But one short week go we thought "gen
tle spring," with all its "ethereal mildness"
had come, but if thi be "gentle spring,"
then the weather bureau will oblige a
sneezing and shivering public by A few im
portations of the Torrid Zone article.
Mrs. R. E. Young who has been in Rich
mond under medical treatment for several
weeks, returned home Tuesday afternoon,
Mr. Young having gone to accompany her
back. Her many friends will learn with
pleasure of the improved coalition of her
health.
"Smith's new soda fountain is a beauty;
a credit to any place;" is a remark con
stantly to be heard now. And it is indeed
a handsome apparatus. It cost little over
?2ou and we doubt if there is a prettier
one in the State; certain it is there is not
another like it.
We were pleased to have a call from our
young friend Pink E. Allen formerly of
this place but now of Winston, this week.
He was on his way North to buy goods for
the house he is living with, Fuller & Dur
ham, one of the live mercantile firms of
that live town.
Since w riting the article in reference to
the Oxford fire, we learn when the fire was
discovered, the bells usually rung on such
occasions, were tied in such a w ay no sound
could be produced; and farther, that the
removal of the negro Taborn to Raleigh,
was by order of Judge Philips.
The Gold Leak had a pleasant call from
Mr. T. Barrow representing the well
known wholesale confectionery house of
Henderson, Laws & Co., Baltimore; ami
Mr. G. E. Walraven, with Harrison Bros.
