The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1900-03-22

ter and more universally than any man
ever born within the borders of our State.
The cast OF the statue and the mOnu-
ment proper are to be executed vet. and
there is other work to be done which will
necessarily make it impracticable to place
it in position for some little time vet
The date of the ''unveilng" has therefore
not been definitely fixed. Many suggest
that May Goth should be selecte6-for
reasons obvious to every intelligent and
patriotic North Carolinian-but it can
not he unveiled before July 4th. at least
NUMEROUS NEWS NOTES
Oxford gets the next new North Caro-
lima cotton mill. company with II CAPT
tai stock of 1925 900 and J. &. Hall as
president was organized there within
the past week This makes the eighteenth
new cotton mill in North Carolina this
wear. SO far.
Bob Fortune (what's in name?) was
hung last Friday at Nashville. Nash
county. as was also John Taylor (bOth
negroes) for the murder of a white farmer.
Mr.. Robert Hester, whom they waylaid,
killed and robbed on the public road
They confessed to the murder of Hester
as well as that OF a negro man named
Lawrence Baker. who was killed Just
across the river from Weldon last Decem-
ber which had been shrOuded in mystery
until cleared up on the scaffOld by the
perpetrators Robbery was the motive
in both cases.
Congressman Bellamy is notified that
the rural free delivery postal service will
soon be put in operation in several coun-
ties in his district (Sixth) including
Union, New Hanover and Robson or
Scotland. may be both the two last
named
A. l.. McCaskill is the new postmaster
at Fayetteville, having been appointed
last week. President Mckinley's expe-
rience with negro postmasters in this
State probably acted against the chances
of the negro candidate on this occasion.
The decision has been reached to hold
the next meeting of the North Carolina
Teachers Association at Morehead. The
old rate of the Atlantic hotel there of 81
! a day, which was secured. figured largely
! in the decision. Other places We're con
sidered, but equal inducements equality
and volume of service cOnsidered) We're
not offered by the latter.
! The negro supremacy advocates Tor
anti-amendment people, if that term
suits YOU better) have secured cham
piOn in DR.. ID. \. Long. of Alamance
cOunty-until recently a professor or
president of a college in Ohio-the State
where mixed colleges (such as those at
Oberlin and elsewhere) flourish. while
white and black young men and women
are educated side by side, eating at the
same table and bunking together in the
same dormitories. Naturally DIR. Long
sees nothing distasteful Ito him) in negro
supremacy. But he should have remained
in Ohio to enjoy it.
| Evangelist j. W. Lee, of Greensboro,
the Irish Evangelist whose escapedes
in Washington, d. G., have been widely
ventilated of late, has written to the
Greensboro church of which he was IA
member asking for a letter of with
/ drawaf from that connection, etc. The
, matter has not yet been officially acted
upon.
! Raleigh is. as write, in the throes of a
I municipal primary to determine whether
, certain property owned by the munich
pality shall be sold. Ii sold the city will
gain splendid auditorium thereby, in
which to holdfuture ticalconventions
and other large meetings. Theprospects
are that the proposition will be carried.
! number of ladies in Raleigh have
formed an organization, the object OF
which is to aid in disseminating Demo-
cratic literature during the coming cam
paign. They are, for the most part. the
wives OF prominent Democrats, and will