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VOLUME V.
ASHEVILLE, N. C, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1889.
NUMBER 206.
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THE DEAD PATRIOT.
I.VING INSTATE INCITY HAI.!.,
NEW ORLEANS).
Crowds of Loving Friends Flock
to Take a Last Look at the Dead
Statesman Numbera of Colored
People Anionic the Throng.
New Oklkans, December 7. Three
weeks ago. in the midst of a cold rain
storm on one of the dreariest morning
of the year, Jefferson Davis was carried
from the steamer Leathers to the Payne
mansion. Last night about 1.15 all that
was mortal of Jefferson Davis was car
ried from the Payne mansion to the city
hall in a hearse. It was a weird and sol
emn scene.
At 10.55, hearing a low rumbling of
wheels in the street, the afflicted widow
of the great statesman took a last fare
well of his ashes one kiss was imprinted
on the pale, cold lips, and then she
turned sorrowfully away to the solitude
of her own apartments. The door had
scarcely closed behind her when the un
dertaker entered the main hall. The
hearse and two carriages were waiting
at the door. First, the magnificent floral
offerings were transferred to the car
riages, and then the casket whs carried
to the heurse by the tbllowing friends of the
ex-president: E. H. Farrar, ludgeC.E.Fen
ner, E. B. Kruttzchritt, J. U. Payne, K. V.
Foster and ames Richards. Officers
John Teen and L. S. Zebesa served as po
lice escort. The gentlemen named entered
carriages, and the hearse moved slowly
out First street. The carriages dropping
into its wake, the full moon, standing al
most directly to the zenith, shed a soft
yellowish light through the veil of mystic
clouds that were sweeping up the river,
and drenching the foliage of the spread
ing magnolias on either side of the street.
Great drops of water hung like crystals
from points of the drooping leaves, and
now and then dropped upon the damp
pavement as though trees "grieving, it
aught inanimate e'er grieves," were
drooping tears of sympathy as the sad
little cortege passed.
The route taken was out First street
to St. Charles, and down that street to
the citv hall, where the remains of Mr.
Davis will lie in state until next Wednes
day. By the time the hearse reached the city
hall, the council chamlier and lobbicsand
corridors of the building were crowded
with citizens. The council chamlier was
quickly cleared, and the way opened for
the admission of the body.
The hull was heavily druicd in black,
which was relieved with red, white and
blue of the Stars and Strijics. There
were also rich floral decorations every
where, beside crossed swords and other
military devices. At the head of the hall
hung a portiuit of the dead chieftain,
richly festooned with crac, through
which sparkled incandescent sparks like
tiny stars.
The catafalque was drned in plain
black. The coffin was covered with
black plush, edged with broad black
braid. The handles alongsides consisted
of a single square bur of silver on either
side, and across each was a short bar ol
gold. The top of the casket is covered
with one sheet of heavy French plate
glass which extends its entire length and
rests on n thick copper lining. The in
terior of the ensket is lined with white
satin, and beneath it, upon the cata
falque, is spread a thick Turkish rug ol
black hair.
The body was carried to thecatafalque
by the same gentlemen who placed it in
the hearse.
The remains ure now lying in state
in the council chamber at the Citv hall.
The coffin rests upon a catafalque and is
devoid of much ornamentation. Thecas
ket has a silver plate upon which is the
simple inscription, "Jefferson Davis at
rest," with the date of death added.
Badges of the Confederate associations,
the flag of the Washington artillery, car
ried through the war, and a bunch of
wheat and a pair of crossed Spanish
daggers as the plant is termed, fastened
together with purple ribbon, ure the only
other ornaments.
The desks of the mayor and clerks
have been covered over and turned into
n platform which is the receptacle for the
floral offerings.
The room is darkened and lit up by a
cluster of electric lights, their brilliancy
being dimmed by the sable draery,
Soldiers in uniform stand guard, stacks
of arms and cannon till the corners of the
chamber, and all around the walls arc
rows of plants and shrubbery, forming a
beautiful contrast.
Since early morning eople have been
pouring in to obtain a last look at the
dead. No crowding is allowed, and vis
itors are filed through the room in regu
lar column. All classes are represented
in the procession by the bier. The number
of colored people is marked.
The mourning is general, and every
place of prominence in the city has put
on black,
A noteworthy event this morning was
a telegram sent by Mayor Shakespeare
to secretary of war Proctor officially no
tifying him of the death of ex-Secretary
Davis and the date of the funeral.
Preferred Death to Disclosure.
Milwaukee, Wis., December 7. Au
gust Shnttenberg, secretary ol the school
board, shot himself this morning at his
residence on Reservoir avenue because of
the discovery of crookedness in his ac
counts. Schattenberg raised a bill of the
Boston Publishing House from $8.3 to
$808.34 and drew the money. When the
discovery was made last evening he re
funded the money, but an investigation
of his books was ordered, and he killed
himself rather than luce other crooked
developments. Schnttenberg was a reck
less poker player, and it is believed he
has lost thousands of dollars of school
money in bucking the tiger. Schatten
berg'a death was instantaneous. He
leaves a wife and several children.
Helms Mourn.
Sklma, Ala., Decembers 7. The con
federate veterans association met this
morning. After a feeling address by
Mai. W. E. Wailes first vice-president, a
resolution eulogizing ex-President Davis
introduced by Capt. P. M. Nelson,
president of the Commercial Bank, was
adopted unanimously and ordered for
warded to Mr, Davis' family. Memorial
services will be held at St. Paul Episco
,pal church Wednesday next, the day of
the buneral, which will be attended by
civilians, and military bodies and citi
zens. Lyncher Foiled.
Lynch Bt'KG, Va., December 7. A
special to the Advance from Christians
burg says a large body of masked men
from the country came into town last
night on the 11 o'clock train to lynch
two men named Cooper, held here for
murder. The authorities were warned
in advance and Judge Jinkins summoned
a pone and carried the prisoners away
and hid them.
A WOMATH'H LOYALTY.
Mourning In the Shadow of the
Lincoln School Building.
Washington, D. C, Decemlier 7. There
is at least one woman in this city, who
wor shins the memory of the late Jeffer
son Davis, and who has the courage of
her convictions, alielivcs at iAa second
street, Southeast, and her name is Mrs.
Frederick Fairfax. The shutters are
closed to-day, and if the licll-pull was
only obscured by crape, it would be easy
for an observant passer-by to imagine
that death had visited some one whose
residence had been within.
Drned from three windows of the
upper story is a wide strip of black stuff,
evidence of mourning of a high order.
In the center of each of the window-sills
just where the black is fastened, is a
rosette. It the rosettes were also black,
they would have excited less comment,
but they are not black. Two of them,
one at each end, are red-white, the one
in the middle is white.
The hues and the manner of their ar
rngement, combine to form the colors of
the dead Confederacy, mid their display
at this timt, made it evident that some
one was sorry because Jefferson Davis
was no more.
To a Star reporter, who called upon the
lady, she described herself as Washington
born, and said she put mourning on her
house because of the death of Jefferson
Davis, whom she admired and loved.
The Star says: Mrs. Fairfax is the
wife of Frederick Fairfax, said to lie a
gentlemun of wealth. The city directory
gives him no occupation. Mrs. Fairfax
is the daughter of the late Lieutenant
Cook of the United States army, who
died a great many years ago, leaving to
his daughter the house in which she and
her husband reside. Fairlax wus not
actively engaged in the Confederacy, but
Mrs. Fairfax's relatives were all Con
federates, so she said, this morning. It
was suggested to her by one of the news
paper men who called on her this morn
ing, that some one might try to tear the
mourning emblems down. If any one
entertains any such idea, he only needs
first see Mrs. Fairfax as she appeared
when that suggestion was made. He
will at once abandon his project.
A number of colored people gathered on
the sidewalk opposite the house this
morning and loudly criticised the action
of the inmates, but they went no further;
and ut u lute hour this afternoon dismal
drapery and red-white and red rosettes
were still in place fluttering in the cool
breezes, and reflecting their colors in the
windows of Lincoln school building,
which happens curiously enough, to be
precisely opposite No. 235.
A BEAUTIFUL TRIBUTE.
Extract From Ex-Mlnlster Jack,
noil's Oration.
Savannah, Ga., December 7. Savan
nah is in mourning for the dead Presi
dent. The Confederate monuments in
the park und in the cemetery have licen
draped, und the military armories are
being hung in black. The Confederate
Veterans' Association met to-day und ar
ranged to send a tribute to New Orleans.
Gen. Henry K. Jackson, ex-minister to
Mexico, and who was a brother officer of
Mr. Davis in the Mexican war, as vice
president of the association, delivered a
brief address, in which he said :
"The occasion is one of no ordinary
sorrow. In its own pathos it transcends
all other historic sorrows. Even as the
closing scene in the life of the illustrious
dead it transcended in moral sublimity
all preceding acts of the vicarious suffer
ing for others, for the dead as well as the
living. It may have been natural for
some to assimilate his position to be
upon the bald rock, while hungry vul
tures perched upon his vitals, and yet
how vast in reality thedissimiljtude! No
adamantine chain encircles his limbs. He
declined to wear fetters. No vultures
preyed upon his vitals. He kept his con
science clean. Upon a rock indeed he
stood, but it was that rock eternally
fixed by God himself in the moral uni
verse. No earthquake could shake him
from it. As surely as the word of God is
true, so surely will the memory of Jeffer
son Davis be borne to comi g ages to
make them brighter by its own peculiar
lustre,"
The Georgia Huzzas, which wereapart
of Jeff. Davis' Legion in the war, have
draped their quurters in respect to the
dead chieftain.
Fatal Fire In Mew York.
Nkw Yokk, December 7. A fire broke
out at the river end of the nutional
steamship Pier No. 39 north river about
two o'clock this afternoon. The steam
ship Holland, which nrrived this morn
ing, was docked and the gang men
started to clean the Pier so as to make
ready for the steamship's cargo. While
they were thus working the foreman,
Jno. Dunn, discovered tire among a num
ber of hales of cotton near tlie end ol tne
nier. About twenty-five men were at
work near the spot. Some of them re
mained to assist in putting out the
flames, others fleeing to the street. Those
who stayed behind were caught by the
names. The pier is practically destroyed
as it was on fire from end to end. Four
dead bodies have been t:ken out of the
ruins, and it is feared more are still there,
Dom Pedro Reaches Portugal.
Lisbon, December 7. The steamer
Alagoas with ex-Emperor Dom Pedro, of
Brazil and party on board, and Hying
the old Brazilian ting, arrived in the
Tagus at 10. lo o clock this morning.
She anchored off the Belem suburb of
Lisbon, opposite the Lazaretto, but was
not cotmiellcd to undergo quarantine.
Dom Pedro, the ex-bmpress, Count and
Countess D'Eu, son-in law and daughter,
resjiectively of the ex-Ex peror, three
sons of the Count and Countess, and
Prince August, of Stnte-Coburg, the
other son-in-law of Dom Pedro came
ashore immediately.
Let the Ladles Speak.
Mr. Editor: It is not seemly thnt wo
men should hold public meetings to tes
tify the sorrow that must to-day fill the
heart and bring tears to the eyes ot every
true daughter of the South. I therefore
call on my sisters of Asheville who yet
cherish tender memories of the dark, but
glorious davs of the Southern Confeder
acy, to wear for thirty days, a badge of
mourning consisting ot a knot ot white
and black ribbon. White as emblematic
of the stainless purity and unsullied in
tegrity ot our great chieftains, Jefferson
uuvis, Kobert Lee and atonewall Jack
son. This is from one who holds sacred all
recollections ot the great LostCai-sr,
Sllcott's) Forgeries).
Washington, December 7. Special.
Among other members whose notes for
November salaries were forged by Silcott
were L heat bam, fcwart and b rower.
A MIDNIGHT SCENE.
Or, How the Clerk Wail Seen by
the Proprietor.
A hotel clerk in this city had an expe
rience which was very amusing to oth
ers. It seems thnt a tramp had made
his headquarters in the office without the
permission and knowledge of the powers
that be. He would come in late at night
when the clerk had gone to bed, take a
comfortable arm chair, and doze and
dream before the bright fire until day
light and the steps of the servants in the
corridors roused him from his slumbers,
and warned liiin that it was time for him
to leave.
But he ran this little snap of his into
the ground, and was caught by the clerk
and ordered out of the house. He meekly
went away, but returned the next night,
went boldly into the office, marched up
to the desk, and asked the clerk if he
could sit by the fire a little while and
warm himself. The claim that he had
been a gentleman, had spent his money
lavishly in prosperous times at that ho
tel, and had been unfortunate and lost
his money, did not recommend itself as
plausible to this obdurate clerk. The
scene was closed with a base hit by the
clerk, although the tramp made the home
run, and slid into the home plate at the
bottom of the steps.
It was midnight. The weary clerk had
told the last man how late the train had
been, and was sighing and subbing in the
extreme agonies of sleep. All was still,
and the tramp, he too was still there.
He approached the door, tried the latch,
then shook it so violently that the nod
ding porter woke suddenly for the first
time in his life.
"What do yo' want ?" queried he.
"Let me in," replied our friend, the
tramp.
"No, sail! I)e boss dun tole yo' once
dat yo' needn' come heah no mo'."
But the tramp continued to shake the
door violently, so that the porter, having
become as white in the face as he could,
rushed to the room of the clerk and woke
him up. Without stopping to dress, the
latter rushed to the door. The man
stared fixedly at him as if he had seen n
ghost, then slowly backed away from the
white object, which stood there with arm
extended in threatening gesture. The
clerk then rushed to the front door to see
if the tramp was really gone. To his
horror he saw the proprietor and his
wife standing on the front stfps. Over
come with shame and mortification, he
flew into the office and crouched shiver
ing behind the door. Thelatearrivalson
the scene of action stopped in the hall to
listen to the porter's tale, and as they
now and then stepped nearer to the
door, the clerk huddled himself into a
still smaller space and sent up fervent pe
titions. They had stayed in the hall
about half an hour. The clerk could
stood it no longer. With wild leaps he
scudded across the floor, while the air
was filled with the swish of drapery, as it
flapped in its rapid motion, horrified
shrieks, and eal upon peal of merry
laughter.
TRAINS COLLIDE.
A MiHplaced Switch Does the
MlHchlef.
Chesterton, Ind., Decemlier 7. The
New York limited express, westbound.
over the Lake Shore and Michigan
Railroad, was wrecked at Dane Park, a
sand shipping station thirty-five miles
east of Chicago, last evening at eight
o clock. I lie accident was caused hv u
misplaced switch, which threw the pas
senger train into an empty sand train
standing on a side track.
The engineer reversed his engine and
put on brakes, but as the train was
going at the rate of forty miles nn hour,
and the cars were but a tew rods from
the switch, he was unable to avoid n
crash. The train consisted of one bag
gage car, two couches, two sleepers and
a cnair car.
The locomotive was thrown across the
main track and is totally wrecked. The
three front cars were crushed to pieces.
It is little less than a mirable that pas
sengers escaped serious injury.
One railroad employe was fatally hurt,
two others sustaining serious injury.
Several passengers suffered bruises, but ull
escaped serious injury. The eastbound
passenger train broke the switch, but
passed over it safely, and no other train
C assert over the track until the west
ound train came along.
Union Items.
Union, S. C, December 6. Special.
The grading of the Georgia, Carolina
and Northern railroad is lieing pushed
rapidly. Two sets of hunds are lieing
worked day and night. This road
crosses the Spartanburg and Union near
Fish Dam, in this county, a splendid loca
tion for a town. Several new stores have
been opened and new buildings are going
up.
The Cotton Seed Oil Company's build
ings are being pushed rapidly, and in a
few weeks will be in running order
Nearly all the machinery has been placed.
The electric lights are now being placed
in position.
Dr. and Mrs. B. F. Rawls, of Asheville
are visiting their old home again.
C. M. G.
A New Copartnership.
We are pleased to learn that the very
skillful photographic artists Mr. E. E,
Brown and Mr, T. H. Lindscy have de
termined to unite their forces and com
bine in a firm as strong as artistic alli
ance can make it. Both of them are very
superior artists, as their many excellent
likenesses fully attest; and to them a
very large public are indebted for those
exquisite bits of Western North Carolina
landscapes, of river side, water fall,
mountain scenes, and whatever they
have done to make vivid and lasting im
pressions upon the lovers of nature.
Mr. Lindsev will be found hereafter
with Mr. Brown, and Mr. W. W. Smith
will take charge of Mr. Lindsey's present
rooms. A subsequent advertisement will
more fully explain plans and relations.
VIRGINIA'S TRIBUTE.
RESOLUTIONS PASSED BY THE
LEGISLATURE.
General Rosser Heads a Monu
ment Fund With a Thousand
Dollars Hon. John W, Daniel
to Deliver an Oration.
Richmond, Va December 7. The fol
lowing was presented in the legislature
to-day :
A special loint committee appointed
to prepare suitable and appropriate res
olutions upon the death of the Hon. Jef
ferson Davis, late President of the Con
federate States of America, would re
spectfully submit the following:
Resolved hrst, the house ot delegates
concurring, That the people of this com
monwealth having heard with prolound
sorrow of the death of the Hon. Jefferson
Davis, ex-President of the Confederate
States of America. We recognize in the
death of Mr. Davis the loss of a distin
guished soldier, statesman and patriot.
In every position ot lite, whether on the
field of battle, in the councils of the na
tion, or as chief of the Southern Confed
eracy, Mr. Davis was distinguished for
his hachty to principles, lofty patriotism,
and loyalty to the trusts imposed upon
him by the people of the Southeru States,
of whom he was chosen chief magistrate,
and honored in his past record and stain
less life. His name is inseparably con
nected with the history of our country,
and historians of the future, when pas
sion and strife have cleared away, will
tssign to this hero ot the lost cause a
place among the wise and good men of
ull ages.
"Second, That the general assembly re
spectfully tenders its sympathy to his
family in their bereavemeut.
'Third. That these resolutions bespread
upon the journals of each house and be
communicated to the Governor with the
request that he impart them to the
family of the deceased.
'Fourth. As a further mark of resoect
to his memory, upon the passage of these
resolutions the general assembly ad
journs for the day."
1 he report was made the special order
of the day for Monday next, at 12
o'clock.
The chamber of commerce at a largely
attended meeting adopted a lengthy pre
amble and resolutions, highly eulogistic
of the lite and character of Mr, Davis,
from which the following is an extract :
'1 his event calls tor unusual notice
from the chief commercial organization
of the citv where he spent the (bur most
eventful and illustrious vears of his life.
Singled out at the close of the war as the
victim ot malignant hate and persecu
tion, he bore himself with such high
courage and lofty consciousness of right
as to win in even greater degree than
liefore the esteem and affection of the
people whom he had in other years so
faithfully served. These vicarious suffer
ings for the deeds of the Southern people
doubly endear him to our hearts as rep
resentatives ot that section ol tne coun
try. "That, as a mark of respect to his mem
ory, this chamber requests that the pub
lie and private buildings of the city be
draped m mourning, and that the mer
chants close their I laces of business upon
the day appointed tor tne tuneral.
"That a mass meeting be held in this
city at some future day when a memoriul
address will lie delivered.
"That we earnestly request the family
of the deceased to permit his honored re
mains to be buried at Richmond, the
capital of the late Confederate States of
America.
The Stuart Horse Guards of this city
will send a delegation to the funeral of
Mr. Davis.
General Thomas L. Rosser has opened
a subscription with $1,000 for a monu
ment to Mr. Davis memory.
Senator John W. Daniel has been re
quested bv the legislature to deliver an
address on the life and character ol
Davis.
Our Railroad Subscriptions.
Capt. Atkinson gives the following
explanation in regard to this:
Editor Citizen: As there evidently
exists a wrong impression in the minds
ot some of our citizens in regard to the
subscription asked of our county to nid
the building of railroads to this city, 1
will ask the space to explain.
There is now only one company that
asks the county for aid to build the line
in the direction of Yancey county and
Brevard, and that is the Atlanta, Ashe
ville and Baltimore road. If this and
other counties along the line will give
their assistance, Western North Caro
lina will have built a road unsurpassed
by any road in the southern states. 1 he
county will likewise be asked to rid in
building two other roads, one in the
direction of Rutherford or Polk county
and one through the townships of
Leicester and Sandy Mush an equal
amount in the four directions.
The project!?) of Cocke and Ranisour
ask nothing at the hands of the county.
They announced before the board ol
aldermen, to whom they applied for help,
that they would not ask the county to
give them one dollar, ' and they, or at
least Mr. Cocke, says to every body they
will not ask the county for a cent. So
there is no conflict whatever about the
county subscription. For the satisfac
tion of all who may feel solicitous about
this matter, I will state that while the
Atlanta. Asheville and Baltimore Irond
will ask nn appropriation from the
county, tney win noi ue in tne way ui
any other company to build the road
provided they do not at once avail
themselves of tiii opportunity and sub
scription. We will be perfectly willing
for the subscription to le applied to any
other company or companies if we do
not within a specified time commence
and vigorously prosecute the building of
the road. Now who would or could ask
more ? Respectfully,
Natt Atkinson.
Meeting Monday Night.
There will be a meeting of the citizens
at the court house, Monday night at
7.30 o'clock, for the purpose of taking
some action in regard to the mass meet
ing to be held here on Tuesday, and alno
to take action in regard to inviting the
shoe manufacturers of Lynn, Mass., (re
cently burned out and who desire to
come South I to visit our city with a
view of establishing their tnaufactories
here. C. u. blanton,
Mayor.
Geo. S. Powell,
President Board Trade.
A Derelict Flagman.
Drat'ors, Iowa, December 7. Two
freight trains came together yesterday at
Durango, a little station on the Chicago,
St. Paul and Kansas City road. Conduc
tor Kerry, of the St. Paul, and h reman
John Bickey, of this city, were instantly
killed. A 'flagman neglected his duty
with tne above result.
ODDS AND ENDS.
Mr. Charles T. Rawls has been made
the agent of the West Chester Fire In
surance Company. The words, "fire,
room 80," "fire, room 102," etc., which
appears on the register ot a hotel so con
stantly, must call up very pleasant
thoughts at the Swannanoa.
Capt. Troy obtained two and a half
bushels of potatoes from the city's side
walk garden on South Main street.
Since "a public office is a public trusi,"
the public must trust that the Captain
will turn over these potatoes to the city
treasury.
Officer Bradley has returned from a
shooting expedition. He said be shot
180 birds altogether and never quailed
Wore the suspicions eye of his listener,
when he mentioned the fact that he ob
tained one hundred of these birds in two
hours.
Two doctors of this city were chatting
together in a drug store, when one be
wailed the fact that business was very
dull. "Yes," said the other, "I warned
the people of Asheville and stated what
would be the result of haviug water
works and a good sewerage system. It
is too bad." And the two companions
strolled away to drown their sorrows in
the flowing bowls, and wonder why the
citizens of Asheville didn't protect their
home industries.
He was a very small man, a wee, tiny
man, and as he sailed up the street, one
darkey gave vent to a chuckle that
threatened to cause him pain. "Ha! ha !
Say, boss, yo' dun know lots er owls.
Dar's de swamp owl, an' de screech
owl. He arn't neither of dem. He's dot
upland screech owl. A right smart puff
ob wind would blow him off his perch.
See him a gwine up de road. Whew ! I'll
dun hurt myself a laffin.' 'Deed I will.
Dat ere coat tail ob hisn dun go flippity
flop and stick out behind him like a
pair ob wings."
Officer Worseley was in The Citizen
office yesterday morning to get a copy of
the paper. He says he intends to pre
serve that paper, and the letter of Jeffer
son Davis to the Fayetteville centennial,
until his son, who is now a year old, is
able to read, so that he too will revere
and honor, as his father does, the mem
ory of the great and illustrious man
whom the South has always been proud
of, and whose death has shown that the
North also honors and respects him, and
in the universal mourning for his loss one
more link has been added to the chain,
which makes us one people and one na
tion. "The old oaken bucket t hat hung in
the well," where is it? Well! It isn't
there. The sentimental have shed tears
over it, sung of it in tender pathetic
strains, and then gone home and berated
their wives localise there was one day's
accumulation of dust on their glass.. Yet
what would that "old, oaken bucket" be
without the moss that grew on many
years gradual deposit of soil, with its
rusty hoops and green ooze ? Alas ! No
one can drink from it any more. Its
hoops (a spade must tie called a spade)
were found on North Main street yester
day morning, and like some other things
one hears of, they will not hold water.
Residents were awakened on Friday
night by several shots fired in quick suc
cession. Windows were raised, and
neighbor called to neighbor, asking
what was the matter. It was about 1
o'clock and the trouble was a dog fight.
Five bull dogs had been brought together
about a half a mile from the court house,
and the colored population were out in
force to see the fun. But our police are
always on the alert, and officers. Hun
ter, Collins and McDowell, started
for the fracas with pistols loaded and
belts well strapped. What a race it was !
Now Hunter was leading, now Collins,
and then McDowell would forge ahead.
Over the ploughed fields and stubble they
raced. Fences were vaulted, and their
lints were left where they fell, such was
their hurry. But when they got there
the audience had fled, and the dogs
were snarling and tearing each other
in the greatest lury. A nait was
made. The word was given and
three shots rang out on the night
air, and away scampered the dogs in
search of the bullets, which ntmost hit
the cat that was perched on the fence
refereeing the fight. With what emotion
each policeman turned to the other and
said, "It would have been a pity to kill
such fine dogs. I wouldn't have hurt
them for anything." Which was the
larger tale, that.policeman's or the cat's?
At any rate it might be labeled a dog
gone tale, for that was the end of it.
Important Meeting.
We would direct special attention to
the call in another column, signed by
Mayor Blanton and President Powell of
the Board of Trade, for a meeting on
Monday night in the court house to con
sider two very important questions;
first, that of the proposed new railroads;
second, to invite the shoe manufacturers
of Lynn, Massachusetts, who recently
had their plants in that city destroyed
by fire, to rebuild them in Asheville.
These are certainly questions of sufficient
importance to induce a large crowd, and
we trust the court house will be filled
Valuable Property Sale.
On the third page of our paper this
morning will be found a large advertise
ment, showing plans of bouse, af very
valuable property to be sold by W. B
Gwyn, trustee, on Tuesday next. A
glance at the advertisement will suffice
to show that you should attend the sale.
Storm In London.
London, December 7. A storm pre
vails here to-day.
ASHEVILLE'S SADNESS.
The Habltamenta of Mourning
and the Comments Thereon.
Much feeling is manifested, especially
by the old Confederate soldiers, at the
death of their President. This is some
what inexplicable to some of our friends
who have immigrated to our hospitable
sunny clime from the rigors of a North
ern winter. "Why sir," said one of these
good gentlemen, "would you believe it, 1
saw an old gray headed countryman
take that flag which floats from Thk
Citizen office, and hug and kiss it most
fervently, and when I looked in his rough
face, his eyes were filled with tears."
Yes indeed we believe it and understand
the feeling, and we love you Northern
men all the more because of your gentle
ness and sympathy with us in our dis
tress which you respect even though you
do not feel it yourselves. We do not ex
pect you to look back upon the days ot
the lost cause with the sad hearts that
we have, but we do expect you to stand
silent and let us grieve, and his expecta
tion has not been disappointed. Not ai.
unkind word was heard from any North
ern man as we mingled with the many
who crowded our steeets. One Southern
man, who strange to say was a soldier,
declined to put on a simple rosette, say
ing "none of you grieved for Garfield,"
which was a great mistake in the first
place, and displayed a sad lack of South
ern chivalry in the second.
Another Southern man, heaven forgive
him, asked what means that crape on
The Citizen building. Jeff. Davis is
dead, we replied. "Thank God," said he,
and seemed disappointed that his beastly
words were received with contempt, and
his name goes to the oblivion it deserves.
Such men either Southern or Northern
happily are few, and thank God they are
becoming rapidly more scarce; may their
names soon disappear from the earth.
Several of our business houses have fol
lowed the example which a kind provi
dence allowed The Citizen to set, and
have indicated their respect for the great
statesman and soldier by suitable stream
ers of mourning. Our next door neigh
bors and brethren, the Evening Journal
and the Democrat promptly showed
their colors; the First National bank had
its door covered in most excellent taste
with draperies of black and white, and
its brethren, the Western Carolina and
the National Bank of Asheville, hesitated
not to express their sorrow. The Ashe
ville club was festooned with black, with
white rosettes, and the Athletic club ot
voung men showed that their hearts
were tender as the young should ever be
Of our merchants, the mourners are
Messrs. Whitlock, Pelham, N. Labarbe,
Bostic Bros. & Wright and the Racket
Store, and we hope in our next we may
add the names of many more. The city
offices are tastefully and elaborately
draped, and we wish we could say the
same of the court bouse; perhaps the
commissioners on Monday may order it
done. The old Confederates are conspic
uous by the modest rosettes, which ir,
obedience to the suggestions of the meet-
ting of last evening, they wear on the
left lappei ot their coat. Altogether we
may safely assert that a feeling of genu
ine sadness pervades our community.
PERSONAL MENTION.
Dr. Scruggs, of Bryson city, came up
yesterday on a visit to Asheville.
Mr. D. S. Hilderbrand left yesterday
for Philadelphia where he will attend the
National Brick Manufacturers Conven
tion.
Mr. Lucius Weaver, of Mayfield, Mo.,
is in the city, the guest of E. J. Aston
Mr. Weaver is a half brother of Mrs
Aston, and has not been in Buncombe for
over thirty years.
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Lyman returned
last night. Thev have been abroad tor
the past summer and since their return
to this country have been in New York
and Baltimore. They will occupy their
residence on Chestnut street.
Mr. Curtis, the editor of the Franklin
Press was in the city yesterday, and
favored us with a visit. Mr. C, though
coming from Georgia to Franklin to take
charge of the Press, is a native of Clay
county; but along there, Georgia is a
next door neighbor, and the people all as
one. You can look over the line any
where, so that "going to Georgia,"
means only a short horseback ride or a
good morning's walk.
RAILROAD MATTERS.
Board of Commissioners of Tran
sylvania Order an Election.
We were shown yesterday a letter re
ceived from Mr. Gash, the attorney for
Transylvania county, from which we
learn the following interesting informa
tion: The board of county commis
sioners for Transylvania county, at their
meeting last Tuesday, voted to call an
election for an appropriation to the
French Broad Valley railroad. This call
was conditional, the commissioners re
serving the right to revoke the call at
any time prior to the election should
better proposition be offered. Mr. Gash
is of the opinion that if Buncombe county
will vote a subscription to any road
leading in their direction ; that the county
will join in a contribution of $50,000 to
wards the same project. A good many
ol the citizens of the county are not fa
vorable to the present call, and, if Bun
combe county decides to call an election
for the A., A. & B. road, the commis
sioners will revoke the present order, and
submit a proposition to join Buncombe.
Catholic Bishop Dead.
Altoona, Pa., December 7. Bishop
Twigg, of this (Catholic) diocese, died
this afternoon after a long illness.
SANTA CLAUS.
OUR REPORTER GIVES HIS
FIRST BATCH OF ADVICE.
The Christmas Holidays are AT.
most Upon Us, aud the citizen
Would Tell Its Readers Where
They Can Buy.
"Asheville is really putting on city
airs," remarked a most observant and
ntelligent gentleman, in bearing of our
reporter yesterday, and at the moment
the speaker was standing in front of the
handsome block of buildings, just now
completed, of Messrs. Harkins and
Starnes, on the south side of Pattou
avenue.
The scribe at once pricked up his ears.
and entered in conversation, because it
is only with "observant and intelligent
gentleman" that he is ever willing to
talk. This is a peculiarity now so well
known, that no other kind of people ever
approach him, but this variety is so
numerous here that he finds his time
quite freely occupied by improving him
self through their most agreeable and
beneficial communications.
As we began to say .prior to this di
gression, the scene of the above remark
was the handsome pavement of Moody's
Artificial Stone, which affords delightful
rest to weary soles, and tempts their
owners to linger, and glance upward at
the handsome buildings to which we
have referred.
The time so occupied is most profitably
spent, especially to one who can remem
ber a few months back, and reflect upon
the wonderful change, which energy,
skill and public spirit combined, have
produced; six months ago this was a
vacant lot, of the most unattractive
kind, and a receptacle for all sorts of
rubbish. Now it is occupied by a solid
ulock of three story buildings, the upper
floors affording most handsome and
comfortable quarters to the Young
Men's Christian Association, and charm
ing offices tor some of our very best real
estate and legal friends, while the lower
door is tuken up with stores such as any
city may be justly proud of.
"Why is it, oh! scribe that you do not
tell the people of these beuutiful things?
quoth our friend, and forwith the con
science smitten writer resolved to make
some slight amends for past neglect, and
to begin at once on his rounds like a
good Samaritan, to advise Santa Claus,
who is ever busy at this season, where
he had best go,,to find theendless variety
of lovely things, that the dear old saitft
always requires at Christmas,
"KOPP AND LICHTENUERGER,"
was the first words that caught our eye,
displayed on a handsome sign, and not
knowing its meaning, we entered, only
to find ourselves still more amazed and
confused by the loads upon loads of beau
tiful and delightful things which sur
rounded us. A handsome machine is rap
idly, but noiselessly, running in one of
the windows, and only adds to our mys
tification. What propels it ? we won
der; surely this insignificant looking lit
tle black affair cannot be the motive
power! But so it is; the giant force
which, in the beginning, answered to the
Divine command, "Let there be light," is
here subjected to human control ; and in
humble obedience to man's skill, the elec
tric spark rotates this machine, to grind
the delightful Java for man's refresh
ment. When we were able to withdraw our
lingering eyes from this marvel of genius.
we gaze rapturously upon the good
things with which the shelves are groan
ing, and breathe a prayer that our Santa
Claus may be a reader of The Citizen,
and find this spot before he undertakes
the concoction of our Christmas plum
pudding.
Near by we see a new comer, but an
old friend, in
PELHAH'S DRl'G STORE,
which is even now being moved to its
handsome and convenient quarters; and
we are not surprised to learn that even
the physic which will be served from
these counters will be of the most pala
table and least deadly variety. We al
ways imagined that a drug store was a
place in which the doctors kept their hid
den supplies of ammunition, in readiness
to be discharged at their hopeless pa
tients. But surely nothing of the sort
can be here ; everything is so bright and
fresh, that we could scarcely resist the
longing desire to take a pull at one ol the
bottles of castor oil, merely to prove
if it could yet be as nauseous as our
memory painted it.
Patton avenue is not the only street
where bright and beautiful stores are to
be found ; on South Main street is the
famous
law's;
but who is equal to a description of this
gorgeous caravansary of glories ? Surely
it is a task that requires a fresh pencil
and rested braiu, to paint as they should
be, the beauties which so charm our
heart; so we will defer the delightful
work until next week, by which time
perhaps some kind friend will donate the
pencil, and a Sunday's rest will refresh
our cranial faculties, and then, old Santa
Claus, you may look out for our best
adiice.
Religions Notices.
Central Methodist Church Sunday
School at 9.30 a. m., preaching at 11 a.
m, and at 7.30 p. m., by the pastor,
Rev. G. C. Rankin.
First Baptist Church. Services to-day
at the nsual hours by the pastor, Dr.
Nelson. Baptism at 7.15 o'clock, p. m.
Regular services will be held this morn
ing at 11 o'clock at Riverside and North
Asheville Methodist churches. There will
be services at Riverside at 7.30 p. m.,
also.
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