The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-06-18
OUR RALEIGHLETIEk
THINGS SEEN AND HEARD At THE
STATE CAPITAL.
WUcox Safely Landed in Psn;sent'ary
Trinity College CommeHcenl- at
Combining Business and pleasure-
Who WILDE Next Govsraor Of North
e.tinent Paragraphs.
GoRMAS NEWS BUREAU.
RALEIGH. \. C.. June ID. 1903. {

jim W HOOK Tie VI ANcliit
Cropsey, is at last safely landed in the
State penitentiary here-for 30 years
The Supreme Court last Thursday de
cided his appeal against him, whereupor
the Pasuuotank county authorities
ably for life-and this is the final act il
one Of the hardest fought criminal cases
that has figured in thecourts and statute
books of North Carolina.
ERCDITIo EFT REIIGIO.
With a score or more Of the most dis
tingushed and useful men in North Caro-
lima occupying seats upon the rostrum
and each of them an alumnus of that
great institution. including both OF Oul
United States Senators, Trinity College
last week concluded the greatest com
mencement' in the history Of that grand
old storehOuse OF learning. and sent out
large class of graduates Including six
young women) equipped with Christian
education not to be surpassed by any
college in the South.
OF course Rev. Dr. J. c. KilgO, under
whose able and brilliant administration
has come the remarkable growth and
great good fortunes of the college was
reelected president, and equally of course
was Hon. j. II. Southgate, again chosen
president of the Board of Trustees-he tC
whom the success and prosperity of the
institution is also largely due.
No institution has ever had. or will eveI
have, more efficient. devoted and success
full officers filling these two most impOr.
tant positions.
And the splendid faculty, magnificent
and unsurpassed, remains the same-eacE
one of the more than a score OF the ablest
and most practical and useful educators
in the land having been unanimously re-
elected
Trinity has for a number OF years been
surprising itself each scholastic year, and
brilliant and successful as was the one
just closed, the next one (Which begins
Sept. 9TH will be even more successful
and brilliant. When the low price OF
tuition (Oniy 500 and other expenses
are considered (being only $16S to 1921
a year. including tuitiOn) and with these
reduced TO $11S to S1S1 in many cases
everything included, surely the young
men OF North Carolina are indeed fOrtu-
nate in having such Il grand and advaH-
tageous opportunity to secure the best
education to be had. And of course all
this is largely due to Trinity's noble
benefactOrs, chief among whom are Mr.
Washington Duke and his sons
CoMBIN!NG BUSINESS AND PLEASURE.
'Greensborois the OutgrOwingestp place
| ever secdr' declared a bucOlic acquaint-
aIce OF mine some time ago.
After Il personal investigation | now
fully endorse the strong statement EN-
bodied i'll the above expressive words. 1t
does beat everything how that town has
grown and continues to grow of late. II
1t keeps up the present lick few years
longer it will pass Raleigh, Charlotte and
Wilmington and become the largest city
in North Carolina.
There Is the finest summer resort in
the State for hundreds and thousands OF
men who are run down. like | was last
summer, said mycOmpaniOn, as we were
walking out East Washington street
He was pointing to the large and pic
turesque brick and stone building. with
its perfectly beautiful large lawn of sew
eral acres, so long known as the "GOver-
nor Morehead mansion" but which now
bears over its front portals the words
'keeley Institute
We crossed the street and went up the
green, breeze-swept, shady and cool
grounds into the large, generously pro-
portioned main building; into the former
reception room OF the rich old Governor
now the club room of the Institute:
thence through the business office and
the modern-improved dining hail. physi-
clans laboratory and the bedrooms.
with their new appointments and furni-
turc
We met that genial, wholesouled man
who established it, Col. W. H. Osborn,
still its president, and now Mayor OF
Greensboro as well; the obliging and
competent manager, Mr. G.. D. Cunning
ham; DR.. Williams, the chief physician,
who has been here nearly ten years, and
the patients, then numbering some thirty
odd-nice, Gentlemanly men, all of them
many of them fine looking and of extra
ordinary ability-lawyers, doctors, poll
ticians merchants. business men and
farmers
And everybody so cool and comfort
able. Domicled in first-class summer
resort and at the same time being cured
OF their physical appetite and ailments
and all much satisfied with the happv
idea that has enabled them to kill two
birds with one stone.
Said my friend: Il did that way last
summer. came to Kelley and built nv
self up during the hottest part OF the
summer-nstead of dissipating the time
away and ruiningm my constitution at the
usual summer resort and that is why
you see me looking and feeling so well
now. And enjoyed myself here as much
as ii | had been at any of the other
places"
OUR NEXT GOVERNOR AND LIEUTENANT
GOVERNOR
Within twelve months the next Gov
ernor of North Carolina will be practical
ly named, and yet we have heard and
read very little discussion of the subject.
SO far. Who will he be?
As it is more than probable that the
Democratic nominee will be Western
man" this time. have been looking into
the matter lately and Judging by the ex-
pressions of scores of representative citi-
zens of the West, find that Lieut.. Gov.
Wilfred ID. Turner, of Iredell, and ex-
Lieut.-Gov Charles NJ Steadman, of
Guilford, are the two mOst-talked of gen
tlemen for the position up to this time
and either of them would make us a
splendid Chief Magistrate But Others
have their friends also, of course. and not
infrequently you will meet up with those
who champion Col. John S. Cunningham
OF Person, Hon. r. b. Glenn, of Forsythe,
Hon. Theo. +. Davidson. of Buncombe.
ct al. 1t seems to be understood that
Gen. Julian S. Carr and Hon. Cy. B. Wat
son will not enter the race
For Lieutenant-Govern an Eastern
man will be named II the usual course is
pursued, and there are two men who
seem to stand head and shoulders above
all Others. SO far, for this honor-two OF
our leading State Senator's. viz, Hon
j. f., Woodland. OF Wilson. and Hon.
Joseph \. Brown. of Columbus county
(the latter being the present president
pro TEN. of the Senate) and there is no
better material in the State. Indeed
either OF them is highly qualified and
would make Il frst-class Governor oil