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OXFORD, N. C., SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 20, 1876
xVO. 85
The Morning Clarion,
By WILLIAMS & ROBINSON,
(OKFICK IN THKSPIAN IIAI.L liUILDINc; )
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£^®“‘Liberul inducements to cluhs.
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t>emocratic Conservative Meeting.
T lie Democratic ('onservalive voters of
''•■‘nvilie are retiiiested to meet in mass con-
at Oxford, .Afonday May 29tli, to
^,1 point delegates to the .Stale and Congres-
1 i'al district Convention, to be held in
. ' ‘‘igh the 15th and 14th days of June next,
'1 to tr.uisact such, business as may i)c
nccessnrv,
I'V (jrder of Co, 1>]\ ; (!ommittee.
. j. S. Amis, (''h’m.
•^I'ld 20lh 1875.
DISTRICT^CONVENfToN.
'ai’ ^ 1 ^emocratic-Conser-
o*" tl'c Fourth Congressional
,^^^'nct wdlbe held in the city ef Raleigh
Uiesdaylhe 13th day of June next, for
, pUri>ose of nominating a ’ candidate for
I _ 'givss an(' a Presidential l-llector, and sr-
.|ug two delegates io the St. Louis Con-
sih. earnestly de-
tounty will be entiled to' one
lor every one hundred votes and frac-
pail over fifty given for Merrimon in
Nice weather for pic nics.
Report.s continue to reach us from
the country veiy unfavorable to the
crops of tobacco plant.s.
We are very sorry to hear of the
extreme illness of two of tlie or
phans at the Asylum,
N. C. cut Herrings at 15 cts per
dozen at Williams & Brvan’s.
We learn that the Pic-Nic at Kit-
trell’s last Thursday was a very brill
iant affair.
Just received a ])retty line of La
dies and Misses trimmed and imtrim-
med Hats. (xRANDY & BRQ.
We made a mistak;
Don Piatt £innouncc.s with a sneer
the death of Dr. Hall, of /Ia//’s
Jotunal of Health. He seems to
think any man who could not Iceej)
from dying und yet undertook to
publish a Journal of Health was a
fraud.
1 he Raleigh says ; During
the ATemorial services W^endneday
the Fedeaal officers stationed here,
together with their wives, contribu
ted a wagon load of Flowers on the
graves of the Confederate dead. We
saw Mrs. General Barstow with a
basketful of flowers made into
wreaths and crosses, which with the
}csteiday in , .rnn_n wim
stating that that Cotmty Convention assistance of the General, she placed
whould meet on the 26th, it should , upon the graves of the South Caroli-
nofo''J
beiit'^ li(
'I'" ‘‘V
eapf-
,)usb^'
van’^'
order of the District K.vccutive Com.
\t 1*N', jii., ( hairinan.
. -'larch 3Is!. 1876.
^;^CAL & state~s(^ibT.
^^owerftil warm vestcid;
have been Monday the 29 th of May
There are 13 Democratic papers
in the Sixth Congressional district.
No wonder the majorities there run
up into the thousands.
Owing to the carele.ssne.ss of one
of our Compositors there were sever- ■
al grevious errors in the Clarion ! tobacco-hill,
yesterday. Our readers will plea.sc | they are.
pa.ss “Our imi)er;ections by,” this! m
time. ' I ^-'lergy pre.sents ([uite a differ-
j ent appearance from what il u.sed to.
We saw iwehty-five ('moi-e or less) j Stane of Franklin countv,
na soldiers buried in the cemetery
Sou IH SiDK Do'i's.— I'obacco
plants are very scarce in the vicinity
! of Mt Energy. There can’t possibly
j be more than half a crop planted,
corn, j)cas and potatoes are being
•sensi-
stunner.
ay—a reg-
J he style is for engaged ladies to
as plain as possible.
,j A sweetheart is called a turtle
woman seats herself in a j)eAv
Severn motions: a m;>n with
young ladies on the street at differ
cnt times yesterday, and ail of them
had beautiful streamers attached to
their hats, which fell in graceful
folds upon their shoulders. How
beautiful they (the ladies) loo|ed.
'I'hose slipjjen —V( s. they have
been here in the post-offit e for more
than a month, but we did not know
that they were for us, because the
adlress was wrong- Our kind friend
will i)lease accept our many thanks
foi them, il'.ty are beautiful and | the “niggers” drunk ard !tti thtni
v.-illLev( ry  cmfortalile this sultry f'ghting worse thar • c.ts—that’s
weatlier. j their jirinc iples iVc.
now has hi.s -‘blue tent stretched”
for the purpose of photogra])hing
your ugliness—who first?
I'^x-Sheriff 3Ioore and other
lican .ivVwv.i-” give notice that they
will horangue the bk-u k white-hearled
and the wiiite black-hearted “pub
licans' in and around Ah iincrgv on
29tli—we wonder if they will do
like the Sheriff and son.e ci his
nse-io-le-friciuls' did wl.cn the
Sheriff was last a candidate— yot all
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