The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-01-19

THE GOLD LEAF.
ESTABLISHED 1881.
THAD r. MANNING.
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THURSDAY, JAN. 10, 1899.
THE three DIS that are the bane OF
the newspaper Observation-Disclosures,
delinuuents and deadbeats.
HERE'S hoping that the new year
may bring you richest blessings OF
health, happiness and prosperity.
Jim Young's regiment OF black
braves is to be mustered out. They
were too much for the Government.
SAYS the Felicity (Ohio) Times: If
You don't think that the North and
the South are close together just let
any country try to come between
them and see.
FOLLOWING soon after the death of
Senator Morrill, comes that OF Con-
gresham Dingley, the tariff leader.
The country will learn with regret
of his passing away.
THIS is the time of the year when
a draft coming through an open door
makes man Grunge Ob-
ScrCcr.
1t is the (sighD draft coming
through the bank that makes us
shudder, Brother Robinson.
SEPARATE cars for white and cOlOrcd
passengers are strongly demanded,
and the Legislature will compel the
railroads to furnish them Charity
and Children.
SO say we all. Nor do we believe
the Legislature will ignore the
popular public demand.
introduced a bill in the Legislature
declaring that the people OF North
Carolina condemn the Republican
officials for sending negro ma or
and two negro clerks to pay off the
Second North Carolina Regiment,
and denouncing it rs unjust, I'M
warranted and humiliating
CONGRESSMAN Skinner. Of North
Carolina, has introduced a bill in Con-
gress to amend the constitution by 4
vote of !hree-fourths of the States, so
as to repeal the amendments to the
constitution comforting citizenship
upon negroes, and that no territory
in the Atlantic or Pacific ocean shall
ever be admitted as States of the
Union.
TIE Felicity (Ohio) Times gives
some of the War Department officials
and others a timely rebuke when it
says, and truthfully, 1.-the position
we are in to-day before the world is
too serious for us to bother about
bruised personal regulations or
sensitive organizations. The main
object is to take good care of our
soldiers"
ANOTHER new year has dawned and
it is well that we do not know what
it has in store for us. Could we but
look into the future and read it as
an open book few of us perhaps
would have the courage to take up
our burden anew and go forward as
cheerfully as we do in the cropping
darkness and sustaining hope with
which we are now surrounded.
MIR. Thos. Ryan's restraining in
junction against the sale of the Sea
board & Roanoke Railroad stock to
the syndicate headed by John S.
Williams didn't work, and the deal
will doubtless 60 through all right
This is something to be thankful
for. Mr.. Ryan should now retire
permanently. He has been squelched
often enough to convince him that
he has no case and might as well
give up the contest.
GONG over the Seaboard Air Line
to Southern Pines last week we
noticed considerable work being done
just beyond Cameron in the way OF
Strengthening the track and putting
the roadbed in better condition.
When the work is finished & marked
improvement will have been made
and the distance also shortened some
what. This means the ability to