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'''J"''K'T'w.w'l-,"Tt"Wlr'''.;''5;J' THE DAILY CITIZEN "TT THE DAILY CITIZEN, BOARDING, WANTS, Pur Rent, and Lost Notices, tbrte lino or lei, 25 Cents for I each Insertion. Delivered to Vtaltora in any part of the Ctty. One Month flOc. Two Weeks, or lvss 25c. VOLUME V. ASHEVILLE, N. C, SATURDAY, AUGUST 3i,ii88g. NUMBER 121. TRADE REVIEW. NORTH CAROLINA NOTES. FAHTKKT OCEAN STEAMER, VICTORIA'S SPEECH FOLKS VOr KNOW, PROFESSOR WILLIAM CAIN. AT THE WHITE SULPHUR. DI N & CO.'S RKPURT OP THI CONDITION OF BUSINESS. Business ill All 1'HrtN or the Coun try Coiitiuues to Improve, and the Ocneral Outlook Ih Brighter than for Many Months Past. Nkw Vokk, August IK). The following is K. G. Dun it Co's review of trndc'for the week t-in 1 i n Saturday, August Ml. Lust week's suggestions in regard to the monetary situation have been entirely sustained hy the events of the past week. Those who held large amounts of Gov eminent bonds were iudueed to sell freely at prices formerly paid by the treasury whieh has thus been enabled to pay out about twenty millions for bonds, hut these heavy disbursements have seareely changed at all the market for eommereial paicr here, or Boston, or Philadelphia, though speculation has been rendered more aetive and a sharp advance in stocks and wheat has resulted. The Sec retary's belief that bonds to a large amount could be obtained at priees of fered has been justified; and he has done what heeould umler the law to prevent a monetary pressure. Hut the money disbursed seems likely to relieve specula tion rather than commercial needs; at least, until other operations besides the one in Government bonds have been liquidated. Stocks have advanced just $2..r() per share in the week and 1,200,1100 shares have been sold already at rising priees. As yet the money for bonds has not ac tually gone out of the Treasury, mid its cash holdings are a little large'r than a week ago, but its deposits in bonds are half a million less. Husiness in all parts of the country continues to improve with the stimulus of large crops. Chicago reports an im mense increase in receipts of grain and provisions with a considerable gain in the sale of dry goods and clothing. Mil waukee finds' trade improving, and De troit and St. Paul's previous improve ment is maintained. At Omaha, business is very good, and though trade at Kan sas City is rather (uiet, the demand for money is enlarging. At Cleveland and 1'ittsburg the iron business is expanding, and at Philadelphia the improvement is noted in wool, groceries, iron and steel (Old their products, and in coal, with a good trade in drugs and chemicals and tobacco. At lioston sales of wool arc larger, reaching 2,100,0(10 pounds for the week ,anl t he ilry goods trade is larger, with prices well maintained. A heavy demand for exports is observed in leather, both side and splits, and a good home demand, while the boot and shoe facto ries are well employed at last year's prices, and large building operations make the lumber trade more aetive. The situation in the iron industry is surprisingly encouraging for a weekly production hardly eversurpnssed, and ap pears to be met by a wonderful demand, although the deliveries of rails continue below last year. The Tennessee Coal and Iron Company gives notice ol an ad vance of 25 cents in its prices for pig iron, and the rise in the price of coke at Pilts tltirg ensures some advance in pig iron there; while bar, plate and structural iron are in strong demand ami the works better employed than they have lieeu be fore for several years. An increase of wages is reported at several establish ments, and the building of several more furnaces two by the Carnegie works at Itraddock. Wool is not yet freely taken by manu facturers at current priees, but the de mand isliettcr on one side, while bidders seem a little more ready on the other to make the concessions required by the present state of the dry goods market. The high price and inferiority of cotton embarrasses manufacturers, bula large new supply is now .'it hand. The interior money markets are so well supplied that a lack of supply for com mercial purposes at the chief eastern cities is more noticeable. At Milwaukee, there is more activity and strong de mand, and at Chicago the demand is good; but in generally thesupply isample at the usual rates. collections arc nu nroving at Omaha, and rather better at Philadelphia; hut at most points the absence ot complaint is noteworthy. The movement of money through the treasury to the interior continues, and wou'd doubtless have caused some nrcssure here but for the liberal sales of bonds, while the bank of England has raised its rate ol discount thus, evincing a disposition to prevent any outflow of nolo to tins country, sales ol commer cial bills against cotton and other crops nave Pcen large ami exports n oin .-c York for the four weeks exceed lastyear.s by nearly 22 per cent, the increase on imports being a little larger. It is an encouraging fact also that the important failures of recent weeks have not oroduecd the large crop ol" minor disasters by many apprehended. It is re ported that creditors willgrnutcx tension to Wauregau mills and the st.ttcucnt from Philadelphia is that Lewis llrollicrs will pay fifty cents on the dollar; hut neither in numlier nor in magnitude have the failures of this week been unusual. The volume of trade is still much above that of last year, and clearings show a gain of 8'a per cent, outside of.Ncw York. In SH.-culativc markets the general ten dency has been toward lower prices, though wheat advanced on extravagant reports of shortness in the luroicnn "crops, but the average of prices for all commodities is about one per cent, lower than n week ago; and even in wheat, after latter sales, indicate a declining tendency as in other grain and provis ions. The business failures oceuring through out the country during the past seven days as reported to the R. G. Dunn it Co., mercantile agency by telegraph, numlier, lot the United States, 180, and for Canada 22, or a total of 211 as com pared with n total of 200 last wec-k, and 211 the week previous to last. For the con esponding week of last year the fig ures were 220, made up of 202 failures in the United States, and twenty-four in the dominion of Canada. HHELBV'S HKi STI RGKO.N. A Monster Fish Cauiihl by an Aged Mail A Sudden Death. SiiKLiir, N. C, August 30 Special. Richard Scruggs, an old man, 70 yearsof age, to-dav caught a sturgeon in the First Broad river which measured ivc feet nine inches in length and weighed 102 pounds. The sturgeon was caught in a fall trap, and is the largest ever captured in this section. It was viewed hy a large number of people utter it had Lccu caught. Mrs. Lucy A. Mallard, died here to day of paralysis. She was 76 years old .! n nutiw of Dlllllitl COlllltV. this State. She leaves six living children, two of whom, John una J allies luanaru, are well known newspaicr men. The Kaleigh Dispatch correspondence ol tlic29lh says; The negroes have in several cases recently been very turbulent at their gatherings, The Halifax affair, wherein Wilmington toughs attempted to clean out the town, results in the ar rest of Jim N'eal, Charlie Onslownnd Sam Reese, who are now in jail at Halifax. The police at Newlicrucday before yester day iiad to close the doors of a negro church, after having first driven out the congregation. Two factions inthechurch engaged in a desjK'rate battle. There was much pistol firing, and the whole neighborhood was much alarmed. The offenders were heavily fined yesterday. It is stated on excellent authority that at the Methodist conference the vote in favor of endorsing the action of the board of trustees in removing Trinity College to Kaleigh will be overwhelming. It is possible that the conference will take up the matter of so altering the bounds of the conferences that this State will lie in (he North Carolina conference. Now part of it is in i he llolstoticonfcrcncennd a small part in the Virginia conference. An attempt may be made to gelupagain I lie subject of the division of the North Carolina conference. A few years ago there was a great debate on this subject. Winston Republican: Mr. Edward L. Pardew, of Good Springs, Surry county, M. C, was accidently shot through the head on the nighr of August 20th. It seems that he and sonic others were playing cards, and after getting through, Mr. Welcome Richards went to fire his pistol and when he raised it over his shoulder, it accidently went off. shooting Mr. Pardew through file head. The de ceased leaves a wife but no children. Mr. D. K. Poindexter, who lives on Hear Creek, in Surry county. North Carolina, owns a nude that is thirty-two years old. "Old Mike" is his name, and he is known both far and near. He served in the iron works near Koekford, during the war, and has served through the ad ministration of eight presidents. Old Mike is still gaily, and seems to be in the very prime of lite. He tends a good crop cqcry year, and can do as much work as a five year old animal. Franklin Press: Mr. S. M Dills, of Cartoogajay, has a pecan tree, probably the only one in the county, fifteen years old anil thirty lect high, bearing fruit this year for the first time. Tom Mc- Gaha. aiut.i Mr. lirendle, found a den of rattlesnakes in Swain a lew. days ago, and killed thirty-five, all of large size. We were shown at the drug store Inst Friday a beet that bcatsallthc beets that have not heretofore been beaten by any beet. It measured twenty-seven inches long and twenty-three inches around, and weighed sixteen pounds. It was raised by Mr. J. M. Daltou, of Cowec. Rev. Charles L. HofVmau, of Lincohi- ton, N. C, delivered a short, interesting and well constructed sermon at St. Agues' Episcopal chinch last Sunday evening. A telegram from Salisbury tinder date of August 21), says: Orders from Wash ington have at last been received here to move the internal revenue otliees from here to Statcsville, and that they are to be moved bv the first of September, hence every thing in the ofliee is hustling to gel ready to move. Most x'oplc will be glad of this, f hough it will not be as convenient at Statcsville as here. It is supposed that a stamp ofliee will lie es tablished here. The Charlotte Democrat says: Prof. J. Coltou l.ynes, formerly a teacher in King's Mountain Military School, has been elected president of the Middle Geor gia Military and Agricultural College at Milledgevilic, to till the place made va cant bv the resignation of Gen. D. II. Hill. -Mr. William A. French has do nated about sixty acres of laud to the city of Wilmington for the purpose of making a park of it. Morgantou Star: John Hubbard and David Smith were before Esq. Abernethy, last Sunday, charged with an affray and disturbing the K-ace, the same day, at Rutherford College. Hubbard paid fine and cost. Smith, in default of payment of fine and cost, was sent to jail for five days, but was turned loose Tuesday upon arranging line and cost. The above was the effect of new brandy, which always crazes a man und turns him a fool. Death of Mrs. W. E. ClirlHtlan. Cii.mii.otth. N. C, August .'!(). Mrs. W. E. Christian, nee Julia Jackson, the only child of Stonewall Jackson, died here at six o'clock this morning niter two weeks illness of typhoid fever. Her hus band is editor of a weekly paper here called the Charlotte Democrat. Her mother resided with her unci her husband. The remains will be taken to Lexington, Virginia, this evening for interment. - K . 'Jo '11... I.KXINO 1 1 va., Ollgust uw. l uv i.- liiains ol Mrs. . iv. inrisuun, wno men at Charlotte, N. C, this morning, will be buried here beside her father, General Thus. J. Jackson, ( Stonewall I to-moi- row. Dakota Democratic Nominations. Fahoo, N. 1)., August 30. The follow ing nominations were made by the Dem ocratic convention last night : For mem- lier of Congress. Capt. I). . Marattn. present I S. marshal; Governor, W. N. Roach; Lieutenant Governor, S. K. Mc Giuuis; secretary of State. A. S. Frostid; treasurer, C. R.Lord; auditor, P. O. Pc gard; attorney general, T. K. Hangs; su IKrinlendent cif public instruction, C. A. Kent; supreme court judges, W. P. Miller nul Gammon: commissioner of ag riculture, J. R. F.glKTt; commissioner; of insurance, w . .. rriciney , rauroau com missioners, F. P. Wright, . A. Ealey and Peter Cameron. The Hottom Drops Out. Romk, On., August HI). While a well .., 1...:...r .1,,.r tl.c ttiifi'u in flip country yesterday, and when the workmen hail reached a ileptli ot twenty-live icet, to their consternation the bottom of the well suddenly fell out dropiug them ten feet and lodging them in a cave. Explo ration was the next thing in order. It was found that the cave was miles in length with chamlxrs of various sizes here and there. Finally the cave parted into sev eral apartments, leading in various di rections. When the party returned, on exploring party wns-fornicd which will thoroughly explore nil parts of the cave. Captured and Escaped. Victoria, B. C, August 30. The .,,,,.,- PnllifimW nrrived from Hch- i-;,r u..ii l.iizt tiiirlir Cjintain O'lA'.irv 1C- imrts that his shin was hoarded hy the reVenue cutter Rush, in Hehriug sea July in I ;. !, in, , it Tnl tic took 854 seal skins that were on board, and all the guns and ammunition, and then placed tlio r,nr4nr,flEllT ol t lw R lish fill Hoard with instructions to take the schooner to Sitka. After the Rush left the Path finder headed for Victoria despite the protest of the prize crew. The City of Paris Beat Her Own Record. Nkw York, August 28. The steamship City of Paris, which nrrived this morn ing, has broken the record again, beating her own best time from Ouccnstown hy three hours and forty-nine minutes. Her actual time (reckoning by Greenwich time I from Ouccnstown to Sanely Hook lightship was five days, nineteen hours and eighteen minutes. She left (Juecns town at 2.0!) p. m., (Greenwich time) on Friday. Her run for the first day was 4-32; for the second, 403; third, 502; fourth, 500; and fifth, 501). The run from 2.09 p. in. (Greenwich time) Tues day afternoon to 0.27 a. in. (same time) to Sandy Hook lightship was 30 miles. The total distance traveled was 2,788 miles. Favorable conditions marked every day's run, and although the liest on record for one day's steaming (511 miles,) was not approached, she came within two miles ol it in one day and within five on another. She logged nine miles less than on her preceding west ward trip, when she made the distance in five days, twenty-three hours and ten minutes. She also traveled on this pas sage tour miles less than when she made her lest-on-reeord trip to the eastward five days twenty-three hours and thirty eight minutes. The vessel brought a total of 1,01 passengers. SILL I'NEAVORABI.K Are the Indications Concerning a Settlement of the Htrlke. London, August 30. The indications this morning are not very favorable to the immediate settlement of the strike. A meeting of the committee of strikers, presided over hy John Hums, was held last night, at which important action was taken, looking to making the strike general. A manifesto was issued by the committee early this morning solemnly appealing to workmen in every calling in Loudon to strike on Monday next, unless the demands of doekmeu be conceded he fore that date. The final demands of these men are: Sixjieiicc an hourfora reg ular day's work, and eight pence per hour for over time, counting from 0 p. in. to 8 a. in. as over time hours; under the eon tract system pay to lie eight pence during regular working hours and a shilling for overtime; nobody to be employed for less than four hours. A mass meeting of workingmen has been called for Sunday at Hvde Park. Electric Motors. Yesterday I was returning from the courthouse square to my home on Chest nut street when the street railway car passed down toward Doubleday. Iliad advanced but a few steps when a boy on a tricycle passed inc oil the sidewalk. ""There," I said, to myself, "goes the street ear, propelled by one ol the hidden forces of nature, and even the boy on the tricycle knows it, but lie does not know that the same hidden mystery is also profiling his machine. He thinks his legs and feet are proielliug it." Well, is he right ? Let us examine to see. The wheels of his little machine turn and that is tin effect of a cause. Then we find that the boy's feet and legs act as the nearest cause to the effect. Hut as a cause is always an effect of a higher cause, we have to enquire what it is that makes the boy s feet and legs move the wheels of bis tricycle ? Is it the boy's will? If so, on what does his will act? And what is the cause of the action of the will? Suppose the boy's legs should be come paralyzed, would not his machine stop? Could his will then act on his legs: No; the will cannot move a par alyzed limb. When the overhanging wire of the electric railway is broken, the machine under the car becomes par alyzed, and the car slops, for the electric current the propelling force cannot reach it. So it would lie with the boy s legs; let the conducting wires the nerves be broken, the electric current cannot pass from the human, electric dynamo to the limbs of the body. Without electricity there could not he lile either animal or vegetable; and so, without it, this earth would Iwcome a dead planet. T. C. Wkstai.i.. WuNlilnictuu Hatch. Wasihsoton, I). C, August 30. The President has appointed F. C. Hum phreys postmaster nt Pcnsacola, Fla., vice Charles E. Young removed. The Postmaster-General has issued an order offering $1,000 reward lor the ar rest and conviction in the V. S. court of any jiersoii found guilty of making an armed attack upon a stage coacn or railway mail car having mails in transit. The Secretary of the Treasury this alteruoon accepted !M,bl2.f,20() tour per cent, at 1.28 ami $5,000 M'jxt cents, nt l.OOTs. A. W. Harris, of Virginia, has lieen ap pointed insjiector of customs, and will be stationed at Newport News, a. ItaHeball VeHterday. At Washington Washington 2; Phil ndclphin 2 tic. At Pittsburg Pittsburg 8. Chicago 1 At Baltimore Baltimore 3, Louisville . At Philadelphia Athletic 9, Cincinnati 1. At New York Brooklyn 1, Kansas City 4. At Pittsburg Pitsburg 5, Chicago 9. At Cleveland Cleveland 4, Indianapo lis 5. At New York New York 7, Boston 2. Robbed and Killed by Trainpn. LvNCiiiU KC, Va., August 30. A spe cial to the Advance from Lihcrty says : "A colored man was found on the Nor folk and Western railroad this morning two miles above this place with one leg cut off and nn arm terribly mashed. He was alive when found, and stated that he was robbed by three white tramps and thrown from the train. He died soon after being found. Railroad Franchises Sold. New York, August 30. At noon to day the franchises, tracks, etc., of the Broadway surface railroad were sold nt auction at the real estate exchange for $25,000. Col. Daniel Lnmont was the purchaser. There was no other bid. The Weather To-ay. Washington, D. C, Aug. 28. Indica tions for North Carolina: Fair; slight changes in temperature; easterly winds. Won the Medal. A match game of baseball for a gold medal was played hy the West End and Acudemy nines in this city yesterday aft ernoon. The West End boys again came off victors and the medal is "ther'n." The A. & M. Col'ege will open on Oc tober 3. PROROGI'INU THi: BRIT ISH PARLIAMENT. Thankful to Recoicnlze the SIkuh of lirowinK Prosperity In the RelurnliiK Confidence Every where Discernible. London, August 30. The Parliament was prorogued to-day until November 16. The Queen in her speech of proroga tion said: "My Lords: It is with much satislaction I relieve you from the labors of a protracted session. Our relations with other powers continue most cor dial. Since the lieginning of the session nothing has happened to diminish ourcon lident exectationsofunbrokcn Hump.- in pence. The only exception to the tran quility of events has been theverv partial renewal of the attempts formerly made by the followers of the Mahdi to invade the Southern frontier of Egypt. The invading force was arrested and dis jicrscd with conspicuous gal'antry and complete effect by the Khedive s troops, supported by a small British contingent under General Grenfcll. The conference upon the affairs of Samoa, consisting of Representatives of Great Britain, Ger many and America, which assembled at Herlin in the soring, agreed upon a con vention, regulating the government ol those Islands. This instrument has been accepted by me, and by the Hnqieror ol Germany, and now awaits the assent ol the American Senate. At my suggestion, the King of Belgium has consented to summon an autumn conference of Euro Kin powers to lie held at Brussels to consider the present condition of the slave trade by land and sea, and deliber ate measures for the arrest and mitiga tion of the evils, which this traffic still inflicts upon mankind. I have come to an agreement with the French republic by which various controversies respect ing the boundaries of our respective pos sessions on the west coast of Africa have been adjusted. A new postal telegraph convention has been concluded with France and Germany. It has afforded me much pleasure to accept the lovtil offers of revcral native princes and chiefs who have come forward to share the military burdens imposed upon my sub jects in British India. 1 welcome their eo-o)eration m the common defense ol the empire. Gentlemen ot the House of Commons, I gladly aeknowledgcthe care and liberality with which you have pro vided for the wants of the public service." My Lords and Gentlemen : The meas ures you have tnkcnjwith no grudging hand to strengthen the naval defenses will enable my subjects to pursue indus try und enterprise in more complete se curity of peuce, and the act reforming local government of Scotland will. 1 am convinced, contribute largely to the welfare and contentment of my people in Scotland. I much regret that pressure upon your time prevented your passing the hill conferring responsible govern ment on my subjects in western Australia and trust this very desirable object will be effected at an early period. I note with satisfaction the improve ments introduced into the constitution of the universities of Scotland and the steps you have tnkcu .UuWJds the estab lishment of b clinical education in Eng land and Wales. The intermediate ed ucational act for Wales will supply the deficiency in the educational system which has been acutely felt for many years, and 1 have assented with much pleasure to the bill for bringing the less prosjierous portions of Ireland into rapid communication with the principal mar kets of the United Kingdom by means of a systematieextension ofrailways. This provision will confirm the increasing agricultural and commercial well being which has accompanied the gradual sup pression of disorder in Ireland, and I sincerely hope the new board of agricul ture will be the means of still further de veloping the oldest of onr national indus tries. I am thankful to be able to recog nize the signs of growing proserity as the fruit of returning confidence every where discernible. In hope that under the ) cration of your wise counsel it may lie strengthened by a hearty concord of all my suoiects, 1 commend von rever ently to the merciful care ol Almighty God." MRS. SENATOR VAMfE And Her Son Mr. Harry Martin al the Battery Park. The brilliant, accomplished and univer sally popular wife of North Carolina's beloved ex-Gov. and present learned and able Senator, Mrs. Z. B. Vance, arrived from "Gombroon" yesterday afternoon and is at present a guest at the Battel y Park hotel. She is accompanied by her son Mr. Harry Martin, and will remain here several days. Insocial circles at the national capital no lady is more distin guished than Mrs. Vance, formerly Un acknowledged leader of Louisville so ciety as Mrs. Martin, and her charming receptions arc noted throughout the I'n ion for the very brilliant coterie of social leaders and men and women of high fame and name wdio assemble nt her splendid mansion to pay her deserved homage upon these occasions. Mrs. Vance is no less popular with the ieople than "Our Zeh" the noble and distinguished son dl a noble and distinguished State. RANDOM NOTES Roped In by Raiiibllnit ReporlerH Roanilnic Round the City. The United Workmen held nn import ant business meeting at their lodge room on College street last evening. A countryman leading a bear cub through the streets attracted considera ble attention from the gamin clement yesterday. The city schools for w hite pupils will ojien Monday, and the prosieetsarethat they will lie very largely attended the coming school year. Attention is called to the new adver tisement of the electric street railway in this morning's issue. The change in schedule is made for the benefit of lalior ing people in the vicinity of the old Wepot. The farewell concert of the Swiss Bell Ringers will take place in the ball room of the Battery Park hotel this evening, beginning at 8.80 o'clock. Thecompnny gave a performance nt Ilcndcrsonvillc last night. Col. P. H. Winston, late of Winston, N. C, is spoken to be the Lieutenant-Governor of Washington Territory. Who They Are i where Thev Are, and What They Are Doing. II. E. Fulenwider of Greenville is here. Hon. II. A. Gudger has returned from Raleigh. Mr. Fred. S. Johnston, ex-cditor of the Franklin Press, is here with his bride. Mr. Dan F. Suinincy, of Charlotte, is renewing acquaintances in the city. McBride Holt and the Misses Tate of Graham, N. C, are at the Grand Central. Capt. Natt Atkinson hasgone to Tran sylvania on a railway exploration tour. Associate justice Jos. J. Davis, of the State supreme court, returned to Raleigh yesterday. Capt. C. M. McLoud has sufficiently re covered from his recent illness to be out on the streets again. Dr. W. E. Pclham, of Newberry, S. C. who has been in the city for several weeks left for his home yesterday morn ing. Mrs. Eli M us tin , who has been visiting her parents in this city for some weeks past, left for her home at Augusta, Ga., yesterday. Rev. R. P. Rmnley, pastor of the Second Hapfist church, colored, in this city, is quite sick with typhoid pneumonia al his residence on Short street. CD. Arthur, of the firm of Geo. X. Ives & Co., Raleigh, who has been visit ing manager A. P. Mitchell of the Western Pniou telegraph office in this city for several davs, left for his home last evening. Misses Bessie Sherrill of Newton, N. C, and Hallie Dail of Newbcrn, two beauti ful und accomplished young ladies, have returned to their respective homes alter a mouth's pleasant visit to Mrs. R. P. Walker, near this city. AN lvl.Hii.4NT UKRMAN Largely Attended by Prominent Society People, Etc. The german at the Battery Park last evening led by Mr. Clarence Mitrplicy with Miss Helen Fowle, was oneof those pleasant events thateannot be accurately described ill cold type no matter how great the inspiration that may be engendered by such scenes. To say that it was a charming success and n delight ful affair would not hall liegin to illus trate the splendid manner in which it went off' or the enchanting pleasures which attended the glorious dance. The music by Prof. Pcarson'soreliestra was simply elegant, and over thirty couples participated. Among the ladies were the Misses Mills, Low, Rchan, Jack son, Branch, Lceman, Tucker, Patter, McNcely, Monteiro, May Branch, Holmes, Snow, Ironmonger, Dorajones, McLaughlin and Mcsdamcs Chas. Price, A. Simonds, Christopher, Emerson, ChalTc, Low, and others. Thegeiitlemcn were Messrs. T. S. McHcc. McNeeley, A. M. Waddcll, jr., . G. Mcn inion, W. W. Avery, J. R. Camp, II. M. Jones, T. Car son, W. 1). Williams, D. W. Ilastic, 1). C. Waddcll, jr., Ogdcn, Jcnks, Harry Mar tin, Northrop, Kennedy, .R. P. Foster, Merrick, Milliard, Carroll, Collins and others. Of the spectators Mrs. Senator Vance, Mrs. Henry lackson, Mr. and Mrs. Mr- Kenncy, ex-Governor and Mrs. Jarvis, District Attorney Charles Price, Judge and Mrs. McConiiell, Colonel and Mrs. Coxe, Major T. M. Emerson, Mr. Andrew Simonds, jr., Mr. Otis M. Coxe, Mr. and Mrs. Christopher, Miss Pope, Major R. McLaughlin, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Daven port, were prominent. THE HA I. LEW CASE. The Preliminary IuveHtlication Held VCMterday. Before Justice Summcv at the court house yesterday the preliminary investi gation of the charge of child murder against David and Mary Ballew, formerly of this county, was held. Solicitor Car ter of the criminal court conducted the prosecution and Major W. II. Malone renrcscntcd the defendants. Nineteen witnesses for the State were examined. while three others told what they knew that would tend towards clearing thede fendants of the scriouschargciipoii which they were summoned to apixar Ivfore the bar of justice. The examination was continued far into the night, and the tes timony adduced was such that the sit ting magistrate could not do otherwise than remand the defendants to jail trial licforc the criminal court of this eouiitv at its Oetolier term. Readers of Tun Citizkn have already read the horri ble story of the alleged crime for which the Ballews stand indicted, and a recti tion of its sickening de-tails is altogether unnecessary. The case will probably be the first disposed of at the Oetolier term of court. The Sixth Victim. The Knoxville Journal of yesterday an nounces the death of another one of the ill fated participants in the oH?niiig cclc bration of the Knoxville. Cumberland Gnn and Louisville railroad. Mr. Edwin S. Barker died on Thursday afternoon, after undergoing an amputation of his left leg, He was a young man, only twenty-eight years of age, a native of Buffalo, N. '., and for thirteen years a resident of Knoxville, where he made him self a good name. He was a member of the M. E. church South. The wounded arc generally doing well. Mr. Alexander Wilson, sonof Maj. James W. Wilson, engineer, is rapidly 'improving, and will be removed to his himc in Mor gantou in a few days. The City Council was in session last night. An AHlievllle Hoy Elected to the Chuir of MalheinatlcH. We learn from the News and Observer of yesterday, and learn it with my sin cere pleasure, that the board of trustees if the I'uiversitv, w hich met in the ex- utive office the prceeeding day to fill the aeaucy in the chair of mathematics oc- .asioued by the death of Pofessor Ralph Iravcs, had elected Professor William aiu, C. Iv. There were twenty-ix ap licants, all of them of the highest quali atioti. Professor Cain is well remem bered here by many of the older inhabi tants. He was a grandson of the late udge Bailey, long a resident of Ashe- ville. Young Cain lived here much of his boyhood, and in subsequent years Sent much time in the mountains in survey ing and engineering, during which time he gave valuable aid to Professor W. C. Kerr in preparing his excellent map of North Carolina, lie was bom in Ilills boro, in this State, in ls7. We take the following from the News and Ob server: He is a characteristic and true North Carolinian in every sense. During the war he served awhile in the Confederate irmv. He afterward studied law under udge Bailee, but concluded to devote himself to mathematics and engineering, particularly, practical engineering, rail road location and construction. For seven years he was professor of mathematics and engineering in the Carolina Military Inslituteat Charlotte, which was conducted on the West Point basis as far as civil studies were con cerned. He was for two years locating tad building railroads and was engaged in collecting data tor the map lor me geological survey of North Carolina. Since Oetolier 1882 lie lias neen pro fessor of mathematics in the S. C. Mih- iry Institute, a branch ol the State niversitv. He has written six books on various branches of bridge building old engineering in an Nostrum! s series which have given him great eminence as i mathematician, lie is a member ol the American Society of Civil Engineers nul has been it teacher ol pure mat He matics a d engineering for over twelve ears, lie is said to lie a constant anil diligent student and at the same time one of the best of practicalcivilcnginccrs. I he late Colonel. K. K. Uridgcrssaul that he was the best locating engineer he ever JACKSON'S IAt till Tl.lt DEAD. lireaklntcof the Link Between the Living and the Immortal Hero. Probably no event of the kind, sad enough under any circumstances, could excite the profound interest and sympa thy as that which attaches to the death of the daughter of the beloved and brill- ant Conlederalc leader, Thomas J. Jack son. Time has old . increased theadmira- liou which his military exploits awak ened ; time has served to strengthen and broaden the fame which has goneabroad over all tlie world ; tunc has only utulcu to the reverence and affection with which his memory is cherished. This, his only hild, has been the living link which con nected the living survivors with the dead chieftain. While she lived he seemed to live in her. The loyal affection that had gone out to him clung to thedaughter as part of him. Stonewall's child was the hild of the soldier, the child of the South, ind was not wanting in some of the love of the North. North Carolina was grate ful that on her soil she had made her home. She was half North Carolinian my way; when she came to pass her wedded life among us she became alto gether one. It is the sad ending ot a young and happy life; but it is the break ing of the last living link that bound us to the immortal Stonewall Jackson. AMON THE FARMERS. The Bethel Alliance Picnic at (ieueral Vance's Yesterday. The members of the Bethel Farmer's Alliance, this county, held a rousing pic nic at General R. B. Vance's "Riverside" place on the French Broad yesterday. The assemblage was very large, and much enthusiasm was manifest among the farmers. An elegant dinner was served to the vast tnroiig, alter which addresses upon agricultural subjects and dliauce topics were delivered by Gen Vance. Col. Long, Major Hlackwell, Col. Fagg, Dr. Harris. Mr. W. T. Reynolds, Capt. J. R. Dubose, and o"rs. To-day mother alliance picmi. M..nlic shak ing will lie held at Mills Kivqr, at which Sieeches will be made by the gentlemen named above and Messrs. Toiuliuson and Freeman. A large crowd and pleasant time isexpectcd. These farmers' picnics are rapidly growing into promi nence, and arc productive of much good feeling among the "men who guide the plow" the dependence of a nation of consumers. All over the west these pic nics and public discussions are being held let us hope with rich and fruitful results, not alone to the tillers of the soil, but to every class and profession of mankind. Who are at the Park. Among the late arrivals at Battery Park, Tiik Citizen last night noticed the following: Mrs. 1). K. linger, the Misses linger, Mrs. Shepherd and Mrs. W. C. Flower, of New Orleans; John Doiman and wife, of Richmond; W. H. Pace and Miss Mary H. Snow, of Raleigh; Mrs. 7.. B. Vance and Mr. J. H. Martin, of Gombroon; E. W. Voight and wife, Miss Gunthcr, of Detroit; Mr. I). T. Hastie. ji ., of Charleston ; Miss Pope, of Louisville, and others. The Haywood BaptlHtH. The Haywood County Baptist Asso ciation, one of the largest und most in fluential denominational bodies in the West, is now in session at Wayncsvillc. A large delegation from every church be longing to the organization is reported present. THE CONQUESTS OF AN ASHE VILLE DEBUTANTE. An Elegant Dinner to the Beauti ful MIhh connally of this) City at the EnniouH Went vlnclnla Sum mer ReHort LaHt week. SK-einl Curresponilcnce to The Citizen. WlllTK Srl.mil'R Sl'RINflS, s, M'J.f Giti-i-NiiKM-K, W. Va., August, 1889, 1 have long known the White Sulphur to lie worthy of its reputation as the queen of watering places, and I am not surprised to find that the delights even of the Battery Park can lie relinquished for a few days in its favor. Indeed, the two places are so often compared, as the re sorts par excellence of the South, after knowing one, there is naturally a desire to become acquainted with the other. True the White Sulphur has no tully-ho, but it boasts a record of one hundred years. Our parents and grandparents drank these waters and sighed soft sighs, anil listened tote- ler utterances beneath these trees, on the loveliest lawn in the world. But all the more glory to the Huttcry Park, which, yet in its infancy, dares to be a rival of springs so rich in the aroma of antiquity. This contrast is uppermost in my mind to-day, because 1 notice the arrival of Capt. V. E. McBee and his lienutiful wife. She is one of the most regal looking women here. They are accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Swann, of New York, who have already become the centre of an admiring circle of friends. However, I must limit my pen to your Asheville wanderers. Attorney General Davidson secmsquite as much at home here as in his native hills, and, if I am not mistaken, he will look in nt White Sulphur a.-jain, for he lakes very kmdly to "what we do at the Springs." And Asheville has sent us that charm ing little debutante, Miss Connally, of l erniliurst. hlie attracts that attention which is only given to those who rule by the right divine to govern our days of joy. Indeed, she possesses, as one of her admirers recently said of her, the trinity of beauty, cleverness, and that whieh is greater than these, the indescribable charm that magnetizes. It would take whole letter to record her triumphs, and I must lie content with telling you that hy lar the most lieautilul dinner ot the season was given her a few evenings ago by Mr. Heck, of Raleigh. The table, arranged for fourteen couples, was al most a bank of pink roses and Icrns. The dinner cards for the ladies were bouquets l La I' ranee roses tied with pink rib bons. The menu cards were on pink atin and the lights were veiled in shades f the same becoming color. The deli cious wine-enriched bouquet was in keep ing with these accessories, and, after sev eral hours around the floral board, the company adjourned to the reception room, where .Miss Connally sang sweet Spanish songs to the accompaniment of the guitar, rule has sjient a year or two in Spain and I fancied I detected a subtle suggestion of that land of romance as I saw her graceful figure, gowned in dainty mull, bending over her blue ribboned guitar. She was surround by the guests of the dinner, among whom I recognized Governor and Mrs. Lec, Mrs. Rutherford and other ladies and gentlemen who have made this season at the White Sulphur worthy to tie remembered among its an nals. Many other North Carolinians have added to the attractiveness of the White Sulphur this season, but as they have not the good fortune to reside in your beauti ful mountain girt town, they can have no place in this record. Carolina. KlvOUH AND BOVD Sever Their Connection with the (ireeiiHboro North State. The last number of the above journal contains the valedictory of its editors, Messrs. Boyd and Keogh, and the an nouncement that the pajier passes into the hands of a publishing company to be continued ill the service of the Republi can party. Whilst disagreeing with our retiring friends in to(o on political mat ters, we pay willing tribute to the ability with which they have conducted their pajK'r, and liear testimony to their uni form courtesy and general fairness. Po litical controversy is deprived of all its bitterness and most of its unpleasant ness when conducted with reference of the inherent right of all men to the en joyment and expressions of their opin ions. We think they are in error in their political views. So in turn do they think we are. None the less was their mutual courtesy and undisturbed pleasant per sonal relations. The party they served so well, and which in turn, served them so cavalierly, will lose a right arm in North Carolina in losing Messrs. Boyd and Keogh. They were hy all odds its strongest rallying point and its most ef fective organ. As a party man, we do not regret the change. As a journalist, we do cxjierience a loss which we accept with profound reluctance. A (iood nay's Work. We arc in the habit of thinking; that Asheville could do a good day's work in dealing with the wicked, and heaping up the city treasury with fines imposed. The Wilmington Review lets us know we have something to learn. It says, speak ing ol the 28th : The fines in the Mayor's court yester day amounted in all to $105. Some of this was remitted, but the net amount collected was $80. The seven Spanish sailors were made to pay $G0. They were each fined $10 but the whole was lumied at $00. It was a good day's work. Licensed to Wed. The following parties were granted marriage license by the register of deeds yesterday : W. F. Wallcn to Julia Holcombe. Jas. F. Frady to Nancy A Pressley. W. J. Manes to Polly Arrowood. A Pink Ball. Guests at Battery Park will revel in the glories of a pink ball at that elegant hotel Tuesday evening next. The ball will he opened at 9 o'clock and a most delightful evening is anticipated. As soon as the shackles and chains, which have been ordered, arrive, chief of police Baird will establish a chain-sang. The scheme is a good one and should have been in operation here long since. 1 -
Asheville Citizen (Asheville, N.C.)
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Aug. 31, 1889, edition 1
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