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purchase In Shoes, Pant Goods, Hats and Caps we are unusually well stocked and offer lower prices than ever before. Flour mJ
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allow anyone to undersell us.
Your friends,
THE PUBLIC LEDGER.
By JOHNJBRITT,
ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY MORXINC
OXFORD, N. C
DEC. 10, IS9C.
Five hundred cow-buys have or
ganized a young army to goto Cuba
and fight for freedom of the island.
The six million Bryan votes are
an obstinate set.They show no disposi
tion whatever to come into camp
and permit the 150,000 Palmer and
Backner votes to reorganize them.
Washington Post.
The pension warrants have been
completed by the State Auditor and
within the next ten days they will
be in the hands of the register of
doeds in the various counties. The
total amount of these warrants this
year is $104, 7o4.
The cigarette trust has found a
loop-hole in the Iowa prohibitory
law and is throwing cigarettes into
the State by the millions, but still
they have not advances prices of
the weed which would put money
in the farmers pocket.
An important conference of lead
ers in the late campaign for the free
coinage of silver-Democrats, Popu
lists, Republicans, Silver party, and
American Bimetallic Union repre
sentatives will be held in Wash
ing ton about December 10th.
Seventy thousand destitute peo
ple are reported from the city of
Chicago. Chicago was carried by
McKinley and he should order Mr.
Prosperty to move his wave up to
Illinois and relieve the people fooled
by Hanna's beautiful gold story.
Mexico is becoming a tobacco
growing and exporting country. In
1SS9 -Uo the exports amounted to
948,332, this year to $l,7oo,ooo. It
is said that the soil in the tobacco
growing region is practically inex
haustible, and the area a hundred
times as great as the tobacco area of
Cuba.
A Xew York goat, of the Wra.
kind, the other day disputed the
right of way with nine cable cars,
and held his ground notwithstand
ing the cable train had the assist
ance of a big policeman, until a
Texas ranchman happened along
and took a mean advantage of him
with a lariat.
Uncle Sam's standing army. cost
the United States $10,o74,48S for
the last fiscal year, and they didn't
have any fighting to do either.
President Cleveland is represent
ed as having said in the conversa
tion he had last Saturday with a
prominent Democratic politician
that in his opinion one-third of the
votes which Mr. Bryan received in
the South were given him by Demo
crais who do not believe in free sil
ver, but who voted the ticket on the
ground of ''irregularity."
The Wilmington Messenger says
when a negro makes a speech as we
are informed that Joe Holland made
at the recent celebration of the Re
publicans saying,as we are informed,
that the negroes would soon elect
negro officers in this county and
State, and pass laws compelling the
whites and negroes to attend the
same churches and schools, and the
white people to receive negroes at
their houses, then he becomes a
danger to the community and should
be dealt with a? any other danger
ous element that is left entirely
alone.
The Augusta, Chronicle says pub
lic officials are public servants and
as such are suggested criticism. Cit
zens who hold office are not the mas
ters, but the servants of the people.
It would be well for public officials
uj ueai ju mi uu mar, mis is noi a
government of officeholders, for
officeholders and by officeholders; on
the contrary, it is a government of
the people; for the people and by
the people.
CLEVELAND AND HIS FORTUNE.
If it be true, as several veracious
chroniclers have lately asserted, that
the good, large gentleman in the
White House has managed during
the past twelve years to lay up
treasures, not only where moth and
rust do not corrupt, but elsewhere,
to the value of more than one mil
lions, Mr. Cleveland should receive
hearty congratulations from every
member of his flock. And he, in
Mr. Wayne MacVeagh's inspired
language of thanksgiving over utc
Klnley's election, should be "proud
er of this country than ever before.'1
A million dollars is a great deal of
money. No ordinary man could
have accumulated so much, no ordi
nary country's opportunities would
be so richly yielding in so brief a
period, even though it were a period
of riotous prosperity. When it is
considered that a large part of Mr.
Cleveland's period, says the New
York Journal, of acquisition is com
monly known and will be blazoned
in the history as the Cleveland hard
times, the marvel does not dimish.
Nfrr is it lessened by contemplation
of the fact, for which we have the
authority of Mr. Clevelaud himself,
that the "communism of pelf" du
ring all that time has been render
ing it increasingly difficult for the
poor man to get along. Cleveland's
administration will be known as the
enemy of farmers and laborers, and
friend of trusts and monopolists.
The
Biblical Recorder sneaks
about one of the non-partizan Ju
diciary, Judge Norwood's drunken
ness says: "This is not the first tinu
such disgraceful conduct has been
reported of Judge Norwood, lb
seems to be a hopeless subject u
strong drink. Lie ought to re.sigr,
for his own sake. If he does noi,7e
ought to be impeached. The bench
should be kept abov reproach aboe
all other parts of the government."
Anno domini 1807. In oue fat
fleeting month Father time, h.s
scythe swung across his bent shoul
ders, as he treads his way across th
stepping stones of the years, will
have crossed from 'SH to '97. And
then he will be only three years dis
tant from the summit of acenturv.
We are already past the gray dawn
of the new century. The first rays
of its sunrise are leaping Up above
the hilltop of 10oo. Charlotte Observer.
THE UNHAPPY GOLD DEMOCRAT.
The Democrats who left their
party and elected the Republican
candidate for the Presidency are ar
riving at that stage of reflection
known as sober second thought says
the New York Journal. It is break
ing upon their minds that the Pres
ident-elect and his advising associ
ates are not at all disposed to regard
the result of the election as a Dem
ocratic victory. They are much ob
liged, of course, to the bolters, but
the sense of obligation will not pre
vent Major McKinley from being a
Republican President with a R,
publican policy. The bolters during
the campaign proclaimed that they
re Democrats, better Democrats
than those who supported the Demo
cratic ticket and since the election
they have been eager to assert tht
same remarkable claim. They realh
cannot complain, therefore, if Major
r r- i . .
lucrviniey takes them at their word.
Since they are Democrats, why
should they expect a Republicai
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i lesment to conform his course to
their desires? They elected him, t(
be surebut always they were care
ful to have him and the rest of the
world understand that they disliked
both him and his party's principles
except upon one point, and that
their votes went to, him as a dis
agreeable necessity of the situation.
What they cast their ballots for
was the gold standard, and if they
get that it is all to which they are
fairly entitled in return. For the
sake of the gold standard they were
willing to abandon their party and
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give victory to a man they naa no
confidence in, victory to the cause
of protection, victory to the trusts.
They knew what they were about in
the beginning, but after the returns
were in the political effect of their
defection was seen to be so great
that vanity betrayed them into
fancying they could mould the pur-
poses ot the Administration they
had created. They have been fooled.
rabbit's feet
State's most
POWER OF CONJURATION.
North Carolina rabbit's feet have
great powers of conjuration, and can
drive away all evil spirits except
Iredell county corn liquor. These
feet are greatly prized by northern
tourists and other suckers caught
with queer bait.
To be genuine, you know, the
rabbits must be killed in graye-yard
in the dark ot the moon on the
seventh day of the seventh mouth
by the seventh Son or a bun (so to
speak); and only the left hind foot
of this grave yard rabbit is the gen
uine article.
The manufacture of
ought to be one of the
flourishing industries.
One young gentleman turned out
forty rabbit's feet as a net result of
his work on lhauksgiving Day, and
he has begun the industry on a
limited scale.
But the possibilities of the indus
try are as yet untouched. It is yet
virgin ground. Here is a chance for
some Napoleon of business to win
fame and fortune, furnishing the
genuine article to a waiting and ex
pectant world.
Who knows but that some day
the rabbit foot industry will restore
prosperity to the Old North State,
and all day long our children will
play in front of our vine-clad cotta
ges, and their merry laugh will
mingle with the busy click ot the
rabbit's-foot factories! Charlotte
News.
LATEST STATE NEWS.
Items of Interest as Culled
Our Exchanges.
From
A new synod of the Presbyterian
Church has been formed at Ashe
ville, embracing twelve counties, ten
ministers, and nineteen churches.
There were 35o conversions in the
big Fife meeting at Henderson
which closed a few days ago. Next
Sunday Mr. Fife starts a meeting in
Louisburg.
The Gaston Gazette says: The
coffin factory h is a new $oo steam
whistle. The noise of it is like the
moaning and crying of the mighty
Bovalapus in a paroxysm of acute
cramp colic.
Charles M. Bonham, a prominent
farmer, disappeared in Wilmington,
Friday night; Sunday afternoon his
dead body was found in the river
near the foot of Ann street. The
coroner's jury brought in a verdict
of "accidental drowning."
Prof. J mes Tillett, of Person
county, is very low. He has not
been well since the serious accident
he received on the railroad wreck
some years ago. The ten thousand
dollars he secured from the railroad
has added to his comfort, but his in
juries seem beyond remedy. Later he
has sinced th'ei.
As Miss Mary Spencer McCall, of
Mclnnis's Bridge, Robeson county,
was standing by the stove attending
to parching coffee, her clothing
caught fire and she ran out in the
yard all ablaze. Her father succeed
ed in smothering the flames, but she
must haye inhaled the fire anda'tji
terrible suffering died.
We do hope that the next Legis
lature will increase the pay of oui
public school teachers. No class oi
people work harder and longer foi
such meager pay as do the North
Carolina public school teachers. Ii,
many of the Western States tin
public school teachers are paid
seventy-five dollars per month
Herein North Carolina a first grade
teacher spends twenty days in a
miserable, crowded school room and
gets thirty dollars for his work. Pn
the teachers more, make the pubi c
school system better. Monroe E -quirer.
Mr. John R. Barnard, one of the
oldest and most respected citizens of
Henderson, died Dec. 5 of Bright's
disease.
It carried us back to the days of
'08 when we saw, at Dunn, in the
town of Lillington, a white man on
trial before a coal-black negro magis
trate. Ex.
Two weeks ago something hap
pened at High Point that has caus
ed a great deal of talk. A lady who
had been sinking for several weeks
had been constantly expressing a
wish for a partridge. About lo
o'clock one morning a thump was
heard against the door, and on going
out on the porch a partridge was
found fluttering, having broken its
neck as it flew against the door.
The woman firmly believes that the
Lord sent her the bird.
Friday afternoon about 1 o'clock
a terrific crash was heard out in to
bacco row. It proved to be the
collapse of the Greenyille Tobacco
Warehouse, the first house built on
this market. The building gave
way beneath the immense weight of
snow on its broad, flat roof, and
squashed to the ground, the heavy
timbers and iron cross supports part
ing as though they had been mere
sticks. There was no insurance. It
is a total loss. Greenville Reflector.
The Charlotte Observer says: The
farmers of every township in Meck
lenburg county are organizing to
protect themselves from the influ
ences wielded by the negro political
leaders. They refuse to rent land
to these negroes, and are putting
white men in their places. In Pro
vidence township over Oo land
owners have joined the organization
and the negro leaders find it im
possible to rent an acre of ground.
The organization is also in good
working order in Steel Creek and
Sharou townships.
A distressing accident is reported
from Person county says Durham
Sun. A. L. Bradsher, a young mer
chant of Bushy Fork, on Wednes
day evening, accidentally shot and
killed Hardy Bradsher, an old color
ed man. Air. Bradsher had been
hunting. The old colored man went
to the store for some salt just about
the time Mr. Bradsher returned.
While entering the store the ham
mers of the gun struck against the
side ot the door causing it to go off.
The entire contents of both barrels
entered the old man head killing him
instantly. Mr. Bracbher is one of
the most prominent and high stand
ing young men of Person county,
and has the sympathy of everybody
who knows him.
The Tarboro Southerner says:
Thursday night, Brinkley Downing,
a negro Democrat of No. 13 town
ship, was waylaid on the road by
five men, who took off his coat and
whipped him because he was a De
mocrat. Brinkley Downing has been
a Democrat for many years and has
often been abused and maltreated
because of his politcal faith. Such
intolerance is outrageous. Demo
crats, however, should make a note
of this and similar occurences and
have a stop put to them. But a sad
commentary it is on the intelligence
of the white men. He can divide and
vote as he pleases, but the negro is
made to yote one way and that at
every time against the best, interests
of the white man
A special to Charlotte Observer
Dec. 4 from Morganton sa3's that
A. C. Avery, Jr., son of Justice A.
C. Avery, of the Supreme Court,
was assaulted by two voung negroes
last night and stabbed in 5 places,
perhaps fatally. When first at
tacked he knocked one negro down,
but the other seized him about the
waist while the first negro used his
knife. Avery was unarmed, and lost
a gallon of blood while seeking
weapon with which to return to the
at tack. He found a biliiard cuebu'
rhe negroes had fled. Avery thiuk
the assault was premeditated becausi
of his having knocked down a bro
ther of one of his assiilants duriuj.
election week. He is very weak ane:
his life hangs by a thread.
Mr. Lonard Morton is one oi
Onslow's farmers who doesn't loosi
any sleep in attemping to solve the
financial puzzle, or rack his brain in
a vai- tffort to frame a tariff meas
ure. Mr. Morton is 07 years of age
and is a firm believer in the theon
that a farmer should produce every
thing he eats and wears, and up to
this date has never purchased a suit
of clothes; all the cloth his family
uses is manufactured at home front
the wool and cotton produced on his
iarm. Mr. Morton never purchased
meat but once and then only thirty
pounds. That his plan is a good
one, is demonstrated by the fact
that he doesii t owe a dollar and
never has the nightmare worrying
over hard times. Jacksonville
Times.
Deputy Collector E. A. Moffitt
left headquarters at Greensboro
last Wednesday and was joined at
Asheboro by a deputy marshal.
About 5 miles from the old Russell
gold mine, they found the blockade
distillery of Lee Turner, a noted
character, and were on the point of
entering when lurner appeared
heavily armed. He forbade the col
lector's entrance, but the latter bold
ly proceeded. In an instant Turner's
rifle sent a bullet into the heart of
tho officer, but before he fell he re
turned the fire killing the blockader.
Mr. Moffitt had been in the revenue
service a little over 3 years, and re
garded as a most efficient officer.
His coolness and bravery prevented
bloodshed on many occasions. He
never fired except in self defense.
At Rest.
When in life we are in the midst
of death. No one knows the day or
the hour when we are to be called
from this to another world. The
reaper in the hands of death is clip
ping from our midst the young, the
old, so we are all subject to the daily
rounds. The above brings to mind
the recent death of Mr. John G. Mor
gan, of Vance county. The subject
of this sketch was a very prominent
and influential citizen not only
prominent in one sense of the word
but many. He was a strict member
of the Baptist church and was ak
ways ready to lend a helping hand
to the cause of Christianity. His
many deeds of charity were layishly
distributed among the needy. His
house was the home of the friendless
and those who were in need never
came away empty-handed.
To show his great goodness of
heart lie raised two families of or
phan children besides his own, which
was a large one. Among them are
Mr. R. B. Morgan, of Chase City,
and Mr. E. G. Morgau, of Danville,
Va., who are men of prominence.
His daughters are Mrs. J. A. Shot
well, Mrs. B. T. Hicks, Mrs. Vester
Green and Mrs. James Perkinson.
Mr. Morgau held some prominent po
sitions in the county, such as com
missioner, treasurer and magistrate,
which shows the great confidence
the peopie had in him. He was a
bright light among the Masonic fra
ternity and was buried with their
solemn honors. The bright charac
ter of this good man should be held
up as a shining example to the ris
ing generation, showing what could
be done by honesty and punctuality
in performance of duty. In the lat
ter part of his life he became finan
cially oppressed in trying to relievi
his neighbors, but this calamity he
bore with firmness and Christian for
titude.
It may be said of him that he has
fought a good fight and finished bi
course. May our last end be like
his. May God in His great goodness
protect and defeni the bereaved
family, and when called to the
realms above in family union meet
in a house not made with hands but
eternal in the Heaven" A Friend.
A foul breath is
one of the greatest
afflictions that a niaa
or woman can have.
An affliction not
only to themselves,
but to those with
whom they come in
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discourager of affec
tion, or rather of the
demonstration of af
fection. It would probably be more so if
people only realized just what bad breath
means. Bad breath is one of the symptoms
of constipation. Some of the other symp
toms are sour stomach, loss of appetite,
sick and bilious headache, dizziness, heart
burn and distress after eating. These things
mean indigestion. Tliey lead to dyspepsia
and worse things. They all start with con
stipation, and constipation is inexcusable
because it can be cured cured easily,
quickly and permanently, by the use of Dr.
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. They are a per
feet remedy for this most common of all
troubles. They give to nature just the little
help that she needs. They are verj mild in
their action, and act without any violence
whatever. In this, they are different from
many preparations offered for a similar pur
pose. Sometimes the remedy is worse than
the disease, Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets
are mild, but they are infallibly efficient.
They do the work which they are intended
to do, without deranging the system in any
way. They not only give immediate relief,
but the benefit derived from them is per
manent. You can stop taking them by
and by and there is no danger that you
will become a slave to their use. The drug
gist who tries to sell you something else
'just as erood," either does not know what
he is talking about, or he makes more
money on the other thing. If you care
more for his prosperity than you do for
your own health, take the other thing. If
you value your health, insist on having Dr.
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. A free sample,
of from 4 to 7 doses, will be sent to any
address.
A copy of Dr. Pierce's celebrated 1008
page book, "The Common Sense Medical
Adviser," profusely illustrated, will be
sent free on receipt of twenty -one (21)
cents in one -cent stamps to cover cost
of mailing only.
Address, World's Dispensary Med
ical Association, No. 663 Main Street,
Buffalo, N. Y.
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Aperfect Remedy for Constipa
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Worms .Convulsions Jeverish
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Fac Simile Signature of
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Tobacco Market
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Of the 'oldest and best all round MAKKETSfin
the State, and its splendid corps 01 buyers are
ever ready and willing to pay top notch prices
for all grades of tobacco, and we say the
Old Reliable
Minor Warehouse
la undoubtedly the place to sell your tobacco, as
our facilities are unsurpassed by any house in
this section. It is a well known fact that we
never urn loose a pile of tonacco until the top
notch price has been secured from the nood
humored, as well as clever buyers who have the
interest of our market at heart, as they hold
lare orders that murt be tillci.
Il is m re than pleasure to us to see that
our patrons get. HIGHEST PKICIO- at the old
MINOR, and hence we invite all who desire the
very highest prices for tobacco to be t-nre and
drive under oar shed.
Your friends,
COOPER & WILKINSON.
S. W. POOPEK.
V 1. WILKINSON.
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in PRIZES WON
Headquarters forjhe Best,
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and White Plymouth Rocks, Brown an-
Light Brahmas, Indian and Pit Oatncs
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Muscovy Ducks. Pea Fowls and Fan-tail I'eo-5-
Fowls and EggsTor Sale at All Tto
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Ewes by Imported Bucks.
iSssex and Red Jersey Piers. Best Strain Registered Jersey Catue
Colts and Filhee "ue as split silk. You Get Pedigreed iJtoK
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Address OCCONttgHtL hMKIVI, wvnn.., ' t;.
Familiea Supplied on Year-Round Contracts with Occcnee Ure out-.
For Sale !
I hive in cbnrge for sale soni vhIuh
e town and county property. Any hi
4 lrlDg to purchase cm apply to
m.yl5-6m. T LANIER,
JNO. W. GRAHA-M. I'A1 '
Hillsboro, N. C.
Attorneys l
Practice in State and t';,''wi'l! I?!
msinese entrueted to their urf te
, attended to.
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