The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1901-12-12
OUR RALEIGH LETTER
OUR CORRESPONDENT THINKS THAT THE
WORLD is GETTING BETTER.
His Reasons for This Bslief-Some
Good and Somd Bad Deeds-MattsrS
of Moment of More or Les Interest
-Governor Aycock Considering
Number of Applications for Pardon
One Granted-Minor Mention.
From Our Regular Correspondent.

From Our Regular Correspondent.
LEFT OVER FROM LAST WEEK.
RALEIGH. \. G., Dec. 2, 1901.
The week just passed has been a re-
markabIe one. crowded with events,
good and bad. But there are evidences
all around us that the world is getting
better-a majority of our people. GER
tainly, apparently striving to make it
better, and this writer believes God is
guiding and directing them, and therefore
the end His servants are aiming at must
be accomplished. This is not preaching,
but your correspondent asks your per
mission to record his belief, in passing,
feeling sure it will not hurt any ones
feeling.
SOME GOOD AND BAD DEEDS.
And yet the pessimist and the atheist
q believe we have few or none OF the lat
ter in our good old State) can and does
point to things which he finds fault with,
but can t explain.
One of the deplOra BILE events of the week
was the burning early Saturday morning
of one of the valuable and useful build
ings at the College of Agriculture and
Mechanic Arts, Of this Watauga
Hail." together with personal property
of number OF students who occupied
portion of the building used as a dormi
tory. Loss $4,000, of which 50, 900
was lost in the destruction OF the build
ing ITSELF Insurance. So, 600 on the latter,
this amount being all the insurance.
About sixty students slept i'll the burned
building. Many have now gone home on
| vacation.
Rev. X. e. Pearson on Sunday night
| concluded his series of sermons preached
| in the PRESBYTERIAN church here during
| the preceding two weeks. The Thanks
| giving Day meetings here at the churches
were more largely attended than i'll many
years, the pastors and rectors and priests
| of the several churches conducting the
| meetings-three denominations meeting
at one of the churches. The contribu-
| tions taken up for the orphan asylums in
| this State were liberal. and seemed to be
| given by the "laymen with Il cheerful
| spirit.
| MATTERS OF MOMENT.
| Superintendent OF instruction TOOn
| who has been sick and laid up at Swan
| Quarter, is back again at his home in
Raleigh, but is said to still be very sick
| man.
\ matter OF concern in the office OF the
| State Superintendent of Public Instruc-
ton is the condition OF the school census
returns from some OF the countless 1t is
| believed that some of the returns are not
correct. For instance, the census of
| cOlOred children in New Hanover county.
recently filed, is exactly the same as APP
peared in eX-Superintendent Mebane' S
! last report, while in the census for the
whites of that county there is Il change.
Information has been received that no
school census was taken in New Hanover
in 1900. or since 1895, and the old
records have been used as they stood
then. The census returns from Polk,
Halifax, Duplin and another county or
two are the same as in Mebane's last re-
| port.
1t is important that the school census
returns be properly and accurately made,
as the distribution of the first 500, 900
to the public schools will be made in
January on the basis of the last school
census, and if the number should be too
small the county will not get its share of
| the money. and if too large it will get too
much.
The charges brought by Mr.. W. b
| Ellis, now n cigar dealer of New York
| but formerly a resident of Wins tOn-sSalem
against District Attorney HOltOn, have
been replied to by Holton, in which he is
quoted as using this language:
Mr., Ellis objected to paying ME a fee
OF $50 in IL case which required three
weeks of my time The late Col Arm
field appeared with me in the case and
received $3.50 for his services retained
my fee from money collected for Mr.. Ellis
He retained an attorney in New York
who. upon information of the crcum-
stances, dropped the matter. This trans
action was closed last winter | don't
| think Mr.. Ellis has ever employed an at
| tOrney i'll this city without cOntrO-
versy over the fees He has gone so far
as to cartoon Watson < Buxton. Glenn
4 Manly, Colonel Frank Fries, W. A.
Lemly and Postmaster Reynolds. In
fact, he devoted good portion OF last
winter to all of these gentlemen, greatly
| to the amusement of our citiZens'
The Gattis VS.. kilgo, Duke and Odell
case, which was tried at Oxford last
week for the second time, attracted con
siderable attention. but not as much as
was manifested when it was aired the
| first time.
The only 'Teddy" who has occupied
the White House. and so far probably
the most unique" President our country
has had. will send in his message to Con
greSs on Tuesday of this week 1t is said
to be lengthy document of over 80. 600
| words. and will be sent to Congress in
| pamphlet fOrm-anOther new departure
on the part of President Roosevelt.
MISCELLANEOUS MENTION.
Governor Aycock. who had been absent
from Raleigh during the past week, is
now considering Il number of applica-
tons for pardon. Among the number
was that OF u man named CasS. who
escaped after serving about half his sen
tence many years ago, while working on
| the Murphy Branch of the Western North
| Carolina Railroad. he having been con-
victed in Surry county for the theft Of a
horse while he Cass) was drunk. After
his escape he went to Wilkes county and
| for fifteen years is reported to have lived
an upright honest life with his wife and
! family. Recently Il 'neighbor" fell out
with him and reported the mans former
+, record, and he was arrested and returned
to the penitentary i'll this city. to serve
out the uneXpiied portion OF his sentence.
| There was strong lot OF petitions in tie
Executive office asking for the pardon OF
Cass, and the pardon was issued Satur-
| day evening. The facts. as reported to
the Executive Office. certainly appear to
| make this Il proper ease for Executive
clemency.
\ reward OF $500 has been issued by
the Governor for the abductors of Miss
Nellie Cropsey. Of Elizabeth City
At the football games at Raleigh and
Charlotte Thanksgiving Day the Raleigh
A. NJ. College boys overwhelmed the
Davidson College team by the score oil
- to Is, while the South Carolina Glen
son College team (the \. & NJ. College OF
that State) defeated the University OF
North Carolina boys by the score of %
To 10 1hn hOvs Mhn arc oyorciSinn