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-s8"-! 1 THE WEEKLY ? fi VOLUME VI NO. 49. OXFORD, BRIEF LOCAL MENTIONS. What is Transpiring: Around and Abont Us. in 'own and County g "Box of Monkeys." "Dr. Baxter's Great Invention." Mr. W. I. Wilkinson lias a 12 pound boy at his house. Mr. Roy Currin, near Oxfo 1, killed 9 pigs that weighed 1,799. Mrs. J. T. Britt has sold out her stock of goods to Mr. L. W. Beard. Louis Thorp, of Berea, has been appointed a storekeeper and gauger. Mud aud darkness reigned s a prenie in Oxford at night during the past week. "See the "Great Invention" ;i nd "Monkeys" at the Opera House next Monday night. Capt. R. II . Powell, of the O. & H. road, has removed his family from Raleigh street to College street. Oxford's best amateur talent will present the two excellent farces at the Opera House Monday night. Mr. L. W. Beard, of South Car olina, has opened up a racket store next door to Webb's furniture store. We ask those interested in rais ing fine hogs to read the advertise ment of W. C. Reed in another col umn. R. W. Clay, the clever merchant at Clay, killed one pig 10 months old that pulled the scales down to 245 pounds. R. L. Davie, a prosperous young farmer of Person county, accom panied by his sister, was in Oxford Thursday. If you want to forget your troubles and laugh until you are surfeited with laughter, go to the Opera House Monday night. Unless you want vour property adyertised for sale you had better settle your taxes. Sheriff Cozart is anxious to give you a receipt. Wiley Nevills, of Mt. Energy, has slaughtered the hog that looked like a yearling in his pasture, and it weighed 444 pounds and was 17 months old. Nine stores, the Baptist church and the Hunt House were burned in Morganton on Wednesday night. There was considerable insurance on the property. Mr. W. D. Smith, of Tar River, killed 4 pigs 14 months old that av eraged 37Gh pounds. Mr. T. W, Hunt, of the same place, killed 4 that weighed 1482 pounds. Mr. J, D. Bullock has rented the Jones residence on Broad street and Mrs. Bullock, who has just returned from a visit to Greenville, is quite busy, no doubt, in getting things in order. Miss Lonnie Polk, the youngest daughter of the late L. L. Polk, former president of the National Farmers' Alliance, died at her home in Raleigh Tuesday, aged 19, of con sumption. The venerable and greatly be loved Bishop Lyman died suddenly at his home in Raleigh on Wednesday morning of heart disease which will cast a gloom over the church in this State. He had presided as Bishop 20 years. Our former townsman, Dr. L. B. Grandy, was married in Atlanta to Miss Hattie A. Smart Thursday morning. It was a beautiful hoi ? wedding. Mr. Albert Sidnej- Gran dy, brother of the groom, of Nash ville, Tenn., was best man. Mr. Solomon, treasurer for Jas. Young, tragedian, who will be membered as haying recently ap peared at the Opera House in the role of Hamlet and Richard III, ab sconded at Salisbury with $800. The Methodist Conference t.i Wilmington last week returned Un cle Jesse Cuninggim as Presiding Elder of this district and Rev. P. LV Herman to Oxford circuit. Rev. J. B. Hurley, who was stationed at Cen tral church, Raleigh, was sent to Ox ford station and will occupy the pul pit on Sunday morning next. He is said to be a most excellent preacher as well as a good pastor. Mr. J. R. Fowler and Miss Mary H. Breedloye, both of Salem towns ship, were married Wednesday af ternoon and were tendered a recep tion that night at the residence of Mr. J. A. Renn, in Oxford, which was highly enjoyed by all present. Durham has suffered another big failure. B. L. Duke, of W. Duke, Sons & Co., made an assignment on We dnesday. Assets $700,000 and liabilities $500,000. The Durham Sun says he has given up all his property, including his residence, for the benefit of his creditors. Messrs. Henry Knott and Will Black have opened training stables in Oxford. " They have rented the prize house of Mr. Thos. White and have it admirably arranged for the purpose, and have in their em" ploy an expert trainer from St. Louis, Mo. Already G or 8 horses in their stables. Prof. M. D. Oakley, who has charge of Brooks's trained animals, on Friday last while making a bar for his horned owl to perform on his knife slipped cutting a gash in his left leg two inches long and an inch deep. Dr. Henry Robards, of De ment, dressed the wound. Profess sor Oakley is getting on very well. A Lady tlnrert After Many Years Suf- 1'eriiiff. "I've been a sufferer from dyspepsia for twenty years. Was in such a fix I had to use the same care with my diet as a baby. Used Tyner's Dyspepsia Remedy and can now eat anything without incon venience. It is truly a great remedy." Mrs. Anthony Duncan. Try it for all stomach diso.ders. It never disappoin's. Price 25c. per bottle. For sale by ail druggists. In th moi ning by the bright light, or in the evening by the gaslight, the bar gains at Paris Bros, show up just the same. decl. NORTH CAROLINA BAPTIST. Annual Convention at, Elizabeth City the Past Week. Moore in his history of North Car olina says that Sir William Berkley, the Governor of the Colony of Vir ginia m 1053, drove out of his Colony the Baptists and Quakers and that the Baptists found refuge in the Albemarle region of North Carolina, therefore the meeting last week was close by where the Baptists settled in 1653, and where the first Baptist church in the State was organized in Camden county, in 1727, and which still exists. This church was orgar ized by Rev. Paul Palmer. ThefirsJ: Baptist Association organized m the State was at Sandy Creek in 1758, while the first organized ' effort for mission work did not take place un til 1814 and was known as the 'N. C. Baptist's Society for Foreign and Domestic Missions." The present convention was or ganized 30th of March, 1830, in the town of Greenville. At that time there were only 15,000 members in the State, with 14 associations and 272 churches. At that time they had no denominational paper, or school, male or female. The annual report for 1893 work in the convention which embraces ab the State save the counties west of the Blue Ridge shows that the co, tributions were $125,000, against $70,000 last year, these being exclu sive of pastors' salary and any other church expenses, but being entire! for benevoleet purposes. There a lOo missionaries at work m the btate and 21 abroad. Of the latter 3 are in Brazil, 2 in Mexico, 3 in Africa, and 13 in China. There are 47 new churches received and there are now 1,238 in the convention. There aie 1GO,000 members, a gain of 6,000. Thirty one mission churches were completed; 50 other churches are in course of construction. There are 2,300 additions to mission church membership. In the bunday behool uepartment there is more pro gress than ever before. Our highly esteemed townsman, Rev. Dr. R. H. Marsh, has the honor of being President of this great and growing body, and was re-elected for another year. Rev. J. W. Carter,of Raleigh, preached the annual ser mon. Walk right into a pair- of Paris Bros, shoes. decl. N. C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1893. HEAVY BREAK OF TOBACCO, Our Five Warehouses Presented Busy Scenes Tuesday. Oxford was a regular hummer on Tuesday, and reminded us of ye olden days when there was not so many cranks and visionary schemers abroad in the land, which caused trust and combines to be formed to try and pay the farmer the smallest margin possible for his tobacco. We launched out to talk tobacco, more tobacco and better tobacco, and that everything was on the move bright and early Tuesday morning around our warehouses, and the con tinual roar of the drays was swe' music to Oxonians as they unloaded the wagons of a large number of our hardworking farmers that filled the long sheds of our five warehouses that had rolled in the night befoi As fast as one wagon could be gotte i out of the way another diove in and took its place until a late hour in the morning. Long rows of tobacco coveied the warehouse floors, among which was some of Granville's fine tobacco, but medium qualities pro dominated. The farmers seemed to be in good spirits and chatting with each other about who would kill the largest pigs in their respective neighborhood stating that despite the hard tim. that they plenty sorghum, corn and meat. Sales continued until a late hour in the afternoon, and prices ruled stiff throughout the day. We heard one farmer say, "Tobacco has crawl ed up several notches since I was hear several day: ago, especially common; brights always sell well in Oxford. My tobacco brought more than I expected to get when I let home." Hurrah for Oxford ! Let us all unite once more and pull together and built it up. We must not stand still in the race for trade, but must pick our flints and come again. We keep telling the farmers that Oxford is hard to beat as an all round tobacco market, and our fine corps of buyers are always willing to pay the highest possible prices for all errades of tobaeso. Farmers of Granville we again urge you to stand by your county town. English Spavin Liniment removes all Hard, Soft or Calloused Lumps and Blemishes from horses, Blood Spavins, Ours, Splints, Sweeney, King-Bone, Stifles, Sprains, all Swollen Throats, Coaghs, etc. Save $50 by use of one bottle. Warranted the most wonderful Blemish Cure ever known. Sold by J. U. Mali, druggist, uxrord, jn. . Skating Rink. I have returned to Oxford and will open up my Skating Rink in the old Granville YVarehouse, next to the Presby terian church, to-nisht, Friday, Decern ber 18. Good skates, good floor and a general good time for everybody. The ladies are especially invited. Respectfully, decl5-lt. 'EL. Baird. S. H. Smith has a splendid stock of Hardware, including Cook Stoves, Heat ing Stoves, Oil Stoves, Sash, Doors, Blinds, Paints, Oils and Varnishes, Wag ons and Wagon Material, Buggies and Carts, that he is anxious to sell and will make the price as low as any one. He will be very glad to show you and wants your trade when in Oxford. declo. A noted physician says that high-heel ed shoes cause many of the nervous ail ments from which women suher. Don't wear shoes of that sort, but gt Pari - Bros, easy-fittine: health-insuring styles. Bradstreet's report says: Those looking for improvement in the vol ume of sales last week were disap pointed. Proposed tariff changes and large stocks of importers tend to further depression. Woolen and iron industries have ?ost the signs of improvement of two weeks ago. Du ring last week fifteen industrial works shut down down, twenty-nine reduced wages and forty started up. Southern centres, though, generally report improvement in trade and col lections. Feeble and capricious appetites are best regulated by the use of Ayer's Ca thartic Pills. They do not debilitate, by excessive stimulation; but cause the stomach, liver and bowels to perform their functions properly. As an after dinner pill, they are unequaled. PURELY PERSONAL. Brief Mention of the Movements of four Friends and Acquaintances. A. A. Hicks spent Tuesday in Henderson. R. I. Rogers, of Durham, visited Oxford Tuesday. Rev. Ernest Thacker visited Greensboro this week. Mrs. W. A. Bobbitt has returned from a visit to Augusta, Ga. Mr. A. A. Crews, of Tar River, dropped in to see us Thursday. Dr. and Mrs. J. G. Hunt spent Sunday with friends in Brassfield township. Mr. Charles Gordon, a promis ing young farmer of Clay, visited this office Tuesday. W. W. Clement, of the R. & D. railroad, was in town last week vis iting his father's family. J. L. Suit, one the fine looking young men of Berea section, called to see the "old man" Tuesday. Rev. J. S. Hardaway and Pro. F. P. Hobgood, Sr., attended tb Baptist Convention at Elizabeth City. Dr. R. B. Henderson, of Wilton, was in town Tuesday, and we had the pleasure of meeting him in our office. Miss Julia Foster, of Raleigh, who has been spending two weeks with Mrs. Wilder, returned home Monday- Dr. T. L. Booth, of Stem, C. W. Conway, E. B. Parrott, S. L. Wil son, A. E. Bobbitt, W. P. Lyon, of Wilton, were in Oxford Tuesday. Mr. J. S. Brown attended the Methodist Conference at Wilming ton, and continued his journey to South Carolina where Mrs. .brown was visiting, who accompanied him home. We had the pleasure of meeting in Oxford Tuesday Messrs. A. G. Fleming, of Northside; S. T. Par rott, of Hesters, and Geo. W. Wat kins and Dr. T. B. Wilkerson, of Oak Hill, Our sanctum was honored on Wednesday by a visit from Brother J. A. Thomas, of the Louisburg Times. He is the new Deputy Col lector of this division, and is on a tour of the county looking after rev enue matters. The former Deputy, Mr. J. F. Woody, has served the erovernment faithfully and well, and retired with the great satisfaction of knowing that he did his lull duty. Bucklen's Arnica Salve. The best aalve in the world for cuts, bruises, ores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, tetter chapped hands, chilblains, corns and all skin ruptions, and positively cures piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satis faction, or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by J. G.Hall. mch,4-ly A revelation to women the improve ment in complexion by usin Paris Bros Butter Milk Soap. decl S. H. Smith has a splendid stock of Hardware, including Cook Stoves, Heat ing Stoves, Oil Stoves, Sash, Doors, Biinds, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Wagons, Wagon Material, Buggies and Carts, that he is anxious to sell and will make the nricft as low as anv one. He will be very glad to show you and wants your tr tde when in Oxford. uecio. The town marshal at Vossburg, Miss., was killed by a United States marshal. Peoole who have tried it, sav there is no better medicine for dyspepsia than Ayer's Sarsaparilla. It may not give one the stomach of an ostrich, but it so strengthens the alimentary organs that digestion of ordinary food becomes easy and natural. Friday night burglars blew open the safe of the National bank at Piano, Tex., and stole all the paper money and part of the gold. They took no silyer. A person is prematurely old when bald ness occurs before the forty-fifth year. Use Hall's Hair Renewer to keep the scalp healthy and prevent baldness. J. G. Hall, druggist, recommends John son's Magnetic Oil,the ere at family pain killer, internal and external. $1.50 PER ANNUM. OPERA HOUSE. "Dr. Baxter's Great Invention' and A Box of 3Ionkeys" Dpc. 18. A dramatic entertainment suited to the approaching gay and festive season has been in preparation for some weeks, and will be given at the Opera House next Monday night, December 18, under the manage ment of ladies of St. Stephen's church. The proceeds will go to Thompson Episcopal Orphanage and other charities. Two unusually good farces, "Dr. Baxter's Ureat Invention" and "A Box of Monkeys," will be presented. They are exceedingly funny in con ception and treatment, brisk in ac tion and contains sixty laughs for every minute. Dr. Baxter by means of electricity changes simpering old maids to charming young girls of sweet sixteen and restores old bache lors to frolicsome youth, and vice versa. The sportive monkeys would make the old fellow who swore he would never smile again break his oath. Incidently popular ballads will be sung. The various parts are taken by capable amateurs, who have been rehearsing conscientiously and indus triously, with the result that a good, smooth and highly entertaining performance may be expected. The outlook is for a crowded house. Reserved seats are for sale at Kronheimei's. Admission prices reserved seats, 50 cents; general, 35 cents; gallery, 25 cents. Strength and Health. If you are not feeling strong aud heal thy, try Electric Bitters. If "Li Grippe" .ias left you weak and weary, use Elec tric Bitters. This remedy acts directly on Liver, Stomach and Kidneys, gently tiding those organs to perform their functions. If yoa are afflicted with sick headache, you will find speedy and per manent relief by taking Electric Bitter. One trial will convince you that this is the remedy vou need. Large bottles 50c. tt J. G. Hall's drug store. Veilings, for brides or married ladies and young ladi-s vh some da expect to be married at P.tris Bros. deci. One wheat drill, the best made, for sale at a sacrifice on good terms. oct.13 S. H. Smith. Don't stumble along in uncomfortable shoes when you cm wear the easy fitting, handsome shoes Paris Bros. sell. decl. Sweet I'otato contest. Some weeks ago we offered six months' subscription to the farmer that brought us twelve of the largest potatoes up to the first of December. The following is a list of those who sent in 12 each, but quite a number deposited in our potato box half dozens that were mammoth looking: R. H. Pleasant, of Pleasants, 22 lbs; J. M. Ellington, Tar River, 33 lbs; J. C. Veazey, Stem, 30 lbs; R. J. Daniel, Walnut Grove, 29; L. L. Crews, Tar River, 40 lbs. It will be seen that uo to Decerns ber 1st Mr. L. L. Crews captured the G months subscription as to the con test, but Leroy Elliott, of Oak Hill township who bel'eves in making everything at home as well as raising his own horses, walked in our office Tuesday of last week with a bag on his shoulder. He said "I am a few days late, but I believe I am a win ner," and deposited on the floor 12 potatoes that weighed 4G pounds, thus capturing the championship on larare potatoes if he did miss the sub scription. And Oak Hill, a red clay section, down the sandy southside on raisins: bier sweet potatoes. JIbsoIafely Pure A cream of tartar baking powder. Highest of all in leavening strength. Latest U. S. Govern ment Food Report. Royal Baking Powder Co. 100 Wall St.. ew York,
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