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THE DAY OIVKS All the News of the day and is furnished at lOcts.j per week. . :u!ation lished in . i .. r ;er" 5 OXFORD, N. C. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22,1890. Single Copies : 3 Cts, , mm 5 Cases O; 5 Bus. ?: f) Buncl: D Cocoa:: 31 Jk- '7 r ox pa 'An.. : --. l:. . ltri.il, c ... fry a:!;tr I v;n a: To show y :: p.e Dress Go . WE A. . To show V. . .. ' cli. I j WE A! o : . : vu' i . J I kirulA T;:, : lu:a v, . : ';. -how J i i: , .. .. , . V I- it I j. -i A.,: a.: ! ill t r0 . : d Hi: is . v tere tl t I Tov:. irr , l'uA-, .To show ve i r'ca:sto::i or lie. Ive t. ir bv : : :km t r 1 r tv. ? I A J? "7 n 111. i N & CO. :ion Grapes. mas. aw w . ni ti'iV :- JAN DIES SON & CO. :), ,N.C..:.. Ready ! OU? READY new complete stock you in price, style, assortment and in : IEADY r.nd most fash ion - ; .n minings. : HEADY lected line of La- Capes, Jackets and IEADY . and handsomest s' and Children's - us and unequall- : :ady s J Boys' Clothing and style equal to a: ready .-, made on the latest : 1 locks. Soft and stiff A READY Uest assortment of ; erwear. READY '.pest line of Carpets I in Oxford or any- 1A READY . Furnishing Goods of a: ready .er and Tea Sets of READY ;s, Valises, Umbrel- READY utiful line f samples its guaranteed or no A ARE READY .te call. We will do Bros., Main Street. TIST, North Carolina. Gas administered for m of tet?th. ron Bank Building, NOTES OF THE DAY . THE LOCAL HAPPENINGS SERVED IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS. T!e 311 nor Kvriittt About the City a Gathered 1y the Alert Keportcru of The Day. There-is no let up orf the cry. for dwelling houses. Join" the Young Men's Democratic 3hib. Meeting .tonight. -v - - -' Oxford is. moving along under bright V ltit?s. : - There i$n't a cloudin sight. We al-e indebted t6 H-- A. -Taylor for some fully f ipe,. second crop straw-berrisY- ;. A . : . Mayor Smith had several small cases to try this morning, and exacted several small fines. The Hettie Bernard Chase troupe left yesterday afternoon for Henderson, where they perform tonight. A grand ball will be given here the night of October io. THe music will be furnished by the Durham orchestra. A meeting for the organization of a social club will be held tonight in B. F. Kronheimer's room, in Herndon Block No i. 1 The Oxford Land, Improvement and Manufacturing Company will put six arc electric lights oh the streets of South Oxford at once- The Williams-Brower joint canvas opens at Wiltan today a week, the 29 inst. i On the 30 the two speakers will talk politics jn Oxford. Rev. ,W, L. Cuninggim announc ed last night. that he wiu.next bunday morning preach a special sermon to the ladies. Everyone invited. The tobacco curing season is near ing an end, and farmers will soon pour into the city to sell tobacco and buy ran ana winter mercnanaise. Rev. J. T. Harris, the new superin tendent of the Oxford Orphan Asylum, delivered a very fine sermon at the Methodist church yesterdy morning. The wedding bells will ring Wed nesday of this week. Dame Rumor has it that several other marriages will be solemnized in the city within the next month. F. J. Hague has just finished two very large and finely-executed signs for the Oxford Land, Improvement and Manufacturing Company and the Panacea Springs Company. There are a few wooden shanties on our principal streets which detract much from the beauty of the town. But Oxford is growing and the eye sores are bound to go ere long. The Young Men's Democratic Club of Oxford will meet tonight at the courthouse. Every member, and every Democrat who wishes to join the club, are urged to be present. A new street is to be opened near the railroad depot, in the rear of J. Meadows' and W. C. Reed's prize houses. R. W. Winston's prizehouse, in course of construction, fronts on this new street. Some of the property-holders in the neighborhood are talking about taking out an. injunction to stop Chief of Po lice Renn from cutting down the hill on Williamsboro street between New College street and the old O. & H; depot. The Oxford Land, Improvement and Manufai turing Company is hav ing posters and handbills galore print ed, and will send a man to various towns in North Carolina and Virginia to advertise the. great land sales of October 9, 10 and 11. John P. Stedman's stock of drugs, medi cines. spices, toilet and. fancy articles is complete. Give him a call. New goods received every day. "T SURGEON, D,.N. C. Ox-Ford Smoking Tobacco at Furman fi Hays'. . f A i office refurnished and j r extracting teeth with ver Haithcock's drug ' Be sute to call and see the Mantel Bed stead at J. A. Webb's, The Furniture Dealer. Bring your orders for tobacco flues toj. F. Edward PURELY PERSONAL. THE LATEST NEWS. The Doings and Whereabout of Some People You Know. - A. S. AJrardy spent yesterday in Raleigh. C. L. Paxsin, of Virginia, is in the city today. Mac Roberts went to Virginia, on the morning train. C. Hunter, of Henderson, is spend ing the day in. Oxford. ' ' Col. W. Overbey, of Clarksville, Va., is in the city tcdav. J. F. Royster went to Raleigh to day, and will be absent several days. Oscar Hicks took his departure yesterday afternoon for his home in Athens, Ga. Rev. Jos. Rennie preached here yesterday, and left this morning for Chase City, Va. Miss Rosa Wood, who was here several days canvassing for the State Chronicle, left today for Henderson. W. Z. Mitchell and wife and Mrs. Wr. L. Meadows spent Sunday at Stems, and returned to the city this morning. J.' G. HaH, after a visit of two weeks to Western North Carolina and Southwest Virginia, returned 1 to the city yesterday morning. ' ' . Misses Annie and Maggie Lunsford, of Durham, arrived in the city this morning, bringing with 'them Miss Rosa Crews and Master Eugene Crews. ' Killed a Uig Enale. A large eagle was killed on CA H. Landis' farm, near here, last Saturday by Fred Magee, colored. ; Magee saw-the eagle swoop down and attempt to carry off his little boy, who v, as playing in the field. He seized his gun and ran to the assis tance of his child. Failing to get his prey the first time, the huge bird de scended to try again, when the father blazed away and killed him. The eagle, was of great size, the wings, when severed from the body, measuring four feet four inches. : Lecture October 3. Dr. J. J. Lafferty, of the Richmond Christian Advocate, will deliver a lec ture in the Opera House on the night of October 3 for the benefit of the Ox ford station Methodist " jursonagc. The subject will be announced later. Dr. Iafferty is a lecturer of wide reputation. He was here several years ago, and attracted large audien ces. He is an original thinker, an original humorist and. wonderfully en tertaining". 1 p High Point N. C; has a land im provement company. Do you use lamps? Have you seen those beautiful new parlor lamps at John P. Sted man's Oxford Drug Store? , May Apple, Aiken and Farmers' Al liance chewing tobacco at Furman & Hays'. Large stock f Lanterns, Tobacco Knives and Thermomters for sale at J.F. Edwards Sheffield's Creme Dentrifice, the best tooth preparation extant, at Furman Hays'. Carter's Ink, the best in the world for office, school and general work, at Furman & Hays', : : . . . Lemons, Oranges, Cocoanuts, Bananas received today at Oxford Drug Store. John P. Stedman. Buy the Excelsior Cook Stove. The best in use, atj. F. Edwards'. TweiUj-WhllePtlilu Ducks For Sale. Apply to Robert Gilliam Lassiter. ! SIFTED AND ARRANGED FOR THE BUSY READER. Dr. McGill's Orange Blossom at Fur man & Hays'. Large stock Wagon and Buggy material for sate at J. F. Edwards'. - Sapolio, Cuticura and Castile Soap? at Furman &. Hays'. Happenings- In IVortli Carolina and Elsewhere a Gathered from Today's Exchanges. A statue of Horace Greeley was un veiled at the Iribune building Satur day. Mr. Depew made an address. A coffin factory was destroyed by fire in Burlington, N. C,, last week, and four thousand coffins were reduced to ashes. Loss, about 520,000. An explosion of gas in a shaft of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company resulted in the death of four persons and the fatal injury of another. The Winston base ball club again defeated the Roanokes, last Friday. It was a ten inning game, the score being 4 to 3. This end 1 the series, Winston winning three out of four games. ' In a desperate encounter between Italian laborers and a sherifFs posse near Wayne Court House, Va., several of the former were killed and wound ed, and about twenty others arrested. The remainder escaped to the woods. Among the distinguished gentlemen announced to speak at the conven tion of Democratic Clubs at Raleigh, September 24 and 25, are Gov. Fowle, Senators Ransom and Vance, Con gressman Bunn and Henderson and Capt. Baldy Williams. The Roxboro Courier says: Rox boro will have a new bank and ten prizehouses ready for the new crop of tobacco. With two banks, two ware houses and plenty of storage houses she will be ready to handle a large quantity of the leaf this season. A Monroe correspondent of the Charlotte Chronicle writes Gabriel Johnston, a brother of Mrs. J. L Parker, and now an Episcopal minis ter in Canada, has received and ac cepted an invitation to deliver a lec ture before the "Gospel Society' in London. Mr. Johnston was born and raised in Edenton, in this State, and has many friend and relatives here and in Edenton. A Halifax county special to the Ral eigh News and Observer says : At a large Democratic meeting held here today, a very strong and conservative appeal was made to the Democrats against the compromise proposed by the county executive committee. The resolutions offered against the compro mise were adopted with but four dis senting voices. Senator Blair Saturday presented the following telegram, which was signed by about fifty names : "The undersigned,' delegates to the State Republican Convention of South Car olina, respectfully request you to pro tect the interests of the colored farm ers and laborers of the South by using your influence to defeat the Conger lard bill." The same convention de clared in favor of the force bill. The State, Chronicle says Gov, Fowle, Saturday pardoned, James L. Henry, of Cherokee county, out of imprisonment. The pardon was granted upon the certificate of the county physician that if compelled to serve out his sentence, his life would be endangered; also npon recommen dation of the Attorney General and various citizens of Cherokee county. The crime was assault and battery with deadly weapon. A passenger train on the Reading road was thrown into the Schuylkill river, near Shoemakersville, fifteen miles from Reading, Pa., Friday night. An accident to a coal train on the other track a few moments before had thrown several cars on the track the passenger was onand the men cn the coal train had no time to "either clear the track nor to warn the passenger train. The latter ran into the obstruc tion and the entire train went down a twenty foot bank into the river. Twen ty bodies of the dead have been taken from the wreck. The injured number fiity. THEATRICAL. Hettie Bernard Chase at' the Opera Houae Saturday Night. Considering the fact that it was Sat urday night tjie worst show night of the week in the average Southern town a good-sized audience greeted Miss Hettie Bernard Chasq and her excellent company. ! , "Uncle's Darling'ris not particu larly strong in plot, but it is bright with music and, sparkling with humor, and thoroughly, enjoyable. Miss Chase is a most charming ac tress, and. deserves all the nice things said about her by the newspapers wherever she has appeared. ' The Ox onians were highly pleased with her, and applauded her with enthusiasm. . Her support was good. Mr. Cassidy, as the Chinaman, was a favorite and came in for a large share of applause.- The play was clean, without a sug gestion of vulgarity. COLORED ARISTOCRACY. The next attraction at the Opera House is the "Colored Aristocracy," ' which will be played there Wednesday, Oct. 1. It is something great. It is describ ed as a side splitting black face bur lesque "musical farce comedy, and it is played by great stars and specialists. It is a new idea, End it is funnier and better than any-minstrel show. ! There are twenty-five people in the troupe, including celebrated comedi- ans,- fine vocalists, eccentric musicians, dancers, acrobats and contortionist. A magnificent brass band and orches tra furnish music:. y : Get ready for not one hearty laugh, but for two hours or more of continu ous and uproarous laughter. There will be a crowded house, of course. A CELEBRATED CASE. This stirring and sterling drama will be put on. the stage October 9 and 10 by a company of Oxford amateurs. ' Rehearsals conimence this week. The parts have been assigned to talented young ladies and gentlemen, and that the play will be well presented is cer-' tain. ! Kates to Land Sale at Oxford, IV. C. ' The Richmond and Danville Rail road will sell I parties attending the Land Sale at Oxford, N.C, tickets to tha point nd return at follow ing rates'from points named: Tickets on sale Oct. oth, good returning until and including Oct. 13. 1S90; From Charlotte, 7.70; Salisbury, $6.45; Winston -Salem', 5.75; Goldsboro, 5.40; Greensboro, $4.55; Durham, 1.90; Raleigh $3.15; Selma, 54-55; Henderson, 70 cents Rates from" intermediate points in same proportion. " THE TRAINS. OXFORD & CLARKSVILLE R. R. A Northbound I trains leave 11:02 A. m. , and 8:25 p. m. Southbound trains leave 4:09, P. M., and 3:30, a. m. OXFORD & HENDERSON R. R Trains arrive i 0:15, a. m., and 3:30, p. M.,and 7:45, P- M. Trains dejjart 5:00, a. m. , 1 1: io, a. m., and 4:25, p. m. Feather Bed For Sale. Newly renovated. Apply at this office. Hoyt's German Cologne at Furman & Havs'. ' ' Boarder Wanted, ; Prof. Hobgood at the Aiken- hous offers table board at $12.50, and with rooml $15. New lot Paper and Envelopks just re ceived by Furman & Hays'. Safe for, Sale Hall's Patent. Has been in use two years. Will -be sold at less than half value. Apply to T. D. Crawfoud,
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