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FINE JOB PRINTING.
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to the whole sys-
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HEARD THE
LATEST?
It is reported that when
Mother Hubbard found
that there was no bone in
the cupboard for her Jog,
she immediately got a
VICTOR
BiarCLE
And she went over to her
neighbor's house, who was
using a
"FARMER GIRL"
COOK STOVE
And got one. Alter she
saw how nicely the meat
was roasted and how lit
tle trouble it was to keep
everything baked up nice
ly, she resolved then and
there to use nothing else
hut the "Farmer 'Girl"
ook J-tove.
We canrot vouch for
the truthfulness of this
report, but if she did she
showed gond judgment.
S. H. SMITH,
OXFORD, N. C.
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LOCAL HAPPENINGS.
Things that Happen in Town and
County Boiled Down.
Ralph Bingham will appear at
the Opera House on March 25th.
The feuce arouud the old Dr.
Young residence is being repaired.
The Daily Caucasian ceased to
be, at the adjournment of the Legis
lature. v
Mr. Gus Hobgood's horse ran
, away a few days ago and demolish-
ed a new wagon. x
, Chief Renn has the Rock
j Crusher at work and is greatly im
proving the sidewalks.
Mr. Job Osborn requests us to
ask. all those who have his tin buck
ets to return them at once.
Tohacco continues to roll in on
the wave of mud, and fetches high
ayerages on the Oxford market.
The Masons have removed their
lodge room over the store of Long
Bros., and are having it nicely fixed
up.
The Baptists of Rockingham
have called Rev. J. G. Blalock, of
Granville, to the pastorate of their
church.
Several of our merchants are
receiving new Spring goods. Keep
a sharp look out for their advertise
ments in the Public Ledger.
Bill Crews, who represented the
Rep-Pop-Douglasites in the Legisla
ture, and who has been at home for
10 days quite sick is improving.
It is a great pleasure to us to
announce that our honored Mayor,
Maj. B. S. Royster, who has been
quite sick, is able to walk about his
room.
IT. S. Commissioner J. K. Wood
had before him on Tuesday several
persons who had been engaged in
blockading, and bound them over to
Court.
With downcast ejTes and manner
grave
She makes her way to church.
But hastens home with beaming looks
Ne.v fashion books to search.
--W uast the gentlemen who
have the cotton factory in hand will
bestir themselves and let us ere
many months pass hear the spindles
and looms hum.
Geo. Knott has now a very live
ly assistant postmaster at his home',
and he makes the postmaster wait
on him at night. It is said to be
quite a fine boy.
Stolen from my store on Friday
night last, 3i yards blue trecoe and
some 2 yards of black lining. Will
give $5.00 to recover the same.
mchl5 It.' W. H. Smith.
Jumbo is the name of a new
brand of all tobacco cigarettes just
out. It is a good smoker and made
out of Granville tobacco. They are
becoming quite popular with. Oxford
smokers.
Mr. L. E. Wright is now the
owner of the stoi'e house he occupies,
having bought it from Judge Win
ston. We congratulate friend
Wright upon his great success in
business.
Four children from Caswell Co.
has just entered the Oxford Orphan
Home, and yet a Douglasite fiend
introduced a bill in the Legislature
to cut down the appropriation to
this grand and noble institution.
Mrs. R. Broughton, of Oxford,
has 27 Leghorn hens and one day
this week they laid 27 eggs. Mrs.
Dr. Sweany, of Berea, matches Mrs.
Broughton. She also has 27 hens
and gathered 27 eggs one day this
week.
Mr. B. H. Cozart, who is so well
known in Granville is now associa
ted with Messrs. Carrington &
Hutchins, of the Reams Warehouse,
Durham. He says tobacco is. sell
ing well and advises his friends to
bring it along.
Mr, and Mrs. J. J.'Medford and
children have arrived from Louis
burg and are occupying a house on
'Smith Hill." Mr. Medford is now
in New York buying goods prepara
tory to opening a Racket Store,
about the first of April.
It is said that McFarland, the
live man at Gooch's: mill, a few
mornings since had five boys to visit
him quite early. The youngest was
70 and the oldest was 76, and they
were as lively as 16-year olders, but
could not get around as fast.
A rank Thirdite of Northern
Granville says : "Since the fool
Legislature endorsed miscegenation
Douglass, their party has also be
come corrupt, and a new party
must he formed." Well, for the
sake of office, your leaders just
dropped your party into the Repub
lican slot. '
OXFORD,
A. J. Field, argued a case before
the Supreme Court Saturday.
-The Legislature has abolished
Superintendent of Public Instruction
in the different counties.
Messrs. Frank Reams and J. L.
Watkins, of Durham, spent a few
hours in Oxford Thursday.
The Douglas Legislature has
adjourned after appointing some 80
negio-magistrates in the State.
Rev. J. B. Hurley treated his
large congregation on Sunday morn
ing to a most excellent sermon.
--A woman may not wear her
heart on her sleeve, but the prevail
ing fashion shows her heart's in it.
Mr. E. F. Wall, of Poole, Ky.,
send us one dollar to keep posted one
year in what is going on in old Gran
ville. In the economy of life it doesn't
pay to be always borrowing trouble
and paying a high rate of interest
on it.
As our people were returning
home from church Sunday night,
they witnessed the full eclipse of the
moon.
Her brow 'twas like the snowdrift,
Her throat 'twas like the swan;
But took a mint of money
For the nowder she put on.
Bishop Cheshire preached Sun
day night at the Episcopal church
to a &ery large congregation. He
was assisted in the services by Rev.
J. M. Horner.
Rumor has it that there will be
ere many moons roll around a wed
ding on College street, when North
Oxford and South Oxford will be
united by ties of love.
The Senators presented Lieut.
Governor Doughton with a hand
some gold watch. In the House
Speaker Walser received a gold
watch at the hands of the Repre
sentatives. -r-Farmers do not forget to read
the change in S. H. Smith's adver
tisement on first page. He is a re
liable dealer in hardware, buggies,
wagons, etc., and will sell goods at
rock bottom Tricos.
Mr. J. A. Thomas, the news
paper man, and who is ever on the
still hunt not by moonlight alone,
but in the day time, dropped in on
us Monday morning fresh from the
running branches that worm their
way though the hills of Granville.
The genial E. B. Parrott, of
Wilton, was in Oxford on Monday
and shed the rays of his pleasant
countenance in our sanctum. We
were glad to learn from him that he
had received good prices for his to
bacco and was "right side up witn
care
Our Billy, your Billy and every
body's Billy Brown was treated very
handsomely by his subordinates in
the enrolling department of the
Legislature. They presented him
with a nice gold watch. Of course
Billy will watch the way the political
cat jumps next year.
We had the pleasure of meeting
in our sanctum a few days ago, Mr.
Jones, of Michigan, who is thinking
of buying land in Granville. Capt.
J. A. Williams showed him some of
our Granville land, at which he was
highly pleased and is charmed with
our delightful climate.
Give Oxford a Showing.
The Southern Railroad authorities
must think that Mr. Gowan Dusen
bery and his efficient assistant, Mr.
Willis, have the capacity to do aboat
four men's work, as they are not
willing to allow force enough to do
the work at the depot. We believe
in retrenchment when necessary, but
we do not believe in a corporation
grinding good men, who are willing
to work, down to powder. They
need one more man, and as Oxford
has no representative at the depot
we suggest that the .company put
Mr. Ed Osborn in as they have done
away with the Dabney office, where
he served them faithfully.
We are frank enough to say that
Oxford is really entitled to a place
at the depot as the town has blown
in $60,050 to the road which -has
been entirely, gobbled up by the new
organization, and hence they ought
to give Mr. Osborn an appointment
to assist in 'the work at the depot.
It is nothing but justice to Oxford.
General Lee.
I will stand my thoroughbred
Kentucky Jack, "General Lee" this
season at Stem, Lyon and Knap of
Reeds. He is an extra good animal,
ana is well recommended.
Thos. White, Jr.
Oxford, N. C, March 15, 1895.
Rftllfl of Durham is the best nlckle
olirar sold in Oxford. Hand made ha-
vanna niiea. iry w. mvui u
N. 0., FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1895.
PLUNDERERS ADJOURN.
Gov. Carr Gets in His Work on the
Douglassites Poor Kitchin.
The Rep-Pop Douglassites, who
assembled 60 days ago to the disgrace
of North Carolina, adjourned Wed
nesday night and the good people of
the State are thankful? They cap
tured everything that could be put
on "Pie counter," but several along
with Buck Kitchin 'got badly left
we are proud he cannot capture the
penitentiary. Old Buck shivers while
Gideonite Wilson smiles, and Dr. A.
J. Dalby looks cross because, my son
Robert hit the dome in search of the
Librarian place, but Biliy Brown
played short stop and caught his hat
on the fly.
On account of a large number of
Rep-Pop Douglassites leaving just
as soon as their pay was cut off the
noble order patriots they did finish
up stealing the offices.
The News and Observer of Thurs
day says, the Democrats weie win
ners yesterday. The Fusionists
were furious with impotent rage.
There were several surprises in store
for them during the day. They had
resorted to revolutionary proceed
ings, hitherto unknown in the history
of the State, to make places for
their followers, in the Penitentiary
and State Library. They had par
celled out the places to their satis
faction, and after the caucus action
of selecting the head men, thought
that they already had the pie in their
mouths.
"The Democrats haye fairly beat
us," said an extreme Populist last
night. "It was due to Republican
treachery and Populist folly."
Never mind the cause- The peo
ple rejoice that something was saved
from the wreck.
The Fusionists had passed a bill
to turn out the present State Libra
rian, and elect E. H. Stanford, a
clerk, in his stead. When the tellers
reported the vote, Stanford, like
Kitchin, had fallen to the bottom of
the well to keep him company. He
received only 74 votes when 86 were
necessary.
The next surprise that stunned the
Fusionists was a communication
from the Governor appointing Hon.
O. P. Meares Judge of the Eastern
Criminal Circuit, (Cook has been
elected by the Logislature), and
Thos. A. Jones Judge of the West
ern Criminal Circuit, (Ewart had
been elected by the Legislature).
This was an unexpected bomb that
exploded, and scattered the Fusion
ists in consternation. It was the
Governor's notice that he intended
to stand upon his constitutional
right to appoint to all Judgeships,
and to frustrate the scheme to foist
Radical legislators upon the bench
in violation of the Constitution.
Ewart was so nervous all day that
he waddled about like a chicken
with its head off Cook is at home
sick, and, of course, his rage could
not be seen.
The next surprise was the confir
mation by the Senate of B. R. Lacy
as Commissioner of Labor Statistics,
as the Rep-Pops expected to put one
of their members in his place.
Called on the "Rattle Trap."
The following yeomanry of the
county called to see us since our last
issue:
L. F. Currin, J. F. Cole and R.
W. Hobgood, of Sunset; Geo. B.
Daniel, of Satterwhite; H. E. Crews
and R. T. Atwood, of Vance; W. M.
Bradford, H. E. Overton, W. A.
Parham, Simeon Tippett, Ollie Pitts
and S, T. Dickerson, of Fishing
Creek; E. B. Parrott, of Wilton; B.
E. Green, of Dutchyille; James B.
Elliott, of Cornwall; Lee Minor, of
Hargrove; T. .W. Wright, W. H.
Tilley, A. F. Duncan and D. D. Dun
can, of Center Grove, Person county.
A Des Moines woman who has been
troubled with frequent colds, concluded
to try an old remedy in a new way, and
accordingly took a tablespoon ful (four
tmes the usual dose) of Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy just before going to bed.
The next morning she found that her
cold had almost entirely disappeared
DuriDg the day she took a few doses of
the remedy one teaspooaful at a time and
at night again took a tablespoon before
going to bed, and on the following morn
ing awoke free from all symptoms of the
cold. Since then she has, on several oc-,
casions, used this remedv in like manner,
with the same good results, and is much
elated over her discovery of so quick a
way of curing a cold. For sale by J. G.
Hall, Druggist.
Bnekleu'H Arnica Salve.
The best salve in the world for Cuts
Bruises, bores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever
Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains,
Corns, and all Skin Euruptions, and posi
tively cures piles, or no pay required. It
is guaranteed to give perfect satisf action
or tooney refunded. Price 25 cents per
box. For sale by J. G. Hall. may 29.
Remember that Raudolph & 'Co.
are selling plant bed cloth.
Oh, Come Off 1
Well, some of the Douglassites say
that the card we published last week
from the Messrs. Green, of Stem, re
nouncing their allegiance to the
Douglassite party, is a "Democratic
Rattle Trap" lie. We have their
card in our office with their names
to it, and it was brought in by a
member of the family, so it will be
seen that the "Old Rattle Trap" has
more truth in it than the Douglass
ites have.
Consider Business Men.
And exchange makes this sugges
tion which we trust our business men
will consider as the Public Ledger
has done everything in its power to
bring trade to Oxford and encourage
her enterprises. What would Ox
ford and Granville county be with
out a paper:"In towns where a news
paper is published, every business
man ought to advertise it it, even if
it is only a card stating his name
and the business he is engaged in.
It helps sustain a paper lets people
at a distance know that the town is
a business town. The paper finds its
way into thousands of places where
hand-bills cannot reach. A card in
the paper is a traveling sign-board
and can be seen by everyone. Think
of these things and let your light
shine."
Good Thing.
The American Druggist, of New
York, has a department in which
business hints to druggists are treat
ed. In this portion of the journal,
from time to time, are reproduced
the hand-bills, circulars, newspaper
advertisements, etc., prepared by
druggists all over the country. Of
eourse th re is only room for the
most striking and original, or the
most really displayed and printed
ones, as tons of such matter are
issued yearly.
In its number for February 25th
appears a copy of the circular an
nounceing the formation of the
corpartnership between H. O. Furs
man and F. B. Hays which were
scattered oyer Oxford some six years
ago.
This circular was written by the
junior member of that firm and exe
cuted by a printer now on our force
and as stated in the American Drug
gist, which is not the journal with
which Mr. Hays is now connected,
was unique and epigrammatic.
SVhcn Baby was sick, we gave ner a.kitt.
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria.
When she had Children, she gave them Castor
The Great I Am.
One day during the past week a
Democrat walked into the Sheriff's
office to see the Sheriff and was very
much surprised to see the only occu
pant of the little iron cage Starva
tion Bill Royster, with his feet cock
ed up over the desk and a pen be
hind his ear. As he entered the dis
tinguished leader of the Douglass
ites said, with all the dignity of a
great ruler, "walk right in, sir; can
I have the pleasure of waiting on
you?"
This was too much for the Demo
crat as he could not stand the col
ored press-ure, especially from "my
partner" Who would stoop so low as
to starve his own race that by un
fortunate circumstances became oc
cupants of Hotel de Royster, better
known as the jail, and he retired
with the knowledge of the disgrace
the Douglassites had brought upon
the county.
The next man to view this entranc
ing scene was a follower of Jud
Dalby, Cozart, Peace & Co., and he
too was treated with the utmost
suavity ' by his immaculate Starva
tionship, but it was a little too much
for him and he fell back in disgust,
remarking as he struck ;the hard
brick in the corridor of the court
house, "this just beats all, a black
negro playing Sheriff of Granyille,
and I do not intend to have any
thing more to do with such a party.
A negro in the Sheriff's office to wait
on a white man is a little more than
I can swallow." It is said he showed
the utter disgust on his face as he
talked.
A Lew Pastry Cook Book.
Miss L. A. Willis, Principal Balti
more Cooking School has complied a
new Pastry Cook Book which is be
ing distributed to the patrons of the
well known Horsford Bread Prepara
tion. The reputation of another
the book of especial value. Mail one
wrapper from a package of Horsford
Bread Preparation, to the Rumford
Chemical Works, Providence, rt. x.
A copy will be sent tree.
nOVEflENTS OF PEOPLE.
Coming and Going of Friends and
Strangers.
Mrs. J, O. Bunn, is on a visit to
Wilson.
Capt. A. S. Peace is confined to
his home with sickness.
Miss Annie Harrison of Ridge
way, is visiting Dr. Fort.
Bailey Hobgood, of Durham,
was on our streets Tuesday.
R. H. McGuire, of Richmond,
Va., was on our streets Friday.
Miss Lucy Williams is yisiting
relatives in Edgecombe county.
- M. C. H. Green and son, of
Dexter, called to see us Tuesday.
J. F. Rogers, of Richmond, Va.,
spent several days in Oxford the past
week.
Mr. Geo. Walker, of Wilkins,
was on our streets Friday and called
to see us.
Messrs. W. E. Jones and'W. R.
Garner, of Grissom, called to see us
on Thursday.
Miss Annie Puryear, of Oak
Hill, was the guest of the Misses
Holloway the past eek.
Mr. and Mis. Bailey Owen, and
Mrs. Henry Perry and son, of Hen
derson, visited Oxford this week.
Messrs. R. W. Hobgood and J.
F. Cole, of Sunset, were on our
streets Tuesday and dropped in to
see us.
Ed. Faucette, the sprightly Dur
hum Correspondent of the News &
Observer spent Saturday with his
mother in Oxford.
Miss Bowling, of Durham county,
who has been on a visit to her broth
er, Mr. J. G. Bowling, returned home
on Sunday.
We enjoyed a pleasant visit on
Monday from Rev. J. W. Adkinson.
pastor of several Baptist Churches
in Southern Granville.
It3h on human, mange on horses, dogs
ana an siock cured in 60 minutes by
Woolford's Sanitary Lotion. This never
fails. Sold by J. G. Hall, druggist, Ox
ford, N. C.
I have a good line of Baggies prices
from $35 UD. The Hacknev fnr vnnna
men and the Babcock for any that want
ine Dest and easiest riding buggy that is
sold anywhere. Prices to suit.
mch!5. S. H. Smith.
Oliver Chilled Plows and Castings at
S.- H. Smith's. mchl5.
Good as the Best.
There appeared in sthis paper yes
terday morning an adyertisement of
the newly-chartered Southern Stock
Mutual Insurance Company, of
Greensboro, and attention is invited
to its plan and to the list of its officers
and directors. Fabulous sums go out
of North Carolina yearly for insur
ance and for other purpose money
which should be kept at home; but
this statement would not be worth a
moment's consideration by a business
man in contemplating the claims of
a local insurance company unless
some such statements as these could
be made about it. That the capital
of this new company is $100,000, sub
scribed by twenty capitalists, each
of whom testifies that he is worth not
less than $25,000; that all all profits.
except 10 per cent., which is set
aside for a reserve fund, are divided
among the policy-holders;that policy
holders are non-assessable.
These features make the company
as good as the best- It is a danger
ous thing for an individual or a news
paper to give advice to the public
about matters in which money is in
volved; but the Observer, without
the slightest reservation, gives its
endorsement to the Southern Stock
Mutual Insurance Company. Char
lotte Observer.
See advertisement of this company
in another column.
O.' W. O; Hardman, Sheriff of Tyler
Co. . W. Va:', appreciates a good thiug and
does not heiitate to say so. He was al
most prostrated with a cold when he pro-;
cured a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough
Remedv. He srys: ?Mt gave me prompt
relief. I find it to be an invaluable remedy
for coughs and colds." For sale by J. G
Hall, Druggist,
Don't allow yourself to be told that
there are other" wagons sold that equal
the "Old Hickory." I have sold $10,
000 00 worth of them here and every
. , .1 1 TT .
user says mey are me ueoi. navu uui
had to pay S 10 U0 repairs on all 1 nave
sold. I have a fresh car load for sale
1 hut. verv little hie her than others
that have to spend a good portion of their
" 1 f
time at repair snops. iei my prices ue
fore you buy. mchl5i S. H. Smitu.
For the best corn-planters go to S. H.
Smith. mch!5.
For the real "Old Hickory" wagons
go t S. H. Smith. mcnit.
. Orinoco Tobacco Guano is king of
the golden belt. " ' mieh.84t.SI
$1.00 PER ANNUM.
FfFTY-THIRD CONGRESS, ADIEU.
The - Democrats Have a Fighting
Chance in the Next Campaign.
To the Editor of Charlotte Observer:
That Congress has adjourned, let
us be thankful as becomes recipients
of a great blessing. While review
ing its past acts, let us try to gather
wisdom for the future.
The moral sentiment of the people
is not lower Joday than when the
constitution was executed. The peo
ple have forgotten their birthright
only for the time being. Greed of
gain has crowded out higher aspira
tions in the cities; natural prejudice
against change, and long association
with conditions not in keeping with
the progress of civilization has dulls
ed the conscience of the country. The
consequence is this: politicians, so
called, demagogues in reality, have
seen and seized their opportunity,
rung the changes on the labor ques
tion, on finance, on education, on the
color line, on anything that promises
one more vote, and to what purpose,
viz; to their own personal advantage,
first, second, and every time.
Four-fifths of them today could
not give an intelligent explanation
of what the coinage of silver at a
ratio of 16 to 1 means; and this same
currency question is the one that is
to become the most important be
tween now and the fall of 1896.
Why do the people suffer these
things to continue? Because they
are indifferent, their attention being
otherwise occupied; because they are
not quite vet goaded to action by
personal inconvenience, but primari
ly, because they do not realize that
at the bottom of every political ques
tion there is a moral one; because
they need to be told, to have it carri
ed home to them again and again,
that a moral issue wrongly acted on
will continue to come to the front at
most unexpected and inconvenient
times until it is rightly decided. To
lead the people, to educate, to ex
plain, to make clear, is the business
of a statesman. To cover up, to
twist, to turn, to do anything to get
votes, is the process of a politician.
Let us define:"A statesman seeks
the greatest good to the greatest
number; he puts principle above
party, personal character above
partisanship, duty before policy, be
lieving always that the right will
triumph eventually. The politician
is the reverse. Witness the Fred
Douglas episode; by all means ren
der unto Douglas all honor that is
due kim 0,0 a. -citizen, who showed by
his example, perhaps more than any
other in his generation, what a man
may attain to who starts from no
thing and works his way up surround
ed by most adverse circumstances.
But what self-respecting citizen of
North Carolina, white or colored, can
look without contempt on the rabble
of politicians at Raleigh, when he
thinks of the motive that leads to the
vote for adjournment?
To come back to national affairs
the growing interest in the currency
is fast obscuring all else. The dis
tinction between policy and duty has
already been shown, but there are
cases in which they run in parellel
lines and this is one. From the
standpoint of policy, the only one
in this article for which there will
be space, it will be seen that in the
next presidential campaign only a
sound money man can be elected;
because the States in favor of sound
money control the majority of yotes
in the electoral college. These States
are sure to vote for a sound money
President by whichever party he is
nominated, because the Dalance of
power is held by a class of voters
who weigh candidates and platforms
without party bias,' casting their
ballots for those men and measures
which seem to them most desirable.
Witness a Democratic Governor
elected three times in succession in
Massachusetts; Hill turned down on
the Maynard issue, an an immense
majority given Governor Morton
later. This independent movement
started in an agitation for free trade,
begun in Boston before President
Cleveland was first elected, and was
largely instrumental in bringing the
Democratic party into power. Since
then it has spread over the North
and East and each year widens the
circle of its influence.
If the Republicans carry the coun
try in '96 it means a continuance of
the government in the banking busi
ness, the same old national bank
system and inelastic currency, money
going begging in New York at 2 per
cent, and hard to get in the South at
8 per cent. The Democratic party
has more than a fighting chance in
the next campaign if its statesmen
are allowed to shape its course, with
a leader whose views of finance are
sound beyond question and a plat
form declaring for the payment of
all government obligations in gold
or its equivalent, the replacing of
greenbacks and Treasury notes with
those of State banks properly secur
ed. It can carry enough of the
Northern States to return it to power
The more so as the currency question
is one that today divides both great
parties in their own ranks.
By no other way can the Democra
tic party succeed, for when the peo
ple shake off their lethargy, as they
will, and think for themselves, find
ing there is a fight on between hon
est money and repudiation, they
will register their decision for the
right. Then will the silverites, the
bi-metallic idealists and trimmers of
every sort find themselves inextri
cably mixed with the Populists in
the ditch. Louis de Lacroix.
Oxford, N. C, March 5, '95.
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