The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1885-05-04
TEMPERATURE AT AsHErILLE
May End, Maximum,
81" 3rd, Minimum,
8: 3rd,. Maximum,
4th, Minimum,

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Look cut for the new goods at McMul
lens. DIST
Judge Dick has arrived, and is guest
of Mr.. A. 7. Snmmey. !
Gen. r. b. Vance is home ON briei
visit We have not yet had the pleas
ure of seeing him.
In our issue of the goth of April we stated
that the tobacco of Mr.. Ferguson sold al
the Buncombe Warehouse, average $3I. II
averaged $37.
The Hon. Thomas D. Johnston asks
us to give notice to those expecting seeds
from Washington City, that he has in
formation from the department that the
supply for this season is exhausted.
Our old friend Mr.. Jos. G. Baird, of
Alexanders, born N the year 1912, gives
notice to his many relatives that they are
invited through this medium to attend
his birthday dinner at Alexanders on
the 18th of May.
The weather since the rain on Friday
has been somewhat bracing after the
series of preceding summer days The
frost point was reached en- Sunday and
Monday mornings, tbs mercury standing
at AZ at sunrise.
Waynesyille pursucs very rigidly the
severe course of sanitation it entered
upon last year. Then it stamped ont en-
tirely the seeds of typhoid fever which
was prevalent and fatal the year before
Last year there was no sickness. This
year there will be none. The causes
were recognized, and removed. Let all
our towns, big and small, do likewise.
By great inadvertenea, speaking OF the
very excellent Allegheny House at
Franklin, we wrete Arlington" The
Allegheny has earned good name of its
own and has no need to draw upon the
well established fame of theseyeral very
excellent Arlingtons to acquire Feputa-
ton. The Allegheny has merit of its
own which viii commend itself to all
who visit it.
Col. w. I. Saunders, the very able
Secretary of State, is at present at the
Cleveland Springs. He Is asnasrer from
rheumatism, which has tortured him for
some years. With all his suffering, the
yigor of his mind, his habits of study,
and his geniality of temper remain I'M
changed, intellectually standing the
peer of the sloffiest, and socially the cen
tral point OF all that is charming. We
hope his stay at the Springs viii restore
him to the full enjoy yment of life.
The Raleigh Nsssss 9bssrscr says that
Prof. Moses, of Goldseofo, has been ses1
#lected as Principal Of the Asheyille Nor-
NAL School. We regard this as q most
happy selection. Prof. NJ. Is from Knox
Vile, we think, and his reputation as an
educator inspired his appointment, still
q very young man, as head Of the Colds
bor0 Graded School, which he has con
Quoted with such ability IS to have
drawn from DR.. Mayo the comnendation
of being the model graded school Of the
South.
Through the fundamentally of the
Hon. Thos d. Johnston, postoffice has
been established on Savannah creek in
jackson county, six miles west of Web
ster, known as Resleyana, Mr. B. /.
Barron. postmasfef. Along this route
is daily mai each Nay to Franhlinsa 2
distance Of 90 miles, and yet, until now,
not single intermediate Office.
Mr..Johnston had alreads taken steps
to correct the delay In the mails coming
east from franklin They win soon
come in this direction as expeaitiously as
they now 90 West