The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1892-07-14
Letter From RingwOod.
RINGwooD, n. c., July 9, &

RINGwooD, n. c., July 9, '92.
DEAR GOLD LEAF:-We are having
unprecedented cold weather, and frost
was looked for this morning Cotton is
badly injured and other crops at a stand
still.
Richard Burt, colored, was Potterized
by some roughs of his own color in
HeathvjlIe section last week. He was
covery. His assalents are in Jail. They
! assigned no cause only wanted to have
a 'little fun" and it will be dear fun to
them.
Rev. T. J. Ogburn preached at Bethesda
on last Sabbath most forceful and in
teresting sermon, said to be by the large
audience who sat as If spellbound during
it's delivery.
would have been pleased to have
heard that great preacher Rev. Moses
u. HOge in your city the other night.
While attending lectures in Richmond,
Va, in 1869, heard him every Sabbath
for months at his church in that city
and some OF his sermons on the Young
Men OF the Bible | remember as dis
tlnctly as yesterday though nearly a
| quarter OF century has passed, since
| sat under his eloquent and matchless
OratOry. He is q powerful man and the
pulpit III the sober sense of it's Legitimate
| and peculiar powers when filled by such
grand intellects and noble characters,
'is a host in virtues cause
/ have received daily papers from
Chicago since and during the meeting
OF the Democratic Convention, thanks
to my considerate friend Major w. T.
Manning.
Gus Williams, colored, aged about 1S,
went from Brinkleyvile last winter, and
is to be hanged in Savannah, Ga, on 90,
for murder. 1t was predicted here he
would he hung.
Died, on Thursday, June 10Th, 1892. Mrs.
Virginia A., wife of our townsman, B. W .
Upchurch. She had been an invalid for
quite long time, but bore her suffering
christian and consistent member of the
Missionary Baptist church for twenty-five
years, and now she has gone to reap the
reward of her labors. She leaves hus-
band and four children to mourn her death,
and while it is hard to give her up, yet we
| that she is out of her suffering, A few
| moments before her death, she called her
| children to her bedside, gave them good,
| christian counsel and exacted a promise
! from them that they would try and live
| better lives and meet her in the better
world.
A FRIEND.
Spring Hope, n. c., June H. 1892.
Rocky Mount Argbnaut.
The subject of this obituary was my
eldest sister and she had been the COM
panion of my youthful years when had
no thought or aspiration to which she
| was q stranger, and now that she is put
away in the cheerless earth my heart
feels pang in its every fiber that is only
consoled by the reflection that her sui
ferings are over and her purified spirit is
basking with our sainted mother by
whom she was laid, in the haven of eter-
nal repose.
| Again | must say, "what a terrible
| thing is death. how the sun darkens and
| the moon pales and the flowers fade and
| life loses it's charm under the blight OF
its presence. And then after the first
shock of agony is over and the full
reality of loss and separation comes
what Il dreary pail over spreads existence
and how utterly empty the world and
| even heaven seems.
Farewell dear sister until that day most
blest,
| When if deserving we with thee shall rest
| With thee shall rise with thee ascend above
And bask forever in Heavens eternal love
T. V. Avent lost a child a few months
old two weeks ago and the next week his
brother John lost one about the same
age. A great many children have died
in various localities this summer.
| Tobacco crops in his section are fine
as can be.