North Carolina Newspapers

THE ASHE VILLE DAILY CITIZEN. Thursday Evening, October io, TBI MflLLE DAILY CIT1ZES BY TJUt CITOBN COMPANY. PRINTED DAILY. EXCEPT SVNDA Y. SUBSCRIPTION SATES: One Tear $S.OO BAiLT Six Month S.OO Three Months... .. 1.60 cmsaa One Month, in advance . ftO I One Week, paid to carrier... 16 TTh 8xmi-Wzkkxt emm, tented ercrj THURSDAY. OCTOBER 10, 1895. If prize fighting perishes from the face ef that part of the world called the United States, a monument ought to be erected to the memory of the anti-slog Ring vigor of Culberson of Texas. Oar esteemed contemporary, the Wil mington Messenger, cites as an evidence o the weakness of the sound money sentiment the fact that ex-Congressman HoarHorr? went to Cincinnati last Wednesday to speak for gold buggery and bad an audience of only 30. This is scarcely logical. By parity of reasoning we might argue that the silver senti ment baa no strength in Nortb Carolina sipce after a persistent and loug-contin- uea Deatiog of tom-toms the late State silver convention at Raleigh could mus ter an attendance of less than 300. Charlotte Observer. Horr (we suppose the Observer means liorr) has a very considerable reputa tion and Cincinnati is a large city. - The North Carolina tom-tom was keyed to a false note and meant much beside free silver. - THE GOVERNMENT AND WIRES, The American Law Review for October has a short article by Judge Walter Clark on the "Legal Aspect of Postal Telegraph and .Telephone." It endeav ors to establish the legal proposition that it is unconstitutional for the: Post- office Department to fail to use these fa cilities or to permit private corporations to operate them. Judge Clark's statement that the poet office operated the telegraph in 1844-7 wfH be news to many. When, says Judge dark, on mistaken grounds of economy, in 1847, the telegraph was allowed to pass into private bands. Henry Clay, the great Whig leader, and Cave Johnson, the Democratic postmaster general, both eatnestly protested. In 1866 Congress took steps looking to the postoffice re suming the operation of the telegraph. but the Western Union has so far suc ceeded in postponing further action. Ko party has ever declared against the post- office ownership of the telegraph and tel ephone. It has been advocated by lead ng men in all parties, and the chief ob jection raited against such ownership is that the system might be brought into disrepute by partisan abuse of the invio lability of telegrams. There is no reason, however, why that abuse should be greater under government control than under private management as now. Whether it would be or not would de pend largely on the spirit in which the system was organized and maintained. As to the cost of the existing lines Judge Clark says : "With wire costing less than $10 per mile, there is no reason why the govern ment should not own a tioe to every postoffice in the Union. There should be no dicker with private companies about leasing or purchasing. In 1866 thev only asked for five years to close up, but when the five years were out they had formed the present great trust and have ever since defied the public. They have had 30 years notice to abandon their use of a branch of the governmental functions. In that time they have re ceived hundreds of millions of profits illegally extorted from the toiling masses. They have no claim to extract another dollar by lease or sale of tbeirantiquated or worn out instruments. Let the gov ernment give the actual value of such wire as it may wish to use, and take complete and exclusive possession of the duties of a postoffice. Certainly they are entitled to no compensation fot franchise, or loss of expected profits, since under the act of 1866 every telegraph line has been built under a contract that it should be turned over to the government upon payment of the assessed value of the material. The franchise has always been, the property of the government and was only temporarily permitted to be used by the private corporations." Judge Clark's argument is clear and forcible, and will awaken new interest in the question of government ownership of the telegraph and telephone lines. Four Gospels In the Original. From the Philadelphia Record. Biblical scholars, and, indeed, the whole religious world will be profound lyjinterested in the announcement, made apparently on good authority, that a manuscript of the four gospels in the na tive tongue of Jesus baa at last been found in the convent on Mount Sinai, whkh was built by Justinian nearly 1400 year ago, when Christianity was young, and its treasured records would naturally seek such sanctuary. The value of such finds depends of course on the intrinsic evidences of their antiquity, but the judgment of experts that the present parchment was written within fifty years of the death of the last apos tles must give it exceptional importance. A Traitor to Principle. From the Columbia State. , It was not because Mahanehad bolted a Democratic convention and organized an independent movement that the feel ing against Mahone endured. Aleck Stevens did that and died honored. It was because, claiming to be a Democrat, Mahone sold his vote and that of his fol lowers to the Republicans for the spoils of patronage. Independence is readily forgiven, even by those who may in pas sion denounce it as a crime; but treason to principle does not find pardon in Vir ginia. From the Gifted One. From Fuller's Gleaner. Ia conclusion Gleaner we could give big advertisement to a larger City bad we the chance but here we are so put down by jealousy of other local papers - which are good in their way but for the lack of brains, on the part of some Editor ? who are not gifted like me, nor even can be; why dont they let us atone and go on the best they know, but in stead they take clippings from us and Publish to their credit and; make out they are original. A Perfect OIHJI eater. One that no one finds fault with. Lots of heat and no odor . whatever , . " . H. Law. 35 Patton Ave. Anthracite and clean soft coal at Webb. Sluder & Co., Legal block, agents for the Cit'ten'a Coal company. , Our Jellico Domestic Nut ia the clean est on the market. Carolina Coal Co. STATE SIGHTS AND THE CIVIL WAS. From the Chicago Self-Culture. There can be very little doubt in the mind of the candid scholar that a sincere belief in the rights of the several States was the foundation and strength of the attempt of the South to withdraw from the Union. The existence of slavery in troduced a very grave complication and supplied a large part of the violent pas sion with which the conflict was entered upon, but it ia not fair to say that the Southern States entered upon the strug gle for the sake of slavery. There had been a time when the South was hardly less disposed than the North to get rid of slavery. The dominant feeline in Yireinia in Washington's time. for example, was one of desire lor the abolition of slavery. The great ordi nance of 1787. which declared the whole of the immense northwest free soil for ever, would never have been passed but for the earnest support of representatives of the South, and notably Grayson and others of Virginia. It was the weight of the corthwest on the side of the North which determined the issues of the con flict, and that wtight was originally thrown into the free soil scale bv South ern bands. The earliest attempt in the way of uprising against the Union vas that in Western Pennsylvania, which was put down by the sending oi an army of 15,- wuu, ine commander of wbicb was Washington s favorite "Light-Horse Harry," the lather of Robert E. Lee. Virginia's great general and the South ern Confederacy's most eminent soldier in , the civil contest. The earliest pro posal of secession was that of certain New England schemers who had called a convention to meet in Boston, and who looked to Alexander Hamilton to play the part which Lee played when the South undertook secession. The truth is that American history in the north, no less than in the south, has neyer borne witness to the existence of a principle making it-a crime for a state or states to fet themselves up against the Union. When, therefore, the south did this on the scale of a , conti nental conflict, there was nothing what ever in the situation to justify a charge of wanton disregard of the fundamental principles of patriotism. A hundred years earlier every man's patriotism had been concentrated on his own state, and it was onlv the exceptional characters, chitf among whom, and in fact collossal in solitary grandeur, was Washington, who stood tor the Union as meaning even more than any state, or than the states. It almost seems as it there would have been no Union, had not the single figure of Washington seived as the tentpole over which the idea of one nation was thrown, and around which the States, most of them reluctantly, gathered. It was bis presidency which made possible a beginning of the nation, considered as a Union superior in some respects to the States. If the men of the South in 1860 drew aside from tbeUnion through devo tion to their respective States, as all in all to their patriotism, they did what nearly all ot the greatest of their fathers had done. The question, therefore, over Which a continental contest raged, was one, of a perfectly honest difference of opinion, creating an antagonism which could only be settled by a great conflict. Those, therefore, who took the side of that conflict to which success came, ought, not only in common charity, but in that justice which is above charity, to absolutely forbear reproach, and to trows upon every pretension on the part of representative's of the Union to stand in the temple of liberty as holier than their iellows on the other side of the line which divided North from South. Surpluses. From the Chicago Chronicle. A Republican newspaper says: "We cannot help wondering whether Grover Cleveland has the same horror of a sur plus that he had in 1887." Well, vou can hardly tell. The surplus in 1889, wnen Cleveland s hrst term ended, was $187,000,000 gold. After Harrison's tour years there was no surplus. Whether President Cleveland's opinion at the beginning of his second term was the same which be had in the middle of his first term is not stated in any of his messages. " Republican Stumps. From -the Philadelphia Record. Gen. Alger of Michigan thinks the silver question should be taken out of politics, and his fellow partisans in New York feel the same way about the excise question. Whenever the Grand Old farty comes up against a particularly hard stumD it is instantly impressed with the idea that the stump has no business there, and that high morality demands that it shall be got rid of by whipping the devil round it. Two Things Xher Should Do. From the W. N. C. Baptist. If we wete making a guess we would say that there were church members who hadn't been to church in two months and hadn't paid their pastor anything in six, at the circus in Asheville Monday. It is strange how good people lose their senses and run wild over such things., A Gold Bug Party. Senator Stewart of Nevada. How long is it possible for the Rt pub lican party to make the people believe that it is for free coinage of silver, when nearly all of the Republicans in both Houses of Congress invariably vote for the gold standard ? That Prudent McKinley. From the Boston Herald. Gov. McKinley has nothing whatever to say on the subject of Cuba. To mis quote Hamlet, what's Cuba to him, or be to Cuba, that he should weep for her ? The Office Seeking the Woman. From the Topeka Dally Capital. One-third of the appointive offices in Kansas are held by women. Medicinal. From the Salisbury. World. He bad been drug by the cars from Gaskill's factory to this spot. Harper's Bazar. During October the fashions described and depicted in Harper's Bazar will in clude beautiful gowns and wraps, ap propriate tor the out-door exercise and recreation which autumnal weather makes possible. Among literary features of note there will be a bright story en titled The Instinct ot Stepfather hood, by Lilian Bell, author ot i he Lrove-Letters of an Old Maid"; a play to be acted by women only, from tbe pen of Margaret Sutton Briscoe, its title Masques; and numerous charming articles on house hold and social topics. Send in your orders for coal to Webb. Sluder & Co.. Legal block, agents for tbe Citizen's Coal company. .. Fill your house with the celebrated shaker-screened Jellico Lump Coal. Car olina Coal Co. Try Sensation cigars 5 cents. STORIES OF THE DAT. An Insurance Demi That Did Not Quite Go Throogh. A man with a red nose which looked chronic and had the air of being legiti mately acquirod, called at the office of a big life insurance company, and, address ing the first official he happened to moot, 6aid: "Sir, 1 am insured fur $5,000 in your company." "Weil?" "Tbe policy, strange to say, is mwlo out in the name of my wife. She has posses sion of it." "Not strange at all, but eminently prop er," said the official. "And if I oouid get hold of the policy I would hock it," continued the man with ti.e red nose, "but she keeps it hid. I am here, however, for the purpose, of making a proposition to you, and the whonvilxiurs of the policy is neither here nor there. Are you open to a deal?" "We are," answered the official citldly. "Well, here is my plan. Since I can nut raise anything on thut policy,! spring upon you the following situation: Before nightfall I shall be a dead man and you'll have to pony up that $5,000." "How do you make that out?" demand ed the official, in tones of surprise. "Simply because I cannot get a drink," replied the policy holder, "if whisky is not forthcoming, I perish. I simply lie down and stiffen out and you lose your jnoney. A quarter of a dollar, however, will save my life and save you 5,000 lo;ii-;. Twenty-five cents Axes me and I live. Without it I breathe my last and prove a dead loss to you. If I survive, however, my wife will go on paying premiums, and who knows but what I may become a cen tenarian?" - He looked anxiously at the official, but the latter seemed to lie frozen solid. '"Do I get the quarter?" lie demanded, after a pause. "You do not," was the reply, in icy tones. "Very well," and ho sighed heavily, "that settles it. Make out your death claims and things. Fill up the" cheek pay able to the order of my weeping widow. Charge me to profit and loss." Ho walked heavily out. Louisville Times. How Mark Twaiu Learned to Smoke. The subject of Mark Twain's pluck in starting out at his time of life to pay his debts and start anew by lecturing around the world came up for discussion at one of the clubs the other night. Some one said that his fun was no longer fresh. It had been discounted by his public, which now foresees what he is going to write when ever he begins. "Not at all," said a friend of Clemens. "He is spontaneously humor ous, and his fun is too genuine to ever play out. The last time I saw him, only the other day, I noticed that as he iini.-Oied one cigar and throw it away he pulled an other from his pocket and lighted it. ' Do you smoke all the time?' I asked. 'Xo,' said he, 'not all the whole time. 1 never could form the habit of smoking in my sleep. I only smoke when I am awake. Well, I do get up in the night along about 3 in the morning and work in a cigar. I do that, but nothing more.' All this was said with that incomparable drawl which is natural with him and fdves such added humor to all hi funny sayings. 'I suppose I am what the reporters would call a veteran smoker, ' he continued. You know I began smoking at 8 years old. I used to be a printer's devil in a litth village where thrc was a tobac conist named Hccgle. Ueegle said he would give us devils a cigar tor every exchange pap'-r we would give him. We kept him well sup pliedwith reading matter: used to give him about oOpapers a week in "ret urn for as many cigars. That's how I learned to smoke. They were not the best cigars I have smoked. He used to call 'em Ueogle's damndest. But they wcro good enough to learn on.'"" An other man told another story of his which is not generally known. It was of the time when he was learning to be a pilot on the Mississippi. His chief was a gruff old fellow and a great stickler for his rights. One day Clemens came up in the pilothouse smok ing a huge jet black Havana cigar. "Where did you get thai?." the pilot asked. Mark said that a rieli planter had given it to him down below. "Don t you think you ought to have given it til me?" the pilot asked. "Now, see here," said Mark, "I am willing to do most anything for you. I am under you. and I'm willing o play dog and let you't brow sticks in the water for me to dive after; but, I say, I think I oug'it to have some of the per quisites." Xw York Sun. Newspapers In Paris. The Paris press comprises nearly 50 daily newspapers, the aggregate not hav ing varied greatly during the last ten years. Most of these are sold fori sou. An extremely limited number are sold for 2 sous and two or three only fur 3 sous, or a little less than 3 halfpence. It is hardly necc-sary to say by way of preliminary comment that a dozen really able journals would be better supported and better serve the interests of the public. The Frete h people, taken as a mass, li'ive little money to pay for the gratilicat ion of the small amount of literary taste they possess, an opinion entcrtninrd by the novelist Zola, whodcclarcd in an interview a few months ago that reviews and magazines like those of K:vg!and and America would not find in France a sufficient number of readers to justify their publication. Exchange. The Valet and the Valise. When Harry Miner went to the Demo cratic convention at Syracuse, lie stepped tt) to the desk in the office of one of the hotels, with his faithful latest importation from England bringing up the rear guard. He registered. "H. C. Miner and valet." The next man to register was a brawny son of Erin, with his traveling bag in hand. He took up the pen and registered with a flourish, " Michael Murphy and va nsc." It's a cold day when you can get ahead of an lrisliman. Exchange. Stung to Her Death. A Miss Kerr of Cunninghamhead, Kil marnock, Scotland, met de.tt li under pecul iar circumstances recently. While arrang ing flowers a wasp stung her on the neck. She pulled out the sting and applied am monia. Notwithstanding these precau tions her neck and face swelled and breath ing became difficult. Faint ness super vened, and the young lady passed away within 15 minutes. Japan Means Business. Our friends the Japanese have formed three new army corps, with an effective of 80,000 men : i time of peace and 320,000 in time of war. The navy is to be doubled in strength within the next three years. It looks ominous for European supremacy in the far east. New York Sun. THE BEST Are Hynriman'a Extra Choice Enamelad Custom Made Shoes Ortke.a pair ot Extra Choice French Calf at the 8aros price if you Hke. 10, 15 and 20 per ct. discount. 1 he Beat. HYNDMAHV 80 North Main. TELEPHONE 22$. OFP1CB U W. COURT SQAURE THB ASHEVILLE DRAY CO. i deli"! trom . BH8ET nLOPRunu., We Sell Furniture For the large platter in the middle of of the dinner table: roasts, broils, firs, stews, etc, all nntricious, all tender; in short, the best Buncombe meat. Phone 3. Stall "A ' On the subject of Boots and Shoes: Very tew people are competent to judge tbe real value of footwear when it is new. There are at many ways to counterfeit and imitate leather that it is easy to deceive a buyer. It generally happens that buyers have to "take the shoeman's 'word for it in the end. We make every customer happy that buys on onr recommendation. "A'e don't, recommend shots except those made by such manufacturers as Wil liams. Hovt & Co.. in misses' and children's D. Armstrong & Co.'s in la dies'; J. A. Barrister Co.'s and Packard & Field it men's. A complete line of Umbrellas. Shoes promptly repaired. J. D. Blanton & Co. 39 Patton Avenue. Citizens' Coal Company. Hard and Soft jCoal and Coke. Y Telephone No. 33. i UPTOWN OFFICE-Webb, Sludei cS: Co, Telephone No. 34 The Genuine Joseph Rodgers & Sons' Cutlery: POCKET KNIVES, FORKS CARVERS. SCISSORS. STEELS. RAZORS. Etc. Heating and Cookine Str yes and Ranges and a General Line of Builders' Hard ware, Agntultur. 1 Tools. PENN1MAN BROS. & CO , North Main Street. It's Just This Way: We are in the Clothing business to make money. We want to sell all the goods possible. Tt is onr desire to put prices as near cost is any merchant safely can. Some clothiers may sell below cost and prosper, but we can't. We want every buyer to be pleased. What we sell today is not tbe only thing. It is a part of our business policy to please patrons so well that we can al most count on their future trade with certainty. We have $10 suits that are worth $10. D. S. WEISSBERGER, 17 S. Main Street. THE CAROLINA WINF m I IOI IQP cthrfqI 19 Horth Main St., ? &a Lgiad?D?.,a Private fWlr r:ri"tT- . . a. utv uiiii ir t si ii. Fa.? 9". J. t o k i t"v i re aiove' We guarantee these whiskies to suit Label, Dog's Head, McMullen, Burke and Ross BottKg Budweiser, America's Best Carolina Claret, only $3 per dozen quarts. Try it CookinTsw Uoyt'a Pure North Low Prices. Lozano, Pendas y Ca.and other lading brandf of CiSv! All other goods at proportionately free of charge m the city. We will trea you well (ntSSvnUS h7 box- A11 Sods delivered believe our goods will sell themselves, andre worth thfmoSeylhey cost yot RespeTtfuflyf '6 yU free lunches as .... FRAIJK O'DOWWELL. BUk - , CITY MARKET Jas. AVolfe Meat Company. A LITTLE! TALK REPAIR WORK A SPECIALTY. B. H. Cosby, Jeweler 27 Patton Ave. Vinegar- Four-year old. worth 40c. gal., my price. 5c. gal. Sweet Mckles 20c. quart. Granulated 6uar 19 pounds for $1.00; 9 pounds Tor 50c.; i pounds 25c. Pearay-for pre serving. W. J. POSTELL, 30 College St. LATEST STYLES LOW PRICES BROWN & CO., Merchant Tailors. English Made Garments a Speacial Feature 37 Patton Ave, Asheville, N. C. CLEANING REPAIRING 7 and 7 1-2 West College St. ASHEVILLE, N. O. t0 ck of !e brands that hiy"?5lfi?S L'l m fom Tu?i.?rana"l" mud favor with the hpSf 1880-1887-1888 if- i sva 111 i n irn mi . r t- and favorite Bev p,k. tu.. -"ior Carolina Wine and THE DAILY MEAT Richter (everybody knows who Richter it) nays: ' Never read on a subject till yon baye thouebt joursell hungry on it." Think of our Very English Mutton Chops and 'way down Sautb in Dixie all ptrk Sits m , well browned, cripy kind, (G'way, cb le, I'll fall right off'i, ' j!! horse) and if you don't gft hungry welt ! ONLY THE BEST SOFA AtJD-tlO I T t J 3 3 3. V W. 45 STEELPLATE FURIWP IN THE IMPORTANT REQUISITES' OF HEATING POWE DURABILITY? INE5S :and economy THE TORRID EXCELS, ALL OTHER rURNACE5J -y 1 i You can kxaminf fMicFi lRNArr Trr PAQSTFEAT12E'0N HOUSE J. R. RICH & SON 11 SS0TJRTE"?A,N Don't wit until zero weather to QUALITY NOT QUANTITY NO FREE GIFTS OF ANY KIND TO ATTRACT ATTENTION OK DRAW TRADE AT THE Acme Wine and Liqnor House and White Man's Bar . 7n rZltr 4 a V p the lsrSt tck of first cl.M Rood of any house in the Sttr a . ThVim..flre UMdulterted liquor, will fiBd it to their interert to al .BdVxaifnViv -toS The same hu been recommended y the leading chvkH.. i ,. f'? J."Tln.my fctock Jas. H. Loughran, Proprietor. MO. 58 S, MAIM ST. Uj motto U, "Keep me My place ia second to none TELEPHONE CAU. iM Orders From a Distance Solicited. BoxIz Packing Fr.. cc DIXIE" DRINK Natural Mineral Water ?eJtJhe ystem- ct upon the kidney and bladder, also good for biliousness, dysoep a. etc. Read testimonial of Capt. Wm. Ruli The Knoxville Journal. rrpif'yearoTmore' ! constant EE?, JM" J": ingestion! fj" ; .7- T S " re"e' untu 1 drank .Cs w 10 retain any and ?ZTiin npon ". l'ant appetite and t'.?1";nan-. t,nnot ln high enough terms for the water. Also leel it my duty to recommend its use. -T 10 CAPT. WM. ROLE. Editor. For sale in your city. Can for it. Bottled by DIXIE MINERAL WATER CO. KNOX VILLE, TENN. Tel. Whiskies, Wines, etc.. whi,, v nrr we the rnrTt Z i . EOtn can : Xact!nStr.ade-foreign . W. M. HILL & CO.. Citv Market FATHER. That means come to our d.,or i.D uot. RO byond. Turn right in acd ihtB ltn around and give our stenk a thoroaji, examination, asking plenty of cJu.R and remembering tbe answtr. Some forget that there is sueb a tblr as sttle in furniture as r,i bs I0 dothcs or hats, find out Irom a r. habit source what the style is and then see i ourFir niture doesn't corrcsii.mil t(, jL ( prices, we regret to sav, ..n i,t at J stylish. They're "low d. ' A. BLAIR, Patton Ave. HEATING AT THS STORE OP have a furnace put in. but -iw u r awa VUI iJtC"V ASHETILLE, Jf.t best and charge accordingly in the Bute. POSTOFFICE BOX FOR SALE VALUABLE OCT OF TOWN 1 ROl EKTV. I ofler for sale my elegant result-a.t propcrti in the town of Clyde. Nearly two s. :es :ii out lot. Best finished and best arraui.tr ! houe tad outbuildings in town. Adjoinms itpol lot. Suitable lor small hotel, which is really :n de mand. Better church and school 'aci.ities tins any town its siie in the state. (,00 ! sodetj.iBd plenty of businees. Hard time" have sol checked the town's growth or prfsperny. Pnct and terms made to suit the purchaser. Worii exchange for good property in Ashenl'e and pay difference. Also ha ether sk1 ;ro;.enT 10 town to sell. A bargain in t(i- prr;nr auurcsa H. tt KLi.S . ie. N. C. SMOKE TI TI Smoking Tobacco. ccr.ts fr package, For sale y L. BLOMBEKG, 17 l'attoa Avenue. 152. P.O.. Box 614. ... , ' . . extensive assortment, com- 9i7i 1W J mention frant onnnmi mihiii im n pan r i i n,. snow yu a line of whiskies to Stout, Ales.and Porter, Whit. Liquor Stores, Asheville, X. C. H iU ! 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