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DAILY EDITION. Pormaa, Stone & Cameron, SUITORS AND PROPKI1TOB. 1-Yr. ; e.O G Moa., 3.00 1 Vr, l.BO a Mo., .78 ADVERTISING RATES LOW, DAILY EDITION. THE DAII.T CITIZEW Will be published ewr Morning (ex cept Monday) at the following rates ttrtcUy cash: n One Year. . Six Months, . .Three" . . l UM ' ' IK use nwi Our Carriers will deliver eryMornJng In every part of the city to oSrsubecribera, and parties wanting it will please call at the Cma Office. , Send your Job Wmk of all hndsto Ae CUisen Office, if you nl U done neatly. &eoptrUU-JxsVm . ... - ,: -Arrt-L - 8auaravArrives:3op. as. and departs 'ISnSiee ArriTM VL-iO a. m. and departs 10wiSmix-ArrlTW S KM) p m.and departs s'rlTSnnjio Lti Anherfllo 70 am; srriva at HandersonTiUa 8:15 a m; at Bpartan banc 11:40 am. . ld.Te Spartanburg 4:00 p raj,""'6 dereonvilla 7:10 p m; at AahwiUe 8:1 p m. fjr INTERESTING BEADING MAT TER ON FOURTH PAGE. Landreth Garden seed at tt Rev. Dr. Carter has been preaching to the good people, and sinners too we hope if there be any of Mar shall the past week, holding services every night. This is Holy Easter Morn. God bless the day to all people! And may all who can, attend upon the preaching of His holv word, and learn to love God and their neigh bor as themselves. The recent revenue disturbances in Rutherford seem to have been rather high handed, and the officials engaged there are being severely criticised. Collector Dowd has sent an officer to make thorough inves tigation. Mr.Swicegood, we are pleased to say, will resume his public duties in few days. His sprinkler will beatjwork on our streets again, much to the comfort of our people and "the itranger within our gates." The city has engaged his services for the future. ' . -J Messrs. rHageman & .Hildebrand 'IWJlfe tbeir ikfe7rd-Uf - 5rtl Asheville in "-good running " order. The bricks are made by steam pro cess, and they art; turning out 25,000 daily. They find ready sale for all they make. They are prepared to make the bcBt pressed brick. The Fountain is dwing partial services, but is a thing of beauty, arid greatly admired by all.' When the full force of water is turned on, Which will be in a fsw das, it will be superb, we have no doubt All we regret is we have not about a doften such scattered about the city. Since prohibition went into et- feet in Raleigh N. C. the largest . saloon in the city has been turned into a shoe factory, which will em- Sloy more persons than all the ram shops in the city. Ex. ' Yes, and 1 turned more other n1m into saloons than Raleigh ever boasted in the palmy days of license. That city now enjoys all the effects of the traffic with none of its advantages, viz: revenue, j nis may be public policy but we fail to Bee it. M. E. Church South. Thece will be proper Easter ser vices, with appropriate singing and sermon night, and morning. The church will be handsomely decor ated. The public invited. Sunday school and preaching at old depot and college . street mission chapels. A Strange Squirrel. Our friend Mr. Benjamin Morris killed yesterday a rare specimen of - squirrel family. It was the largest we ever, saw, ana weignea ruu iwo andja-balt pounds. Its tail was wj onite prav. and its body aerav ' ish'rep. He let Mr. Fain have it for 'mounting, and in a Jew days . - . . iT !ll 1 I- I . 1 D13 BqUirreisnip win iuu. umuim , as life, if not so lively. : Mb. N. W. Faik,"! -Who is gaining an enviable repu- - tation as a taxidermist met with a rare Btreak of Juck yesterday. De ' Haven's Circus Company had the misfortune a day or so since to have one of their largest boa constrictors die. and Mr. Fain secured, it and ; will have the huge varmint well ; mounted, in a few days, and on ex hibition at his residence on Acade my street. . Mr. F. showed us a fine - piece rf work, a horned-jwI, caught on Avery's Creek township, which ; he had just finished. It was a pret ty bird. '. ' Many imitators, bat no equal, has Dr. , Sage's Catarrh Remedy, ap 6 dawlw NW Japaksoc Goods, v Fans- In great variety from 2 -cents . each np, for nee and decorative purposes. Novelties of all aorta, entirely new, at . .. r '". Law's, on Main st. lowest price possible on Crocaery, Glass and Cultery, Lamps in greater variety and at lower figures than ever ; ' before, .... ' at Law's. ' . Landreth . Garden seed 50a. dosens . papers, Feas Bean and Corn 10a 16c, and SJ'iitttPelhafli'sPljarnjaCy. ti DXILY. WEEKLY, VOL! II.-NO 307 Mr. DeHa yen's Circus Begins a series of performances si Waynesville on Monday, and. wifl nrnitirma for several days. Our Hay wood Iriends who wish, to 'see some very good penormances, - and imala that very many of them have never seen before, indeed ret the full worth of their - money will have an opportunity of doing so next week. The week following tho circus will give our Marshall friends a cnance, Hoy. R. Y. McAden abd Ashe- vixii. .jQnr escelleoi. friend Hon.: R. Y, McAden lives and tiasTfcs feingr as all North Carolinians know, in Char lotte, which is also in this State. By some very singular freak of his nature ha does not believe there is any other place but Charlo tte, and he niehtlv prays that he may be allowed to remain in Charlotte after death. Charlotte is a very excellent. attracthe, and progressive place, but our friend has wilfully closed his eyes to the fact that there can be any other place than Charlotte Mr. McAden frequently visits New York and other places of minor im portance, more by way of recreation than otherwise. Recently he vis ited that metropolis, and stopped at the leading hotel of the city. He approached the hotel register with the air peculiar to North Carolinians when away from home, and in nis well known, bold hand, which but few people can read, wrote "R. Y McAaen, Charlotte, IN. U. inere happened to be standing near sev eral gentlemen, all strangers to Mr. McAden. No sooner had he regis tered than one of the strangers step ped up very politely and Baid, "I see you are from North Carolina." "Yes sir," said Mr. McAden, 'I'm from Charlotte;" with an expression of voice that indicated, ; "you may not know anything of North Caroli na, but when I mention Charlotte you will know where I am from." The stranger replied, "Myself and several friends have been thinking of going to North Carolina, that is, Asheville. Is your home near that y?" ; . . .. . But for the immediate presence ol aaothesiewl, .'1. 8. MeD Tate, who nominally is considered a citi zen of Morgan ton, but whose neigh bors have long since noticed an inclination in him to become a citi zen of Asheville, something very serious would have happened on the spot. Mr. McAden made' no reply to the inquiry, for his change of color alarmed Col. Tate, who at once called him off and administered something soothing. What it was we have never been able to find out; all we could learn it bore the imprint of a well known North Carolina house of high reputation, located, we believe somewhere in the South Mountains. When Mr. McAden had gotten quiet enough to be reasoned with, Col. Tate assured him he should not be surprised at such inquiries. "Why," said he, "I have frequently been confronted and affronted in my travels, in this country and abroad with just such questions, and have actually met most intelligent peo ple who seemed to know all about Asheville whs scarcely knew of North Carolina. How this is per plexesme, but it is a fact Others can tell you Asheville is in North Carolina, but when Charlotte or Raleigh, or Wilmington, or Atlanta, or Augusta or Columbia or Knox- ville aro mentioned tbey ask 'What State is sucii a place in." "We may as well recognize t). inevitable," continued Col. Tate to his ' frieud, "there is but one Asheville, and that facteeemsto be impressed on all the world. Our friend Mr. McAden accepted the explanation and kindly services of his friend CoLT.,but he did not, and can never .get over the idea that Charlotte is a most - interesting and an ' existant fact, and sympathizes with the gieat igorance of mankind and want of general education. - Bv lack of open air exercise, and the want of sufficient care in the matter of diet, the whole physical mechanism often becomes lm pared during the winter. Ayers Saraaparilla is the proper remedy to take in trie spring or me year to port fir the blood, invigorate the system, ex cite the liver to action, and retore the healthy tone and vigor. tl5. The Philadelphia limes says William T. Coleman, of California who is nursing an undersized presi dential boom, is a baldheaded man witha moustache big enough to knot at the back of his head., His avail ability as a candidate is said to be largely represented by a fortune of 3Q,ooo,ooo. Bnckien'a Arnica 8alve The best Salve in the world for euta, braise, 4oreH, aloera, rbeom, fewer sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains, eons, and all skin mntinniL mntt nmitiTelT enrea nil a, or no D required. It is ipiaranteed to firs perfect atisfsotion, or money rernnaea. tmoeio ets par bos. for sale oyH.IL. Lyons. T daw Limb, Limc. ' "" Plenty of lime at depot for 25 cents per bushel, or can be- bad at . mv house by the barrel. Call promptly. - M. J, Faoo. Fob. Balk. . . . v 'Household goods, at 23 Bridge stieet. (All at once. 'ft Landreth (jarden seed at flLHAK'S. ASHEVILLE N. C CHALLENGE '. ' .-- i To the Statements of Rev. C. 9, Long, and a Demand for Proof. En. Citizen : In the Metho di8t Advocate published at Ohattan ooga Tenn. of March the 23 J 887, the Rev. 0. S..Long, late- mission ery to Japan, and Presiding Elder of the Asheville district, M E Church, delivers himself a follows : "The deep seatad prejudice and ill feeliog that has so long existed in tfiia country" is having a . hard deafh. The attempa to turn popu lar feUng aganist us by calling as a ; Jforthern--Folittcal-Nenri Equality ' Church," "havw liofrteeT HoccesafDl, and now a different but eqaally mean rdcL contemptible policy fa being deftly pursued bat which will in the end bring only reproach and igoomy upon ic au thors. The M. E. Church South, iu advertising its services in the Asheville papers, habitually leave the word "Soul h" off, and 1 am told the pastor of th church in Ashe ville never uses the burdensome word even in the reception of mem bers into his church. All are re ceived into the M. . Church. This is a trap to catch northern emi grants and visitors of Methodist affinities of which there are huu. dreds in Asheville at all seasons ol the year. To perfect the deception the Southern Methodist flvmu Book is hid away aud pulpit and pew furnished witn Metnodiht Hymnal." Members of oar church from the north visiting Asheville for health or recreation, or with a view of making it their home, take ap the Sunday morniogpapers and seeing their own church advertised, as they nuppose, go to it of coarse. The Hymnal of their own church in the pew drives away every sus picion that possibly they may have been deceave iandwheu the preach er gives an opportunity for persons to uuuite with the M. E. Church by letter or otherwise" they baud in their certificates aud become mem bers unaware4, of a church they have always regarded with suspi cion not to say cot em pr, on account of its sectional biac, politicil asso ciations and anti scriptural teach iugs. Scores, no doubt, have been taken in this etrategem, . Such iu- ciccerityina localpastoi in not to be wondered at when a Biahnu of the aamtfChmch tmhiS Btr Sa'ctedH: tory of Methodism" does not scru ple to falsify history, misrepresent the teachings of good and honest men and pervert the word of God to justify his Church in advocating and practicing one of the greatest evils known in the history of na tions. Such reckless disr. gard for the truth and right, will, when known, receive the unmitigated condemnation of all good and hon est people. Between fifty and one hundred members of the Chnrch South, in the bounds of the Ashe ville District withru the last three months, have signified their con tempt for such dishonesty by leav ing their church and uniting with the Methodist Episcopal Church, aud still there's more to follow." Tnts is simply deplorable, from a gospel minister, both as to spiiit and verar.ity. I deplore it, on account of the church of Christ at large, and onac- countof the profession to which I and Bro. Long both belong But my duty o myself, my family, my church, and my God, all demand that I. do not tamely and tacitly endorso slan der and falsehood. Now, Mr. Editor, here are several statements, which implicate my min istenai and personal character, as a Christian and a gentleman. I deplore controversy, among ministers of the gospel, especially, and more e pecial y, when it takes on the bitter ness and malevolence of pertonal attack, as is the ease in this unfor tunate attack by Rev', C. S. Long, D, D., Ac. It bpbaks fob itself; jt shows a bitterness, a want of charity, a malevolence, a petty jealousy, a bad spirit of morbid suspicion, that are surprising and deplorable, when we consider the author, and what he professes to be. This is my first ex perience in an affair so unfortunate and unpleasant. I never was publicly attacked by a minister of the gospel or any one else, before.' My own per sonal character is now Involved, and my manhood and self-respect compel me to defend myself. I repeat, cannot tacitly endorse falsehood.' am slanderously and falsely assailed by a brother minister of the gospel, without a moment of warning, and Qod Jfcwnp, without provocation. My assailant is a mm who" never pro fessed any thing for me but friend ship, and with whom I had never had one unpleasant word. He stabs me in the back : ho has not the man liness to inform me ho is raffled, and thus be actually bit me before he ''rattled." . -I am forced by falsehood and cal umny to take the defensive ; and by your kind permission, Mr. Editor, I piopose o "begin at Jerusalem." And -God pave me from bitterness and malice, and opite. I propose to begin my defense at hom, In Ashe ville, "N. C the ax ene and center of all my . alleged insincerity, decep tion ' and ecclesiastical' rascalities;" and in the presence of the very per wmjBvhor my assailant ears, baya SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 101887. througha strategem' become mem bers, MUHAWABV8,'4 or a Church which they haw aluayi regarded with tuspicton, not (o contempt U , That is, accoringt0 Brother Long, the good Methodists of. the North, regard their brethren of the Soath, with tuspicion and eontempti This, it seems, is Bro. Long's Idea if Chi is- tianity In genera', and . Methodism in the North, in particular i If is bib idea, it seems, of both. . .The whole charge of the Rev. Mf, Long, when properly formulated is tbia: -That 1 have been mean enough to attempt and sharp", enough to tueeeed'y through a series of insincerity, deception;" and puWto, eco nastieal lyaig, to do eoy naemTjers of tbe Methodist Epis copal church;vTrom the N67?i "uju.- wabes" ino the" M;. E. Church, South. . Now, I beg the candid, un prejudiced public to- keep this in mind. This is the Josue. He says: A mean and conteuatible policy is being deftly pursued." .'This is not very charifa&e language from .a gos pel minuter, about his brethren, es pecially as he had received no provo cation, and professed to be a friend ! 1 "A mean and contemptible polity " And then, he goes on to. show who is at the head of this "mean and con temptible policy." That it is the pastor of the M. E. Church, South, in Asheville, N. C. He boldly states this as a fact, and now he is here by required to prove it as a fact How complimentary Bro. Long is, to the INTBIiUGTSNCE Of these good people of the North, whom he says "become members, "tjnawabks" of a church (hey hate always regarded with suspicion, not to say contempt." He ses me down as a knave, and mtikes each one of them up as a fool. "Members unawares!!!" Now, ali Ibid comes from a sup posed scholar; a man who by his very birth, and blood, and family, and education, and converse, and Christian association, ought to be too big, and broad, and thick, and Long," to deal in any thing so nar row, and lutle, nd envious, and jealous, and unbro'herly, and silly, ami absurd, and absolutely untrue. He associates me with what is net only slanderous and false, but posi tively prepoterou3,'impo?51ea?(2 fi- surdZ YetX wUUry not, to be bitter and- spitefuL. Heu'txilarea that a something has been atteropte l and done, which could mot fostbiy be accomplished in any intelligent com munity on the earth that ofdupicg, and deceiving and taking "uniwares" the members of one church into the fo'd of another. His tally assertion is actually an offence and an insult to the reason and common-sense of mankind. He completely stultifies himself. - I do not believe that in the entire Southern Methodist connection, he can find one intelligent Methodist from the North, who has become a member of the M. E. Church, South, "unawares." I doubt if he could find a parallel ease, even among the most unlettered colored churches. I believe his preposterous, attempt is made from a certain cause, and manufactured for a eertaln purpose; for "capitall," I believe. I believe the cause is solely, malice, petty spite and jealousy, and the purpose is to play upon the supposed credulity of trie ies informed peo ple of his district. To me it ap pears, as the appeal of malice and spite in one man, to the supposed credulity, prejudice, ar d passion, of other men. This is my own, candid opinion; but I am not going lo di' play the recklessness of Bro. Long, by declaring my own opinions and and thus present the double display of both my malice and my ignor ance. - - '. . But to return, I believe be hopes to make capital out the "decep tion" of myself and my people in Asheville, and especially out of the innocent re. dancy of thise poor peo ple from tne JNonn v n join "nn.- toore!".! 1 Poor lambs of the North ern fold ! 1 Behold Bro. Long weep ing over their injuries, as he goes around on his district, and tells how the poor, - aforesaid Northern iambs"' are taken "unawares," by that Soathern, Methodist wolf" - in Asheville, and he, poor man, abso lutely unable to prevent iill '.. O, sad, sad thought j "scores, no doubt," have thus been taken, ' una ware; unaware; and oh, sadder still, "there's more tooUow' 111 Oh, that poor Bro. Long's head were waters, and bis eyes a fountain of tears, that he might weep day and hfght for the slain "un aw a bes,". of the daughter of his pebple III -;- Why not let good, sympathetic Bro.. Long play the Jeremiah and the tale-bearer at the same lime, and thus kill ' two birds with one stone;" and from him, why not let that "be tween fifty and one hundred" learn to signify their contempt for the "dis honesty" of the pastor, and people of the M. E, Church, South," in Ashe ville.. "Whynot, I say? - Perhaps he would be brave and generous enough to volunteer as tale-bearer of Our "dishonesty)" without any eug - gestion of ours, at all. ' Perhaps he would. I say, "perhaps" 1 1 - Ob, what a "delightfully sad" work for a pastor, aa he must tell of those "score, no doubt," who have been taken in this "stratagem." "Una wabe; tjnawabks i 1 1 what an exalted opinion Bro. Long has of. the Intelligence of those members of the M.E. Church, South, who came from the North, and were caught una wares." What a compliment to them.' What "Mighty Interetin' Readin,",' as Horace Greeley used to say, it will be for them.. Of course D- Long's views andstatementsw ill be publish- d In all the great "Advo- cates'f the-Noftli, and the intelli gent 'MethofHstr of fne . ortn . will iearayof this hew? 'Southeruoutrage, practiced opon'pooxetliodistjroei tne ssonn, ana toia in au us vtvia colors, by a "thoroughbred , son of the Suniiy South" Rev. Dr. C. 8, Lobg, D. D., P. E., Ac., as he de monstrates His opinion of the Meth odists from the North, in ihe: matter of intelligence. CatiglU unawares ! ! ! He will tell how "scores, no doubt," have been taken in this "ntratagem," and become members "un wabes" of a church theya ve.al ways regarded with "suspicion," not to say con tempt. "Mighty Interestin'Readin," that ! ! Scobes unawab'B 1 1 Oh, ye Methodists from the North, in Asheville, had ye never found out how ye were caught? Dr. Long says ye joined tjna wares; that 1 hav duped, and deceived you. 'I confess I did not know that Northern people could be caught that way, but Bro. Long says they can, and are, "scores of them." "Unawabto" ! ! That. my brethren and sisters, is the est inate Bro. Long places on your in telligence. "Unawares; unawares." I will now notice some of Brother Long's implicai ions and charge-, con cerning me, and then demand his proof, positive and point-blank. 1. He says the M. E. Church, South, in Asheville, "habitually" leaves the word "South" off in ad vertising its services. Now, mark tbe meaning. This is what , he says the M. E. Church, South, does doe '. itself, its own public act. He does notaay it isdonaor the M. E.Church, South, but a something she does her self, (through her pastor, of course, as all will suppose and see). Now, 1 , deny tk is charge," and demand Bro. Long to establish the truth of what he declares. I demand ,the proof, positive and direct, that the M E. Church, South, as such, does what he alleges, "habitually" or otherwise. 2. He says that he is "told" that do not use the burdensome word ("Sooth,") in the reception of mem bers. Now, it is evidently his in tention to make the public believe that I am practicing a decep'ion, by not using the word "South" in the reception of members, I demand that be show' causer why I should ute the "burdensome word" in the reception, and wherein I practice deception by not using it. He must answer. 3. - He says, with regard to the members I receive into my church : AIjTj ABB RFCEIVE0 INTO TSTE SI. K. ohubch. Now he doe not Bay he is informed, that he believes, that it is his opinion, that "all are re ceived into the M. E. Church," but he declares it as afact, without one iota of qualification. ; This assertion makes me a deceiver, and a liar, by act, at the altar of the church. Now, I demand the proof. He has unequiv ocally made the assertion, and demand tha proof. He implicates maa receiving members into the Methodist Episcopal church (his church), and now I just as positively demand the proofs Hedec'ares that the thing is actually -done "all are received into, the M.E Church," and that it Is done for a purpose that it is an act deception, "a trap to catch Northern emigrants of Methodist af finities."- He has simply stated it, declared It, publicly; published it to the world, as a truth, end now I de mand that he publicly prove it. "4. He farther publishes to the World: "To perfect the deception, the Southern Methodist . Hymn Book is hid away, and pulpit and pew, furnished with Methodist Hym nal." !"fo perfect the deception," he declares, "the Southern Methodist Hymn Book is hid away. He does not publish this as hearsay, or his information, or belief, or opinion, or impression, but he boldly tells it to the world; as a truth, a fact, the thing as he actually knows it to be; nothing but4.be truth." He publishes this as i fact, without one particle of contingeti cy or qualification, but publishes it as the unequivocal truth, told to the work by a minister of the gsspel, a scholar, a graduate of a college (as I understand it;) told by the Presiding Elder of the Ashe ville district as the truth ; told by a Doc tor oi Divinity (as I understand it) V told by a late Missionary to Japan ; publicly proclaimed to the world as the trtUh, that in the M. E. Church, -South, at Asheville, N. C.,'the Southern Methodist Hymn Book is hid away." And tor what pur pose T He positively says to "perfett the deception." Wial deception T ' Why, "trail to catch Northern immigrants of I Methodist affinities." He has so publish. i ed it j and now I demand the. proof of PRICE 5 CENTS it clearly, positively as he has stated it to be so, or let him brand himself as a falsifier. And I further demand what deception there is in having the "Methodist-Hymnal" in the pews of the M. E. Church, South, in Asheville. when each book has on it a label on the outside cover or "lid," and on it, printed in tol erably large capitals : "Pbopebtt of xhb M. E. Chcbch. South, Asheville, N. C." He positively says the "Methodist Hymnal" was "furnished" to perfect a deception; and now I hereby publicly and poaitively demand the proof, that what he says is true. He is required to prove the truth of what he says, or put on himself the brand of a slanderer and falsifier of a sister church and a brother minister of tbe gospel, just as he may choose for himself Tbe burden of proof resU on Aim;. The brand is his own. --.Htrircsents ias i as '.giving opportu- miy uji porouus to umie win- me 'SI. E. Church, by letter or otherwise,0 an'' that members of the M. E. Church, from the North, under this guise, band in their certificates and become ' members "unawares" "of a church tiey have al ways regarded with suspicion, not to say contempt;" a-id that "scores, no doubt, have been taken in this 'stratagem.' " And now I demand the proof and the scores. Yes. 1 demand that be produce the persons or the names of the "scores." The scores (plural), cunnot mean less than forty; and now I demand of Mr. Long the fortv, and if he refuses or fails, he does so at the peril o& his good name as a man of truth, by his own action. I demand that he find the scores" who have thus been taken "un awares" by the pastor of the M. E. Church, South, in the city of Asheville, N. C Yes, I demand that he present the per son or the names of the "forty" thus ta ken "unawares." I demand that Bro. Long fully establish the fact that "a mean and contemptible policy is being deftly pursued." Mr. Long has made several very grave and untrue assertions; and I demand the proof that what he has publicly and sol emnly proclaimed to the world is true ; the truth, and nothing but the truth. He has assailed my character as a man and a minister, and I demand that he sub stantiate his charges and implications. He has made untrue statements' about the doings and state of things with re gard to the M. . Church, South, in Ashe ville, N. C, and he must prove the truth of all he says, or falsify liuustilf. I hereby demand of Bro. Long to prove all these charges and implications, and thus fully prOVe tho existence of f"arcaintatl e- temptible policy" which be boldly and without qualification sa s "i being deftly pursued" in Asheville, N. C. He first says there is such a "policy" and then he goes on to show w 10 are its au thors and what are its several operations, and now he must "come to the scratch' and prove t!e existence of the "policy ,' and bvkrv on a of the alleged operations every one of them, just as clearly and unequivocally as he has asserted them, every one of them, or implicate and criminate himself as a calumniator and falsifier. As the party assailed, I demand that he substantiates the truth of all his assaults. This is my right, and this he must recog nize. Bro. Long professes to be a truth ful man. He is an educated man; a man of travel, and converse, and association with great and good men. He is (I think) a Doctor of Divinity; a Presiding Elder, a man of no little pretensions and no little reputation, in his great church. His church accepted him and sent him as a missionary, to teach the heathens of Japan of the true God; to teach them o Christ and his love; to teach them of the common brotherhood of man; and that men should speak and act the truth, that a man must not.slander and bear false witness against hi neighbor. ' Now, Bro. Long surely, is too great and good a man to publish things as facts, which he will de cline to prove as true I! We will wait and see, what we will see. I deny his assertions as untrue, as false. I hereby discredit his assertions. I hereby pub licly impeach his published testunony, and iust ask him to prove the truth of what h asserts; that and nothing more. Now, this he mast do, if hedesires-to maintain his reputation as man of trot! He professed to be my friend, but he has assailed me as an enemy. He. attacks my character without warning without provocation, with all y- ahd hate and spite of; tbe oodjbrother2 resting on hir. stantiate cley publicly, t Ashevill enceof ? from thf taken I d cha h i Oi t A J)14 stak 4 nd the J 1887 1; CITIZEN JOB OFFICE, NO. 13 PATTON AVENUE.. -BILL HEADS, - LETTERHEADS, v POSTERS, BLANKS, Ae And foh Wort of all hidrdo4 vitk from finest and at low fian.r the truth of all said charges and implica tions. W. W. Bayb, Faster, ' x ME. Church, South, . ; , ' Asheville, N.C. April 9th. 1887. . P. S. I here, as yet, make no e jrlous. formal charges against the ministerial or personal character of Rev. C. S. Long. I simply -imply whathemakes himself tote, unless he makes certain proof. If he must rear any improper brand, he must rem ember h9 put it on himse'f, and to him self alone he tLust look for redress. He has implicated me as a mean, insincere, dishonest, deceitful man, aud actually publicly acting the lie at the vary chancel of my church, as I. according to "him, , ' deftly" pursue "a mean and contempti ble policy." All these thing-; ha has im plied or asserted. Assertion is not proof, but moat rest on proof. He lias asserted much. .He has proved nothing; hut he yw naathe graijd- opportunity his iife to proya raucfi. . densaaU g.t ,tery point of proof, that I have publicly indicated. t&Bro. Long, that proof, must come.-H W. Vfjf B. Conclusion .c 1. I deny that the M. E. church, South in Asheville, '-habitually" advertises her oelfasthe Methodist Episcopal church, and I defy Rev. C. S. Leng, to prove the contrary. 2. I demand of Rev. C. 6. Long, that h show cause why I shoald use, the word "South" in the reception of members, and that he publicly furnish the name of his informant," who told him I did not use the "burdensome word." 3. I deny that in the reception of members at the M. E. church, South, in Asheville, that "all are received into (hell. El Cliurch' and I defy Rev. C. 8. Long to prove the contrary. 4. I deny that the "Southern Methodist Hymn Book" is or ever was 'hid away" from the M. E. church, South, in Ashe ville, N. C, and I defy Rev. U 8. Long t) prove the contrary. 5. I d-;ny that the usoof the "Method ist Hymnal" in t .e M. E. Church, South in Asheville, N. C. is there to' "porfect the deception," and I defy Rev.' C. 8. "Long to prove the contrary . G. I deny that I .ever offered the"oppor -tunity for persons to unite with the M E. Church, by letter or otherwise," and I defy Rev. C. S. Long to prove ths con trary. 7. I deny that in the city of Asheville, N. C.' "scores no doubt, have been taken in this striteg'im," "and thus become members of a church they have always regarded with suspicion, not to say con- ItemPt, and I defy Rev. C. S. Long to prove t'.ie contrary. 8. I deny that the pastor or nsopla of tbe M. E. Church, South, in Vsheville, S. C, are "deftly" pursuing "a rhea l and contemptible policy," or that they have "a trap to catch Northern immigrants and visitors of Methodist affinities," or that they have ever resorted to any "strategem," for the same purpose, and I defy the Rev. C. S. Long to- prove the contrary. And furthermore, I finally, here and now, and forever, once for all, deny that Live Yankees" are, or bvsb mvg kbxh, or EVER WILL BE caught in a "trap' by the Southern Methodist church, "un - awares," and 1 doubly defy Dr. v. S. Long, P. E.. &c, &c, to now or ever Iiereafler prove the contrary. W. W. Bays. Startling; Bat Trw. Wills Point, Tex., Deal, 1835. After suffering for more than three years with disease of the throat and lungs, I got so low last spring I wa3 en tirely unable to do anything, and my cough was so bad I scarcely slept any at night. My Druggist, Mr. H. F. Good night, sent me a triarbottle of DR. RO SANKCS COUGH AND LUNG SYR UP. I found relief, rnd after using six $1.00 bottles, I was entirely enred. J. M. WELDON. Sold by H. H. Lyons. " d&wlw Ladies' Riding Derbies Whillock'8. and Caps, at dot One Price Store ! Handsome Spring Suits, in Sacks and Four Button Walking Coats; also several grades of Frock Coat Su.ts. Yeuths' and Boys' Clothing in great variety. :3' D -
Asheville Citizen (Asheville, N.C.)
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