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6 Cuh VOL. 1. ASHE VILL E, C, THURSDAY, MAY 15s 1890. NO. 32. -I I j ; i,ocai Uriels THE CAROLINA CLAY COMPANY I .n1 k I I VyJ I I -Misses Belle and Anna Barnard, of I "I i ! Convened last week, and concluded its t ' ' - ! ivi w m -a i i : . i i i Backward ver the past eight years of our uccessful business life in Ashe- ille has demonstrated to us the Met that our determination to sell only pure goods, guar an tee ng weights and quality, and isking a small profit on every- hing sold, commends itself to ,he good sense of purchasers, j Second, That desirable cus- oniers cannot be gained by the oft-tried practice of some deal irS in cutting prices on a few eading articles, hoping to make t up on something else, j ; That hard work and close ap plication to business is the price Si Success. ! That our business for 18g9 Jhbws an increase over the pre- Hous year of 20 per cent., which jb! very gratifying, and for Wwh we wish to thank our nany friends in Asheville and Western North Carolina. Forward Ye are encouraged to enter up n the year before us with re ewed energy and a determina- ion to give our customers the ienefit of our increased facili ies ufor buying and selling the tery finest goods to be bad, at mall profits. j j j Our stock is now the largest ver offered in this market and inbraces everything in the line t Staple and Fancy Groceries able Delicacies, Fruits, Grain, lour, etc. Respectfully, I m - i - i ' ' Powell & Snider. HOLD ON T Here I Am Again. JWith the best stock of Dry Goods totibns, Dress Goods, iestics, Jeans, Flannels V: Ginghams, po Blanketis, Slibes,1 oots, Hats, many of them bought for I Less Than Cost Of Making. lAirent for some of the;largest factories I Uie South, and can sell home-made ini all wool filled, for' less than you B ;iet them at any store iii the State. Cham's, home-made slides, all styles, as fas can he bought in the State. "e?y pair guaranteed. j i pvM many goods were bought at cuon, Jate m season, and hence can be 1 fiauwer man any other hous,.m the iau oiier them. Call and see. Prices made in the )re: SHE VILLE DRY GOODS CO., J. O. HOWELL, Manager. Ko 17 North Main Street. L i ' r- JRE INSURANCE AGENCY OF C. T. BAWLS. V 5 Patton Avenue, (Down Stairs.) Wnal Fire Insurance Co. ot KarttV,nl.c,nn.,,: ' j phants Fire Insurance Co., pMu-stor Fire Insurance' Co., J"vilU.-Fiiv Insurance Co.. Assets. 12,443,9373 -2,554,658.37 ,521,706.53 270,191.89 ntelligenoe, :: Employment i CALL AND SEE US j you want Information nf nr VinH - . juu want to pm.i Till jvu want yrxii i.. a i . , week uumu aurum to f e per J&& gW stray Animal, or lose W, No. 16 Hendry Block PjStairs, Neit Door to Post Office. f ; ! looking Anna Barnard, of Danville, are visiting their brother, W. W. Barnard, Esq., of this city. The proposition for issuing $75,000 of bonds for improving the streets of Char" lotte has been adopted by a vote of 638 to :38; : 1 -I." I ' Mr? D F. Gudger, on Hominy, had the misfortune to lose a very fine horse last week; By accident it got its leer broke. which necessitated its being: killed. Messrs. M. J. O'Brien, general mana ger, Thos. N. Leary, secretary, and O. M. Sadler, Superintendent of the South ern Express Company were in the city the latter part of last week. ; :1 ! .1 The next annual meeting of the North Carolina Tobacco Association will be held at Morehead City in August. All tobacco trade will parties engaged in the be considered and gates.'' 1 1 welcomed as dele- having purchased h ? the elegant Van Gilder building on Col lege street, has taken charge of the same and is conducting a boarding house. It is needless to say it is the South. one of the best in -Our friend R. M. Stafford, Esq., was elected Mayor of Bakers ville at the re cent election. Outside of some very bad politics Mr. S. is a very clever citizen, and we have no doubt cient officer. will make an effi- Mr! Annie Harry Williams and sister, Miss Williams, son and daughter of Dr. John Hey Williams, who have been visiting for some time in Southern Cali fornia! have returned to their home, greatly to the pleasure of many friends. Mr, B. E. Hamlin, jof Scrantonj Pa., was in; the city last week, haviiig been to Macon; county looking after some val uable timber and mineral properties with a viewof investing:. He was more; than pleased with Western return isoon. Carolina and will The ! man Brown wiho was tried for killing j Roger Page, at Marion, has been charged with rape by a woman of Mc Dowell, who alleges that the crime was committed upon her daughter. Brown's friends' say the charge js made at the in stigation of his enemies. i ;' - . H i 11 Our i clever young jfriend, Mr. .Will Aiken, of this city, for some time a iconi positorion The Citizen, left last Friday for KnOxville, where he goes to locate, having accepted a positi on on The Knox ville Journal. We regret to part with vv in, out wisn mm success in nis new home. The Presbyterian G eneral Assembly convenes to-day. It jis composed of about 75 members frpm all over A large number of visitors the are South: expecteld to be in Asheville during the sittings Dr. Hill, the Moderator,! ar- rived yesterday, l ne Assembly will sit ten or tjwelve days R. L. Downs has been convicted by the Federal Court of mutilating Treas lily notes and .sentencej.1 to five years in the penitentiary at Columbus. William Henson J. R. Johnstonj, Press Helton, Lige Cpnrad . were sentenced to five months in prison and ."SlOO fine for vio lating the revenue laws. 1 he annual commencement and stu ''! ! dents' reunion at Rutherford College on June 20h and 2lst will be one of the most noted events in the history of the college. Hon. R. B. Vance will deliver the address before the literary societies and Hon. S. E. Jones, of Virginia, will address the "Re-union." - . j The Christian Observer of Louisville, a Presbyterian church paper, in its issue of May ?, has an illustatfed article upon Asheville apropos of the: meeting here of the General Assembly of the Southern Presbyterian church. There are six il lustrations of Asheville, and the suburbs and the article is a most! complimentary one. ! FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS In a Lumber Plant, at. Dillshoro. Messrs. Cummings and Buffin two prominent Northern lumber capitalists, having jvisited Western Carolina, in spected the inexhaustible timber supplies ot the section, and satisfied themselves that the field was a most inviting one, purchased a site near Dillsboro and are busily erecting a timber (plant to cost at least $50,000. They are putting in booms in the Tuckaseige River, and doing everything in strietly jfirst-class style necessary to the conduct of p. very large business. They have beeh busy for some time purchasing timber! in Jackson and other contiguous counties, and will soon be shipping to Northern and European markets what they cannot get in any other section of the world. The Demo- chat wishes the new enterprise abund ant success. Misses Belle and An Important Enterprise at Dills boro, N. C. i While in Dillsooro last week we took occasion to visit and examine the Caro lina Clay Works. We were most cor dially received j by Mr. Theodore Harris, the Secretary and Treasurer of ithe com pany, who kindly showed us through the works and explained the j modus operan di of converting Jackson county clay in to material for the finest china ware. We were not only pleased, but aston ished at! the magnitude ! of the works. All the needed j machinery and facilities required! are in operation, and fifteen tons per j day j is the capacity of the works. ! The company ! purchased a mountain of kaolin, about one-half mile from Webster. This is mined and hauled about three miles to the works at Dills boro, and here it is made ready for the potter, td whom it is shipped in carload lots as rapidly as prepared. This kaolin is said to be superior to anything Europe can afford, and cannot be surpassed anywhere. ! It is certainly very beautiful, and some ware made from it by the Trenton (New Jersey) Pottery, which take very large quanti ties of this clay, is as fine as any we have seen. MrJ Harris informed us there were at least 2,000,000 tons of the clay in sight it the mines, and their orders on hand now to be shipped to works in New Jersey, Ohio and i other points, amounted ; to more than one thousand tons. ' : ''!'! i v Associated with this kaolin are depos- its of feldspar and flint, the two other elements j which ; united with kaolin, make the finest chinawarei i Samples of this kaolin, flint and feldspar are in The Democrat Office, kindly furnished by Mr. Schrieber, of Webster, a noted min eralogist, who has done j much to attract attention to the very rich paineral inter ests of Jackson County. Both Mr. Har ris and Mrl Schrieber assured us that the clay supplied by the j Dillsboro works would make chinaware' equal to any that France or England could furnish, as had been already abundantly demonstrated. This is a most important enterprise and is but the forerunner Of other great and important I works, i This demean strates what The Democrat and others have claimed for Western j North Caro lina the vast and varied! mineral depos its cannot long be permitted to remain dormant, and, when properly worked, will pay. Jackson is rich! in minerals, which The Democrat will allude to as rapidly as it can J j I i BUILDING UP. How Town and Suburbs are Grow- 1 I ins' - J ' i -Building! in the city was never more active than at present. Seventy or eighty houses are in actual course of erection within the city, while others just com. pleted and projected swell the number far j beyond the ! hundred. Indeed the houses are finished up and occupied so rapidly that it is hard to keep the run of them, as nearly all the houses in Ashe ville are new. In the suburbs there is also the greatest improvement, i Three or four beautiful country1 houses are building and projected at Strawberry Hill. Extensive improvements j are in view on the late purchases of Mr. Bostic to the north and east of the pity, the ele gant mansion of Mr. Chas. McNamee overlooking the Swannanoa in Victoria is nearing completion, the Middleton place is being vastly improved, and across the j river the stupendous work upon the. Vanderbilt mansion and estate is in full blast. The Government Build ing will soon be looming up at the foot of Battery Park Hill, South j Main street will soon be paved with brick, the Pear son improvements on Eagle and Valley streets and vicinity are progressing' rap idly. SeveralJarge business houses may be expected to adorn our streets soon, and reports of new hotels continue to circulate.! What is actually doing though is ample proof of the assured prosperity of Asheville. Many winter visitors still linger amongst i us, keeping the streets and drives lively, while the anticipated sum mer invasion promises to be very large Many have already engaged board..' Selling- His Bank Stock. Charlotte, May 6. No little surprise was created here to-day by Qapt. Syd. B. Alexander, late president of thje State Farmers' Alliancej resigning his direc torship of the First National Bank of Charlotte, and selling his stock to his sister Capt. Alexander is jthe Alliance candidate for Congress in this district to succeed Hon. Alfred Rowland, sitting member. Alliance is opposed to national banks, and in face of approaching con gressional campaign Alexander's con duct is'considered significant!. At the last election he , requested the stockholders not to elect him director but the request was not heeded, j - Macon Court Convened last week, and concluded its work Thursday evening. Judge onner and Solicitor Moody did their work well. Three parties were sentenced to tljie pen itentiary. The other cases were com paratively trivial, i j The Macon people are a working peo ple,! and only those were I in attendance upon court who had business there, and those only staid long enough to attend to their business. A . I ! Col. Ingman and other good farmers informed us that crop prospects were very gooa ; aiso mat mere was enougn old corn in the county to last: another year were none raised this year.! fThe , people of Macon ''live at home' j more thoroughly than any we know of, and they live well, too. All theii- sup plies, for man and beast, are made at home, in abundance, and of the best. Fine horse3, fine mules, fine cattle, good people, abound and prevail. Dr. Smith informed us he had entered into an engagement with some Atlanta gentlemen to go to that city at once, and make a geological survey of a route foj a railroad from Atlanta to (jlarks- ville, Georgia, thence through RabunJ Gap into the Tennessee Valley to F rank lin1, and thence via Webster to Asheville. This is regarded as not only the most feasible route by the gentlemen inter ested, but as promising more returns by way of patronage for a railroad. All that Macon needs is railroad facilities to make it one of the most prosperous counties of the South. Her people are progressive, and her resources wonder fully rich, but isolated as they are they are cut off from! those oPPortUnities which less favored sections are growing rich upon. We were pleased to find that Bro. Cur- tisj of the Press, was doing a good and an j increasing business. The Press is a good paper and deserves! even a larger measure of success than l is receiving Macon has another excellent paper, just started at Highlands by Messrs. Coe, the Highlands Star. It is newsy, and de voted to the great material attractions of its locality and section. (May it con tinue to shine and grow in brightness. ! ;- - i J. S. T. Baird for the Assembly. Editors - Asheville Democrat : Many valued friends have recently expressed to me a desire that I should become candidate this summer for re-election to a seat in the General Assembly. After much and careful deliberation I have yielded to their wishes, and will be be fore the people again this summer make! this announcement thus early in order that the good people of Buncombe may have ample time to consider the matter, and to make such ; examination of my record and" claims as they may wish. I am a Democrat of the original stamp, and while I am not a member of any class organization I am a friend to all classes of our citizens and desire to see the rights and interests of all classes equally protected and promoted, will go as far as anyone to effect and this end by any and all proper legislation I believe that the Democratic party, when once fully invested with power in all de partments of the government, State and National, will demonstrate j not only its ability but its willingness and anxieiy to redress all the grievances and right all the oppressions under which the great masses of our people are groaning and suffering, and to restore throughout all our borders that peace and prosperity, and contentment and happiness for which we all so devoutly pry. I believe that the liberties of our people and the perpetuity of our republican form of government can only be assured unto us through the honest and benign rule of the Democratic party, hence I shall !stay with it " till death do us part." J. S. Baird. May 13, 1890. j Death of Prof. Mangum. ; ; ; i i The painful intelligence of the death of Prof. Mangum at his home in Chapel Hill was received in this citjr on Monday and was communicated to his son, a promising young teacher in jour graded schools. Prof. Mangum was one of the leading divines of the Methodist church when in 18751 upon the reorganization of the University of North Carolina he was called to the chair of English litera ture, and belles letters. Since then he has continued to fill that professorship with distinguished honor.! He was a man wl ose culture was enhanced by a magnetic and genial mannerj a kindness ness of heart and gentlenesjs of speech which his old pupils all remember with treasure. His loas is a serious one to the cause of education and religion. At Wake Foreit College, the society medals for the greatest improvement in oratory during the session have been awarded, in the Euzalian Society to S. C: Welch, of Haywood county; in the Phil omathesian to O. H. DockeryJ Jr., son of Hon. O. H. Dockery. ALLIANCE MEETING. The Farmers Turn Out at Black Mountain. Black Mountain! May 0th.4-On Sat- urday, May 10th, the Farmers' at this place gave a picnic -and, Alliance although the weather" was quite threatening, many turned out in "manyj ways' sion. : i; ' i for the occa- The choir opened the exercises by singing, - sweet Hour ot Prayer," fol- lowed by a prayer by Rev. Jas Allison i - who besought God's blessing Upon the A.lliance. ! ; L The silver-tongued orators and the an dience were then made welcome by Mr. T. R. Randolph, our popular and suave young teacher, who in a neat little speech made many spicy hits, j Mr. J. M. Stepp, President of the Al liance here, then introduced Gen. R. B. Vance, who kept the audience interested for two hours. His! subject was purely the good of and for the Farmers' Allii ance. His talk was i doubly interestine by the scientific and indisputable data brought to bear out the fact that as for the things now are legislation exists! favored few. He implored the Alliance to cling and work together and be no longer like " Issachar, who ! bared his shoulders to the burden," but to cast off the yoke in order to become freedmen He did not enter into a politicai vein of this subject, only spoke purely as an Al liance man, and for and to the and wage workers of the land, farmers wha for so many years have been at the mercy of capitalists.! This address ended in a masterful manner and - reached! the ten der depths of pathos by reciting that quaint Scotch poem, " John Anderson my Joe, John." i I Gen. Vance's speech was! followed by an address from Maj. D. A. Blackwell, the President of the County Alliance, who in a happy manner gave Jtoth val uable instruction and good advice, which it would be well for all interested to heed. He won many friends ! by! his gal lantry and ! tender reference to the fair sex and the bright jewels of happy child hood ; and was presented with a boquet from one of his many admirers among the ladies. j j ! J ' The choir sang, '!', Sowing the- Seed," then Mr. Stepp introduced j Mr. T. F. Reeves,1 who made quite an eloquent speech,! fraught with both instruction and amusement, getting many a .laugh from his interested audience by his ref erence to theT only article of Commerce upon which he knew no tax to exist, and this article was, of course, some lately discarded piece of ! feminine ab surdity.! --j- ' -: !.,' . j 'j - Our friend Mr. W. F. Tomlihson, of Country Homes, declined j to 'j1 talk a ' good audience, to death," so the choir sang, " Toiling On" followed by an ad journment to the "good, things" invit ingly spread by the ladies. ; j-'.'!- Little Bertha Clements entertained the crowd after dinner by reciting, very sweetly, " Deliverance Will Come," by Rev. B. A. Clark. j I j . j In the afternoon' there was i. called meeting of the Alliance. ; j ! Mr. Geo. Clements, Vice-President of the Order, deserves much credit for the genial and masterful manner with which . ' i ..... - i-.: he administered to the comfort) of all present. j y ';! ! Mr. D. C. Champlain, Secretary of the Order,' led the choir and rendered the harmony of sweet - sound a decided suc cess. ! ' !" : .j I . : ; ! An order presided over by si ch effi cient officers as this, and instructed and urged on by such eloquent , and apble ex ponents of the cause, cannot 'fail to ac complish ultimate success. f ! The evening of the day ended very happily with a sociable for the young folks at the residence of the! popular Mrs. A. E. Aldrich. - Very truly, Rita. The 20th of May in Charlotte. - 'I -i r j The celebration at Charlotte ion the 20th inst. -pf the Mecklenburg j Declara i i - tion, promises to be one of tne most bnl liant occasions which have commemo rated that! event since the Centennial of '75. There will be a firemen's tourna i ' . ! i . ment, a prize company drill, street pa rade, a brilliant display of fireworks, ball and banquet. Reduced rates are ffiveh on the railroads and an immense attend ance is assured. Senators Ransom and Vance will both be present and a dis tinguished speaker is looked; or from some other State. Gen. Vance's Appointments. Gen. Vance, by request, will speak to the farmers at Bryson City, 3Iay 24th ; at Oak Forest, Transylvania, May 31st; at Robinson's Church, Transylvania, Jnne 2d. Also, by request, he will de liver a lecture at Bryson City, Sunday, May 25th, on " The World for Christ," and at Robinson's, Transylvania, Sun day, June 1st, on the same subject. J. S. Grant, Ph. a. (Of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy.) Apothecary, 24 South Main St. Bill Nye, tcho has Tiad LaGrippe, send the following to Gran? s Pharmacy: "Little grains of quinin,, 4 Little drinks of rye, Make La Grippe that's got you Drop its hold and fly. This may quickly help you, If you'll only try; But don't forget the quinine , When you take the ryey Remember the moral contained in the last two lines that is don't forget to get the qui nine, and get it at Grant's Pharmacy. If your prescriptions are prepared at Grant's Pharmacy you can positively de pend upon these facts: First tJiat only the purest and best drugs and chemicals wiUbe used; second, they wiU be compounded care fully and accurately by an experienced Pre- scriptionist, and third, you will not be char Bed an exhorbitant price. You will re ceive tJtt best goods at a very reaso nable profit. Don't forget the place Grant's Pharmacy, 24 South Main street. . Prescriptions filed at all hours, night or day, and delivered free of charge to any part of the city. The night bell will be answered Promptly. Grant's Pharmacy, 24 South Main street. At Grant's Pharmacy you can buy any j Patent Medicine at tJte lowest price quoted by any other drug house in the city. W$ -are determined to sett as low as the lowest. We will sell all Patent Medicines at first cost, and below that if necessary, to meet the price of any competitor. We have the largest assortment of Chamois Skins in Asheville. Over 200 skins, all sizes, at the lowest prices. ! We are ogents for Humphrey's Homoio- pathetic Medicines. A full supply t of his goods alwags on hand. Use Buncombe Liver Pills, the best in the world for liver complaint, indigestion, etc. A thoroughly reliable remedy for al1 blood diseases is Buncombe Sarsaparilla, Try a bottle and you will take, no other. J. S. GRANT, Ph. G. Pharmacist, 2AS. Main St. Asheville, N. U. W. A. BLAIE. J. V. BE0WN. Furniture AND UndertaMng; Nd. 32 Patios Avenue, McAfee Block, Opposite-Blair's-Old Slant We are now ready, and in vite our friends and the public generally to call and examine our well selected stock of a. - Furniture, Which we are offering at Rock-Bottom Prices. Msrtetiw i S:s:iil Feature. Calls Attended Day or Night. TeieDtione, Dar 75, Hieht 65' Blair & Brown.
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