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THE PDBLIC LEDGER.
By JOHN T. BRITT.
ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING
OXFORD, N.C.,
- MAY IS, 1899.
Alger has been in Michigan re
pairing his political fences. Poetic
jnstic demands that the fences
should be white washed.
Possibly Keed is right in accept
ing 50,000 aj-ear, but is this a case
of rather being right than being
President?
The formation of trusts is bring
ing so much money to New Jersey
that searching for Captain Kidd's
buried gold has ceased to be a local
industry.
The "Edible Nut Company," to
control the peanut, is a reminder of
the stand the Italian has taken for
years to get a corner in this busi
ness.
Reed's new law partners are Dem
ocrats. In this case of flowers
growing over the party wall they
might excusably use them to throw
bouquets at each other.
Senator Depew, of New York, re
turning from the West, says practi
cally all the Democratic sentiment
is for Bryan, He moves the Roose
velt boom from 1900 to 1104, at
which time he thinks there will be
a regular Roosevelt deluge.
We failed to notice last week the
best trade edition that has yet been
gotten out in the State that of the
Greensboro Patriot. It was hand
somely illustrated, and the typo
grapic art was of the highest order,
and will prove of great benefit to
hustling Greensboro.
The capital represented in trusts
six months ago, according to the
New York World, was 398,475,500.
Now, according to the same authori
ty, it is 83,344,190,500. The trusts
organized in the last six months
have aggregated capital about one
and one-half times as great as all
the money in circulation in the
United States.
For the first time since the war
began with Aguinaldo, peace seems
to be close at hand in the Philip
pines. The followers of the insur
gent chief have had many impres
sive lessons of their inability to cope
with our troops in the field, and
they are doubtless ready to submit
to American authority upoif any
terms which give them the sem
blance of home government.
Capt. J. B. Hunter, of Granville
county, has become a fixture on the
Durham Recorder, and in his an
nouncement as editor
says:
'We
shall aim to maintain for the Re
corder the high and manly prestige
it has for over eighty years enjoyed.
Its tone will be moral; and every
effort exerted to make it a family
newspaper in the strictest meaning
of the words. This shall be our first
and chief aim."
It is reasonably certain that Ad
miral Dewey will leave Manila on
his homeward voyage soon after
Rear Admiral Watson shall arrive
to take command of the Pacific lleet.
It is confidently expected that with
in two months the Philippine war
will be ended and the great work of
organizing a local government sub
stantially completed, when Admiral
Dewey will be free to give up his
command and return fconie for the
rest he so much needs.
The great Crokers, (of New York
City,) notion seems to be, that in
politics one should help his friends
to oltice, but in North Carolina the
policy of the Democrats is to give
the offices to men who never done
much for their party, and ignoring
the backbone of the party. The
policy is even carried out in the
counties, and the fellow who bobs
up a few months before an eleetion
with a great hurrah scoops in the
pie.
Hanna is to be the big boss again
in the next presidential election says
the Wilmington Messenger. Of
course. Who but Hanna? Did he
not cheat Bryan out of his election?
Did he not buy up white voters and
black voters in the north by the
hundred thousands? Hanna, why
he is the rascal above all other cor
rnptionists for the dirty work, De
new, of Hauna's stripe, says "never
to get rid of a good leader until it
has found a better one."
CARNEGIE AUA1NST TRUSTS.
Andrew Carnegie, the great iron
magnate, with !?1 50,000,000 and
more at his disposal, is to devote the
remainder of his life to two great
purposes philauthrophy and a fight
against the trusts will be the aim of
this remarkable man.
The great iron master thinks that
the next Presidential campaign will
be fought largely upon the anti
trust issue. He could not be chief
stockholder in the Carnegie Com
pany and occupy a logical position
as the champion of labor and the
people against the trusts.
ilr. Carnegie believes that he can
eliminate the troublesome question
of 1C to 1 in his battle against the
trusts. His friends point signifi
cantly now to the fact that he and
William J. Bryan held a long con
ference last winter, and say that an
agreement was reached then. Mr.
Carnegie is also an anti-imperialist.
A leading Republican says:
"With Bryan on a conservative
platform such as the Democrats
will undoubtedly adopt, leaving out
16 to 1, and the assault on the Su
preme Court, and with McKinley
weighted down with Sampson,
Eagau, Corbin, Alger and the Han
naite trusts, we Republicans must
prepare ourselves for an awful jolt
next year, when the people have an
opportunity to express their opinion
of affairs."
Jerry Simpson, according to tin
Chicago Record, is said to have sav
ed enough from his Congressional
salary to keep him in reasonable
comfort the rest of his life. He has
a cood ranch down at Medicine
Lodge, which he "took up" as Gov
ernment laud in early times, a buncl
of four hundred or five hundred cat
tie and various investments that
cause him to be rated at $30,000 by
the commercial agencies. For eight
years he received a salary and allow
ances amounting to oyer $0,500, or
a total of $50,000, in payment for
lus services as a statesman. He has
lived in a frugal way upon his mile
age, his postage and priyate secretary
account, and has had a little incom
from his ranch.
VETERANS AT CHARLESTON.
Wilmington Messenger beauti
fully says: As North Carolinians
we are glad that so many of our own
people were at Charleston, and that
so many of the gray headed veterans
survive to meet and greet their com
rades in arms. May it be many
years before those gray haired men
sleep with their fathers. They will
represent the 120,000 patriots who
served in the war at the call of their
state and in behalf of the new
but ill-starred confederacy. Over
41,000 of them either died of wounds
or of disease while to the front un
der the glorious banner now "for
ever furled."
The memorable and patriotic
words of South Carolina's best in
spired poet, Harry Timrod, will be
a fitting close for this article as ap
plicable to the men without titles:
Sleep sweetly in your humble graves,
Sleep, Martyrs of a fallen cause;
Though yet no marble column craves
The pilgrim here to pause.
In seeds of laurel in the earth
The blossom of your fame is blown
And somewhere,waiting for its birth,
The shaft is in the stone!"
Bnehleirs Arnica Naive.
The Best Salve in the world for Cuts
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever
Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains
Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and posi
tively cures Piles, or no pay required. It
Is guaranteed to give pertect satisfaction
or money refunded. Price 25 cents per
hox. For sale by J. G. Hall.
The Tampa, Fla., Herald speaks
the words of soberness and truth
when it says: The newspaper which
goes gunning for man-eating trusts
and corporations is engaged in as
righteous a pursuit as the man who
seeks the lair of the tiger to exter
minate him. The consuming, prey
ing, depredating corporation must
be hunted down just the same as
the predatory animal. The simple
fact that both are at enmity with
the best interests of the creatures
surrounding them makes them alike
illegitimate but they both live and
flourish regardless.
N. C. .CLAiriS FUNSTON.
The Raleigh Christian Advocate,
claims that General Funston is a
North Carolinian by birth. Dr. Ivey
is very apt to be correct in his di
agnosis of any case. Says the Ad
vocate: "North Carolina is a truly
wonderful State for furnishing rich
manhood for other States. Colonel
Funston, who for recent gallantry
in the Philippines was promoted to
the rank of Brigadier General by
President McKinley, is a native of
North Carolina. His parents mov
ed to Kansas when he was quite
young. General Funston, in leading
his regiment across the Rio Grande,
near Calumpit, in the face of a mur
derous fire displayed a heroism which
was remarkable. This charge is one
of the events of the century, and
will live in history. General Funs
ton weighs less than one hundred
pounds, but North Carolina is proud
of the manhood that is in him. She
adds him to the roll in which Worth
Bagley, Blue and Shipp are late
heroes."
The Sure La Urippe Cure.
There is no use suffering . from this
dreadful malady, if you will only get the
right remedy. You are Laving pains all
through your body, your liver is out of
order, have no appetite, no life or ambi
tion, have a bad cold, in fact are com
pletely used up. Electric Bitters is the
only remedy that will give you prompt
and sure relief. Ihey act directly on
your Liver, Stomach and Kidneys, tone
up the whole system and make you feel
like a new being. They are guaranteed
to cure or price refunded. For sale at
J. G. Hall's Drug Store, only 50 cents per
bottle
DRAWING NEARER.
Stupendous gigantic surpass
iug reason itself is the enormous ag
gregation of wealth under the name
of trusts, says the Farrago.
And the last diabolical device of
these heartless despoilers is to set
afloat the dim hope that if the peo
ple will onlv bide their time the
trusts will fall of their own weight.
Ivemain idle keep out of busi
ness say these economic writers
starve on if you will but the day
is coming when trusts must explode
and old conditions must return.
It is poor consolation to a hungry
man to tell him Monday that you
will have a good dinner for him the
next Sunday.
But let them talk let them write
-the day of vengeance is coming
the wrath of millions of people will
visit these chartered robbers, and
the wrath of God direct could be no
worse for them.
Revolution is in the air, and each
formation of anew trust but hastens
the day. There is no use to longer
hope to avert the calamity. It is in
the air it is on the tongues of men
and it is in the hearts of the human
family.
To see men juggling with watered
stock aggregating millions and hun
dreds of millions is a picture which
is on the wall, and hungered man
kind, in one last fierce struggle,
will break loose, and the result?
What hayoc there will be!
A STORMY SESSION.
Raleigh correspondent of the
Wilmington Messenger says: This
has been a stormy session of the
supreme court. It was made clear
Tuesday that there was no love lost
between Judges h urches and Clark.
Now it is plain, in the opinions in
the Rhyne case, that there is no ten
der feeling between Judges Clark
and Douglass. In the Rhyne case
Judge Clark referred to the threat
ened lynching in Gaston. Judge
Douglass saya in his concurring
opinion, which gives Rhyne a new
trial: "I am unwilling to rest un
der the charges that the increase of
lynchiugs is caused by the inability
of the courts to protect society from
murderers. In the first place. I do
not think there has been any in
crease of lynching in this State,
where it has always been extremely
rare, and even if our courts are in
efficient, which I emphatically den',
I do not see how our alleged laxity
should increase lynchings in other
States without haying any such ef
fort in our own. Such suggestions
do great injustice to our State and
may do great harm by encouraging
the yery outrages they profess to de
nounces. In any event, they tend
to weaken, especially when coming
from such a source, the respect of
the people for the administration of
justice, which is the foundation of
social order. I feel safe in saying
that the courts of this state are fully
competent to protect our citizens
and able to do so without denying
to any one the equal protection of
the law. We are told that wealthy
men who have money enough to re
tain able counsel are rarely convict
ed of murder. Are they ever lynch
ed? If they are never lvnched then
lynch law can in no sense be regard
ed as a protest against their acquit
tal. It is always a matter of deep
regret, when men whose talents and
position should make them the lead
ers of their people, permit them
selves, in the heat of contention or
the zeal of reform, to do or say
things that are unjust to their fel
lovvmen and tend to bring into dis
repute the tribunals of justice and
the laws of the land. Feeling as I
do, more I do not wish to say; less I
could not say. The temple of jus
tice contains no altar of sacrifice,nor
do the people of North Carolina de
mand a scape-goat for the sins of
10,000 murderers throughout the
country."
The Salisbury Sun savs that a
cotton mill to cost $500,000 is to be
established at that place, and that
the Salisbury cotton Mill is to in
crease its capacity considerably.
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Beware of the Doctors'
Patchwork; You Can
Cure Yourself at Home.
.Liiueoln Journal: A little 5 year
old son of Mr. Sid Manney thought
it was about time to have some little
chickens "peepies" as he calls them
at his house. So, the other day
he robbed all the hen nests on
the place, made himself a nest and
went to setting. He "sot and sot
and sot" until late in the evening
his mother found him on the nest
and got him to come off. The bosom
of his breeches revealed the fact that
he had hatched scrambled eggs.
There is not the slightest doubt that the
doctors do more harm than good in treating
Contagious Blood Poison ; many victims of
this loathsome disease would be much better
off to-day if they had never allowed them
selves to be dosed on mercury and potash, the
only remedies which the doctors ever give for
blood poison.
The doctors are wnony unaDie zo gen no. oi
this vile poison, and only attempt to heal up the outward appearance of the
disease the sores and eruptions. This they do by driving the poison into the
system, and endeavor to keep it shut in with their constant doses of potash
and mercury. The mouth and throat and other delicate parts then break out
into sores, and the fight is continued indefinitely, the drugs doing the system
more damage than the disease itself.
Mr. H. L. Myers, 100 Mulberry St., Newark, N. J., says: "I had spent a
hundred dollars with the doctors, when I realized that
they could do me no good. I had large spots all over my
bcdy, and these soon broke out into running sores, and I
endured all the suffering which this vile disease pro
duces. I decided to try S. S. S. as a last resort, and was
soon greatly improved. I followed closely your 'Direc
tions for Self -Treatment,' and the large splotches on my
chest began to grow paler and smaller, and before long
disappeared entirely. I was soon cured perfectly and my
skin has been as clear as glass ever since. I cured my
self at home, after the doctors had failed completely."
It is valuable time thrown away to expect the doctors
to cure Contagious Blood Poison, for the disease is be
yond their skill. Swifts Specific
S. S. S. FOR THE BLOOD
acts in an entirely different way from potash and mercury it forces the
poison out of the system and gets rid of it entirely. Hence it cures the
disease, while other remedies only shut the poison in where it lurks forever,
constantly undermining the constitution. Our system of private home treat
ment places a cure within the reach of all. We give all necessary medical ad
vice, free of charge, and save the patient the embarrassment of publicity
Write for full information to Swift Specific Co., Atlanta, Ga.
Good-Bye
To Winter! !
People may differ on politics and religion but there is no differ
ence of opinion as to the merits of our
Farm Implements!
we
ON'S
Pepsin
Chill Tonic
Is Tasteless and Guaranteed to Cure Chills and
Fever and all Malarial Troubles.
Does Not Contain Quinine Nor Other Poison.
l(es Not Injure the Stomach Nor Effect the Ilearing.
W. A. McLarty fc Son, Dime Box, J ex., s;iy: "Ramon's Pepsin Chill Tonic is the
best we have ever handled. My sou prescribes it in his practice, and says it is
the onlv Chill Tonic which a child can take without injury to the stomach."
Price 50o. BKOWX MF'li. CO., 1'ronis, Wreeneviile, Tenn.
For Sale by J. P. Stedman.
Barbour, Hackney and Tyson &
Jones
Studebaker, Spach and
Russell
BUGGIES,
WAGONS,
22$fHSS BICYCLES, - ith,
OXFORD, N. O.
Kach line we have are the very best in their class, Our prices are risrht.
appreciate your trade and give as much for your money as any one can.
We will
New Jewelry !
New Jewelry !
We have the latest styles in
Belt and Sash Buckles, Collar
Clasps, Shirt Waist Sets, Skirt
Sets, Fan Chains, Bracelets,
Charms, Scarf Bins, Sleeve Links,
Brooches, Rings, &c, &c.
Solid Silverware,
Silverplated Ware, Sterling Sil
ver Novelties. A good stock of
watches. Spectacles of all kinds
and to suit all ages.
CLOCKS! We warrant every
clock we sell. Have them at all
prices. Repairing promptly at
tended to. Old gold and silver
taken in exchange for goods as
cash.
W. D. L.YNOH.
THREE SPECIAL BARGAINS:
One elegant gold watch, ladies'
size, price $50,.00 will sell for $37.
One tine railroad watch, adjusted
movement, silver case, price .$21.
Will sell for $16. One handsome
silverplated water set, piice
$24-50. Will sell for $15-00.
Sale of Land.
By virtue of a deed in trust executed to me by
W.T.Adams and Lucy Netlie Adam, his wife,on
the 7tti day of -May,lS!l,and duly recorded on page
Ml, Mortgage Hook 34, in t lie oflice ol the Keg
inter of Deeds of Granville County, and hy direc
tion of the cestui que trust, 1 will sell to the
highest bidder for cash at the Court House door
in Oxford on
MONDAY, JUNE 12th, 1S!,
three tracts of land in Dutchville township, in
Granville county, described as follows:
First Tract: liegiuning at a stake in Case's
line, thence by his and Fleming's line East 197
jioles to a post oak corner in Fleming's line,
thence by Fleming and Hester's line Ixorth 117
poles to a stake at a corner; thence hy Hester's
and Coley's line West 12 poles to a stawe and
corner in Coley's line; thence Coley's line S- ."19
decrees VV. 1"0 poles to the beginning, contain
ing HKi?., acres, more or less.
Second tract: Keginning at a post oak sapling,
Koycroft's and It Coley's corner on the East
side of Munn's road, thence Southwardly 22
chains and 15 links to a pine, ferry's corner,
thence by his line S. 88 degrees W. 4 chains to a
ftake in Green's line, thence his line North 21
chains to a slaKe, thence East 11 chains to the
beginning, containing 17 1-4 acres, more or less.
Third tract: Beginning at. a staKe, Soil's cor
ner, running thence wit h his line N. 88 degrees
K. to a post oak and pointers, Cozart's corner;
thence his line S. 40 degrees E, lti chains and 40
links to a red oak, Coley's corner; thence S. 80
degrees W. 4 chains to a red oak, Coley's corner;
thence West 17 chains and 511 links to Munn's
read: thence said road Northeasterly course to
the beginning, containing 24 acres May 10, 1899
roayll. A, W. U UAH AM, Trustee.
We have the largest and best stock Farming Implement
have ever shown.
Car load Dixie, Farmers' Friend, 1 and 2 -horse, Clipper and Cham
pion Plows.
Stonewall and Climax Flows and Castings, Disc Harrows, Fivt-.
Tooth Steel Cultivators, Double Shovel Plows, Coulters, Hoes, Forks
and Shovels, Single Trees, Best Back Bands, Hames, Trac es, Uuw
&c. In fact every needed tool used in farming except the mule!
Farm Bells. We sell Carpenters' Tools, Brick Masons' Tool-, Ma.
chinists' Tools and Supplies, Nails, Hinges, Locks, Lime, Cement,
Doors, Windows and Blinds. Large stock Belting and Packing, Wire
Fences, kc.
Lewis' Lead and Oil and best Ready-Mixed Paints.
100 Cook Staves that conk quick, and the prices are lower thun
any stove of same grade. Will be sold for cash or on the installment
plan. See them; you will buy one.
Large line Tinware, Crockery and Glassware. Big line lamps
and few handsome lamps to ne closed out at cost. Few sets Uh a
lind China at cost. Very pretty and handsome. Our line House
keepers' Goods are well selected and useful and complete. Ohio
Feed Cutters, all sizes. Smith Straw Cutters. We sell Corrntrateil
and V Crumped Roofing. We sell Rims, Hubs, Wheels, Spokes,
Axles, Shafts, fcc. We sell goods on a guarantee as to quality of
goods, and guarantee our prices to be as low or lower than others.
Respectfully,
EDWARDS
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Sale of Land by Trustee
At 1-2:30 o'clock p. m. on June 5th, lH'.t'.t, at
court house door in Oxford, N. C, the under
signed Trustee by virtue of the powers contained
in a Deed of Tru-t from D. J. Gooch and wife to
him, recorded in Mortgage Hook 28, at page 41,
of Granville county, wiil sell at public auction
to the highest bidder for cash the land in said
instrument described, (the bond which said deed
seenred not having been paid oil ) to wit: Lying
in Walnut. Grove township, Granville county, N.
C, adjoinirg on the Asth January, 1.888, the lands
of 7'homas IS. Daniel, Mary 15. Gooch and others
being a part of the late Joseph Gooch land and
known as the old Briukley tract, containing 206
ares. This 27t,b April, l.s'M.
may4 KOBBK7' II'. WINSTON, Trustee.
Henderson Gold Leaf: The stock
holders of the Henderson cotton mill
have voted to make a third addition
and increase the capacity of the
mill. Only a few months ago quite
extensive additions in the size of the
factory building and the quantity of
machinery were made, and still
futher improvements along that line
has been decided upon. This argues
well for the success of the cotton
mill. This new extension will make
the mill a fraction over 400 feet in
length, independent of a 40 foot
office.
Charlotte News: The hail storm
on Sunday near Mt Holly knocked
Mr. L. L. Suggs senseless. His um
brella was beaten to peces. One hail
stone weighed a pound. A cow ex
posed and died from the pelting at
Charlotte. Every window in the
Presbyterian church at Mt. Holly
was broken out as were twenty-seven
in the Baptist church. At Ryner
Mill, shingles were knocked off and
holes were made in the roofs of
houses. Wheat was damaged, chick
ens were killed, and vegetables damaged.
WASHING DISH
A mountain of dishes confronts the average house
wife after all the family have dined. They are greasy
dishes, too, and hard to get clean with soap and water.
The best, easiest, quickest and cheapest wav to wash
a little
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in the dish-water. It acts like
magic, cuts the grease and makes
the dishes perfectly clean. In fact
all cleaning is made easier by this
great cleanser, and at half the co9
oi soap.
For greatest economy buy our large package.
THE N. K. FAIRBANK COMPANY
Chicago St. Louis New York Rosfan
Having at last adjusted our insurance we opened up our
store on JMondav. A m il '4t b 1800
our stock of goods which was more or less damaged by lire.
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.-cfsi,uic mem an o wm close iuem out as rapidly as pos
sible. Yours respectfully,
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