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: 'THE DAY ' HAS THE ! : Largest City Circulation of anv paper published in l! Oxford- ' THE DAY GIVES All the News of the day and is furnished at lOcts. per week: WX-ME III-' NUMBER 45 OXFORD, N. C. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1890. Single Copies : 3 Cts. pcSP IR JJJJ o ' 25 CJSLSES CRACKERS ! Lunch Milk, Cream Spray, XXX Soda, Mushroom, Knic Knacks, Graham Wafers, Ginger Snaps, OPENED TO-Xj5LTT UV earn the only First-Class line ot trackers in tne Uity. California Pears, California Peaches, Malaga brapes, Catawba Grapes. Delaware Grapes, Bananas, Oranges, Lemons, Cocoanuts, CHESTNUTS ! Any Kind of Candy. Gum Drops 10 cents per pound. T. W. JACKSON & CO., Uerndon Block No. 3, Oxford, N. C. Prices Tell The Tale! Hats at New York Cost. 4-4 AA Sheeting 6 cents. Frnit of Loom Bleaching, Sc. 4 4 Andras Cog. L Bleaching, 8c. Cotton Plaids, $c Dress Goods at Cost. Ladies Kid Button Shoes worth $1.75 at $1.27. Rubber Shoes, 34c. Men's Rubbers, 44. Best $1 Shirt in Ox fo.d tor 93c. I Best patterns 5 4 Ta ble Oil Cloth, j 27c. B. G. MEDFORD, Main St., - Oxford, N. C. 100 FARMS 100 Houses and Lots, FOR SALE IN Mecklenburg bounty, Virginia. 1 , . BY THORP Sz CURTIS, LAND AGENTS, Boydton, Alcckleiiburg Co., Va. sf Write to them for particu lars, j SAUSAGE ! HECKIIjER'S I Fine Pork Sausage RECEIVED DAILY AT b. m. overton's GROCERY. First-Class Groceries, Fancy lnd Staple, always on hand. O.H. LEWELLIN, merchant tailor, OXFORD, N. C. Has a fine lot of Fall and Winter samples to select from. Clothes made UP m the latest' and most fashionable styles. . Satisfaction Guaranteed. Repairing, cleaning and pressing c'othes in the neatest and most elegant !!le- GFCheap as the Cheapest ! odas the Best. . fc Up stairs next door north of Wilis' store. NOTES OF THE DAY. THE LOCAL HAPPENINGS SERVED IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS. The Minor EreiiU Aboat the City as Gathered ly the Aler Reporters of The Day. The trees are almost naked. The weather is warm enough for fans and limeades. Regular meeting of Oxford Lodge, No. 103, I. O. O. F., tonight. The break of tobacco in the city to day was a heavy one, and sold well. . It is said that one of our citizens will build ten dwelling houses in South Oxford. The meeting of the Oxford Board of Trade, called for last night, was postponed. The Horner School cadets have a holiday today, and many of them are out hunting. The young ladies and gentlemen who take part in Ye Olde Folks Con cert are rehearsing every night in the Opera House. A visitor said : "There is an un mistakable air of thrift about Oxfurd. I regard this as one of the coming towns of the South." There will be a marriage in the city tomorrow morning. Two of Oxford's popular young people will be united in matrimony s holy bonds. The policemen are really having nothing to do in the way of making arrests. From their point of view, the people are dreadfully good. T. A. Roberts is canvassing the northern cities in the interest of the Oxford Land. Improvement and Manufacturing Company's $100,000 cotton factory. J. G. Hall has given out a contract to Mr. Hartge,jof Tarboro, to add thirty six feet to the length-of his store house. The work is to be completed by November 14. If you are a merchant and your dai ly sales are not as large as you would like them to be, try an advertisement in The Day and see if it doesn't bring you customers. Ye Olde Folks Concert at the Opera House next Friday night. Some splendid voices will render the sweet, old-time songs. The costumes and comedy business will be i rich and mirth-provoking. information of interest to j buyers is contained in the new advertisement of B. G. Medford in The Day. He of fers goods very cheap. "Prices tell the tale," he says, and we advise the pub lic to read his prices in another col umn and then give him an early call. Furman & Hays have a brand of cigars, the "Apple Jack," just in. It is an excellent smoke the best to be had for five cents. It is a new brand on this market, but has a high, estab lished reputation in the big cities. Try one ; you will enjoy it. When the extension to South Ox ford is completed, the Richmond & Danville's track will form three fourths of a circle around Oxford. It will be easy enough at some future day to build the other one fourth, and lo ! and behold, we will have a belt-line! Track to South' Oxford. Fifty or more hands began this morning grading the road bed for the new track to South Oxford. This force will be doubled in a few days. The route for this track is different from the one originally selected. It starts from the main line of i the Ox ford & Clarksville roah just below the new cemetery, crosses the Royster plantation and enters the property of the Oxford Land, Improvement and Manufacturing Company in the south west corner. The track will probably be a mile in length. It will be completed as rapidly as possible. i CITY COMMISSIONERS. Regular Monthly Meeting Held Last IV i glit--Routine Business. The city commissioners met last night in the mayor's office. Present : L. G. Smith, mayor; John Webb, R. T. Smith, L. R. Hunt. Ordered that a new uniform be pur chased for Policeman C. B. Leach. Ordered that Chief cf Police Renn be made keeper of t h? Opera House at a salary of 5 per month. The following accounts were allow ed, after which the meeting adjourned: C. J. Gregory,. S. Hall, T. B. Pendleton, J. E. Adkerson, J. R. Day, G. P. Fleming and J. T. Renn, for services as special policemen day and night of November 4, 1890, $2 each. Haywood Day, for work of grading walks in new cemetery, $98.-26. J. S. Hall, harness for town teams, $5.80. Owen, Barbour & Smith, imple ments for working streets, $13.48, W. S. Overbey, for f repairs on town carts, etc., $17.15. ... S. W. Parker, for lumber, 14.46. L. G. Smith, salary for two months, $50.00. " J. A. Renn, chief of police salary for two month?, $80.00; for keeping market house two months $10.00; for board of mule two months, $19.00; stationery furnished mayor's office, $5.50. C. B. Leach, policeman, salary for two months, $70.00. F. B. Hays, clerk, on account of salary, $25.00. o He Accepts. Rev. Jos. Rennie has accepted the call to the Presbyterian church in Ox ford, and will remove here with his family next Thursday. The parson age on Gilliam St. is being refurnish ed and fixed up generally for their re ception. The members of the Ladies Aid Society are busy as bees attending to this. Mr. Ronnie's coming is looked for ward to with much pleasure, not only by his congregation, but by all the people of the city. A Voice from Kansas. The president of Farmers' Alli ance lodge in Kansas 1 writes to the Granville County Farmers' Alliance Tobacco Manufacturing Company of this place for samples of smoking to bacco, and says prompt attention will "oblige a brother that has just been helping to burst the g. o. p. . (grand old party). Oh, haven't we made them grunt ! We have given them all the bloody-shirt that they will ever want again, and laid their John J. In galls' rebel skinner up to dry." A Nightgikare Parody. The reader is of course familiar with those beautiful lines written by the Irish-Confederate poet : On fame's eternal capping ground, Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards with solemn round The bivouac of the dead. Some one sends us the following nightmare of a parody on that verse : On Oppenheimer's slaughter ground Silently lay he dead, And gory marks are all around That beef-wacked on the head. Guns, rifles and pistol at J. F. Edwards' Large stock sporting goods at J. F. Ed wards'. . Apples 10 cents a dozen. Couch's drug store. For Sale. I will sell on reasonable terms, my cot tage residence situated on Lanier street. It is nearly new. J. A. Lewis, Oxford, N. C. THE LATEST NEWS. SIFTED AND ARRANGED FOR THE BUSY READER. Happenings in North Carolina and Elsewhere as Gathered from Today's Exchanges. The corner stone of the new Trinity College main building was laid today in Durham. Stanley is being banqueted in the North, and tickets to his lecture are selling at ten dollars each. Stark Batchelor has been elected captain of the Governor's Guard, Ral eigh, vice J. J. Bernard resigned. A special from Columbus, O., says : Gov. Campbell is so seriously ill that visitors have been forbidden. He is threatened with typhoid pneu monia. Since Quay failed to be"vindicated" by the people of Pennsylvania, a cry has been started in high Republican circles that he must be deposed from the National Republican committee, and that it would be midsummer mad ness to ptrmit him to have anything to do with the management of Repub lican affairs in the next presidential campaign. A Winston special of the 10th to the State Chronicle says : Yesterday while driving to an appointment on the Rowan circuit, Rev. S. D. Frank lin, a Methodist minister, was thrown from his buggy and instantly killed. His remains will be brought here to night for interment." He was a promi nent Mason and once highly spoken of for the Oxford Orphan Asylum superintendency. A special from Jackson, Miss., to the Associated Press, says : Joe Jack son, one of Rube Burrows' gang, con fined in the penitentiary here for some time awaiting trial for train robbery, and whose trial was to have begun this morning in the Federal Court, suicided bv jumping from the third floor of the corridor of the court to the ground, a distance of sixty feet. His neck was broken by the fall. A syndicate, composed of Lynn, Mass., and Kansas City capitalists, has secured bv purchase one hundred and seventy-five thousand acres of land in Madison and Yancey counties, North Carolina, which they propose to develop at once. The land is heavily timbered and contains mam moth deposits of iron ore and some mica. The company will be capital ized at one million dollars and besides developing ore mines and timber they will encourage cattle raising and to bacco growing, build a manufacturing town and railroads connecting their lands with lines already in operation. A terrible story of a Newfoundland dog killing a baby and eating off its head for revenge on , the child's par ents, comes from Rockland, S. D. Gusi Cartwright was working a placer claim there. His wife and baby were the other two members of the family. Mrs. Cartwright had occasion to punish their big dog, and did so. Shortly afterward she left the baby and dog together in front of the cabin while she went" to the spring for 3 pail of water. On her return she fell in a dead faint upon discovering that the dog had attacked the child and liter ally eaten its head off. The husband, when he returned to the cabin, seized; an axe and killed the dog. j Grapes 10 cents a lb. Couch's drugstore . Shannon's Standard File and Pen Ex tractor combined 25 cents at Oxford Book Store. ' Oranges 25 cts. a dozen. - Couch's drug store. Just In. , Handsome line of Seal Plush and Astra kan Capes just in store. See them, . Hart & Lawrence. If you want a frame made for a crayon oil painting, or any kind of picture, go to Brinkley's rhotograph tallery. Beautiful new line of Antiaue Oak. Silk Plush Rockers : Willow Rockers and high art furniture at J05. A. Webb's. PURELY PERSONAL. i '- The Doings and Whereabouts of Some People You Know. I W. H. Gregory, of Stovall, is in the city today, j Wm. Gay, bf Mecklenburg county, Va., is visiting friends in Oxford. Mrs. Job Qsborn was a passenger on the northbound train this morning. H. L. Davis has gone to Durham to accept a position in the drygoods store of Ellis & Stone. Mrs. T. E. Hicks and little daughter, Miss Joy, left this morning on the Henderson train. v Squire Robt. A. Gill, of Stovall, passed through Oxford today on his way to Shelby;, N. C. Prof. N. Penick left yesterday after noon to attend the Baptist State Con vention at Shelby, N. C. S. L. Adams, special agent of the Washington Iiife Insurance Company, returned to Oxford last night. Jas. Bryer, a prominent New York er, is at Hon ; A. H. A. Williams' place near Stovall shooting birds. Mr. and Mrs. D. Mitchell and child of Missoula, llon., -after ja few days spent here, left this morning for a visit to New York. . - C. H. Eastort will succeed H. L. Davis in Paris Bros.' store. He will be behind the counters of this popular establishment tomorrow. Strong Testimonial. Rev. J. L. White, of Durham, is a minister of prominence in the State and is well-known to our people, and the following testimonial as to the val ue of Prof. Betl's Hair Restorer speaks for itself : Durham, N. C, Nov. 10, 1890. Mr. H. H, Bell, Oxford, N. C. Dear Sir: Your express package was received Saturday evening. Am very glad to get it. Feel, 'sure it will make a cure. Mrs. White is wonder fully improved in the short time, and has not yet used the salve. I feel so glad that it is going cure her. My own head is doing nicely. The dead s?cin is beginning to come off. 'Twill soon be well. Very truly, J. L. White. Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria; When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria. When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria, When she became Miss, sho clung to Castoria, When she had ChiMren, she cave them Castoria. New lot torchon lace opened today at Rawls. I Mrs. Wood's Infaliable Salve At J. R. Couch's drugstore. Best in the World. . . . !r Wanted. 25 more girls to work in Knitting Mills. Also ten small girls from 10 to, 15 years old wanted. Light-steady work and good pay. Board and rooms furnished to these who may want to move in from country. Furni ture for room furnished or hands "can bring their own furniture. Board very cheap. Apply at once to Oxford Knitting Mills. Chewing Tobacco. "Matinee" You all know the brand. Five boxes received today at The Oxford Drug Store. - John P. Steoman. For Sale. A beautiful chestnut sorrel mare, eight years old, gentle, sound, any body can drive her; with a vjood harness and phaeton; for sale cheap for cash. Apply to Rev. Joseph Rennie, Chase City, Va. Handsome line of EnveloDe Openers in ivory, cocoabola and ebony, at Oxford Book store. ;' . For Rent. Two rooms on first floor. Suitable for dressmakers. Apply to this office. Go to Rawls for bargains in shoes, . : . - Bananas 25 cts. a dozen. Couch's drug store. : Shannon's Single Arch Fileo cenu at Oxford Book Store. f . Big bargains in tinware at Rawls. Buy the Excelsior Cook Stove. The best in use, at J. F. Edwards' . Turner's N. C. Almanacs at the Oxford Book Store. j .-i1 . i
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