1HE PUBLIC LKDttKK.
NORTH CAROLINA.
WHAT
HAS TAKEN PLACE WITHIN
HER BORDERS.
A General Epitome of Recent Oecnr-
Around nnd Almiit ITs, From
t.tiA Momitnius to tlie Sea. as Cnllel
from our Stale Iaiers.
In Forsyth county a Jamb has
been born with the neck nnd head
of a pointer do?.
The ladies of Winston-Salem
give an entertainment for the
benefit of the soldiers' monument
Wilkes county was visited by a
fearful wind storm a few nights
azo and much damage was done.
J. It, Jenkins, of Wilkes county,
was attacked by a mad dog and
badly bitten one day this week.
Evangelist Moody has accepted
an invitation to hoid a meeting in
Charlotte and will boq-in about the
J 5th or 20th of March.
An old woman by the name of
. .a -1 t I 1
Nancy upDett died a tno poor
house in Davidson county last-
week. She was J)5 years old
Caroline Watson, a negro wpdu
an seventv-two vears o'd. oi
Windsor, N. C, wasrecentlv mat
ried to a negro named 8ol (birter.
aged twenty.
The office of Uoubon Reid and
Harney's old drug store, at Went-
worth, were consumed by tire
The court house came near boinj
burned, but was saved.
The Medical Society of North
Carolina will meet in Raleigh thi
year instead of Winston, th
change in place being neeessan
on account of the burning of the
liotel in Winston,
ions wounds on the head. The
robber took Mr. Wilson's account
books, but did not find any
money on his person, which had
been carefully hidden.
Saturday night J. II, Roberts
and Bud Whit tern ore, living at
Barnardsville, in Buncombe coun
ty, got into an altercation and be
gan shooting "Big Jim" Whitt
more, father of Ibid, ran into help
his son and was shot three times,
lying instantly Roberts died last
night of his wounds. Young
Whittemore escaped. The killing
was the outcome of trouble be
tween vouusr Whittemore and
Ro belts.
In Wilmington, Friday
about i) o'clock, Leo Smith, con
ductor of an electric street car,
was shot by a negro and painfully
and possibly dangerously wound
ed. It appears that while Smith
had ?j;one to supper another con
ductor, who had taken his place,
put a negro on his car lor disor
derlv conduct. The negro atter
ing men
night
of a voluntary crew going to the
rescue were drowned. The crew of
the tug were rescued by the life sav-
The tug went to pieces.
TIia Uniisft will onnose the
Sherman bond amendment. It is
thought, the Senate will recede from
the proposition. At Offer man,
Ga., a man named Stewart commit
ted a deliberate murder Sunday
night, Pocahontas, Va., has a
$100,000 fire. A negro lynched
at Jellico, Tenn., Saturday night
for criminal assault on a white girl
confessed that he and other negroes
some months ago criminally assault
ed and murdered Miss Bryant, a
white girl. Parties are out searching
for these other parties and more
lynchings are in progress. The
entire Senate united in tendering
tobacco in new territory, such, for instance,
as South Carolina and Georgia. To illus
trate, we have now in the state representa
tive companies buying in all the chief mar
kets of our state many grades of leaf tobac
co at publi c auction, and of course at the
highest bidders. But for these bids every
pile of these tobaccos would goat less price
than now. These pui chases in the aggre
gate amounting to many million pounds
annually, and consequently causing our
farmeis to profit by the differences be
tween what these tobaccos were purchased
at and ivhat.they would have b en bought
at had these representatives not been on
our market. Now. if you drive such buy
ers from the state, you simply transfer
. I . . f . . " 1 1 " -my
tnem to me principal marKets oi Virginia)
and thereby causing much of the trace of!
our towns lo be transferred also to Virginia ;
at the expense of the towns of your own I
As a further practical illustration we refer
you to the history of what has occurred in
one of our sisrer towns, Reidsville. Twelve
months a;o there were no agents of our Inrge
consumers buying there, and their grades of
tobacco were sell in" a I a discount as com
pared to the neighboring markets. Seeing
that they were rapidly losing trade, their
tobacco people took steps to have an agency
established there, since which time the mar
ket has had its due proportion of prosperity.
HARDWA
f I La
to Vice President Morton a compli
mentary dinner. The banquet was
in ven at the Arlington hotel and
was a magnificent affair. Tom
Hill, white, convicted of criminal d their people only wish the agency had
i, i . ii i neen estaonsnea sooner.
assault and sentenced to ten years Wc .,o lol J ose asdiampions of any corp
in the penitentiary, was taken from oration or firm doing business in the stale
v ai ds waylaid the car and shot jail at Spring Place, Ga., Sunday ht if any or all buyers of any firms or cor-
Smith, who in the meanwhile had by his friends. A half-witted ne-
resumed his place as regular con- gro in South Carolina was bribed
ductor. The weapon used was a for five cents bv another negro to
shot gun charged with duck shot, place acrosstie on the railroad track.
Smith was wounded in the head The southbound train from Cam hen
and shoulder. He returned the Sunday night struck the tie but no
lire twice, thing with a pistol, damage was done. The widow of
but the negro escaped unhurt. Alfred Blount, the negro lynched
Later in the night buck Wright, not long ago at Chattanooga, has
a negro, was arrested
porations are to operate anywhere in the
United States we think we can derive more
advantage Iro.n them as buyers on our re
spective markets than as opponents to us in
the Virginia markets.
Furthermore, we have heard of no petition
from any tobacco market in North Carolina
asking through their boards of trade or of re
presentative growers of tobacco, for the en
actment of any such law or of any law seek
ing to prevent any buver or firm or corpora
tion lrom bidding on tobacco
Edwards - & - Winston,
OXFORD, N. C-
in view of the aforesaid pro
oh irrrprl M i V i. l Al i -W si tlon ilni bidding on tobacco at public auc
iiii iiim Ollld cl . ilillklU I'llU OJICllli WA i-. ! r, .-. -. --.
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Willi uiu wiuuuuk- the ennntv nr M'a. . n pmnor v s nn ,t
A curiosity rarelv seen outside that her husband was not properly Kesoiveu i, ihat we most cmj hatically
J I . n . i -i -i .i nrnnonnr'P tine hi oc i-vvpal fA th.-. I.,...
L 1 O I T. 1 "I ii l'L r s.i- iT 4-' I . ... w. vv.
teruay. o. u. DiiUKiey, nvo icei h.is hui yumv vx iuu uimimnai tr,- bacco growers; that we earnestly oppose an
nine inches tall, and 40 3Tcars ot sault. Mr. liland denounces the legislation that tends to build up markets out-
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ace. a resident oi iiir kock creeK. onerman Dona amenament as a W1 ,jui SLUlc 111 pieicicucc mom own mar
Mitchell conn
of this curiosity
Hie date oi a dark brown beard over liye leet to the striking operatives and take G.E.Webb, E.G. Edmunds, A.B. Conell,
tt Ot nig liOCK Creek, tohermail lionet amendment as a sie oi our state in preierence to our own mar-
ity, is the possessor "job." Many of the COtton fao kaml we th1eiefore. respectfully yet earn-
j i , . . J . , n J i i estly ask your honorably body to disapprove
ty, and it consists oi tones at Oldham, E.ngland, give in 0f this bill.
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meeting is May 0th.
m length. Mr. minkley ordin- them back at a reduction of 2J- per 1 J -brown, i. L. Vaughan, Winston: E.J.
aviIv riirtip! his wln"kprs in bis Lnf Wo0 Tl W TVfooxr 1 arrish, Jno. K. llutchings, Ino. W. Pope,
The Morehead City News says bosom or in a pocket built for the the millionai, was shot by an un- SiSVif bIS' vS'
that it is reported tnat jen At ml plirpose. When standing erect known man, who than shotMackay's Durham; jno II Reed, jii. Womack,'
f 9tOenSOn Will aUeiKl lilr his beard reaches down to lllS wnnnrl is nnf, smnns TTi5 nnilnnf. Reidsville; G. A. Coggeshalk W. A. Bobbitt.
YV. J. Jiallou, . 11. liullock
V k. 1 t 1
J eacners ,.ssemoiy mere nex; siloes rfc has been 15 years since
session iuiu ins laain. iiey r slmved. suid Mr. Brinklev to
win receive
from all Nortl
time.
wound is not serious
1 - T -1
is uansrerousiv wounded.
C J m'
At
a hearty we com.- the citizen, "but most of the pres-
1 v.-ai OliniailS at ailV if Tvnu-l li c f T. .t hnarH lioa lioon
1J11 I I 11 V JL iJH Jf Vf V - - JL A 1 I V J U V JLJl
made during the past ten years.
J. O. Foy, late editor and pro- Mr. Brinkley says he has never
nrietor of the Winston Sentinel, been indicted himself, and has
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anyone indicted, and eisotyotjf
akeu a drink ot wins. v.
-W. D. Crawley, drum-
has decided to enter journalism never had
t iii,. r t . j i !.,., ;
111 lanviUO. lit. wxpecis lO OOglU um iwou t viiiuk ui vvui?.- f Mnrh Smith Sr Mni-Qli
. ll..4.T -.- I. 4- 1 C , I ,'nn - iicitisl t Alo fiA 1 i- ti n ? moir I 1
IJUUUUmum UlClc; MIUIUV Ul V .-yv.v in any ivy , , :i. 4-1 Z'J ... All, 4-,. A
--!-. . - m .i m - a 4-'i . . . . . -. I . ti. I I c h Fn. I l h II l r It I I nminr tt I
nveil iUlu -'"7 h ''f I ii i , i i i . a ,7i . ,t ti 1 1 t; .; .T'.T., love affair wag the cause. Some
per tne name oi wnicn win ne an ins mt? nsiiuviuu vjulu,
the Danville Evening Star.
THE LATEST NEWS.
T. G, Hunt,
t y i ri m -I . I vi vi , vnvn xti via, J. J
oarnesvillC, O. l., 1 nnrsnay Ulgnt, Harris, D. V. Cooper. Henderson: Maree M
, . f ' ' r
While a Colored woman was at a nurwell, W. n. Boyd, Warrenton; Walter T.
party her five children were burned r?Va VllsoJJ b. Meadows, Eouisburg;
to death. Bcdwine says he is not W'.T' fc-Ta
-.-., i j.. ":.:.".. t,j'"' "'"j
ueiiiuuui iui any uiigt; hupjuiil; J.JJ. Philips 1. 1. JJraswell, K. II. Kicks,
I. I n .'Tl J -v y-v .-v I I . ...J-. 7 "
tliat 11 OiUAHJU IS efOne SOmebOClV C. L. Killebrew, Rockv jVlount: W A. Erwin
Burlington, J. A. Long, Roxboro; T. E. Pogue,
J. R. Rankin, R. L. Williamson, C. Ir. Har
vey, Jno. Stronach, Raleigh.
of the leading members of the
For Kale Cheap.
One small tract of laad lyinff two miles
The interior tobacco factory,
owned by T. J. Brown and occups
ied by Kerner, Newton S: Co.,
Winston, was destroyed by fh;
Sunday morning. Over 75,000
pounds leaf tobacco with several
thousand cigars were burned.
Insurance on stock about 3,500.
The origin of the lire is unknown
Jeff Davis and Josh Billing have
just been arrested in Wilkes coun
ty by United States Detective
Forsyth, of Atlanta, Ga , for in
fringing upon the rights of Uncle
Sam in the manufacture of money.
They were bound over to Federal
court, which convenes in Greens
boro next April.
A girl who is known
llnpiM'itiiigs of Interest Oatlierecl
JTi-osii Our I ..veil suites.
ter of this kind the House should
have an opportunity to approve.
mi ' l i iir i
4 rlm-iH.r sdipnifl tn hlnw mi tho 1 ne man wno s,10t lUaCKay Was
" v.". - i I -i vi t r rv it
Dluswortli distillery at Cummins- w . nipper, n was m-
viil Oliin li.-w hppn riipnvpro,l ane. ne nau a paper in nis pocKet
The Supreme court of Kansas de- on which was written: food for
ciues in iavor or tne uepuoiicau , : . l i-
m . --. I ""! Ill 1.r T iV "- I n. V 4- l- " Ari PV-I-
In Carroll county, Miss., lyi 'ltluX. u,c,1Cllu
nis wne; suiucieiiL to iicive saveu
aa ( l f n T 1
ouu or nis victims rrom suicidal
inscribe it on his tomb.
House of Representatives entertain from Stovail and known as the Bullock
strong hostility to tne Hawaiian Place- imseasy. or further particu
t .iii. ,i . . . I lars anniv to
rrpntr nr in will p nim 1-lmr iti o mot- I i i j
J v li WJ , IT livr II 111 vltLL Ij 1M IU JLLJI 1 Kl J
Mrs.
feb24-4t.
O. GUKGOTtY,
Oxford, N. C.
Ho us
se.-
crva .roc
TOBACCO MEN IN COUNCIL.
Thursday night a member of a par
ty of white caps was killed while
attempting to whip a man. The
Xavy Department is beginning pre
parations for the grand naval ren-
devvous at Hampten Roads and re
view at iSew lork. the Demo
crats of the Senate will resist to the
is known as the end the confirmation or the annoint-
white rider" is frequently seen in mentof Hanehett as Judsre Jaek-
the mOUntainOUS legion "f Xorlli Uriiv wnonr uni fhp I.'tmiihl.PnnQ
Carolina at odd hours of the night , will use every mums to effect his
nm it i i
iviountea on a swm Horse, she confirmation. The President
smmub ine moonsniners iroin de- Unes his proclamation
i hi: , uix iir ivu rnirur t n nm r-f i rx i , i , , - t
j '7, M1C tne senate in extra session at noon
approacn oi tne revenue ollicers. mi Mnrnh ifh
31ie 18 SaiQ to De a VCrv beailtllul L.t- Aloi.fo nn ..o! Louisburs, Rockv Mount. Wilson. Tarboio.
i.ririi;!.-!. ill.!.. iiriI.ifiiri.iiv i vitii r i . . " ' . ' '
g'irl. i i 'i j. i. r i i H-eidsville, Roxboro, Burlington and Ral-
Slrsiurs aim bllUU LIICIH. UMipil C12 1. in conferenre. hfld at iht. Ynrhorn
J.JM. Alexander killed lour hogs Davis, an attorney at law and Speak- bouse, February 27, a committee composed
ii rr r? ; members from each tobacco market and
..- . w-v n., vn ,iviat:iii ci vl iin- lciuiwac-u iiuuu vjjl i ic 1 j- 1 . . . - -t r , . .
J.l.UUll H.U1CCIIICU III lilt I Ull 1C1 CllLC 1 i L V -
Trustees Sale of House
and Lot in Oxford.
BY VIRTUE OF A DEED IN TRFST EXK
cuted to me by W, F. Rosters and wife, res-
istered in book 34 page 121), 1 shall on Alondav.
the 3rd day of April next, oft'er l'or sale at the
Court Uoiise door in Oxford, to the highest
bidder at publie auction, the house and lot of
land on which said W. F. Rogers resides, situat
ed on the East side of llarriabura: street, adioiu-
ing the lots of Miss Eliza Pool and others having
a front on said street of about 108 feet and run
ning back therefrom about 190. Terms cash.
John W. Hats, Trustee.
March 1, 1R93. iuch3-4t.
HEADQUARTERS
FOR ALL KINDS OF
HARDWARE!
Buggies,
Wagons,
Road Carts,
Tinware,
Crockery,
Glassware,
Guns and Pistols,
Excelsior and other
Cook Stoves.
Sewing Machines,
Lamps, Oils, Sporting
Goods.
Tobacco Flues,
Plows, Reapers and
Mowers,
Belting, Paints, Oils,
Wire Fencing,
Gun and Locksmith
ing, Tin Roofflng, Gut
tering, etc., done.
Tliey Protest Asrainst House Hill So.
iOt6--AStrangre Document.
State Chronicle.
Proceedings of the Meeting of Warehouse
men, Leaf Tobacco Dealers, Manufactur
ers and Partners, Held at Yarboro House,
Kaleigh, N. C, February 27, 1S93.
At a meeting: of warehousemen, leaf to
bacco dealers, manufacturers and'farmers,
representatives 01 the following: tobacco
boards of trade and markets of North Caro
lina, viz : Winston. Durham. Greensboro
xVLlSS Juh;l r orce, Miltcn, Henderson, Oxford, Warrenton,
1S-
conveningr
Executor's Notice.
HAVING BEEN DULY QUALIFIED AS EXE
cutor of the last Will and Testament of
Mrs. .Mary A, Cozart, deceased, notice is hereby
jdven to all parties holding claims araint paid
deceased to present them to me for payment on
or before March 1st, 1894, or this notice will be
plead in bar of their recovery, all persons in
debted to said estate must make immediate set
tlement. This March 1st, 1S93.
R. K. BOOTH, Executor
mch3 Gt, of Mrs. Mary Cozart, deceased.
Genuine Dixie and Farmers' Friend
Plows find Castings.
Bottom Prices eiveo to all Customers.
Give us a trial before bu iutr.
Yours to serve,
mch4 EDWARDS & WINSTON.
Land Sale.
ON M ON DAI", THE 3RD DAY OF APRIL,
ls-t:?, I shall sell to the highest bidder for
cash at the courthouse door in Oxford a lot of
land situate in O.vford, between the lots of
Mrn Mili-isa Gilliam and Mist Eliza Pool, con
taining about an acre. A bettor description
of which can be had by reference to mortgage
hook 20, page 2!'!. TH- above described land is
gold to pay debt, deiaiiu having been made in
payment of sum. Said i.md was mortgaged to
G. B. Harris, trustee, by W. F. Rogers and wife,
on r.th January, is.s.5. This February 23th, 1893.
inch:.lt. G. B. HARRIS, Trustee.
0
poiicds each, and three eleven
months old averaging about 200
pounds each. They were fed oii
clover. Last year he sold about
$25 worth of sheep, $45 worth of
pig-s, $75 worth of cows and $4U0
worth of horseflesh. Mecklen
burg- Times,
Two weeks aso the safe in the
railroad office at Beaver Dam,
Union county, was robbed of $420.
The Monroe Enquirer says there
was a good deal of talk about the
affair and this must have worked
on the thiol's conscience, for a
tow days later the agent of the
railroad found on his piazza a
dirty package which on being
examined was found to centain
$115 just $5 less than the amount
stolen.
About 12:30 Sunday morning
C. Wilson, a butcher, while on
his way home from the Front
Street Market, Wilmington, was
knocked senseless by some blunt
instument in the hands of a high
way robber. He remained on the
sidewalk unconscious nearly an
hour, when ho was discovered
and taken home- Examination
showed he had received two ger-
I Represent the Reliable Anchor and Star
Brands of Fertilizer. A fresh Car for Plant
Bed use.
reseiltatives, lias been debarred by ing been appointed to prepare a suitable
tne courts ot Tennessee lor ras- expression of the sentiments of said tob.ic-
,,nl,'.v ; nvMInn TTa w.11 rvrlo 1 . co. m rkets and sections in regard to house
v-.loj rt.-"-- bill JNo. 1026, entitled "an act to license to-
ly he expelled from the Legislature, bacco warehouses in this state, and to pro-
William Miller, feather weight ect tobacco growers from fraudulent com-
1 1 j- i j it bmations to reduce the price of tobacco sold
prize lighter, died from a blow given in such warehouses":
llilll bv Dal Hawkins in a prize tight We, the said committee, beg leave to say
the night before in the Pacific Ath- that, while no doubt the bill is intended for
l j. 1 i 1 o i- the good of our people at large, and our
JetlC elltb at bail lrailClSCO. farmers especially, yet when we come to
Last week Winston shipped oyer constder ils practical workings we are for-
001. nnnnrk nf rnnnnfnptnrPfl tn- ced.to the conclusion thatjits ultimate eflects
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D. J. GOOCH
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bacco. Western tobacco manu
facturers favor the location of the
revenue office of that district at
Winston. The Senate passes a
bill amending the Alliance charter,
as a substitute for the House bill
repealing the charter. Bank
Cashier Red wine, of Atlanta, was
arraigned before a United States
commissioner and wared examina
tion. He was put under $25,000
bond and is now in jail. Miss
Force, who killed her sisters in At
lanta, surrendered herself to the
police, saying she had committed a
crime. She has at times been con
sidered irresponsible, and had before
threatened to kill members of her
familj The tug Sagund, Cuba
for Boston, went ashore at Vineyard
Sound, Mass., Thursday. Fine men
HILLSBORO STREET,
OXFORD, N C.
will be to defeat the very ends which it was
intended to accomplish, and to prove real
ly disastrous
ist. By diverting the trade from our.
home markets to the markets of Vir-'
ginia, thereby causing not only great
loss of business in many of our towns,
but also subjecting the producer to increas
ed outlay and in convenience in marketing
his crops.
2d. By withdrawing capital now repre
sented here by brokers operating lor n.any
manufacturers in this and foreign countries.
3d. By defeating the main object of the
North Carolina State Tobacco AssDciation
in endeavoring to establish and build up
the name and reputation of North Carolina
bright tobacco, which has hitherto been too TTJll 1 riTTT YtTQ T0
long credited to our sister state of Virginia. vv LAAV-' w w t?i
4th. By tending to break ud the small
markets and to foster the centralization of
flip tlllKincCC 1 r m - -..--?.. -.! . .
thereby causing a depression in real estate Sell g"OOdS at the lOWCSt POSSlble DriOfiS COTTIP
111 OUr Own tnhnrrn tnu.nc- onH I XT UU,J' WXXX
5tb. By tending to drive away industries and See Hie.
iiuw upcraung in mis state ana wnich lur
nish much needed labor and employment
to many of our citizens, and further, hv
encouraging a largely increased growth o'f febl7-5t.
I now have in stock all kinds of Heavy and
Fancy Groceries, such as flour, meat, meal,
soap, hay, salt, lard, sugar, coffee, syrup, molas-
es, canned goods, bran, ship stuff, wood and
illow ware,
Give me a fair trial, as I am determined to
west possible pricei
Yours to serve you,
D. J. GOOCH.
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