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ITEMS INSTRUCTIVE AND INTERESTING. Ten million nea were eaten in Chicago last jeir. " , The tihj Kinj? of Spaiu is to Iiave his picture n jta.;e btain'M. I lunarian ml wine w used to make LlomJe liair copier bro n. Yankton. Dak., has an artesian well flowing 4.000 pa lions a minute. Over 1.000.000 tnife of telegraph wire are in ojrvtwn in the United Statew enough to encircle the globe forty times. The Scotch rtem of admitting vol untary patient into lunatic asylum is year the number of such patienU was iifty-tHe. The Urgent inland ea is tins Caspian, lying lietween Europe and Asia. Its greatt-st length is ?00 miles, iU greatest breadth-270 miles, and iU area 150,000 square miles. The Simplest, The Easiest Run- SENTENCED FOR STEALING. ning, ine iviost luruic, SENTENCED rUK C5J3aihj. mm 1 - - kl I in Best Sewing Machine World. THE IMPROVED SINGER. FOR SALE BY W. P. WILLIAMS, at , Davis, Thomas & Co.'s Drug Store, Ox ford, N C. SENTENCED FOR STEALING. THE 25 CENTS BUYS- . Samuel Coles, whose agae, an attested by the parish regUter, was 10 years, died rvcentlr at Oandle, Northampton shire, England, lie used to drink two glasses of beer daily, but was not a smoker. The smallest circular saw in the world now in actual use is a tiny disk less than the fourth of an inch in diameter, used in the Tiffany jewelry establishment for slitting gold pens. It U the thickness of a sheet of writing paper and revolves at the rate of 4,000 revolutions per min ute. The high velocity keeps the saw rigid, notwithstanding its thinness. The soul, avs Dr. A. II. Stevens, of Philadelphia, is located in tne corpus cal losum, a little spongy bvdy situated at the bae of the brain, which ha defied the efforts of physicians in their endeav ors to ascertain its uses in the human anatomy. The corpus calloeum, said the doctor, "is the seat of the imperish able mind, and is the great reservoir and storehouse of electricity, which is ab stracted from the blood in the arteries, and conveyed through the nerves up the spinal cord to the corpus callosum. " A negro womin employed on Mr. Joseph MitMIeton's farm, near Brazoria, Texa. was some time since1 pecked in the liacd by an angry hen. She hus now grown quite mad, and acts like a chicken, wandering about the woods and pecking, at all who accost her. She makes a cluck ing noise, horribly like tliat of a hen, and sits by the hour scratching up earth with hands and feet. She pecks up her food, and her very faco is assuming a sharp, bird-like aspect. She roosts all night in a tree and refuses to sleep under a roof. There is something intensely wierd in , the recital of the cruise of the Thetis, which has been where no American ves sel has ever been before, and where no vessel has been at all since. McClure discovered the northwest passage in 1851. On the south si Jo of Uerschels island the crew of the ship came upon a deserted village, of which history furnish s no account. On the graves were laid guns of long-obsolete pattern, and birds had made their nests in the skeletons of the brave men who had given up their lives there. "Who were these unrecorded heroes? Francois Chaynot, of Cornwall IIol low, among the Cornwall mountains in Connecticut, has been searching for three years for iron ore. on his farm. For the post year he lias been employed in uigging a lunnei about six xeet square info thi Standard Novels, Standard Novels, Poems and 'Histories. Poems and Histories. 12 MO., CLOTH BOUND, - at the- Oxford Book Store One of the strangest cases on the record is why a man will steal when he can ?et eoods fofa mere trifle at 4j J, W. MARKHAM'S CASH STORE. We have almost everything from paper of pins to a steam suw mill. MEAT, v - MEAL, FLOUR, bUGAR, COFFEE, SHIP STUFF, , OATS, CORN ' AND . HAY. DRY GOODS,. NOTIONS, BOOTS. SHOES, , ' HATS . and' ' CAPS. ACCOMPLISHES GOOD WORK REv. C. Durham. D. D., TESTIFIES AS FOLLOWS: ll'gives us pleasure to bear testimony to the value of Pancea Water. And as results that have come under our observation are the Dest commendation of this water, we give the facts in a single case : 4 On the recommendation of Dr. P. E. Hines (of.Raleigh) Mrs. Durham, wife of Rev. C. Durham, Correspondincr Secretary of the North Carolina Baptist State Convention, qIer months of sickness and suffering, be gan the use of Panacea Water, and was soon We are now closing out our Fall and Winter stock of Boots, Shoes and Dress Goods and are offering some BIG BARGAINS. v We want room for our Spring stock and thev must 20 and snail cro if low prices will carry them. All we ask is a trial. John W, Markham, Cor. Commercial Ave., and Wall Sts., (Next to Banner Warehouse). OXFORD, - - North Carolina. ill if I 111 i I II W ( New Y6ar ! rfo - - it ; : ' '''- I ; ITS '.- hi XT r i 1 o II , i-h'l ' IN 3 CP O . 2. p. -. w Ui ( a i si 3" . 1 8 ' I ItsF MEMBER (1 RELIEVING SUFFERING HUMANITY Away from the Spring as well as at the Spring. ame Is Extending Rapidly. .-DAVIS, THOMAS & m J B. RGLLEK, I I I k m i r l I HINTS TO HOUSEKEEPERS. INTS TO HOUSEKEEPERS. FAMILY GROCERIES. FAMILY GROCERIES.- OF lerciiaiiflisfi-:- ;-:Brokop; OXFORD, N. O. IN STORE AND TO ARRIVE. Mince Meat, Cocoanuts, Currants, Dates, Figs. Oranges. Atmles. Citron and a full line of canned goods Tomatoes, Corn, Peaches, Pine Apples, Apricots, etc. Rice, Oat Meal, Cheese, Sugar, Coffee. Corn, Oats, Meal, Bran, Ship Stuff, Flour. 'Oxford, N. G, Tninks the life of his child was saved from death by C h o 1 eraI n fn n t u m by use o I Panacea ::- Water. gans Best Lard. Reliable Hams. Sausage. gans Pig H. A. TAYLOR, lid. r t i m Mtiooi u racHiniain. tie lias pone in 350 feet. At the entrance bo blasted for a lon way through solid rock, then came a kind of clay of a yellow- color, and next bo found a red sub? stanco resembling ochre. lie lias a grav ity track and car running tho whole length of hb queer mine, which he is worki:; alona Many springs have been found that gUih forth pure cold water. 3Ir. Cliaynoi lias now struck into stone containing largo quantitieaj of iron, and all hii fiU.Ls are richer as ho proceeds inward. VERY GREATLY benefited by it. ...... n She nad before this tried the ivOSe water from two very noted p ose springs without relief. Rose O. DU.UHAM. P Seed Potatoes ! Seed Potatoes ! Seed Potatoes ! Seed Potatoes ! In 144 Sergeant Malloy, who acted as polic sergeant at the soldiers homo at Togu, was shot while in the dis clun;t uf UU duties. lie owned a largo Newfoundlan J dog, which wat his insepa raLIj cuuijsmioii, and wal-t with him at the time of the ahooting. The dog would have torn the murderer in pieces but for th interferenct? of other inmates, and cVr sliicx tho auimal lias displayed pe culiar symptoms at the time of funerals. Whenever a burial is to take place at tho home and the ban! begins to play tho dtud march th2 dog will hide among tho bushes until tlu? first volley of musketry i tired over the grave, when he will rush upon th tiring wpiail wth every symp tom of ntadmtHH, and it is with the ut most diltuulty that he can be kept off. maitr what the weatlier the big New loUiiiilaiid atU-nds every funeral at the a . i":ue. a.iu ie it ts txoi miea one sanca the burial vt his murdered master in Notice ! A you mast inevitably keep company T. itli yourself as long as you live, it Is of mn-otrn-njoo to you to make of yourself m pk-x.au!, agreeable companion. . . . The firm of Hart, I-awrence & Cochran has been dissolved by mutual consent, W. D. Cochran retirine. Those indebted to the old concern will please come forward and settle their accounts. HART & LAWRFNCR. JJORTGAGE SALE OF LAND. , ' By virtue of a mortgaRe executed by John H. Averitt and wife to Henry Hobgood, now deceased, registered in Book of Mortgages No. 25, at ago 5S6, I ha!I on Monday the 3d day of March, 1800, expose to sale at public auction at the court house door in Oxford, the tract of land described in said mortgage, and situated in Fishing Cretk township, adjoining the lands of Reuben Overton. Moses C Dean and others, and j containing 50 acres. HARRIET HOBGOOD. Ex'x of Henry Hobgooddec,&. The Finest I Ever! Saw. Call at -my office and examine them. Ten Days A nicr lot of Fresh Butter, Pickle Feet, Tripe, etc. If you want the nicest Flour give Formerly a member of Gran ville Inferior Court, 'says that his son, iMr. John Ah Taylor, who is a well-known tobac- cbnist'of. Richmond, was dan srerouslv 'ill. He tried two highly celebrated minera . . . r wntprs under th" advice 01 his physician without satis- factory results. ' Finally at exhibition. my Sweet Home a trial. ' C. J. WARD. Special Drives ! ! . -AT ' A, MAX'S, Cor. Com. Ave. and College Street, IN ' Dry Goods,' Clothing, the suggestion of Mr. Taylor, Sr. Panacea Water was tried It proved so beneficial tli the Doctor in chaige advised the discontinuance of all oth- mineral vvntprs .PYppnt the the his HATS, BOOTS AND PHOES. Heavy and Fancy Groceries. o A complete stock of these .goods bought low and sold low. Guarantee Onlv for Sale and !!febour any ln Paa,ea remarking that I 1 A vc winici.. p. . ... , 1 1 J . . . . I have some special goods to show rillJa vvaier nao tiui you cheaper than you ever savv before, f natieut more i?6od than Call at my store and ask to see them. . i . A iw.t. fuO They will be shown vou with pleas- icines, and the other iv a Office. Three Doors ' Above - Osborn House. For Rent. A niceup-stairs room, 3 doors from Osborn House, ready furnished. Also a nice up-stairs room with comfortable stove up in it, in White building, facing on Main street. . ure by polite and attentive salesmen, mineral waters of celebrity. Elmhurst Mills ! Corn Meal can be found on sale at C. J. Ward's 1 and J. T. Sjzemore's. Parties wishing fine Jersey milk and butter will be supplied promptly by leaving their orders at C. T. Ward's I store. THOS.'E. HICKS. John A. Williams SOLE. AGENCY, - OXFORD, N. C.
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