The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1888-08-02

MARRTED.-The GOLD LEAF congratu- ! /,
Iates Capt. Rufus H. Powell. of the OK \
loia d Henderson Railroad, upon his mar 9
rage 10 Miss AEIie Williams, the lovely 2
daughter Of Mr.. 7. e.. Williams, at her 7
nome in faleigh, July 18th. The ceremony 1
was performed by Rev. W s. Davis, pas a
tor of the n. Il. church al Cary. Imme- /
diately after the marriage Mr.. and Mrs. !
Powell left for an extended bridal tour 6
North. The congratulations and good I
wishes of wide circle Of friends are with ]
the happy young couple. q
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a SUCCESSFUL SCRoOL-One Of the most !:
successful educational institutions in the ,
State is the Davis School at La Grange.
Indeed. its growth has been remarkable,
and its present eminence is a creeit not
| only to the principal but to North Care
! lima. Starting but a few years ago, with
! quite young man at the head of it, the
Davis School has grown until last year
there was larger number of boys and
young men than at any other institution of
learning in the State. There are able pro.
fessors in all departments. AS was an
nounced some time ago, Artillery drill will .
be added next September. A department :
OF Civil Engineering has also been estab- +
lished at the school The department Of
Art-a1e.atectural drafting, mechanical ,
rawing, water color painting oil painting
is i'll charge Of an artist from the Royal
Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp. There is
no extra charge for any of these studies.
Full preparation is given for any college
,1o4.> I'd,
cation is given at the school. The charges
of the school are very low Write for par
ticulars to Davis School, La Grange, N. &.
> See advertisement in this paper
ENLICHrEN Us.-We notice the adver-
tisement of one CDR" SwayHe, a Phila-
delphia quack, in some CT our State ex-
changes and are curious to know what they
= get for publishing it. For the past six
months this business ten line reader,
has been repeatedly offered to US, the very
munifcent sum OF one dollar and fifty cents
being the amount deemed sufficient by this
would-bc newspaper dead-beat to get his
advertisement published IL months in a re-
spectacle paper. AS matter Of course We
paid no attention to the fellow. We care
to have no dealing with men who have no
n more sense of reason and business than to
+ insult US by any such proposition as this.
Two weeks ago an amended offer Of - 90
t in cash, payable quarterly, came with the
: added insult that we certainly did not
know our own interest if we did not accept
so fair a proposition as this. Our only
comment is that for the figure named the
: GOLD LEAF would not publish the disgust
- ing headline that attracts attention to the
. filthy advertisement of DR." Swayne. In
!, fact, we do not want it at any price, for we
:, Will not be party to scheme to defraRd
- the public by giving publicity to such
uuack nostrums and we take it his So
called remedies are as big humbugs as he
~ himself is.
a Now the GOLD LEAF wants to know il
> there is a paper in the State Eve will no
say decent, Self-respecting One) that ha
IT, taken this business '(?) at any such fig
? ures as those offered us; and the advertise
NJ wrote that he oSsered us the very same rat
If that many papers Of like class and circula
al ton of the GOLD LEAF readily took it for
o. We do not believe it we do not want t.
VS. believe it ; we will not believe it.
lHE STEENS IN uc w vi
'e derful Steens,' (and certainly they al
10 wonderful people,, mystificd many OF on
at citizens at Burwell Hall Monday ant
po Tuesday nights. Owing to rain the frs
We evening they did not have as large crow
ND as they otherwise would have had, an
no again Tuesday night the fire kept man
persons away. The performance was VOL
/" derful. The so-called mind-reading, mer
tai telegraphy and second sight business
.nd all trick of course, but it was SO c1everl
ot done that it could not be detected and
nv all appearances was as genuine as if it BID
Ike been done as claimed a committee cor
If posed of Messrs. W. T. Rowland, j. !
aid O'Neil w II. Walker, VIM Bucha
TIL Henry Terry ana Di' l. w. l'eoi"n' we
Of on the stage Monday night and their tie
,i1l was careful and thorough and still TIL
tor were not successful i'll discovering al
inc fraud or trick on the part of either MADAM
,cl Steen or the Professor. The rapidity wi
mo which articles were named, the dates
ro, coins given and the time and number
ca watches, &C., was told, with the "mediun
h1 blind folded and part of the time with Il
our back to the persons and articles describe
tn was mysterious and wonderful. Ef'
G in member of the committee wrote the ye
in which he was born, the month and di
on a piece of paper and put it i'll an
D a yelope These were all put together a
It to mixed up. Mrs. Steen not only read tn
by out, as one at time they were placed.
ont her head but told which gentleman it
hen written by and what position he oecup
nize on the stage. Mr.. Buchan put his age do
ont two years younger than he is. She Il
lore him what he had written but said he Y
,r a older than that by two years. She told
ONE correct time by several watches. and t
ton MI Henry Perry what his time piece I
nity istered but said it was ten minutes SIC
and lie did not know this himself, but comp
the ison revealed the fact that his chronome
# as was running ten minutes behind time.
way The exact ages of persons in the AT
$ TO ence was told and the names of artic
we'll given together with the inscriptions on
Aid same, without the least hesitation. J
lace john D. Cooper had a silver coin,
port character and possession of which
4 to known only to himself. Madame st
when asked what it was replied tha
was a Spanish silver coin, nsed in Me,
REss during the revolution, and was made
the 17I9. These are only few of the M