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0 State Library PUT YOUR CARD THE GOLD LEAF OF THE PEOPLE. r j -r Ji.sb a i - ; , THE PEOPLE READ. t a .. ' IHAD R. MANNING, Publisher. " " OjROT-nsr, Carolina, Heaven's Blessinqs -A-TTEistd Her." SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 Cash. VOL. X. HENDERSON, K. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1891. NO. 43, : ; i "1 " r If YOU WISH TO Advertise Anything Anywhere ATAny time WRITE TO Geo. P. Row-ell & Co No. io Spruce Street, NEW YORK. Mm! & Danville E. B. Co. CONDENSED SCHEDULE, JN EFF1CT SEPTEMBER 6, 1891 DAILY. SOUTHBOUND. : No. 'J. No. 11. Lv. KichmoiKl .$ 00 p 111 2 a 111 " Burkoville 11 1 4 .-. a in Keysville -r 1 m " .' a in Ar. Danville i L'2 pin 8 00 a 111 ' Greensboro j 10 .W p ni 10 15 am 1 Lv. Ool.lsl.oio I : 45 p 111 ISIWpm Ar. KaleiKli " M 1 2il il Lv. Raleigh ' 00 p ni 1 -!0 a m " Durham 7 (5 p in '-U a 111 Ar. (irtM-nslKiro ! 50 p in 8 00 a m Jv. Winston-Salem j8 40 p m s SO a m Lv. Greensboro 1 1 H p m 10 25 a m , Ar. Salisbury '-' 45 a m 12 02 p in ArTstatesville 1 52 a 111 12 58 p m ' Asheville (i 55 a m 5 03 pin " Hot Springs 8 50 a 111 i 40 p m LvTsaHsbury 12 55 a m 12 10 p m Ar. Charlotte 2 :!0 a 111 1 35 p in " Spartanburg 5 48 a ni 4 32 pm " IreenviLle. 7 00 a m 05 p 111 Atlanta 1 10 a in 12 30 a m Lv. Iharlotte 2 35 a in 1 55 p m Ar. Columbia " 40 a m 5 45 p m " Augusta 10 25 a in' !) 10 in " " DAILY- Noirrni'.oi'ND. No. 1. No. 12. Lv u"usta 7 00 p m 11 45 a m "' Columbia 10 50 p in 3 00 pm Ar. Charlotte 3 05 am 7 10 p m 1 v Vtlanta 8 50 p in J 10 a m Ar." Charlotte 55 am 7 20pm " Salisbury 54 a m '.) 10 p 111 J.v Hot Springs 4 48 p m 12 28 p m " Asheville 25 p m 2 15pm " Statesville 1102pm 0 40 pm A r. Salisbury 12 01 a 111 7 34 pm LvTsalisbury y 00 a m D 20 p 111 Ar. Greensboro 10 40 a m 10 57 p m Ar. Winston-Salem 11 55 a m 12 40 a 111 Lv. ( Ireensboro 10 50 a m 12 loam Ar. Durham 12 52 pm 4 35 a 111 " Kaleigh 1 45 p m 7 15 a m Lv. Raleigh 1 50 p m 18 45 a m Ar. (;ollsboro 3 25 p m 12 20 p ni Lv. Greensboro 10 48 a 111 1 i 10 p m Ar. Danville 12 30 p in 12 55 a m " Keysville 3 32 p 111 4 13 a in " Burkeville 4 20 p m1 4 55 a m " It ichmonil 0 17 p in 7 00 a ni 11ETWKKN WKST l'OlXT.A.M) KICII.MON1). Leave West l'oint 7 50 a. in., daily and 8 50 a. 111., daily except Sunday and Mon day; arrive Richmond 10 and 10 40 a. in. Ueturning leave Kiclunond 3 10 p. in., and 4 40 p. m., daily except Sunday; arrive West Point 5 00 and 0 00 p. m. Between Richmond and Raleigh, Via. Keysville, Oxford and Durham. No. 15. STATIONS. No. 10. 3 00 p m Lv. 0 00 p m " 0 .a; p iu " 7 ou p m " 7 10 p m " 7 41 p 111 " 8 03 p in Ar. 8 OS p 111 Lv. ! 35 p 111 Lv. 10 40 p 111 Ar. Richmond Keysville Chase City Jeffress Clarksville Stovall I Oxford Durham Kaleigh Ar. 7 17 p ill 2 20 p m 1 40 p in 1 15 p 111 1 04 p in 12 33 p in 12 10 p m 12 05 p m 10 45 p 111 9 30 p ni Ar. Lv. OXFOKD ANI HKN DKIiSOX. No. 48. STATIONS. No. 45. 7 00 a m 7 30 a 111 8 00 a m Lv. Ar. Ar.ll 50 a m ' 11 10 a m Lv.10 45 a m Dabu . llemlerse t Daily except Sunday. J)aly, Mixed train leaves Keysville daily ex cept Sunday 910 a.m.; arrives Durham 6 50 p. m. Leaves Durham 7 15 a. m., daily .except Sunday; arrives Oxford 9 10 a. in. leaves Durham 7 30 p. m., daily except Sunday; arrives Keysville 2 10a. m. Leaves Oxford 3 00 a. m., daily except Sunday; ar rives Durham 5 05 a. m. Additional trains leave Oxford daily ex cept Sunday 12 35 p.m.; arrive 135p.m. Returning leave Henderson C40 and 9 40 p. m., daily except Sunday; arrive Oxford 7 45 and 10 45. . Washington and Southwestern esh- buled Limited operated between Washing ton and Atlanta daily, leaves Washington 10 50 p ni, Danville 5 40 a m, Greensboro 7 00 a m , Salisbury 8 18 a m, Charlotte 9 35 a m, arrives Atlanta 5 00 p ni. lie turning leaves Atlanta 1 25 p m, Charlotte V 20 p m, Salisbury 10 32 p m, Greensboro 12 03 am; arrives Danville 130 a m, Lynchburg 3 U5 a 111, Washington 8 38 a in. No. 9, leaving Goldsboro 3 45 p m and Raleigh 0 00 pin dailv, makes connection at Durham with No. 40, leaving at 7 30 p m daily, except Sunday for Oxford and Keysville. Nos. 9 and 10 connect at Richmond from and to West Point and Baltimore daily ex cept Sunday. SLEEPING-CAR SERVICE. On trains 9 and 10, Pullman Buf fet Sleeper between Atlanta and New York, between Danville and Augusta and Raleigh (via Asheville) and Knoxville. Tenn. On 11 and 12 Pullman Buffet Sleeper be tween Richmond and Danviile, Kaleigh and Greensboro, and Pullman Buffet Sleepers between New York, Washington and Knoxville via Danville, Salisbury and Asheville. E. BERKLEY, W. A. TURK, Superintendent, As't Gen. Pass. Ag't, Richmond. Va. Charlotte, N. C. W. 11. GREEN, JAS. L. TAYLOR General Manager, Gen. Pass. Ag't Atlanta Ga. Atlaa, Ga. SOL HAAS, Traffic Manager, Atlanta, Ga. THE OLD HOME. WHAT HALLOWED MEMORIES THE PLACE RECALLS. A Yiit to the Hear Old Place After the Lapse of Years. E R Y touching and full of that sentiment which is credited to the better side as our natures, is the fol lowing article an account ol a visit to the old home by one who had grown to man- hood's years. We find it in the Free Press, having been for that paper by Homer Read it and you will feel Detroit written Bassford better for having done so : Everything seemed so funny there in that pretty little old town. I had lived up in the city ten years when I went back to the place of my birth, to go to the fair and meet all of the friends who had known me since I was such a wee boy that I did not know them. When I got off the train the depot seemed smaller to me than it used to seem, when my happy feet of boyhood trod its platform's boards, so full of knot holes and splits. I got in one of the buses that stood just a few feet away. Was this the same vehicle to whose rear step I had and dodged the driver's whip? little and cramped, and what a hung How noise it made! I used to think this bus the greatest thing I ever saw, and as I come to look back to it, I guess it was. Then I went to the hotel and up one flight of stairs into the office and signed my name, and then looked around at the people sitting there to see if I knew any of the. One of the men nodded, and asked me when I got in. I could not place him at first, but when he shook hands with me, I remembered the driver of the bus the same old iellow who used to w7hip at me from his high seat, when I was such a little boy, in bare feet and with care free mind. But I was dressed up this time, and something of that indefinable city air hung about me. I looked at the other faces, but they were new to me even the hotel, which I once thought incomparable in its grandeur and elegance of appointments, had changed hands. If ten years would do all this, what changes might twenty effect. Then I went home to that dear place with a big yard and great, friendly shade trees, eo unlike anything I had seen in these ten years of life in city. Not that there are no trees as big and yards just as spacious, the just but they all like something. At home the maples that line the moss-covered brick walk that leads up to the low, and rambling house look so friendly. I remember it was ever so long ago when a man came to our house and told my mother that he was from the nursery and would lay off the grounds. The maples came the next day. They were mere switches to treedom they occupied the same relation as I toman hood. And so we were children together. I was glad to go up the walk once more, under the sheltering shade of those happy maples they look like brothers to me, and I thought they nodded their heads as I looked up at them. Then I went into the house. Some how the rooms had grown smaller while I was away. The big sitting room, over whose floor I have rolled with my brothers a thousand times, was so little that I actually looked up at the ceiling to see if there was any danger of my head touching. Of all the things I saw that day and night all seemed unnatural except my bed, the downy couch, that had never had a regular occupant since I left the little white walled room I called my own. How I sank into the embraces of that great feather tick ! As I lay there, with half closed eyes, just at that happy time when sleep comes I creeping over you, 1 leu myseit a Doy 1 again. It seemed morning. A rooster crowed away off somewhere and I heard the distant bellow of a cow and the smothered tinkle of her bell. All was still again, and then a katydid called out in the night. Then it was morning ; the gray was in the east and I could hear the chickens cackling out in the yard. A voice called me breakfast was nearly ready ; then I fell asleep. All night nearly the scenes of boyhood came trooping along, and when morning finally broke, I heard that breakfast call in reality. It was mother's voice again, after many years I was a boy for an instant longer then a stream of sunlight dazed me into wakefulness and I was on earth again When I went home ! Memories crowd my brain and a picture of youth spreads itself before my mind's eye. It is the same to us all. The old home is a vision of every man. It may have been a wee place high in the rugged Alps or an humble peasantry in the valley of the Rhine ; it may have been a sweet little vineclad place in England, or a lowly home in Sunny France. It may have been in the Southland, with cute little negro boys playing about the broad grounds with their infant masters; it may have been a rough cabin somewhere in the West ; tv7 but wherever it was, there the mind lingers. There go the thoughts in the quiet hours of the night, when the cares of a busy world have flown till another sunrise. Besides the old home there may be a little fenced plot " on the hill-side, green in summer, brown in autumn, and oh! so drear in winter! Little white headstones may be there, and around them many memories cling. There was no sweeter moment in my life than when I walked over the moss-covered bricks under those ma ples that I had grown up with. "THE PPAYER." As Satan passed through Heaven From a walk on earth, one day, The Master locked and questioned him " Didst thou hear my creatures pray.?" " Yes, Lord, I heard their prayers resound, What time I listening stood : But, on my soul, not one of them Prayed for his neighbor's good." Then looked the Ruler fire and flame, And spake this fierce dec-ee : " Who makes a selfish prayer is thine, While the others shall come to me !" Then all that night, on Heaven's wall, The Lord nd Satan stood, To see how many sons of men Would pray for their neighbor's good. And now they watched there many an hour ! And yet there comes no sound ; The poor, thev praved for pennies. And the rich, they prayed for pounds ; wi,;i ....1.. . ti 11111- mo iiij ji iijcu iui m uuiy , And the awkward prayed for grace ; The old ones prayed for youthful looks To hide a wrinkled face. The limping prayed for healthful joints, The red-haired prayed for brown. The short ones prayed for longer legs, The long to be cut down ; The brown-eyed prayed for blue ones, The cross-eyed prayed for straight ; The fat ones prayed to emaciate, While the lean ones prayed for weight. Doctors prayed for sickness. And the undertaker prayed for death, The captive prayed for freedom. And the wearied prayed for rest : The beggar prayed from door to door, And the drunkard only praved for more, The sick man prayed for break of day, And the thief for longer night ; While the miser prayed for dncats, And the blind man prayed for sight. At last there came a tearful voice, Up to the star-lit sky ; "Oli ! may my uncle's soul this night Rest in realms on high," " There's one for me !" the Ruler cries, " Not so," the Devil said, For lie's the heir to his uncle's wealth, And he wants his uncle dead." Upon high Heaven's glittering wall, Long had they listening stood ; But not a one of ali that crowd Had prayed for his neighbor's good ; But still tliey waited till the stars Went out at dawn of day, When Satan seized his bag of souls And sped his downward way. THE WOMEN OF NORTH CAROLINA. A Tribute to Their Beauty and Virtues by Editor Latham at the Press Ban puet in Winston-Salem. The Toast. The Women of North Carolina, the Queens of the Forest Resembling." Responded to by H. A. Latham, Washington, N. C, Gazette. He said : You may be sure that I appreciate the compliment of being invited to speak for the women of North Caro lina. But, who could do justice to such a theme as this? The noblest orator in the land, with a genius unequalled, a fancy without a parallel, and under in spiration kindling every faculty of his being, could not adequately portray the modest but lovely daughters of the Old North State. No artificial adornment lends to the perfection of their character. No mere glittering tinsel gives lustre to the crowns which have been woven for them. But genius, sterling excellence is their charm ; a modesty that combines the shyness of the fawn with the sweetness of the wood violet ; a beauty that out shines Aurora, Queen of the morning; a true and tender sentiment that sur passes all the models of romance : and a simplicity that welded to an unsel fish devotion to sweetheart, home and country, has made them the richest treasure of this glorious land. Who can find their peers, either in society or in history ? Not too spiritual for human nature s daily food, vet not even the delicate, saint-like features of a Mandonna surpass them in love liness. At once, both the music and happiness of home, its very altars crumble and its lights expire if they leave the old roof tree forever. North Carolina has weathered many a tempest, but there has never been a day in her history when her beautiful women have not made her rich in her poverty, brilliant in misfortune, and victorious in deleat. In our civil war they fixed the star of hope in the very front of battle, and lighted up the scenes of our Southron with such heroic endurance, that they were saluted with a clash of shields through all the pantheon of history. God bless the noble women of North Carolina ! Resemble the " queens of the forest !," do they ? Yes, verily ; and if all the queens that have ever lived, whether in the present or in the past ; on the land or on the sea ; on canvass or in marble ; clad in purple or living only in poet's dreams, tread ing one primrose path together, crowned and sceptered with all the world at their feet, would prove in ferior to our own beautiful women. So, therefore let the adoration of our hearts be given them now and forever Let us deck them with garlands of immortelles and make them the mon: archs of our future. For wherever they reign, happiness can never fade, nor virtue be robbed of her inhen tance. Women of Carolina, God bless them all May He who said : "Not a SDarrow shall fall. Nor a cup of cold water be given unknown," Reward them and claim them at last as H is own. ANOPENLETTER. TO THE FARMERS' ALLIANCE OF NORTH CAROLINA. Col . Wharton J. Green, ex-Member of Congress and an Honored Member of the Farmers' Alliance, Gives the Members of that Order Some Wholesome Ad-; vice. ARMERS and Farmers' Alli- ancemen are get ting a good deal of advice just n o w s o m e of one sort and some another. Some of it good and some of it not as good as it might be. But whatever may be said of the words of counsel volunteered by some men the following open letter to the Farmers' Alliance of North Carolina, from Col. Wharton J. Green, is worthy of careful reading and serious consid eration : Fayetteville, N. C, Sept. 1 1, '91. To the Farmers' Alliance of North Carolina : Brothers, as one of you, I venture to express opinion on a question af fecting not only the good of the order but the good of society and of the State, not for a day but for all time. Let it be premised that I am in en tire accord with you in all rational and patriotic purposes looking to the betterment of our condition as a class. My membership is almost coeval with the inception of the order, and was taken deliberatly and under the con viction that coalition and mutual in terchange of opinion on social and economic questions would enure to the amelioration of the agricultural masses. Especially that it would lead to right conclusion on one of the most vital of questions affecting freemen Taxation. That opinion has undergone no change and is not likely to, so long as the original and proclaimed objects aimed at are are observed in all sanc tity. These, however, once disregard ed or the metes and bounds once over stepped, it is, to my limited ken and forecast, fraught with incalculable mischief to the farming in common with all other classes, callings and professions. Adopting the postulate of statesmen and historians that love of liberty has ever been the pre-eminent trait of land owners, I address you from that standpoint, assuming as co-relative that kings, kaisers and tricksters are the sole gainers by abate ment of that inherent principle ; and of all most dangerous the last. Deliver us good Lord from overzealous friends, especially when they come in disguise. As is well known, nonpartisanship and freedom of thought in party matters was fundamentally inculcated in our constitution and for awhile religiously maintained. How is it now? The tendency in certain quarters to disre gard it now is thought by many judi cious friends to be pernicious in the last degree, disintegration to the broth erhood, and dynamitical to unity, good government and liberty. Let us then cry halt, and counsel together, lest, perchance, that fatal blunder is committed. In the incip- lency of the Alliance, and until quite recently no intimation was let fall of its resolving itself into a Third party. That was a purely after-thought and one of the most questionable paternity. Judged by the inevitable result which would follow its adoption by any con siderable offshoot of the Alliance, the motives of its projectors may well be impugned. African domination, a re turn to the dark, disgraceful days of reconstruction, the amost certain ef fect ; personal emolument, pecuniary or political, the actuating impulse of those who set it a-going. Brothers of the Alliance, are you prepared for the sequence, sure to follow, if your worthy orgrnization sinks into a mere political machine to be run regardless of your true interest and sound State policy by selfish schemers of the sort referred to? Are you willing to become a stepping stone for knaves and dema gogues in their mad reach for power? Are you a mbitious to wear the dog collar of dogmatic and dictatorial leaders who go gunning on their own account ; or to take the ill concocted nostrums of charlatans and quacks as an unfailing panacea, a universal cure all for existing political ills? If so, then count me out, for so am not I and so are r. t nine-tenths of the Al liance, unless I mistake who prefer the homely teachings of farmers Jefferson and Madison and Jackson to the clap trap and crude conceits of such as these. That the idea of the Third party, or to be more exact, of split ting the Democratic party, which in our State probably makes up nine tenths of the Alliance, should have had birth in another political latitude, and been indoctrinated in our midst by teachers heretofore inimical to our preconceived tenets and line of thought, should at least " give us pause." Life long Republicans of recent importa tion or instantaneous conversion are dangerous leaders to follow and natur ally come under the heading of "sus pects." Beware of such, for sinister purpose and transparent are at the bottom. The movement took root in a recent Convention in which our State and in fact the entire South was virtually unrepresented, and which was composed mainly of the most radical elements of the North. Is such a body fit midwife to usher in a scheme affecting our well being through all time to come? What was proposed? To formulate on the instant a substi tute for all antecedent ideas on gov ernment, and to require all men and all parties under penalty of boycott and anathema to fall down and wor ship their Fetich, this modest assump tion might well appall a congress of Platos, Aristotles or Bacons backed by all the political acumen of a thousand centuries. Sound political thought is rarely spasmodic or of sudden devel opment. Admitted for argument, that neither of the two existing parties has reached that state of absolute purity and per fection which dreamers and visionaries see, or affect to see, in the near future; does it not, nevertheless, behoove pa triots to pin their faith to that one which nearest approaches that beatific but unattainable state by man or party, and to shun the one whose nearest ap proach thereto is in empty promise or blatant profession? It were an insult to your intelligence to enter upon proof which is which, except to chal lenge proof that the one has ever en croached upon the rights of person or of property and to challenge refutation that the other has repeatedly done it and tried to do it from its ill starred birth to the immediate present. The first is coeval with the century, the last with civil strife. Choose ye between the two. As you choose, so will prob ably follow white or negro supremacy. Which will you have? You have tried both. Which is most conducive to your self respect, your manhood and material progress ? Of course no good Allianceman or good citizen would deliberately and with open eyes vote Africa. If done indi rectly and by roundabout process the responsibility is none the less. It is safe to assume that none of the new party syndicate anticipate the possi bility of its success in the next recur ring election. Why, then, their effort to make it a factor? The conclusion is irresistible, to pull down the white man and rehabili tate the negro in political sway for purposes of their own. With the pro verbial unity of the last on voting day, it requires no skilled mathematician to foretell the result, if twenty, or five and twenty thousand Alliancemen can be induced to stultify themselves by going awry on wild cat side issues and acting with a so-called Third party, but potential for mischief. Brothers, will you be party to such a transparent trick ? If so, " God save the old Common wealth, for if He don't, God knows who will much longer." Oh, com rades, let it not be said that the chief est champions of liberty from "the grand old gardener" down, those iden tified with the soil, shall be the first to strike the matricidal blow against a State consecrated to freedom. Perish rather a thousand, or a thousand thous and political Jeremy Diddlers and false teachers before such dread calam ity shall befall. Brothers, we are on the brink, a fatal brink. Do you pro pose to be taken by the nose and led andled-over? If so, again count me out. For one, I'm no candidate for suicide. For one, my back is no fit springboard for the foot of vaulting ambition. The primal injunction of England's grandest sea king to his middies was: "Hate a Frenchman like you do the devil." To plagiarize without profanity, hate the man or men who would fain strike a blow, di rect or covert, against the party begotten of Jefferson and born to be immortal for being most rational in the sight of Deity and most consider ate of the rights of man, hate him I say, and a thousand fold hate him, whether he be in or out the Alliance, as honest old Nelson did his Gallic neighbor across the channeL Even without Scriptural permit positive or expressed, I can but believe fGod help me if I disbelieve) that there are times and occasions when hate comes in as an imperative duty. And now in conclusion, Brothers, to escape the suspicion of selfish prompt ing in this, my puny appeal for civil liberty, permit me to say that I crave nothing that you have to give except the heritance of freedom unimpaired. Be true to yourselves if subjected to the crucial test, and you have my quit tance of all scores past and prospective. Official station I have never much crav ed, and now with advancing years am learning to despise. Hence, should my name, perchance, ever be present ed for your suffrage, whether in con vention or at the polls, you stand ab solved beforehand and exonerate in opposition. In true Alliance and Dem ocratic faith, which I hold to be synon ymous, I am, Yours fraternally, Wharton J. Green. The cause of prohibition is spread ing. The Good Templars of South Car olina have sent out petitions for a law prohibiting the liquor traffic in that State. Some one has stolen the original J draft of the constitution of the State of Wisconsin. Considering the length ' of time that Wisconsin was under j Republican rule the denizens of that I State may consider themselves lucky ' that the whole State was not stolen. Wilmington Star. PRESIDENT POLK. HE SAYS HE WAS MISREPRESENT ED In the Reports Sent Out About his To peka Speech Never Apologized for having: Been a Confederate Soldier. LWAYS fair and impartial it is the intention of the Gold Leaf to mis represent no one or knowingly do them an injustice. When we first read what President Polk was alleged to have said in his speech at Topeka, Kansas (as publish ed in this paper last week), we did not believe he was correctly reported. We did not believe Col. Polk thoughtless enough to talk that way even if he felt it. But when he remained silent and did not deny the language reputed to him, and after two men were credited with having been "interviewed" and added their testimony to the reports already sent out, it began to look like there was something in it, and so as a matter of news, and to show up the duplicity and rascality of the much speaking Colonel if he has indeed been guilty of talking that way, we pub lished the article. But he has broken the silence and denies that he was cor rectly reported. We publish what he says, as it originally appears in the Atlanta Constitution: A special from Washington, dated September 22nd, says: President Polk, of the National Farmers' Alliance, has just returned from his western trip, and to the inquiry as to what founda tion there was for the report in the press that he was threatened with vio lence while in Wichita, Kan., by the old soldiers, he says : "There was no foundation for it whatever. I never was treated more kindly or courteously than by the people of Kansas, and especially by the old soldiers, during my whole trip. I was peculiarly gratified at my recep tion by the good people of Wichita, and the large number of old soldiers present. I spoke to an immense crowd in the opera house, and was never honored by more marked attention anywhere. At the request of some of my soldier friends, I referred to the charge that I had mistreated Union soldiers during the war. My language, as reported by the Wichita Beacon, was this : I am charged with mis treating Union prisoners during the war, and I want to say that in its conception, in its utterance and in its spirit, it is a malicious, premeditated and base lie, and I dare the man who said so to stand up in this audience and repeat it. I never captured but one Union prisoner in my life, and if he was here to-night he would bear testimony to the fact that I treated him as if he were my brother.' -'I never held a higher commission than third lieutenant during the war. I never was in command of any pris oner or prison indeed, was never in side of a Confederate prison. THE SPEECH OF APOLOGY. As to the dispatches charging that he apologized in his speeces for having gone into the Confederate service, and spoke approvingly of a strike among the cotton pickers of the South, Col. Polk said : "It is totally and unqalifiedly false in every particular. I uttered no sen timent in Kansas or elsewhere, which, by any forced construction, could have been distorted into any such expres sion. It is a lie out of the whole cloth. I have never uttered a sentiment in a Northern State that I would not wil lingly repeat in any Southern State. As to the strike of cotton pickers, I had heard nothing about it until my return to this office. What is more damaging to character than the cultivation of a suspicious spirit ? We know some otherwise good men that have almost ruined themselves by indulging in this folly. They have now reached the point at which they really believe all the world to be in a conspiracy against them. The egotism of such a conviction is sub lime. The world is too busy with its own affairs to pay much attention to any one person. Nine times out of ten, the ill thoughts that we entertain concerning those around us hive no foundation, in fact, but are simply born out of our own morbid imagin ations. There is no room for a third party in North Carolina, and no excuse for any man who wants real reform to go outside of the Democratic party. The man who would succeed in securing the establishment of a third party would be doomed " to an infamy so profound, a damnation so deep, that the hand of resurrection will never be ableto drag him forth." State Chronicle. Governor Campbell, of Ohio, al ludes to Mr. McKinley as " the in carnation of protection in its most aggravated form." With such a bad case of it he is in a pretty fair way to furnish a funeral along in the early days of November. Wilmington Star. When you face a difficulty never let it stare you out of countenance. LONG TIME BETWEEN DRINKS. The Incidents That Led Up io the Famous Saying. New York Sun. Every man in the United States is supposed to know what the" Governor of North Carolina said to the Governor of South Carolina," but possibly some do not know when and under what circumstances the famous remark was made. Nearly a century ago a man prominent in political affairs in North Carolina moved across the border and settled in South Carolina. He had been there only a short time when he committed some small crime or misde meanor, for which he was indicted To escape arrest he returned to his old home in North Carolina. In due course of time the Governor of South Carolina issued his requisition on the Governor of North Carolina for the fugitive criminal. The fugitive had rich and influential friends in his native State, and they interceded with the Governor until he refused to grant the requisition. A long official correspondence followed. Prominent men in South Carolina told the Governor that he had not been treated with proper official courtesy by the Governor of North Carolina. The result was that the South Carolina Governor, accompanied by a large party of friends and affidavits, journey ed by stage all the way to Raleigh, the capital of North Carolina, for a con ference with the Governor about the matter of giving up the criminal. The Governor of North Carolina, with a large party of distinguished friends, met the Governor of South Carolina several miles from town and escorted them to the Governor's man sion with all the ceremony due such distinguished visitors. Before the ob ject of the visit was stated the entire party sat down to an elaborate dinner. After dinner wine was served and after wine brandy the applejack for which the Old North State is famous. After many. rounds of drinks the de canters and glasses were removed and the Governor of South Carolina stated the object of his visit. He demanded the surrender of the fugitive criminal. The Governor of North Carolina re fused. Then followed a long and heated discussion, in which the attor ney generals of the two States took an active part. Finally, the Governor of South Car olina grew angry, and rising to his feet, he said : " Sir, you have refused my just demand and offended the dig nity of my office and my State. Unless you at once surrender the prisoner I will return to my capital, call out the militia of the State and returning with my army, will take the fugitive by force of arms. Governor, what do you say?" All eyes were turned to the Gov ernor of North Carolina, and his an swer was awaited with breathless in terest. The Governor rose slowly to his feet and beckoned to a servant who stood some distance away. His beck oning was firm and dignified, as be came his position. He was slow about answering, and again the Governor of South Carolina demanded : " What do you say ?" " I say, Goveanor, that it's a long time between drinks." The reply restored good humor. Decanters and glasses were brought out again, and, while the visitors re mained, if any one attempted to refer to the diplomatic object of the visit he was cut short by the remark that it was a long time between drinks. When the visiting Governor was ready to return home he was escorted to the State line by the Governor of Narth Carolina, and they parted the best of friends. The fugitive was never surrendered. ENGLISH AS SHE IS " WRIT By the Fayetteville Observer Man. A Fayetteville butcher drove into town a small herd of cattle the other day, ostensibly for the purpose of feeding the denizens ot that ancient bprough on as long as the meat holds out. This is the way Editor Myrover spreads the " glad tidings:" CARNIVAL OF THE EOVINES. That heading is a little tautological but let it go. Surely Homer's " ox-eyed" Minerva was looking down upon Ingram's beef procession the other day. Mayhap it was not the helmet of Jove from which this " Pallas sprang full-panoplied ;" but the driver of the grandest old producer of "porter-house" and "roast" "lard ing the lean earth as he walked" wore a Roman Centurion's helmet strickly in honor of the occasion. Ingram shepherd (?) of this flock of magnificent mountain beef like a prudent general, brought up the rear to repel invasion or cut off retreat, mounted on a steed, which, like Don Quixote's Rosinate, "showed both sides a gridiron" possibly as an ad- i vertisement that those who were not rib-beef. There was music to the " stately stepping of the milky herd," and we are onlv surDiised that a bill- jr of-fare was not pasted on the side of each candidate for the siaugnter house. "History repeats itself," and Mr. Ingram's demonstration reminds old people of Tom Drake in his palmy days as a Fayetteville butcher. tUPjflGS orcis EXJOYS Both the method and result irhen Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to tho taste, and acta S;ently yet promptly on the Kidneys, .aver and Bowels, cleanses tho sys tem effectually, dispels colds, head aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs ia the only remedy of its kind ever pro duced, pleasing to the taste and ac ceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in ita effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, ita many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50c and $1 bottles by all leading drug gists. Any reliable druggist ytho may not have it on hand will pro cure it promptly for aiy one who wishes to try it. Do not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SAN FBANCtSCO. CAL. louisvius. nr. hew tonic. H.t. . T. M. riTTMAN. W. II. SHAW. piTTMAN & SHAW. ATTOltNKYH AST L.A.W, HENDERSON, N. C. Prompt attention to all pi-ofcHHloual tmal uess. Practice lu tbo State and Federal courts. Office: Hoom No. 2, Ilurwell Building. A. U. ZOLL.ICOFFKK, ATTOUNKV AT LAW, HENDERSON, N. C. Practice in the court of Vance, Gran vlllt. Warren, Halifax and Northampton, and In the .Supreme and Federal courttiof tlietttate. Office: In ZollicofTur'a law building, Oar nettgtreet. feb. V 01. T. W ATKINS, Attorney and Counsellor at Law HENDERSON. N. C. Courts : Granville Vance, and Wirrtn and the Supreme Court at Raleigh. Prompt attention Riven to all leal bual- liens, wince ove r rarlter'x wholeiialc utore. Jan. 5. W. it. If GNU Y, ATTOUNKY AT L.AVV, HENDERSON, N. U.. OFFICE IU BCnWELL BUILDING. PonHTu'-.Vn na V a nWI( i Vllle. ITfilffwl Kfafpu f'ftur t i..t..i Supreme Court of North Carolina. UKrKKFN Ks:-Chlef Justice W. N. II. Smith lion. AugUHtuH M. 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Established in 1882. o GENERAL HankinG) Exchange AND Collection Business. rOUTZ' S HORSE AND CATTLE POWDERS MO Hoaaa wm die of Couc Rots or VZm9 Fs Tbb, If Potto's Fowrten are med ia Sine. Foatzu Powders will rare snrt prf rent Hoo Cdolika. Foatrs Poler will prerent (iiru m Fowl. FootxM Fowilera will inrreaoe tlie qnantftr ot mlllc atKt cream twenty per cent, and make Ute butler Bra aAd sweet. Foonrs Powders will cure 8r preTent alma ktibt DlMASa to whk Hones and Cattle are sabjeet. Form's Powncas wiu sits Batistac-hox. Sold ererrv here. - DATID X. FOXTTZ. Proprietor, BALTIMORE. MD. FOR SALE BY M. DORSET, Druggist. - J JJ1 S. HARRIS, r j3
Henderson Gold Leaf (Henderson, N.C.)
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