HEWEEKV
VOLUME VI NO. 41.
BRIEF LOCAL MENTIONS.
What Is Transpiring Aronnd and
Alon t Us. in Town and Conuly.
A large number of our people
attended the State Fair.
Mr. J. F. White has rented the
Hicks factory and will use it as a
prize house.
Rev. J. M. Horner occupied the
pulpit at St. Stephen's church on
Sunday night.
Mr. C. J. Ward has entered the
brokerage business in Oxford We
wish him success.
Old Jack Frost visited us this
week in good shape and nipped the
vegetation to considerable extent.
Mr. Ben Mitchell, of Brassfield,
informed us that Mrs. Mitchell - has
a hen that laid an egg a few days
ago that had three yolks in it.
Mr. A. W. Graham is in Wash
ington this week and will make the
opening speech in favor of Hon. A.
H. A. Williams before the election
committee.
Mrs. T. B. Venable places us
under obligation for fiye immense
sweet potatoes. They are fine ones,
and as we are fond of them we shall
test their good qualities.
Remember that you can get
everything in the buggy, wagon and
hardware line at cut prices at Ed
wards & Winston's. The goods were
hono-ht to be sold and must ero at
some pi ice.
Cards are out announcing the
marriage of one of Granville's
former charming young ladies, Miss
Lucy Hobgood, to Mr. E. L. Piper,
in Main Street M. E. Church, Dur
ham, October 24th, at 4:00 o'clock,
p. m.
The will case in which Mr. J. R.
Young was legatee consumed the
whole of last week of Vance court
and was decided in his fayor, the
jury being out only 8 minutes. Mr.
N. H. Cannadv. or Uxtord, was one
of his counsel.
Our warehouses had large
breaks of tobacco Tuesday and all
brigts sold well, while common holds
its own at former prices. Our farm
ers were here in large numbers and
we often heard them speak of the
elegant prices paid for all grades of
tobacco several years ago.
On Sundav morniner the banks
of the Foundry branch, just outside
of the corporation was thronged
with an immense crowd of colored
people, along with a few whites to
witness the baptizing of 20 converts
as a result of the recent revival in
the First Colored Baptist Church.
The Sabbath School Conference
of the Sabbath Schools on the Ox
ford circuit will be held at Salem,
Oct. 28. Addresses will be made by
John W. Hays, Drs. Black, Whita
ker and others. The public is cor
cordially invited to be present.
Junius P. Hunt.
The following are a few of the
many good sales made at the : Ban
ner Warehouse, Durham, N. C, B.
11. Cozart, Sons & Co., proprietors :
Moore & Johnson, $C0, $49, $40, $38,
$31, $30, $23, $21, $18.25, $15.50, $15,
$12, $11 and $10. E. H. Veazey,
$38.50, $28.50, $19, $14, $12 and $0.75
G. H. Baucum, $45, $25, $14, $13.75,
$7.75 and $G.75. W. J. Whitfield,
$37, $31, $22, $19, $10.50, $15.75, $14
and $10.75. J. F. Chisenhall, 38,
$30, $20, $18, 10 and $0.75. J. R.
Kycroft, $25.50, $25, $15.50, $11 and
$7.25. Oscar Coley, $35.50, $27.50,
$18.75, $1G, $15.50, $15, $13.50, $8
and $12.75. Mrs. Ida Chapeli, $34,
17.50, $11, $io and $G.75. i
OXFOKD,
Dr. J. G Hunt has put up a new
fence on the street side of his erar-
den.
Capt. R. H. Powell presented
the editor with a very large kershaw,
a winter vegetable.
Sixteen horses were drowned in
Western part of the State while at
tempting to ford a stream.
We learn that Mr. W. S. Lyon,
of Berea, has a cow that has diop
ped two calyes in 9 months.
The little son of Mr, and Mrs.
John Bullock, who was quite sick
for several days, is greatly improved.
Carpenters and tinners are en
gaged in putting back the roof of the
Alliance Plug Factory taken off by
Friday's storm.
Col. Sharp, of Statesville, was
run over a few nights ago by the
passenger train on the Western N.
C. Road and killed.
I. H. Foust, Cashier of Salisbury
bank is short $20,000. He has re
signed and made over all his real
estate to his bondmen.
Mrs. J. T. Britt will receive Sat
urday or Monday some new milli
nery and invite the ladies to call. In
the meantime selling notions at cost.
Little Hampton Brooks, son of
J. D. Brooks, and little Miss Currin,
grand daughter of Dr. Marsh, who
have been on the sick list are much
improved.
Rev. Ernest Thacker will preach
Sunday morning and night on the
subject : "Our Depressions compar
ed with Israel's depressions and her
deliverance."
Mr. John Riggsbee, of Durham,
one of bridge force of the R. & D.
Road, and Miss Esther Hobgood, of
Providence, were married on Tues
day afternoon at the home of the
bride.
Rev. Wharton, pastor at Geneva
Presbyterian church near Culbreth
assisted by Rev. Ernest Thacker, of
Oxford, and Dr. Morton, of Hender
son, is conducting a meeting at that
church this week.
Uncle "D." Meadows after auc
tioneering tobacco in Oxford several
years has severed his connection
with the Wilkinson Warehouse and
gone to Henderson. He is with the
Davis Warehouse where he will
cry tobacco this year. When you
cro to Henderson go and see Uncle
D." as he will see that you get the
last possible cent for your tobacco.
TTT I m J 1
wasiimgton aispatcnes, in a very
brief space, set forth exactly the sit
. i i "i
nation ot tne silver-repeal cause.
There is a majority for unconditional
repeal. No majority for anything else
Neither the President nor the Sec
retary of the Treasury nor theChair
man of the Finance Committee of the
Senate has offered or accepted an
offer of compromise in any shape.
They all seem to be firm in the posi
tion that conditional repeal is un
conditional surrender and the fight
is still on while the people suffer.
Little 12 year Robert Keenan,
near Asheville on the 16, was shot
through the body with a stray ball
as he was going to feed the
fish in a pond and his mother was
with him. He was two steps ahead
of her when, at the report of a gun,
he abruptly turned with his hand to
breast, exclaiming: "Ma, I am shot,
I am killed !" and fell to the ground.
He died in his mother's arms on the
spot. Just before he died he said:
l am dying. Justice killed me."
Burt Justice who shot a sheep close
by with a Winchester rifle supposed
to have killed the boy. He is under
arrest.
N. C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1893.
C. J. Adcock, of Berea, walked
Unto our office on Thursday with a
bag on his shoulder and added to
our large pile of sweet potatoes 6
that weighed 21 pounds. We will
send the Public Ledger 6 months
to the person who bring us a dozen
sweet potatoes that weighs the most.
Rev. P. L. Hermon, assisted by
Rey. R. H. Whitaker, is conducting
a splendid meeting at Hermon M. E.
church this week. There were 10
conversions on Sunday, first day of
the meeting. The good work is still
going on, and some 15 or 18 have
professed faith in Christ. Last week
at Marrow's Chapel Rev. Mr. Her
mon had 14 conversions. This grand
soldier of the cross is doing noble
work in the cause of his Master.
Oxford was full of tobacco on
Tuesday and the buyers set to it
like men who were over anxious to
get enough tobacco to fill pressing
orders. We still stick to it that Ox
ford is the best bright tobacco mar
ket m the State, if a farmer did tell
us the other day that we were "dam
aging ourselyes" because we stood
by our county town market, while
he run it down. Shame on any man
who will run down his own home !
The old reliable, faithful and
true Warehousemen, Messrs. Bul
lock & Mitchell call on farmers in an
other column to come right along
to Oxford with their tobacco and
place it on the floor of the Banner
where Greensbacks, silver and gold
will be paid you in exchange for to
bacco, and the highest market price
guaranteed on all grades. Oxford
never gets left on averages the year
round, and John Bullock never turns
a pile loose until high water mark is
reached.
All Free.
Those wno have used Dr. King's New
New Discovery know its value, and those
who have not, have now the opportunity
to try it tree. (Jail on the advertised
druggie and get a tri;il bottle free. Send
your name and address to H. E Bucklen
& Co., Chicatr s and aret a sample box of
Dr. King's New Life Pills free, as well as
a copy of Guide to Health and House
noiu instructor tree. All or wnicn is
guaranteed to do you good and cost you
nothing at J. G. Mail's drug store.
The Reaper.
On Monday at the home of her
father, Mr. Robert Longmire, near
Tally Ho, the spirit of Miss Rosa
Longmire passed up higher and
joined the innumerable conquest that
surround the Throne of God.
She was 2C years of age, and had
given her heart to God early in life,
and died in full fellowship of His
trreat love. She was a member of
the Baptist church. She was a vic
tim to the dread disease consump
tion. Rev. Dr. Marsh conducted the
burial services on Tuesday and the
remains were interred in the Wal
ter's giave yard in the presence of
many friends and relatiyes.
Straight from tlie East.
A Sultan of Turkey once said,
As he groaned at the pain in his head,
"Oh, my favorite wile,
I am sick of this life,
And I wish very much I were dead."
But his wife, who was wise, answered
"Fie!
If you will Pierce's Pellets but try,
You'll be well in a week
And then you will speak
Of these Pellets with praise iust as high "
Dr. Pierce's Pellets cost only 25 cents
and they are guaranteed to cure all the
troubles which spring from constipation,
indie-estion and bilious attacks. If you
have any of these troubles, why don't you
fallow the example of the Sultan of Tui
key? $500 reward for an incurable case of
chronic Nasal Catarrh offered by the man
ufacturers of Dr. Sage's Catarrh liemedy.
50 cents; by druggists-
All diseases of the skin cured, and lost
complexion restored by Johnson's Ori
ental Soap. Sold at J. Man s.
PURELY PERSONAL.
Brief Mention of tne Movements of
Your Friends and Acquaintances.
Judge Winston is spending the
week at home,
Mr. J. D. Bullock visited Green
ville this week.
Mayor B. S. Royster visited- the
fair at Raleigh Wednesday.
Mr. T. L. Daniel, of Berea, drop
ped in to see us on Tuesday.
D. H. Mangum, of Henderson,
was on our streets Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Fielding Knott
were on our streets Monday.
Mr. Claude Hunter, of Hender
son, was in Oxford Tuesday.
Mrs. T. H. Jones is on a visit to
her daughter in Wake county.
Mr. and Mrs. N. T. Green, of
Stem, visited Oxford Thursday.
Leak Landis is now assisting
Mr. W. C. Reed in his tobacco busi
ness. Mr. R. H. McGuiie is visiting
friends in the Eastern part of the
State.
J. O. Ellington, our excellent
job printer, visited the fair on Wed
nesday. Mr. R. R. Best and his son Theo
dore spent several days in Oxford
this week.
Rey. Edward Benedict attended
the consecration of Bishop Cheshire
at Tarboro.
Mrs. J. D. Bullock is the guest
of Judge and Mrs. Reid, at Raleigh,
this week.
Mrs. John P. Sted man, who was
quite sick several days this week, is
much improved.
Ed. Atkins left yesterday for
Houston, Texas, to accept a posi
tion on a railroad.
Mr. and Mrs. T. N. Fullerton
and children, of Bullock, were in
Oxford on Monday.
Wade Britt attended the State
Fair. He went to Raleigh and re
turn on his bicycle.
Our venerable friend, Mr. Alfred
Sherman, of the Berea section, was
on our streets Monday.
The venerable "Uncle Wash"
Hart was in Oxford on Tuesday,
bright and smiling as usual.
We had the pleasure of meeting
our old friend, J. R. O'Brien, of
Dutchville, in our office on Saturday.
Mr. D. L. Harris, of Seaboard,
N. C, was the quest of Mr. and Mrs.
J. L. Furgerson several days this
week.
Miss Shepherd, the accomplish
ed vocal teacher at Oxford Female
Seminary, left for Suffolk, Va., on
Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Harris, of
Wilton, spent Saturday and Sunday
in Oxford, guests of Mr. and Mrs. S.
H. Smith.
Messrs. Charley Gordon, of
Fishing Creek, and W. T. Adams,
of Dutchville, dropped in to see us
on Mondav.
Mr. Willard Long, of Seaboard,
N. C, brother of Will and Jim
Long, spent several days in Oxford
this week.
Miss Maggie Green, of Epsom,
and Miss Avoline Thomasson, of
Tally Ho, are the guests of Miss
Annie Beasley.
-W. W. Hart, of Oak Hill, W. E.
Royster, of Big Rock, Capt. W. O.
Bobbitt and Abner Newton, of Fish
ing Creek, J. Robert Daniel, of
Salem, and J. P. Hunt, of Kittrell,
visited this office Tuesday.
$1.50 PER ANNUM.
Miss Bessie Howard, of Cul
breth, is visiting relatives in Dur
ham this week.
Melville Dorsey Oakley, who
clerks for Brooks & Co., has gone to
his home near Berea, to recuperate
his health, as he has been sick sev
eral days.
Mr. W. T. Clark, a former leaf
dealer of Oxford, but now of Lynch
burg, Va., was on our breaks Tues
day, and met with a warm reception
at the hands of the buyers.
John McClamb, of the Hender
son Gold Leaf force, spent Sunday
in Oxford. We suspect he has been
captivated by the winsome smiles of
one of Oxford's fair young maidens.
Itch on human, mange on horses, dogs
and all stock, cured in 30 minutes by
Woolford's Sanitary Lotion. This never
fails, old by J. G Hall, uruggist, Ox.
ford, N. C.
JIbsoIately
Pure
A cream of tartar baking powder. Highest of
all in leavening strength. Latest U. S. Govern
ment Food Report.
Royal Baking Powder Co.
lOG Wall St., New York.
W. H. SMITH
THE TAILOR,
OXFORD, N. C.
Fall and Winter Suits Mad t
to Order !
-
Perfect Fit Guaranteed
OR NO SALE !
am prepared to do the beet work. Pull
line of samples, aud fabrics and styles, imported
and domestic,
"Parties wishing cutting done will do well
to call and see me as I take special pains in that
line. will make prices to suit the
times. oct!3-lm.
Sale of Valuable lilectric Plant
and Apparatus.
THE UN DERSIGNED, UNDER AND BY VIR
tue of the authority given them by a reso
lution of the Oxford Electric Lijrht Company,
will sell at public outcry at the conrt house door
in the town of Oxford, on Tuesday, 28th Nov,
1S93, the following valuable property and
franchises, to-vvit: One electric dynamo and fix
tures, about seven miles of electric wire and
poles, also about 20 arc lamps and a great num
ber of incandescent lamps, alpo all the rights,
privileges and franchises of the said company,
especially any right to light the town of Oxford.
Here is a splendid opportunity for some active
man to engage in a profitable business. Terms
easy. A, W. GRAH1 M,
J. G. IIALL,
J 11. BULLOCK,
C. T) T?AV.
F. J. RISIN,
oct.l3-4w. lioaru oi directors.
Land Sale.
BY VIRTUE OF AUTHORITY VESTED IV
me by a morteage executed on the 11th day
of November, 1S89, by G. L. Pool and C. K. Pool
and Anna .Pool, wile or (J. k. Pool, to secure ihe
payment of a certain debt therein specified, and
recorded in Book 32, page 210 of Registered
Mortgages, in the ofKce of the Register of Deed
of Granville connty, I shall sell to the highest
bidder for cash, by public auction, at the court
hous door in Oxford, Granville county, N. C.
on Monday. November 20th, 1S93. at 12 o'clock,
noon, the following tract of land lying in Oak
Hill township, known as the old Norwood tract.
containing 3f acres, more or less, adjoining the
lands of the heirs of Edward Royster, Robert
Sandford, Mrs. Rebecca Smith and others. For
further particulars and description of which ref
erence is made to said mortgage.
W. E ROYSTER, Mortgagee.
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