The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-03-09
Accident on the Oxford & Hen
dersOn Railroad.

The 1905 train from Oxford met
with an accident Monday morning. 1t
occurred about three hundred yards
above the crossing at the SmerdOn
place. The train was not running fast
but the wreck was almost complete,
the rails and cross ties being smashed
to pieces. On one side lay loaded
coal car wrong side up and on the
other was box car which had turned
completely over and now lies right side
up, but minus the trucks, while little
higher up is the smoking or second
class coach, one end of which is in the
ditch and the other on the embank-
ment. Only the front trucks of the
first class coach were off the track.
Owing to the coupling breaking the en-
CINE and tender kept the rails. About
ten or twelve passengers were On the
train. none of whom were hurt except
Mr.. +. n. Crews, who was thrown
against the stove and slightly burned,
and ii. ID. VIM, whose knee was
slightly injured. kilograms were sent
for the wrecking train, which arrived
about l O'Clock and the gang immedi-
ately set to work to clear the wreck
and repair the track, which was done
by o'clock and the 100 train left
here as usual. Messrs. Berkeley, Lipps,
Holt and Walsh came with the wreck
ing train.
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Let the Weekly Press be Re-
membered.
After the Inauguration comes the
award Of honOrs. Spurs have been
won in the contest last fall by not a
few and are soon to be conferred.
Many warriors are to be knighted.
Others are to be publicly thanked
Let US not forget any who are deserv-
ing, and in this list we particularly
want to see see the weekly newspapers
gratefully remembered.
During the campaign Wahad frequent
occasion to refer to the value of their
services, and now looking over the
field which has been won and the trO-
phies lying at our feet, we can appre-
ciate better than ever what they have
done.
All political battles are nowadays
largely fought by newspapers. Editors,
reporters, and correspondents are
among the artillery, calvalry and in
fantry of the army. All help, but the
editor of the political weekly gives
himself up to his party during the cam
paign. His office is headquarters.
He bestows his time at the sacrifice of
his business. His columns are sur
rendered to lists of appointments -
to reports of public meetings, to para
graphs commenting upon the issues OF
the day, and encouraging the workers
to do their best. Everything that he
has i. placed at his party's disposal,
and when the fight is over he is liberal
in his praise of all who have deserved
| it. For himself he expects nothing,
and generally he is not disappointed
| This is not fair, and is generally not
meant by the public, but we'd do well
to begin reformation in the matter.
We think we speak for the Demo
cratic committees and for the party
generally when we say that the editor:
/ of the weekly press fought glorious
fight last fall, and that without them
the battle could not have been won
The daily papers may have been " the
| bic guns of the battle, but the week
lies were the sleepless scouts and the
sharpshooters who carried the war into
the interior and reused up that slow
moving but terrible enemy to fraud
and humbuggery, the American farmer
Waterloo (N. W Observer.
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