The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-09-19
THE NEWS IN NUCE.
ITEMS OF INTEREST DISHED UP
FOR OUR READERS.
DOings at Home and Abroad as we
Find ChrOnicled in Numerous
Newspapers.

Flnd CnfOnlcled III Numerous
Newspapers.
No man can ever know what it is to
be a mother.
The human race is increasing 3o,-
900, 900 a year.
The Pennsylvania Railway Co. are
expending S3,ooo,oo on freight cars.
Georgia has pensioned a colored
Confederate soldier named Eli Pickett.
Ex-senator Mcdonald, of Indiana,
has legal practice worth $4,000
year.
Politeness is as natural to delicate
natures as perfume is to howers.-De
Pln0G
Edward Leman Blanchard Of the
literary staff of the London Telegraph
is dead.
There is no better excess in the
world than the excess of gratitude
La Bruyere.
Massachusetts, prohibitionists, in con-
vention at Worcester, nominated a
full State ticket.
Gilmour & Co.'S shingle mill at
Trenton, Ont, has been destroyed by
fire. Loss, $4,000.
Boston University has graduated
478 doctors of medicine, nearly one
half Of whom are women.
The fund for the erection of the
Washington Memorial Arch in New
York City has reached $4,000.
Every human heart possesses more
or less good which can be developed
if only the proper methods are pursued.
Window glass workers in Findlay,
Ohio, and adjacent places have struck
for higher wages. Two thousand men
are affected.
Unsuccessful attempts were made
by burglars to rob the country resi-
dence of vice President Morton at
Ellerslie, N. Y.
A company with 81 100000 capital
has been formed at Wilmington, N.
c., to manufacture cotton bagging out
of pine straw needles.
General F. D. Legitime, the ex
President of the Republic of Hayti,
sailed from New York for Paris on the
steamer La Bretagne.
George w. Williams and James H.
Clark, old time courterfeiters, have
been arrested in Kentucky by Special
Agent Bauer of the Secret Service.
The new cruiser Charleston, built
by the Union Iron Works Of San Fran
cisco for the government, has failed to
come up to the contract requirements.
A skeleton, supposed to be that Of
John Bartlett, wealthy eccentric who
disappeared mysteriously nineteen
years ago, has been found at Norwich,
VT.
Five sailors of the British ship-of-
war Acorn have deserted at San Fran
cisco, charging harsh treatment. To
prevent further desertions the ship has
put to sea.
"The Campbells Are Coming" )"
will be a popular campaign tune in
Ohio this fall. The Democrats have
nominated Hon. James E. Campbell
for Governor.
Workmen digging a ditch near
Rensselaer,, Ind, discovered S439 in
gold, several watches and other valua-
bles, believed to be the plunder of an
old gang of robbers.
No doubt the happiest dogs that
ever lived were the two that were
taken aboard of Noah's ark for they
had but one pair Of fleas between them.
Chicago National Weekly.
The want of education is one of the
greatest pull backs our State has to
conteud with. The resources in many,
very many sections lie dormant for the
want of Observation-Disclosures NeaOs.
What is said to be the largest bar of
gold ever cast in the world, was turned
out at the United States assay Office
at Helena, Mont, Wednesday. 1t
weighed 500 pounds, and was worth a
little over 100000.
Fannie Bryant, the mulatto woman
who was the accomplice of Dick
Halves in the murder of his wife and
children last December, was convicted
of murder in the first degree and SEN
fenced to life imprisonment.
The examination of Joshua Mann
and his mother, Mrs. Frederick ].
Swinton, for conspiracy with Eva
Observation-Disclosures
in wleedling Robert Ray Hamilton
into a marriage with her and in palm
ing off on him as his own baby
bought for $40 from midwife, is now
being held in the Tombs Police Court,
New York.