The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-02-27
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Items of Interest as Cleaned from
Various Sources.

A favorable report on the Inter-
national Copyright bill has been offered.
The Senate has passed the Oklaho-
ma bill including No-Man 's-Land in
the new territory.
Princess Alice, a midget, who had
recently been exhibited in various dime
museums, is dead.
There are seventy lodges and 4,195
members in the Ancient Order United
Workmen of Iowa.
Four negroes overpowered mail
carrier in South Carolina and took
the mail pouch from him.
General Malone is anxious to re-
ceive a paying diplomatic position
from the State Department.
The famous stallion Homer died at
Messrs. Jewett's stock farm, near Buff
falo, N. Y, last Thursday.
Lord Wolseley is not popular with
the royal family OF England. The
Queen especially dislikes him.
Texas has taxable wealth amounting
to S72o,I75,564. In twenty years
the increase has been $500, 900.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis hopes to COM
plete the biography of her late hus-
band in season to sail for Europe in
May.
The fund for the Washington Me-
mortal Arch, to be erected at Wash
ingson Park, New York city has reached
$4,000.
A large panther that has killed a
number of cattle in southern Illinois,
was recently shot after long and ex-
citing hunt.
Fops and extreme dressers, in imi-
tation of the Partisan dude, are affect
ing black silk handkerchieS with
evening dress.
William Miller, charged with the
murder of DR.. Walker, in Rockbridge
county, Va, has been acquitted after
a ten days trial.
The loss by the University fire in
Toronto will be one million dollars !;
many valuable papers and documents
were destroyed.
A yard engine and hand-car COL
lided near Staunton, Va, which re-
suited in the killing of two persons
and the serious injury of six Others.
Joseph Battin, a millionaire, Of
Elizabeth, N. J., refused to live longer
in the house of his widowed daughter
because she and her family were worldly.
Theodore Thomas,the great orches-
trail leader, of New York, and Miss
Rose Fay, lady of high social posi-
ton Of Chicago, are soon to be mar
ried.
James Whitcomb Riley. the Hoosier
Poet, says that he believes that "the
sober second thought OF the public will
come to a realization of the terrible
injustice" recently put upon him.
The Palace roller -four mill, at Mar
celinc, Mo-, has been burned. Incen-
diary. Loss $500 Five attempts
have been made by incendiaries within
the past month to destroy the town.
George Darling, brother OF Grace
Darling, and only surviving member
of the family, is living at Sea Houses,
North Sunderland, England. A public
subscription has been lately made for
him
Henry NJ, Stanley, in letter to
Col. Thomas w. Knox, Of New York
City, says: "I have had no letters
from any one while in Africa. Mis-
fortune followed every effort to send
me my mail.
Rev. DR.. George w. Pepper, who
is going to Milan, Italy, as consul, is
one of the spiciest 1rish-American pol
itical orators of his day. He was on
the stump in 1884 and 1888 for the
Republican national committee.
John D. Rockefeller's wealth is esti-
mated at s135,ooo,oo He devotes
two hours daily-from until 9 o'clock
in the morning-to the examination
Of the pile of letters addressed to him,
soliciting money for yarious nurnoses