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VOLUME VII NO. 34.
OXFORD, N. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1894.
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nOVEHENTS OF PEOPLE.
Coming and Going of Friends and
Strangers.
Miss L. Hicks, of Raleigh, is
visiting Miss Daisy Horner.
Col. W. A. Bobbitt spent Friday
and Saturday in Richmond.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Osborn, of Dab
ney, spent Sunday in Oxford.
Mr. James Long is spending the
week in Northampton county.
Miss Fannie Parker, of Hender
son, is visiting Mrs. S. W. Parker.
Several of the young men of
Henderson spent Sunday in Oxford.
Miss Agnes Faucette has return
ed from a pleasant visit to Durham.
Miss Cora Taylor returned Tues
day from a visit to friends at Sto
vall. Dr. E. T. White spent several
days in Richmond during the past
weok.
Miss Mollie Horner is enjoving
the splendid climate of the "Land of
the Sky."
Miss Octavia Holloway returned
on Tuesday from a two months' stay
at Durham.
Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Pearce, of
Windsor, are visiting Mr. and Mrs.
J. K. Wood.
Captain and Mrs. T. J. Drewry
have returned to Oxford from their
summer vacation.
Capt. W. H. White has returned
from a business trip to the Southern
part of the State.
Mrs. Jackson, of Petersburg,
Va., is spending a few days with her
son, Mr. T. W. Jackson.
Mrs. Baldy Williams, who was
sick the past week, has recovered
and the family is happy.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Bain and Miss
Bain, of Raleigh, are visiting the
family of Capt. R. P. Hughes.
Mrs. W. I. Wilkinson and chil
dren are visiting the family of Mr.
Alex Wilkinson, at Averett, Va.
Mr. J. W. Brown, of the Re
former, spent several days last week
in Portsmouth, Va., visiting nis
brother.
Mr. Bully Elliott, of Cornwall,
who has been down in Green county
curing tobacco, returned home on
Monday.
"Captain Archie" Gregory, can
didate for the Legislature on the
Thirdite ticket, was on our streets
Tuesday.
Mr. T. B. Jeffreys, the big ware
houseman of the live town of Rocky
Mount, spent a few days in Oxford
this week.
Mr. Will Long, of the firm of
Long Brothers, will leave Sunday
for the North to purchase fall and
winter goods.
The many friends of Mr. Clem
Daniel will be glad to learn that he
is doing well in the wide-awake city
of Charlotte.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hunt and
child returned Tuesday from spend
ing the summer with relatives in
Bertie county.
Mr. "Dolly" Thomas, of the
Louisburg Times, was in town a few
hours on Monday, and found his way
to our sanctum.
President Winston, of the State
University, was the guest of his
brother, Judge R. W. Winston, Sat
urday and Sundays
Mrs. Louisa Routon and her two
daughters, Misses Maria and Lelia,
returned Monday from a visit to rel
atives at Hillsboro.
Mr. Buck Blalock will be the
book-keeper for Messrs. Lyon &
Thomas, who will run the old Mead
ows warehouse next year,
Miss Annie Powell, of Savannah,
Ga., who has been spending two
weeks with Miss Carrie Hobgood,
left for her home on Wednesday.
Mr. N. M. Lawrence, of Oxford,
and Rev. V. A. Sharpe, of Stem,
were delegates to the Sunday School
Convention at Durham this week.
Mrs. S. A. Fleming and daugh
ter, Miss Fannie, Mrs- C. S. Bullock
and Miss Dalby, of Hester, were very
pleasant visitors at this office on Fri
day. Messrs. A. J. Harris and H. T.
Watkins, of Henderson, were in our
town Monday on legal business, and
we enjoyed a visit from these gen
tlemen. Mr. B. F. Kronheimer, the wide
awake clothing merchant of Oxford,
is now in the Northern markets pur
chasing an elaborate line of clothing
and furnishing goods.
Mr. W. A. Wilkinson, of Bur
lington, who has been on a visit to
his father and mother at Averett,
Va., spent Friday in Oxford on his
return home. We are glad to learn
that he is doing well at Burlington
in the warehouse business.
The Misses Burnett, near Oxs
ford, were in town Tuesday.
Mrs. Jennie Hunter and childien
are visiting friends in Durham.
Mr. J. B. Roller spent Monday
and Tuesday in Chase City, Va.
Capt. Chas. Elliott, of Norfolk,
Va., is visiting Oxford this week.
Miss Helen Cannady has return
ed from a visit to friends in Durham.
W. I. Skinner left Wednesday
for Wilson to buy tobacco on that
market.
Hon. Baldy Williams, who was
quite sick a few days ago, is much
improved.
Mrs. Geo. Furgerson and son,
Jack, are on a visit to her parents
near Seaboard.
Mr. and Mrs. S. D. McFarland,
of the Trinity section, were on our
streets Tuesday.
Messrs. J. A. Renn and J. C,
Horner are attending the meeting of
the Road Congress in Raleigh.
Mr. A. T. Grissom and son, of
Grissom, were in Oxford on Saturday
and we enjoyed a visit from them.
Miss Avlona Thomasson, of
Stem, is spending the week in Ox
ford, the guest of Miss Viola Jones.
Mr. Lawson Knott, accompanied
by his bright little daughter, Miss
Julia, were in Oxford Tuesday and
paid us a short visit.
We enjoyed a visit on Tuesday
afternoon from Mr. J. W. Morton, of
Satterwhite. We found him an en
thusiastic Democrat as of old.
W. W. Hart, 6f Oak Hill, paid
his respects to the editor Tuesday.
He is highly delighted with the pros
pects of his crop of corn and tobacco.
We are sorry to chronicle the ill
ness of the wife of "Uncle" Buck
Peed, at Hargrove. We truly hope
she will soon recover and make glad
the hearts of her family.
Mrs. Willie Howell and children,
accompanied by her sister, Miss Jes
sie Adams, of Alabama, spent some
days this week with Mrs. Charley
Bryan, near the Crews Mill.
Misses Grace Wilson, of Sto
vall, Nellie Williams, of Richmond,
Va., and Carrie Norvell, of Coving
ton, Ky., are the guests of Mr. and
Mrs. J. W. Morton, of Satterwhite.
Messrs. Maurice Daniel, of Corn
wall, W. T. Allen, of Tar River
Academy, J. T. C. Norwood, of Sto
vail, and H. E. Overton, of Fishing
Creek, visited our sanctum on Wed
nesday. Durel Brummitt and Mr. Caw
thorn, of Fishing Creek, and Messrs.
Eppy Grissom and son, Rufus Gris
som, two true blue Democrats of
Vance, paid the "old man" a visit
on Monday.
Mr, Fred Crews, who is recog
nized as an excellent salesman, is
now behind the counters of the gen
tlemanly Long Bros. He would be
glad to serve his friends whenever
they need dry goods, &c.
We regret to chronicle the con
tinued sickness of our little friend
Charley Brooks. Dr. Williams found
it necessary to perform an operation
on him to relieve him of another ab
scess. He is now getting along
nicely.
Mr. Charley Gordon, of Fishing
Creek, called to see us on Tuesday.
He informed us that curing tobacco
was the order of the day with him
just now. We feel sure "Shoe Pegs"
will have good luck curing his to
bacco this season as it is a regular
Democratic vear.
Mr. W. E. Royster. one of our
good farmeis of the Big Rock sec
tion, was in Oxford Monday and
paid ye editor a visit. We found
him a pleasant old gentleman, and
entirely out of politics, as he has not
cast a vote since the war. We urge
him to break the record and yote for
honest Gus Graham for Congress.
Gas Hobgood dropped in to see
us on Tuesday and was enthusiastic
over his crop. He said he was fully
healed and would not be a candidate
for any office this year, not even for
Congress. Why, said he, my corn
crop is so good I have commenced
cutting it down already and feeding
it to my hogs for fear I will not save
it all.
That staunch, good citizen, Mr.
B. T. Winston, of Adoniram, passed
through Oxford Wednesday on his
way to join Mrs. Winston and son
Thomas, who are on a visit to rela
tives in Franklin county. He drop
ped in for a few minute's chat with
ye editor, and we were glad to learn
from him that crops in his section
were exceedingly good.
The Washington correspondent
of the News and Observer says that
Charles Gulick and two sisters, of
Charleston, S. C, are visiting their
father, Major W. B. Gulick, who
holds a responsible position in the
Navy Department. They have many
friends in Oxford, as well as a brotn
er, Willie Gulick, who is recognized
as one of our best business men.
A WORD FROM THE EDITOR.
Do You Wish a Good Paper in Oxford,
If so You Must Sustain It?
With the exception of some six
years since 1874 we have published a
Democratic paper in Oxford. We
have all the while stood by Oxford
and Granville county, for Demo
cratic principles and a white man's
government. This course has been
pursued by us amid many trials and
difficulties, pecuniary and otherwise.
We have remained at our post when
it was directly against our pecuniary
interest to do so striving to forward
the interests of our good people.
We feel that we are entitled to a
liberal support from the Democratic
party. We feel also that we ought
to have a liberal support from the
people of Oxford and the people of
the county. This we regret to say we
are not receiving except to a limited
extent. The hard times has had
something to do with it, but in spite
of hard times we feel that we should
have received more patronage, both
from subscribers and advertisers.
Unless we do get more encouragment
from those we think we have a right
to expect it from we do not see how
we can continue the publication of
the Public Ledger.
We hope we are mistaken, and
that we shall yet receive more pat
ronage from the public. Our sub
scription list in country and
town is good, and we truly thank
those who have stood by us during
our management of the paper.
If there is any prejudice against us
personally, or in regard to our course
that is displeasing to the people of
Oxford or the Democratic party of
the county, and thy are unwilling
to sustain us in our efforts to build up
the town and county and Democratic
party we will gladly sell out our en
tire outfit at a reasonable price, and
they then can get a successor to us to
run the paper. We, however, flatter
ourselves that we have furnished as
good a paper as the circumstance
would admit of.
What we have written about the
town has been for its general interest
and prosperity. We have been a
faithful friend and advocate of De
mocracy. As to Oxford, particularly
the tobacco market, which is one of
the best tobacco markets to be found
anywhere, we have said a great deal.
Our gratuitous articles on this head,
for which we have not received or
sought compensation, have been
many, and often believing as we do
that our tobacco market is the bed
rock of our prosperity. Still our
columns show a very small per cent,
of the merchants and warehouses ad
vertised in them. Some of them
have encouraged us in advertising
and job work, and we believe they
have received full value for every
dollar they have invested in this way.
We do not wish to give up the Pub
lic Ledger, if possible to keep it up,
and we are willing to make all need
ful sacrifice to do so. We hope the
town and county will vie with each
other and hold up our hands at this
time when it is so important that we
should have a Democratic newspaper
in the county. The prospects of vic
tory we think are to be seen in every
direction.
Come along friends promptly and
liberally to the support of the Pub
lic Ledger. We are anxious to
strike the enemies of Democracy
more telling blows, believing the
Democratic party to be the only hope
of the country.
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To the Republican Voters of the 5th
Congressional District.
Believing that four-fifths of the
voters in the party favor a free and
unlimited coinage of silver, and
being unable, conscientiously, to
support Mr. Settle, who is an avowed
enemy ol silver money; and whose
record in Congress I believe to be
entirely indefensible; I hereby de
clare myself an independent Repub
lican candidate for a seat in the 54th
Congress.
At an early day I shall publish an
address to the voters of the district
wherein will be fully set forth the
reasons which have led me to make
this announcement.
Respectfully, &c,
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LOCAL LINKS.
Things that Happen in Town and
County Boiled Down.
New goods and new tobacco are
rolling into Oxford daily.
President Cleveland spent a few
days at Gray Gables this week.
We thank Mr. W. B. Knott, of
Tar River, for a nice watermelon.
Hon. Fred A. Woodard is renom
inated J or Congress in 2nd District.
The infant child of Mr. and Mrs.
J. F. White we regret to learn is
quite sick.
Mr. J. C. Randolph showed us a
stalk of corn taken from his garden
with 7 well developed ears of corn
on it.
Tariff bill goes into effect to
night at one minute past 12, with the
Sugar trust on top, and the people
at the bottom.
Our farmers are making excel
lent cures of tobacco, and new to
bacco continues to be sold on our
market at excellent prices.
Fall term of Oak Ridge Institute
opened this week with the largest
attendance in its history. The school
has the confidence of the educating
public.
Mrs. L. W. Stark leaves today
for Greenville to join Mr. Stark who
is connected with tobacco market of
that progressive city on the lower
Tar.
Judge Hoke was too sick to hold
Person court this week, and owing
to the short notice Goy. Carr did not
have time to designate another Judge
to hold the term.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Osborn during
the past week were the recipients of
several substantial presents from
their relatives and friends. We wish
them great happiness through life.
W. H. Chavis, a prosperous col
ored farmer of Fishing Creek, and
Rosa L. Tillotson, of Berea, were
married on Wednesday by Rev. J.
R. Cozart. They are good colored
people, and we wish them much joy.
We see from the Gold Leaf that
Plummer Rowland, one of the lead
ing apostles of the Third party in
Vance county; is published as an in
solvent. No wonder he is in favor
of negro rule as he pays no taxes for
them to squander.
For the Confederate Veterans'
Re-Union at Chase Citv, Va., Aug.
30, 1894, the Southern Railway Co.
will sell special round-trip tickets at
greatly reduced . rates as follows:
From Oxford, $1.00; Durham, $2.75.
Tickets on sale Aug. 29th and 30th.
Limit Sept. 1st, 1894.
Mr. Gus Graham and Mr. Thos.
Settle, along with Mr. W. W. Fuller,
Chairman of the Democratic Execu
tive committee, and Mr. Wray,
Chairman of the Republican Execu
tive Committee, will meet in Greens
boro next Monday to arrange for a
joint canvass in the district.
On Friday afternoon some one
suspected that the dog of Capt. C. P.
Powell was mad, as he acted in a
strange manner, and he called on
Mr. Roy Hobgood to dispatch his
dogship to the happy hunting
grounds. It took three shots to fin
ish the job. Chief Renn also killed
a mad dog near the jail Saturday
morning.
A cow hitched to a cart created
some excitement on Hillsboro Street
Tuesday afternoon by running
away. A few negro boys gave a
yell and it looked like they sprung
up out of the ground, as about 50
of them put out after the runaway
and captured her. We venture the
assertion that Oxford possesses more
idle negro boys than any town in the
State.
Mr. Sol W. Cooper has asso
ciated himself with Mr. R. F. Knott.
This makes a strong team and the
farmers can bet on getting the high
est market prices for all grades of
tobacco. Sol W. Cooper, Lsq., is
one of the most genial and popular
young men ever raised in the county
and R. F. Knott is a successful ware
houseman and sells large quantities
of tobacco.
Mr. James A. Renn is not only
a good officer, but he is warm-hearted
and ever ready to do everything
in his power to relieve the wants or
the afflicted. If he hears of any one
who is sick and needs attention,
whether it is night or day, you will
be sure to find him there administer
ing to the comfort of the patient.
And the beauty about it is he is al
ways willing to go when called on.
Messrs. Harris, Gooch & Co., of
Henderson, have secured the servi
ces for the coming tobacco season of
Mr. C. F. Meadows, who is well
known to the farmers of this section.
He is a wide-awake, stirring drum
mer and is always on the lookout for
the best interest of the farmers. Re
member him when vou go to Hen
derson with a load of tobacco, and
he will see that you get the highest
prices.
Ex-Sheriff James Crews dropped
in to see us Thursday. We were
glad to see him out after several days
sickness.
We invite our readers to peruse
the advertisement of Mr. J. S. Bro .vn
elsewhere. He carries a choice line
of goods, and is a hummer as a first
class grocer, and Ernest Edcrerton is
all smiles when filling orders for the
excellent line of groceries kept by
friend Brown.
Remember that Joe Webb, the
old reliable furniture man, is nicely
nxed up m the Landis Buildiner with
a handsome line of new furniture
fresh from the factories. Be
sure and call on him in the Landis
building when you need anything in
the furniture line. Read his adver
tisement in another column.
Sale of the O. & C. Road.
The Oxford & Clarksville road was
sold at the passenger depot in Ox
ford on Wednesday morning last at
9 o'clock. The bidder was Mr. Chas.
H. Coster, of the reorganization
committee, who bid $150,000 for
that part of the road in N. C. from
Durham to Soudan, Va., and that
part of the road in Virginia from
Soudan to Clarksville, he bid in at
$50,000. It will be seen that the
Oxford & Clarksville Road fetched
the small sum of $200,000, the dis
tance of the whole line from Durham
to Clarksville.
The genial Col. A. B. Andrews,
second Vice-President of the South
ern Railway Co., was along, who is
recognized as one of the cleverest,
most useful and influential railroad
men in the South. Accompanying
Col. Andrews, were the following
distinguished railroad representa
tives : Besides Mr. Coster, were Mr.
F. L. Stitson, General Counsel for
the Company; Mr. Calhoun, of New
York Trust Company; Mr. Charles
Price, Special Master, and Mr.
Klutts, of Salisbury, auctioneer.
The question now uttermost in the
hearts of our people is, what has
become of the $00,000 Oxford and
Oxford township subscribed to the
Road '?
Gone where the woodbine twineth
and the wheedaddle whonketh.
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It is a source of great gratification
to the editor to hear the name of our
distinguished townsman, Capt. John
A. Williams, very prominently men
tioned in connection with nomination
for the Legislature. He is exceeding
ly popular and by far one of the best
men we can get to lead the Democ
racy to victory. The times demand
our very best men and as Capt John
is looked upon as being one of our
most talented citizens, a true ex
ponent on all occasions of true Dem
ocratic principles, having long been
recognized as one of the safe coun
selors of the party.
He is a modest, retiring gentleman
of the old school, and in case he
could be induced to accept the nonii
nation and was elected ho would
prove one of the best posted men as
well as one of ablest debaters in the
the Legislature. We need just such
material to make laws fot our peo
ple, and we would take great pleas- .
ure and pride in supporting such a
gentleman as we know Capt. Wil
liams to be.
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Miss Karen Jeffress, of Mecklens
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She is a regular graduate of the bus
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was offered a position in the same.
Miss Jeffress will also assist in Ihe
primary department, in which work
he has considerable experience, and
for which she comes highly recom
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