ASHEVILLE DAILY CITIZEN: WEDNESDAY KVENlMi, AUGUST 17, 18JJ2. ASHEVILLE DAILY CITIZEN Tub Daily Citizen, Democratic, is published every afternoon (except Sundajr) at the fol lowing rate strictly cath: Ohm Ybar..... $8.00 811 Months 3.00 Thibk Months 1.60 On Month 50 OniWbbk is WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1892. The Citizen continue! to receive let ters not accompanied by the real name of the writer. We do not print that kind. Will "Helene," especially, take notice ? Marion Butler baa gone so far into the ranks of the radicals that he refers to the Democratic party as "au enemy," and speaks of agitation against the force bill as "a scheme to drown reform with prejudice; to divide reformers." And yet the day will come when Butler will be hanging around the Democratic table pleading for a crumb. You watch ! The Helena, Montana, Journal is edited by Kussell Harrison, the son of the Pres ident. It recently stated that Mr. Car ter, chairmuu of the Republican National committee was a free silver man and that "the silver sentiment of Colorado is crystalizing aiound the Republican standard because the silver champions are aware that it is to that party alone the friends of silver must look for relief." Perhaps this is whv the third party peo ple are attracted to the Republicans just now, although President Harrison has given out that he would veto any free silver bill that reached him, Marion Butler, the People's partv leader in North Carolina, is credited with the authorship of a particularly stupid roorback, designed for home consump tion and to convince southern farmers that Mr. Cleveland is a "tool of Wall street." This Butler yarn is to the efl'cct that "Mr. Cleveland is in favor of pay ing the bondholders the difference be tween gold and the depreciated green backs." So obvious a yarn ns this ought not to deceive even a believer in the Omaha platform, but it seemingly is swallowed whole by the credulous fol lowers of Weaver in spite of what every body knows to be the case, that all United States bonds arc payable in gold and always have been. Springlicld Re publican. It is to secure credence for just such fables as the Butler yarn that the Third parly leaders constantly advise their fol lowers not to read democratic papers; they don't want their silly lies exposed before men who might thus become dis satisfied with these concoctei s of slander and misrepresentation. WHERE IS THE HAD TRKAT J1KM' ? The Citizen hears from a few the opin ion that the city has badly treated the Asheville Street Railway company; that it has destroyed the property of the lat ter and given it a blow that was not justified. It should be remembered in tins con nection that the city has done for the Street Railway company several indi viduals associated for the purpose of making money, and for nothing else what it lias done for noothcrindiyiduals in this city. It has given to it, almost without cost, a valuable franchise that enables it to do probably the largest cash trade of any business in town. No other set of citizens arc so favored. A large part of several streets has been surrendered to it, and with no such re turn as is exacted in many cities where street railway companys, in addition to taxes, pay a per cent, of their gross earn ings into the city treasury. Moreover, the patronage accorded the Asheville Street Railway company is large and at a price above the average. It is also probably true that the loss of a franchise for a few hundred feet on Patton avenue will affect the receipts of the company but very slightly. The Asheville Street Railway company has leen well treated by the city; its return has been such defiance of neces sary provisions of the Improvement Act as no other set of citizens contemplate for a moment. THE BOOT-BLACK ELEMENT. Readers of yesterday's Citizen must have observed, what they have often ob served before, the arraignment of a cou ple of boot-blacks before the Recorder on the charge of fighting on the streets, and their discharge with a fine of one dollar. The Recorder may be commended for his tenderness towards the accused, and his consideration for the motbersof the law less striplings upon whom the burden of y the fine ultimately falls. This at least has been frequently urged as a plea for leniency. But the question will force it sell upon consideration, is leniency the true policy ? Who are these boot-blacks ? They are, here, without exception, negro lads of from 12 to 10 years of age, growing into a thick swarm like summer flies, and, like them, become a pestilent nuisance, noisy, rude, quarrelsome, turbulent, and likely to become a great deal worse. For they are thrown absolutely upon their own control, with liberty to do as they please, without one particle of parental restraint, and only subject to municipal interference when they openly and fla grantly yiolate by their frequent quarrels and fightings the public peace and the public decency; and then they are hauled up before the Recorder, chided gently for their offences, dismissed with a nominal fine, and dash back gleefully to their call ing; for the penalties do not fall on them, But is it good public policy to encour age, among the class among whom it prevails, an avocation wnicn is a practi cal school, if not strictly of idleness, cer tainly one of lawlessness, Tice and dis honesty? Remember, those lads are children practically turned into the streets to shift for themselves, without home training of any kind, and, tn the streets and in their competition for their business, without any laudable example to K'd them. They are inevitably forming habits upon the models of those who fill the penctentiary, of those who. compose the chain gangs, of those who challenge the watch fulness of the police by their midnight , disorders, by their gambling, by their thefts, and, it may be safely added, by their ostentatious mid-day parade of idleness and worthlessness as they strut through thecity swinging their huge clubs, and displaying the finery of their "get up." These boot-blacks must become the certain recruits to the ranks of the idle, the vicious, the lawless, curses to them selves, a discouragement to the friends of their race, a dread to the community, a burden to the state. It would be far more humane in the end to those unfortunate, erring chil dren, to inflict upon them the heaviest penalties the law allows than to con done their offences, and send them forth from the face of authority encouraged by misplaccd clemency to go on sinning and end their careers in guilt aud shame. LETTERS FROM THE I'EOPl. E. The Cotuluir TIcketH, Editor The Citizen: Never in the history of Buncombe county weie our people so much divided on the political situation as at present. Tliis, to out minds, is largely due to unwise legisla tion and rigid action by indiscreet per sons. Our people, in the main, are dis posed to do only what they conceive to be right (wc mean the democratic partv) and if wc only pursue a conservative course in the selection of our county officers nH elements can be harmonized and the usual majority obtained in November. The several individuals sug gesting this nrticle arc of the opinion that the ticket which lias been suggested by several correspondents over the coun try will exactly till the bill. Gen. R. 11. Vance and John W. Stai nes are both men of unimpeachable character and in every particular capable of repre senting this county in the next legisla ture and if nominated would be heartily supported by all classes, even irrespec tive of party, and would be elected. As to the register of deeds there are a halt dozen or more gentlemen mentioned for the position, who might fill it acceptably including the present incumbent, who has made a good officer, but having served for four years and stated two years ago il re-elected he would be sat isfied, it is due that the place be given to some one else, and in our judgment no person aided in the democratic success in this district in the last eltction and is calculated to do more this year than W. F. Tomlinson; hence the importance of such a one in the present campaign. His large ucijiniutuuce and general pop ularity with the people lender him available and he would strengthen the ticket very much; and as to to his efficiency and integrity, no one can doubt. In the selection of candidates at your primaries on the 27th fin the city on night of 2'.th,) and at the county con vention September 3rd, sec to it that these or some as good and influential men are selected, and our word !r it all will be well. Manr straifilit Dcmnants nt'ilic screrul 'i'u wnships. WllV 1H II? Editor The Citizen: 1 would like to ask why is it that crowds arc allowed to congregate on the sidewalk in front of the Grand Central hotel and also on South Main street, near Sorrcll's bar room, making it utterly impossible to pass that way on Saturday night. I have seen ladies jostled about in en deavoring to pass. There ought to be a stop put to it. If it is necessary, let there be a policeman stationed at these two points to give pedestrians n right of way. Rentier. CAMPAIGN IX XORTH CAROUXA. State Chronicle . A gentleman who arrived here from Northampton county said that at the Third party primary in Jackson county only two men were pres ent nnil that or.e of these had never voted the Democratic ticket. One of the leading Farmers' Alliance lodges ol Stokes county has disbanded. The county lecturer and other members found that efforts were being made to tun the lodge into the Third parly and the Democratic members called a meet ing and moved to break up. Charlotte Observer : The political sit uation in Forsyth grows more perplex ing day after day. Colored citizens have issued a call for a county convention in Winston next Saturday for the purpose of taking under consideration the pro priety of nominating a full county ticket. The negroes have sixteen hundred votes in the county; hence the general opinion that with three white tickets in the field the negroes can elect this ticket with little difficulty. Von See This lu AHhevllle, Too. Prom the Charlotte Observer. To haul in a small load of wood in the morning, to leave the mule, wood and wagon standing in the street until late in the evening, the mule without food or water, and to sell out finally at 50 to 75 cents, may be a good and profitable way to spend a day, but it hartllv looks like it. The mule would have been better off after a day's plowing, having a mid day meal and n drink of water, and the man's crop would have been more than i o cents better off for the day's work which it didn't get. It takes a good many sorts of eoplc, however, to make a world. TtaeT Are Coining Back. Prom the Raleigh News and Observer. Ex-Gov. Thos. . larvis, who has been doing such noble work canvassing in the West, arrived here Sunday. We arc glad to know from Gov. Jarvis' lips that tne. prospect is growing brighter for Democratic success in the State everv day. He informs us that the disaffection among Democrats is certainly no on the increase, but on the contrary many who have gone astray are coming back into the fold. Gov. Jarvis is in the best of nealtu and is looking well, tie nns been doing good work and good results have followed wherever be has spoken. The Party of Interrereme. From the Philadelphia Record. Notwithstanding the manifest obliter ation of the Republican party in Alabama, it is said that the members of that decaying and sectional organiza tion are to furnish funds to pay the ex penses of a contest by the defeated can didates. This would be a revival in ear nest of-force bill methods. All the devices of Republican campaigning, however devious, lead to federal interference in state elections the only " means by which the partv of monopoly and mis rule can hope to survive. Until further - notice the cars of the West Asheville and Sulphur Springs railway will run regularly on Tuesdays and Thursdays till 10:30 p. m. A special car will wave tne pavilion at Sulphur Springs for Patton avenue each evening at the termination of the danc ing. On Sundays for the concert tne ears will run till 10:30 p. m. llli .WAY) STRAYED OIF. The Reiuurkable Cattc of Frank Wbeeler He Urlfled Hack to Childhood. II. Frank Wheeler of Hrooklvu who is now at the home of his uncle C. II. Jen nings, in Ridgetield, Ct has had during the past nine mouths a very remarkable experience. He is twenty six years old, and last October had an attack of pneu monia which lasted several week. He began to recover and on Dcccmht r 1 r, he went to New Vork, returning to his home in the alternoou. 1'r 'in the time of his return home till July 20 of this year his mind was a blank. He entered his fath er's house about 5 o'clock p. in. on De cember 14 and sat down in the parlor. There he was seized with violent tremors, which finally culminated in a spasm, in the course of which he threw himself on the floor. His fall attracted the attcn tion of nu mbers of his family, but he was unable to make them understand anything he said, and he wnscqually ob livious to their utterances. Physicians were summoned, but they were unable to do anything more for him than to ad minister soothing potions. The real trouble was a mystery. For two or three days Wl cler was apparently un conscious, not recognizing any member of the family or being able to utter n word. For about two weeks he im proved a little, so tlu.t lie was able to make his wants known by signs. Then he began to talk, nut as he had Imnierlv done, but will) the coo mid prattle ol an inlaiit. He did not know the name of any thing or its use. The most familiar objects chairs, tablts, cutlery and other house' hold utensils were strangers to him, all previous knowledge of them having left him. It was three months before he was able to sil up. From this point his physical recovery was rapid, but his imnil was the same incomprehensible and uncomprehending blank that it had been since he was stricken, lie was unable to recognize any one. Whi n he was first taken to a window he did not know what trees were, and passing horses and vclncUs Idled him with astonishment lie could not tell the (inures on the face of the clock and knew nothing of the purpose of the hands, yet l.e would tell the exact time when asked. One d ly he asked lor a piece of board, saying, "Me make something." He could not tell A'hat he wanted to make, but by grst- urisand repeating the word cut he made il known tli.it he also wanted a knife. A wagon passed the window just then and he exclaimed, in childish glee, "Me do make one does things dat go wound. Do you mean a wheel . was asked, upon which lie was grcntlv pleased that he hadlouud a name for the object lie wai.ted to make, lie made a wheel that was perfect ill every part, though he had never before shown any skill or even attempted anything of the kin 1. lie con; iiiiicd his work until he had built of wood a toy wagon that was a marvel of perfection, the springs, tires and other iron parts being carved in imitation of the work on real wagons, lie was greatly disappointed when he found that the springs were inflexible and would not respond to pressure. All efforts to make him understand why this was so were unsuccessful. I Mi July 0 he was taken to his uncle's in Ridgetield, He had been there but a few days, when one day he called to his mother, "Mamma, next Wednesday me do det well." On Tuesday, July 10, he lay in a stupor all day. Next morning, at about 1 o'clock, his mother was called to see him. Frank was trembling vio lently. He sat up in bed and looked around for a moment, as il daed, and then asked, "where am 1 ?'' He was in formed, and for more than an hour kept his mother busy answering iiiestious as to what had happened and how it was that he was so far from home. He wanted to know if it was cold weather, as the rhst he remembered was going home on December 1. He took up life just where he had dropped it more than seven months before. His whole illness is a perfect blank. He is now as well aud his mind is as clear as ever. He has still the toy wagon and delights in show ing it to callers, although he has no re collection of making it. Before his illness he had no practical knowledge of me chanics or the use of tools, nor has he had since his recovery. N. Y. World. WHO PAI S TUB TAX ? It Would Seem That Hie con Nuiuer Does. "Importer" in New York WorM. A, of New York, buys of It, ol Swan sea, Wales, 1,000 boxes of tin-plates, f. o. b. at Liverpool, at the rate of 20 shillings sterling per box, and remits in payment a banker's bill for 1)1,000 ster ling for which he paid $4,888, thus clos ing the transaction between purchaser and manufacturer, the latter being in no wav responsible lor any expenses or tax levied upen the goods. On the arrival of the plates at New York A is taxed by the New York customs officials two and two tenth ceuls per pound upon the gross weight of 'he invoice, averaging 107 pounds er box, to be paid before land ing and delivery; consequently, exclusive of freight, insurance and interest, the plates at dock have cost A : Amount of sterling bill, t'l.ooo $4,888 Duty paid customs, twoand two-tenth cents per pound 2'354 Total $, 7,22 by which it is seen that the foreign manufacturer has not contributed a cent, while the consmmer pavs the tax. with added incidental charges and profits of tne importer, A. Hotel Arrival. Men Roek : Dr. Carrcgar and wife, Knoxville; Miss Stosia Harwell, Jaeksor, Tcnn., J, C. Lipscombe, N. C.John Dow- man, S. C; W. T, Lewis, N. C; Thomas Turner, C. Ii. Hubbard, New York; Frauk Loughran, Hickory; P. H. Pitt- mer and wife, Newbern; . C. L, Gudger, Waynesville; J. W. Carpenter, Miss Mann, Richmond; I. W. McRca, Wil mington; John Leach, Maxton, N. C; H. A. Coats and wife, New York; F. A. Hall, I. M. Cox, Reidsville, N. C; Miss and Mrs. sewell, l a.; W. M. Hendron, Geo. N, Ives and wife, Miss Lula Ives, Newbern; F. A. Williams, N. Y.; L. J. A. Petril, Knoxville: T. M. Cooper, Bre vard; Miss Minnie Carson, Miss Pitts, bumter; Mrs. Cyrus, Miss H. C. Wilson, Williamston, S. C; A. L. Farn, G. F. Rohen, Savannah; R. O. McCrackcn, Waynesville; J. F. Picket, Statesville; L. W. White, Knoxville; E. L. Hendricks, Kosviiie, ind.; J. K. James and wife, Walter James, Macon, Ga. M.D.Lane. IVvermur fin. writes - "One summer several years ago, while raiiroauing in Mississippi, 1 became badly affected with malarial blood poison that impaired my health for more than two vearl. Several nflensiv nWm appeared on my leg, and nothing seemed w give permanent rawi nnui 1 cook six 1 ii, r r, n n . T . buuks oi jj, o. a., woicn surea me entirely." Pll POWDER Absolutely Pure. A cream ofltiirtnr baking K)wdcr. High est of all in leavrninu strenxth. Latest U. S. Government Food Report ROYAI. HAKINC. POWDKR CO., 106 Wall Street. N. Y. CHRONOGRAPHS wholesale: COST PRICE FOR A VliXV DAY. ARTHUR 31. FIELD LEADING JEWELER. 18 South Main Si., Asheville. G. II. MAYER, CONSULTING OPTICIAN. 59 South Main St. CLOSING OUT MY BUSINESS. Your last thnncc to get your siht accurately Fitted with plasBCH without charge for the examination. ONLY 15 DAYS LONGER, (lern, l'icld Glasses and other Optical In struments at a substantial reduction. REMOVAL. I have tunvril from 37 I'utton a venue to 14. North Court Square, Ladle wi:i find thin a quiet plaec, and good cheap. E. COFFIN, Auction and Commission llouttc. Auction sales Tuesdays and Saturdays at U a. m. ANTICEPHALALGINE CU1MS Where : Others : Often : Fail. HEAD ACHE Its Anticephalalgine CURES PROMPTLY AND QUICKLY. RAYSOR & SMITH. HOUSES TO RENT Should be plastered with Adamant thereby saving all future repairs to walls. B1LTM0RE ICE AND BILTMORE, N. C. r pound tickets, $1 per 100 pounds. i 10 pound tickets, 8314 cents per 100 pounds, or 13 tickets for $1. T "'T 25 pound tickets, 66 cents per 100 pounds, or 6 tickets for St. I I j P. 100 pound tickets, SO cents per 100 pounds. I PRICES IN LARGE QUANTITIES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION. ICE Asheville Office No. 63 North Main street, Telephone No. 1S7. niltmorc Office, Telephone No. 97. M. L. REED, THE- NO. 10 PATTON AVENUE, WILL MAKE A SPECIAL REDUCTION OF 331-3 : Per FOR CENTENNIAL WEEK ONLY In all departments, consisting of Men's, Roys' and Children's Clothing, . DRY GOODS OF ALL KINDS. : Shoes of the leading makes, for men, ladies and children. Gent's furnishing Goods, Hats, Trunks and valises. Don't fail to ' sec our $3,00 Men's Stiff Hat. Beats the or1d. Call and ius(cct our big stock before you purchase elsewhere. BALTIMORE CLOTHING No. - lO - PATTON : . A.VENUJS. FEARFUL GUTTING SCRAPE THE KNIFE USED TO THE HILT IT BOSTIC'S BARGAIN BONANZA Mr. Hoist ic has concluded for the next 10 days, in order to nmke room for hislarge Fall srid Winter stock, to use the knife freely and cut the price on many dnss xls just half in nvo. Some divns goods that have been selling at ISO cts. will now go at 40 cts. Others worth 40 ctf. will now go at 20 cts., and goods worth 15 cts will have toconietoT'.cts. Good gingham's at C cts. Don't believe talk, hut go and see for yourself lie is now re ceiving new fall goods which will be sold very close to stimulate the trade on other lines Every yard of calico will go at H (U. except oil reds, indigo ll ik-s and Simp son's blacks. Cotton plaids 1 cts. per yard. Do not stay away, but go early, for re member on the 1st of Sep tember new goods and new prices will be enforced. Do not forget the place. J. T. BOSTIC, 30 Patton Avenue. P. L. COWAN & CO., JEWELERS, ALT. KINDS Ol WATCHES, CLOCKS AND JEWELRY. Wc Make a Specialty of Fine Watch Repairing:. Mr. W. V. Goldsmith is our watchmaker, and is altaji pleased to see his customers. ALL WORK GUARANTEED. No. 9 West Court Place. ASHEVILLE, N. C. Accident Tickets FOR TWENTY-FIVE f ENTS PER DAY.SOLD AT AGENCY OF THE TRAVELERS' INSURANCE COMPANY Hartford, Conn. THOS. W. POSTBLI., Agt., 20 N. Court Place, July 1 , 18H1!. AsheTille, N. 0. RATH AND 91 ICC Do not gnaw throngh Adamant. It Is the best sanitary plaster. COAL COMPANY. 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