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INTERESTING VARIETY. ?.!.rArTJiT wrote on fools p and In a , ' ctt verr lsr-t band. . - Annt T.WOOO telephones aro in use in tho Uni.fd States. It f stated that there are jm,vw Swedes in New York Citj, and notono of thorn, U a saloon-keeper. Sixck 10 tba amount of conscience money sent to tho Treasury Department foots up over SI. 500,000. - A flaii of lihtninfr in a "Western town photographed a copy of an 18S9 calendar on the window pane. A Iiiilaieu!iia merchant has put out the sign: "Esculent Repository. Tho establishment is a grocery store. A iiioiilt clerical younj? man in Alli ance, 0., has only to, rub his finders, when small coin and other metalis valu ables stick to them as if by magic. The people of Florida flatter them selves that their State is on tho eve of a Ion- continued prosperity from tho oversow of Northern immigrants and capital. " A WEALTHY UOlonoo woman bay iuj, tho borrrrinc letters which have reached t 1L t hcrdurir'tbo last six weeks called, in j tho arfvate.for a sum of money as J larts as her entire fortune. ' A social authority declares that a man can afford to dress badly if ho is a penins or a chump. Hut if heisntonoj or the other of these tvo things he j must too the mark of fashionablo con vention. Ix transmitting" a message from San Francisco, Cal.t to lions' Kong, China, via New York, Canso, Penzance, Aden, IJombay, Madras Tenant and Singapore, about fifteen minutes are consumed. Ax Englishman has discovered that ineandewent light has an injurious ef fect on paintings. Afterits uso for threo years in his houso he noticed that some of the most delicate pigments in his col lection of water colors begun to fade. Ax illustration of tho continual forco of tho wind at a great elevation may bo seen by the fact that in less thr seven wevks after tho flag1 on tho summit of tho Eiffel tont'r was raised it was al 'Ht entirely destroyed. A small strip of tho center alone remained. A KF.MAKKAnLK spot in Vermont is ! tho farming town of Waltham, which contains 9,700 acres of land and has 243 inhabitants. It has . no post-office, church, town house, poor house, store, lawyer, doctor, blacksmith's shop, nor even a bridge, and yet It Is one of tho thriving1 towns of Addison County. Its taxes aro merely nominal! Xr.ws has been received -at St. Louis from tho Government expedition for the survey of Alaska. Tho letter is dated August 21, and says there are luxuriant forests, the gTass was green, flowers In bloom and tho weather very, warm, but ten inches below the surface the ground Is frozen hard, even as deep as twenty-" five feet. , GnrvT Britaix mined almost 10,000, XQ more tons of coal, iron and other minerals last year than in 1SS7, and em ployed 10,000 more men in tho work, 3ut fewer lives were lost In the process. Tho total number of fatal accidents was and of deaths occasioned thereby W0, being an increase of four in tho ac sidents, but a decroaso of ninety-one in the lives lost. Tm: villages and cities upon the rivers below Johnstown, Pa., are beginning1 to perceivo tho effects of the gTeat disaster itthatplaco in the loweringof their sani tary condition. Plainly the streams ire contaminated; there aro over thirty :ases of typhoid fever in tho hospital of Allegheny, and from two hundred to four hundred cases of the same disease ander treatment in private families. ' 'Pexxy famixe is now what ihreat ns tho largo cities of the West and Southwest. The people havo learned tv lse the long-despised ono cent coin, and iho needs of circulation havo increased !ar beyond the power of the Govern ment machinery to supply them. The Philadelphia mint is two months behind ith its orders for those pieces, in spite 5f keeping at work night and day turn ing: then out. For the first timo on record a lady has seen appointed a deputy collector of in ternal revenue. Miss Phcebo Couzins ias been a deputy United States mar jhal and has wielded a revolver and car ried handcuffs, but sho never had to mit regularly the tough dives and more lecent saloons of a wicked city and in tpect Government license-. Thi3 is ft-hat Miss Maud Cotton, just appointed t deputy collector for the Seventh In liana district by Collector Throop, wil) lave to do. "Nieo carpvts. Can't bo Lea V' said the salesman. I know it" said tho customer, sadly. I bought some of thorn last yt ar and when I tried io beat them la-st week thej fell to pieces. I want something that will stand a trien nial thrashing. Harper's Bazar. Money makes the man in cases T.hrrr th rvin has honestly made the -J .. . - ..' Vi ' -ili-ans llcayune. OF REAL AND PERSONAL j PERTY. , I ! PALE ) PROPERTY To satisfy a deed in trust, to me executed - iAtJi ilavi.f lanuarv. iSo, by Mrs. on tht j Qarric Mitchell, and duly recorded orfHae I 1 16, book 29, of the Records'in the oflicV- of ! the Register of Deeds of Granv!!e county, I the Reiris'er of Deeds 01 uranvuie com he highest bidder, for casi lhe premiscs, on the Sth day of Febri on ebruarv. I5kc. the house and lot on Mill Street, in the town of Oxford, adjoining the lands ol Thomas, R. J. Aiken and R. J. Mitchell, also, immediately after said sale, I will sell the household furniture in the hotel in the town of Oxford known as the Irwin Place. JOHN J. PARIS, Trustee. January 6th, 1S90. Notice ! The firm of Hart, Lawrence & Cochran has been dissolved bv mutual consent, W. D. Cochran etirin:r. Those indebted to the old concern will please come forward and settle their accounts. UART & LAU RENCE. PEsiuiBLE mum HOKE AMI lot for mle at NBlic AICTI01, j j wjjj stn at public auction in front j of tu. courlhousc jn Oxford, Moiv 1, in- tan. 27- iSr.o. the dvsirablc J " ,,ing house and ot on High St. u . - , . j k.. r t xr.u s - -- adjoining ioi ouiku u iw j. ell, R fJ. Aiken and L. I nomas H e hofl.-e is commodious, well built and j contains seven rooms. lerms, one half ca. and balance m six and twelve months. - Mrs. H. Coovek," Tru: tse. G. E. Alley, The Butcher. Stall No. 11, Oxford Market. 0- THE FRKSHKST AND BEST Beef, Mutton, . Poik and . Sausage, Every day at my Stall. Orders re ceive prompt ittuition and delivered immediately to any j art of the city. FACTS! READ! A C T S Gadgrind wanted facts ! facts ! So do the readers of The Day in the advertisement they read Here" are , some facts that will interest your pocket book. john y. markham's Cheap Cash Store. Carries full lines of Dry Goods, Shoes, Hats, Notions, Htavy and Fancy Groceries, Farming Implements. &c, which are sold at prices that simply cannot be beat. We buy in large quantities for the cash, and can compete with any hoiibe any where. AVe are content with a --SMALL PROFIT smaller than most merchants. We don't want the earth. We prefer to undersell others to being undersold. Consult your own interest, give us a call and convince yourself these are facts, we are stating. It won't cost you anything wifl save you money, we promise you. We have a 'Wholesale Grocery AND FEED HOUSE in Durham, where we keep everything usually found in a first-class establish ment. We solicit your trade tor either house. t ' John VV Markham, Cor. Commercial Ave., and Wall Sts., (Next to Banner Warehouse). OXFORD, - - North Carolina, FLOUR. I have Flour by car load lots at Rock Bottom Pri ces. Also my usual line of samples and catalogues. - - JOB OSBORN, 1 , MERCHANDISE BROKER. ; OXFORD, N.-.C: Second Floor of White Building.. (Several rooms to rent in it.) Rev. C.Durham. D. D., TESTIFIES AS FOLLOWS: It gives us pleasure to bear testimony to t the value of Pancea Water. And as results that have come under our observation art5 t the best commendation of this water, we give the facts in a single case : On the recommendation of Dr. P. E. Hines (of Raleigh) Mrs. Durham, wife of Rev. C. Durham, Corresponding Secretary of the North Carolina Baptist State Convention, after months of sickness and suffering;.he gan the use of Panacea Water, and was soon VERY GREATLY t benefited by it. ' She had before this tried the water from two very noted - 1 springs vithout relief, O. DURHAM. iirrlrtlr.i.i- i booking and Heating Stoves. o- " AllStyles and. Sizes at Rock Bottom Prices. Also full line of Hardware, Crockery, &e. S. W'. MITCHELL A SONS. J. N. LYOX, Salesman. , low For rn lie New Year ! Mmi THOMAS & ()-: H1N IN 1NTS TO HOUSEKEEPERS. TS TO HOUSEKEEPERS. FAMILY GROCERIES - FAMILY GROCERIES. IN STORE AND TO ARRIVE. Mince Meat, Cocoanuls, Currants, Dates Figs, Oranges, Apples; Citron and a ful line " of canned goods Tomatoes, Corn Peaches, Pine Apples. Apricots, etc. Rice Oat Meal, Cheese, Sugai , Coffee. Corn. Oats, Meal, Bran, Ship Stuff, Flour. Best Lard. Reliable Hams. Sausage. A nice lot of Fresh Butter, Pickle Pic Feet, Tripe, etc. 1 .you want the nicest J7lour givt mySwett Hume a trial. C. J. WARD. oPECIALr URIVES ! ! Tv s t ; AT , , ; . A- MAX'S, Cor. Com. Ave. and College Street. IN Dr Ar AjOODS, LOTH IN G HATS, BOOTS AND FHOES. Heavy and Fancv- Groceries. o A complete slock of these goods bought low and sold low. LGuarante? )rices against any house or any towi in North 'Carolina. I'hve some- special gocds to show you cheaper than you ever saw before. Call at my store and abk to see thtm. They will be shown you with pleas: tire by polite and attentive salesmen. Elmhurst Mills ! Corn Meal can be found on sale at C. J.-Ward's and J. T. - Sizemore's. Parties wishing fine Jersey milk and butter, will be supplied -promptly bv Heaving their orders at C - J. YVardS l-tore. THOS. E. HICKS. 1 . -, 1 crq ' :;V CO o W . g . .. " crq 3 j ' o - . t- t p . -o ; p . a. i : w 1 ! - i ZD - w . ' ! .- i ; o ; i CD v . ! . ! H . i o ; ! ! 1 . '- t , '..14 . : REM EM BER THE ACCOMPLISHES 1 ITS- GOOD WORK IN- RELIEVING HUMANITY Away, from the Spring! as well as at the SpritvJ Its I T 4 TT . H AUTU' C.-M A'TtVlilvr - J v Rapidly. T 1 ROLLEI ) . OF- Oxford, N.-C: Tninks the life-of h vUi was saved from death. Cholera Infant urn y ueoi Panacea ::- Watc; H. -A.TAYLOR.li Fonnerly a mernber of O'-i vl lie Inferior Court, say!; liij? .ton. Siv. John M. 'i ;iv', who is a well-known t' con is t of Ikiehrnond, was1 (h'ousl y ill. 11 o ' tried J highly celebrated mil! wa t ers u nd er the ad vie his physician without factory results.- Kinall, the tairgestion of.jIr. Ti' r ' Panacea "Water was r ( t proved so beneficial 1 the Doctor in chaise at!1' the discontinuance of ail j mineral waters .excejt'l Panacea remarking tlmtj Pauacea Water had dow,: patient more good tkI: medicines and the otht1" m i u era 1 :w a t e i s o f ce 1 c b i i I Foliii A. Wild, -. . ' I SUFFERING SOLE AGKNCVi OXFORD, N. C-
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