The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-24

church building under construction, and
the former has purchased hot on the
opposite corner of main street for a
similar purpose The Baptist denomina-
ton was established an 1S49 This So
ciety has recently moved into its new
church, the simplicity and elegance OF
which makes it one of the chief orna-
ments of the town.
EDUCATIONAL
The Homer Military School for boys
was founded in 1851 by the late j H.
Horner NJ. A.. LII. D., and it has been
in successful operation ever since, under
the management Of DIR. Homer and his
sons. Young men come here from all
parts Of the Commonwealth and from
neighboring States, besides representa-
tives from the North and West, to fit for
collegiate courses. Many prominent
North Carolinians and others recall with
pleasure years spent at the institution,
feeling that they owe much to the early
training received here.
Great credit is due Professor Hobgood,
and the aide corps of assistants always
associated with him, for the present
fiourishing condition and high grade Of
scholarship maintained at the Oxford
II
ty is evinced by am annually increasing
attendance. The buildings and grounds
are most attractive in appearance and
location.
The Francis Hilliard School is a par
ticlflarly select school for young ladies',
conducted under Episcopa1ian auspices:
music and Jther accomplishments receive
much attention here, and the lady-hke
manners and bearing Of its graduates
form one Of its most pleasing features.
Certificates from this school admit TO
Baltimore Woman's College without ex-
aminati0
MINERALS.
North Carolina has long and favorably
been known for its gold production; in
drcations of the metal are frequent in
Granville county. The gold mine on the
Cheatham property, three miles east of
the courthouse, is the only one in the
immediate neighborhood that is in full
operation with modern appliances. Sew
eral others, from which paying ore has
been taken, are at stand-still from
lack of capital, and present opportitni-
ties which are commended to the favor
able consideration of Investors for de-
yelopment. Some Canadian parties. who
recently came into possession of the
Holloway copper mime, in the Blue Wing
District northern Granville), are taking
out a carload per day of high-grade
copper ore, having struck a twenty-five
foot vein. which it is believed extends
into Person county. The old Register
mine in this neighborhood, which is not
at present being worked offers a most
profitable investment to those having the
means to again put it in full operation.
The owners are willing to sell at reason
able figures, being unable themselves to
refit it with new machinery, etc.
STATISTICS.
Population.
Oxford corporate limits. 80. 5000
Oxford Township limits... 5000
Granville County .... $4,000
Oxford has Il court house, opera house,
Osborne Hotel, Orphan Asylum, four
churches. seven schools, Odd Fellow
Lodge, lodge of Masons, weekly news
paper, literary club, two social clubs,
one magazine club, one bank, one mar
ket, one carriage factory, one iron
foundry, one cotton gin and press, one
planning mill, one grist mill, three hogs
head shops, three tobacco stemDeries,
one coal and wood yard, two livery
stables, FIVE tobacco sales warehouses,
ten tobacco appraisal warehouses, two
tobacco storehouses, three drug stores,
four dry goods stores, two hardware
stores, one wholesale grocer, thirteen re-
tail grocers, two furniture dealers, one
harness dealer, one jewelry store, two
clothing stores, one millinery store, one
book store, one fruit and confectionery
store. one custom tailor. one photograph
er. two carriage salesrooms, three insur-
ance agencies. eleven lawyers, ten to-
bacco buyers, four cotton buyers, two
dentists. express, telegraph and tele-
phone offices.
Oxford is the centre of the famous
bright tobacco section of North Carolina
which has made North Carolina famous
all over the world it has large and
commodious warehouses and its sales of
the finest tobacco grown in the world
bring big trade to the growing and pros
porous county seat of Granville county.
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