Ml THE CITIZEN" Daily Citizen f FOR RENT, WANTS, AND FOR SALE, : I Containing fall dally report of th Oen- cnil Assembly of ths Presbyterian Church, will be tent tor fiOc. postpaid to any addreM during taeaeasloa. Not exceeding three line.. One Time, 28 eenta. Three Timet, SO cent. I Biz Time, TS cent. mi in III VOLUME VI. NO. 32. ASHEVILLE, N. C, TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1890. PRICE 3 CENTS. Asheville . MISCELLANEOUS. CINVILLE. A place planned and devel oping as a GREAT RESORT. Situated in the MOUNTAINS OF WESTERN NORTH . CAROLINA A region noted for health fulness and beauty of SCENERY. An elevation of 3,800 foet, with cool Invigorating Climate It is being laid out with taste and Bkill, with well graded roads and extensive FOREST PARKS. A desirable phico for fln! residences and HU4THF17L, HOMES. A good opportunity for profitable investments. For illustrated pamphlet, ad dress, LINVILLE IMPROVEMENT CO., Unvllle, Mitchell Co., N. C. BOII MAR CHE. NEW NECKWEAR FOR GENTLEMEN JUST IN HAND SOME LATEST DESIGNS PRETTIEST SHADES OP SILK. LADIES' BLOUSES. NEW AND ALL GRADES. FANS! FANS! USEFUL AND ORNAMENTAL. 30 South Main St. BONMARCIIE. H.T.ESTABROOK'S aa . maim t., ashbvii.lk, kths M.ca ran BOOKS, STATIONERY, FANCY 600DS AND TOYS. LOCAL Views and Sketches. aprisd REAL ESTATE. Waits. B. Own, w. W. Wtw, MiaiUfil A IIIFAT UMlH CI Wtdl, (minor, to Walter B.Owjra) ESTABLISHED 1881 RKFER TO SANK OP AlHEVILLt REAL 1ST ATE. Loan Securely Placed at Per Cent. Notary PaMk. Coramleatoaera olDafd. FIRE INSURANCE. ornCR-oMlhaMt catartaajaiara). CORTLAND BROS., Real Estate Brokers, And InTcatment Agenta Loaa. M .arcly placed at per eent. OlMt 94 ft a Pattoa Art. Second door, fcbsdlv . JENKS & JENKS, RIAL UTATf ADO INIURANCI IROKEM. PIUS INaURANCa PLACED IN TWBNTV OP THB BKSrT COM PANUSS IN TUB WOULD. AOUNTIOP THB TVAVBLRRH'LIPRAND ACCIDBNT INaUftAMCB CO., OP HABTPORD, CONN. BTATB AORNTB POB THBDITRU1TPIBB AND BUROLAB PROOP BAPB CO. 4k 10, McAiVe Block, a pattoa Art., Astoria., M. C. MISCELLANEOUS. IF THERE IS ANY P V 0 W E R IN RICES, ANY I R T U B I N A LU ES, OR ANY B ENEFIT I N A R G A I N S BUY YOUR GROCERIES, FEED, ETC, PROM A. D. COOPER, North Bide Court llouae Square. ELGIN CREAMERY BUTTER, 28 CTS. PER LB. SUMMER GOODS, Ice Cream Freezers, 2, 8, 4, 6, 8 and 10 quart, at prices ower than ever. Hammocks at 08c, 11.28, fl.48 and f 2.25. Beautiful line of Fans, Berry and Sauce Dishes by the sett or dozen. Matches (large boxes, 800,) 25cts. er dozen. A new lot of French Satines, beautiful patterns. The prettiest lot of Ginghams andChambrnys in town ; solids, stripes and ilaids. We are daily expect ing Croquet Setts, 4, 0 and 8 ball; also the Harper Fly raps, best made, at 18cts. each. We have a very com plete stock of goods at prices that are sure to please. If you will take the trouble to come to see us before you my we shall be satisfied. We do not claim to have all the goods in town, and are not giving them away, but we are selling them (lots of them) at very low prices. No chromos, no free gifts, no avalanches, no cyclones, no humbug. Everything is guaranteed; and as hereto- bre, the best place in town to trade is the "BIG RACKET.' JOHN CHILD, (Formerly of Lymaa Child), REAL ESTATE -AND- LOAN BROKER Strictly a Brokerage Bnalneaa Loans atearaly placed at B per cant. ARDEN PARK HOTEL AND COTTAGES. . 10 mllca South of Aakevllle, oa A. B, R, R. man - $40 00 Per Month. Per Weh... Per Day .... IS 00 .... a oo Dinner and Tea Partlea oa oneday'. notice, 75 cents. Thoa. A. Morrla, Prop., aprtO dtf Ardea, N. C, MISCELLANEOUS. ESTABLISHED 1874. W.C.CARMICHAEL APOTHECARY, 20 SOUTH MAIN STREET, ASHEVILLE, N. For sixteen years I have carried on a Drug and Pre scription business in Ashe ville, striving at all times to buy pure Drugs and sell no goods that are not strictly first-class in every respect, Kverytmnpr - warranted as represented or money re funded. My goods are pure and fresh and my prices as low as the lowest. Prescrip tions filled at all hours, day and night, and delivered free of charge to any part of the city. Mr. J. Taylor Amiss is with me, and will be pleased to meet his friends and custom ers. AUCTjONSALE. Desirable RESIDENCE LOTS! MONDAY, MAY 26, 1890, At IO O'clock. Pour acre divided Into lot. situated on thr wet aide of Main atreet, opposite Captain Paffff'e dwelling, between Cherry elrect anil Ht.ro ei avenue, on .treet car line and within three minute.' walk of Public Square, Thr larger part of thi. tract i. well shaded. Lo cation most desirable, the adjoining property being occupied by the Rev. W. 8. P. Bryan, Capt. McLoud, M. J. Benrdcn, W. Kldgetey Pennlman, Poster Bondlry. A. J. Rankin and other, of the beat dttsens of A sheville. TERMS BA8V One fourth ensh, balance in two and three years. Por farther particular, apply to T. P. & GEO. H. STARNES. mayiodlw We are showing an unusually large and attractive stock of Clothing, Men's Fur nishing Goods, Hats, Shoes of all Kinds, Dry Goods, Fancy Goods, Smallwnres & Carpets, bought with great care, marked at short and reusonuble profits. The line embraces all grades from low " priced to very fine. One price system. 7 & 9 Patton Ave. THE SHOE STORE. flei-ring & Weaver. -LBADBK8 IN SHOES OF ALL 6RADES, AND- FINE HATS. 39-Patton Avemnj-39 Asheville. N. C. THB DAILY CITIZEN FACTS AND COMMENTS. Boss Quay cxpre.net his contempt fur public opinion. But public opinion got there first in this contempt business. A young lady hasevolved the following reflection on masculine Washington: The aaddeat words of tonaue or Den. There are too many women and nut cnouKh All the local politicians in Louisiana tell Gov. Nichols that he can never elected to any public office again. The governor, though violently opposed lotteries, is willing to tuke his chances, "Wb akb to be protected from the pnu per hen of Europe by a duty of 5 cents per dozen upon eggs, which have hither- tofore been free," cried Mr. Andrew in burst of eloquence in his tariff sjiecch and mniden effort in the house. Bismarck himself could not have better uttered the true policy against the slave- trade in Africa than did Cnprivi in his speech recently. "Bullet and Bible must act in the cause of civilization. Without killing slave dealers youcan nevernbolish slavery." It is interesting to note .how rapidly trie hard-headed llismnrck, who never changes his opinions, is ticing left behind as a hoiieless back number, while Glad stone, who constantly changes his opin ions to suit the new needs of new occa sions, still continues among the leaders of his time. Mr. Ckisi1, of Georgia, has a crisp way of putting tilings. He covers a deal ol ground in his remark that the McKinlcy tnriff bill is class legislation in behalf of a class of men who nrc thus being pnid back out of the public pocket their con tributions to a campaign fund. New York World. A hill is bclorecongrcss forbidding the display of the national flag lettered for advertising purposes. It isn very proper bill, but the sensibilities of the people have already become quite callous through seeing nbout everything in the heavens above or the earth beneath pressed into the service of Mammon. TiiHHKisapontofficein ldnhocalled Deer Valley, with a mail twice icr week. For six weeks last winter the only letters re ceived came for a young mun from his girl in Chicugo, and the inhabitants fin ally became so wroth that they arose in their might and ran him out of town. Detroit Free Press. It is about a year and a hall too early to talk much about candidates for the next presidency. There has seldom been time when so mnny people in a party were united upon one man as arc now united upon Grover Cleveland. Tin great and growing popularity of tarif) reform also points logically to the nom ination of the man most of (ill identified with it, Cknsi'S enumerators are warned by the census superintendent against receivinj: any accretions to their salaries from cities under the Siecious plea of helping them in their ascertainment ol the popu lation. The superintendent clearly sect that the additional compensation is a danger that might lead tocxaggcrntcd re turns. St. Louis and Chicugo are prob- bly the two plans aimed at. Tub railroad construction inthel'iiited States in the first four mouths of Is'.H) aggregated 1110 miles, of which a littli less than one-third is to be credited to the State of Georgia and North Carolina. The Southern States, with the exception of South Carolina, are making notable extensions of their railroad mileage. More than half the railroad construction thus far this year has been in the South. vidently the bcom is working south o' Mason and Dixon's line. It is an exceedingly happy deliverance that the democrats have cxcriciiccd in the late Mr. Randall's district. The en tire press of Philadelphia, without dis tinction of party, unites in characterizing ex-Mayor Vuux us u man of the highest character and strictest integrity, who has displayed a broad intelligence and usefulness in all public positions. His nomination has caused the republicans to pause and consi-'er whet her it is worth their while to make any nomination at all. It will be a useless waste of jiowdcr if they do. Ik Tim McKinlcy bill ever becomes a law, its crude, uncipiitnlile provisions will probably produce a chorus of denun ciation from business men. It is not given to the average member of congress from Ohio or anywhere else to frame a bill levying duties which shall not abound in defects. Much is cxjx-clcd from the senate in the wny of remedying the most onerous clauses of the McKinlcy measure. No bill should be passed by congress thnt makes open war ugainst any class of bus iness men. Tampa, on the gulf const of Florida, the American terminus of the Tampa & Hnvana steamship line, promises to be come an important point for the receipt of Iruit from Central and South America, trade that has devcloicd with great rapidity in tiie last few years, Cnpt. W. H. Marshall, commander of the steamship Charles Morand, which hut been in that tradeduriug the last season, says that Tampa is a first class railroad and steamship terminal, the vessels com ing alongside the cars, with ample depth of water from the gulf of Mexico, and that this port is sure to be developed into one of the first fruit Rrts of the country. OF NEW HOMES CO INC UP. A FINE CLASS OF RESIDENCES BUILDING. Talks) Willi Prominent Contrae torn citizens) Maklusr Hotnca. Avery Carter has been erecting a num ber of houses in and around Asheville, "I am now about through work," be said to Tub Citizkn, "on Mr. (. S. Ad am's house three miles from town, near Richmond Hilt. It contains ten rooms. The interior is finished in onk and pine, natural finish, and the roof is of slate, The cost is $,000. I nm also at work on a six room cottage for Mr. S. F, Chapman, near Mr. Adam's house. This is finished in hnrd wood and cost $1,000 I have just finished Mr. II. II. Carter's house on Chestnut street. The house contains ten rooms and is finished in nat ural pine. It cost $,000. Mr. J. A. Tenncnt has about $50,000 worth of work on hand, with sixty men employed. "I am building a ten room house for Mr. T. B. Barker on Slnrnes avenue," he said. "The house will cost $3,:i(K). I am finishing the new electric light station on Valley street. The cost was first intended to be $3,000, but ow ing toenlargrmcnts the building will cost $6,000 completed. I have under contract eight housX-s that will average $2,750 each. They will be finished in natural pine. I also have orders for seven five room houses to cost $1,000 each. Mr. Milton Harding, who is one of tin- contractors for the government building. has just completed a handsome house in rosiiect I'nrk for Mrs. Smith. The house has ten rooms, and is finished in natural pine. It cost $4,000. "Inm build; ing n nine room house to cost $2,000 on Stnrnes avenue," said Mr. Harding, "for Mr. V. T. Bclote. It will also be finished in natural pine. I have just completed a sixteen room house across Beaumont from Asheville for Mr. B. I'. Davis; cost $8,000. Mr. T. E. Davis: "I am about through with four houses for Mr. Rich mond Pearson. They arc on Eagle street and cost $3,000 ench. Two are of brick and two of wood. They have eight rooms each, and all arc finished in pine, um also finishing two four room houses on Eagle street. They cost $700 each. have the contract for a nine room house for Mr. T. W. Murr on Academy street. The house is to be finished in pine, und will cost $2,000. I will soon build for Mrs. Mitchell a very large and handsome residence five miles west of hereon the Ingle farm. Mr. Geo. Heck will have erected on his projicrtv in West Asheville a stone tower ninety-five feet high, for which I have the contract. The tower will lie thirty-five feet in diameter at the base, and twenty at the lop. A winding iron staircase will lead to the top, The tower will be used as an obser vatory and will be open to the public." J. E. Dickerson's and Dr. J. S. Grant's handsome houses on College street are nenrlycompletcd. Mr. Dickerson's hou- contnins eight rooms and Dr. Grant's ten. They will both be finished in hard wood downstairs und pine upstairs. They will cost $.000 each. Mr. A. L. Melton will build eight houses soon. One of them will cost 3.000. two $4,000 each, three $.',. "OO nch. one $2O0 und one $N00, a total ol 0,800, and an average ol $2,000. Real Kalale Traiiafcra. I). W. Cauble and wife to J. P. Presslv, three eights of an acre near northern limits nl city $1N7.50 C. D. Illnnton to R. H. G. Bouis, lot 1 10x50 feet in Shelby Park 000 D. Illnnton to K. II. (i Ilouis. lot 63x150 in Shelby Park 700 D. Illnnton to R. It. G. Boms, lot (10x160 in Shelby Park 000 . M. Camplicll nnd wife to J. II, Itostic, lot 220 lect front on French Broad avenue 2.200 West Asheville Improvement Co. to K. C. Mernwctlicr, lot mix 1US in West Asheville 500 F. Dutidson and W. S. David son to T. A. joiivs, two lots on Bugle street 2,000 D. V. Thrash nnd wife to R. M. Holcomlic, 127'n acres in this county 2,700 H. Thrash nnd wile to K. ni. Holeombc, 30 acres in this county 100 .Jenkins to J. II. Iluekner III1 acres on the west Dank ol the French Broad river COO Geo. Whitehead toC. W.Mnlone, two lots 45x120 each in sky. hind 100 A. Putnam to B. F. Patton, 58 foot lot on Grove street 400 Mrs. S. E. Buchanan to Mrs. H. St. P. Ilnxzard, 122 loot lot on Beaumont drive 100 Isaac Weaver to EniilineThomp- son, loo ioui lot on Mountain street 100 Isuac Weaver to Kculicn Thomii- son, on loot ioi on mountain street 100 J. B. Bostic and wife to J. M. inmplicll, two lots in ciuciiiy rark i,2iu R. R. Rawls ami wife to C. T. Rawts, one half interest in tract in West End 2,500 I. W. Vnndivcr and wile to W.C. Rocket, fifteen acres on Rccms creek 300 A prominent real estate denier is au thority for saying thut there has never been a period in Ashevillc's history when the pro)ccts for the city were brightei, in the way of increased values', and also for Important investments by outside capitalists. But even this should not make holders of proicrty decline any rea sonable offer. "Let the other man make something," as the old saying is. LOTS NORTH CAROLINA NOTES. Charlotte's jail has been without an inmate since April 21. Work on the Farmers' Alliance tobacco sales warehouse at Oxford has begun The Southern Farmer, the suecesor to the North Carolina runner, has ap peared. Where 2,000 acres were planted in to bacco in Nash county last year, 6,000 will be planted this year. J. C Price, the colored educator and orator of Salisbury, favors J. S. Cnrr nomination for Governor. One hundred and twentv-fivc shares in the La Grange cotton factory were sold an Hour otter the books were opened Deputy Collector Woody of Person county went out on a still hunt three times last week and got one eacn time, There is a large and very rapidly In creasing demand for and sale of North Carolina canned vegetables and fruits, North Carolina is now beginning to ri val her sister States in the matter of booms. In nil directions the people are stirred. Miss Rowan Watts, of Durham, ate hearty supier and an hour later was found deud in her chair. No cause is as signed. Mutters arc now assuming definite shane for work to be commenced at an early date on a $100,000 hotel building in est Winston. Euurne Morris, a fnrmcr near Milton had pyrotechnics nt his home the other night and it cost him his barn, two horses and all his corn ana louuer. Sufficient money has been pledged to build a rnhernncle for Sam tones at Ral eigh and lie will be invited to conduct a series of meetings nt thnt plnce. Mr. T. C. worth of Golilslioro, has re ceived an order from Louisville, Ky., for 175.000 seamless lings, which will be woven nt his Worthville factory. At the convict camp near Raleigh prisoner was shot by a guard while try ini? to escnoe. He will wear nine buck shot as a memento of his little escape. A Northern capitalist has bought a lot on Ik-posit Hill. Stntesville, on which he proposes erecting a sixty thousand dollar cotton mill before the new cotton crop comes in. It is announced bv the president of the Wnke county Farmers' Alliance that the meeting which is to lie held there on the 'Oth. is for the regular business of the order nnd not for politicnl purposes, The friends of Dr. Cyrus Thompson ex nect to present his name for nomination r . . I . , ; -t oeiore tnc next acmocrniic conveiuiun w the Third congressional district. called to meet on the 23 dny of July next nt Clin ton. Messrs. P. U.IInnes&Co.. of Winston. hnve contracted for the largest tobacco factory building probably in the State. It is to lie built of brick, six stories high. and will be 200 feet long with a front ol 14 feet. The commissioners of Winston hnve called an election to take place on une 7th for the purpose of voting upon the uestion of issuing bonds for city im provements to the amount of two hun dred thousand dollars. A company has been incorporated nt a vet te ville to establish a planing mill with a capital of $10,000, with the priv ilege of increasing it to $30,000. The in- eon orators are Messrs. F. S. Dcming, B. . Taylor and W. W. Doty. , Mr. Fred Meets, engineer of thestenmer ntcrprise, which runs between Wilming ton nnd points on isortnenst river, ku overboard from the boat Friday after- ion, in Lorn: creek, and was drowned before assistance could reach him. The Wilmintrton Messenger pro poses to celebrate the beginning of its fourth ear in Wilmington on the 2run oi June, v issuing n sixty-lour page Mate indus trial edition the largest newspaper en terprise ever sturtcd in the South. Sheriff J. 0. Nenl, of McDowell county, li has been in office about sixteen cars, has resigned on account of lading iienlth. and Captain George Garden, for merly a mcmlicr of the legislature from McDowell, hns been elected to the va cancy. About 11.30 to-dnv eleven cars went bv for New York, Philadelphia and Bal timore with beans, cucumlsrrs, straw berries, Irish iKitutoes, radishes, corn. and other nice things. Every day a veg etable train goes by. Concord Stand ard. The Oxford Land. Improvement nnd Manufacturing company's negotiations for the removal of several targe Northern manufacturing enterprises to their pro- crty, arc progressing satisfactorily, and is likely that importnnt announce- ments in this connection in oe mnoe within a week. Eight colored women got into a fight near Mr. R. Kornegay's farm near Alt. Olive. They were picking strawberries, and got into a fuss about shawl which one accused another of having stolen. The latter drew her pocket knife and slashed around promiscuously, and cat five ol the crowd. K. F. Ilnmhright, of Cleveland county. was enticed to New York recently and there met two green-goods agents s by ap pointment, lklore handing over tltc $500 he became suspicious nnd refused to invest. TheretiMin they drugged him, bent him, and robbed him. He was found by the police wandering aimlessly around. He liad become insuue and wus Kiit home. A syndicate comoscd of Mess-s. Gen ii. Brown, cashier of the First National Bank of Stntesville, J. S. Ramsey, tobac co manufacturer, and P. Barton Key, Esq., have bought the factory a mile above the Monbo cotton mills, on the Catawba river, (known ns the Sea Island mills), nnd will put in a thousand spin dlts (mnking a mill of two thousand spin dles), and hnve it ready lor the new crop next fall. The office of the mills will be in Stntesville. Tuesday night, in Johnston county, moonshiner nnmcd Dave Hritt while drunk fell into a well a this illicit distillery. While there a barrel fell UMn him and broke his neck. His son got the body out of the well. It Was placed In the still house and two men were left to watch it. At midnight two unknown men told the tired watchers they would relieve them. The offer was accepted, but the next morning the still was gone and Britt's body was in the house alone. Why did the watchers leave the corps. In charge oi unknown men, and were the latter rev enue people f Wilmington Messenger, MISCELLANEOUS. J. S. GRANT, Ph. G., Of Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, Apothecary, 94 South Holm St. fO ALL HEADACHE ins iivrrauurs HARMLESS HEAD AC HI rowous. adoum van SS I tin SL, Buffalo. N.V lad IstwMtkasI BrUnOst FOB SALS B J. S. GRANT. If your prescriptions are prepared af Grant's Pharmacy you can positively de pend upon these Guts: First, that only the purest and best drugs and chemicals will be used; second, they will be compound ed carefully and accurately by an expert enced Prescriptionist ; and third, you will not be charged an exorbitant price. You will receive the best goods at a very rea sonable profit. Don't forget the place Grant's Pharmacy, 24 South Main street. Prescriptions Slled at all hours, night or day, and deli vet ed tree ol charge to any part of the city. The night bell will be answered promptly. Grant's Phar macy, 24 South Main street. At Grant's Pharmacy you can buy any Patent Medicine at the lowest price quot ed by any other drug bouse in the city. We are determined to sell as low as the lowest, even If we bare to lose money by so doing. We will sell all Patent Medi cines at first cost, and below that if nec essary, to meet the price of any competi tor. We have the largest assortment 01 Chamois Skins in Asheville. Over 200 skins, all sites, at the lowest prices. We are the agents for Humphrey's Homoeopathic Medicines. A full supply of his goods always on band. Use Buncombe Liver Pills, the best in the world lor liver complaints, indiges tion, etc. A thoroughly reliable remedy for ail blood diseases is Runcombe Sarsaparilla. Try a bottle and you will take no other. J. S. GRANT, Ph. O., Pharmacist, 24 S. Main St., Asheville, N. C. WIIITLOCK'S Special Sales Week. Close buyers will please note the following great induce ments this week : Black Mohair BrilliantineH at r0 and 75c, formerly 75c. and f 1. Black Taniise Suitinrrs. (50 and 85c, former price 75c. ano $ i. Black Camel's Hair ami Serge Suitings at 75c. and f 1, formerly $1 and fl.25. isiacK r rencli Henriettas. "iOc, 75c. and fl, former )rice 0.JC., f 1 and fl.25. l ancy Moliair Brilliant- ines, f()e. and 75c, former price 75c. and f 1. Colored Henriettas at 25c, Oc, 50c. and 75c, worth tmicu more. Domestic and I m nor ted Challies at 5c, 8c, and 12c. per ara. W ash Dress Fabrics. Lawns and Prints at Hc and up. Vi-oiwli and iVtmnafSn SI., ines at popular prices. Dress Ginghams and Seer suckers, large variety. Outimr UlothB. Table Lin ens, white and colored. White Goods. Nainsooks. iawns, India Linens, Ham- burgs, lances, Underwear. landkerchicfs. CorsetB. Gloves and Mitts. Large assortment and low prices. rarasois and sunshade, the most attractive in the ity. Prices lower than else where. Just received A new lot of Black and Cream Lnce Floun cing and Drapery Net. Bometning flew We sou the only absolutely Fast Hack Hosiery in the market made by Hmith & Aniroll or Ladies, Misses and Chil- ren, also lor Men and Boys, 'hey are uruarantoed not to dye, crock or turn green, or money refunded. WniTLOCK'S, 4 SOUTH MAIN STMEHT, Opposits Baak f AstrllK. - Pc iGtSfcrt? mt Thw srs s Iwhic. IVTVyrofre WSSM M uli , In. I a s IT" B1w.r.ir..li.. n,,n I XTaSSS-aU I 1 -us .arrwiB "va.arm sa