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the: day HAS THE Largest City Circulation oi'aiiv paper published in Oxford." THE 13 A V GIVES All the News of the day and is furnished at lOcts. per week: ; tiit III. Number 53 OXFORD, N. C. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1890. Single CoriEs: 3 Cts. RACKERS ! Lunch Milk, Cream Spray, XXX Soda, Mushroom, Knic Knacks, I ralirtm- Wafers, Ginger Snaps, t carry the onlv First-Class of Crackers in the City. ilit'ornia Pears, siibrnia Peaches, Malaga Grapes, Catawba Grapes. Delaware Grapes, Bananas, Oranges, Lemons, Cocoanuts, CHESTNUTS ! Miv Kiiul of Candy. Gum Drops 10 cents per pound. T. U'. JACKSON & CO., Kri.i!-n Mock No. 3, Oxford, N. C. 1. P. STEDM AN, (Tin: OXFORD DRUG STORE,) 'f ; u i.i) Call Your Attention to His Beautiful Line of SLVER-WARE, IWcJaij1iUUlJ-li4flres- MusTootl) and Hair Brushes I Toilet Articles of all Kinds. SXUFFS, CIGARETTES, CIGARS, CHEROOTS, TOBACCO. -FINK ASSORTMENT OF 'ON FECTIONERIES . PATROLEUM JELLY Valine, Casmoline, &c.) 50 pounds Kra eived good for, roughness ot inds nothing better. for colds. LAMPS ! r 11 25 cents to $175. DOLLS! A Urge lot at figures to please the fastidious. J. P. 8TEDMAN, Uruo-aist Pharmacist, V - COLLEGE STREET. Prices Tell The Tale I Hats at New York Cost. 4 4 AA Sheeting, 6 cents. "ait uf Loom Bleaching, 8c. 4-4 AndrasCog. L Bleaching, 8c. J-ton Plaids, 5i4c. dicsKid Button Shoes worth 1.75 "?!--7- Rubber Shoes, 34c. Men's :'N44. Best 1 Shirt in Ox--Mcr93c. ! Best patterns 5-4 Ta- worn, 27c. ; . B. G. MEDFORD, - ' Oxford, N. C. NOTES OF THE DA Y . THE LOCAL HAPPENINGS SERVED IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS. Tlie Minor Events About the City as Oatliered by tlte Alert Reporters of Tlie Day. It is fire and overcoat weather again. The business in the stores has been brisk this week. There was a colored runaway mar riage in town last night. , Col. J. Johnson is having a new tin roof put on his residence. The wind has swept the streets about clean of dead leaves. Country people are pretty numerous on our pretty streets these das. The sportsmen from Rochester, N. Y., are in the city today. They have had fine luck. Prof. E. A. Alderman will conduct a Teachers' Institute in Oxford for a week beginning December 8. A hook and laddercompany is being organized, and will be equipped by the city commissioners at once. Official returns show that our towns man, Hon, A. H. A. Williams, was elected to Congress by 2,467 majori ty. ' The West Oxford Land Compan has now seven agents on the road selling stock. Big sales are bsing made. The bonded storage warehouse will be ready Tor business sometime next month. The offices are now being fitted up. It will be necessary to call an early meeting of the directors of the Oxford Orphan Asylum to select a new super intendent. A bunch of keys was found on the streets Tuesday night. Owner can have same by calling: at this office and proving property. The outlook is for a building boom in Oxford next year. Factories, hotel, business blocks, churches and dwell ings will hi erected. There will be a recital by the pupils at the Oxford Female Seminary tomor row night. A number of citizens will attend by special invitation. - -Doc Over bey says he has ordered 1 full-grown bass violin for his orches rar. and that when it arrives he will ive a complimentary dance. 1 lie toDaccu market is great in quantity ottered tor sate ana prices re alized b' the planters'. Oxford is sell ing her full share of the 1890 crop. Married, yesterday morning at 10:30 o'clock, at the home of the bride's father in Dutchville, this'county, Thos. B. Farthing, of Durham, at.d Miss Roxie Suit. So far as we have learned no steps have been taken to prepare a Thanks giving Day dinner for the orphans Wouldn t it be a better idea to give the equivalent in monej? The Wilson Mirror says "a shoe makers siiod is the last resort tor a sole-less man." That's so, but a sick man can get heeled there and, an ava ricious man can get awl. The merchants are getting heavy stocks of Christmas goods in their Stores. The advertising columns of The Day will help them to get the goods out of their stores. The ladies of one of the congrega tions in the city. say they are willing to economize in dress and wear calico dresses and sailor hats on Sunday to help build a new church edifice. Thanksgiving Day only one week off. Make up your mind to do the handsome thing by the Oxford Orphan Asylum on that day. The little fath erless children are in need of help. A large number of hands are working in' South Oxford on the Modern To bacco Barn Co. 's factory building. dwelling houses and the new railrcad. The Oxtord Land, Improvement and Manufacturing Company keej s things moving. Guns, rifles and pistoH at J. F. Edwards' PURELY PERSONAL. Tle Doings and AVTiereaboiits of Some People Yon Know. Maj. N. A. Gregory was in Raleigh yesterday. Mrs J. T. Stray horn is visiting friends in Durham. Prof. F. P. Hobgood returned last night from Shelby, N. C J. D. Bnnkley, the photographer, came home yesterday afternoon. Hon. A. H. A. Williams is in Dur ham to Rev. J. T. Harris' funeral. E. W. Jones went to Durham today to attend Rev. J. T. Harris' funeral, D'Orsev Jones came back yesterday afternoon from a trip to Richmond, Va. " p J. W. Watson, of Toisnot, N., C, formerly of Oxford, is spending a few ays here. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. K.nott re urned yesterday afternoon from their bridal trip. r - Thos. Mason, editor of the Westefn Tobacco Journal, of Cincinnati, O ,1s in Oxford today. Mrs. T. E. Hicks and little daugh ter, Miss Joy, are back from a visit 'to relatives in Kinston, N. C. J. T. Parkinson and Mr. Williams, of the T. C. Williams Tobacco Co., Richmond, Va., are in the city today. Fred J. Crews was in Durham yes terday. He has accepted a position with Lyon & Jones, dry goods mer chants of that place, and will go there to live next month. ur tit . 1 . .! . 1 " w. v . Element was in ine cuy yes-f terday. He is now firing on o.ne oj the R. &. D. R. R.'s yard engines in Raleigh. It will not long before he gets an engineer's place. J. J. Laughinghouse and R. S. Evans, of Pitt county, N. C, and Thos. P. Braswell and I. W. Bass, of Nash county, N. C, prominent farm ers,are in Oxford today selling tobacco. More Amateur Theatricals. Another amateur dramatic, entertain ment is in preparation and will be pre sented at the Opera House - Friday night, November 28. 1 : The programme will consist of the "Mistletoe Bow," and "Keep Your Eye on Her." The former is a beau-. tiful pantomime played with great suc cess in many cities. The latter is a very laughable farce. The parts will be taken by the same young ladies and gentlemen who ap peared in 'A Celebrated Case." Improved Copier. The best copier on the market is the one advertised in this issue of The Day by the Oxford Book Store. The Rap id Roller Damp Leaf Copier is a thing of beauty, and is a money saver be sides. Call on Mr. Jones and get him to show you how it works. Hotel Arrivals. Osborn House. J. T. Parkinson) A. D. Williams and L. V. Brauer, Richmond, Va.; Thos. Mason, Cin- - ' www 1 H 'II cmnati, (J. ; H. JL.. Waller, wiiKins, N. C; D. G. Dwinish, High Point, N.C.; W. D. White Troy, N. Y. Special Meeting. There will be a special meeting of Oxford Lodge No. 103, I. O. O. F., tomorrow night at 7:30 p. m., sharp. I. O. Every member of the order is urged to be present. J. M. Hays, ' Secretary. Lost. A small black crocheted shawl. Finder will be rewarded by returning same to Dr. B. Williams. Wanted. A situation as housekeeper in private fami ly. For particulars apply to this Office. Mark Twain's works at the Oxford Book Store. "V If you want a frame .made for a crayon oil painting, or any kind of picture, go to Brinkley's Photograph Gallery. THE LATEST NEWS. SIFTED AND ARRANGED FOR THE BUSY READER. . Happenings in North Carolina and Elsewhere as Gathered from Today's Exchange. J. T. Moss and Miss Minnie Bar nard were married in Henderson yes terday. The Danville & New River Railroad has been formally transferred to the Richmond & Dan ville . 'R. R. Co. It will be extended to Bristol, Tenn. The Black well Tobacco Factory was closed yesterday rrjorning after the death of Rev. J. T, Harris,and was re opened this afternoon , when the funeral was over. . The Georgia Legislature met in joint session yesterday and formally an nounced the result off Tuesday's elec tio,n of John B, Gordon as Senator for trie full term-of six-years from March 4-th, 1 99 1. -! ' . - : - -: . A terrible tragedy has just "come to light in the town of Thann, Alcace. A woman residing there, fearing she and her family would starve tc death, cut the throats of her five children and killed herself. The Asheville Ci 'tizc n says that Gen. Johnstone Jones, formerly of Asheville and now living in San Diego, Califor nia, has been elected district attorney by the Democrats in his district. He received a majority of 26 and the coun- I ty in which he lives gave a Republican majority of 1,000. ., At Chattanooga, Tenn., A. W. Hassell and John Robinson, two young men, stonecutters, working side by side, and long time friends, got into a dispute about a trival matter. The lie was passed, and Hassell struck Robinson with a wooden mallet, from the effects of which he died. The News-Observer says." Gov. Fovvle yesterday sent out handsomely engraved invitations to the President of the United States, members of his cabinet, and United Siates Senators to attend the Southern Inter-State Con vention to be held at Asheville, De cember 17, as the guest of North Car olina and the city cf Asheville. , Reports of-the Baltimore Manufac turers' Record show the organization in the Southern States during the last month of upwards of 3,000 new enter nrises. including almost every line of industries, from the small saw mills to the great steel and iron works; and it says the last quarter of the year bids fair to' be the most active seen in the South. The Wilmington Star says : At a meeting of the stockholders, of the Petersburg Railroad Company, held at Richmond " Va:, 4 Warren G. Elliott, of Wilmington, N. C, was elected president of the company, and was also elected a director, in place of Col. John B: Palmer, resigned. Mr. Elliott is president of the Wilming ton & Weldon" Railroad - Company also. The wedding - of -'Augustus Gesrier and Miss Sallie Stokes, both of Lin field, Penn., was s announced; to take place on Thanksgiving. Day. The fur niture was purchased ready to go to house-keeping. A dispute arose over politics. Gesner voted for Delamater, and Miss Stokes was so disgusted at this that she broke off the engagement. Both parties are in litigation over the furniture. " ' United States Treasurer Houston, in his annual report of the operations and condition of the treasury for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890, re ports a gain during the year of fifteen millions in the stock of gold, an in crease of forty-three millions in silver, a contraction of twenty-six - millions in bank notes, resulting in a net in -crease of thirty-two.millions in the aggregate-supply of money. The circu lation of the country increased during the year, from $i,3g755I835 on June 30, 1390, gij443o836lS' Nice lcr of Couch & Co's. Kalamazoo celery at J. R. Drt. DIXON IN CHARGE Of Orphan Aayliim Until New Super intendent la Elected. The Day is advised by telegraph that Dr. B. F. Dixon will take charge of th. Oxford Orphan, Asylum until the boards of directors nieet and elect a new superintendent. llev. Junius T. Harris. The Durham Sun gives this brief sketch of Rev. Mr. Harris : Rev. Junius T. Harris, presiding elder of the Durham District, N. C. Conference, superintendent of the Oxford Orphan Asylum, died to-day at the residence of his brother-in-law, Mr. J. S. Carr. He had bren in feeble health for some time and it was thought that his excessive labors at the Asylum, to the suptrintendency of which he had been recently elected, hastened his end. . Mr. Harris was a grad-iate of Trini ty College, was an able minister, and a man of fine business capacity. He had filled many prominent places in the Conference, having been sta tioned at Statesville, Goldsboro and other points; and previous 10 his tak ing charge of Durham District, had been four years presiding tlder of the Newbern district. : Mr. Harris joined the; Conference at Greensboro, in 1870, and was about 47 years of age. He leaves a wife and five children and a large circle of rel atives and friends to mourn their loss. THE TRAINS. OXFORD & CLARKSVIIXE R. R. Northbound trains leave 11:02 a. m. , and 8:25 p. m. Southbound trains leave 4:09, r. m., and 3:30, a. m. OXFORD & HENDERSON, R. R Trains arrive 10: 15, A. m., and 3:30, p. m. , and 7:45, p. m. Trains depart 5:00, a. m.j 11:10, A. m., and 4:25, p. m. Art de Le Mode, for December at Oxford Book Store. : , Mrs. Wood's Infaliable Salve at J. R. Couch's drugstore. Best in the World. . --, 1 . , , ; "Prince ot the House of David" at the Oxford Book Store. .. . Large stock sporting goods at J. F. Ed wards'. New lot torchon lace opened today at Fawls. - mmm Waitted. Six men at once to canvass. Salary paid weekly. Apply to . J. P. Wood. . Oxford, N. C. - Catawba grapes io lb baskets 50 cts. at J. R. Couch & Co's. Oranges 25 cts. a dozen. Couch's drug store. Young Ladies Journal . foi December 1 1 Oxford Book Store. . Here's a llargalnl A few shares stock (partially paid up) can be bought at a large discourt. For jar 'tfculars, number lots, &c, adaress. "J." Drawer 91, Greenville, N. C. 1 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, she clun- to Castoria, VThcr; she tuvl Ch IHren. i-be favo thoin Castoria. '1 ! . Apples 10 cents a dozen. Ccuch's dru; store. 1 For llcnt. Two rooms on first floor. Suitable for dressmakers. Apply to this office. Go to Rawls for bargains in shoes, : 1 - ' ' Buy the Excelsior Cook Stove. The best in use, at.! . - Edwards' "Ben Hur" and the "Fair God," by Wal lace, at the Oxford Book Store, Beautiful new line of Antique Oak, Silk Plush Rockers ; Willow Rockers and high art furniture at. , . Jos. A. Wkbb's. Grapes 10 cents a lb. Couches drugstore. Big bargains in tinwarat Rawls. Bananas 25 cts. a dozen. Couch's drug store.. ' '
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