The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1884-01-05
ONCE ACRES, NOW FEET
ARE THE STANDARD OF LAND.
MEASUREMENT IN OXFORD

ARE THE STANDARD OF LAND
MEASUREMENT IN OXFORD
Yet with all her Progress she is Still
the Cultivated and Modest Town she
Used to be.
Special Correspondence Of the Chrontcle.
OXFORD, N c., Jan. Ito the receiue
of progress sounded by THE CHRONICLE,
other towns have respor ded, and now OK
ford has something to say for herself, for
she too is an early riser. The history OF a
town is the history of its surrounding
country. The country is the wheel and
works OF the clock, the town its hands.
What changes have taken place even
since five years! Herndon's garden that
then grew unnoteworthy turnips now
groans under the weight of Cozart's ele
CANT three-story and triple store-room
building, 6Cxl2O feet, which is f1anked On
right and left with new stores, changing
the modest Hillsboro street into CONNER
cal Avenue. In Cozart building is CO.
zart Hall. DR.. Herndon's residence that
then went begging for a purchaser at
S5, 900, cannot now be had for that sum
twice told his beautiful yard that then
heard no music save the hmm of the bee
now reioices in the clnk of gold. For
''the bank Of Oxford' is nestled in build
ing Of pressed brick that would do honor
to larger towns. Land that then sold for
hardly sixty dollars an acre can now be
had for sixty dollars a front foot.
College street and Williamsboro and
Raleigh streets that then had residences
few and far between are now thckly stud
ded with buildings that almost touch ell
bows. We have gained since then thor
oughly equipped railroad, and we have
telegraphic communication.
What shall be said OF our tobacco inter-
ests? We have four large warehouses for
the sale of leaf tobacco. We have three
tobacco factories, one just erected of brick
three stories in height 120x4O feet. We
Chicago, from New York, and these gen.
tlemen have no end OF orders. So vast is
this business becoming that our buyers
each have large prize house of his own.
Notably Mr.. j. M. Currin has just erected
a brick building five stories high l3Ox3O
feet. Mr.. w. A. Bobbitt likewise has am
pie rooms and does business second to
no one in the State. Mr.. l. N. Burwen
has just finished his commodious prize
house. Mr.. r. H. Mcclure has joined in
| the good work and put up a brick prize
house, Mr.. F. r. Knott has followed their
| examples, and so has Mr. r. w. Lassiter,
Jr. and many others. The reputation of
| Mr.. Alf Hobgood, of Mr. Fielding Knott
and of Mr.. H. G. Cooper, is not bounded
by counties or towns but takes in States,
as the good farmers of Mecklenburg and
other Virginia counties attest.
| Messrs. Edwards & Rogers, our enter
prising hardware merchants, are just COM
| pleting a handsome brick building that
| will furnish facilities for their increasing
business. Messrs. D. A. Hunt & Son. j.
| G. Cooper, A. Lands, Jr., [. Kronheimer,
w. r. Taylor & Co., Williams & Furman,
| and Jones & Rogers keep pace with Ok
ford's prosperity, and deserve the large
! patronage they obtain. Nothing tells OF
| Oxford's enterprise more than a glance at
the TorchHght. Its advertising columns
are an index to the enterprising spirit that
| characteriZes our business men.
Give rs railroad to Clarksville so that
| the farmers can get groceries at wholesale
| cake'' your correspondent is no prophet.
| And the beauty of it all is, we have no
| desponding people in Granville. The croak-
ers are dead or dying, killed by the voice
| of the auctioneer as he cries on a Person
county mans tobacco Are you all done at
sixty ve?''
So much for new Oxford. But old OK
ford boasted of no mean things. Here
was and is the Orphan Asylum, monu-
ment of North Carolina generosity. 1t
could flourish only in wholesome soil The
Oxford Female Academy under Prof f.
P. Hobgood, thoroughly equipped, hand
somely situated, is our chief ornament.
Then there was and is the Horner School,
quiet and unassuming. Nestled among
the hills, the excellence of its method of
instruction shines forth when some of it's
students attain the highest honors in our
best Universities, as did Skinner Lassiter,
who at Yale, stood next to the mark of
Aaron Burr as scholar. The venerable
Principal of this school, Mr.. James H.
TIorner, has a strong hold upon the people
of North Carolina. School teaching has
been his life work, and whether we view
his efforts in the light of the quality OF the
work done, the number of his students, or
the facilities for instruction, they have
been success. His buildings are all new,
facing our depot, attract the universal at:
tention of travellers. During the Fall ses
sion just closed there were about sixty
boarders and twenty-five day scholars.
Ours is an old town. Phoenix like she
, has risen from the ashes of Incidence an(
combining the morals and stability of al
, old place with the stir and push of new
who shall dare mark the limit to her pro
gress? DUTCHvILLE.