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OXFORD, K. C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1890.
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alifornia Pears,
alifornia Peaches,
Malaga Grapes,
Catawba Grapes.
Delaware Grapes,
Bananas, Oranges,
Lemons, Cocoanuts,
CHESTNUTS!
nvKitid of Candy. Gum Drops
10 cents per pound.
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SAUSAGE !
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Fine Pork Sausage
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GROCERY.
First-Class Groceries, Fancj'
md Staple, always on hand.
NEW GOODS!
A BEAUTIFUL LINE OF SIL
VERWARE, SUITABLE FOR
BRIDAL PRESENTS.
A!soa new stock of watches of all kinds.
If you are iu need of a reliable timepiece
call and secure it from
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COAL!
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Anthracite Coal. Nutt, Egg
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Pocahontas Coal. Lump.
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NOTES GF THE DAY.
THE LOCAL HAPPENINGS SERVED
IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS.
T l . lr 1 . A . - ... - . - . .
a- - cvnii Aooui 1 ike city a
uauicren uy tfte Alert Reporters of
Tlie Day.
Tlr; weather has cleared off beauti
fully. A masquerade bail in the near fn
ture is spoken of.
R. S. Usry's two new brick store
houses are being roofed.
Many Oxford people went in bug
gies to Berea today, to attend the big
Democratic speaking.
Oxford has few if any loafers.
Everybody here is a, work and there
is work for everybody to do!
Dr. B. F, Dixon will lecture on
"Moths" at the Opera HouFe tonight.
Everybody is going to hear him.
ineyare butting more ana more
dry wood under ihe political pot, and
it is not far from the boiling point.
Weather wise men say that as it
cleared up in the night we will have
more rain within the next two or three
days.
We see from the Orphans' Friend
that Miss Sue Hall is instructing an art
ciass at the Asylum every Saturday
afternoon.
The owners of good bird dogs are
very popular just now. "Jest want to
borrow your dog awhile tomorrow
ken I have him V
The new bonded warehouse build
ing is almost finished, and will son
be ready for the storage of thousands
of hogheads ot tobacco.
The tobacco sales warehouses today
had well-filled floors and the farmers
went home with well-filled pockets.
That is a way Oxford has.
B. M. Overton, the Commercial
Avenue grocer, announces in our ad
vertising columns that he is receiving
daily Heckler s fine pork sausage.
How about putting signboards on
the corners of the streets, city com
missioners? They won't cost much
and they are needed. It is a pretty
hard thing to do now to direct a
stranger about the city.
Capt. A.. H. A. Williams friends
here are in good spirits oyer the news
irbra the district. Everything is fav
orpble to his election by a big major
ity. Williams and Brower will speak
at Greensboro tomorrows
Coming Events. i
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Our brother of The Day announces
a few more marriages to come off
soon. Whose ? Orphans Friend.
We would like to oblige our sister
of the Friend by giving the informa
tion asked for, but really we must not,
you know ! Custom throws the veil
of secrecy over these tender : affairs
until a few days before the nuptials
are celebrated, and, if we get inklings
of the coming events, we are forbid to
tell them in Gatb or whisper them
in Askalon.
But, believe us, the wedding bells
will ring oft and merrily in Oxford
town ere the roses bloom again..
Dr. Dlxon't Lecture on "Moths."
Dr. B. F. Dixon is here and in the
best of trim, and will tell the Oxford
people something interesting and in
structive about "Moths" at the Opera
House tonight.
The lecture will begin at eight
o'clock.
Let us give the doctor a rousing big
house. He deserves it, and besides
the proceeds will go towards building
a new parsonage for the M. E. Church,
Oxford Circuit.
Reserved seats 50 cents, for sale at
J. P. Stedman's drugstore; general ad
mission 25 cents; gallery 15 cents, y-
Guns, rifles and pisto1-at J. F. E v. snV-V
PHANTOM PARTY.
A Ghostly Assembly lu Armory
Hall
Last Niglit--Plenty Fun.
Armory Hall could have held a few
more people very comfortably last
night The attendance was not large,
the weather being bad; nevertheless
the Phantom Party was a success finan
cially and in the way of enjoyment.
The ladies and gentlemen were
wrapped in white sheets and wore
white masks, and it - was difficult to
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"spot" a particular person or even dis
tinguish the sexes. Some amusing
mistakes occurred, of course.
One young man looking on was
fooled several times by disguistd men
whom he took for women. Finally
when a young1 lady really approached
him and offered to shake hands1; he,
thinking she was a man, told her to go
to the -place of fire, sulphur and brim
stone. She gave a feminine shriek and
he collapsed with horror. V
Another looker on jn Venice acci-
dently stepped on a masker's foot, and
bowing most profoundly, said: "Miss
i numDiv keg your pardon tor my
"Ft
awkwardness.". The sheeted figure
leaned over and whispered in his ear
in a masculine voice : "Go to thun
der, dog gone you !" .' '
At about eleven o'clock the sheets
were taken on ana the anair wound
up with agerman. Many of Oxford's
fairest young ladies ajnd most gallan
young men were on the floor. There
were also a number of visitors.
Tables with ice cream and cake were
at one end of, the Hall and were liber
ally patronized. Between thirty and
forty dollars was raised for the Gran'
ville Grays Cornet Band.
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To Help Rebuild Rutherford College.
Rev. Dr. R. L. Abernethy's lecture
on "The Human Soul and Mind," at
i
the Opera House last night, was a very
fine one, and appreciated by the intel
ligent audience present. It showed
deep thought and research. His chart
showing the faculties of the mind was
original, and . his explanations lucid
and entertaining.
Dr. Abernethy told of the destruc
tion by fire of Rutherford College in
August last, of the heavy loss he sus
tained, of the charitable character and
work of his institution, and appealed
to his hearers to help him rebuild and
start again the; education of indigent
vouths in North Carolina. A number
of contributions were made, out we
are not ?d vised of the amount raised
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Stoves For Sale.
Prof. Hobgood has a large lot - of second
hand coal and wood stoves for sale. Apply
lo him.
Chewing Tobacco.
"Matinee" You all know the brand.
Five boxes received today at
- The Oxford Drug Store.
John P. Stedman.
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Three or four boarders wanted. Three
dollars a week. Rooms furnished. Ap
ply to L. E. Wright.
Lost t
Np.ir the Eoiscooal Church a watch
charm. Please return to C. R. Blackley.
Grapes, 25 cents a basket,
drug store, next to postoffice.
at Couch's
50 Harvey's Elementary Grammars- -45
cts., at the Oxford Book, Store.
100 Harrington Spellers
Oxford Bookstore.
-20 -cts., at the
Parties wishing to purchase Iron Safe
will save money by calling on J, F. Ed
wards. He is agent for Macneal & Ur
baud's Iron Safes.
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25 Webster's Primary V Dictionaries
25 cts., at the Oxford Book Store.
Large stock sporting goods at J.
wards'.
F. Ed-
THE LATEST NEWS.
SIFTED AND ARRANGED FOR THE
BUSY READER.
Haiipenfngg In. North
Elsewhere as Gathered
Carolina and
from Today's
Exchanges.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland opened" the
Birmingham, Ala., fair on Monday by
pressing an electric button at Lenox,
Mass.
The Police Board of Baltimore has
ordered a recount of the population of
that city, to be made by the police , in
November.
It is officially announced that the
Soldiers'Home at Raleigh is now open
for the reception of a limited number
of needy Confederate veterans.
The First National Bank of Durham,
which was burned out yesterday morn
ing, resumed business this morning in
Blackwell s old drugstore, corner -of
Main and Corcoran streets.
Gov, Gordon, of Georgia, last night
received an appeal for troops from the
sheriff of Coffee Co., who telegraphed
that the negroes were shooting down
the whites. The scene is twenty miles
from the nearest telegraph station and
no particulars are obtainable.
The Governor has authoiized an ex
charge of courts between Judge Graves
and Judge McRae, by which Judge
McRae, will hold Cumberland county
court beginning Nov. ,10, and Judge
Graves will hold Person and Caswell
courts Person beginning November
10 2nd Caswell November 17.
Earnest C. Row, a young newspa
per man of New Haven, Conn., arrived
in San Francisco Tuesday night with
a safety bicycle, .which he had ridden
clear across the American continent,
as far as Ogden, with the exception of
about 700 miles r over a .rough, almost
roadless country when he walked.
The journey was commenced August
Henry Gillman, United States Con
sul at Jerusalem, has informed the
State Department that three locomo
tives of American make have arrived
at Jaffa for the Jerusalem and Jaffa
Kaiiway. "it is 01 interest to our
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citizens and indeed, the entire world,"
says Mr. Gillman, "to know that the
nrst locomotives ever used in tnis an
cient land were made in the new
world, in the United States ot Ameri-
ca.
W. R. Herndon, of Durham, has
been indicted bv the grand iury of
Durham county for the murder of Sis
Meacham. He is, in jail. Wednes
day, says the Durham Globe, the stove
pipe in his cell got loose in some way
and the smoke poured in upon him in
volumes. He yelled and called until
he exhausted himseit and oecame so
weak that he could scarcely move. By
some good fortune, he was discovered
in his almost perished condition and
rescued. Dr. Johnson remained with
him a great part of the night.
An Asheville, N. C, dispatch says :
Rhoda Morrison was killed in a brutal
manner by her husband, H. T. Mor
rison, near here last Thursday. Ihe
couple have Jived : in Asheville for a
year, navmg come irom Anderson
county, S. U. 1 hey quarreled several
days ago and she left him, going to the
house of her brother, Will Sullivan.
Morrison went. to the house Thursday
evening while Sullivan was away and,
after, beating his wife, dragged her
away, rier oody was tound on ijeo.
Vanderbilt s place, two miles from her
brother's house, Saturday morning.
There were, two bullet holes in the
breast and one in the temple. Her
hroat was horribly cut.
Buy the Excelsior Cook Stove. The besl
in use, atj. tdwards'
Be sure to call and see the Mantel Bed
stead at J. A. Webb's,
The Furniture Dealer.
50 Harvey's Revised Grammars 70 cts.,
at the Oxford Book Store;
Potato onions and sets at R. H. McGuire's.
"Delineator" Fashion Magazine fr
N'o-
veinber, at the Oxford Book Store.
PURELY PERSONAL.
The Doings and Whereabouts of Some
People You Know.
R. T. Smith was in Raleigh yester
day. ; f, "
Richard Saunders, of Durham, is in
the city today. jV ;
Capt. R. V. Minor returned last
night from a visit to Durham.
Rev. Dr. Black, presiding elder of
this district, came to I Oxford this
morning. j
Wm. RhinedolJar, of Bajtimore,
Md., the well-keown commercial hus
tler, is in the city today.
Mrs. Hicks, who was. here visiting
her daughter, Mrs. A. j.Landis, took
her departure this mornjng.
Rev. Dr. B. F. Diion, of the
Greensboro Female. College, arrived
in the city oh the mornjng train.
H. Fields, who has large building
contracts at Roxboro, is spending a
few days with his family in the city.
J. W. Mark ham ran over from
Durham this morning! to see how
things are gitting along at his store
here. , ..!.'.;
Miss Pannie Stainback, of Rich
mond county, N. C, has returned to
the city, and is the guest of Mrs. Dr.
J. M. Emmitt. ' 1
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Gen. W. R. Cox came in on the
morning train, and left a short while
afterwards for Berea to deliver an ad
dress. It is said that ex-Gov. Jarvis
and Hon. E. C. Beddngfield, who
are also booked to sjjeak a Berea
today, got off the train at Stem.
A New Boole.
Southern War Songs, j. Camp Fire,
Patriotic and Sentimental, collected
and arranged by W. L. Fagan, of Ala
bama. Numerous illustrations. Price,
$3.50. New York: M. ,T. Richard
son & Co., Publishers, 1S90.
This comprises by .all odds the
most complete collection of Southern
War Songs "ever brought together in
one volume; in fact no attempt ever
seems to have been made to present
even a limited number of these songs
in a manner worthy of their' merits.
The illustrations, by one of New York's
most talented artists, are ' numerous
and spirited. The author in his pref
ace says : . '
, ."Emotional literature is always a
correct exponent of public sentiment,
and these songs index the passionate
sincerity of the South at the time they
were written."
The book is endorsed by many
distinguished Southern ihen, includ-
ing Senators Carlisle and Blackburn,
of Kentucky, Senator Brown, of Geor
gia, Senator Pugh, of Alabama, Hon.
Chas. F; Crisp, of Georgia, -General
Beauregard and General Longstreet.
Senator, Brown says in his comments
on this elegantvolume j
"Whether the reader belonged to
the Federal or Confederate army, he
will find in the songs a deep vain of
patriotic sentiment, which must com
mand his ad .-ni ration." Senator Cot k
rell, of Missouri, says : "'Tis the first
and only collection of the sort I have
ever seen that is complete and satis
factory." A group of Con federate, flags in col
ors forms the frontispiece.
This book seems particularly adap
ted for birthday and holiday pres
ents. ;
Women and men possessed of a
good address ought to 'do : well selling'
this attractive work.
Old Government
McGuire's.
Java Coffee at R. H
Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria.
When Baby was sick, we gare her CaMoria.
When the was a Child, she cried f or Castori,
When she became Miss, she clung to Castorla,
When she had Children, 6he caTe them Cast erla.
Bananas 30c. doz.
at Couch's drujretore,
next to postoffice. .
Tablet billheads 36 totabletio cents.
at the Oxford Book Store.
Orapees 30c. doz.
at Couch's drugstore,
next t6 postoffice.