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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-08-29
Tribute of Respect.

WHEREAS. an Advise Providence has
seen fit to remove from our midst our De-
loved friend and brother, William Lehman.
and M.
WHEREAS, Riedsville Lodge. No. 384 A.,
F. & A. NJ, has lost worthy member.
therefore be it
Resolred, 1st. That while we have seen
for some time that death would soon claim
our brother, yet the sad intelligence has
filled our hearts with sorrow.
Resolced, End. That he was bright
Mason and an ornament to his Lodge ana
to the Order and enjoyed in marked de.
gree the confidence. esteem and respect OF
the good people of RiedSville.
Rcs0lred. 3rd. That to his devoted wife
and two little babes, his bereaved brothers
and other relatives we tender our sincere
sympathy and trust that He who has visited
them with so heavy an affection may send
a soothing balm to heal their laeeratea
hearts.
Resolred, 4th That this Lodge wear the
usual badge of mourning for thirty days,
Resolued, s. That these resolutions be
spread upon the minutes of this Lodge,
| that they be sent to the local papers, the
| Henderson GOLD LEAF, the Oxford PW6!t<
| Ledger and the Orphdns's Friend for publ
| cation, and copy be sent to each member
OF his family.
A. j. ELLINGTON,
j. F. CLACK,
| 6. r. QUINCY, fCom.
| j. N. CRAIG,
S. H. BOYD.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-08-29
Sale Of Valuable Real Estate in
Henderson, N. G.

By virtue of power conferred upon me by
an order issuing from the Superior Court
Of Vance county, in cause therein pend
ing, entitled <. ". Coghill, Administrator,
&C., VS.: J: H. upperman and wife, and
others, shall, on MONDAY, end DAY
OF SEPTEMBER, 1889, sell at public
auction, at the court house door in Hen
derson, n. G.. to the highest bidder, upon
the terms hereinafter named, that va1ua-
Bile lot of land on Garnet street, in Hen
dersOn, n. g., belonging to the estate of
the late Harvill Harriss, it being that lot
formerly occupied by W. A. Phelps, de-
ceased, and fronting about 20 feet on Gar
net street, and running back about 200 feet
to Wyche alley; also a small strip of
street being 80 feet wide and 226
feet long. This is valuable property
and the title is perfect. will furnish an
abstract of the title to persons who may
desire the same. Terms, one third cash,
balance on credit of six and twelve
months, deferred payments to be secured
and bear interest at 8 per cent. per annum.
Purchaser can pay all cash if SO desired.
A. e. ZOLLICOFFER,
July Is, 1899. Commissioner.
fully 1874 O..
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-08-29
A FINE PR OsPECT.-ThrOu tt

A FINE PR Through the
courtesy of the affable Capt. Calvin
Barnes, one of Wilson county's most
intelligent and enlightened and pro-
gressive farmers, we rode over his fine
tobacco farm on Friday afternoon, and
enjoyed one of the most magnificent
prospects that ever greeted our vision
"a large opening, all tremulous with
the most brilliant promises of a hand
some pecuniary remuneration for its
liberal, judicious and intelligently-di-
rected cultivation. We found the clever
Capt. Jack Finch, an experienced to-
bacconist, from Vance county, skillfully
and judiciously experimenting it's cul-
tivation and it was with bosom
swelling with the thrilling emotions of
gratified pride, and with eye flashing
with the radiant beamings of satisfied
ambition, that he pointed to his yellow
sea of richest product and said, ''See
the Naples of Agricolo, and die in an
ecstacy of delight o 'er it's opulent glory"
And he further said, II just want Thad
Manning to see it, for then know the
GOLD LEAF would chant its praise, in
its grandest, noblest lays And we
wanted our excellent and accomplished
brother Duffy, of the Star, to see this
fine tobacco crop, and he would then
realize the fact that Eastern Carolina
could indeed rival in the growth of the
weed the finest tobacco lands in the
West. Capt. Barnes has about one
hundred acres in tobacco, and the
promises now are indeed brilliant for a
magnificent reward for his well-direc-
ted energy and iberality and intelligent
judgment in it's cultivation. In many
places the tobacco is as high as our
shoulders, and in number of other
spots it is said the hands are entirely
hid from sight, and that horn has to
be blown at the house in order for them
to get their bearings. Be that Num-
chausenism or Washingtonianity or not
we know this, that it is the finest to-
bacco farm we ever saw, and others
say so, too. and we only wish other
farmers in this county would take Capt.
Barnes as their model and follow in his
footsteps, then indeed we would have
some of the finest tobacco formers in
world, and then our noble county.
wreathed with garlands of her yellow
leaf, would move majestically onward
in her realm of affiuence and indepen-
dence, and feel no more the grinding
chains of poverty's CALLING slavery
| Wilson Mirror.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-08-29

The Hickory Press and Carolinfan
heads an article bearing on the Girls
som case "Give the Devil his Dues. "
While the spirit of the article is plea
for fair play and is not unfriendly to
the suave and sympathetic Doctor, the
caption is rather suggestive. But that
is exactly what some folks don't want.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-08-29
Com'r of Organization Southern Inter
State Bureau Immigration.

We want to print the news, and our
readers can help us very much in the mat
ter ii they will. Some OF our friends are
complying with our request in regard to
sending items on postal cards, and we
appreciate the favors highly. Let us hear
from Others throughout the county.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-08-29
CASH BUYS CHEAP.

Give you all the time wanted
hut SPOT CASH will save y0l
money. TRY Is ON. We WIN
meet you every time.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-08-29

BLUE WING COPPER MINEs.-The
Oxford Public Ledger says this OF the
Blue Wing Copper Mines:
We are truly glad to be able to state in
an authentic manner that the develop
ments at the copper mines in Granville
and Person counties are OF the most en-
couraging character. 1t is no exaggera-
ton to say that the quality and quantity
of ore betoken that Blue Wing, which is
in northern Granville, is destined to
worldwide reputation as copper belt.
The people of the State have no concep-
ton of the interest now being felt in the
mines in that vicinity by Northern ex-
perts and capitalists. Some of these find
ing the mines of great valueh have not only
invested in the mines, but have purchased
much of the land in the neighborhoOd.
Quite a breeze of excitement has been
created there by thenumber of gentlemen
from the North who are constantly visit
ing the scene Of operations. New York
and Pennsylvania capital has been inves-
ted in the working of two of the leading
mines, and there are no more promising
copper mines in America than the Blue
Wing section. A railroad is being built
which will give fresh impetus to the devel-
Opment of the mines and to the invest
ment in lands adjacent to the new rail-
road depot.
There is mysterious secret, so preva-
lent among miners, among those who are
blasting the rocks underneath the earth
at these mines. You can 60 there any day
and see the rich and abundant copper ore
glistening with brilliant and varigated
hues of beauty as it is obtained from be
meath our mother earth where it has re
posed for so many years.
Among some sales recently made is one
to gentleman from Pennsylvania OF Il
acres of land from Mr.. C. A. Tuck at &
point where the new railroad depot is tC
be located.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-08-29
INCREASE YOUR BUSINESS
By Advertising in the Henderson Gold
Leaf!

The only newspaper published in Vance
low Tobacco district
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-08-29

having qualified as administrative o,
Ihomas u: Steed. late of the county Of
all persons having claims against the s ns
tate OF said deceased to exhibit them IN N.
undersigned Or my attorneys on or befors
the oath day of July, 1890, or this no,ico
will be pleaded in bar of their recoyerv ;.
all persons indebted to said estate viii
please make immediate payment. This
July "a, 1899. MARY e.. STEED
Administrative
BY EDWARDS & WORKMAN, her Atty.s
[july $50 SOL
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-07-09

graces. 1t is true that slaves did the manual
labor, and with such a prop to lean upon, the
retention of their mental aud physical activity
speaks unlimited prais- for the sterling qualities
of the whites. who, now dependent upon them
selves alone are bringing forth their talent and
best qualities.
There is no New South. The people who fell
in the common disaster are rising more vigorous
and more powerful than of old. They may
travel by another road. but the goal does not
differ. The Southern people cannot change their
character, and should not wish to if they could
We find 10 the Sauth a sweet and gracious life,
which warns the soul and reminds us that all Of
mankind are brothers. The simplicity and hos
pitality long prevailing from the Ohio to the
guilt do not disappear capital aud progress
advance. The welcome becomes broader and
the entertainment more liberal, while with them
remain the charm and grace which adOrn each
cultivated home of the South.
Many of the men who guided the South before
1861 are to-day leaders in the great intellectual
and industrial movement which is re-creating
each State, and the new generation, bearing its
part in the struggle, is in intimate sympathy and
communion with the old. What we really want
is the old South with all that it had of good, and
whatever there was of evil left out
Our Louisville contemporary, in the
above extract, refers very gracefully to
the fact that in personal characteristics
the people of the South are the same that
they were before the war There are few
parts Of this section where hospitality does
not abound, few where the home life is
not for the most part happy. And is not
this great deal? Why do we collect
lively seek to make our country, our Sec
ton, our State, our city, advance in pros
perity? That we Individually may be
prosperous and happy. The aim and OBJ
Iject of human exertion, of great enter
prises and immense public works, are not
only to make those who engage In them
wealthy, but also to increase the comfort
and happiness of the masses. Therefore,
qualities that made homes happy in the
south in days gone by still exist among
us. 1t is the same South
May they long continue to exist; may
the warmth of wholesouled hospitality
never give place to that sel6shness which,
wrapped in exclusiveness, forgets the
brotherhood of man. Let us cherish our
homes and home life. AS long as the
Romans fought pro aris ct focis, for their
affairs and tiresides, so long they were
invincible, but when they cared no more
for their lares and penates, but delted the
emperor and revelled in dissipation and
luxury, then. the grand structure that
generations of warriors had built up
began to give way. Yes, let US cherish
those qualities that make home life hap
py, and remember that we get them
from that South Of the past that many
now undervalue, South whose faults
were largely the fruit of circumstances,
and whose virtues are now not sufficiently
appreciated.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-07-09
COlOred RBaptisls.

\ six days meeting of the cOlOred Baptist
clergy is being held at the Missionary Baptist
Church IN this ctv. The meeting began last
Friday and the following subjects have been
and are to be discussed
|. Missionary iptist work of the State.
2. A Retrospect OF the Colored Baptsts IN the
State of Florida.
3. Education as a factor in religious work.
A. Our Church Ordinances and their proper
administration.
Christian E hics Polity and Finances.
g. The officers of the Baptst churches, and
their duties.
7. Church discipline and extension. addresses
and praise meetings.
s. Educational meetint {, ETC., etc.
The following named ministers anu others are
in at'endance
Rcvs j. G. Ross, Jacksonville; E. c. Jones.
Orlando; l. J. Hendlev, Tallahas %ee H. c.
Bailey, Tallahassee; A B. Randolph, 81.
Marks; Y. K. Gavin, s.. Marks; Rev. G.
A Goodwin, Gainesville; Prot Nj j Mad
dox, Gainesville; Prot w NJ Artrell, Jackson
Vile; Rev Geo P Mckinney, Pensacola; Rev
B Hankerson, D ,ytona; Rev b Aldridge, Leon
county, Florida Bro II Brown, Waukeenah :
R.v ] Jamis,n, Jack ckSonville; Rev John Pot
ter, Monticello; Rev B H Peterson. Palalka ;
Bro Richard Jenkins Leon county; Bro A NJ
Norman, Leon county Mrs 'ss and daugh
ter, jacksonville Mrs w NJ Artrell, Jackson
VILE; MRS julia Patterson, ftiatkai Mrs D'tIle
Redfed, Jacksonville; Miss Hattie Jones,
Palalka
The subjects are of much interest, and any
one will eel we'll repaid who attends the meet
ings There will be an educational meeting
held tonight, in which Prot. NJ. J. Maddox,
Major A. !. Russell State Superintendent,
Professors Tucker and Gibbs will address the
meeting. Snch talent and ability have never
been witnessed in a Bapt-, meeting in the State.
REV f. c. JONES Moderator
REV l. J. HENDLEy, Clerk
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-07-09
The Same South.
Mobile Register,

1t is the custom of many Northern
journalists who write about the South TO
assume that the industrial progress already
developed and still developing in this
section is the result, first, of the influx of
Northern energy and capital, and, second,
to a change in the character of the peo-
pie of the localities where mills are build
ing and factories rising. While we read
ily grant that much has been done for the
South by Northern men who have come
among us, and much help given by
Northern money, still. after all, the main
work has been done by our own people.
1t was the developments produced by
their enterprise and industry that first
attracted Northern capital in this direc-
ton.
And these people of ours who are now
building up the South are people Of the
same mould and character as the ante
bellum Southerners. Some Of them are
ante-bellum Southerners. Before our
civil war the South was principally de-
voted to agriculture, but there was some
attention even then to manufacturing,
and some efforts at mining. Our people
had energy, but it was directed into other
channels than at present. And besides,
the uncertainty Of the political situation
repressed the spirit of enterprise. But
when war came, and the people of the
South were thrown upon their own re-
sources, and were cut off from the outer
world, what wonders they accomplished
in making those things that were neces-
sary for them There was energy and
industry needed to provide munitions of
war, to cast cannon, and to keep railroads
in condition for travel. There was enter
prise and genius in the work done on the
Merrimac, the Tennessee aud the Abe
marie, work that marked change in the
naval warfare of the world. And what
shall we say of the energy of those thou
sands of Southern men who had been
brought up in ease and luxury who
underwent the hardships and privations
OF war, and faced its dangers, without
tlnching and without murmuring?
This talk about a New South carries
with it a reflection upon the Southern
people OF the past. The Inference is that
they were a listless, unprogressive, and
somewhat lazy race. We can not better
retute this than by quoting the Louisville
Courier-J ournal. 1t says
The inhabitants of this pleasant Southern
country were never laZl or encrYaied race.
They We're OF lhc best and most vigorous blood
sent from the Old World and before lhe war
they reared fine cities made roads, improved
the soil ami cultivated intellectual and social
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-07-09
FOR THE YOUNG TO CONSIDER.

Written for the FLoRIDIAN.
"Of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these 1t might have been.'
fair young girl with an angel FORM
Whose beauty resemb!ed the freshness OF morn;
With sparkling eye
And lips free from sigh.
Forth on earth's rugged pathway goes,
And day after day her destiny sows
For pleasures Of earth
She spent all her worth
Ne'er dreaming that harvest is near
Back DER the waste she gazed in fear,
At the wreck and ruin OF her career
At the future-ONLY A SKELETON BIER!
Oh the saddest word
The world ever heard
Is the might have been -
Once lost in sin!
Out on the bosom Of life's restless sea,
Smihngly trusting the vast To Be,
Sails forth a fond youth
While pleasures, forsooth,
His unguarded passions beguile,
TIL the cold barren rocks, an exile,
Have claimed him for life
To up the strife
He made to resist their foul claim
Out of the bowl Of pollution and shame
Has his spirit quaffed
The souls sweetest draft
The bowl he still holds with a nervous grasp
But only the dregs are left to the last
And that sad sad wall
Forced from dry lips pale,
Is the Might have been ~
Once lost in sin
The path of duty, tho rugged and steep,
The foundation DER which fierce billows sweep
Has no charms TO beguile
The vagabond child
But towering steepes that pierce the sky
Have been built and climbed by those who apply
The heart and soul
To some hidden goal.
Out Of the depths Endeavor has brought
The farest trophies the world ever sought
In the Night have been "
That has conquered sin.
Greenwood Fla. BESSIE L. STAPLEroN
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-07-09
A BUSS WANTED.

She w.s clerk in big hotel.
A family one it is true,
He IS IA drummer with seventeen trunk s.
And he was her lover, too.
"Shlll | call You cao?" she nlivcly said,
When the drummer began his adieu.
AS even a drUmmer--a drumm er in low e.
sooner or sa'e" must d..
81 think" he replied, as he looked at her lips
And thoErnt OF the chance OF a fuss
81 thinl. as there's NOBODY here bat ourselves
I'd ratner you'd cal it bus"
james Gray.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-07-09
STANDS WsrMsaARRISON.


Though time brings change and hearts grow old
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-07-09
TACINTA JACQUES.

Those bonnie eyes,
They my skies,
They hold for me both sun and rain,
They frOwn, and hope within me dies
They smile, and peace is mine again.
They are noon,
My sun, my moon,
My restful light at close of day,
They shed for lac the blessed boon
OF loves dear light across my way.
Sweet eyes that shine
And speak TO mine
o. love that never waxeth cold
All, never vel thy beams divine,
Though time brings change and hearts grow old
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The man who beuueathed

The man who bequeathed halt of his
estate to his wife Gas long as she remain
ed single after his DEATH" with provi-
sion that the other half be given her in
case she married again, "as it cos.s more
TO keep two than one" was daisy.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-07-09

Whether on pleasure bent business, should
take every trip bo'le of Syrup OF Figs, as
it acts most pleasantly aud elfectually on the
kidneys. liver and bowels, preventing fevers,
headaches and other forms of sickness. For sale
in soc and $1.00 bottles by all leading druggists.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-07-09

Commissioner Tanner has shown that
he is in entire accord with this adminstra-
tion by appointing his daughter as his sec.
retary.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-24
B. R. TILLMAN AT HOME.
Grape Culture on the Hills of Edge
field County.


From the augusta (Ga.) Chronicle.
Ten acres; 5000 vines; expense $500; crop
10000 pounds of grapes.
In a nutshell that is the result Of an ex-
pertinent which Benjamin r. Tillman is
making in grape culture at his home in
Edgefield county, South Carolina.
Learning that grapes we're now ripe in
his vineyard, | drove over to Mr.. Tillman's
place on Thursday and spent the day look
ing around. 1t is thirteen miles fr m Au-
gIsta on the old stage road through Edge
field county, near to Highview Presbyte-
risn church, from which his vineyard and
home take the name-Highview.
Mr.. Tillman is large land owner and
planter. At Ninety-six he has !, 100 acres
of lend, runs ten plows, and raises 100 head
of sheep At Highview he owns 700 acres,
of which 45O acres are cleared land, a ID
rents 500 acres besides. AT Highview he
has 200 acres of cotton, I20 of corn, besides
fields of oats, barley, peas sorghum, pota-
toes and other standard crops. lie also
raises annually 80 head of hogs. which
average $50 pounds net when killed He
has a fine peach orchard, and a garden
which supplies everybody on the plantation
with vegetables. His vineyard and dairy
complete the list.
ton, convinced that there was money in
grape culture he ordered at once ), COO vines.
The great bulk of these are set out on nine
acres, which crown high hill by the road
side, whose splendid elevation at once iust-
fies the title-"Highview Vineyard" Near
the house and on opposite sides of it are two
small vlreyaris--One of wine grapes, the
Clinton, and the other an experiment sta
ton containing sixty-two differently arieties.
In v~fr,
ono or more vines Of q kind to test its adapt
ability TO the climate and soil, its fruit III
ness and flavor. Satisfied of the value of a
variety, he plants as many as are desired
in his main vineyard. He started setting
out his vineyard in March, 1887, ard this IS
its first harvest He has made his first
shipment to New York, where he will go
for his market, but has not yet gotten re-
turns of the sales. In monetary point of
view, therefore, the result is not yet
determined. But Mr.. Tillman has already
established some facts in reference to grape
culture that are sufficiently satisfactory to
induce him 10 double his acreage
II have charged every bit of work Of all
kinds that has been done in the vineyard
against it" said Mr. Tlllmau, land includ-
ing the ront of the laad it has cost w to
date 500. At 3 cents q pound it would be
profitable crop. After the first expense of
ouyluS Inc vines anu pOUS, ana establishing
tho vineyard, its annual cultivation viii
cost no more than an equal acreage of
cotton. A fair crop Is 1000 pounds u the
acre; at cents pound this would be 5000.
The same land with the Same labor and
expense would bring in cotton half a bale.
or S25.
II further find that intelligent negroes,
with my supervision and ms rue ions. are
able to do all the work of pruning, picking,
packing and ell that is to be done. This re-
lieves the problem of labor, and places
grape culture on footing with the other
crops"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-24
WHIPPED BY TWENTY WOMEN
With Black Snakes and Switches They
Punish Wife Beaten.

EvANsTowN, WYo., July 17.-John
Lewis. keeper Of a saloon and gambling
house ct Fassil, frightfully maltreated his
delicate wife yesterday. She received an
unusually severe castigatiou last night,
being detected in teaching her little boy a
prayer.
Late last night the women of Fassil to
the number of twenty visited Lewis's place,
armed with black snakes, buggy whips,
and willow switches. They overpowered
the fellow and gave him good thrashiug,
leaving stripes all over his body and cutting
his face and head badly.
Lewis resisted with all his strength and
cursed loudly. Becoming personal in his
abuse, some men present essayed to quiet
hirn, threatening the use of rope. A few
OF Lewis friends came to his rescue Re-
volvers were drawn and the barking of six
shooters was loud and lively. The room
was filed with smoke and the lights were
extinguished.
When order was restored, among the men
to crawl out from under the billiard tables
was one with shattered shoulder ard an
other with wounded arm. A bullet
passed through the high couture of one of
the women. The fright and shock caused
the woman's proStration, and her condition
Is now critical