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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1896-06-25
EIGHT FEET OF BEAR.
An Old Hog Eater Brought Down by
John Murphy.

= On last Wednesday, John Murphy
killed one of the largest bears on the
Blue Ridge that had been slain in this
section of the country for a number of
years. lie was a regular old hog eat
ing bear and had played havoc with
the swine in that section for long
tiue. Mr.. Murphy put five shots into
him from SO calibre Winchester and
finally had to close with him in COM
bat and finish with his knife. Mr..
Murphy escaped with but a few hugs
and scratches, but his bold and faithful
dog Jared worse, it seems. as the bear
caught him up in Que of his massive
arms and ''sqoze,' him until the dog
couldn't tell whether he was a brave
aud intrepid bear dog. or was just an
ordinary kind of a pup.
The bear was started on the South
The side of the mountain. and the
scene Of the conflict in which Bruiu
yielded up his life occurred Oh the
Mcdowell side. Such bear fight as
this one never before took place in all
these mountains. 1t is said that irag-
ments Of unkempt dog hair and bear fur
was seen floating around in the am
bient atmosphere adjacent to the scene
of carnage for "a hours after the bat
of battle was over
There will be plenty of bear meat in
the Blue Ridge community for days and
weeks to come. The bears hide meas
ured eight fee: .-Burnsville Eagle.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1896-06-25
A NEW TOBACCO PEST.
This Time 1t is Caterpillar That Has
Come to Vex the Planters.


Gerald Mccarthy, entomologist of
the North Carolina Experiment Sta
ton, sends out the following bulletin:
A small caterpillar has been dis
covered mining the sleaves of grow
ing tobacco. The caterpillar is about
one-half inch long greenish, with a
dark brown head. It makes an irregu-
ular or blotch mine by eating the green
matter or parencyma OF the leaf, leav-
sing the skins intact and the leaf trans
parent. The caterpillar is extremely
voraciGus and as several usually mine
one leaf the leaf is soon rendered
worthless The insect belongs to the
sub-family Of Tined moths. whose best
known representatives. are the clothes
and fur moth md the Augumois grain
moth. This particular species is yet
unnamed.
Notwithstanding protected by the
skins Of the leaf, no ordinary poison or
insecticide will destroy this pest, nor
can it be hand-picked without Destroy
ing the leaf. The only treatment is to
watch for leaves showing transparent
blotches and when found to remove and
burn them. So far this pest has been
reported only from one locality in
North Carolina, but it behooves tobac-
co growers everywhere to look out for
it and destroy it as soon as it appears.
If it becomes common it will greatly
harm the tobacco industry of the State.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1896-06-25
STAND TRUE.

The Dispatch believes all parties
should stand by their principles if they
have any. If they haven't, and only
want place, then let them fuse. But
above all let Democracy be true and
unhesitating in declaring her position
and stand by her colors, faithful unto
death if she must fall. We do not
need to daily. We can not afford to.
Let US be Democratic or nothing,
seeking to establish and maintain the
right, for the weak and the strong, and
that too without any alliance not based
upon principle.-Lexington Dispatch.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1896-06-25
CLARK FOR NICE-PRESIDENT.

That was very handsome compli-
ment paid to Justice Clark yesterday
when the Wake county Democratic
convention endorsed him for Vice
President by rising vote. 1t was APP
proprlate that his home county should
express its interest in his candidacy.
Assurances Of support from Arkansas
and other States have been received,
and there is no reason why North Car
DINA should not secure his nomination
as it did Stevenson four years ago
ltzos ara Obssy0sr.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1896-06-25
SOUTHERN CHIVALRY.

Justice Roger A. Pryor's refusal the
other day to believe the evidence of a
private detective and the confession Of
a correspondent in a divorce suit when
their charges were denied upon oath
by the wife they accused was charac-
teristic of him. The lawyers who have
from time to time appeared before him
say that if their client is woman she
is bound to get all that the law allows
her in his court. Justice Pryor was
one of a number ofsoutherners who de-
cided that New York offered a better
field for the practice of law than the
south, and his record on the bench has
been filled with instances of chivalrous
treatment of women. He never loses
an opportunity to express his contempt
for a correspondent who will 60 on the
stand and give evidence against a
woman's character. He invariably
discredits such evidence and always
makes such witnesses feel uncomfort-
able.-New York Sun.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1896-06-25
STATE HOSPITAL.
More Room Needed at the Institution
at MOrgantOn.

Capt. JAS. p. Sawyer, who was at
Morganton this week attending the
regular quarterly meeting of the board
of directors Of the State Hospital, Of
which he is president, says that the
question Of more room at the institu-
ton was again discussed. Room for
women patients is especially needed,
he says, and if any more are admitted
a corresponding number of women
must be sent away. There are now
66S patients in the hospital. Capt.
Sawyer thinks the matter Of increased
accommodation should be agitated by
the State papers and brought before
the attention of the legislature when it
again assemblies.
At the meeting delegates were ap-
pointed to attend the second meeting,
at Asheville September 10th, Of the
Association of Southern Hospitals for
the Insane. Drs. Murphy and Tay-
lor and Directors Sawyer and Caldwell
were appointed to represent the Hos
pital. Citizen.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1896-06-25
4 Real Blood Remedy.
Christian End6dVOr0rS!
ARE YOU GOING TO THE
Washington Convention,
JULY 9TH to 18th.

1ou should know that the SEABOARD
AIR LINE makes the Quickest Time to
Washington. That the Seaboard Air
Line operates the Finest Double Daily
Service in the Southern States to-day
That the Seaboard Air Line, with it's ia
nous ATLANTA SPECIAL, holds the
palm for the Most Comfortable and Lux
urous Vestibuled Limited Train, running
solid, without change from Atlanta to
Washington. That the Seaboard Air
Line will carry you through the most in
teresting and picturesque section of the
South, passing through Atlanta, Athens,
Elberton, Abbeville, Greenwood, Chester
Clinton, Monroe, Charlotte, Hamlet,
Southern Pines, Raleigh, Henderson,
Weldon, Petersburg, Richmond, Fred
ericksburg, Alexandria. That the Sea-
board Air Line offers you what no other
line can offer:-The choice of routes, via
Richmond or via orfolk, Old Point Com
fort and Chesapeake Bay, either route
possessing attractions for the sightseer
not approached by less fortunate lines.
And don't forget that the Seaboard Air
Line will make you HALF RATES TO
WASHINGTON AND RETURN, from all
points in the Southern States. Apply
early for tickets, sleepers and information
to HENRY MACY, local agent, Seaboard
Air Line, Henderson, n. e.. or write to
IT.. ANDERSON, General Passenger Agent,
Portsmouth, Va.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1896-06-25
Electric BitterS.

Electric Bitters is a medicine suited for
any season, but perhaps more generally
needed, when the languid, exhausted feel
ing prevails, when the liver is torpid and
sluggish and the need of tonic and alter
alive is felt A prompt use of this medi-
cine will act more surely in counteracting
and freeing the system from the malarial
poison. Headache, Indigestion, Constip pa
ton, Dizziness yield TO Electric Bitters.
SOC. and Sl.00 per hottie at Melville Dor
sey's Drug Store.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1896-06-25
TIE ONE GREAT QUESTION.

The following article written by the
| eminent historian, John Clark Rid :
path, giving his views on the financial
question, will be read with more than
| passing interest because of the ability,
character and antecedents of the au-
thor. Mr.. Kidpath has always been a
Republican. He says:
| "Ihere is just one great question be-
fore thc American people and that is
whether they will be compelled by the
international gold conspiracy, having
It's OlturCatlOns in London and New
York, to transact their business, and in
particular to pays their debts, with a
| COrnered dollar worth two for one,
fraudulently substituted for the dollar
Of The law and the contract, or whether
| they (the people, will reclaim their
| right 10 transact their debts according
| to the terms of the contract and accord
ing to justice.
at is said by emssaries of the gold
| propaganda that they who advocate the
| restoration for our coinage and money
| to the exact condition which it held
prior to the act Of 1873 are dishonest;
that they wish to coin SO cents worth
| Of silver into a dollar and compel
| creditors 10 accept that in lieu of an
honest dollar. Than this there never
was greater sophism and falsehood
What the people and what they intend
to do is to coin hundred cents worth
! Of silver, that is, dollars worth, that
is 57IL grains Of silver, into a dol
lar, and by that act to break the cor
ner on gold and reduce the exagger-
ated purchasing power of that metal
to its normal standard.
eff any man say that 57II grains
of pure silver are not a dollars worth
let him be challenged with the question
whether that amount of uncoined silver
will not purchase as much of the aver
age of IS of the great staples Of the
American market, including real es-
tate and labor, as the same silver would
purchase IS years ago. Let him an
swer that truly, or forever afterward
hold his peace. As matter of fact
the uncoined silver in the American
dollar will buy more of the average
staples than the same would buy in
1875.
"What then? The limited supply of
gold in the world has been cornered
by those who own it. They are few
very few-and the people are mil
lions. The price of the cornered gold
has advanced more and more, until it
has become worth almost two for one.
All the while coined gold has con-
cealed the fallacy that is in it. The
gold eagle still proclaims itself $40,
although it has advanced in purchas
ing power until it is nearly $50. IN
der this obscure and fraudulent pro-
cess all productive industries have been
crushed to the earth. They who labor
in the fields and shops have been viz
ually ruined"
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1896-06-25

The Asheville Citizen is responsible
for the declaration that the sum and
substance of the obituaries of Congress
just adjourned seems to be that the
Senate did nothing good and the
House helped.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1896-06-25
Personal.

FREE-64 page medical reference book
to any person afflicted with any special,
chronic or delicate disease peculiar to their
surgeons of the United States. DR.. Hatha-
way X Co, 2212 South Broad Street. At
lanta, ga. jnei
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1896-06-25

SINCE fat Tom Reed, of Maine,
failed TO knock down the presidential
nomination perslmmon at St. Louis last
week, an exchange taunts him with
the following: "In the memorable
billion dollar Congress, Springer one
day exclaimed, Il would rather be
right than be President. Tom Reed
replied: you will never he
either It's now Springer's turn to
laugh"
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1896-06-25

We desire a live agent and correspondent
at every pOstoffice in Vance and adjoining
counties.
Correspondence on all subjects Of local
and general interest and opinions upon
matters of public concern. are invited.
The editor will rot be responsible for
the views or statements Of correspondents
and reserves the right at all times to
revise or reject any article he may think
proper.
One side. only, of the paper must be
written On-and the real name OF the
writer accompany the contribution. No
attention will be paid to anonymous let
tiers
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1896-06-25
THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1896.

THE Republican Vice-Presidential
nominee is a new discovery, but more
intimate acquaintance with him re-
yeals the fact that he is a corporation
lawyer.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1896-06-25

In Duplln county new species of
tobacco worm has appeared, and
owing to the difficulty of extermina-
ton it promises to be a serious enemy
10 the tobacco industry. Reference is
made to this elsewhere, and a method
suggested for destroying this new pest,
a species of caterpillar. Let the to-
baccO planters be on the lookout
for it.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1896-06-25

THERE promises to be more flops in
this campaign than in any campaign
for good many years back. Party
lines will not be strictly adheard TO
as heretofore We may expect.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1896-06-25

SAID the Atlanta Constitution Just
prior to the St. Louis convention
"Mckinley doesn't want to be nomi
mated on Friday. But what is the diff
ferenceP The republicans who are for
him know they are already whipped"
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1896-06-25

The following remark about Ala
bama's foremost citizen IN the Atlanta
Constitution is well merited. 1t says:
ave don't know whether we'd prefer
to see Morgan vice -president or secre
tary of state. He's big enough man
to fill both positions at once"
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1896-06-25
DISEASES OF THE SKIN

The intense itching and smarting Incl
dent to eczema, letter, salt-rheum, and other
diseases Of the skin is instantly allayed by
applying Chamberlain's Eye and Skin
Ointment. Many very bad cases have been
permanently cured by it. 1t is equally
f 6 os p 6a and dhe ea so5s eR
For sale by druggists at 25 cents per box.
Try DR.. Cady's Condition Powders, they
are just what horse needs when in bad condi-
ton. Tonic, blood purifier and vermifuge.
For sale by NJ. Dorsey, Druggist.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1896-06-25

The New York VvMs Washington
correspondent takes the ground that
the sentiment for free coinage of silver
is deeper than the most sanguine sill
verite has any idea. He cites case
after case where manufacturers and
others favor it, but are afraid to say so
on account of The money lender
holding up his paper. This is the
more significant from the fact that the
WoyM is rabid gold bug.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1896-06-25
GENERAL HARRISON ON OUR Fl.
NANCES,

Wisest And Strongest Craftsmanship
Required to Mend Existing Condi-
tons.
Ex-President Harrison will discuss our
national finances in an article on The
Secretary of the Treasury" which will
appear in the August issue OF The Ladies'
Home Journal He will briefly tell OF the
origin of our financial system; its expan-
sion or development; how the nation
raises its revenues, and disburses it's
moneys; and detail the faults of our sys-
TEN OF tinanciering. Referring to the
methods necessary to maintain our gold
reserve General Harrison expresses him
self with evident disapproval, and says
that "the present situation would be alb
surd If it were not so serious The in
crease or the dimunition of the gold re-
serve, the eX-Presdent asserts, power
fully affects every interest, and the
"rnendng of existing conditions will be a
task for the wsest and strongest states
manship."
The ex-President clearly intimates that
successful fnancierng is extremely diff
cult by the present methods. Upon this
point he says: ''If fifty dollars would
suffice to hold $50, OOO,O 900 in the Treas
ury the Secretary could not expend that
small sum. He must stand by until the
gold is gone, and then sell bonds to get
it back. The result is that the banks
and the brokers are often able to make
play of the Treasury. A financial insti-
tuition whose board transacts its bust
ness in public is at Disadvantage
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1896-06-25

WE have heretofore been rather ia
vorable toward Stevenson for Presi-
dent. Now we are not We knew
that he had been non committal on
the money question but regarded him
as being friendly to silver and in sym
pathy with the masses. But the talk
of his being championed at Chicago by
the gold standard crowd backed by
VIM. G. Whitney and Wall street
bankers, has settled the business as far
as we are concerned. We take it as
pretty safe rule to so in the oppo-
site direction Of which they lead.
The bicycle industry is vastly great
er than most people have any idea Of
Just think of over SIoo, 900, 900 being
spent in this country alone for "bikes"
last year. That is the estimate given
out. No wonder there has been such
falling off in the demand for and
price of horses. This year it is pre-
dicted that this amount will be doub-
led, and yet people are crying hard
times. Chicago alone expects to turn
out 400, 900 wheels of all grades and
descriptions. Chicago is to-day the
greatest wheel center in the world,
New York second and indianapolis
third.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1896-06-25

THE Republican National Conven
ton at St. Louis last week nomi-
mated VIM. Mckinley, Jr., of Ohio
for President, and Garrett A. Hobart
of New Jersey, for Vice President
The platform declares unequivocalI,
for the single gold standard. TIN,
plank was protested against by Sena-
tors Teller, Cannon, Dubois and Others
and upon its adoption they walked
out of the convention.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1896-06-25

The public sentiment favorable to
Col. Julian S. Carr for Governor so
far from diminishing because of his
modesty and utter want of self-seeking,
appears to be on the increase. The
conviction grows that he is the man
for the race. We know that he prefers
not to be candidate, and in no way
is he seeking it. We have said more
than once in these columns that of alt
men in the State he can make the best
contest. We have letter written by
him TO US early last year in which he
sets forth his cardinal principles, and
he is very genuine Democrat if we
understand Observation-Disclosures
Messenger.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1896-06-25
Cancer
OF the Breast.

Mr.. A. H. Crausby, of 15S Kerr St.,
Memphis, Tenn, says that his wife
paid no attention to small lump which
appeared in her breast, but it soon de-
veioped into cancer of the worst type.
and notwithstanding the treatment OF
the best physicians, it continued to
spread and grow ra pidly, eating two
holes in her breast. The doctors
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1896-06-25

WE HAVE received Volume 1, No. /,
of the Gniyord XeyalI, published
and edited by Mr.. w. NJ. Sheriff., at
Greensboro, n G. Mr.. Sheriff. is
Secretary of the North Carolina Press
Association, and is a graceful writer
and a thorough newspaper man.
Winston 20bact0 /0u,Uak
This gentleman is brother of the
Secretary of the Press Association,
Mr.. J. B. Sheriff., who is editor of
the Concord Times. Mr.. w. NJ. Sher-
ri!l was editor of the Lexington Dis
batrh, until he sold that paper recently
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1896-06-25
THIS CONGRESS.
Guilty of Both Sins of Commission
and Omission.

The record of this Congress has been
concisely and accurately written long
ago. 1t left undone those things which
it ought to have done and it did those
things which it ought not to have done,
and there is no health in it, The one
great thing which it ought to have
done was to pass bill for the relief of
the frances of the government, and
that ii conspicuously failed to do.
Speaker Reed announced in the be-
ginning that it was to be edo moth
ing Congress- In one respect this
was true prophecy. 1t was a do
nothing Congress as regards those
things it ought to have done. In other
respects it was active and enlarged it.
self without measure. In the matter
of appropriations, to borrow a phrase
from the sporting fraternity, cit beat
the record.' In making appropria-
tons it was ''out of sight" The great
Flfty-hrst Congress, the first Reed
Congress of blessed memory, reached
the highwater mark and goes down to
history as the first billion dollar Con-
gress. This present Congress will
make that one seem nigsardly and par
| slmonlus by contrast. 1t has already
provided for extracting about six hun :
dred and twenty million dollars from
the pockets Of the unfortunate taxpay-
ers, and there is another session com
ing. The river and harbor bill, so to
| speak, "took the cake" The Presi-
dent vetoed it, but it went over his
veto with a rush. Goose creek and
Duck pond and Gudgeon river all
must be dredged, 50 that the various
Congressman will stand solid with the
I boys at home for re election. 1t is
now the accepted method of hlch;ng
campaign funds from the pockets of
the taxpayers.
And the lengthening of the pension
list not been neglected. The federal
government has been likened to great
crow and the Congressman to milk
maids. -BaltimOre Sun.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1896-06-25

You should see that new and beautiful
line of Gismonda Silk, Crepon and Chal-
les at THOMASON'S
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1896-06-25
DRESS GOODS

Comprising all the latest Novelties Figured Mohairs
Scian Mohairs. Imported Silk and Wool Sungs all
Wool Henrietta all Wool Serge. Fancy Sungs great
variety. These goods must be be appreciated
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1896-06-25
10 Owners and Occupants Oh
Premises.

Chapter XIV. Section - OF the code q
Henderson requires that every "citIIra
and firm i'm Henderson shall clean up si4
disinfect their lots, Gel lars, dram, 80
bles and privieS and Section ~ require
that every privey in town shall b, clraiel
out and disinfected every week and a',
one failing to do so after bein. notihei
shall be fined Fifty Dollars for each ana
every day it remains unclaimed"
hereby give due notice in the COLI
LEAF, Hustler and by hand bills To- even
one to comply with the above law at oler
il they have not already done So An Old
Ger will, in the next few days, closely ir
spect your premises, outbuilding, piE PEI.
stable. well or pump and privy, and r.
port condition Of same If any fan "
comply with the law they may expect =
pay the fines tor such neglect. The -rt
eral health and well-being of all th" GU
liens OF this town demand the riGid Z"
fOrcement of these laws
One pound Sulphate of Iron tcopI~ia,
disco 9ed in one gallon of water max g.
cheap and efficient disinfectant ana uiF
dOrizer for privies. Should the he"....
Officer fail to see anything that Leeds an
tentiOn he will esteem it favor ioF d"
one to notify him.
w. J. JUDD. NJ. D.
Health Officer Of Henderson