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THE DAILY CI TIZEN THE DAILY CITIZEN BOARDING WANTS, For Kent, and Lost Notices, three lines or less, 25 Cents for each insertion. delivered to Visitoi-Hin any part of the Cit v. nt; Mi. nth Two Weeks, r lt'SB 'JCie. VOLUME V. ASHEVILLE, N. C, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1889. NUMBER 188. TIM- TRUNIN TRIAL. A NKWHI'tPKR CORKIWI'OMI). KXT iIVlCH III KVIUKNCK. H Tells In n Very llruiiinllc Way : of an Interview Willi O'Hulllvan Hie Moriiimc oil Which Crnnin'H Body Was Found. Ciiicai',1), November 1(5. There was a great crowd nt the opening of the court i tiic 1 riiutiititil ifiil fit till Cronin t I this morning after two days, recess. The bailiffs had a ditlicult task in keeping back those who were without tickets of admission. The crowd surged up the stairway, and pressed about them; and it was only after most vigorous efforts that they were enabled to clear the pass "ageway into the door. The belated representatives of the press, I'm 'ing that it was impossible to go up staiis in the regular way, elimlicd up along the outer edge of them clinging to the iron hand rail. The first witness called was James Cloncey, correspondent of the New York Herald, who testified on bclinlf of the prosecution. Me said that he was sent here by the Herald in May to investigate the Cronin case. He called at O'Sulli- vau's house on the morning of the day that Crouiu's body was discovered, but thediscovery had not been made. The wit ness continued : "I asked him if he knew Cronin. He told me he had known him lor five years, or about live years, and that he had met him at the political meet ing in the seventeenth ward. I asked him what he thought of tin disappear nnceof Dr. Cronin? He said, to the best of my recollection, that he would turnup somewhere; turiiierinore that he did not believe that he had been mur dered. I asked him about the con tract he had made with Cronin He said ill reference to that contract that he had been introduced personally to Cronin a few weeks before that time by Judge Mahoney. 1 asked him why he made the contract? He said because ac cidents had happened ; and then he said something about wishing to have a phy sician to attend to anything of the kind that might occur in the future. The con versation was general about Cronin, and when I stood up to go, I asked him again what he thought of the' doctor's disapiiearauce ? And once more he said that he would turn up some where all right; that he did not believe that he was murdered. I then left. I called late in the evening of the same day after hearing that the body had been found. 1 asked him, if he had heard the news. He said no. Then there was a pause. Then he said "there was a body. I heard when 1 wasdown town that a body was discovered in the Lake this morning, hut it has not been identified. We were both standing at this time. I said, 'I heard nothing about that.' 1 paused and then said, 'Mr. O'Sullivan, the body of lr. Cronin has been found.' (Witness spoke very dra matical, and continued.) He turned pale. He said: "What! the body of Dr. Croin, found. Is it true?' 1 said, 'of course, I don't know for certain, 1 heard it was discovered in a catch basin and is lying at the police station about a mile Irom here. 1 have a cab at the door. Will von accompany me, and identity the body at the morgue?' He spoke and sank into his chair and said : 'No ! I could not go ; 1 could not identify him. It would lie useless for me to go.' I said, 'Mr. O'Sullivan, you told me this morning, you knew Cronin well. It is only a short distance. Come and identity the body. It may not be Crouiu's body. Let us make sure. He said.no. I could not go. Il l met him in the street, I might know him but 1 could not identify his body." (In giving the answers made to him, witness, O'Sullivan's voice was in con tinual tremor and the scene was a dra matic one. I 1 said, "Its strange." I urged him again and he made an effort to move out ol his chair in which lie sank when 1 first broke news to him. Mr. O'Donluie "Did you say he; moved the chair al the time!'' No, I tlid not. It seemed to me that he tried to rise out of the chair into wliicu he had sunk. States Attorne. l.o ahead. j "I said, I would try to gel Judge Ma-1 liontv to identity linn. 1 said, what is : Ids address? He seemed to tiy to rec ollect, and then gave me a w rong ad dress. He called Mrs. Wliolcn into the room and asked herthcjuilgc's address." "He had given von the Judge's address already in the morning had he not." "Yes, I then made a final effort to in duce him to conic and identity the body. He said, 'no, 1 could not identify it. Il is useless for me to go,' then 1 left." The cross-examination of witnesses then began. The cross examination was directed to eliciting the details of the witness nnd his lile front, the time ot Ins birth up through a varied journalistic career in London, Paris and elsewhere. The witness told without hesitation the story of his conuection with James Stevens' Fenian movement, and his ar rest, conviction of attempting to shoot a policeman who captured him and sen tenced to penal servitude tor lite. The sentence was subsequently commuted to sixteen years, and he wus released on a ticket of leave. A the conclusion of Cloncey's examination the Slate rested and tlie defense 'moved on liehalf of Burke, Coughlin, O'Sullivan and Kunze, that all evidence respecting what the firoseculion called theCump conspiracy e struck from the record. The court overruled the motion and the defense then asked that the pages of the United Brotherhood record, being the minutes of the proieedings of Camp 20 on the night of February Nth, lie excluded. After considerable discussion, and peud ing the writing up of certain evidence, the court said he would rule on the mo tion later. Forrest then moved that no more testimony relating to Camp 20 be excluded, but all his motions were promptly overruled. Next, the defence moved to exclude cer tain portions of Spellmnn's testimony, and the correspondence between him and it.,cs, and then, taking up the testi mony of Conklin, Mrs. Conklin and other witnesses, asked that certain por tons of their testimony lie excluded. All the motions were overruled. Forrest then turned his attention townrds the hair, blood stains and other physical evi dences ot the crime, and moved tor their exclusion ; but the motions were over ruled. The next witness for the defence was Frederick J. Squibb, stenographer, who took the testimony before the coroner. He testified as to "certain differences le tween the testimony as given before the coroner's jury by old man Carlson and Frank Scanlan as compared with their evidence during the trial proper. Forrest then moved for the exclusion of the proceedings of Camp 20 on February 8, which the court took nnder considera tion, and the evidence ol'Capt. O'Connor cancerniug the same proceedings, which the court overruled. State's attorney We have not offered that record of the proceedings of Camp 20 in evidence so far as I am aware of. Foster, attorney lor Bcggs Well, if von dvn't, I shall. Squihhs then testified to a number of contradictious in the testimony of Major Sampson before the coroner's jury anil before the court. THK THKKK AM Kit IC AH. Comparative Areas of the Central and Mouth Amerlcuu Counlrlett, Cleveland Plain-Dealer; The coming I of the delegates to the I'an-Ainerican ! congress makes it pertinent to remind our readers that Centra! and South ' America embrace an erca a little greater than twice the extent of country in tile I I'nited States and Territories, and a : population id' about o0,t MM 1, 00(1, or about ! one-sixth smaller lhau the population of the republic. Mexico covers an area ,ust uhoulcipin to that part of the I'nited States east of the Mississippi river, exclusive of the Slates ol Louisiana and Mississippi, and has 10,000.0110 inhabitants. The five Central American Republics of Costa Kica, Cnatcmala, Honduras. Nicaragua and Salvador cover an extent of country about the size of the li"c States of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio. Michigan and Illinois, and have a popu lation cuul to both New York and In diana. Brazil's area is somewhat greater than that ol the Tinted States, exclusive of Alaska, and her population is about that of X w York. Pennsylvania and Ohio. The Argentine Republic, with about half the area id the I'liilcd Stales, has a population not quite as large as Pennsyl vania. Colombia is nearly equal in extent to New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin, with a population probably a little less than that of New York State. Bolivia's territory issoniewhnlgrcatcr than that of the Atlantic Stales, Penn sylvania, Ohio and Michigan, and has a population about Indiana's figure. Peru is a little larger than the Atlantic States and Pennsylvania, and her popu lation is about thai of Illinois. Venezuela is larger than Peru by about as much territory as is embraced in New Jersey, and her population is about equal to Indiana's. Kcuador could contain ( hio, New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Illinois, but her population is not quite up to that of Michigan alone. Chili's domain cul up would make Stales as cxU'iisivcasOhio, Pennsylvania and Indiana. Her population is some what greater than that of Indiana. Paraguay is big enough to include Ohio and New York within her borders, but her entire population scarcely ex ceeds that of Cleveland. rrugtiav is not quite as large as Ohio and Indiana combined, and just about the same manlier of inhabitants as Brooklyn, N. Y. The (tuiauas arc F.uglish, I:reuch, and Dutch colonies. British Guiana, twice as large as Ohio, has just about the pop ulation ol Cleveland. French (iiiiana, somewhat larger than Ohio, has about as many inhabitants as Toledo. Dutch Guiana, nearly as large as Pennsylvania, has no more inhabitants than Columbus. A Prominent Man Dead, Richmond. Ya., November Hi. T. C. Leak, jr., vice-president of the Tennessee Midland Railroad Company died at his residence here this morning aged thirl v fivc. lie was one of the most prominent and enterprising citizens ol Richmond, lie was the pioneer m the development ol the mineral district of Birmingham, Ala. He has been prominently identified with the railroad development of the South, and was, at the time of his death, president of the Alabama Land anil Development Company, controlling over a million I acics of laud. Alahama Crops, Miinti.omkky. Ala., November Hi. The State department of agriculture has completed its November report based on reports from all Sections of the State. The report is lull ol interest, particularly as it shows that but Kli per cent, of the cotton crop has been tirade in the State, the average being reduced bv the almost total failure of the crop ill some of the cotton producing counties of- noith Ala bama. The corn crop is above a full one, the report shewing an average of 105. Halzhay Sentenced for I.lfe. MiXNKAi'iit.is, Minn., November Hi. A Journal's Bessemer, Mich., secinl says: The Ilalzhay case was completed at ! o'clock this morning; the jury went out al 9. 30 and returned at 1().1,", with a verdict ol guilty. Ilalzhay was then sentenced ior me at nam lanor. 1 lie prisoner broke down, and seemed dazed when the foreman ot the jurv announced the verdict. The judge'sclinrge wasread this morning, lasting about twenty minutes. The attorneys for the defense will make an effort for a new trial. Prize Fliclit lu Kuoxvllle. Knoxvii.lk, Tenu., November IB. A light to the finish with skin tight gloves, Marquis of jjucenshury rules, occurred here this morning nt 3 o'clock. The pug ilists were Frank Mel I ugh. the feather weight champion ot Cincinnati, and Jos eph Fnppiono, of this city. The tight lasted one hour and ten minutes, and ten rounds were fought. Fnppiono threw up the sponge and the fight and purse of $o(0 were given McHugh. RlriiilnKhaiit Raced. Hikmini.iiam. Ala., Novenilier 1(5. The races have been postponed till Monday on account of rain. F.ntries for the first and third races and Florence hotel handi cap for to-day, remain the same for Monday. Yellow Fever at Key West. Wasiiisotos, Novenilier 16 Surgeon Posey has reported to Surgeon (ieneral Hamilton of the Marine hospital service that two new caser of yellow fever have develoK'd at Key West, Fla. Knliihts of Labor. Atlanta, Gil, November 16. The Knights remained in secret session till nun past one o ciock lo-oay. i ne morn ing was devoted to discussion on the state ot the order, and no important action was taken. Advertising CREA TES many a new business; ENLARGES many an old business; REVIVES many a dull business; RESCUES many a lust business; SA VES manv a failing business; PRESERVES many a large business; SECURES success in any business. To advertise Judiciously, use the col umns of "The Cititen" Everybody reads it; and in propoitiolt to the returns it yields advei tisera, it rates are the cheap est in the counti r. FA V ETT F.V1LI.ECENTENNUI,, lie Marine Hand Will Furnish the Music. F.WKTTliVli.l.K, N. C. November Hi. Special j The following official docu ment has been received to-night by II. U. Novitzky, chairman of the music com mittee: "Yours of the loth instant has been presented to the department by the lion. M. W. Ransom, I'nited States Senator In accordance with the request contained therein the commandant of the Marine corps has been directed to order t he Marine Band to Fn ettevillc to furnish music on the 20th, 21st, and 2ud instants, the occasion of the Centennial Celebration of the Rnliiical ion of tin Constitution of the I'liiled States, by North Carolina. The quarter master will furnish the band transportation to and from Faycttcvillc, but it is necessary that the committee provide suitable quarters and furnish subsistence. Verv Respectfully, B. F. Tracv, Secretary ol the Navy." The leader of this baud. Prof. Sonsa. also writes that he will furnish orchestral music both for the hall and gentian. Flags and shields from the different states arc arriving daily. J as. A. 1 1 ix:i:s. IIAMF.HAI.I. Alii H. The Work of the l.nicue at I.nst Concluded. NliW York, November Hi. The Na tional League of baseball clubs com pleted ils work yesterday, and before ad journment was taken a plan of action against revoking brolherhond players was adopted. Byrne, Young and Reach, the committee on negotiations which was appointed in accordance with the resolutions adopted al the sugges tion of A. (i. Spalding, will work hard lor the next few weeks so as to be able to present an encouraging report at the re convened meeting on January 2S. They say t'lat there will lie no difficulty in getting till the players necessary for the success of the game, 'file American as sociation men concluded their labors here at 1 o'clock this I'ternoon. Appli cation on the part of Syracuse for ad mission was approved, and delegates from that club were admitted to I he con vention. This completed six clubs in the association. The next meeting of the association will be on December fit Columbus, Ohio. IIKAZII.'H KlvVOI.I TION. Conflicting Reports a to the Con dition of Allairs. NliW York, November 1(i The fol lowing cable wiis received at the coffee exchange to-day til 1 o'clock p. in., from Rio Janeiro : "The political situation critical. The Fmpcror deposed." Washington, D. C, November 16. The only news of any definite character received at the ltrazilliau legation here about the revolution in Brazil, is the fol lowing telegram from a reliable source in Loudon : "A Brazilian republic probable: ex change declining ; a peaceful settlement likely." London, November 10. (i p. m. An other dispatch Irom Rio Janeiro states lh..t the garrison ol that city hast'ornicd a provisional govern ment. compromising Seuor Constant, a journalist named Ouintino Bacaqui and General Du 1'ou seca. The populace, the dispatches say. are holding aloof from the revolutionary movement, and it is believed thai the government will be able to suppress it. MR. DAVIS AT KKW OHI.EANs. Consults a Physician and is Pro nounced Much Improved. Nt:w Oki.kans, November Id. Hon. Jefferson Davis arrived here to-day on the steamer Leathers. He remained in his state room, where he was visited by i his physician, Dr. Chaille.and one or two ) intimate person.-1 1 trie-nils. Alter making a careful examination of his patient, Dr. Chaillc stated that Mr. Davis has been; quite sick al Brierlichl with a sevcrecold, j but that be was much improved now, t and there is no cause for alarm. Tnis afternoon Mr. Davis was removed to the residence ol his lile long icrsonal friend Mi.J.W. Payne, where lie will remain tor some days. t - ! Kailroad Matters. Richmond, Ya., November 16. Charles Ullis, II. Haskcrville, . P. Branch. Col. J. B. Palmer, and Maj. U. F. I). Myers, i Icl't this city to-day on a tour of inspee- tion of the Richmond and Petersburg, ; and Petersburg railroads. The annual meeting of the following, roads, composing the Atlantic coast line, ; will be held next Monday: Richmond & ' Petersburg, Petersburg, Wilmington K: j Weldon, North liastern, Cheraw iS: Salis- i bury, Chcrnw & Danville, Wilmington, Columbia M: Augusta, Central, of South : Carolina, and Albcrmarle ami Raleigh, i President Returned. Washington, I). C, November 16. The j President returned from his duck shoot-1 ing excursion this atternoon. j Had for Coilee Mriukers. . Revolutions do not exhaust their forces : in the counti ies in which they originate. I They affect the comforts and the habits j of people who have no direct concern j with them. So the revolution in Brazil j is likely to interest us in a most direct, though most unexpected way. We are a people of coffee drinkers, and our sup ply comes chiefly from Brazil. In the Coffee Kxehange in New York yesterduy some of the dealers said : The new coffee crop in Brazil is almost j ready to lie h.-n vested, and the supply on the market here is consequently limited.! If a revolution has broken out and the ports of Rio de Janerio and Santos arc I blockaded, seventy-five per cent, of the : coffee supply of this country will be cut ' off. This will he productive of very serious consequences throughout the, country. When the confirmation ol the report is read at theexchange to-morrow ; trom London, there is likely to be an j unheard of scene on the floor. Wm. H. Crossman Bros,, had not re-1 ccived a dispatch, but had information , through con espondenee Irom Brazil of a . veiy recent date which gave no hint of even an anticipation of trouble in that country. "If the report is true." said that gentleman, "coffee is likely to ad vance to hitherto unheard of figmes, and when quiet is again restored in Brazil, enormous shipments are likely to cause a panic." The traveling passenger agent of the yueen and Crescent route is stopping at the Swannaiion. I A ( IRK AT INDCSTRV. m:vi:n a;i:s m i; to ciucf.r AND NOT IM'.llKIA I IC. low I lie are Made, Flavored, liottled and Corked, and Mncle lo t;ive I'ure,HparklaiK Pleasure lo Many Thirsty Drinkers A visit to Mr. C. II. Campbell's soda water manufactory on Haywood street is both instructive and euieriaiiiing. One naturally thinks that the process is verv simple and requires only a meagre ram shackle shanty with a nui"l er ol hands. Whereas il is exactly the reverse. There is required a number of complicated ma chines and only a few skilled workmen to operate them. But the foaming, ex hilarating beverage which affords such a sense of relief and coolness, where one is taint and exhausted from the heat, is a seienlilic product, the liavors are nut mere mixtures of syrup and extracts, but are only evolved after long study and years of careful laboratory work. For example, the ginger ale, as manulactuieil by Mr. Campbell, contains live different extracts. The propriitor of this iiianu laetory has had great experience in the business, having operated a manufactory of the same kind in Massachusetts, am! is. now supplying the entire country within a radius of loo miles Irom Asbc ville. He takes great pride in his place, as he well may, and is .always ready to explain the different mrlciiiiiery to any one wno strolls in. Hut here he comet 10 tell us all about it. "How are you, my friend'' So you want to see how soda vvater is made. And. by the way. soda water is an entire misnomer. There is no soda about il. 11 is cai bonaietl water, and how that name vas tacked on to it, I don't know. Now lu re is quite a machine, called tin ohn Matthews' Carbonating Appa ratus. Looks simple, doesn't it? But that machine cost me just $1,000 You see il is made of gnu metal, while most people think il is galvanized iron. Hut. bless you, we couldn't use that. Tin pressure and strain is too great. Il av erages everywhere from -loto ISO pounds per square inch. II you will examine it. you will see that there are live large res ervoirs or fountains. Above the last reservoir on the left is the sulphuric acid reservoir. Now. if I wish lo charge till the fountains, I put four and a half gal lons of sulphuric acid in this, and twelve gallons of marble dust and ten gallons ol water in the reservoir beneath. The sill pluiric acid is allowed to run into the reservoir containing the mixture of mar ble dnsl, and carbonic acid gas is gener ated by the action of this acid. We now have the carbonic acid gas, with which wi charge thewater, lo produccthe so-callci! soda water. But the gas in ils present stale contains many injurious elements, so il is carried oil by the pipes, which you see here, into these washers. The pipe leads the gas first intothe bottom of this washer, which contains large lumps ol marble and water. As the gas rises to the surface, il has to run in and out be tween these lumps, so thai ils passagi is somewhat obstructed and it under goes a more thorough cleansing. From this washer il passes into a second, where it is subjected to the same treat-, inenl. Now it is thoroughly purified,; and that is one of the chief secrets in the manufacture of soda water. The gas is ahcady lor use and uiav be led bv a system of pipes into tiny one or all of tin tour remaining fountains or reservoirs These are filled two thirds lull of water, and as the gas enters, it is thoroughly mixed with the water by means ol dash ers, which are operated in the same manner as a churn. Herein these loun tains there is contained the soda water icady tor use, and all that remains is to bottle and flavor it. "Where do I get my water? Fsinsc me, 1 was just about to show you. Here is the apparatus It is the Hyatt - House j Filler, and will purify the water and give a supply at the rale of four gallons per minute." Here Mr. Campbell drew a sparkling bumper of clear, crystal water, which was just the kind we all vearn for and don't get. "Taste that. Spring water? Not a bit of it. It doesn't look much like the regular city water, docs it ? But that's what it is, and just sec this eollec colored sediment which remains alter it passes through the filter of charcoal and gravel. I don't regret the outlav of $200 on this machine. It is well worth it. "Just step 1 1 is way a moment please. This is the corking bench, an invention which iseovered bv twenty-three patents and cost S17o. Here on lliis spot is placed the lablc.and there above on that hook lmngs a can containing the syrp ve wish to put in. By working this gunge we can rcgulalc the amount of syrup kt bottle. Now make the attach ments with the can anil the fountain, place the cork in lbis piston under the hammer, and give one downward stroke with the lever, 'flic bottle is firmly clasjied in position by a pair of clamps, charged with soda water and syrup,aiul the cork driven home at one and the same stroke. Rapid woi k, isn't it? "I'll guarantee you don't know how a syphon is tilled. No? Well, you arc not the only one. Most jieople think that in order to till them the the syphon head must !e taken off. That amuses me hugely sometimes. Here is the ma chine which does the work. It is called the syphon filler. You will notice that 1 j place the bottle in these chimps with the nozzle down, and connect this by a tulie with the fountain containing the soda water. As the carbonated water rushes I into the I Kittle the air is compressed, and I when it is two thirds lull, bv means of I this lever, which works a series ol valves, MEW RCSINF.WS FIRM. 1 can allow the compressed air to escape little by little, until the bottle is com- tJeiillcmeii of Varied F.xperience oletely filled. This process requires great ! " Head of II. care and attention to prevent the bottle ' As will be seen by an announcement from bursting. ! elsewhere in Tm; CrnzKN.a new linn has "Here is something new which I intend ; been added to Ashcvillc's quola of busi to introduce lo take the place of corks. ' ness houses. Messrs. Charles N. and As you sec, it is a rubber seal so coated ; Art liur 1-.. Jeuks, the partners in the cn as to make it impervious, and with a j terprise, conic to us not as strangers, but metal hoop, by means of which it can be j us young men who are already well pulled out by any sharp instrument, j known to many of our citizens, both so llowmany of them would you guess ( cially ami in a business way. They are iv. re in this bai'? About two thou- ' the Sous of Col. C. W. lenks, of the sand? Ha! Ha! There are fourteen thousand four hundred. That's a puzzle for you. It beats the Pigs in the Clover all hollo.w. "(ioiiig? I cant let you do that belore you have sampled my wares Tableau. Disappearance of Mr. Camp- bell. Sudden reappearance of the same .veil laden. The popping of corks, a' Hotli Lot. Jcnks and Ins sons are tirm -urgling and guzzling, and till was o'er, j believers in the natural resources of Wcs fhe visitor of that morning regretfully tern North Carolina, and the new firm look his ileparune, well satisfied that I has unsurpassed facilities for presenting Mr. Campbell's wares were all that they j to Northern capitalists the almost unc--houl 1 be, iind il was with a feeling of , quailed inducements offered by this sec- sadness, "almost akin to pain," that he abandoned, the project of camping down then for the rest of the day, and sain- pling the remainder of the fifteen varie - lies of manufactured goods, which Mr. Campbell puts up. STRF.F.T ( HtltlSIMM, Muller Which Should Have I Immediate Attention. Street crossings, arc in fact temper crossings; for there is nothing so irrita ting as t be necessity of stepping from a relatively good sidewalk upon the adveii- litn In ir,. to I hi oilier ifl,- of .'ilitlnSt , . ., i Hi v street in the citv. Sometimes there i is the wreck of wlnit was once stepping stones: sometimes these stand with sharp or rounded edges worn down by the constanL beating of wheels: some times they appear here and there like the jagged teeth remaiuiugin thejaw boneol'a fossil megatherium, or some other inon- ster nntcdiluvian; sometimes they ap-j"1' pear Hist above the surface .... , with a treacherous kind of challenge to trust tht in. But oltener there is nothing it all, nothing to doexcepi , when coming to the terrible ordeal, lo t'ollow cousin Sallv Dillard's example. There is no town or city in the State that lias wit 11 so llltieb thai is food ami , . , , .ii,, inveterate sportsman, and his successes ailvtinecd it, such execrable strcel cross-; 1 ' ingsasAshcville. We make no bones j,, ' lagging bear, deer and other game, so speaking of them. Thev arc licvond ml' wc" "'""1"'1 "''' defeuec or apology. There is a decided ,knts 1,1 Macon' J'uk!i0" an1 Transyl and general improvement going on j,, j vatna counties. the sidewalks. But if. in moving ilrvlv 1,1 187r' Mr' Jl',,ks bt'c!,mc -''ted aniloli-Msaiillv.-dom. ibeni .-o,,! 1 1,.-,,' i" ! wltn (k'orK-' Campbell, Lsq., ol West leaving them to cross to the other side of anv stree in the eitv. we are I'oiniieltcil to oart with all the' shine on our boots ' or shoes, or worse, togivetlicu. the color j li,Ur M,'-.K-'ks "cut into the sheep bus ofthe mud with the addition ,' ils 1 "-'ss in Texas, and became part owner moisture, what profiieth us the drv side- ' ""c "' tbv ,,ncst Pr"!erties there walk:- On the principle that the weakest j win to SK'kncBS 1,c nne North m 1881 part of a chain measures the strength of ! "mI s"on 'dtcrward beg.-.n shipping stock the whole, so do the vile crossings tneas-' aml shtTI' to tl,c Wl'sl and south-western lire the virtue of the sidewalk. Let us have sonic decided and speedy improvement in this matter. Capt. Troy lias found a quarry which will provide the material in short order. IM.KSONAI. Jli:.TION, Dr. Fletcher, of Fletchers, one of the Idcst practitioners in the Stale, is slop ing nt the Swaunanoa. Mr. Crawford, who is priiiuineullyeon- ucctcil with the Pennsylvania railroad, is now at the Battery. Park. Mr. Charles R. Darby, the postolhcc inspector, ot Washington, II. C, is stop ping at the (iraud Central. Among the guests at the (irand Central is Mr. I. II. Wvnn, of the Kecr's Spool Cotton Company of Chicago. Mr. Benjamin Recce, engineer of the Durham Manufacturing Company, of Chicago, is at the Swannnuon. 1 Col. Fineke, who has traveled till over i he world, and can nnrrnte many an in-: terestiug adventure, is at present at the , Baticrv Park. I i 1 imong its i The Swaunanoa numbers prominent arrivals Mr. Robert C. Crump, i 1 i i of Richmond, Ya., formerly ot the firm of , I II III llO llOlllfl L II1IL IWL1III lit III 111 III ,1 blhott and L rump. I .. , " , . . .. . . 1 I tile student tit the tunc, and the success Mr. Van Zandt, who has rented the ; , t.ss.,v wils l,lisheil in the August JIci rick hous-. arrived in Ashcvilleycstcr-1 day afternoon. He expressed himself ns;jcnka during his senior year in college being well pleased with the-ahem !-! was managing editor of the Yale Record. pleasant weather. ; In Meniorlain. At a meeting of the executive commit tee ot lln Carolina A I lilil ti' Tltil, It.-LI on the mil dav of Novenilier. 188!) the fol- lowing resolutions were unanimously i adopted : j efforts that the club was enabled Resolved, That the Carolina Athletic . . i . i 1 1 ,- i . ri . iii .11 ., to take its highly success til trip of last Club deeply deplores the decease of their .. 1 late nicmlKT. lid ward Wcddin, whereby j April, when it visited Savannah, Charles thc club has lost from its ranks one of its ton and Atlanta, singing to delighted licst members, and the community a eiti- j audiences in each citv. zen ciulowcil witn inc tiiglicsl manly vir- i tues, a mail always gentle, kind and 1 courteous to those around him, diligent m business, ot sterling integrity, possess ing and well deserving the love and con li'lcuce of till who knew him, faithful in every walk of lile, and a worthy exam ple of sobriety and morality among yoimt' mcii Resolved. That Iln elnli l,n,!,-rs to the family of our departed member its i Barker at his fruit stand yesterday ex sincere sympathy in their loss from the I hibited a large bunch of coconnuts as family circle of one who wasalwaysa de- j tK.v werc t !,,. r()m tne tree a closelv voted, alicctionate and dutiful son ami ; , , , , r , brother 1 compacted cluster of a dozen or more, in Resolved, That these resolution be en- j their green husks looking for all the tcred upon the records ot the Club, and world like a cluster of green gourds, ex that the chairman lie requested to trans- KVt tnat thev .(,., the smmtth ,. nut a copv thereof to the tanulv ot the . . . ... ... deceased, "and one to Tiik As.ikmi.i.k dc(1 c"tur "f t,,,s vegetables. Proba- Citizkn for publication. I.AWRENCK Pl'I.LIAM, Thus. A. Junes. W. T. Pksximan, L. P. McLorn, Committee. Asheville, N. C. Novenilier 13, 1889. Sprague Motor Company, of New York, il gentleman widely known throughout North Carolina. Col. Jenks, it will be remembered, located and put in success ful oieralion the corundum mine in Ma con county, w hich nt the present time j P'vs the greatest profits ot any similar j "line m this country. ! lion of the State for legitimate and sale ! investments. j While dealing largely in timber hinds ' and mineral priqierties, the Messrs. Jeuks will give especial attention to city and suburban property, and also to a busi ness which lias received meagre atten tion in this Stale as compared with other sections of the country, viz.: Life and Accident insurance. The firm will represent the Traveler's Insurance Com pany, of Hartford, well known to all our readers as one of the largest and finest companies in the world, and will en deavor to give it the same preemiiie-ice here that it has acquired elsewhere . In view of the fact that the Messrs Jeuks will be one of Ashcvillc's repre sentative firms, a short biography of the partners may be of interest to our read ers. Mr. Charles N. Jcnks, the senior mem ber of the firm, was bornin North Brook- i- la t c. i.. --.rUy.,o.,r ,e. ago. .,, i.i t, ne came to . Macon county, in tins I State, when for a tintf he worked in the corundum mine now owned by Captain i Lucas. He became very familiar with j corundum matters, which interest he has always retnine-d and cultivated, being to-day one of the few corundum experts in the country. He has always been an ! time of his death, the foremost Merino s,,w1' ,l,LCkr tl,is country. A year states and territories. In 188(5, he went to Montana to take i charge of it large ranch1' there. He nian- igcd it so successfully that the owners were .able to stdl it after a time at a large profit. Mr. Jcnks has a host of" warm persona friends all through the North and West and among the mountain people here, and has a thorough acquaintance wilh the timber and mineral lands of Western North Carolina. Mr. Arthur K. Jcnks, the junior part ner of' the firm, was born in Boston, Mass., twenty-four years ago. He grad uated from the High school tit the age of fifteen, sieiiiliiig the next two years ol liislife in tlie South. He then entered the journalistic arena in a reportorial ca- pacitv an J finally became the citv editor of the Brockton, Mass., Daily Gazette, which position he held until 1KS", when he entered Yale I'niversitv, graduating from that institution last June- In his sophomore year he took the prize otl'ered bv Lippincott's Magazine for the best es say on "Social Life at Yale." The com petition for this prize was open to any Yale under-gradtiate and there were no . t. ... mi.n . , n. , . ., . ' .., i j .i . . u-!is rt'iiu ly i-onsiilrrcn as t hi ,,rt'alpsl .. . , ... ,. ,i., issT of I.ionim-oit's. Mr one of the leading illustrated papers of the college world. He was also a mem ber of the Apollo Glee Club of Yale I'ni ; vcrsitv for three years, and was business manager of the club during the last two years of his course. It was due to Mr. A glance at the references presented by the Messrs. lenks will indicate at a glance the character of their backing, ; which will establish for them immedi ately a reputation ordinarily acquired ' only bv years of business lite. A Curiosity to Many ; blv not more that one in a hundred could guess what they were. They came from j the Bahamas. They are well worth see- ing. They suggest a cocoanut, as gen erally seen, as much as a head of wheat ' does a loaf of bread. FREE DELIVERY. THE KYHTFM Wll.l. HE F.STAR. I.WHEU IJ ASHEVII.I.E. The Postmaster General, Mr. I'.vi art. Postmaster Camion and In spector llurliv all Favor ii Tm lleicin Not Later Than Jan. 15, The free delivery system is a settled tact. The Hon. H. (1. F.wart was told by Mr. Wananiiiker, the postmaster general, that the system will be introduced here. Mr. Chas. R. Darby, the postufnee in spector, of Washington, V. C, was in the city yesterday, and said : "I shall recom mend to the department nt Washington to have the free delivery system estali lished. If Asheville was a dead city like many others in the South, I would not be in favor of this step, but it is a grow ing eity. Many buildings are being erected and everything points to a con tinued, steady growth nnd a rapid in crease in point of size and population." Both the postmaster, (1. W. Cannon, and the inspector, Mr. Chas. Darby state that the system will be in operation by the loth of January. There will be five letter carriers employed to distribute and collect the mail. The deliveries will lie made at 8 a. m., 2 p. in., and 5 p. m. There will be special collections of the mail matter at 8.15 a. m. and 11.30 a. m. Altogether there will be five collcc lections, as the letter carriers will collect the mail from the letter boxes when they make their deliveries. The numbcrof let ter boxes stiitioned in different .parts of the city will be thirty, of which the fol lowing are the probablelocations: Two on the public square and one at the Mat tery Park, the Swaunanoa, the Grand Central, the corner of Patton avenue and and Haywood, Patton avenue and Grove, Patton avenue and Roberts, Hav wood and Academy, South Main near Trexler's, South Main near Patton's, North Main and Walnut, North Main and Woodfin, North Main and East, North Main and Sency, Woodfin and Bridge, Woodfin and Charlotte, Woodfin and North Pine, Charlotte and Clayton, Charlotte and Baird, Patton and Spruce, Poplar and South Pine, nnd Bailey and Phillip streets. Other letter boxes will be put up in different parts of the city as public demands require it. The carriers will be recommended by Postmaster G. W. Cannon, and ap pointed by the postmaster general. He assures us that he intends to have a good, efficient force, and all who know him will place perfect reliance in his good judgment and his ability to carry on and manage the system, when once inau gurated, according to the best interests of the public. The free delivery system will cause a few changes in the present rates of post age. All local m.-iil must have a two cent stamp instead of the one cent stamp which was used when writing to a per son in the same place. All daily paers, .vhen distributed by carriers, will be taxed at the rate of one cent per copy and all weeklies at the rate of one cent per pound. This is the only part of the expense which will fall on the citizens us I'licle Sam will foot tn rest of the bill. liE.NKKAI. CITV NEWS. The usual services will be held in Central Methodist church to-day. The mail train from Salisbury, due here at 4.3(5 p. m. did not arrive last night until 1 1 o'clock. It was a wild, ugly night last night, and made worse by the darkness. For some cause unknown to us the electric lights werc not on, and the darkness was impenetrable. Among the mishaps last night was the blowing down of the sign at Grant's Pharmacy and the crushing in of his show windows. Daylight will reveal other similar disasters. Preaching at Riverside M. F church, South, Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. North Asheville at 7.30 o'clock p. m. Sunday school at both churches at 3 o'clock. Hvcrbody invited to nttcd. The gale last night blew down a num ber of signs, the wind strengthening about 11 o'clock, and the snow giving place to rain. Among the signs blown -down was that of Bostie Bros. & Wright. The storm last night increased in inten sity, as far us the height of wind was concerned, so that wc were notified soon after ten o'clock by the manager of the telegraph office that the difficulty in re ceiving messages was so great that it was probable we would receive no more dispatches after that hour. Therefore if our telegraph service in this issue is cur tailed, it is explained by thecnuses given, The First tinow titnrni. About 2 o'clock p. m. yesterday sleet lK-gan to fall briskly, driven by a cold south-east wind. In the course of an hour or so, the sleet turned to snow, and this fell thickly until nearly dark, covering house tops with a wintry coat ing of white and the ground with a mis erable deposit of slush. The mercury fell from 42 at 2 p. m. to 34 at 7 p. m. Possibly this morning may find the ground well covered, as at a late hour there was no change in the direction of the wind, which increased in force after dark. This is the first snow storm, though not the first snow of the season. Homicide. It is reported that a great deal of ex citement hns been caused in the commu nity on Sandy Mush creek, about the Madison line, on account of a shooting affray which took place there on Friday. A gross insult offered by one of the par ties to the other resulted in Swan Ram sey shooting and killing Newton Gate almost instantly.