The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-02-20
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Items of Interest as Cleaned from
Various Sources.

Various Sources.
Republicans are working to kill the
Blair bill in the Senate.
Baptists tourists, numbering one
hundred, have left New York for the
Holy Land.
The Senate has confirmed the nomi-
nation of Blanche K. Bruce, colored of
Mississippi.
Mr. Gladstone regrets the trouble
with Portugal, but says the case is
one for action.
The Virginia Senate has defeated
the bill to allow women to practice
law in that State.
Secretary Tracy will again enter ac-
lively upon his duties at once. He
has the sympathy Of the country in
his grief.
The date for unwilling of the Lee
monument at Richmond, Va, has
been changed from 18th the 2oth ol
May next.
Cardinal Pecci, a brother of Pope
Leo, has just died. He was 50 year:
old, two years and three months Older
than the Pope.
Frank w. Winston, of Louisa Court.
house, a Democrat, has been nomina
ted as census supervisor of the Third
Virginia District.
The House seems to be willing tc
pass the Blair Bill if the Senate does
but it is not believed that it is now
possible to pass it in the Senate.
A general strike is threatened
throughout the coal mines of Alabama
involving thousands of miners, and
causing IS or 20 blast furnaces to shut
down.
The inside facts regarding the nomi.
nation of Dudley to the Americus
Ga, postmastership have been ex
posed, and the nomination is being
chung up
Charles Emory Smith, editor of ths
Philadelphia Pres, has been nomi
mated by the President to be Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo
tentiary for Russia.
The Sioux reservation, just thrown
open to settlers, covers 1900, ,oos
acres, and will furnish homesteads te
10000 families. 1t is said to be F.;
healthy and fertile region.
1t is generally conceded that th'
Worlds Fair will be held in Washing
ton, and that the defeat of the bill
by the New York Legislature will los'
that State to the Republicans.
Edward Smith, colored, Stephel
Peters and twelve others, charged
with murder in the Navassa riots, wer
> convicted in Baltimore, the first O
murder and the last for manslaughter
Miss Window, daughter of tn
Secretary of the Treasury, had ar
ranged to spend the night at Mr.
Tracy's house the night of the fire, ane
; hanged her plans at the last moment
Aluminium, the new metal to cheap
en- the manufacture of which chemis
have been working for some time, ha
got down to four dollars pound from
\ eleven dollars which it cost not ion,
ago.
The growth Of cities in the Unite.
States is not among the least Of tn
marvels of its development. Their
are now $50 of them, with an az
gregate population Of nearly 10000,
900.
The young Duke of Orleans ba
been sentenced by the Tribunal Of tn
Seine to two years imprisonment, fc
violation of the law exiling from tn
country all pretenders to the Frenc
throne.
The Washington correspondent {
the Baltimore Sun interviewed Nj
Cleveland on ballot reform, and h
was in favor of the reform because
was right, and not because of its efes
upon the Democratic party.
Four children were skating on
pond, near Kingston, N. v, whe
the ice gave way and they were a
downed; the father and mother OF tw
of the children attempted to rescu
them when they were also drowned.
The marriage of Douglass Gree,
senior member Of the firm of Green
Bateman, to at Chicago widow by
negro preacher caused quite a sens
tion in Wall street. The firm h;
been dissolved.
The Richmond, Va, Locomotiv
and Machine works have secured
large contract to furnish steel an
hanged plates to be used in the cor
struction of two cruisers, Of 5000 tor
each, to be built at the New Yor
navy yard.