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'f-'-f-"' " '.'-I " V : : V - iff. .ft Ui $ "ft S; H 3 THE DAILY CITIZEN THE DAILY CITIZEN Delivered to Visitors In any part of the City. Ore Month fite. Two Weeks, or less 2fle. BOARDING, WANTS, For Rent, and Lost Notices, three lines or less, 25 Cents for I each insertion. VOLUME V. ASHEVILLE, N. C, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER i, 1889. NUMBER 122. TALKATIVE WOMAN. THE l.I'HKINU DANGERS 4 LETTER WRITING. The Maliiciilty and Ill-Breedlnic of Mrd Canfield, the Kansas Cor- renpondent-Tlie South on Peril oum Ground. Weaver vii.LEt N. C, August 30. Sonic poet wrote aliout the quiet re treats of tlic ocean," The restfulness of this mountain region recalls the pleas ant idea. Friar Tuck's favorite saying "Pax Voliiseutn" seems peculiarly ap plicable to the mountaineers of far failed Hunconilic. At first glance, a sti anger would conclude that nothing short of an earthquake would disturb their serenity, and he would be about right in his con clusion. Hut recently the peace of the whole Southern people, including Bun combe, has been rudely and criminally broken, and, astounding as it may seem, by a woman ! Some witty parson once demonstrated that there were no women in Heaven. How did be do it ? Hy (loot ing the scripture that says, "There was silence in Heaven for the space ot half an hour!" That was his major premise, as the syllogists would say. His minor premise was "suppressed," to use the language of the logicians, but wlien ex pressed in plain English it ran this wiser "No woman ever did keep silence for half an hour." The conclusion was inevita ble: "Therefore there are no women in lien veil. "That preacher and his logic have never been ranked among my favorites. Kill 1 think that it Mis. Canlicld of Kansas had had her memory jogged with that uncharitable piece of reasoning she would never have written that famous, or rather infamous, letter from Nashville, which has set the South aflame and the world agog. To say it exploded with the suddenness and uncxiK'cledncss of a dynamite bomb in a prayer meeting, or a chip of thunder trom n cloudless suy. is putting it niuiiiy. The iicople were first dazed, then out raged bv it. To tnem it souniieo use n fire bell "at midnight like the rattle of a venomous snake. ICttcr writing has Im.ch a dangerous business so far back as history can re member. For some unaccountable reason people appear more reckless in letters than in conversation. "Walls can hear' and "Ditchers have ears" are sawsof gen eral acceptation, and whose wisdom is commonly acted on. A man will take you olT to one side and then look all round carefully to see if any eavesdrop pers arc witbiii earshot before communi cating anything of importance. I have heard my husband laughingly assert that he had one friend up in "grand and his- toric old Tike" who was so careful and so fearful of others hearing what he had to sav that he'll take you out on a raft in the middle of the Mississippi, and then, with hand to mouth, whisper the mo mentous fact that your house was on lire. That man is simply the average citizen exaggerated in regard to careful ness of talk. Hut put a pen into his hand and all his circumspection seems to van ish. In the slang ol the day, "the bridle's off." I "speech is silvern" and "silence is golden," then not to write private let ters which may lie published and being published, may cause suffering, anger, an guish and red ruin, should lie certainly classed as "a diamond of the first wa ter." To go no farther back than our own country, a private letter, unwittingly published, caused Aaron Burr to kill Al exander Hamilton at bloody Weehaw kcn. A letter kept Martin Van Hurcn from the nomination for the Presidency in 1844, and gave it to that distinguished son of North Carolina, James K.Polk. And, in passing, 1 willsay that if any pol itician needs confirmation of the doctrine of the necessity of being wise as a ser pent, let him read Senator Kenton's ac count of the conspiracy to extract that fatal letter from the Sage of Kindcrhook, who was popularly credited with his lull share of serpentine astuteness. The same vear another great states man, Henry Clay, wrote a letter on the yery same question, "Tlie Immediate An nexation of Texas," which forever put a quietus on his presidential hopes. After that letter killed him dead as Julias C.Tsar, he declared that he'd rather walk a thousand miles to communicate a fact bv word of mouth than write a letter ! lie was quite old to learn that "a burnt .child dreads the fire." To come down to "the history of our own times," we all remember the famous postscript, "Hum this Letter," of Hob Ingersoll's "plumed knight." In the glo rious campaign ofl8N4 the "Kuril this Letter" became as forceful as "My Dear Fisher;" and since the Klainilcs are de termined to find parallels between the il lustrious Kentucky Whig anil their idol, they might put the likeness in this shape. "Mem.: First, point of resemblance. Nei ther could be President; second, they both committed political hari-kari by writing letters; third, here all resem blance ceased." Take another "example to our pur pose quite," as Robert Pollock would say Field M arshal M unit 1 1 a blend . 1 1 wasn't a "bare bodkin" that did the work for him. It was a steel pen. Not content with having a whole daily news papcr to express his opinion in, he car ried on a rushing correspondence with Mr. Secretary Chase, in which he, with perfect abandon, ran amuck on all the Republican worthies, including many who arc now ranked among Republican saints Lincoln, Grant ft ul "'"e A'cmis. The grandson of his grandfather nomi nated the field marshal as minister to Germany. Everybody said the brilliant faber-slasher had earned the place by faithful party service. Everything was going on swimmingly, when, presto! hiitiirc! some enemy rummaging in inustv niiieon holes, unearthed thosesav- ni.p an d forirotten letters, and lo! Mural was knocked out as completely as the great apostle of the Koston Cult knocked out Jake Kilrain at Richburg. He must, alter he recovered nis oreaiu aim oeuaca, have recalled these famous old lines: "If no toon, 1 am dune for, What wm I bcKun fur?" I might fill columns with obituary no tices of suicides who took the letter route. Kut enough. This rwioe Irir iri'ttiniT rid - ! 1 r n ot a pestiferous public character seems never to tan: snoot into mm one ot his free and easy, happy go lucky private letters loaded, but not intended for pub lication. But "to return to our mutton" Mrs. Canfield, of Kansas. She may have learned this bad trick from that brilliant male scold lohn James Ingnlls, the tutelar Republican saint of Bleeding Kan sas. He is much given to "getting his foot in it"by way of private letters un expectedly published, fcverybouy willal once recall the hullabullo created during the Chicago convention Inst year by his "some fellow like Phelps lor vice-president" letter. Aud for two months he hns been busy explaining that another of his letters is a lorgery. So Mrs. Cnnncld followed the bad ex ample of Hon. John Jecms and poured out her inward soul in a vitriolic letter to a friend in Kansas who jierversely pub lished it. Now, our conscience-keepers to the northward have, first and last, had much to say about "the plantation manner" of the Southerners. Hut I undertake to say that no Southron in all the hoary regis ter of time ever committed a worse breach of manner (or morals cither) than this same Mrs. Canfield, wife of the cx chnnccllor of the Kansas University. Why, even the Arabs, the descendants of Ishmacl, whose hand was against every man, recognized the sacred rights of hospi tality, which this Kansas female hateitc has violated, liven tlic robbers of the desert hold inviolable the persons and characters of those with whom they have tasted salt. Hut not so with Mrs. Ish mael Canfield. There she was an hon ored and petted guest of the generous and cultivated white ladies of a famous Southern eitv her husband one of the chief officers in the great National Teach ers' Association. Entertained in homes of elegance by people of culture, she writes Irom one of these homes that she has lieen, after the manner of Captain Cuttle, "making notes" of things, which in a general wav is a laudable perform ance. Hut what is the particular thing she notes with glee that the negroes arc increasing faster than the whiles than her own kin, race and blood rejoicing at a fact, which, il it be a laet, must ot very necessity, bring sorrow to the heart of evcrv lover of his country and his kind. Hut what else ? S1ic1ioks to live to see the blacks in the majority; and if this, her blessed consummation cannot lie fully accomplished in her day, then she hocs what r Certainly the strangest aud most unnatural Iioijc that ever dwelt in human heart or found ut terance in any of the languages spoken bv the children of men. She holies to be )crniittcd to look down from a corner in Heaven! Think of that Oh! christian iicople! from a corner in heaven! The Heaven of peace and love mid righteous ncss! and behold what? "Black heels on white necks!" What a. strange and revolting conception ih.it woman must have of the doctrines and teachings ol the meek and lowly Nazarenc whose central thoughts were love and charity and forgiveness! Who declared that IK'ople must liecoine as "little children" before thev could enter the kingdom ol heaven! What an amazing picture she draws of heaven a place in which she will lie provided with an eligible corner, irom which sue will be enabled to gratify her inhuman prejudice anil to sate her unnatural hate by gazing with gloating eyes upon the unutterable sufferings and ineffable agony of the children ot tile very iieople whose gracious and elegant hospitality she was at that particular moment betraying and abusing. Icll it not in (lath ! Proclaim it not in the streets of Askalon! that thegratiftcation of malice shall be one of the employments of the saints in heaven. It appears to me that royal Tom Hood must have had -Mrs. Canlicld's prototype before him, when he wrote "Aids! for the rnrity OfchriRtian chnrity Uniler the sun !" Why, the old Norse idea of heaven as a place where we would forever drink our selves blind drunk out of the skulls of our enemies slain in battle was superior to Mrs Canlicld's for how, bv even the most hititudinarian construction can the white i)eople of the South in the vear of our blessed Lord and Master lSM'j le considered as the enemies of this Kansas woman? Her hojies are as revolting as the performances of Mrs. rurqiuu, Lucre tin Korgia, or Mrs. Macbeth. Even llerodias demanding of her husband the head of John the Baptist on a charger docs not equal this wholesale hate of Mrs. Canlicld, for llerodias did have a cause of quarrel against John, and Mrs. Canlicld lias none can nave none. ;ainst the white people of the South. Macaulcv in closing his essay on Har- rcrc boasts that he has placed the igno ble I'rencninnii on a pinnacle ot intainy from which no succeeding writer will lx able to take him down. I think that Mrs. Canfield, of Kansas hns performed the same feat for herself. Il'shcisso much in love with "our brother in black," she might, with profit to all concerned, expatriate herself and take up her abode in Hayti or Africa. And, then, in her next letter, she might ulopt to the exigencies ol her own case, these lines from a composition by certain enforced citizens of Botanv Hav: True patriot vc! for lie It understood, VVc kit our country forourcountry's good." It is certainly to be hoped that, con science stricken, she may be induced or iniK'llctt to take tins course. lo us up in Missouri, where tlic whites outnumber the blacks ten or twenty to such insane drivel, such unreason ing malignancy as Mrs. Canlicld's only excites our disgust; but, down here, where the negroes arc as plenti ful as the Caucasians, such gush as hers causes a feeling close akin to alarm. Since the davs of Ned ( or 1 'red orNnttl Turner and old John Drown, negro insurrection has ever been before the eyes of the white peopie ol the South. To-dav the fear of African domination stalkcth abroad at noonday. It may lie a pleasing prosiiect to Mrs. Canlicld and her ilk. if indeed she is not the only one of her kind, which is to be hoped; but it is dreadful that's the only word to ex press it to those who have had a taste of it and know what it means. Like Knnmio's ghost it will not down at any body's bidding. The whites aud blacks of the South un derstand each other far lictter than Mrs. Canfield can ever understand either, ft is a tremendous task they have before them to work out a common destinv as distinct races and equal liefore the law, in thesamecouitry. He! ocqiicvillc.thc great French philosopher and Historian, saw that .a superior and an interior race of Iicople could not live togciucr iiernia ncntly as co-equal citizens, and many oeoule believe him. lie luriiiermorc ne- clarcd that in such a case a war of races lo the death was inevitable, home peo ple believe Hint. Hut here these pcoiilc. both white and black, "arecontrontcd by a condition and not a theory," and so far as 1 can judge the vast majority of both races the industrious, intelligent and patriotic portions are endeavoring hon estly and faithfully to work out the great prol.lem for the good of all. The part ot wisdom and decency and philanthropy is for outsiders to let them severely alone, for outsiders can't solve the question or r-move the difficulty or lilt them out i the hole. Thev must lie their own physi cians. The situation is delicate and iier hans oeriloiis. Ben Hill once declared thnt France was on u powder magazine with a million idiots striking matches all ; around. He need not have gone across tli i fiiul ili.n state ol affairs. It was at his verv doors. The peopleot the South are on the powder magazine and all they ask is that such enthusiastic fa natics as Mrs. Canfield keepthcirmntches nt home or do not ignite them close to the powder house. The truth is that in the South, as rule, the people spend little time in"nurs- ing their wrath to keep it warm." They are too busy lor mat. i lie spirit ot pn uress is aoroaa in tnc innu. i nev are just waking up to a realization of the vast material wealth ot which they are pos sessed natural resources, which, when developed, will make the South the richest land which the sun visits m his daily course. They are intoxicated with joy at the prosiiect. And it these iicople, once so generous and so prodigal, are to be Yankeeized, it is much more likely to lie accomplished by the greed born of the wealth now within their vision than by all the homilies and lectures of all the negro-phobists from Martha's Vineyard to the Aleutian islands. The Governor of North Carolina once said, or is said to have said, to the Gov- ernorof South Carolina: "It'sn longtime between (Iruiks. liiilouhtcdly it will be a longer tunc till the race question filially settled. Ail interim, Mrs. Canfield might sjiend her time profitably in reading the Sermon on the Mount and tile Lord's Prayer. If she has any time left she might put it in in studying a handbook on eti quelle. Or she might vent her spleen by blowing up the Kansas radicals, who bounced her distinguished husband out ol a tat place for teaching his pupils the sen-apparent truth, that a high protect ive tariff is but another name for high way robbery, in this latter icrlorninncc she would be doing the country, it not tiod, a service, and would have the sym pathy of several million American citi zens, c. u. c. 1IH. PHIEIIS DECLINES. News From the Republican Ilretli ren at the Capital. W ashington, I). C, August 31. Spe cial, j iiou. . r. rniiiipshasdcchncd the Venezuela coiuinissionci sliip offered him recently by the President, and iloii.I). I.. Russell, who is now in this city, is prom inently mentioned lor tile place. 11 pays $5,000 per year. Prominent North Car olina politicians here say that Judge Rus sell is not only prominent but is well qualified for the position at the hands of his parly. W. S. O'B. Robinson is here and is san guine of success in securing the eastern district attorneyship. Tom Dcvcreux, of Raleigh, has just retired Irom the con test, and Chas. A. Cook, of Warren, is Robinson's only rival in the tield. It is bul due Congressman Ewart to say that the recent removal of the inter nal revenue collector's office for the west ern district from Salisbury to Stalesvillc was made at the protest of that gentle man. The power behind it all is Dr. J. . .VIott, wiiose building the collector will rent. There is also some political signifi cance in the move. Ewart wanted it to go to Ashcville, and refused to endorse Eaves until he promised if it left Salis bury Ashcville should have it. Motl scores a big victory. A FATAL WRECK, A Stock Train and an Excursion Train Crash Together. Mimii.iisiuiRi-,, Vt., August 31. An excursion train to Hurliuglou from the norse breeder s meeting at Rutland, and a stock train bound south collided rt S.30 o'clock last night, four miles north of here, near Hrooksviilc. Both engines, one car and part ot another car of the excursion train, and ten or twelve stock cars loaded with hogs, were wrecked and piled inio a heap. The dead are, conduc tor Hiram Hlodgett, of the excursion train, and one passenger whose body is under the train and cannot be identified. Engineer William Emery, of the excursion train is dangerously hurt. Engineer William Chilson has three ribs broken; fireman Paran had his right legsniashcd, and is badly cut ; conductor Holly was badly cut about the head. Three of the stock train crew, and Charles andArthur Hunt, of the New Haven passengers on the stock train, arc seriously injured. luimlicratioit to be Encouraged. CniCAcio, August 81. A dispatch from Jackson, Miss., says: The committee on memorials and legislation made their re port to the State alliance yesterday, and it was adopted. It contains the follow ing recommendations to the Legislature: That money be appropriated by the State to encourage lorcign immigration ; Hint so much of the convict labor as is necessary lie employed in running a bag ging factory as a State enterprise; that railroads, banks, etc. be required to pay an ad valorem instead of a privilege tax ; urging a law establishing a State agri cultural bureau, and providing for the teaching of agriculture in tile public schools; that the next Legislature call a constitutional convention; that n law lie adopted requiring iusiectiou on the hoof of ail liccf cattle. HaHeliall Vesterdny. Al Washington Washington 15, Phil adelphia 10. At Pittsburg First game: Pittsburg I, Chicago I). Second game: Pittsburg II, Chicago 11 tic. At Cleveland Cleveland 2, Indianapo lis :i. At New York New York 0, Boston 1) tie. At New York First game: Brooklyn 11, Kansas City 4. Second game: Brooklyn S, Kansas City li. At Columbus Columbus -1-, St. Louis 1. At Baltimore Baltimore 12, Louis ville II. At Philadelphia Athletic 7, Cincinnati Hot TVeather In the Went. Toi'HKA, Kan., August 31. A hot wave struck the State Thursday. Very little rain in the past two weeks. A scorching heat following four weeks of exceptionally cool weather drying vege tables very quickly. Pes Moines, Iowa, August 31. The last days of August arc notable for ex cessive heat. Thursday the thermome ter reached 102 degrees. Madison, Wis., August 31. Yesterday was the hottest day of the season, the mercury registering ninety degrees. The World's Cotton Supply. New York, August 31. The total visi ble supply of cotton for the world is 34,73.r 'bales, of which -4-li!,s;i.ri are Amcrican.airainst H8.2U7 aiid.rn,ll!7 bales, respectively, last year. Receipts at all interior towns nrc 21,ff)5 bales; crop in sight SU,221 bales. Ueath of William Emery. Ai.fKiiK, Maine, August 31. William .;llu.rVi Democratic candidate for Con- gress against Thos. B. Reed, in the first Manic district last year, uieu tins niuiii- injl- The Secretary of the Treasury yester day accepted $'.10,3511, tour per cent, at 1.2S; $l!,4o(), four and a hall per cent, at l.lKi'n. STONEWALL'S DAUGHTER THE REMAINS ESCORTED TO LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA, Where They will be Interred lie Hide ThoHe of Her niHtliiuulHhed Father To-Iay NuinlierH of Peo ple Gaze Upon Her Feature. Lexinoton, Va., August 31. The party wiin tnc remains oi Mrs. jtuia Jackson Christian arrived here in a special ear on the Richmond and Alleghany railroad this evening. The remains were met nt the station by a large party, and taken to the Presbyterian chinch, of which her father was a member when he lived here belore the war. I he casket is massive metallic affair, handsomely de signed, trimmer in old and silver, and draed with th finest black, and a pro fusion of Howe s was heaped mi it. Tin church is dimly lighted, and the casket is open, sliowmn tin lace of thedead. Manv citizens in all eircles ot society are visit ing the church to take a last lrok nt the remains. Mrs. rhos. I. lack son, widow of Stonewall, and mother ol the deceased, and the two motherless balies, and u number ol prominent citi zcus, including the mayor of Charlotte, ind Key. VV. II. Christian, lather of the husband, are here. By a change in the programme ol arrangements, the funeral will take place Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. The services will be conducted by Rev. 1 hos. K. Preston and Rev hliczener Juiikin, of Houston, Texas, n relative ol the Jacksons. The party will return to Charlotte Sunday uiirhl "on a special train. A. & M. COI.I.EtiE. A I'reHideut, a Native of Viriclnla, Elected. Charlotte Chronielc. Rai.i-ioii, N. C, August 3i. The Trus tees of the State Agricultural and Me- finical College met hereto-day iuspccial session to elect a president ol the college. 1 hey chose Col. Alex. o. Itolliilav, now president of the Florida Agricultural College. I le is a native of Virgina and is in able man. The Executive Committee presented the following mimes as candidates: lohn H. Kelly, of Moore county, N. C: Colonel Alexander O, Ilolliday, of Flori da; I. L. Stewart, of North Carolina: corge A. Puringloii, West Virginia, and i. W. Miles, jr., of Virginia. Sonic other names were presented by members of the board and the merits ol all wcrecareftillv discussed. The buildings of the North Carolina College arc nearly completed, and the first session licgins October 3. 1 he board ol trustees of the State niversitv authorized the faculty to tender the medical department of the miversity to Dr. Richard lutchead. of the University of Virginia, who is said to te an exceptional scholarly and brilliant man. STATE NEWS. The following items are gleaned from the letters of the Raleigh eorresp undent of the Riclnnonu iHsputch : . Hiram F. Hover, a labor agitator who has caused iiiirli dissension by his speeches in various parts of the South, has returned to Hickory. His wife has been divorced from him and refused to admit him to her house. Hover forced an entrance and whipied her. He was taken before the Mayor and was fined $10. Not being satisfied, Hover inform ed the Mayor that he had inlliclcd the punishment for spite. The Mayor then sent him to jail for sixty days for con tempt. The damage to the factories near Rock ingham by the cloud-burst will exceed the first estimate, it is stated. Besides the loss itlllictcd upon the factories and the railways ( the Carolina Central and the Palmetto), the county of Richmond suffers largely on account of bridges swept away on several streams. Some dams were cut to save them. The fac tory dams were of stone, and one is said to have cost $20,000. This was swept away. Steven Jacobs and Purdic, the Rolicson county murderers, have been formally by proclamation outlawed. Out of their crimes hasgrown the greatly exaggerated statement thatthcrc was a reign of terror in Robeson county. It is not true. Mat ters are icrfectly quiet here. and there is no threatened uprising of the Croatan Indians. A considerable quantity of extra long staple cotton, known as Bailey cotton, was planted this season, and is growing very well. It is claimed that it rivals Sea-Island cotton, and that it will sell at fancv prices. The staple is remarka ble, as is also the silky appearance ot the fibre. The cotton gets its name from its discoverer, a Harnett county negro, Hector Bailey, and was discovered by him lour years ago. The fourteen hundred acres of valuable land in Cliatam county bequeathed to the Slate University by Miss Mary Smith has lieen cut up into lots of one hundred acres, and will lie sold for $14-,-000. Frank Stack, of Union county, hnsliccii arrested on a bench-warrant charging him with killing Robert Parker at Ruth erford College three weeks ago. Hun Cotton Review. New York, August 31. The Sun's re view of cotton savs futures were 1 to 4 points lower, ow ng partly to a decline in Liverpool, ami partly to favorable crop advices. There was slight rally later owing lo rumors ol considerable shipments to Liverpool to lie made next week the present slock here being only jfi,2n( bales. Houses with lorcign con nections were buyers ol Scptemlicr which is the most interesting option just now though OcIoIkt also attracts consider able attention. Receipts at ports 5.K2N igainst 3,174 this day last week; and 4,00(1 last year. Cotton on spot nom inal, middling uplands 1 1 1 gulf 1 l Contract Cloned. Knoxville Journal: Will. Kenefick, of Kansas Citv, closed a contract to day with McDonald, Shea & Co., for fifty miles ot grading on the Three C's rail road, commencing at Minneapolis, Vir ginia, and extending west, lie lett to night for Kansas and will ship thirty car loads of stock at once. There has been about eighty miles of grading, trestling and masonry let. The sub eon tractors will commence work nt once. James Kerry, who has control of the hanging industry of England, is willing to come to this country and execute every condemned criminal in the United States lor $2,500. This is certainly a low figure, but there is a law in this country against the importation ofpau- tier lalior. James is a huckleberry we'll uive so do without. UEATH OF 9IR8. CHRISTIAN. The I.HHt Illness of the Daughter of Wonewall Jackson, The profound reverence for the great Confederate General was emphasized everywhere by the interest felt in his daughter and only child. Since she has died, both are gone, and the hero passes away into the realms of history, no lon ger brought back to us, or close to us, by a living link. We know the follow ing particulars which we take from the Charlotte Chronicle of yesterday will have a deep and mournful interest to many of our readers : About three weeks ago. Mrs. Christian was taken sick with a maliirnant tvne of ivpiioiu icvcr, at ner home on west Trade street. The battle for life was bravely fought with an inherited forti tude, and it was not until Tuesday even ing that her recovery was pronounced hopeless. The tidingstlintshc wasdvintr spread through the city like wildfire, and on all sides were to lie heard solicitous inquiries concerning; her condition. Uverylhuu; that ski I and patience and love could do to preserve life was done ill vain. She expired at six o'clock tester- day morning, without a struggle." Mrs. Christian was conscious to the last. The day beforeshe died was the first birthday anniversary ol her baby, aud even in her extreme illness she remembered the event. The baby was brought in at her request, and she kissed it and blessed it. even as her illustrious father, when on his death bed, was cheered by her smiling baby ace, and called her "Little Darling." All day long, as she lav dead in a L'ricf stricken house, throngs ol grieving friends and relatives came to lake a last view ol the departed, and to offer consolation md sympathy to the afflicted mothe ind husband. The house was filled with llnwcrs, tokens of allcctiou from sympa thizing friends. Over the mantel, in the room in which she lavcaclosed in a beau tiful casket, was a painted portrait of the immortal Jackson, with his martial insignia upon him. Directly underneath was a picture of a fair bride! hisdaughter, ill bridal costume, wreathed in lovely flowers. On the door was a heavy mass ofcraie, which told of the grief within. i nc iiinerai services were conducted at the Fist Presbyterian church yesterday iltcrnoon with military honors. All the stores in the city wcrcclosciliii her honor. ind thousands came lo pnv a last tribute to the memory of the dead". Both sides ol Trade street were lined with people as the funeral procession filed slowly by. At the head, with slow and measured tread, marched the Hornet's Nest Rifle men, with muffled drum and reversed ,'iuis. The flag all tattered ami torn in Confederate service, was draped incrapc. hollowing the soldiers were the nail bearers, the hearse, and then carriages containing the relatives of the deceased. Around the church marched the soldiers. entering at the near gate. They halted ind stacked arms in front ol the church. filing; in one by one both sides nt the pulpit. The floral decviaiinns in the church were magnificent. In the midst of vases of the most brnmifnl limners. uuu covered wiru floral v minis' -ni l crosses, was placed theeoliin, directly in fronn t iiic pulpit. Behind the pulpit, and stretched out in nil its magnificence, was the grand old Hag of the Stars and Bars, the flag in which Stonewall Jack son's body was wrapped in the" hist funeral rites. THE CITV IHI'RCHEH, Special Announcement of Special Service To-Day. At the French Broad Baptist church at 11 o'clock this morning divine service will be conducted by Rev. W. H. Osborne. At the evening service Rev. Dr. Carroll will officiate and administer the rite of holy baptism. The sacrament of the Lord's Snpier will lie administered at the Central Meth odist church at the morning service to day, and at night the sermon will lie de livered by Rev. Dr. Rankin. Sunday school at 11.30 a. in. The reception of members and the ad ministering of the sacrament of the Lord's Supiier will take place at the First Bap tist church this morning immediately after the regular sermon by the pastor. Rev. W.A. Nelson, I). L). Kcv. Will II. Osborne will occupy the pulpit at the evening service. Regular services at all other city churches at the usual hours morning and evening. Warm. Yesterday, the last day of August and1 of the summer mouths, showed a higher tcnqierature than for some weeks past; bur cool in comparison with lite intense heat reported as prevailing at the same time ill the States of the Northwest. The probabilities are that this heated term will be closed in some sections by violent :iud disastrous storms. Acknowledgement). Owen's drum corps of Ashcville. which lUcudcd the celebration at Wayiiesville, desire to return thanks to the Richland Rifles for the many courtesies and kind nesses exteiuHid during the visit; and re turn csieei,il thanks to Lieutenants Hyatt and Ferguson of the Rifles. Weekly Hank Statement. New Yoke, August 31. The weekly bank statement is us follows: Reserve, increase Loans, decrease .$2,43S,975 .. 6,247,0(10 . 1,087,500 97,200 . 3,3i4,700 Sjiecie, decrease Legal lenders, decrease Deposits, decrease Circulation, increase 53,300 The banks now hold $4,5,.)4,500 in ex cess of the 25 )cr cent. rule. Indulgence to Mrs. MAynrlck. ' Loniion, August 3t. Mrs. Maybrick is permitted by the prison authorities to take exercise in the prison yard. Her health is improving. She maintains her cool demeanor, and seems to lie settling into the routine ol convict lite. The London strike Lonpon August 31. No settlement of the strike is mtssible to-dav. Thcdock companies express their willingness to consider further authorized proposals from the men. The weather To-Day. Washinotow D. C, Aug. 28. Indica tions for North Carolina Fair; station ary temperature ; easterly winds. FOLKS VOIT KNOW. Who They Arei Where Thev Are, anil what They Are nolnic. Senator M. C. Butler, of South Care lina, arrived in the city last night and is occupying quarters at the Battery Park The courtly and chivalrous statesman from the Palmetto State is in icrfect health and vigor and was the center ol an admiring circle of friends at the big hotel during the evening. Mayor Blanton returned from New York yesterday. During his visit to Gotham his honor was made welcome by mayor ('.rant and a number of Tammany braves high in the councils of the wigwam, who showed him the "sights of a big city" and asked him to "come again." Judge J. B. Kershaw, wife and daughter, of Charleston, S. C, are at the Swan nanoa. Judge Kershaw will lie remem bered as the jurist who presided at the celebrated trial of Dr. Mellow for the murder of Captain F. W. Dawson in Charleston a few mouths since. Mr. II. P. Clarke, of Cumlierland, Mil., who for several months past has presi ded over the prescription department nt ('.rant's Pharmacy, this eitv, leaves for his home to-morrow. Jule Deake says, that w hen a cat gets warm she purr-spires, aud our devil has isen to remark that this joke is fur- fetched. The latter is the saving claws in this joke. Hon. Kiqic Ehas, of Franklin, and Solicitor J. M. Moody, of Wayiiesville, were at the Oraud Central last night en route lo Hrcvard to attend Trnusvlvnnia court. Chas. Engle leaves this morning for llcmlcrsoiiyillc where he will iicrman- cntly reside in future. The friends of "Charlie" will miss him much at Strauss'. Z.J. Whitfield, representing the South ern Voice, a prohibition journal published at Hethel, this Slate, is in the city in the interest of that paper. II. A. Lindsay and Norman Mcl.oud leave to-morrow for a three weeks' visit to Minneapolis and other cities in the Northwest. Judge Walter Clark was in the city yesterday en route to Krevard. where he ojk'iis Transylvania siqicrior court to morrow. Max Marcus leaves for Greenville, S. C, to-dav, from which place he will leave Wednesday for New York. Cli.ir'te Jordan i- I home again from n c tended vit to relatives and friends Chariot c. i ir. ' I.. F'.'crton prominent physi-, ei.-in ( ileinlersonville. Scnt yestc-day in the city. Ex-Governor B. F. Ligon and wife, of Montgomery, Ala., are at the Battery Park. W. H. Maloncgoes to Elizaliclhlown, Tenn., to-day on professional business. SPEAKING AT WAVNESVII.I.E. (iovemor Eowle Amoint the Ora tors of the Oay. Our attention has lieen called to the fact that His Excellency Governor Fowle was omitted from the list ol speakers at the afternoon meeting of the veterans on Thursday. The fault was not ours. We expressly stated that we left the grounds .it or liefore 3 o'clock; at all events be fore the sicakiug had begun. We knew, on the information of one ot the commit tee, that to ex-Governor Jarvis had been assigned the delivery of the memorial ad dress. We could, therefore, safely say he had spnken. But though we knew that Governor Fowdcand Justices Davis, Shci-lu-rd and Avery were on the ground and might be exjjected to sicak, we could not say that thev lid so, nor could we get a word of certain, assurance as to the ar rangements for the afternoon. We wrote our account in yesterday morning's paer without a word of the additional infor mation promised. Nor did we learn until yesterday by persons w ho reached here Friday night thai Governor Fowde and the other gentlemen did sjieak, and that the Sieech of the former was elegant and eloquent. The omission of his name is the subject of regret, but not of apology. The fault is not ours. THIRD ANNIVERSARY Of the tireat Earthquake .Shocks of AunvHt 31, I8H6. Last night recalled the fearful earth quake ol the 31st of August, three years ago. memorable event here w here no dam age w.'is done but wdierc everybody and everything was shaken up and the streets filled with a surprised and terror-stricken imputation. It was an cxiericnce only a very few had ever had liefore, aud which no one will ever invite again. For when the accounts licgnn to come in of the hor rors nt Charleston and Suninierville, every one realized how very narrow had lieen the limit between our escape and their disaster. Possibly, neither we or they will ever lie subjected to the terrors of the same phenomenon. A quiet equi librium had been for many ages the nor mal condition of the Atlantic slojic; and it was probably only the adjustment ol some old displacement to its true position in relation to its environments that caused the disturbance, amounting al most to a cataclysm. In nil probability this generation will have no such close familiarity with the earthquake again ; though it is natural that apprehensions should be awakened by very slight The Flower Mission will meet on Mon day nt 5 o'clock p. m., at Mrs. Sawyer's on Havwood street. ANOTHER LIE NAILED. THE SENSATIONAL DISPATCH EROM DURHAM, N. C, Turned Out to be Unfounded and UroHHly MlHleadlny; Concerning the True State of Affairs at Ox fordMayor Snilth'H Denial. Oxfokp, N. C, August 31. An Oxford sK'cial sent from Durham, N. C, on the 27th inst reported a threatened race con flict at this place on account of the arrest of two negroes for shooting officer Whitfield, who attempted to arrest them for creating a disturbance. The follow ing denial has been sent out by mayor Smith: "I desire to correct the sensational telegram sent out from Durham in re gard to the shooting of officer Whitfield. The facts in the case are as follows: Charles Thorp and John Ragland, two negroes, were playing cards near thejnil when a dispute arose over the game, Ragland alleging that Thorp owed him a dollar. On Thorn's refusine to oav it. Ragland drew a pistol, and putting it to Thorp's head, told him il he did not hand it over, he would kill him. Officer Whit field arriving on the scene at the time. attempted to arrest Ragland: and the negro resisting the officer, knocked him down twice. Arising the second time the negro drew his pistol on the officer and emptied its live chambers, one ball only taking effect in the fleshy part of the officer's arm lielow the elbow. The des ignate negro then ran at the top of his speed, hotly pursued by several officers and citizens, who captured him near the Horner school. The negro was brought to town and lodged in jail to await a hearing liefore a magistrate. The threats of lynching alleged to have been made are unfounded, and in justice to our colored population, I will state no at tempt was made to rescue the negro Ragland, or were any threats whatever made. A DESOLATE HOME. Death of Mrs, w. E. Randolph VeMerday Afternoon. Tin; Citizen is deeply grieved to an nounce the death of Mrs. Jennie Virginia Randolph, wile of W. F. Randolph, Esq., of this city, which occurred at her resi dence (ill Beaumont street, vesterdnv - - j afternoon at 3 o'clock. Mrs. Randolph was thirty-three years of age, and hns lieen a resident of Ashcville about five years, coining here with her husband and children from Washington City in 1884. During her residence here she has been nn acute sufferer from that fearful malady, consumption, theeffects of which brought about her sad demise yesterday. Mrs. Randolph was a most excellent and ami able christian Indy. and in her death Ashcville has lost one of its best and noblest women. Besides Ht husband, there are four small and interesting chil dren to mou.-n a kind am! devoted moth- L,cv mo. i ; er v,is- a-d gemk A laite nundicr o( car- and training relatives and friends, here and in the Ilis trict of Columbia will sincerely mourn the death of this truly good lady. The funeral over her remains will be held from the residence at 5 o'clock this afternoon, and will lie conducted by Rev. Dr. Rankin, after which the interment will lie made in Riverside cemetery. The bereaved husband has the sincere and heartfelt sympathy of his associates and friends on this pacr in his deep sor row mid anguish, as well as the condo lence of a large circle of acquaintances in the city. THE CITV SCHOOES. Eight Hundred Children Will be Admitted To-Morrow. In reply to a question asked Superin tendent Claxton of the city schools yes terday afternoon that official informed a Citizhn representative that between sev en and eight hundred pupils would be admitted to the Academy and Oraoge street institutions at the beginning of the school year tomorrow morning. This is the largest numlier yet admitted to the schools and no doubt it will lie greatly iiigmentcd during the first weeks of the session. The Superintendent is particularly de sirous that every child holding an ndmit- ince ticket to either of the schools shall lie promptly on hand not a moment late, tomorrow morning, and parents and guardians are especially urged to see that their children and wards arc ready by the appointed time. In addition to this, Mr. Claxton requested us to state that all children living on the west side of Main street, holding entrance tickets lielow the seventh grade, are required to assemble at the Academy street build ing, w hile those who have tickets above and including the seventh grade will r& port at the Orange street building for assignment to classes. The schools for the colored children will ien two weeks later and the pros iiect is that the numlier of pupils will greatly exceed that of last year. when the Inspector Comes. The postoffice authorities at Washing ton will, during the coming week, detail an inscctor to visit this city, and after carefully investigating the matter in all its details, to report back to headquarters the advisability or inadvisability of re moving the Ashcville postoffice from its present location to the Hurkins' building, on Pntton avenue. Until this report is sent in and acted upon, nothing positive will be known concerning the question of removal. The Bell Ringer. The farewell concert of Guinness and Armstrong's Swiss Bell Ringers company given at Battery Park last evening was attended by a fair audience composed mainly of the guests at the hotel. The performance wnscreditable and appeared to be highly satisfactory to those who were present. The company will leave for New York to-day. u "I, if I j I 4:. i i f 1.1 ' if :i t'J tl it I Ik1 1:1 '3 . i M. f i I ! "! if (. i 1
Asheville Citizen (Asheville, N.C.)
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Sept. 1, 1889, edition 1
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