THE PUBLIC LEDGER.
By JOHxX T. BRITI
ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING.
nYfdRTl "N. d - DEC. 3M895.
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PAYMENT FOR ADVERTISEMENTS.
Ke-nlur yearly contracts, payable qnt"ly.
a 11 .?hers when bill is presented, except legal
notice, aid tran lent advertisements, which
must be accompanied by the cash in every in
tance. CORRESPONDENTS.
We want a ood, live, reliable correspondent
in eve section of the county. To all who will
.and ul the news, we will send the paper free
Correspondent I muet get their letters m at east
h Tuesday night, else they may miss pubhea
ittewHpSrve all rlsrht to condense or reject
comWnicatlons. We re not responsible tor
views of correspondents.
JOB WORK.
We have a well-equipped Job Office, and can
do nice stationery work, hand-bill work-in fact.
Ill kinds of work at prices that will be reasona
ble. We guarantee our stationery, and can
Dleae von. We do no credit business in thi
department, as only the cash can buy from sta
tionery merchants at reasonable ngures.
The pops are still in the Republi
can soup, and black at that.
Fire-eating Bill Chandler is like
the American eagle's bill; patriotic
with a hook.
Judge T. C. Fuller, of II leigh,
has again been nominated; by
President Cleveland one of 4he
judges of Land's Claim Court. The
court sits in New Mexico.
The Paesident's few days off in
North Carolina for rest and recrea
tion he needed set all the quacks m
the country quawking. Most oi
them are dead ducks, politically.
Candidates at the Republican Na
tional Convention at St. Louis in
June may be numerous, but Harri
son already engaging a big section
of hotel shows he thinks there's also
room for him.
The cheapest way an obscure Con
gressman can secure notoriety is for
him to arise in his seat on a ques
tion of privilege and demand the
impeachment of some statesman
whose shoes he is not worthy to
latch. Unfortunately congress has
a number of such blatant mouthers.
The News & Observer has sent
Mr. W. E. Christian, an able mem
ber of its staff to Washington City
to furnish it with the freshet, crisp
est news possible. The right
man for the work and readers of
our great State daily will be glad to
hear that Christian is at the head of
the Washington department.
Some big ones and numerous pop
guns like to shoot off their mouths
in Washington so the country may
hear the Congressional reports. II
the two great statesmen, of Carlton,
Vance county, were allowed to ex
plode their wisdom in Congress Tom
Reed and Senator Sherman would
hide their heads in shame.
Allen G. Thurman, the grand old
Democrat, died on 12th. America
has lost one of its truest and best
statesmen. The Old Roman was 82
years old on November 13 last, and
had it not been for his accident a
month ago might have lived for a
number of years, for the feebleness
of age had by no means overcome
him.
Slippery Tommie Settle control
the patronage of the State in Con
gress and the noble order in 5th dis
trict has not got a smell. It is not
known whether the extinguished
Senator Dalby will make the rock
capitol tremble with his giant wis
dom or not by holding an office ii
the House. Is case he does he wil"
see that Rev. Starvation Bill Roys
ter has a soft place, as he is recogni
zed as the great leader of Fusion in
Granville.
Boston's municipal elections took
place on the 10th. The Democrats
swept the city. Josiah Quiucy was
elected mayor by over 3,000 piurali
ty, and the Democrats elected 7
aldermen, a street commissioner and
a school board. It is the first time
in many years that Boston has elec
ted a Democratic school board. The
council is overwhelmingly Demo
cratic. This shows that even in
Massachusetts the Democrats are not
all dead and are in high glee at the
Hub.
The failure of J. B. Pace, the big
tobacco man of Richmond, Va., was
a great surprise. It was for a round
million.
Is there a sweeter charm in age
looking at the Christmas past than
in youth welcoming the Christmas
present ?
The, Washington Star gives a very
j amusing article about the mutual
! suspicion of Senator Maryann and
'Senator Stewart. One sentence gives
: an idoa of the whole: "They catch
each other's eyes now and then with
: a look of peculiar penetration." It
is declared that Stewart follows But
ler after the latter confers with a
fellow Senator; that each regards
the other as crafty. The Star, a
Republican paper, declares that
craftiness is written in every line of
Butler'e face.
The Democratic party does not
seem to be dead, as Chairman Har
rity, of National Executive Com
mittee, has issued a call for a meet
ing of the committee in Washing
ton City on Thursday, January 16.
for the purpose of fixing the time
and place for the meeting of the
Democratic iNational Convention of
1S0G and for the transaction of
other business. This is sad news to
the Pops as they shed many great
tears of ioys when they thought by
joining the Republicans, even vot-
insrfor the colored man and brother.
C5
they had driven the last nail in
the Democratic coffin.
That excellent weekly, The Gold
Leaf of Henderson, has fought a
14-years battle for its now thriving
and prosperous town under the noble
eadership of Thad R. Manning. He
has worked unceasingly in a high-
toned way to advance and build up
his town and county, and it must be
a pleasure to him to know that his
efforts have been appreciated by the
live business men of Henderson and
patriotic citizens of Vance. Bro.
Manning is an ornament to the
Press Association of North Carolina
being one of its oldest and most in
fluential members. We wish with
all our heart that he may have a
joyous Christmas and a Happy New j
Year.
Senator Kyle, Populist, of "South
Dakota, has introduced a bill in the
Senate providing for the erection of
public buildings costing not less
than 86,090 or more than $50,000,
in all tow'ns with a population of
3,000 or more, provided a suitable
site is donated by the people. It
also provides for the issuance of
Treasury notes not to exceed in the
aggregate $100,000,000 to defray
the cost of these buildings. This is
one way of giving the people relief.
If such a bill should become a law
this immense sum of money would
be dumped into the North as all the
contracts for public buildings are
always given to Northern contrac
tors the South not getting a smell.
Editor Hal Ayer, of Maryann's
Caucasian says that some of the Re
publicans are insisting on complete
fusion with the noble order, but the
Popalists want to fuse with any
body who is for free silver. Yes,
anything Lord Butler, so we Pops
can put spoils in our pockets if we
have to hold our nose and swallow
Ephriam to get them. By the way
what has become of the colored no
ble order ? It has not been heard
from since the white Towance drop
into the Republican slot, at which
time Second Messiah Garrrett, the
great head of noble order in Vance,
with the scent of guano playing
hide and seek under his nose, ex
claimed: "I thank God the time has
come when I can swallow a negro."
The great Senate Finance Com
mittee has been given oyer to the
free silver coinage Republicans and
Democrats. It is to consist of Sen
ator Morrill, chairman, Senators
Sherman, of Ohio; Jones, of Neva
da; Allison, of Iowa; Piatt, of Con
necticut; Alrich, of Rhode Island,
and Woolcott, of Colorado, Repub
licans and not a single dear old Pop;
the Democrats are Senators Harris
(of Tennessee; Voorhees, of Indiana;
vest, oi Missouri; Jones, of Arkan
sas; White, of California, and Dan
iel, of Virginia. Of these Senators
eight are for free and unlimited
coinage of silver, and five are for
sound money. That tells the storv
That tells why the Republicans are
neither anxious nor willing to ac
cept the responsibility of reorgani
zing the Senate. Senator Prichard
has captured the cha'rmanshin of
civil service committee while "Me
own sweet Maryann" skirmisher
around for spoils, the policv of evert
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renegade Democrat who jumps at a
silver wheel fringed with black wool.
The gold standard Democrats are
confident they will have the national
convention says a Washington dis
patch. They point to the recent
election as a justification of the pre
diction. They are relying on the
administration. They say the busi
ness communities favor their point
of view, and they deride the claims
of the silven'tes to a majority of the
party. On the other hand the silver
Democrats say that the cause of sil
ver is as strong as ever.
When several companies of the
StateGuard were ordered toNevvbern
about two years ago when there was
threatened trouble with the negroes
of James City, across the river, the
: State paid all the expenses, which
! amounted to something over $6,000.
: Afterwards the State Treasurer
; sought to recover the amount from
Craven county. There was opposi
tion and now the case .has been de
cided in favor of Craven county,
which means the State cannot re
cover the amount. Appealed to the
Supreme Court.
A Raleigh correspondent says :
B. F. Keith, a Pop and member of
the executive committee of Nation
al Silver party is prompt in taking
up Harvey's new order of "Patriots"
and has already organized it in
North Carolina. Its member are
pledged to vote for no gold mono
metalist, to support ample tariff for
revenue, to favor State banks and
the abolition of National banks and
to favor a graduated income tax. The
new order is in line with the ideas
of the North Carolina silver con
vention held in Raleigh in Septem
ber and captured by the Pops.
Major H. L. Grant, of Goldsboro,
a Fusion ist and candidate for Ser
geaut-at arms of U. S, Senate, has
been to Washington and found that
Tom Settle had a cinch on the pat
ronage of this State. The Major
returned home by way of Raleigh
and says that Speaker Reid was told
that if he wanted or expected any
yotes from any district iu North
Carolina save the 5th hes must dis
pense with Slippery Tommie's lea
dership, for otherwise he would
quickly discover that the Republi
cans will not be the tail to Mr. Set
tle's kite. Loge Harris chips in and
says Mr. Reed has alsoreceived sev
eral letters to this effect. The trou
ble is that Tommie is now opposed
to fusion with the noble order.
HIS IRE AROUSED.
An Account Did it and the Old Man
Announced Some Politics.
A very amusing letter was written
by a prominent citizen in an adjoin
ing county to Durham not long since
to a collection agency in Chattanoo
ga, Tennessee, which is now in the
possession of a gentleman in the
town from which it was written.
The gentleman who wrote the let
ter owed an account which he would
not pay and it was finally placed in
the hands of the collection agency
in question for collection. The
agency wrote to him several times
but he did not settle up.
Finally they wrote him that he
was not honest, if he was he would
make an effort to pay the account
This aroused the "old man's" ire
and he replied to them and said he
was, and always had been, an hon
est man; his father before him was
an honest,straightforward gentleman
and his mother was a true, honest
woman (he gave both of their names)
and after saying a great deal more
ho wound up the letter with the fol
lowing paragraph: "D n plutocra
cy, aristocracy, Democracy, gold-
bugism and (irovor Cleveland. Hur
rah for Mary Ann Butler and Free
Silver!"
It is useless to add that he is a
free silver Populist. In the neigh
borhood he has told several if they
wanted to be right to join "the Mor
mon church and Populist party."
The agency, it is understood, has
decided to ltt the "old man" and his
account alone. Durham San.
THE OLDEST
AND THE BEST
Cough-cure, the most prompt and
effective remedy for diseases of the
throat and lungs, is Ayer's Cherry
Pectoral. As an emereencv medi
cine, for the cure of
Croup, Sore Throat,
Lung Fever and
Whooping Cough,
AYER'S
Cherry Pectoral
cannot be equaled.
E. M. Brawlev,
D. D., Dis. Sec. of
the American Ran.
tist Publishing Society, Petersburg,
Va., endorses it, as a cure for violent
colds, bronchitis, etc. Dr. Brawley
also adds:- To all ministers suffering
from throat troubles, I recommend
AYER'S
Cherry Pectoral
Awarded Medal at World's Fair.
AYER'S PILLS Cure Liver and Stomach Troubles.
-BOYS-
oii't Forget
THAT-
The Old Reliable
BANNER . . .
WAREHOUSE
Is Still Leading !
All we ask of you is to come
and bring your tobacco that you
may tell your neighbors and
friends what High Prices
AN5
Mitchell
Are Getting- for all Grades of To
bacco Sold on their Floor.
JIRY USt
With a load or shipment and we
will do our very best to send you
home happy with the eagles
spreading their wings in your
pockets. Don't wait for us to
come and see you but come right
along. We do not take it out in
talking but we make all Tobacco
sold on our floor "carry the news
to Mary."
Farmers remember that the
schedule has been so arranged
that between Oxford and Durham
that you can ship your tobacco
on Monday and Thursday even
ing so as to be in time for Tues
day and Friday's sale.
Very Respectfully,
BULLOCK & MITCHELL.
For the Holidays.
WE WANT YOU TO REMEMBER THE
IMPORTANT FACT THAT
IF YOU DRINK
OR-
Keep it m the House for family use you
can always find the Purest and Best Wines,
Brandies, Beers, Ales, Porter, Old Corn and
Rye Whiskies, etc., by calling on
R. S. Usry,
AT HIS SAME OLD STAND WITH W.
H. GOOCH, OXFORD, N. C.
Remember you can get 4
year Old Corn Whiskey at
SI.50 per Gallon.
nOV22
K. WOOD,
OXFORD, N. C,
UN DB RTAK
ASII
Furniture Dealer,
ER
Unitttri States Commissioner and Justice
of tlieJPeace.
BTI am now prepared to furnish all kinds of
Coffins and Caskets from $ 1.00 up.
EST'Hearee always in readiness. Furniture
of all kinds cheay for CASH.
"Thankful for past fav H.iand your trade
wanted at the BLACK and W MITE front by
J. K. WOOD,
Mock
Hil eboro Mt.
FALL
RNNOUWeEWiENT
Landis & Easton!
Our Fall and Winter stock is now practically complete. In variety
of designs and novelties we have an assortment that far surpasses
anything that we have yet shown.
We are selling as we bought, at the lowest possible prices and
our store is packed with fresh and desirable goods.
Colored Drtss Goods.
i
This department has had our very closest attention and has been
selected with general care and represents the very choicest creations.
Imported French Boncli, Silk and Wool Plaids, Novelty Creponnes,
Serges in all shades from an all wool 36 inch wide at 25 cents per
yard up to the finest imported.
Black Dress Goods.
In this Department we have simply spread ourselves, aud can
offer better values than ever before shown by us.
Cloak Department
We make this Department another one of our leading features
and are offering an unequalled assortment of Capes and Jackets in
the leading shades and styles.
Carpet and Rug Department
Don't fail to ask to be shown our Carpets, Kugs and Art Squares.
We take pleasure in showing and will make low prices.
Shoe Depariment.
It is conceeded by all that our Shoe Stock is the best that is cai
ried in this part of the country. We po&itively will not charge an
advance on Shoes as we bought tiarly. We will give our customers
the advantage of low prices, so Ieng as present stock lasts.
Gents' Furnishings.
We do not carry Ready Made Clothing, but can show one of t he
prettiest assortments of Fant patterns ever shown in Oxford, and by
buying the material and having them made at home you can save
nearly one half. A full and complete assortment of Hats, Caps,
Flannel Underwear, Neckwear, Collars and Cuffs always on hand and
of the best makes.
Polite and attentive sales people. And last, but by no means
least, is our
Millinery
Our Milliner has spent weeks in Baltimore and JNew York per
fecting herself in styles and trimming and we cordially invite all the
ladies to call a ad examine our stock.
I WOULD BE PLEASED TO HAVE YOU CALL
-AT
NEW STOCK OF FURNITURE !
You will find up-to-date styles, rock bottom prices, and an immense variety which cannot rV
to interest yon.
Bed Room Suits from $9.00 to $ 100. Pa'lor Suits from $20.00 to $75.00. Wardrobes from 7 5
to $25,00. Sideboards from f 15 00 to $60.00. Bureaus from $4 00 up. Bedsteads from $1 50 up
Kitchin Safes from $2.00 up. Chairs 25 cents and up. Rockers 50 cents and np.
Bed Springs, Mattresses, Center and Dining Tables, Hat Racks, Sofas, Parlor Suits, etc.
COME AND SEE.
JOS. A. WEBB, OXFORD. N. C.
WILKINSON'S WAREHOUSE! LEADER IN HIGH PRICES
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Department.
LANDIS & EASTON.
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sale in the next til) day tin-,.
that will be of interc-t to thr ,,"r
Those good miiot 20. . Vv ;ll
Goods from the .S. 11. Smith mh
& irinston's store Jann ny Iri
close as many of them oni j
moving.
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REMEMBER!
We carry ev.-rvi hin-in n.. ,1 ... .ln. ,n i
clee, Wae;onH a d llou-i U.-i in r- ,. , '
cet Bargain!) in liuir i.--, n ,,,,,., . .
fetoues ever oll'crcd. livrryt Inn ,- ri-,. , lir J 1
at lowest iri.-cs. " t
Mr. S II. Smith will l.c wnh iw 1,, tttnl j
our frioiids and w finir-Milc.' t,, Vll n. , j
goode, lowect prict'H. n ml a -.nii-r.i.-t,v ,!,,',!
money refunded.
Reinembdr we guarantee j.i n 1,, i. , f
rrllable froodsran be pur haH, i. ti, .lhli v
many ( iistoni'TH fur pant ravcu-.
We i re your- re-M , ii'i.iiy,
EDWARDS
WINSTON, I
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1l'e are ajrent for Tycon a .im,, - i; , .
Hackney Kutrgiei, i;ni-ok llaj..y '.n,,,lk"
Buggies, Randolph X Ellin li :i 1. -. um h;1)
ory Wagon, St ndehaker Wfem i i,i!i,1(,i i
Wagons, Kunsell Wagon. , ,;
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Clever Treatiueni
IS AI.WA S
-AT Till.-
Minor Warehouse.
Uurs is t lie lnru M .imi m i
equipped warehouse in "'j
any other bright leaf inarb t j
We have every facility fi -n
ducting our extensive Immuh
Ample capital, larc and
i li edited floor, exnei iein cl In i
and polite service, annifort-init
camp rooms, plenty f l;"i (1
stalls. Strict personal atu nti"i
given to all tobacco put en -floor.
Knott & Cooper,
PR OI'RJKTO US
Oxford, - North Carolina
ikiv 1.r :im.
PRICES':
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The Farmers
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SOW HOW TO LOOK AFTER THE l .vrKK1,,,',
an be built, with all the comforts for l inn' nlE"
n shall have the lJIOIlKVl' lKU KS AT am.
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