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.. r . , , .. - . ., l . : tr- . ,- .-r --- -r- , ;. .--:r ' ' 1 - - - - (,-,- , , - I I 1 TTTTTIl I III I I , Tl We want you to know -tsJ 'v m ' r ' - ff that wesell-- ' xfj' fl i ' fl"! ft! WuGs -. isint tiffin iir. i frmtM&r a F. M. LINDSAY; tfCOKTRACTOR FOB . Plumbing, Steam, Ga, Hot Air, Hot Water Heating and Tin Roooflne cheap, as they arc sold any where. 4 Iron Work of all kinds. Jobbing promptly attended to. J. G, Lindsay will attendto tin work Ernest Israel, foreman of Plumbing j Department. : Work guaranteed to give satisfaction Wolf Blda. Asheville, NX. WE CAN 2 The Largest Circulation of Any Paper in the Ninth Congressional District. CONVINCE You of this if you , will let us. v . . VOLJ 6. ASHEVILLE N. C, FEBRUARY 3, 1899. NO. 5 Want to know you - J 4 i f I i I . Come in and see uf. Paragon Pharmacy Co., ost Office. B. S. Davi, Mgr. Night Clerk up Stairi What Shall The arvest That! lepends on several things, one of which is srood seeds. Kentucky Grass Seeds. ' The best is"noi.e too good." Reclei.ned clover, free from "Plantin" Timothy orchard and Blue Grass. bo you want a Good Garden?, A laige stock of Pack- asie Seeds at whole sale or retail. Nor Ithern seed Potatoes D. COOPER 32 S. Main St. ore 6. 01 St.- AS 5'R GQODNLWSS ( Pozfiu Sample Hats ih not Looq lv any meariH, but 7D2 exactly, nd we hi a i hem i3:w'fVr Cent iat a i ? t T iscount of ir to want to se this b'-g 1 ba. (),, Toe amlpO will 1 a p;o i hat as you olver uv lor ... E - f i tie moiK'v. TuJ) Ptur Satiiile il tln' s.-unple rants v p uits on Itake O ie ctorv makes, and you ha1 I pay attentioa to ttiia a we offer m jr if vou want u nits at a Bavin ' i of 25 c-iiits ou th'i u ll xr Wh i at the People want is oov,d Kuod4 at Little Mjuey. Tint's wliv we buv samples. We havf utt tencdthe fifth line of Satii le Shoes (there ars a larae lot o Heavy Boots in this lo). an I tuev are the choice of th actoii it a saving of 25 cents foil tne aouar in i Yours, Til. STONER THE Dixie Restaurant A ! to ft H to '.! to to to to to to to i. AND: i CONFECTIONARY. MealB at all hours. Private Dining Parlorp, rge or. small parties served on! short notice. OYSTERS AND GAME A ' SPECIALTY. 6 South Main St. Hi X 5 1 Beauty ia Dlood Deeni Clean -blood means a clean skin. No beauty without it. Cas'-arets, Candy Cathar tic I eltan; your blood and keen it clean, bv BtSitriiig up the lazy iiver and driving all im- Eunuiies i com tlie body. Uegin to-day to aiiish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads, and tiat sickly bilious complexion by taking ascarers, oeauty lor ten cents. All drug gists, Satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25c, 50c. Uc 1 1 1 i s j I BERRY OF ARKANSAS OPPOSES EXPANSION Senator Uakes an Address on the. Question. WANTS NO RULE BY FORCE Closing Day of Debate ou the Array Reorganization L Hill Iu the House Calls Korth'a.Xumb?r of Amend ments Hud Speeches. Washington, JanT 81 A bill -wag passed at the opening of the senate's session today graining extra pay to the a it . , omcers and men of the temporary force porary of the ua"vy two months' extra pay to those who' served beyond the limits of the United Statesand one month's pay to those who. seryad -within the United States. The provisions of the bill are to apply to ' all such temporary force, whether discharged yet or not. At the conclusion of the morning busi ness Mr. Berry of Arkansas rose to a4 dress the senate on the Vest antiexpan siou resolution. - . - I "If in November, ISflR," he began, "it had teen known .that the president athis time, so soon after his inaugura tion, 'would be asking. "congress for an army of 100,000 men to subjugate and reduce a people 7,000 miles .from our shores, who were endeavoring to estab lish a government for themselves, he would not have received a saigle elec toral vote in any state." If the senators on the other side who are low advocating this policy of expan sion, he continued, had td,d thein that they would depart from the piincipies of the declaration of independence they would have repudiated the idea as ua worthy of them. Army Hill l'i-cinsed. Tha house met at 11 o'ekx-k today. Rev. James I. Vanu of Nashville, Teun., deliv rod the invocation. This was the closing day c f the debate oii the army reorganization bill. The opposition be fore -ho .session opened had practically abandoned' hope of bsin 'a.tle to coal pass irlier -tit defeat "or the recommit tal of tlie bib. When the house resumed work on? the , bill today, section 12, re lktip fto the ray depart ntcu-t, had been rx'aclieb 1 K"umber parmasfer frenerais with the rank of colonel' provided in- the biil was redu. ed from four to t iree, with the rank of lieurenant co'ouel from eight to five, and i-aymasters.wi')i the rank of major frpin 47 to .3.1. , Tne aire limit to appointments in this depaiiineiit: was reduced from -si to !0. In ihe;ccria of engineers the number of cjloiiels was reducoii from ten to eicht ;' lieuten ant colonels:, 20 to 16;, ma jors. :jt5 to 3u; captains, 41 to 35; fir'stf lieut-'tiats, 50 to 45, and second lieuren ants, 50 to 40. i Mr Broimvell (Rep., O. ) moved to Etrikrt out the provisiMii authorizing tho' appointment of engineers from civil life.. The amendment was supported by Mr. Walker. (Rep., Mass ) but op ! posed by Mr. Marsh, (Rep., Ills ) who favored the appointment of officers from. ! civil life and said the reat engineer scheme of Eads was scouted by the reg ular artmy officers. i Mr. Dockcry (Dam., Mo.) said the i best result in government work had al ways been obtained from army engi neers. '-'." j ' i i ! Troops and Str.k-s.' i Mr. Cannon (Rep., Ills.) directed at tention to the amen dment Mr. Cum liiiugs (Dem., Y. ) yesteiMay Kave notice he would offer to prevent the use of United States troops as posse comita tus or in putting down strikes or riots, except upon tne written application ot the governor of the state. That amend ment, said Mr. Cannon,' proposed to put it out of the power of the pres.dent, the qonstitution to the-contrary notwith standing to enforce the law within the territory of any state unless fhjj gov ernor appealed for help. It was the duty of the president to en force the law, said Mr. Cannm, -who then recaueti tne Umeago riots anring the last administration and the dis patching. to Illinois without the assent of the governor and ajratiis-t his protest of United States troops to suppress the riots. i That action of President Cleveland had been indorsed byt he senate of the: United States au,d people everywhere-. Had the proposed amendment been law the- president would have lit n pre vented from enforcing the la The federal authority was, and shou.d be, Bupreme. Mr. Cumwings replied to Mr. Can non. There was no question, he said, but that organized labor, through the American Federation of Labor and the Knights of Labor, had condemned this effort to increase the standing army to 100,000 men. SPECIAL PbEA FOR EAGAN. His C uiist-l Gives Foniinl Notice of a , Supplementary IJrief. 1 ! 'Wshixgtox,. Jan. 31. There "is now no prospect that the record of the court martial in the cas.e of General Eagan will reach the president before the end of this week. Mr. Worthington, coun sel for General Eagan, has asketi per mission of the iudge advocate general to fide a'supplenictitary brief or special plea, i Although uuder the Old practice of rhilitary law, nothing was allowed to intervene between the findings of a cburt martial and" the final reviewing au thorities, the practice in recent years has t een much more liberal and General Lieber has notified Mr. Worthington he Will near anv additional representations Lhe nitty make. Kort 31cPherson Abandoned. Atlanta, Jan. 31. Fort McPherson Is to be temporarily abandoned by the government as a military garrison. A telegraphic order received . by Major J. 0- Change, commanding officer at the post, instructs him to proceed with all officers and companies of the lifthin fantry now stationed at Fort McPher son to Santiago, Uuba, to join the regi inent at that place. ': Quart s Succeeds 3Iltohelli I Madison, Wis., , Jan. 31. In the joint assembly today Joseph V. Quarles (Rep.) of Milwaukee was - elected United Staies senator. D -ita IIhs a L irge IJh.z . I j anxistox, Ala , JaiL 28. Fire swept the business portion of Delta, Clay vuuuij, ami ueniroyen an or the mer cantile ? establishments of that place, which is the center of a prosperous ag ricultural set t on. O Bean the Signature of i The Kind You Have Always Bought 3 sir s MILL NOT DISCUSS BONDS. And Our Contemporaries Will Not Permit v 1 Others to Do So In Their Columns. . Editor Register -.T-Early in, Decem ber I wrote the enclosed paper and sent it to The Citizen with a request for public'ition. This I did because I thought tho:e readers who had' seen only the bond holders' side as argued by The Citizen for weeks and months ought to know something on the oth er side of the question; but The Qjti zbn declined to publish it for reasons not stated. I ihen took it to The !,.,.,,.,,, . . t t like-unnded with The Citizen in re- ; , . . ... , uazette, wnose editor said he was garu to paying me ionas,.aua alter suggesting various changes in my 4iaper to make it conform to his vie we, and after keeping it for teveraiweeks he found that he bad not space for it This is a public question which con cerns every man, womau and child in Buncombe county, aadjwue about which I hey nave a right to be inform ed;, ami-1 can conceive of but two reasons why these editors refused to print anything on the peoples' side of the question: Either the WTker is persona non grata, or else these men are afraid of the position they have taken in the matter, and don't want to have the facts laid before the peo ple. There are many peoi Ie iu Buncombe- who are making loud p-eteiiso of wanting to pay the, bonds, but wh Would rejoice iu their inmost hearts to see tl e bond holders knocked out "Woe unto ye scribes and phairsees hypocrites." Jfatuu will sift you af ter a wliib-. Tazewell. E-Ktor Citizen: -Iu the discussion' of! t he Bui.combe county bond matter for' many months past, 'The' Citizen s -ems to have entirely lost sight of ti e tx -j payers' J-ide of the question, and devoted its energies wholly tc the iiue rents of the bond holders, and ajs far. :a tt influence could roach ha d'oubtr-. created the impression thai t very lare portion of the people oi Buncombe county are unconditional repjdiationis!s without moral prin iple or commercial inlegritj ready tud willing and anxious 'to repudiate an honest obligation atid shirk the payment of a just debt.) So muctiMai least has beeu laid at the door of the late Bourd of County Commissioners, and all 'who in any way or to" any ex tent justified tjieir action in moving to test tl.e validity of the bonds have been placed in the same category. I Believing as f do that there are two !ides to this question, and feeling that a-full, free and thorough . discus sion of both sides is due the tax pay ers of . this couniy as well as otheiBf ind being unwilling to s.ee our people advertised to the world as destitute f both honor aud honesty, I invite you to a further and friendly discus sion of the matter, hoping to. show to those who are not familiar with all the facts relating to this bond trans action from its inception that the tax payers 'lire at hast not without the -emblance of an excuse for calling bm iu question. In this paper I shall do little more than propound to vou a few questions whichll thiuk ire pertinent and which I "liope you you will find it convenient to unswer. f ask thtse questions simply for in formation which I suppose you lean gie, 'and-your ant wers may savr me from blunders in amy further discus sion ve may have. Yo.u stated in your paper of the 18th iust. thaf'the people of Buncombe county had re ived full value, for every dollar oi b uds issued to the ' Asheville & Sp rtauburg Railway.'' Will you be so kind as to state where and when and how and from whom they have ever received such value? Have not our count v officials known for more ban tweuty years that the act of the Legislature under which the bonds were ifsucd was not couatitutionally passed, aud was not. the refunding act of lbl'3 passed with a perfect knowledge of this fact? Has it been the purpose and policy? of the Demo cratic party all alongand is it their purpose now to pay these bonds, even though' there-be neither legal or moral obligation so to do, and even though the county (as I am informed and be lieve) lias never received one solitary c?nt in consider aiion of their issue? to you and does the Democratic par ty approve the action of their repre sentatives of the Legislature of 1893 in placing in the refunding act a pro vision that the people of Buncombe should be made to pay these bonds in gold coin? Does thissound well: for a set of men calling themselves a sil ver prty ? If Lawyer Murphy makes his scheme work will he hold us tax payers, to this provision of the rc f ind ing act? Surely the bond holders must have f given somebody an inti matioh as to the kind of money thoy I r- ft red to have iu payment of the bonds. If the cagcea to the United States Supreme court aud they hold Don't Tobacco Spit and SmoVc Tour Lire. A nay. To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag netic. full of life, nerve and vigor, take Xo-To-Bac, the wonder-worker, that makes weak men strong. All druggists, 50c or II. Cure guaran teed. Booklet and sample free. Address Sterling Remedy Co. , Chicago or New York. C ASTOR I A Tor Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Every woman coeds Dr. Miles' Pain Pills. with! our courts that the bonds are in valid, I suppose that such holding will 'settle the. legal aspect of the case unlej s Lawyer Murphy can find some wayi to reverse them and force us ta! I ay anjr way right or wrong, law or no law. But putting the legal ques lion jaside for the the time, then if it shal be' made to appear that our peo ple assumed this obligation (if indeed it bej an obligation) in consequence of deception and misrepresentation and thatj every solitary promise held out to induce them to vote for the bond - - - w m uii v.amu V . Ill - V ' , I - siaepation for which they were issued utterly failed, then will you still in sist that there is a moral obligation upon us to pay them? Do you pro pose to teach this kind of ethics? Po you insist that Mr. Muiphy in pursuance of the resolutions he draft ed and had the Board of Commis sioners to pass, shall proceed to formulate plans and devise schemes to force our people to pay these bonds when either the courts nor the con science of the county app o res them as just or binding? I thought that Mr. Murphy and the Board of Commis sioners were the agentB and servants of U'he people of Buncombe county ehafged with theduiy of looking af ier and protecting the iutereats of 6ur owu people instead of these of foreign corporations and bond holders. Are chef willing to play the role"of prose cutors of questionable claims against their own-people in order that Shy locii ma5' have his pound of flesh? This certainly presents a strange wptitacle for the people of Buncombe o look upon. Have the bond hold holdars b .'Come so poor and ignorant. ud helpless as to need the guardian hip of our "county officials? You claim that the late election in our county turned largely upon the' ques tion of paying these bonds. Now to iest; the correctness of this assump tion" on your part, let us aak the ap proaching Legislature to pass an act authorizing pur people to vote their sentiments in regard to the natter upon its merits solely removed from and unmixed entirely with any other issue. If this can be done the whole question can be settled at omce and settled right, and we all acquis in he, settlement. " There is some history and a lot of facts connected with this bond mat ter Ifrom its inception which the out side world as well as our own people ought to know before making up their judgment in the matter. Our people are not repudiators of honest debts, nor will they willingly pay dis honest ones. The question of the validity of these bonds was mooted - to jsome extent more than twenty years ago, and should have been , set tled then, and before we had raid the $126 ,000, which we have paid already. It is unfair and ungenerous to abuse and vilify for political reasons only such men as Caney Brown, Tom Hale Weaver and Sid Ash worth for seeking to relieve the people of their cpu,nty from what they believed to be an unjust and illegal burden. They are not theives and rascals capable of all ikinds of corruption as charged by same, but on the contrary they are all honest and honorable men, whose whple lives give the lie to all the as persions heaped upon them, and whose characters are above reproach. The Democratic party of TBuncombe county have made this bond matter a political question, and . if they are plagued by it in the future it will likely teach them the folly of false expedients. Some; gentlemen who arej so extremely sensitive and jeal ous of the honor and good name of Buncombe may live to hear the old county some day cry out: "Save me from my friends." There are -many hundreds of "old sagers" around who haye been here quite as long as the County Attorney or any of the Hon. Board of Commissioners, and who are as much concerned for the honor and good name of Buncombe as any of theise gentlemen; but whoare not go ing to scramble over each dther to get to pay a pretended debt, which they regard as unjust and for which they gotj absolutely nothing, directly or in directly. . jow, MrEditor, if you are pleased 10 answer the above questions, and care to pursue the matter further, I oeneye 1 can give tne public some facis in regard to tie bond matter 1 hat may be of some interest as well as of some value to them facts per haps never known to some of our citi zens and forgotten by others. If the la'e election turned on this issue.then there should have been a joint dis cussion, for with all the facts shown i - we jmight have had different results 1 in this county Tazewell. I Mr. Staybolt's Philosophy. "jWe may at first," said Mr. Stay bolt, "be judged by our peculiarities, but Jin the course of time we are pretty sure to be estimated according to our merits, the peculiarities being lost Bight of altogether or counted as such only. Hence it behooves us not to waste too much time on the gargoyles, but to bump ourselves mostly over a firm and solid structure." New York Sun. I An Uncertain Dtataac There is no disease more uncertain in its nature than dyspepsia. Physicians say that the symptoms of no two cases agree. It is therefore most difficult to make a correct diagnosis. No matter how severe, or under what disguise dyspepsia attacks you. Browns' Iron Bitters will cure it. Invaluable in all diseases of the stomach, blood and nerves. Browns' Iron Bitters ia sold by all dealers. v ABsowiEnr pure Makes the food more delicious and wholesome BOVAt BAKING POWOER CO., NEW YORK. FATAL SNOWBALL BATTLE. Men Quakrel at tiatchechubbee and Double Tragedy Results. Phenii City, Ala., Jan. 31. News has reached here of a double tragedy at Hatchechubbee. Ala. Hyram. W. DeLaey killed Atman Riley, tried to kill a negro who wanted to interfere, C. E. Ingram, who attempted to kill had saved the negro, and then, deprived of bis weapon a gun went home. double-barreled shot secured another gun and blew his own brains out. DeLacy was about 35 years pf age and unmarried. He was in the habit of drinking occasionally, and his reputa tion was not tne pest, Riley, the man killed, keot store at Hacchechubbee. His family is anions the best known in that section of Ala bania. He bore tie reputation of being a quiet, peaceable man. Riley was aoont 80 years old! and unmarried. It seems there was a snowball battle at Hatchechubbeel in Which DeLacy and Riley participated. The affair caused hard feeling in some way. . DeLacy and Kiley got into an argument over some trivial feature of the matter. DeLacy said Riley must reitract certain remarks that he had made.l Riley declined to do so. JJeljacy went qn, muttering threats. About 11 o clock DeLaey re-entered the store, armed with a shtgun. This he deliberatelv, and without warning. discharged at Riley, who wa. killed in stantly. A negro present m4e a move to save Klley", and DeLacy enraged, tried to kill him. He was prevented by C & Ingram, an artesian wMl man, wno seized, his gun. Ingram was in turn attacked, but not iuiure&. De Lacy then left thd store. Goii f to his home, he cot a pistol and shoi-- vself. dying at once. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY WINS. Test Vote T.ikeii by Ihe Ir.islative Investigating Committee. Atlanta, Jan. 31. ;Tbe state geolog ical survey will ba retained. At a ses sion of the legislative committee, held at the capitol, it was agreed to have a test vote 03 the main feature of the in TeBtigatiou that has been in progress re cently as to the worth and value of the survey to the state. The following resolution was intro duced: "Resolved, That it is the sense of this committee that tme deparinent of geol ogy is of benefit to the state and ought to be sustained. ine resolution was adopted unani mously and wit non discussion, t During the pait two weeks avast amount of evidence has been heard by the investigating j committee, including the statements of those familiar with the work of the geological survey and others who have been brought into deal ings with the department. The evidence has all been on the side of the survey, onljr two witnesses, so it la ntafpfl Tit mAmnnn nf the onmmit-taa having testified against the department. Tne report ot tne committee will be completed aud ready for the governor's signature about tne end of the week. HAMILTON JAY A SUICIDE. Florida's Poet Laureate and Veteran Editor Kills Himself. Jacksonville, Fla., Jan. 81. Colonel Hamilton Jay, Florida's poet laureate and veteran editor, committed suicide in his room at Betalini's hotel by taking cyanide of potassium. He left a note saying: I ' "Death is preferable to insanity, and choose it as the lesser of two evils. '' For some nionti s past Colonel Jay has been in dire distress and imbecility from tne influence or opium, a habit he cul tivated, during recent years. He was a colonel of cavalry in a New Jersey regi ment in the civil war and has resided in Florida since, doing literary work. His verse and prose foiind much popularity; in Florida. He was for many years on the staff of the Jacksonville Times-Union, losing his position upon! the consolidation 01 Tne Citizen and Limes-Union several years ago. tlis wi Ie left him then, and after getting a dn orce, married at Live Oak. Colonel Jay's -acquaintances have helped him live since his imbecility un fitted him for literary labors. SOLDIER WE S A NEGRESS. Claims He Was Not Sober at the Time and Wants Divorce. Columbia, S. Cj, Jan. 31. William J. Jackson, a private in Company M, Two Hundred and First New York reg iment, at Camp Wetherill, was married Thursday night to a negro woman by a negro preacher, pe-has been put in jail, 'but the preacper and the woman nave not been arrested. Jackson appeared before a magistrate yesterday and stated that he wanted a divorce. He said that his new wife had asked f(x a dollar and he had whipped hem Ha said he was not sober when he married. Jackson was told that di forces are not supplied here. The la Ters differ as to whether this is a legal marriage under the lawB of South Carolina. J Eve My lltild Two Offloes. Augusta, Ga., Jan. 31. The case brought to ouat Judge W. F. Eve from his office of commissioner of roads and revenues of Richmond county has been decided by Judg Brinson in favor of Judge Eve. The j bill was brought on the ground of the constitutionality of the act under which Judge Eve holds both .offices. Judge Brinson decided that the act was not shown to be un constitutional and refused the petition of the would-be ousters. Executive Committee Meets. Montgomery, Ala., Jan. 27. The Democratic state executive committee met here and unanimously indorsed tho action of the general assembly in call ing a convention to revise the constitu tion of Alabama. J The committee also recommended that there be no further agitation of the matter in the present session of the assembly, but that the bill be allowed to remain in its present form without amendment. The committee called the primaries for March 17, county conventions on March 22 and the state convention a week later. DwOMEK SOLDIERS HURRYING TO REINFORCE OTIS "War Department Orders th$ Greatest Speed. MEN EMBARK THURSDAY Over Seven Thousand Regulars Now Enroute or About to Start For 31a nilla, 9alllugJom New Yorlt and San FraLiclsoo. Washington, Jan. 81. Orders have been issued by the war department to expedite the movement of reinforce ments for the Philippines. The trans port Sherman will start from New York next Thursday with the Third regiment of infantry and four companies of the Seventeenth infantry. . Tlie following Thursday, Feb. 9, the transport Sheri dan will sail from the same port with the Twelfth infantry and the headquar ters and remaining companies of the Seventeenth infantry. i ' 1 The officers in command of these troops have been instructed by tele graph to execute the orders for this movement without unnecessary delay. Both transports will follow the same route to Manila taken by the transport Grant, that is across the Atlantic and through the Mediterranean sea and the Suez canal. The Grant started several days ago and is now supposed to be in the vicinity of Gibraltar. General Law ton, who is to assume active command of all the military forces in the. Philip pines when General Otis becomes mili tary governor of the territory, is a pas senger on the Grant. Two regiments of infantry are also under orders to proceed to Manila by way of the Pacific ocean. One of them has already started and it is expected the other will take its departure from SanTrancisco within a fewr days. The arrival of these four regiments will in crease General Otis' fighting strength by nearly 7,000 men. VOLUNTEERS TO CO OUT. Number of Regiments Now In Cuba Will Be Discharged. Washington, Jan. 3 l.-r-Arrangements were perfected at the war department today for the muster out of the Eighth Illinois infantry and the Twenty-third Kansas infantry, now in the depart ment of Santiago, and the Forty-seventh New York infantry and the Sixth United States volunteer infantry, (white immunes) now stationed in Porto Rico. The transport Minnewaska will ar rive at Santiago with the Fifth infantry about Feb. 14 and will return to New port News with the Twenty-third Kan sas infantry,. From that port the regi ment will be forwarded to Fort Leaven worth, Kan., for mustering out. The transport Chester will' arrive at Santi ago about Feb. 19 and will bring the Eighth Illinois regiment to Newport News, whence they will be transported by rail -to Fort Sheridan, Ills., for mus ter out. '. The Chester is expected to arrive at San Juan Feb. 4 for the purpose of bringing the Sixth volunteer infantry tb Savannah, Ga., for muster out. The officers charged with this movement are specially instructed ' to see that the transports are thoroughly, inspected, renovated and completely prepared for the comfort, subsistence and' shelter of the troops before they are . allowed to start on the voyage home, i Fl LI PI N 0 JUNTA PROTESTS. Wants the United States to Recognize Its Commission. Hong-Kong, Jan. 81. The Filipino junta here publishes its protest against the "refusal of the United States taa sociate with the Philippines commis sion representatives'of the national gov ernment," adding that "the 'usefulness of the commission will necessarily be greatly limited by the exclusion of Fili pinos. . The protest con tin ues : "It is impossible for the commission, sitting only at Manila, unaided by the friendly co-operation of the national government, to reach a proper under standing of the actual condition of af fairs in the Philippines, the unanimity of the aspirations of the people and their capability for self government. , "Colonel Denby's utterances in the November Forum are too pronounced to inspire conficrence. Zero Weather at Chicago. Chicago, Jan. ji. 'ine cold wave continues with undiminished intensity m this section, tne mercury having reached 12 below. Howe'ver. the weather is moderating considerably injthe north west, where tne iorce 01 tne wave is broken. The line of zero temperature today passes as far south as Oklahoma. Bismarck, N. D., reports 20 below, Dn; lnth, Minn., 24 below and Greenbav, Wis., 26 below zero. The indioatioui are that the cold will moderate in thil section tonight Blizzard Sweeps Oyer Texas. Fort Worth, Tex., Jan. 31. Tbj worst blizzard experienced in years il sweeping over the northern and western portions of Texas, causing much suffer ing to man and beast. Walter Mitch- has been found frczen to death. All kinds of stock is suffering severely, while reports from some quarters say cattle are dying in great numbers. Bflzzard 1 11 Three States. Memphis, Jan. 8L A severe blizzard is prevailing in West Tennessee, Arkan sas and Mississippi, with the mercury near the zero mark. A fine snow has been falling incessantly for 15 hours and exposed stock is suffering severely. There has been no serious interruption to railroad traffic reported. BUrled Under a Suowsllde. Coke villi, Wyo., Jan. 31. A snow slide a mile long near here buried ser eral men and ten teams. All the mea were takes out alive with the exception of Burt Handy, who was dead whaS round, -r J. W. Norwood, President THE BLlJERIDGE rljA,TIOML gK, ASHEVILUE, N, C. Gurantees,to all customers Promptness, ; Accuracy and Absolute Se curity. We respectfully solicit your business, and " will, grant every accomydation consistant with SOUND BANKING. ' i SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES FOR RENT. " ;DIBEOTORS W. J. SLAYDEN, i JA8. A. RURROUGHS, J. E. DAyiD, E. R. LUCAS, 8. P.McDIVITT , J-IW. NORWOOD. ERWIN SLTJDER, Teller. HOUSTON MERRIMAN, Book-Keeper 1 onffltarehe All Winter Goods Must Sold $1.75 Capes for $1.00 $2.50. " ' " $1.50 $3.50 j $4.50 i I i i A few odd Jackets for $ teach All Jackets at a way off prices. '-." 1899 II ' r . & II II ), Woolen Dress . "55 m 1 1 Goods for!25c yd, 7 ' Il up, also at greatly Jjj qj 1 1 reduced prices. g . tl. v. . "55 : s I; I New embroideries cu U f : I i just received. f fl, i.-'.-fl I I ............ . s 2- : I New wlnte goods o 3 m 1 1 I i to hand. xfe . S ' V I'll ...... .... ! t i - )1 ' r o - & I ' II New Torchoin g , , 2 i . II Laces. C5 ! o 2 I ' -E . .fc? Sl 1; X &y ' ' pla V II New Ribbons. lk 3 2 : M " ' '"Sf " 53 f I Bon Mar 1 During hls Year Bring Your Job Printing to The Register Job Office Only the best material used and high skilled labor, employed. LETTER HEADS, STATEMENTS, ENVELOPES, NOTE HEADS Etc. a Specialty. - ; . Office: 12 l 899 25c 60C. E. R. Lucas, Cashier. Be i ' ' $3.00 1 in i - . - f - N. Court Sq. I DRUGGISTS m. 1 cn -i: il "5, , g ' . s II J2? s o S 31 899 - . ( '1..-V 1