The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1886-10-29
LATEST NEWS.

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The French crown jewels are to b,
sold.
servia and Bulgaria have mad,
friends.
The French are boycotting Ger
man beer.
The King of Uganda in Africa
has recently had a large number ot
christians murdered.
New York city has a candidate
for mayor, who declares principles
akin to the old know-nothing party.
Bob Ingersol, the noted Infdel,
is out for the anarchist Mr.. George,
for mayor of New York city. Ol
course he is,
The English conservatives have
held o meeting in which they de-
clare their approval of the policy of
Lord Berconsfield regarding Brit-
ish interests in the East as against
Russia.
President Cleveland has suspendo
ed the democratic district attorney
of Missouri, and the district attor-
ney of Pennsylvania, the latter re-
publican, for violating the civil SER
vice law by making campaign
speeches. Right again, Mr.. Cleve-
land.
A dispatch from Portland, Me-, says:
Rev. DR.. Hill. formerly president of
Harvard College, preached a sermon
here Sunday in favor of the doc
trine of probation after death, or as
he said, would be better term, edu-
cation after death. The address
caused quite. sensation among re-
ligious people here, who are much
interested in the discussion of the
Andover doctrine.
The visitation of cholera. which
began in Toulon, in June, 1884, and
still continues in Southern Europe,
has been like no other epidemic in
course. thas continually tended
to spread to the South rather than
to the North. In its third year it
still exhibits as fatal virulence as in
the onset It's ravages have been
worse in the small towns than in the
large ones.
The Express train on the track from
st. Louis to San Francisco, was robbed,
of a large amount of gold, silver and
jewelry.
The British consul at New Orleans has
detained a British vessel which was
about to leave that port, heavily .ladened
with gold, which is supposed to be for
some bad purpose.
Prince Waldemar, of Denmark is spoken
of for the vacant throne of Bulgaria.
(We respectfully nominate Sir Rich
Inond, Milud the Duke, for that office.
We will thus add to the various nomin-
ations" of this gentleman.l
The Philadelphia Press is trying very
hard to groom Mr.. Blaine for the Presi-
dental race in 1888, and says that he is
'tas fresh as ever" He must be very
fresh, indeed, ifhe expects the people OF
this country to believe one-half of the
wild statements that he has been making
on his Pennsylvania tour.
The moon, TO the view OF man who
writes from Peru. HiIlsboro' County,
Florida, has the appearance of being
on fire. re says: "On this parallel I28thJ
of latitude it is Vividly plain, throwing
out sheets of fame to a great distance,
and again is surrounded by deep red
belt. I have watched it for two weeks
and can see no diminution, but rather
on the increase"
The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher the
political preacher of Brooklyn, recently
startled an English audience with the
announcement that he did not believe in
any such thing as an endless future
punishment. This probably explains
why he SO unhesitatingly returned to the
Republican party.
France is an exceedingly lively coun.
try. 1t costs great deal to keep the
peace over there. The minister of mar
inc says that the country has no thought
of war, yet he asks for $35, 100000 for the
completion of the navy and $12,O00,00C
for the construction of ports of refuge
How much would he ask for if the coun.
try were about to go to war?