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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-06-15
THE PUBLIC PRINTER.

1t has been suggested that the
President is rather inclined to view
with favor the appointment of a
Southern man as Public Printer. 1t
has been urged that the great majority
of the chiefs and minor appointees in
the Government Printing Office would
come from the East and West, and
that therefore matters should be some
what equalized by giving to the South
the principal appointment. The fact
that there are two candidates from
North Carolina might perhaps tend to
initiate against the chances of either,
but it is understood that one of them
stands ready to drop out of the race in
the event that the other seems to have
show for winning.
North Carolina has two candidates
both OF whom are practical printers
and men of executive ability. One il
Mr.. ]. Abner Harrell, of Weldon, N
c., who, it is said, runs the largest
job-printing establishment in the
Southern States. The other is Mr..
N. B. Broughton, of Raleigh, N. c..
who also runs large job Office
Washington E0ening NezUs.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-06-15

WE notice that Gov. Carr will soon
be called upon to appoint president
of the Atlantic & North Carolina
Railroad (Goldsboro to Morehead
City, AS far as we have heard it
seems to be taken for granted that the
present incumbent, Mr.. w. S. Chad
wick, will succeed himself. If the
appointment is to be made as matter
of business this will be done, for it can
not be denied that President Chad
wiCk's administration has been an
eminently practical and successful one.
He has demonstrated that he is a sound
business man and good financier and
has brought the road up to degree
of perfection that is creditable alike to
himself and beneficial to the stock
holders and the States interest therein.
As the GOLD LEAF sees it Gov. Carr
will name w. S. Chadwick as his own
successor wherein he will do the cor
rect thing.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-06-15

IT is coming-lower railroad rates
to the Worlds Fair. Already the rail-
roads realize their mistake in supposing
they would have all they could do
handling the passenger traffic to
Chicago this summer. People are not
going to climb over each others
shoulders to go to the great Columbian
Exposition at the present price of
transportation tickets. And the rail-
roads now see this. Already some of
them have been forced to take off their
special Worlds Fair. trains owing to a
lack of patronage. Now comes the
gratifying statement that the railroads
of the Southwest have begun to cut
rates, and others will follow their
example. Before the summer is gone
we look for such lively contest among
the railroads for patronage that rates
will be cut to such low figures that
there is not likely to be any complaint
that high fares are keeping people
living al remote distances from going
to the Worlds Fair. And the sooner
all railroad lines reduce rates the better.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-06-15

OCCASIONALLY a North Carolina
editor comes in for recognition and
reward at the hands of the general
government, as we'll as the politicians.
We see it stated that Editor John B.
Sheriff., of the Concord Times, has
virtually secured the postmastership in
his town. His appointment has been
recommended by Congressman Hen
derson, and he has the endorsements
of both Senators Vance and Ransom.
The case is now made up it is said and
action will soon be taken. Miss
Dusenberry, the present incumbent, is
Mr.. Sherrill's most formidable op-
ponent. She is backed by Col. Paul
B. Means, who appears to be actuated
from personal notices, both tor and
against the respective candidates.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-06-15
A TERRIBLE CATASTROPHE.
A Part of the Old Ford Theatre Build
ing in Washington, Used for Gov
eminent Purposes, COlapses
With Fatal Results.

With Fatal Results.
About 9:3o O'Clock last Friday
morning Ford's old theatre building
in Washington City, where Abraham
Lincoln was assassinated, collapsed
| with terrible results in loss of life and
injury to persons. 1t was used by the
government as a branch Of the War
Department and 500 persons, mostly
clerks, were employed in the building
at the time of the accident. 1t is said
the building was unsafe and was con-
demned years ago, but has been re-
paired, propped up and renovated
from year to year. An account says:
The immediate cause of the collapse
was an excavation that was being
made for an electric light plant in the
cellar of the structure-a three story
affair-and according to the best in
formation obtainable, the workmen
had dug beneath tile foundation sup
ports in front of the building, weaken
ing them to such an extent that the
walls gave way before they could be
lacked. This explanation of the cause
of the accident is the only one ad-
vanced, but it seems somewhat strange
in view of the fact that the top floor
gave way first.
The men who were in the building
say the crash came without warning.
Those on the top floor were suddenly
precipitated to the floor below, and
the weight of the falling timbers and
furniture carried the second and first
floors with it. Fortunately only the
forward half of the floors gave way.
The outer edges of the floors and the
rear part of the structure remained in
tact. The walls did not fall.
When the crash came there were
supposed to be in the building 466
clerks, IS messengers, 20 laborers, a
total of 534 persons. A tour of the
city hospitals, completed at $40, re-
suited in obtaining the following de-
tails respecting the arrivals of the dead
and injured: Twenty-one dead bodies
are at the morgue and the Emergency
hospital. The number of injured re-
ported is about fifty, but many Others
who were able to proceed to their
homes were hurt more or less badly.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-06-15
LAST week the GOLD LEAF suggest

LAST week the GOLD LEAF suggested
that it would be better for the public
interest if politicians and office seekers
would leave the President alone and
give him time to attend to the duties
of his office. Within the past few DAYS
he is reported as having said to a
prominent gentleman that the North
Carolina Office seekers bothered him so
much he did not have time to give
proper attention to the appointments.
This is what we thought. Give Mr..
Cleveland rest. And when you take
into consideration that North Carroll
mans are not alone in their impor-
tunities, but that the other States, with
their greater population, are all knock
ing at the door and asking for some
thing, the worry and vexation of
spirit of the man within may be
imagined.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-06-15
800 Re ward. 500.

The readers of the GOLD LEAF will be
pleased to learn that there is at least one
dreaded disease that science has been able
to cure in all its stages and that is catarrh
Halls Catarrh Cure is the only positive
cure known to the medical fraternity Ca
tarrh being constitutional disease re-
quires constitutional treatment. Halls
Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces OF the system; thereby destroying the
patient strength by building up the const-
tuition and assisting nature in doing its
work. The proprietOrs have SO much faith
in its curative powers that they offer one
hundred dollars for any case that 4 fails
to cure. Send for list of testimonials.
Address, F. J. CHENEY & Co,
Toledo, Ohio.
q Sold by druggists, 75c
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-06-15
La Grippe.

During the prevalence of the grip the
past season twas noticeable fact that those
who depended upon DR.. Kings New Dis
covery not only had speedy recovery but
escaped all the troublesome after effects OF
the malady. This remedy seems to have a
peculiar power in effecting rapid cures not
only in cases of la grippe, but in all dis
eases of throat, chest and lungs, and has
cured cases of Asthma and hay fever OF
long standing. Try it and be convinced.
1t won't disappoint. Free trial bottles a,
Dorsey's drug store.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-06-15

BE PATIENT.

Two correspondents-one of them
prominent tariff reformer-have re-
Gently called our attention to the state
ment attributed TO Mr.. Cleveland by
an Associated Press reporter to the
effect that the Sherman law is now the
only menace to the prosperity of the
people.
The alarm expressed by one of our
correspondents is groundless. In the
first place, we have no idea that the
president made the statement in the
shape and with the emphasis attributed
to him by the press reporter. In the
second place, it would be preposterous
to suppose, even if the statement had
been made just as it is printed, that
Mr.. Cleveland has ceased to regard
the Mckinley law and the whole Re-
publican scheme Of protection as
menace to the prosperity of the people.
The president knows now, just as
we'll as he knew eight years ago, that
the people of the country cannot be
prosperous under the Mckinley law or
under any other system Of high Re-
publican protection, and at the proper
time he will make his knowledge as
we'll as his intentions manifest.
While it is true that an extra session
of congress should have been called in
March, and certainly not later than
the present month, it is equally true
that the country is rocking along very
comfortably. The brethren who are
inclined to be impatient should sit
down and think the matter over, and
not allow their irritation to bubble
over in the newspapers. We are living
in the electric age, it is true, but
great reforms 60 on as slowly as they
ever did, and they cannot be hurried.
Neither the Democratic party nor
Mr.. Cleveland can affard TO be judged
by the antics of few newspapers that
are trying to attract attention by
houting the Democratic platform and
giving it new meaning under the
pretense that they represent the presi:
dent. They will never be heard from
when the Democratic press once begins
serious operations.
The platform is all right, congress
is all right, and Mr.. Cleveland is all
right. The Democratic pledges will
be Observation-Disclosures Constitution.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-06-15

AN exchange commenting on the
recent failure of the Fort Worth Tines
Herald, an afternoon journal, pithily
says that " it is no use to attempt to
run newspaper on tick or to produce
a 1o-column paper in a 6-column
town." This is the whole truth in a
nutshell, and it should serve at the
same time as an explanation to
captious critics and warning to
venturesome novices in this most
precarious field. 1t is the old question
of supply and demand on the part OF
the public and Of quid PRO quo on
the part of the publishers.-Norfolk
Public Ledger.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-06-15

REV. ]. ]. HALL, the pastor of the
Raleigh Baptist Tabernacle has tender
ed his resignation and the trustees have
decided to extend a call TO Rev. A.
{. DIXON, of Brooklyn, n. Y. Mr.
DIXON is q talented son of North
Carolina and has host of friends and
admirers who would welcome him
back to this State. 1t is doubtful,
however, that he would accept the
call.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-06-15

The New Berne J0nnaI well says !;
"The University of North Carolina
has done we'll in securing Professor
Collier Cobb for the chair of Geology
and Mineralogy, and Professor Edwin
A. Alderman, for the chair of History
and Education. Both are young
North Carolinians of marked parts and
will be found equal to all requirements
morally and intellectually"
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-06-15

ANENT the suspension of DR.. Briggs
from the ministry by the Presbyterian
General Assembly because Of his
peculiar and advanced views which
made him a " herltic," the Indianapo-
lis, Indiana, NezOs says: "To our
mind body of men never seems SO
little entitled to respect as when in
full cry after fellow-man has expressed
an opinion on some speculative subject
with which the body of men is not in
accord.'
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-06-15
COMMENCEMENT EXER-
CISES.
Henderson College Closes q Pros
porous Session With Great
Credit to Itself.


Commencement Exercises of Hen
derson Female College, held in Bur-
well Hall Thursday evening of last
week was an event creditable alike to
the young ladies', the faculty and the
principal of that worthy institution of
learning. The program was an at
tractive and instructive one through
out and the respective features were
we'll rendered. The young ladies ac-
Quilted themselves most creditably and
the management have cause to feel
proud of the splendid showing made of
their work during the past session.
The only thing that marred the pleas
ure of the evening and detracted from
fuller understanding and appreciation
of what was said and done by the STU
dents was the noise and confusion in
the back part of the hall and in the
galleries which rendered it impossible
at times to hear those on the stage.
This, however, was no fault of the
young ladies themselves and must have
been more embarrassing to them than
to those among the audience who de-
sired to hear. There was large crowd
present, the house being as full as we
have seen it on any occasion of this
kind. This was mplimentary to the
College and showed in marked degree
the interest our people feel in it and its
success. While some of the young
ladies are deserving of special mention,
where all did SO we'll we will not draw
invidious distinctions by particularizing.
The program rendered was as follows:
Invocation, Rev. w. l.. Cuninggi m
Hunting Chorus, The School
Instrumental Duet,
Misses Dorsey and Lands.
Essay. The Dream of Fair Women
Miss Fannie POynOr Heartwell.
The Contention of the breads Nereids.
Misses Parham and Currin.
Vocal Solo, Open Thy Lattice.
Miss Gladys Kelsey.
Instrumental Solo, Minuet
o.. Miss Mamie Kelly: 49,. -.
Instrumental Duet, Vaillance Polka
Misses Sudie Hart and Mamie Lands.
Instrumental Solo Gypsy Rondo
Minuet from L'Artesiennc
Misses Pearl and Ruby Wyche.
Glass Prophecy, Miss Eta Warwick
Instrumental Solo, Tam O'Shanter
Miss Alice Cheek.
Madame Tussaud's Wax Works,
Miss Lottie Young and others.
Instrumental Duet, Pizzicatti
Misses Eulalie and Carlia Harris.
Vocal Solo, Tell her l Love Her So
Miss Fannie P. Heartwell.
Instrumental Duet, Sparkling Waves
Misses Ogburn and Young
Instrumental Solo, La Chase au Lion
Miss Gladys Kelsey.
Instrumental Duet, My First GalOp
Misses Kelly and Floyd.
Glass Poem, Miss Embra Morton
Instrumental Duet, La Sultana
Misses Cornelia and Leona Curtin.
Valedictory, Miss Theda Phillips
Instrumental Solo, Movement Perpetual
Miss Daisy Stephens.
Benediction, Rev. DR.. w. ID. Morton
Pyramus and Thisbe, From Shakespeare
| CHARACTERS REPRESENTED.
Pyramus, Miss Lundy Wyche
Lion, Miss Hattie Strachan
Wall, Miss LESSEE Gill
Prologue, Miss Mary Dav is
Moonshine, Miss Mamie Dean
Thisbe, Miss Fannie HearJwell
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-06-15

THE Chicago SIN, Republican, does
not find as much hope in the breaking
of the Solid South" by means of the
Third party movement as it once did
and in a spirit OF dependency and
disgust says:
That hoary-headed old chestnut
about the capture OF the Southern
States by the Populists, which ought
to have been buried forever by the
returns from the Presidential election,
has again been set upon its feet.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-06-15
drunkenness or the Liquor Habit
Cured at Home in Fen nav. nv "a
ministcring DIR. Hafnes, Colder

1t can be given in glass of beer, a cup
OF coffee or tea, or in food without the
knowledge OF the patient 1t is absolute.
ly harmless; and will effect a permanent
and speedy cure, whether the patient is a
n y. t s drinker or an alcoholic wreck.
III mas Deen gwen in thousands of cases
and in every instance a perfect euro has
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once impregnated with the specific. It he.
comes an utter impossibility for the liquor
lures guaranteed. 4s page book of par
cIFic COMPANY, 1855 Race street. Cincin.
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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-06-15

lie North Carolina Tobacco Ass0-
citation will attend the Worlds Fair in
4 body, starting from Greensboro
about August 10th, and travelling on a
special train. We will publish full
particulars, for the benefit of those
Interested In OH neNt Issue
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-06-15

EDWIN BooTH, the great tragedian,
died in his apartments at the Players
Club, New York City, at I:zo O'Clock
on Wednesday morning of last week.
There was much to admire in Booth
aside from his genius as an actor. He
was born on his fathers farm, in
Hartford county, Maryland, Sept I 5,
1888, and was therefore in the Goth
year of his age.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-06-15

HOWEVER much some may be
disposed to complain of the speed with
which President Cleveland is making
appointments (and really such COM
plant is groundless) there is no
occasion to doubt the wisdom of his
selections in those he has named to
hold responsible positions. The latest
one for North Carolina was the
appointment last week of Col. VIM.
H. S. Burgwyn, of Henderson, to be a
National Bank Examiner, his territory
embracing this State and Virginia.
Search the two States over-or go
elsewhere, as to that-and a more
capable man for this position could
not be found. He has had large
experience with banks and has a
thorough knowledge of banking, and
besides is high-toned, intelligent
gentleman.-Greenville Reflector.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-06-15

In the graduating class at West
Point Military Academy, consisting of
81 members, North Carolina boys
stood as follows: Geo. P. Howell,
end Robert P. Johnston, 4th. Charles
w. Kurtz, of Pennsylvania, headed
the list. Mirewether L. Walker, Of
Virginia, was 3rd. Thus it will be
seen that North Carolina made the
best record of any State, and and 4th
place.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-06-15
Machinery for Sale.

1 have for sale one second hand q horse
power Eclipse engine, on wheels. About
as good as new and will be sold cheap.
Also one 10 horse power Eclipse engine;
OH wheels, and saw mill. Will be sold
together or separately, at a bargain. Az"
lot OF steam gauges and check valyeH'
made expressly for my own trade. Inc
latter is something new and superior 10
anything of the kind made.
j. A. FLEMING,
-. mayll-2I Middleburg, y. L.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-06-15

FORAKER, true to his animal in
stincts, snarled at the living, and
played ghoul by digging into the
graves of the dca,. at New York on
Memorial day. Foraker is the only
animal in the Republican menagerie
that enjoys munching 4 corpse
Youngstown IOhio) TIn0ltafor.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-06-15

We see it announced that Mr. II.
w. Kronheimer formerly of the Oxford
Day, but recently of the Richmond
Ma,ket/0urnaI, will become associated
with Mr.. ii. +. fIarman in the editor
ship of the Winston 70baff0 /OWnaL
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-06-15

Shiloh's VitaliZer Is what you need for
dyspepsia, Torpid Liver. Yellow Skin or
Kidney Trouble. 1t is guaranteed to give
you satisfaction Price 75c. Sold bv "
w Parker, druggist, Henderson.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-06-15

The ladies are cordially invited to call
and inspect the pretty line OF new dress
goods and trimmings just opened at
III, Thomson
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-06-15

Capt. Sweeney. U. S. A., San Diego.
Cal. says: Sl,iloh's Catarrh Remedy is
the first remedy have ever found that
would do me any good. Price 80 cents.
Sold by W. W. Parker
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-06-15

KENTUCKY has only one Republican
daily newspaper, and its editor is
president of the State Press Association,
which shows that even the Democratic
editors of Kentucky know where to
look for the best presidential timber
Chicago Sun.
1t shows that there is a spirit of
friendliness and tolerance among
Democrats in the South even for Re-
publicans, whether a certain class OF
Northern and Western editors and
politicians concede it or not. And
politics cuts no figure in organizations
of this kind. Only this and nothing
more.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-06-15

INDIANS appear to be good at some
other things besides going on the war
path, raising cain and scalping the
pale faced brother. At least few OF
them develop other qualities when
the beneficial effects and influences OF
education are applied to them. For
instance, an Indian has just been
valedlctorian at Roanoke College, Va,
beating all white competitors, and now
a Trinity College freshman, a full
blooded Indian from Indian Territory,
has won the honors of the class in
defamation.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-06-15

Mr.. John c. Scarborough, the
State Superintendent of Public Inst1uc-
ton, announces that eleven free
scholarships in the Peabody Normal
School at Nashville, Tenn, are to be
awarded to North Carolinians this
summer, who pass satisfactory exam
nation. Names of the males or the
females who desire one of these
scholarships should be sent to Mr..
Scarborough at Raleigh, and he will
then arrange for the examinations in
the counties where the applicants re-
side.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-06-15

ALL the lynchings do not occur in
the South. The North and West have
got in their work of this kind in a
peculiarly skillful and barbarous man
ner of late. A negro named Samuel
Bush, charged with outraging two
white women, was lynched by IS men
on the principal street of Decatur, ILL.,.
The lynching, though done in the light
of day, and in the heart OF a city of
$4,000 inhabitants, met with no op-
position. Think of this occurring in
the West. Only IS men composing
the lynching party and do their work
in the light Of day-and neither
prevented nor molested afterward.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-06-15

ONE of the staunche5t, most straight
out Democratic papers that we get is
the Bellefontaine Ohio, Eaaminer.
Editor Hubbard is no friend of frauds
of any description, whether it be in
the person of contemporary or some
Republican statute or fallaclous prin
ciple. Replying to paragraph in the
Republican, newspaper published in
the same town, the E.eaminer says:
Elder Campbell says if President
Cleveland had the courage of his con-
victions he would have gone to Rich
mond to do honor to the memory Of
Jeff. Davis. And if the Elder had the
courage Of his 0ifious inchnations he
would have gone to Richmond to hurl
bomb shell into the thickest of the
gathering.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-06-15

EX-PRESIDENT Harrison was an
interested spectator at the Worlds
Fair Monday. He was warmly greeted
wherever he was recognized but there
was no public demonstration in his
behalf.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-06-15

OUR congratulations are hereby ten
dercd Editor Jerome Dowd, of the
Charlotte Times, and the trustees of
Trinity College, upon his election as
one of the faculty of that institution
Instructor in Economics and Mercan-
tile Sciences, commercial department.
While gratified at this recognition of
his talents and fitness for the position
to which he has thus been called, we
shall very much regret Mr.. Dowd's
retirement from journalism. While
Trinity College gains valuable &C
QUESTION to its faculty the State press
loses one of its brightest and most
worthy members.