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IV: s mm THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1892. J mm. ' Ms - TWAS A BILL NYE NIGHT THE BANQUET A LARGE CESS. SVC Delia-ntftil Feast of All The Good Things, Material and Mental A Taate For "The citizen" Read era. Regular Bill Nye climate. .But what of it? The illustrious neighbor was ban quetted and it was a banquet right. The discomforts of the blustering gale and nipping sleet of the inclement night were at once dispelled by the tropical warmth, the cheery welcome and mel lowing influences generally that pre- Tailed within the doors of the luxurious equipment on the hill, the Battery Park. The arrival e-f the guest of the evening was supplemented by the appearance of another widely known humorist, no less a personage than "Our Zeb," the talen ted Senator Vance. The committee soon had these wor thies on terms of neigh borly intercourse and then for evervbodv began the genial glow of good fellowship. No mistake was made in selecting the committee of arrangements; their judgment was wis dom itself and the detail of their plan ning was admirably carried out. Mr. Nye was escorted to the banquet hall by chairman. Breese where covers W. E. BREESE. (From a Photograph by Llndser A Brown.) had been laid for thirty, and the com pany was seated a below : EDGAR W. NYE. 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 26 " 7 25 8 24 9 23 10 22 11 21 12 20 13 19 14 18 15 17 16 1 E. W. Nye. 2 W. E. Breese. 3 Z. B. Vance. 4 W. F. Randolph. 5 S. W. Battle. 6 I.V.Jordan. 7 Locke Craig. 8 A.J. Wills. 9 W. H. Penland. 10 H. A. Gudger. 11 J. S. Grant. 12 C. H. Royce. 13 R. R. Rawls. 14D. F. Hernden. 16 J. P. Kerr. 17 J. H. Williams. 18 B. H. Cosby. 19 L. M. Hatch. 20 T. F. Davidson. 21 F M. Messier. 22 H. C. Hunt. 23 J. A. Conant. 24 L. P. McLoud. 25 J. B. Bostic. 26 T. H. Cobb. 27 F. A. Hull. 28 E. P. McKissick. 29 C. M. Stedman. 15 W. o. liwyn, 30 G. S. Powell The menu was elaborate, embracing everything to tickle the palate of an epicure from the cotton tail of North Carolina to the terrapin of the Chesa peake, and its discussion was enjoyed most thoroughly. Maj. W. E. Breese, perhaps the most perfect all-round toastmaster and chair man for an occasion of this kind in the south, in a few aptly chosen remarks welcomed Mr. Nye, and in the name ot those present, tendered him the freedom of the state, county and city, and as sured him of free access to the hearts of the people, concluding by presenting to the company Edgar W. Nye, humorist, dramatist, editor, gentleman. Mr. Nye ia too genuine to play a part, and too funny to be unnatural. He is just Bill Nye, and no one in America who can read needs to be told what that is. 23 x He said this was the second time geu- ius had been recognized in bis case. The first time was when two citizens of Lar : amie, Wyoming, where he was running a newspaper, woke him up at one o'clock in the night to tell him that he was a genius, and tney wanted to tell him of it . for fear he might die before morning and never know anything about it. . Mr. Nye then spoke of the various kinds of humor, and the difference be tween American humor and that of aay other country. He then referred to the ' close relationship between Americas hu mor and pathos. "There ia Only the finest kind ol a line separating them,' said he, i ami to illustrate this fact be related this , Story. ; r-M;y $ r-vt , , V- '' He had a frienda preacher who. un like many of his class, did not always dress himself in a garb that marked his calling, and thereby kept him from seeing - human nature as it is, but it was his , custom to mingle with the crowd and . . see humanity in its simple, everyday life, feelings and ways. -: :-v It was Decoration day, and one of those large crowds that always assem ble on these occasions was present. His preacher friend was there, mingling in tne throng, seeing wbat was to be seen and hearing what was to be beard. In his rounds he met with an old coun tryman who looked lonesome and seem ed as if he were anxious to talk with someone. As it frequently does on great occasions, it threatened rain. The old man caught a friendly look in the eye ol tne preacher, and feeling encouraged. suggested: " It 'pears like it mout rain, but 1 never low anything like the wea ther to keep me from coming to Decora tion. 1 have been on hand at every one 8i nee the war closed, and I am going to be on hand at every one s long as 1 live, I have a boy buried here, he contin ued, full of the subject that filled his heart, "and his grave shall never be neglected so long as my life lasts. When the war broke out our boy would go in the army He was voung and full of life, and would go. He hadn't been gone long before the news came to me and his mother that he was wounded. I started for the field at once, and I found him badly shot, in fact he didn't live long after 1 got to him, but before he died I promised him tnat I would see that his grave was kept green. And so I carried him home to his mother, and I told herof the prom ise I had made, and I have kept it faith fully ever since. Now t here is some peo ple who will not be on band Decoration day unless the weather is all right, but I tell you stranger it has no ettect on me, I promised our boy that his grave should be kept green, and I'm damned if I don't intend to do it it 1 have to paint it. Mr. Nye's speech was made up almost exclusively ot stones, told in his own in imitable way, and the audience wept with laughter. The first toast, "The Drama to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature," was proposed by Mr. L. P. McLoud, and re sponded to by Mr. Locke Craigin splendid style. He spoke of the important part the drama bad played in all periods of the world's history and as it had been large ly instrumental, under Shakspere and Marlowe, in regaining the world from the darkness into the higher life of the period of the renaissance, so he hoped it would now be used by the modern dra matist as a means of raising the world still higher in the scale of being. His speech was scholarly, rhetorical and elo quent. "The Press The foster mother of the 'Cadi'; likewise of Bill Nye and bis Boom erang," the next toast, was proposed by Mr. J. Y. Jordan, and responded to by Mr. ii. f. McKissick. "North Carolina" was next on the list, proposed by I. P. Kerr, and responded to most handsomely and eloquently by Hen. C. M. btedman. "The State of Buncombe Her big bugs, her Bill Nye bogs, her bumptious bonds, her Bois de Bonlogue boulevards, her bonnie belles and her bouncing babies, was the last regular toast, and was proposed by Maj. W. E. Breese, and responded to by W. it. uwyn in an orig inal and thoroughly tunny style. W. F. Randolph next announced as a volunteer toast the lawyers ot Western North Carolina, and called upon Hon. H. A. Gudger to respond. Mr. .Gudger spoke of the prominence of lawyers in the field of thought and advancement in all periods of the world's history, and re ferred to Woodfin, Erwin, the Davidsons and others prominent in the history of North Carolina who had come up from the Western North Carolina bar, and closed by referring to the presence of an other of the most distinguished of North Carohnia s sons, Senator &. ti. Vance, who was born in our mountains and went out from the Asheville bar. He called upon him tor a speech. Senator Vance said the hour was too late for much of a talk, but he would say that he was glad to welcome Mr. Nye to Western North Carolina, and hoped that he would be received into fellowship not like the servant girl, who joined tqe church, and when asked by her mistress it she bad joined replied, "Not plumb jined they just tuck me in on suspicion." He hoped Mr. Nye would not be taken in on suspicion, but that the people would (not take him in, as the real es tate men would do that) get all his money they could, drink all his Kquor that was offered, give him all the advice possible, and say to him, "I told you so," if he should make a mistake this was the ordinary way in which humanity re ceived their fellows. Hon. T. F. Davidson, attorney general of the state, T. H. Cobb, city attorney of Asheville, and C. H. Royce, ot New York, responded in happy speeches to calls from the house, and it was one o'clock when the signal for rising was given. The occasion, in every possible respect, was the most pleasant ever known in Asheville, and, as indicated by a unique souvenir, in the shape of large rhododen dron leaves, placed at each plate, will long remain a green spot in the mem ory of each one present. More of Mr. Nye's Speech. The Asheville correspondent of the Richmond Dispatch sent to his paper the following account of Bill Nye's talk at the banquet. Mr. Nye, replying to the toast, "The guest of the evening," told -the history of his association with the press of New York, and how Buncombe became to be so closely identified with it. Five years ago he came to Asheville broken down in health, having cancelled all his lecture engagements for the winter, and so emaciated that be came nearer to look ing like the cuts now made of him than he has ever since be came, because he was so thin and so sensitive, to the cold that he wanted to find a tropical place for the winter, "where the nightin gale and the oriole flash through the rich foliage of the palmetto and the lacKBao uiru nun iv iia mmc iu inc gloaming." .., , HIS COLD CREBTDtG. Here be was greeted with two fret of snow and a Manitoba wave that froze the jackfiab in the French Broad and delayed trains for a week. It was pretty severe on a Yankee invalid living ia a house with southern exposure, a cottage that would not hold walnuts a bouse that would not hold anything but grown people. It was so open, and where the wind-tossed carpet made one seasick to look at ifc ; One - Sabbath during the storm, after reading a chapter from Job and shovelling out a path to the well with a fire shovel, dressed in a seersucker eoat and Mackinaw straw hat, and. a pair of earmuffs, bis little girls asked him to make them a picture.1 So he -made with pen and ink a picture of himself in his sunny southern home. waist-deepin the snow. , BMIHUIUK with a seer sucker coat and a general Long Branch style of clothes surmounted with ear muffs and armed with a fire-shovel. THE ORIGINAL CARTOON. It was the original Nye cartoon, which has been followed by scores of others, as bad or worse in appearance, but on the same order. The picture struck him as unusually funny and too good to throw away, so he wrote a hall-column letter to go with it, poking fun at his tropical home and himself incidentally; and as the World was the acknowledged leader in the matter of speedy and accurate re production of pen-and-ink drawing, he sent it to that paper. Col. Cockerill, then the editor, was greatly delighted with it, and by return mail came a check and un offer which made the hungry and sad eyed humorist dance his celebrated baby elephant glide, and, to make a long story short, Col. Cockerill. on behalt of Mr. Pulitzer, wrote Mr. Nye that a salary would not stand between them or pre vent an arrangement. Mr. Nye went to New York, and with the World began a prosperous and successful engagement, which has grown into a syndicate letter, and briefly a very comfortable traffic with the American people, all ot which accidentally grew out of that unusual winter in Asheville. HIS GRATEFUL HEART. "Is it surprising," he added, "that my memories of Asheville are pleasant, and with the health it has given me and mine I accept with a grateful heart to night your kindly and generous hospi tality and applause? I am glad I am to be your neighbor; glad that here in this beautiful and health-growing valley of the French Broad, where every angle ot the road gives you a new picture and calls forth a new exclamation of delight, we may grow old together, gentlemen; not suddenly and violently, as do those who battle for fortune on Wall street, swapping youth and strength for sodden wealth and shattered health; but beau tifully and naturally as the rich coloring of your own bright sunsets change and soften into the purple and mellow twi light of an October evening." HAVE A CIGARETTE? The Tobacco Works 140.000-a-Day Machine Has Arrived. Ere long Asheville will have added to her industries a cigarette factory. Several months ago an order was given by the Asheville Tobacco works for a cigarette machine, the company intending to begin the manufacture of cigarettes on an extensive scale in a short while. The machine has been delayed from time to time, on account of litigation, so that the consumers of the cigarette in Asheville have almost despaired. But their hopes will revive, for the long ex pected machine has arrived and is now in the factory at the intersection ot South Main and Atkin streets. The machine is the 'Universal long filler cigarette machine," and will when run up to its full capacity, turn out 140,000 cigarettes a day. rurther, this is the only cigarette machine of the kind now in use outside of the trust, and is an improvement on the Bonsack machine. Thecourts decided that this is not an infringement upon any other patent. Although the machine is not very large, yet it is very complicated, and will require the services ot an expert to set it up and make it ready for operating. A machinist will arrive here on the se cond of January, whose business it will be to put the machine in running order. As soon as this has been done, the company will begin the manufacture ol 140,000 cigarettes a day. One brand will be called "Asheville Air" Manager Fred. A. Hull's selection. The Asheville Tobacco works has se cured the use ot this machine for ten years, with the privilege of extending to twenty, and also of getting another ma chine if it desires. FINE BREAD. Asnevllle Ladlea Prove Them- aelvea Good Bakers, The contest tor the prize of five dollars cash to the lady who would bake the best loaf of bread, usiag Sugar Coated yeast, was decided Thursday at the drug store of T. C. Smith & Co. The judges were MrsE. J. Aston, Mrs. H. C. Hunt and Miss Eliza Merrimon. A number of loaves had been sent in, and to decide which was the best was diffi cult. The bread was all splendidly baked, and made evident the tact that Asheville ladies are hard to beat when it comes to bread. Tbe prize was won by Miss Bella Bar nard, No. 74 North Main street, but the contest was very close between Miss Barnard's loaf and those sent in by Mrs. Martha House, 47 Woodfin street, and Mrs. G. W. Pearson, 44 French Broad avenue. After the prize bad been awarded the bread was sent to the Mission hospital and Children's home. THE EXFOLIATION. Heat Cane Exciting Much ment in Tennessee. Com- The case of , bone exfoliation which The Citizen wrote up some time ago, is stirring up a a good deal of talk in Ten nessee, where Miss Neas, the lady who sheds herV bones, lives,' Dr. Drake, of Knoxville, Pronounced the exfoliation a "fake," and tried to prove that there was no truth in the story. Wednesday's Knoxville Journal contains a number of affidavits, made by persons who live near and know Miss Neas, and who testify positively that tbe story is true. One affidavit is made by Miss Neas, and a long letter is written by Dr. T. E, Bales, Miss Neas' physician, and the gen tleman from whom The Citizen ob tained its information, - - . .' ., .; '.Northwestern Mutual Settles. Ernest L. Bwbank, Asheville agent of the Northwestern Mutual Life insurance company, this morning received a check for the amount m which the late T. P. Hamilton was insured in that company; $6,000. It has been just seven days Since the claim was sent to the head Office. The payment was made to Mrs. Hamilton at I o'clock this afternoon. SENATOR Z. B.VANCE HERE OUR B" PAYS ASHEVILLE t SHORT VISIT. He Give eating t Trip Ac Impres Haw O Tne Citizen" an Inter itllne ot Hia Recent hh tne Water, and Hi na of Some Thing- He o "Gombroon" Tnle Aftern .. United ate Senator Zebulon B. Vance spent Tuesday and part of Wednes uay in Asheville, stopping at the Swan nanoa. This was Senator Vance's first visit to Asheville since his return from his Euro- SENATOR Z.',B. VANCE. pean trip, extending over seven months. He passed through Asheville Monday on his w ay to Alexanders, where he spent a day with his brother. Gen. Robert B. Vance, coming up to the city yesterday afternoon. He attended the banquet given Bill Nye at the Battery Park Tues day night, The Citizen cailed on the Senator at the Swannanoa Wednesday. The jovial son of old Buncombe has lost none of his cheery manner, and although feeling somewhat unwell, gave an outline of his recent trip. Tbe Trip . "Mrs. Vance, myself and mv stepson, Mr. Harry Martin," the Senator said, "left New York city on the 27th of May last, landing at Queenstown. We took a considerable tour through Ireland and England, spending three weeks in Lon don, visiting the interesting places in the great city. The next two weeks wespent in Scotland, then crossed to the Continent landing at Antwerp. Went up tbe Rhine to Mayence, then across the country to Bayreutb, where the Wagnerian festival was in progress, in which we partici pated. "After leaving Bayreuth our tour in cluded Nuremburg, Leipsic, Berlin, Dres den, Prugue and Vienna. We crossed the Alps, going to Venice, then through Northern Italy across to Switzerland. Several weeks were spent in Switzerland, after which we took in Paris, spending tbe month ot September there. Ourstay there was very pleasant and what we saw interested us verv much. "On the first of Octooer we left Paris for Rome, the eternal city, going through Italy, by way ot the Mt. Cenis tunnel, visiting enroute Genoa, Pisa, Florence and other cities. Two weeks were spent in Rome, and then we went to Naples for a weeks stay. ' The Pyramids Vlalted. "Brindisi, in Italy, was our next im portant stopping olace, and at this point we shipped for Alexandria, Egypt, While at Cairo we went out to the Pyra mids, ten miles from the citv, on the desert, consuming a day in the trip. We had planned and hoped to go to Jerusa lem, but the cholera was prevalent in Syria, and tbe entire coast of Palestine was under rigid quarantine, so that part 01 our itinerary naa to De abandoned, "Leaving Alexandria we went to Athens, then to Constantinople, from which city we went across the continent, up tbe Valley of the Danube, and back to Pans. Then we returned to London and from there to Liverpool, where we took passage on the steamer "Maiestic." hi nil nuikc oitu uuc, lui ixtw I urn arriving there on last Thursday morn iv u: ... . .. 1 : r xt 17 1. ing, the 24th instant. That night we were back in Washington. "There," said the Senator, "is our trip in bnet. Aside from the ordinary dis comforts of travel, and the inconvenience of staying in countries whose language we could net speak, our trio was a most enjoyable one. Tbe railroad accommo dations, I found, were infinitely inferior te those of the United States. The ac commodations at tbe hotels of the old world, however, are very good, and their rates are not higher than those on this side tbe Atlantic. In some respects Rome was the most interesting city which we visited. Esrvpt and the valley of the Nile claimed all our attention, and of Constantinople I can scarcely say enough. I have seen noth ing that can approach it. Of the scen ery, that in the countries of Ireland. Scotland and Switzerland was the most beautiful, all possessing a different order ot Deauty. : V v" ' ' Woman In Germany. . -i "The most striking thing in Europe was the armed preparations. There is tbe greatest standing army in the world. Tbe able bodied men are all in the army, while tbe pursuit of the industries ia left to the old men, women and children. In the cities of Germany and Belgium it is common to see carts going through the streets with a woman on one side of the pole and a dog hitched to the other side. Tbe carts are driven by women almost exclusively.'; .-N ,; ','. ''--i- u v, ;. j, -With tbe exception of Great Britain, tbe agricultural implements are. primi tive.. Our improved plows, etc.. are un known. In Egypt the farmers still use the plows of Phaiaoh's tlme.v i , ; v,;,. Politically Speaking-. Turning to jjolitica, Senator 'Vance said: "I am wofully behind on this sub ject. I have seen nothing on this line since I left America, except the events which were deemed important enough to be cabled across the water. The papers beyond the Atlantic devote little space to news from the states. When I reached Washington congress . had adjourned, and so I have had little chance to post myself on politics. I will say. however, that I think Speaker Crisp an able .and discreet man, and believe be will make a good speaker. There is some dissatis faction over his appointments on the committees, but not more, I think, than is usually exhibited over such events. "The foreign countries, I found, beat us in governing cities. The jobbery and corruption which too often scandalize the government of ourcities are unknown there. Bat One Country. "But, after all, there is but one coun try, and that is America. And I think the centre just about takes in Western North Carolina and good old Buncombe. I return to my native land with my pa triotism intensified, and am glad to see my old home again." Senator Vance left on the east bound train Wednesday for his country seat, tiombroon," near Black Mountain where he will spend several days, return ing to Washington by the fifth of Janu ary. Mrs. Vance remains in Washing ton. ASHEVILLE NOTES. A Happy New Year! A. R. Cooley is away on business trip to (.narleston. Mrs. W. D. Hilliard has gone to Nor folk. Va., on a visit. N. B. Atkinson has returned from hunt in Haywood county. Revenue collections for the fifth district on Wednesday were $4,206.33. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Martin will be "at home," after January 15, at No. 120 Haywood street. A hog was weighed on Hill & Shanks scales yesterday afternoon which tipped tne beam at 5U0 pounds net. It was raised cast ot Beaucatcher. Rey. R. G. Peirson and wife reached New York on their return from their Eu ropean trip on the 28th inst., and will arrive in this citv tomorrow afternoon C. W. De Vault, proprietor of "D.F.E.' or DeVault's Flavoring Extracts, has rented a space in the Armstrong build ing, No. 4 north court place, where be will soon establish himself for the dis pensing of his goods. A polypus that was removed from the nose ot an Ashevillian Thursday by Dr, McGilvra is the third largest that has ever been reported, measuring 2xh inches in length, an inch thick and weighing 2 drachms. Asheville is always about 1 nose ahead. William Harvey, a painter, died yester terday at his residence, tbe Pines, in South Asheville. He wab about 35 years of:a$e and leaves a wife and three children. His remains were buned at Mills River, Henderson county, today at 3 o clock. 1 The Wilmington street railway has been sold to a syndicate, one of the rep resentatives ot which is John H. Barnard, formerly superintendent of the Asheville street railway. The syndicate took charge January 1, and will discontinue the horse cars as soon as the machinery lor an electric line can be put in. The colored people had a Christmas festival at Shiloh church, about two miles from Biltmore. Two men, Mack Payne and Lewis Anderson, got into a difficulty and Payne shot Anderson in the arm. The bullet was extracted by Dr. A. S. Whitaker, and Anderson is able to be out. Payne escaped. And The Citizen, not taking notes at tne banquet, ot course torgot to mention yesterday much that was good and among other things were the well told stories by Dr. S. W. Battle. Tbe doctor is a noted story teller, and Mr. Nye ac knowledged himseli bis debtor tor tbe drinks on one of bis efforts. J. Bulow Erwin, who has been run ning the Round Knob hotel tor some time, is in the city. The hotel has been sold to tbe Carolina Investment com pany of Morganton, and has been closed, The company proposes to make exten sive improvements before tbe hotel is opened again. Mr. Erwin sold the furni ture of the hotel to the company for $800. Mrs. W. H. Pearcy died at her resi dence on Urange street yesterday at 3 o'clock of consumption. Mrs. Pearcy was a sister-in-law ot Alderman J. M. Gudger. She was liked by all who knew her. She leaves a bereaved husband and five children. Tbe remains will be taken to the old home of the deceased in Yancey county and interred tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock. Realty Transactions. The following deeds have been filed in Register Mackey's office for registration: R. H. Jones to E. T. Kennedy. land in Leicester township.,.. .$ W. H. Allred and wifetoW. R. Crawford, 29 acres in Lewes' ter township T. T.Patton and wife to Sam'l .200 600 Brill, 128 acres on Swanna noa 14,000 Wants to Know, Mr. Byrd. t Editor The Citizen: Will tbe pastor of the Central Methodist church please inform me and the public what he meant in his reply to "The Tattler" in the foW lowing sentence: "If I had said this conversation was with a drunken man I guess 'Pete Frizzle' would have written me up as haying brought tne human race into 'unenviable prominence. " , . . ... Kespccttuiiy," t5 .-:V;,'.v.'.i. v' PeteFtugle. V- allies) Heporfc; According to Chief McDowell's report, there were 161 arrests by the patrolmen on the police force during the month of December. ' The fines amounted to $773, and the costs paid to witnesses '$15.B0. Of this amount $521.20 was paid in cash. Recorder Miller says that, since the establishment of the recorder's court, on June 8, lessithan seven months ago.the fines and costs V have ' amounted to The Friday evening service preparatory to communion bas been changed to four O'clock in the afternoon. The Saturday service is also at p. : f&vi Vi; DOLLS TAKE A A BIG TIME AT THE HALL WEDNBSlf Tbe Doll Exhibition eess Every Way An n Proa-ram The Prlseif Nearly 30 Raised. 1 The prediction that there! dolls, little dolls and cveH sort ot a doll at tbe doll theY. M. C. A. lecture hnll afternoon was fully verified. There was the wee doll, stand alone, and the great which looked perfectly capable care ot itself in this cold, unfeeling world. In fact, dolls of every form and fashion had been brought out, there being about one hundred on exhibition. There was a large crowd in attend ance. The following program was ren dered: Song Santa Claus is coming. Song Clap, Clap, the Hand. Recitation Christmas Morning, by George Randolph. Song ack and Jill. Doll drill. Song Here's a ball for baby. Song Humpty Dumptv. Recitation Dressing Mary Ann, by Jessie Hays. Inspection of live dolls. Song All Good Night. The doll drill was arranged by Miss Millard, and how well she had done her work was attested by the precision with which the children executed the difficult maneuvers of the drill. Dolls were used as guns, and tbe evolutions of the little company were very interesting. The "live dolls" were arranged by Miss Drummond. A number of children were costumed as dolls, and the tableau they made was as pretty as any one could wish. "The old woman in tbe shoe" was ar ranged by Miss Webb. In a huge shoe stood a large doll, while all around her were the baby dolls, and the "old woman" really .seemed in a quandary as to what she should do with her numer ous family. The committee appointed to judge the dolls exhibited made the following decis ions after carefully consideringthe merits of the dolls displayed. Prizes were awarded to the pretty blonde in blue, owned by Miss Annie Martin; to the ugliest doll, whose owner is Ada Gudger; to the largest, belonging to Margaret DuBose, andlthe smallest, a half inch doll owned by Edith Randolph. Much interest was shown in tbe oldest dolls. The decision fell to three little ones, woven of silk, belonging to Gussie West, which had been in the family since 1815. The committee wish to thank Messrs. Estabrook, Law and Thrash for their loan exhibit of dolls, and Messrs. Red wood and Mimnangb for draperies used. in: doll show not only gave pleasure to all who were there, but proved a suc cess financially, tbe amount realized being nearly $50. One half of the pro ceeds will go to the Free Kindergarten, and tbe remainder to tbe Oxford Orphan Asylum. A PARTICIPANT'S ACCOUNT. Wnat a Little Girl ttaw at tne Doll Show, I went to the doll show today tnd it was very fine. I think there were four tables but my sister says there were five. One table bad a darkey nurse which were takiug care of some dolls and a lady doll aud a big doll colled Santa Clause baby. Curteu off at the back of the room they sold cake and ice cream. Another table bad a bride grome and a bride, and a boy doll looked as if he were the minister, and a doll in a bed with a doll standing beside it. I think there was a few more. There was a table in middle of the room wich held the old woman in her show with all her child ren. There was one doll there that was about 85 years old there was another table wich held some dolls 1 did not no tice them much there was another table with a boy doll pushing a doll in a swing and there was another doll sitting in a cheer they sang songs and George Randolph SDoke a niece and so did a notber little girl they had a doll drill and the. children were dressed in red with wite capes and aprons and held there baby dolls. , A SERIOUS CHARGE. Andv Kicker Arrested on a Madi son County Warrant. Andy J. Ricker, a young white man of this city, was arrested Wednesday bv Deputy Sheriff . M. Morgan and lodged in jail. Tbe arrest was made under authority ef a warrant issued by W. J. Gudger, a justice of the peace in Madison county, and sworn out by J. M. Randall. The warrant sets forth that Ricker and an other man of the name of John Durham, not long ago entered Mr. Randall's house and, with drawn pistols, de manded of Mr. Randall's daughter that she give up all the money in the house. Tne warrant aoea not state wnetoer the men got any money, but that they frightened tbe family out of the- house, and that before the men left they shot his dog. ' ' -vv-.-- ;-;y-. - Kicker is the man who was arrested a week or more ago by Detective Hamp ton, and is now under, bond to appear, at the next term of Buncombe court to answer to a charge of larceny. , Pert Is of Modern Life. j i .1 a I - 31 j ft accidents, broken car. and elevator w i 'i '-jf'-bles, explosions of steam, natural gas f :. V ', and chemicals, poisons in adulterated ; food, and drink, are a few; but all these dangers combined do not kill as rapidly ; as slow and sure consumption. The ' death rate, however, from consumption, is being yearly cut down since Dr. Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y., has given to the world hia celebrated "Golden Medical .Discov ery," a cure for consumption and throat and lung troubles that lead to consump tion if taken in time and given a fair triaL The time ,to cure consumption (which is really nothing -more or less ' than lung-scrofula,) is in the first stages. A cough generally sounds tbe alarm, and ; you should take the "Discovery" at once. There is a time when it is too late. v-'!'.' 3- .U-.Siwt.flnrVf--- ".7X3 ""1 : 1.. '. .,,,'( '.'V J1h l't: 1 .' 'A, 1 Mil Js. "ft?'' ISajgttfh1sr3s aU,'hUlli 4PiJssttiftwsswsBwsa)isBjHki 5r
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