The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1905-12-14
Tbis reminds us OF the anti-fat diet pre-

Mrs. Martina fOWie Mydt9' Coiu ~"
bread cooked over and raw cabbage
The people were greatly agitated about
the new law changing the term OF court
clerks from life term to 4 years wnlcn
that very year resulted in the decision OF
Hoke vs. Henderson which held that the
legislature could not change 1t as to
those appointed before the passage OF the
law. This continued to be rule OF law
tin the fall of 1903 when the Supreme
Court followed the lead OF Judge Clark
and overruled it.
We learn from it that Lieutenant Ran
dolph. who was dismissed from office by
President jackson and who afterward
assaulted odd Hickory" and pulled his
nose was arrested in Richmond for some
defalcation of Government funds and
was about to be rescued; that one John
Peasants was arrested also to be car
ripd to Alexandria as witness IN the
assault on the President and that he
took out a writ of habeas corpus and the
Judge released him and that Richmond
was up in arms to protect both the
men.
All through the volume are arguments
against slavery, in favor OF education
and public improvements by taxation,
and very cogent and forceful reasoning
against Imprisonment for debt which
was allowed in North Carolina until the
Constitution If 1868 abolished it. Its
advocacy of temperance is forceful and
intelligent. In one place he tells OF a
bar keeper who kicked two men out who
were drunk and quarrelling. saying as he
did SO that he ould be id if he would
have Jackson Congress in his house."
A dollar bill was found with this in
dOrsement:
This is the last dollar have left out of
Is 900 left me by my father o. how has 1T
gone? Would to heaven could say by doing
good. But alas. the theatre and lotteries
and gaming bles have consumed it all; and
am now a vagabond upon the earth, and
am in tear that | shallsO take upmy abode
in gloomy cell.
The capital execution of Mrs. Frances
Silver for the murder of her husband Oc-
Cured at Morganton Aug. II, 1888.
Advertisements in the paper are scarce.
No automobiles or bicycles or safety
razors or stoves or patent medicines-but
only a few legal notices, runaway ne
groes, a coach maker or two and stage
coach line This latter proposes to car
ry people to Bellfeld, Va, by coach
where they can take the cars and go to
Petersburg from Greensboro in 35 hours.
to Richmond in 3S hours, to Philadel-
phia in &c and New York in rs hours
almost equal to flying"
We find here the genesis OF Wake For
est:
We learn that Wake Forest Institute, the
manual labor school in this vicinity, estab-
lished by the Baptsts, has opened under
promising auspices There are already 80
students and others are waiting to enter as
soon as preparation is made for their recep-
ton. Our informant states that the pupils
appear healthy and cheerful and when the
signal is given repair with alacrity to their
labor They have in cultivation this season
about 20 acres in corn, IL in wheat, 25 in
oats and in potatoes, etc.
The old example of the use of big words
is given by the young man who asks the
lady for the candl shutters:
Most beautiful, accomplished and charming
madam, will your ladyship, by an unmerited
and undeserved cOndiscension of your inf
mite goodness. please to extend to your
most obsequious, devoted and very humble
servant that pair of ignipotent digestOrs
that may eXasperate the excrescence of this
nocturnal cyIindric luminary in order that
the refulgent brightness of it's respondent
brilliancy may dazzle the vision of our ocular
optics more potently.
He tells of the prevalence ofrabbits and
how tired school teacher boarding with
one of his patrons grew, of living on rab-
bit He was much bored also by having
to say grace twice day. One day he
limited his feelings with the following for
grace"
Rabbits good, rabbits mean,
Rabbits fat, rabbits lean,
Rabbits young. rabbits old,
Rabbits hot, rabbits cold,
Rabbits tender. rabbits tough.
We thank thee Lord, we've had enough.
There is throughout the volume most
| excellent reading matter and gteat deal
| of it. The editor was a most ardent
Wing, was bitterly opposed to slavery
and wrote and quoted against it often.
He earnestly opposed imprisonment for
debt; he published many addresses to
| the people Of the State from the states
men OF the time. There are long columns
of law for the edification of the people,
rules OF success for business men to follow,
| rules for health-one being to cure alove-
| sick young lady with sore throat, for
| which he prescribes "a shirt sleeve with
an arm in it put around the neck at
| night"
The last page of the last issue of the
| volume contains an advertisement of q
lottery for the benefit of the Salisbury
! Academy to be drawn July 10, 1884,
and an advertisement: For sale, six
likely negrOes-one man, one boy nearly
| grown. a young negro woman and three
likely children belonging to the estate OF
Thomas Wright, deceased, the right to
which have for several years been pend
ing the court of equity. No dispute now
about the title
| The names OF statesmen and politicians
ostfrequently mentioned in it's columns
are CASTOR, Pearson, Badger, Graham
Mangum, Haywood and Swain. The
opinions of the Supreme Court are given
from week to week, and the bitterness
of feeling existing between the Eastern
and Western sections OF the State appear
in almost every Issue. Our population
wealth, intelligence and moral percep
tions will bear favorably comparison
with those of 70 years ago.
! r. T. HICKS.
Henderson, N. C., Dec. II, 1905.
The Kansas corn crop is valued al
$75, 100000 this year. Greatest croE