The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1886-10-03
Macon Court begins tomorrow.

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Butter is again scarce in our market.
Why Is this thus in such good cattle
countlyP
We learn that the report of the death
or fatal injury to Mr.. Blue, near Birming
ham, Ala; has no foundation in fact.
The Post Office at shufordsville has
undergone a change of name. and is now
ordered to be officially known as Fletcher
DR.. Arlington of Goldsboro has been
on visit to Ashevilie, extending it to
Waynesvile. We hope it will not be
his last.
Prof. Adler, distinguished philan-
thropist and moralist, will lecture to-
night in the parlor of the Battery Park
Hotel to guests and visiting citizens.
The mercury yesterday morning at
sun rise stood at 40, and we hear fslight
frost in some localities. The probabili-
ties are that there will be no killing frost
before the full moon.
Judge Bryan and daughter, of Charles
ton, S. c., have taken lodgings at Mrs.
Reynolds very pleasant house at the
corner of North Main and Woodfn
streets.
One of the electric towers. that at the
corner ofHaywood and Academy streets
is up, and lifts its skeleton height like a
phantom structure standing out against
the sky in most delicate tenuity.
Hon. Thos. D. Johnston and Mai. MAJ
lone measured swords in Webster yester-
day. We shall hear now that the latter
will carry Jackson county by several
hundred thousand votes. Well; we have
been there to see, and we know some
thing about it.
Mr.. Will Osborne, the able and genial
'iglow" of the Shelby Aurora is in the
city. He reports satisfactory rail road
progress, and says IN a short time q
schedule on the Carolina Central will be
put on twelve miles of the extension
from Shelby west.
The collection in the Episcopal church
last Sunday toward repairing damages of
church buildings in or about Charleston
by the earthquake was $72.46. The
amount was enclosed to Bishop Howe.
About $4,000 have been sent for that
purpose, from different parts of the
country.
The Board of Aldermen has SO far ac-
ted Upon our suggestions in regard to the
safety of buildings as to forbid in future
the use of wooden supports over the
opening in any wall or building, requir-
ing iron or stone for the same. This is
one step in the right direction. @
The Shelby aurora says: The track
of the Charleston, Cincinnati & Chicago
Railroad has been laid az far as Pattef-
sons Springs and is now being surfaced
up. Trains on the extension of the Car
olina Central Railroad will be running
in about week.
Capt. Thomas w. Patton returned FRI
day evening from a second visit to
Charleston. His account is at once sad
and hopeful. He is amazed at the
patient fortitude and active courage of a
people, crushed, yet indomitable, and re-
constructing their broken fortunes with
undaunted courage and unshaken faith.
The chill air of yesterday morning re.
minds US that up in Michigan, at Mar
quette, a severe snow storm was raging
the day before. There, winter has be-
gun; here we will know nothing of real
winter until December sets in. Here We
have two months of fine pleasant wealth
er; there they have begun battle with
the cold that will last until the first of
next May. Mark the difference.