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i . I. VOL. II. i . ASHEVILLE, C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY) 19, 1891. ( STATE NEWS AND GOSSIP. I i' ''!" s Record of Late Events Carefully Com piled From Exchanges, j Strawberries are ripening in Jones county. ' I W. C. Hedrick, of Davidson, killed a 2S0 pound bear. i Iliintersville, Mecklenburg, is to have a cotton factory. ? U The State will soon order an oyster gun boat of high speed. I , Hebrews have purchased a site for a synagogue at States ville j ' j Charlotte is to have the Edison system of electric street railway. The new depot at Raleigh is being built. It will cost $70,000. The average yield of tobacco in Nash county last year was $166 per acre Norfolk parties are negotiating to build a new opera house in Raleigh, j Keidsville expects to manufacture 5,000,000 pounds of tobacco this year. The capacity of the Henrietta cotton mills in Rutherford countv is to be doubled. An Edgecombe farmer shipped over a thousand harrels of Irish potatoes from tifteen acres, j A measure is before the legislature prohibiting 'possum hunting betwreen the lirst of February and October. Speck'ed trout are very plentiful in-all the streams in Graham county. It is an easy matter to get a fine mess any warm The Charlotte Auditorium is to be built to seat 5,000 people. The stage will seat :0i people with dressing looms; un . demeath. j j . ' j Mr. J. Van Lindley, of Greensboro, will plant an extensive peach orchard '.."iO.OOO trees near Southern ' Pines, ! ... . : Moore county. . ; j A bill has passed the legislature j au thorizing Swain county to build a bridge across the Tuckaseegee river and to levy a special tax; to pay for it .-' Hon. Kemp P. liattle has resigned the . jvosition of President of the State Uni versity ile was ejected to the position of Piofc.-sor of History. ' i Miss Meta Capehart was married to Mr. Field,; of London, in; Raleigh last week. Miss Capehart wasj one of the most charming belles of the State, i-i 1 ' ; i i i ' ' The lumbering business is aesuming large proportions about Kobbinsville 1,700,000 feet having been floated down the river to Tennessee this winter. Orahani may fairly claim the distinc tion of being the banner white county of the South. There is but one colored family 'within its limits on Buffalo Creek. The region around Robbinsville is the hunter's paradise. There are deer and bears, while turkeys and pheasants are ,to be found everywhere. Murphy Scout. I . ! ' !"' To-day the House of Representatives will consider a proposition for the elec tion of solicitors by the entire vote of Tabe and ass; GENERAXgNEWS BRIEFS. and Silverware. Crisp Condensations Carefully Com- f piled from Wire and Mail. i Canada's destiny, according to Gold- win Smith, is annexation to the United States. 1 I Senator Aldrich is to leave the Senate. He is too poor to devote his life to the ! ublic. J. S. Grant, Phi G. (Of to Philadelphia Coller of Pharmacy.) i Apothecary, 24 South Mala Sti We Carry the Best Stock and Offer Lowest Prices. Dinner Sets; at $8.50 and $10.00. and Forks at $1.00 per Sett, worth $2.00 anywhere. ill a j j -i i ' ; tux m euuitjss variety ana at lowest prices. There were 836 cremations in the cap- tal of Japan durintr the month of No vember. , I John Jacob Astor, of New York, and Miss Alva Willing, of Philadelphia, were I Grand Pharmacy you can positively d- Tea Sets at $4.50, $5.50 and $10.00. A fine article of Knives ma on Tuesday- U vPn Pint, Vuit orJy tU. bllvei plated bpoons, Forks, Knives and Cas- Minus C. Keith, a Brooklyn man; is purest and best drvgt and domical v&l If your prescrtpUone art prepared 4 WHEN IK ASIIEVTLLE VISIT -THREE STORES : ON South lUiain Street, Iftlos. 57, 59, and 61. tbennison's cotlon mills at New Berne wtere wrecked Friday night by the ex plosion of the boiler, George Moore wis killed and Thomas Cordon fatally injjured. Loss about twenty thousand dollars. . ! . Is. ." i 2o. L. W. Humphrey, the well known re )ublican leader in North Carolina, is de id. He had been a leader of his party for many years, was presidential elector inthe Grant campaign, and held several important omces unaer ine repuuueau administrations since that time. We learn that the late Mr. J. A. Bonitz of the Wilmington Messenger left $20,- 000 of insurance to his family. .There - . . are two parties, one j from Chicago, the other from New York, who want to buy t.hri Meaaenerer and convert it into an eight column folio paper. News Obser veil. I ' " .- Whitehall Female Seminary, located near Concord, was burned Friday. The fire was accidental. Very little was saved from the building This school was started several jears ago by North ern people for the education of young ladies. It is understood that it will be rebuilt. i Peter Humble, a paralytic, was burned to death in his home in Randolph county, about three miles from .sheboro. He and his little boy were alone at home when the house caught fire. I He was helpless and the boy was not strong enough to drag him from the building, though he was himself seriously burned in his efforts to save his father. The late heavy raint were unpreceden ted in the rainfall and damage done The boom at the Pillsboro saw mill it was hoped would stand the tremendous Large Real Estate Transfers. Some large real estate transactions were consummated last week. Messrs. W. T. Reynolds and C, E. Graham bought of Mr. N.P. Chedester, through Messrs. Natt Atkinson & Son, that portion of the Grand Central Hotel on the north side of Pattonl Avenue. The price paid was $36,000. j Mr. W. T. Reynolds also bought from Capt. T. W.Patton, through Cortland Bros.1, the house on the corner of Water street and Patton avenue, nov occupied by the Model Laurdry. The price paid was; $13,000. Messrs. Atkinson & Son also sold the Lowndes farm dh the French Broad, 25 miles above Asheville, to Jno. M. Thrash of Cherokee; ! formerly of Buncomb-. . The price paid was $22,000. It is stated that Mr. Thrash has been offered $38,000 for the place since his purchase, but has refused it. At a sale on i Saturday of a portion of the A. M! Alexander estate 'the follow ing was the result : ; R. B. Vance, 168 acres and hotel, $5,880 ; R. B. Vance, 185 acres, $1,202.50: T. F. Davidson, 120 acres, $1,980; A. B. Sheppard, 118 acres, $2,950; A. B. Sheppard, 77 acres, $1,155; W. L. Buckner, 2 acres, $100 ; Gwaltney & Sheppard, 42 acres, west side river, $3,090; total $19,009.50. Mr. P. F. Patton has purchased Mr. C. E. Graham's handsome, large residence at Park Place, overlooking the French Broad. The price paid was $15,000. Mr. Graham will erect another residence near the one sold to cost $12,000 to $15,000. This sale was also made by Natt Atkin son & Son, making a total of $73,000 worth of real estate sold by this firm durincr the past week: We congratulate them on their fSccess. g A Warning. Editors Democrat: I would kindly worn i . ucni j. minute a cauiuci warn the people in this portion of A est- jq0 . . C4 . np,,i!n . it . 18o3, died at Staunton, Va. era Carolina against sendinsr monev bv t said to be the real ruler of Costa Rica, j uud; teend, they trill be eompnvndtd ear as wen as us weauniest citizen. fuvv and oj-tu. n. The California legislature has passed I scriptionut, and third. you'wCU not Is- piaie s exniou ai me woria 8 1 air. . . rc ucMigooas ai a rery rea$onle projC A nre in tne ew ork pottomce Don't fond tU vlits- Gra nfM PUrr, disorder amoncr the mails latcliSaturday flight. ' ircscnpttont fitted at all hour. nfcJU or i - Ex-President Cleveland has come out andfUIirfre of chars to any prni n a letter opposing the measure pending f tJu n'y The nigfu UU trill be anwertd n Congress for free and unlimited toin- Promptly. Grand Pharmacy, 24 South' Main ttreet. j aiary uunlap, an old colored woman, At Grand Pluirmacv vou a h : i - r j t m . i i I 9 v. S. C. She claimed to be 109 years old 7 " " r yrwa , ' at the time of her death. f lion. Alexander II. II. Stuart, who' was Secretary of the interior in Presi- dent Fillmore s cabinet from 1850 to registered packages. Of late several A-t last reports 50,000 persons had been Pru of any comptUi ...tu parages, coiuainingmoney, lUB 6H iU loiknuauia, t hir tU largest aorUrunt of 'Cluimoii mailed at. Tinilctrm nnrl "Tilla nipoi. .Tanan. inrliifltnir thp F.mnprnr onrl rkt!ior I . . . - " - - , w " v iiiiii jivfai- i , t i . 0 - . mum v.uw. i .j oinces, and going by way of Asheville, members of the royal household. have been i broken open and the money extracted, and the packages rearranged, and the letters clipped at ends forwarded by any other drug Jioute in the city. We are deUnnened to $eU at lots a tfj lovat eten if we hare to le money by L doing. We trill cU all Patent Medicine ' at frti cot and bclott that if nec:iry, to meet iK$ in Attterille. Oter 200 Wm, all' the State inktead of bv the vote of the Pssure from the rapidity of the cur w - I i .l li: l !i district. 1 j rem ana xne great quanmj oi logs i. held, but it crave way at last letting loose Col. Lott W. Humphrey, of Goldsboro, te lo s to be precipitated against the died at his home in that city ; 1 hursday inroad trestles and the bridges below, night last. He was a man of wealth and mheir loss ia heavvJ The first to feel for a long time prominent in the politics their force was tbe tre3tle at the tunnel oi vv ayne county. U nart of which was swept away like -Western North Carolina is now fur- chaff before a windi Webster Herald nishing mules and horses to1 this section. Mr. E. S. Street has purchased a lot that : J , i! i t J . it J i; j "vr ia eaureiy iorin Carolina raibeu. iiew Berne Journal. - i " i The residence of Mr. Samuel Taylor, at Mt. Airy, was entered Friday night and his safe robbed of $2,150. The bur glars aW choked Mrs. Taylor and snatched $10 from her person. on to destination minus the money. Four packages from Mill? River and three from Boilston within the lastfew days have been sent as above specified, and in each case the money did not ar rive at its destination. I hear that com r.iaints of similar character come from Transylvania county. It is not my ob-je-. t now to discuss or comment upon the cause of the trouble, or to endeavor in anywise to locate it. I hope the proper postoffice officials will early see to that. But I wish to say to the public, in view of the recent losses of money by regis tered packages, that under the present system it is not here a safe way of transmitting valuables. Experience shows that there is something wrong. The public should be warned. Persons living at a distance from the banks and money order postoflices will have to try some other way of sending money than by registered packages, unless this re fined thievery be stopped. Very trulj', J. J. OsnouNH. Boilston, N. C, Feb. 16th, 1891.. lizes, at the lowest prices. ? Judge Pratt, of the New York supreme , ',. court, has just been relieved of 378 grains uumpureyt fimac of Confederate lead, which he has carried Medicine. A fuU vppAyof$ Clean Up the City. There is much work for a satitary officer just now in Asheville, and unless the garbage and other filth is cleaned up before warm weather sets in we may look for a first elass epidemic. I; It is the duty of every one to see that their own premises are kept jelean, and a ; great deal of sickness may be avoided bv care- There is a proposition before the legis- ullv ioakine after this matter. But H. .1 . 11. k Xl . : I 1 . " w .: ! I there are a great many, people who are too lazy or careless! to look after such things, and where this exists it is the duty of the city to! compel compliance with the sanitary laws. , The Harvard Quartette. The Harvard Quartette Concert Co., will give an entertainment in the Grand Opera House on Saturday evening, Feb. 21st, under the auspices of the Y. M. C A. This company consists of a male quartette with finj well-trained voices, who render popular songs ; Miss Ger trude Lufkin, cornetist and pianist, and Miss Ida Florence, elocutionist. They give a very pleasing entertainment and we can assure all who attend a rare treat. A Tribute to Bingham School. Hot Springs, N. Cm ) twenty-nine years under his nose bone. The Pennsylvania Veterinary School will try the Koch remedy on diseased Cows, which are considered the source of much consumption in the human family. The Indiana legislature has passed a aw making it a felony to conduct a bucket-shop, deal in margins or rent a building for this purpose within Ihf tate of Indiana. good alxcagt on hand. j Use Buncombe Liter Pill, tU best in th uorldfor liter complaint, indigestion, etc. A tftorougtUy'jrtluiUe rcmetJy for aU blood diuasc is Buncombe S-trtaparxlla. Try a Utile andyou tcillJLake no otUr. J. S. Gil A XT, Ph. G Pharmacist, 24 S. Matn fit. -AsheriUe, X. U. :NEW STORE.: lature for the extension of the Atlantic & North Carolina railroad from Golds boro westward to a connection with the Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley railroad. Mr. A. R. Rudasil, of King's Moun tain, and Messrs. M. E. Rudasil, Willie Aderholdt and P. C. BeamJ of Cherry ville, a few weeks ago purchased the Railroad (Accident; A combination passenger and freight imuaio onoais in Cleveland county tor train on the Chester & Lenoir railroad, $2,300,nd a itock ompany has been jumped the track on a trestle two miles formed,! -and they will at an early day from Newton, Monday at 4 p. m. have a cotton factory in operational W. w. Ross, a flagman, of Chester, S. ,Uftl PiaccLincoin courier. C, and D. II. Morrow, were killed ; the The Western North Carolina railway fireman, J. Hoag, of ! Chester, died two suffers quite a severe loss from the wreck hours afterward. of the three bridges between Dillsboro j Rev. M. L. Little, President of Gaston and the Tuckaseegee river, which were College, was dangerously hurt and has swept away recently by the breaking of been unconscious since the accident. a boom which held logs at a saw mill. It ; p- is said that the sight was a grand one as Admiral David D. Porter, of the Uni the logs were swept down the stream, ted States Navy, died Friday at his home The bridges were destroyed in a twink- Un Washington of fatty degeneration of ling' 1 j the heart, aged severity-eight years. The Bingham School is assured for Asheville. At the meeting on last Thursday night it was decided after a long discussion to first make an effort to secure the fund of $30)00 by private subscription before putting the proposition to the people of the city of lending the amount. A committee was appointed and the money secured in less than two days after the meeting. The Bingham School will be built in Ashe ville. And Still Another. ' i Mrs. Person: -It is with pleasure I add to your long list of certificates the fol lowing which 1 1 know to be true. Two years ago I had; a colored nurse named Isabella Caldwell; she was a large, healthy woman, weighing 160 pounds. She was taken with some ailment, I do not know exactly what, but she had violent pains in her head, neck and back. She suf fered a ereat deal and came near dviner. She fell away until her weight was only about 100 pounds. My wife gave her half a bottle of your remedy and she be (ran trk frmrnv And nnthr hnttl ti - & . rrr : r . tst ai i tirely relieved her. Hoping you success, ; w I am yours truly, i ' ' Mother.- Charlotte, N. C. j Advert! In Thb Democrat.. Feb. 14th, 1891 Sunshine and brighter prospects for the future ! Dear old Democbat I What a pleasant pastime it is to the weary housewife, through with her daily duties which occupy from the rising sun until the twilight hour, when she can rest fully fall into the old arm chair and take up the dear old Democrat to sootht the aching and weary limbs of an every day's exertion, and be as Well posted in the news of our sister city as if there. I feel that I must tell you how delighted I was to learn that Asheville was so favorably impressed and has of fered so generously to secure the great est enterprise yet offered her city. That is, to secure the establishment of the Bingham School. Maj. Bingham is the man to give strength to the young mind and to discipline the character of the student. Hii teaching inspires him with a love for whatever is juit and beautiful in thought and expression, awakens re fined and elevated feelings, and leads to a relish for whatever is moral in tenden cy and noble in sentiment. It is the sweetest nete that man can sins:, Wken grace in virtue's key tunes nature's string:. But to secure so desirable a result much care, thought and discrimination are necessary. s This is the point which Major Bingham has carried, not only to the heart of many a fond mother, but to our halls of science and educational fame. God grant that your enterprising people and beautiful mountain city may be blessed with this moral and spiritual home to guide and direct our brilliant and wor thy sons of Western Carolina. If I had twenty sons I would sacrifice every pleasure in this life to send them When the carpet has been soiled by ink, says an exchange, instantly apply plotting paper, then milk, then blotting paper, and so.on until the spot is out, as It will be. Don't rub. There is said to be a railway in Mex co on one section of which the ties are mahogany, simply because in that parti of the country mahogany is the cheapest and most available wood. The loss on St. Mary's IIospitalRoch ester, N. Y., which was destroyed by fire! Sunday night, was $05,000. Fireman Frank' Jayne was fatally hurt by falling TMce (0ur &b) Br Gwrf KooiTin :L :i , LJeran4 ewetirtr Flour. VklC lUJUlCli. Owim? to the continued rain the lnw. I er part of the city of Johnstown, Pa.t is Canned Goods of Every Variety. Under water and the people have left their homes and gone to tbe hills. The NEW AND FRESH GROCERIES Plllabury's World Reoowne4 Dctt Hour. Zd Pickle. Sweet and Sour, Imported a American. A Full Line of tbe Finest Tea Ooolonc. Young II woo. EngUah Breakfartr Imperial Gunpowder, Japan. j CrrtUUxed Fruits and Assorted Caodi; streets along the river at Pittsburg are also under water. ! I The committee of the General Assem bly of the Presbyterian Church of the United States on the revision of the Con fession of Faith, after a session of eleven f m VM;. r,M. J will report to the Assembly in Detroit next May: Fire which started in jewelry store, New Westminster, State of Washington on Sunday destroyed 7he Celebrated Langdon & Soul the block of buildings in which it was sittated and the Masonic Temple. The damage is estimated at $500,000. John cCannon, a fireman, was killed. Dispatches from Chicago intimate that Geo. J. Gibson, the secretary of the whii key trust, who was arrested on a charge of employing S. T. DeWar, a government ganger, to mow up u. u. bnuielat'a anti trust distillery in Chicago, baa forfeited j his $20,000 bail and left the country. i ! sician, who has been in Berlin studying Dr. Koch's treatment, has returned home a; convert to the system, but strong in he belief that the lymph is dangerous in inexperienced hands. lie says : "1 con sider that the lymph, to the medical world, is what dynamite is to the en gineer. XXX MILK, . J XXX SODA. J XXX BUTTER. XXX CTTTV LEMON CRACKERS. GINGER 8NAP3, SNOW FLAKES. wafers, etc; i i Dr. James S. Kelly, a New York phy- Cigars and TobaCCO E Specialty Tbe Celebrated Dot Brand 8ufr Cured nam. Country Hams, Bacon and Breakfast 8 trips. Dry Deef and Sausaff, i ALL KINDS OF SPICES, And a thousand other things too numerous t mention. If you vant fresh roods at Itr Mrs. William Astor has a gold dinner service valued at $50,000, and this ser vice in lion and unicorn repousse work U set always upon the finest of white j prices call at No. 41 Collere street, near Ncrtfc linen ciotns, witn no sasnes or nan or Court Square, before jmrchaalnx elaewber. silk. The most valuable dinner service l in the world, however, belongs to Qieen Victoria, and occupies two rooms at Buckingham Palace, over which two men watch continually. and examine our goods aad price. W. KROGER a CO. i . - : ;1. :,;: ; ! i ( . i i n i 1 ; : i i . 1 . 1 S, v: i V 1 1 1 IN
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