in the price, and insists that the cotton planters can secure fair prices every season by keeping the production within reasonable bonds. LET IT EE ABOLISHEU. We fully agree with the Head light what it says: There never was a more unjust law on the statute books as the purchase tax, and we hope this Legislature will have the courage to abolish it. There is no more reason why merchants shonld pay tax on what they buy than manufacturers, founders, pub lishers, farmers or anybody else. We believe, in equality to all, and special injustice to none. The merchant pays his advalorem tax like other owners of property and that should sufficient, To place a double tax on him and not on others is legal robbery. Moreover all unjust taxes have a tendency to corrupt the people by tempting them to make false returns. Let this unjust law be abolish by the present Legislature. THEY VALUE PEFFEB NOW. The Republican senators have developed since the election a singu larly interesting regard for the Popu list members, who were recieved pre viously with scant courtesy, Sena tor Peffer, particularly, has been the recipient of marked attention. Sena tors who are not chairmen of com mittees are furnished rooms in the Maltby house, where they install their secretaries and attend to their correspondence. Before there was any question as to the political com plexion of the next senate Senator Peffer was denied even ordinary furnishings for his rooms, the sergeant-at arms offering the plea that the contingent fund had been exhausted. Now his rooms are fitted luxuriously. A year ago he said he would be content with a gas stove and an odd chair. Now he has a gilded heater, rugs, couches and other fittings of equal magnifi cence. Nor did republican courtesy stop with the improvements in his office. His son has been appointed to a $1,200 position on the senate pay roll, and his nephew has a $900 position, in the office of the sergean t-at-arms. Ben Butler left an estate of $7, 000,000. This suggests to the Rich mond Times to pointedly remark that "no man was fonder of appear ing before the people on the stump as an alleged friend of the poor, and a violent denunciator of the rich.7' THE PUBLIC LEDGKR A GOOD BltX- We like the bill in the House looking to a reform in election by prohibiting the appointing of ignor ant, unlettered persons to act as judges of election says the Wilming ton Messenger. We are surprised that the House voted it down. Can it be that the House believes that such people can properly discharge the functions of such an office? The elections teach a lesson different from that. It is of the utmost im portance that elections be fair and iust and honest in North Carolina. A pure and fair ballot lies at the foundation of a republican Govern menta Government of the people. Debauch the ballot with frauds and by debarring qualified voters from exercising the right of suf frage and you aim a fatal blow at free institutions. Democrats can not afford to work at corruption or con done wrong doing. TOBACCO TRUST. A Bill is now wending in the Leg islature of this State, which if it be comes a law, and there is no reason why it should not, will bar the American Tobacco Co., from opera ting in North Carolina. The Bill has been prepared so as to leave no loop hole of escape and it is thought that every member, agent and re presentative of the trust will be in dicted as soon as the new statute is ratified. A Bill to serve this pur pose was passed in 1889, but it was ineffective and did not cover the case. The present Bill is an amendment to the one passed in 1889 and has been prepared with the greatest care so as to be of the value should the tobacco trade of the State wish to use it for its protection. Tobacco Journal. The very influental and able St. Louis Republic says of the sugar tax that "the attempt to restore the sugar tax could not succeed without costing the Democratic party the next Congress and the next Presi dential election. Once on the free list, always on the free list! No more taxes on sugar! Now Try This. It will coat you nothing and will surely do you good, if you have a Cough, Cold, or any trouble with Throat, Chest or Lungs. Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds is guaranteed to give relief, or money will be paid back. Sufferers from La Grippe found it just the thing and under its use had a speedy and perfect recovery. Try a sample bottle a on expense and learn for yourself just how good a thimgit is. Trial bottles free at J, G. Hall's Drug Store. Large size 60c, and $1,00. For Sale or Rent. Some of the most valuable property in the town of Oxford. janl3 4t R W. Lassiter. Sore Throat Lameness Soren Piles Female Complaints Rheumatism AND ALU Inflammation Sold only In our own bottles. All druggists PON D'S EXTRACT CO. , 76 5th Ave. N.Y. 9 ACT THEN It's remarkable specific action upon the affected parts gives it supreme control over Piles, however severe. Also for Burns, Scalds, Eruptions, Salt Rheam &c. Testimonials from all classes prove its efficacv. Price 50c. Sold by all Druggists or sent by mail on receipt of price. Put up only by POND'S EZTEACT CO., 76 5th Ave., IT. X. Brue '0 A. LANDIB & SONS' r 4 Oxfof d, N. C. 112 1 MC7Our Two Stores are full fashionable goods of the season. prices. Dress Crocodile suitings in all the latest shades. In plain and polka dots at 90 cents and $1.00. I3PA11 shades 46 inch lienrietta at 85 cents, reduced from $1.00. pieces fancy Arcadia suitings at 60 cts., reduced from 75ots. E"2 pieces Changeable suitings at 50cts , reduced from 60cts. 135 pieces Creponne Cloth at 60cts., in all the newest shades. J5 pieces Illuminated Twills at 25cts., reduced from 30ct?. 10 pieces Diogonal suitings at 25cts, reduced from 30cts IdP'lO pieces all shades 36 inch Cashmeres at 25cts, worth 35cta. All other dress goods reduced in price. Bla,cjk Dress Goods. JgIn this department we are as usual on top with styles and low prices. tl meee 46 inch Black Silk J2 pieces Black Silk Finish worth $125. rsM riAPA 46 ih Rlflp.k Serorfi at 85cts. worth &1.00. A w w O S3P1 piece 38 inch Black Storm Serge at 50cts, reduced from 65cts. VsTl piece plain Serge 38 inches wide at 60cts. J"2 pieces Black Poie de Scie Silk at $1.25. Greatest value and best silk ever ofiered. JCST'Trimmings to match every color of Dress Goods, in change able silks, surahs, velvets, gimps, pa-samenfcries, ribbon tiimming, etc. House Furnishings and Carpets. JWe are showing all the new and pretty patterns in Carpets and all at reduced prices, Rugs, Art Squares, Oil Cloths, Curtain Poles, Lace Curtains, Chenille Curtains, Double Facd Cotton Flush. The Celebrated Leaksville Woolen Blankets 11-4 and 12-4 at $5.00 and $6.00. 23IP6 pairs 10-4 Wool Blankets at $3.75, richly worth $4.50. White quilts, Table Cloths, Table Covers, Napkins, Towels, &c. Weisri Goods In all the latest styles and at prices to suit everybody. Ginghams, Percals, Suitings, Bedford Cords, Satteens, Camel Hair Suiting, Outings in plain and fancy, Oloetks. JWe are showing a beautiful stock of Wraps in all the newest style. Box coats, Keefers in plain and trimmed in fur. Prices re euced to suit the times. Slrjoes. 3irTn this department we have reduce 1 the price and can now offer you the Celebrated Ziegler Bros' and Bay State Shoes as cheap if not cheaper than other goods of inferior make. A. LANDIS SONS. ADVERTISEMENT. 0 to overflowing" in all the new and We invite your attention to our Warp Henrietta at $1.35. Henrietta. 46 inches vi ide at dOots, " 13 iv F I Goods
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