hot enough for you?, earthquake, a talented musician

1893-06-22 - Henderson Gold Leaf

  • “We take it that this is hot enough for you without repeating the oft-asked question.”
  • Old Bob, Mr. Amos’ horse, had to be shot
  • Parker’s Drugstore: it’s a cool place
  • Professor Gruber is in Culpeper these days. Who? The guy who plays a mouth harp, fiddle, bass fiddle, and drum at the same time
  • Picnic at Satterwhite’s Mill
  • Earthquake on Tues. night – recalled the Charleston quake of 8/31/1886. Sounded like a train before and after the wave of “oscillating motion” lasting several seconds
  • Many of Henderson’s top citizens quite sick. We pray the hand of death may be averted
  • Mrs. A. C. Zollicoffer, sister of Mrs. D. Y. Cooper, is among the afflicted; the Zoll & Coop World’s Fair plans had to be postponed
  • Mrs. M. Parham resigns position at Oxford Female Seminary
  • Buckner Davis is moving to Rocky Mount
  • June weather forecast, from Rev. Hicks of St. Louis, is pretty disappointing
  • Low neck and short sleeve shoes, all colors, very cheap, at Watkins'
  • Consumption. What shall stay its ravages? (Scott’s Emulsion)
  • An essay on “Lynching in the South,” in which we are Nice Polite Racists about Frederick Douglass
  • SOME STYLES. Gowns and Hats that are Becoming
  • Sen. Vance denies the rumor about his stepson in a proposed duel (writing from “Gombroon” near Black Mountain)
  • Highlights from the Phrenological Journal: Scientific physiognomy! The new “Facial Angle”
  • World’s Fair travel options
  • Oscar Outlaw ad with poem
  • Ads for Cooper’s warehouse, JR Young insurance, etc