North Carolina Newspapers

VOL. 1. AS I IEVILLE, X. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1890. NO. 17. Looking I Backward Over the past eight lyears of 'our at successful business life in Ashe ville has demonstrated to us the fact that our determination to sell only pure goods, guarantee ing weights and quality, and asking a small profit on every thing sold, commends itself to the good sense of purchasers. Second, That desirable cus tomers cannot be gained by the oft-tried practice of some deal ers in cutting prices on a few leading articles, hoping to make it up on something else. That hard work and close ap- plication to ousmess is xne price 1 J.? i.l ' j t I 01 success. ! i mi j i ' ' ' f -. -. is I inat our OUSiness ior lbbV Shows an increase Over the pre- vimiswnrnf 90 npr'fPnt whirh i vprv : o-T-ntifviTi nnrl fnr wnicn we wish to thanK our -1 - j i 1 many friends in Asheville and Western North Carolina. . - ; ' i . Looking Forward i i We are encouraged to enter up on the year before us with re newed energy and a determina tion to give our customers the benefit of our increased facili ties for buying and selling the very finest groods. to be hadj at small profits. j Our stock is now the largest ever offered in this market and embraces everything in the line of Staple and Fan(py Groceries, Table Delicacies, Fruits, Grain, Flour, etc. Respectfully, . Powell & Snider. f O -3 !24 CP y : PA . O ; O I tJ I CQ zo za W o w O Hi CP O O ZD. o & tri za iri Q re at; id a '! C : I! V O w H 3 CO go o CD t3 S! O CD o o o o td 39 P td o 3 09 o BON MARCHE Calls particular attention to the splen- i did stock of LaditH and Children's wraps, Liidit and Children's Underwear; real good and real cheap. Infants long Cloaks and Caps. Art embroidery ma- j :: terials and wools of every description; a specialty. P. IX, R. & G. Thompson s Glove 1 ltting and Warner's Corsets. i ! Ladies can rind articles here not found in any other establishment in the city. i : j A call solicited by ' LIPJNSKY' & ELLICK; I Local Briefs 1 here are one hundred and twenty- students at Weaverville College. .Mr. A. L. Carter is convalescing from a recent severe attack of pneumonia. Charlotte Thompson, in "Jane Eyre, Pera hall Monday evening; Feb 3d. The Asheville Lyceum has been organized with Maj. T. C. Westall president. Col. J. A. Branner has returned to as the city after a sojourn of several months at Waynesville. Solicitor J. M. Moody and ex-Solicjtor C4arland S. Ferguson, of Waynesville, were here yesterday. Work on the new iron bridge actpss iue r rencn uroaa river at iiot bprjngs has been commenced Mr. Ben. W. Morris, of this city, has invented a simple but ingenious tobacco. device for hanging and curing1 The Grand Central dining room hag been recentlv ereat.lv beautified. The front of the hotel is 5 J O J to be altered and much plate elags put in I Patti Rosa, Asheville's favorite actress, will appear in her new play, " Margary Uaw," at opera hall , m this city,: on -Monday evening, ebruary ,a4tn The municipal election bribery cases against M. H. Kelley and John Moore, (col.) have been dismissed in the crim inal court upon payment of costs. j The grippe continues to get in j its work among the citizens of Asheville, and in some cases whole families ;are down with the pesky Russian disease. i i. A premium sale of leaf tobacco is ad vertised to take place at the Alliance Warehouse, in this city, on Febtuary 12th. The prizes will be paid in gold. A. Weber wyas convicted in the Crim inal Court on Tuesday of renting a house to improper persons, and knowing it was to be used for immoral purposes. Capt. Frank O'Donnell left Asheville on the afternoon train Thursday for few the ew York, where he will remain a davs before sailing for Ireland on! 30th. ' -j ; Gov. Fowle has been notified o ithe capture of Albert Campbell, William Harrell and David Harrell, charged with the murder of M. C. Cox, in Mitchell county, some weeks ago. Capt. H. E. Grimeson, the well-known special agent of the Revenue Service for this district has been transferred to New York. Mri Ralph Ballin is his successor with headquarters at Greensboro. I Joseph Weichselbaum, formerly a clerk in the Recorder of Deeds' pttice, Philadelphia, died of consumption in this city on the 25th. His remains were taken to Philadelphia for interment!. ; -: : ' -I : AVilliam Fore and John Berry are both to haye new trials for murder at this term of the Criminal- Court. Fore . . i was convicted and granted a new trial : ! - '... I in Berry's case the jury failed to agree. Prof. E. B. Lewis, late principal of; the Academy street graded school, this' city, has gone to Chicago, where he will take a special course in the celebrated Nor mal Park institution, located at Engle- wood. Mrs. T. F. Wilson on Monday evening last between the Swannanoa bridge and the first hill top this side found a doctor's case full of medicines. The case may be i . ; r recovered by applying for information at this office. M r. J. L. Perry, a well-known carpen ter, died of pneumonia at his residence in Victoria, on the 28th inst., aged about forty-five years. Mr. P. was a natiye of Pennsylvania and had been a resident of this city about two years. Mr. William Gordon, a prominent citi zen of New castle, Pa., died-at thejresi dence of N. B. Atkinson, Esq., on Hay wood street, Tuesday evening, of pneu monia. The remains were taken to Pennsylvania for interment. Judge Jas. H. Meirimon. is presiding at Court in Reidsville, where the trial of Mrs. Morris, a neice of Ex-Gov. Scales for the alleged murder of her husband is in progress. The deceased husband it is said, has relatives here. Mr. Henry S. Nunn, editor of Jthe Newbern' Journal, died at hi home in that citv on Thursday. 21st inst.! He was a good man, a useful citizen, and his loss to his community and to journalism will be sadly felt. Our sympathies go out to the widow and children. Two colored boys at the Battery: Park Hotel, Alfred McElrath and Charles Rickets, quarreled on Tuesday of last wppk. and McElrath stabbed Rickets causing hia death. The slayer is scarce ly over 12 years of age. He was not ap prehended: for . several days, but finally came in and surrendered himself by his lawyers' advice A Strong Market. Large breaks, active bidding and! high prices have been Conspicuous features of the Asheville tobacco market during the week'. At all the -warehouses the floors have been crowded with leaf in all grades, and one or two new buyers have entered the field. So,far the quality of depreciated, and fine offerings has not wrappers, cutters,, smpkers and lugs are as plentiful as ever. The weather has been extremely favorable for the hand ling of tobacco, and increased orders from jobbers and manufacturers through their resident buyers are noticeable Prices as 'quoted lows : j Fine wrappers, Fancy wrappers, yesterday are as f ol- $4oo0 6075 28(&35 Cutters, best quality, Smokers: - .- r - 2530 Lugs, -! - -: ;!- I - 1824 Fillers, i j -. : ; 1 8lo Other grades atj corresponding figures. The Asheville Tobacco Journal in its review of the trade for the week says: "The steady tone of the market causes no change in quotations, and indications point to ai firm future demand for all grades with prices to correspond. ! uThe advent of two new buyers on our market, from Durham and New lYork will give a new impetus to sales and prices, as tnese gentlemen came nere for good leaf and say they will have it. ; i! :( Hon. H A. Gudser. The Raleigh Evening Visitor thus re- ers to our townsman : "Hon. H. A. Gud- ger, of Asheville, N. C, has been in Ral" eigh during the week in attendance; upon the Grand Lodge of Masons. He I is the - I i Meputy I Grand Master of the of North Caro is a prominent land Grand Lodge ina. Mr. Gudger devoted member of the Methodist church and at the recent Session of the Holston Conference, of which he waa a lay mem ber, he was electad a lay delegate to the General Conference, of his Church and eads his. delegation to that; honorable body. He will remain in the city over Sunday and, we are glad to announce will deliver a Missionary address at Edenton Street Methodist; Church Sun day morning at 11 o'clock. No collec tion will Jbe taken: up, but! those who at- tend may expect to hear a very 'fine ad dress. : Flying Around the World. Nellie Bly, the New York World rep resentative, has reached New York after circling the World in 72 days, 6 hours . i- and 11 minutes, beating the feat of Jules Verne's hero. imaginary Miss IBis- land, a young lady of Mississippi, but living for some years in New York, and representing the Cosmopolitan magazine, is hourly expected from a like journey on the Bothnia, j The latter left New York four days after Miss Bly, traveling by the way of the West, while Nellie went East. Nellie gainerl a day! byl her route, while by the other a day is lost The New York AY'orld invited guesses as to Miss Blv's time, offering: a trip to; Eu rope with $250 pocket mqney to the sue cessful guesser. It is said a young man in this town guessed within ten iriutes of her time. I Honors at West Point. We are srreatlv pleased to learn trom yesterday's Army and iSavy Register il T I that our young townsman, Mrj George Howell, son of Capt. K. Howell, now a Cadet at U. S. Military Academy, West Point, stands first in all other, studies, and second in mathematics, in a class of 85 members; This is indeed a record of which his friends may i be proud, and which we all .hope and believe he wil sustain throughout his academic course Goldsboro Argus. ; I I j Mr. R. P. Johnston, of Asheville, N C. stands first m mathematics and sec ond in all other studies. North Carolina t i bovs are comins: to the front eyery- where. State Chronicle A Rumored Change. The friends of Mr. W A.. Day district passenger agent of the E. T., located V. & G. in this railroad, whose office is 1 t city, are very much surprised at a rumor which says that his removal from: Ashe ville is contemplated by of the road he represen the authorities s. Mr. I Day is an active and energetic gentleman,! and his efforts to intellifirehtly supply the traveling public with all the infprma tion desired have been much appreciated bv the people. We hope Mr. Day will mi , : not be removed from Asheville. j The marriage is announced for Feb ruary 5th of Dr. Kemp P. Battle, Jr., to Miss Eliza McKee, of Raleigh. Dr. Bat tle ii a son of tne President of the Uni- . i i i i versity, a young man who inherits the ability of his distinguished family and has already won a wide j reputation: in his profession. His friends comgratulate him upon his approaching union to one of the I most charming of the many charming belles of Raleigh, Miss Eliza N. McKe, daughter of Dr. James Mc i The Hale Pavement. The Engineering and Mining Journal has the following account ! of the j Hale pavement upon which our city commit tee has reported favorably after visiting a numbei- of Western and Southern cities:: This pavement is following manner : Constructed in the The grade having been properly reduced and dressed to the required shape, the ground should be covered with a layer of loose sand a few incnes in tmcKness, to iorm a more per feet bed for the boards to follow, and to keep the boards from coniact with the earth beneath to form a subdrainage, as against the effects of freezing weather The sand can be struck off to a perfect surface by a moving templet i made to suit the desired curve, and guided by slats set to grade stakes. The boards to be used heed not be more than 1 inch in thickness;, and ought not be less than 10 inches in width, as ja rule. The best timber for the purpose is that least sub- ; -.' i t l i ject i.to rot under Ithe circumstances. Good white oak has been used success f . - ; i i fulljy. The boards should be dipped in hotcoal-tar or otner preserving material They are then carefully laid upon the sand bed lengthwise with the street would be the most convenient way- from curb to curb, with a regular curve all the the way. No gutters are neces sary, except such, as pre formed by the crown of the pavement. This floor the board surfaces of the boards bridsrinsr over all minor irregularities of the grad ing and so widely distributing all weights or pressure, and being so perfect a bar rier from anything) solid passing from above or below now forms a most com plete and perfect foundation for the hard 1 MV It.!..'. material to ionow. j it is: Dest to cover the boards with a layer of loose sand an inch or two inches in thickness, to form 6 - I a more perfect bed ifor the bricks, which can: be struck off with the moving templet as done before The bricks hard-burned are now laid down. If j they are of the ordinary! shape of building bricks now in common use, they should be placed on edge and laid, preferably, "herring bone" style, by which means all joints in the board floor are straddled. The seams are now; well nlied witn sand, swept in and the bricks settled in their beds with a flatter, wTell rammed, or rolled with heavy roller. In cities having very heavy traffic to follow immediately the layin of the pavement, it is sometimes prefer redi after the! intferstices between the r ; i ) I . - . bricks are half filled with fine sand, to r ' -- ! ! ' complete the filling with; hot pitch made by boiling gas tar until the more volatile portions are driven off. I Ins, wnen it cools, makes the pavement at once 1m- i pervious to waterj cements the bricks to hold them firmly generally advisable together and helps in -place; This is wherever clean fine sand cannot be ob tained to fill the interstices. j A perceptible elasticity tends to favor the; bricks when subjected to a crushing weight. iThe brickjs being now in place, their flat surfaces! agreeing with each other and with the flat surface of the boards peneath, the bearings are perfect and equal; they can be broken only with difficulty, and cannot get out of place; and if at any timej it is desired to lay pipes or sewers beneath the pavement, thej materials .being allj disconnected, caii be rapidly taken up land laid aside, and as rapidly; replaced at small expense, no' new materials being required, and no patching to be: done, everything fitting in jits place. j Its durability has been proved by the test of several 'years of hard service in the streets of the city of Charleston, and the following tests of the "crushing strength of the Hale brick would seem ! 0 i j j .1 1 to indicate that no' paving material sur passes them in enduring qualities. Re port of mechanical tests, made with the United States testing machine (capacity 800,000 pounds), for the Hale Pavement Company. Tests, by compression of four hard-burnt bricks The compressed sufaces were faced even The after with plaster of Paris, to secure bearing n the testing machine, developnient of cracks continued their first appearance up; to the time the maximum loads were reached. The failures of number 4,396 and 4,397 notably occurred iin detail; the bricks flaking off from one side. Signed, F. H. Parker, Major Ordnance; Department, U. S A. The cost of -the Hale pavement in any given locality depends upon the cost of m ' ,:. ! lit 11 1 sand, oak or otner jauraDie Doaras, nara- burned brick, gas tar and common labor at such locality; but it is claimed that it can be laid in any city or town in the ijnited States, having length of streets sufficient to warrant the undertaking, for very much less: than j asphalt or Bel gian granite blocks, and j in most places fpr less than well laid wooden blocks, or even good macadam roadways. The royalty charge is 10 cents per square yard. Estimates i of the cost of this pavement per square yard for any local- . : r 7 sT ty will be furnished on application by etter to the office of the company , Staunton, Va. Vanderbilt's Plans. Geroee W. Vahderbilt. the vouneest of the sons of the iate William II. Vander- bilt, is determined, in addition to his well-known palace in New York to have the most magnifliceut private , park and the lordliest country estate in Ainerica. To that end he has recently bought at a nearly 5,000 acres lying just outside of this town a tract of land fully one-third larger than your magnifi cent Fairmountjpark, about one-third of the acrage of -which lies under the Schuylkili and the Wissahickon. His landscape ! gardener is already at work laying out anl beautifying these ex tensive grounds at an expense r of $300, 000 more. His architect is busy prepar ing the plans fo : a lordly pleasure house, like and old sty e French chateau, which will cost an additional $400,000. j His model stables; which will be scat- tered over the 5,000 acres,, for the pur- pose of housing thousands of horses and cattle of the very bluest of blue bovine blood, will cost, it is said, at least 200,- 000 more. So y pu see that the estimated cost already foots up to the magnificent sum of $1,200,000. The shortest distance from the stately entrance gates jto the still statelier mansion of the lord of this vast estate will be four miles by a mag nificent roadway sixty feet wide, and it is said that there will be more than fifty miles of macadamized roads within the grounds. The Minuet Waltz. I The genuine cannot keep up waltz is too ; fast. We with the rapid wThirl, the constant succesuion of quick measured steps and turns. Various "slow" waltzers have been introduced in some cases to four ungainly hbps, in others to a couple of shuffling slides. It is these that Herr Strauss descri pes as "conversation dances." He r ow something between true waltz, and to proposes to give us the latter and the wed it to his own characteristic strains. "I intend to call it the minuet waltz," says the famous composer, j "It will be composed . in three-four time, and con sists of three sej, which all begin1 ahdan tino gracioso, in the Style of j the j minuet or polonaise, j It will then gradually develop. into thu real waltz, with the old fashioned time md whirl. . I ; ' The minuet .waltz is to. be introduced at the approaching carnival to the elite of the Austrian aristocracy, and Herr Strauss is confident that it will serve to revive the taste where it is fast and disrepute.- for dancing i v in circles passing into abeyance : I" To Develop Our Own Ores. Lincolnton, January j27- Great im- terest is developing in the! iron ores of this, and the 1 surrounding I counties. Agents of northern companies are searching everywhere for; ores, j Leases on options havfe been taken on all the principal beds. One company has taken a six month's lease on the faiineral lands of Smith & Pain, at' $11,000; another company has taken an option oni. the big ore bank belonging to the estate jof J. W. D err at the same figure; besides the minor deposits are being searched out and bounded. These companies propose4to put hands at work under the direction of skilled miners to develop their j proper ties. The iron ores of this county were once a source of great reyenue, j and we hail with pleasure the encouraging pros- pect of again seeing them wbrked.- Charlotte Chronicle A Great Tobacco Company. Trenton, N. J., Jan. 21. Articles of incorporation were filed today! in the secretary qf State's office by the Ameri can Tobacco Company, which it; is sup posed is to consolidate a number of com panies. The capital stock is fixed at $25, 000. The number of shares is 400,000 Of said stock 15,000,000 is divided into 300,000 shares or 50 each, which shall be the general or. common stock and $10,000,000 is divided into 100,000 shares of $100 each, which shall be preferred stock shall enjitle the holder to receive each year a dividend of eight 'per cent payable half yearly, before any dividend is set apart for tne common stocK, or so much of the e: ght per cent, as the profits justify. The amount with which the company will jbegin busines is 000, divided into 200 shares. $10,000,- C. E. McLeur, superintendent of the Southern Bel Telephone Co., Richmond, iVa., and Maj. O. M. Saddler,! division superintendent of the Southern Express Co Charlotte, were in i the city during the first part of the week. A diapatch the stomach from Berlin states that in of a shark: which was re cently dissected in that city was found a dolphin weighing 120 pounds, forty-three fish, a decomposed seal,: a human arm and four human legs. r7 i r r ft1-?: , i : ' ! i I j r ' . i .-. ! .:: i ; j Si' i j I I ill -- H j 1 J. S. Qrant, PL a. (Of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy.) Apothecary, 24 South Main St. PRESCRIPTIONS Carefully Filled at All. Hours KIT TT . &. JA. Keep a Klear Konscicnce By trading with Bostic Bros. & Wright. For this week you ill find them making a special drive in Ladies Dress Goods and Trimmings, u All grades. Having an unusually pretty stock of dry goods, cordially in vite the ladies to call and look at our goods, feeling sure we can suit your tastes Aactly. Henriettas m all colors; Flannels and Serges in solid colors and stripes. : BostiG Bros. Wright's 11 NORTH COURT SQUARE. 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