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OXFORD, N. C,
MARCH 10, 1893.
He is no longer ex-president-elect
but once more, President Cleveland.
Now for four, four, four years
more of unadulterated Democratic
rule!
President Harrison said "good
bye" to his Cabinet, and the next
day it snowed.
Ring out the old, ring in the new!
Show us the hole the Republican
party went through.
Judging from the beginning it
has made, the inaugural month will
be a howlingr success.
Adding the 9th of November to
the 4th of March makes 13, an "un
lucky number for the G. O. P.
The historian of the future may
record that "it was a cold day when
the Harrison administration got
left."
At the rate the faithful let them
selves out at the inauguration, the
other fellows are afraid they won't
be able to hold themselves in long.
Massachusetts is not a bonanza to
medical profession, judging from the
fact that nearly one-quarter of its
towns contain no resident physi
cian. George H. Walsh, republican
speaker of the House of Representa
tives of North Dakota, has renounc
ed all allegiance to the Republican
party and hereafter will affiliate with
the Democrats.
The last talk of the Populists in
Kansas is to move the capital and
put up a State House of their own.
It should be in "the middle of the
road," where Mrs. Lease could find
it.
Some Iowa preachers preach very
hot sermons. One of them recently
painted hades so graphically, and
scared one of the women of his
congregation so badly, that she has
become hopelessly crazy.
For the first time in twelve years
the Democrats have control of the
Senate and for the first time in
thirty two years control of both the
legislative and executive depart
ments of the government.
A variation from the ordinary
bridaljtour is the trip of a couple now
passing a portion of their honey
moon in Denison, Tex. The bride
is fifty years of age and the mother
of thirteen children, eight of whom
accompanied her on her wedding
tour. The groom has also brought
along his five children. He has
been married four times, the bride
five times. They arrived at Denison
in a wagon, and intend to make a
circuit of their friends and relatives.
The matter of the tax upon pur
chases by merchants has for ten
years past caused a great deal of
feeling all over North Carolina. It
was claimed that it was a double
tax, and protest after protest was
made, while the case got into the
courts. This Legislature has made
a compromise of the matter by pro
viding for a scaled tax, which is
quite light and which appears to be
satisfactory to the merchants, with
whose State committee the com
promise has been arranged.
THE NEW ADMINISTRATION.
Grover Cleveland in assuming the
high office to which lie has been
elected, appreciates that . ua public
office is a public trust" and that the
affairs of this nation must be so con
ducted that the greatest good will
revert to the greatest numbers
says the Messenger. Therein con
sists the difference between the two
parties, the one retiring having used
every effort to make the rich richer,
and to grind the poor. The Demo
cratic administration is pledged to
different principles and we look to
see that the necessaries of life are
f repd from taxation and the revenues
of the Government derived from
luxuries. Upon assuming once
more the reins of Government the
Democratic party finds a Bankrupt
Treasury where they had left four
years ago a surplus of over $100,
000,000. The Republican adminis
tration of 1880 to 1893 will be
known in history for its extrava
gance and the taints of fraud and
corruption which pervaded nearly
all departments. The reign of hon
est government and honest princi
ples has again begun and we have
at the head an honest man who with
the courage of strong convictions
of right cannot be swerved from
his course by fear nor favor.
Grover Cleveland will hold a uni
que place in American history. He
is the only ex-president who was
ever elected again, though several
others endeavored to regain their
lost station. He is the only man
the Democracy has been able to
elect president in thirty-six years,
except Samuel J. Tilden, and it was
not able to seat him.
We believe that the next four
years will mark an era of prosperity
in this country.
We shall have lighter taxation,
more economical expenditures, hon
esty and capacity in public places.
If the party which takes control
of the government shall be true to
its time-honored principles and to
its recent pledges, it will maintain
and increase its hold on the confi
dence of the country.
It is fortunate in haying as its
leader a man who will surely do all
that lies in his power to fulfill its
pledges and enforce its principles.
THE NEW SENATE.
The present roll-call of the Sen
ate shows 44 Democrats, 38 Repub
licans, 1 Populist, 1 Independent, 1
Farmers' Alliance, and 3 vacancies.
The vacancies are one each in
Montana, Washington, and Wyom
ing. Appointments have been made
by the Governors of Wyoming and
Montana, respectively of Beckwith
(Democrat) and Mantle (Republi
can), but these are subject to be
'changed when the Legislatures of
those States meet again and elect.
Should the Republicans eventually
fill all of these vancancies it would
give them 41. Should the Third
party senators then all vote with the
Republicans (a most unlikely sup
position) the Senate would still be a
tie, with Vice-President Stevenson
holding the controlling vote.
The composition of the House, as
shown by unofficial returns, is De
mocrats, 217; Republicans, 128;
Third party -8, and vacancies, 2.
The Democrats have a majority of
eighty over all,
The leather trust which is being
formed proposes to buy up all the
tanneries in the country and run
them. It is said" that it will take
$75,000,000 or $100,000,000 to do
this but they say they can raise the
cash. They will then proceed to
raise the price of leather. Nothing
hidebound about that.
It is said that A. C. Beckwith
who has been appointed U. S. Sena
tor from Wyoming drove an ox
team over the plains thirty years
ago. But he didn't think then that
he would ever whip into the Senate.
THE 'PUBLIC LEDGER
President Cleveland, Vice Presi
dent Stevenson, Secretary of State
Gresham, Secretary of the Interior
Smith, and Secretary of War
Lamont are all Presbyterians.
The recent cold snap froze solid a
numbes of shallow ponds on the
farm of a Kentucky man. He has
covered them with straw and pro
poses to cut ice out of them next
summer whenever he wants it.
According to the Columbia (S.
C.) Register General Wade Hamp
ton has been indirectly offered his
choice between United States Rail
road Commissioner and Register of
the Treasury and has accepted the
latter.
New Orleans is moving to erect to
a fine monument to Louisiana's
greatest soldier, Gen. Beauregard.
He is deserving of this grateful and
patriotic recognition, for he was a
true man of the South and a most
accomplished soldier.
When Senator Peffer was told
that during the inauguration jam
boree a Washington barber would
not shave a man for less than fifty
cents he said that he felt reconciled
to have the frost-bitten breezes
whistle through his luxuriant whis
kers. The patriarch bull frog so far re
ported in this country, and the
jumbo of the B. F. family enjoys
life in Connecticut. He is said to
be fourteen years old and measures
eighteen inches in length, twelve
inches across the back and weighs
four pounds.
North Carolina had two honors
Inauguration day. Senator Ran
som escorted President Cleveland
into the Senate chamber and thence
to the platform outside; and the
wife of Senator Vance sat in the exe
cutive gallery with Mrs. Cleveland
and the latter's mother, and the
little party seemed to be well pleased
with each other.
A Georgia editor gives the follow
ing interesting view of "the meanest
man" in his county: "Any man
who would keep a dog that will
jump a fence and break a rail and
scare a mule that would throw a
nagger that would break a jug of
liquor in a dry county is a mighty
mean man, and his chances of for
giveness are slim."
Dr. Hunter McGuire, of Rich
mond thinks a cholera visitation to
this country would cost us as many
lives and as many dollars as a war
with Great Britain. The present
Congress acted wisely in appropriat
ing $300,000 for the purpose of
keeping Asiatic cholera, typhus
fever and other deadly plagues from
abroad, out of this country.
From every source .of information
that comes to us there are indica
tions of better times. Even in the
bleak northwest, the home of the
blizzard, they tell us that the people
are moving forward with renewed
confidence. While it may be true
that farming interests are not as
for advanced as usual, the belief is
universal that the year will be one
of unusual agricultural prosperity.
A prominent citizen of Hender
son who joined Gideon's Band and
turned State's evidence has been
notified by an anonymous card that
he may prepare himself for the
penalty the oath of the order re
quires they should execute against
him. The gentleman declines to
give the card for publication, but
admits its receipt and purport. This
organization and its abettors are
stronger in this section than six
months ago They are also more
determined, and if not estopped will
do damage in the future.
A. LAN DIB & SONS'
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Black: Dress Goods
2 pieces 38 inch Silk Finish Hen
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2 pieces Black Whip Cord.
2. pieces Black Henrietta, 46 inches
at 75 cents.
2 pieces Popans at 50 cents.
2 pieces Serge, 46 inches at 75 cents.
Other Black Goods at POPULAR
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Teislri
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Towels, Table Cloths, Carpets, Scrim
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Space forbids a more extended notice.
Our stock is complete and we hope to
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An important feature will be a Remnant
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andis & Sons !
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50 pieces Wool Beige in gray and
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10 ' pieces Suitings in fancy and
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Never before has it been our good
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