The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1885-10-12

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ing goods will soon be opened opposite
Eagle Hotel. If.
Go SEE WH1TLocK's New GooDs.
Mcdowell court this week, also Clay
court.
The State Fair at Raleigh begins tomor-
row, and the dust is laid.
The Huntly, Gilbert troupe at Raleigh
this week.
Mr.. Josepbus Daniels has been admit
ted to practice at the bar of Wake County.
Miss Mary Erwin of this city is on a
visit to Miss Alice Wilson of Morganton.
We regret to learn no company is book
ed for Fair week at the Opera House.
Manager Sawyer will do his best, how
ever.
A meeting of the Board of Pharmacy
will be held in Goldsbore on the Srd of
November, 1885. Applicants for examin-
alton will please take notice.
Maj. w. w. Rollins informs us that
the frost played havoc with. the tobacco or
Ivy and Laurel in NJ adison county. The
section around Marshall, and contiguous
thereto, vas net hurt much.
Our distinguished friend Col. John w.
Cunningham of Person county is in the city
stopping at the Swannanoa. We are all
ways glad to meet this honest and honored
Carolinia1.
We acknowledge the receipt from
Latham, Alexander & Co. of New York.
their very elegantly printed and useful
annual report of the movements and
fluctuations of cotton from 1880 to 1885.
Tie family of Bishop Wilson, which
has been spending the summer in our
city, leave for their home in Baltimore
to-day. They leave many warm friends
here.
Gen'l R. B. Vance has purchased res
idence in Washington City, paying there
for $500. We have heard recently that
our distinguished conntyman contemplated
making Washington City his permanent
home, and thelabove looks like it. Wher-
ever he may 60 he will always have a
warm place in the hearts of his country
men in North Carolina.
Our merchants are getting in their fall
stocks, and they are immense ones, and
as cheap as can be had anywhere either
by wholesale or retail Merchants
throughout this country and East Tennes-
see would do we'll 10 examine the stocks
and prices Offered by our Asheville ner-
chants this season before going elsewhere.
Special Inducements will be offered to the
trade
A boisterous wind yesterday afternoon,
beginning about o'clock, was followed
later in the afternoon by rain which tell
heavily through the night and continued
into the morning. The effect upon streams
will be greatly beneficial; and here. we
may look for the filling up ofthe reservoir,
which had already begun to recover from
its depletion.
The sleeping car sl stem as applied to the
Western North Carolina road has been
worked during the past summer with
great perfection and satisfaction. As a
consequence the sleeping coaches have
largely been used. The conductors are
courteous and watchful for the comfort of
the travellers, and the porters are very at
ientive and modest in their expectations.
We learned one TACT recently which re-
lieves good deal of fastidious anxiety.
The same bed linen is never used twice in
succession; and at the end of the route
every particle Of bedding is taken out of
the coaches and aired, a special force being
detailed for this purpose. The system is
as healthIul as it is convenient and lux
tirious.