The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1888-03-31
The last day of March.

A sprlnR-lKe day was yesterday
Mail from the East one hour late
last night.
No real estate transactions were
recorded yesterday.
There were forty arrivals at the
Grand Central Thursday.
Robt. Rainey, Esq, of Villa Rica,
Ga, was in the city yesterday.
Fair prices for tobacco were OBJ
tanned at the breaks yesterday.
Mr.. Swicegood will apply tor a
patent for his novel door-opener.
Tobacco breaks at the Farmers
and Banner warehouses yesterday.
J.B. Whitman, Esq, of Sweet
water, Tenn, is at the Swannanoa.
Quite a number OF people from the
country weee in the city Yesterday.
F. H. Leatherwood, Esq, of Web
ster, was at the Grand Central last
night.
The March term of the superior
court for Buncombe will adjourn
to-day.
Maj. B. G. Gaden, of the BoiIston
Gold Mine Co., was in the city last
night,
Yesterday was Good Friday, and
several stores in the city were
closed.
Mr. F. A. Barnes, OF Henderson
vile, was in the city yesterday, at
the Grand Central.
The filth and litter in the vicinity
of the old Eagle hotel was being
cleared away yesterday.
Several civil suits were tried in
the superior court yesterday, among
them that of Chapman VS.. Alexan-
der.
The hotel walters al Battery Park,
Swamnanoa and Grand Central were
out on dress parade yesterday after
noon.
II. W Merrill, Esq, of Easton,
Pa, and Mrs. Geo. NJ. Novel;. of
Coldwater, Mich are at the Grand
Central.
County superintendent Of health,
DR.. Weaver, publishes a card in this
issue of the CITIZEN that the atten-
ton of the public is directed to.
Mr.. David Stevens says butter
milk will kill lambs. 1t seems that
this delicious beverage is only in
tended for hogs and humanity.
The crowded condition of the
house, has forced the Messrs. Rawls
to open no the third floor of the
Swannanoa for occupancy by guests.
H. H. Lane, Esq, trayeling agent
for the New York Life Insurance
Co., has returned to the city from
an extended business trip through
South Carolina.
The streets presented lively ap-
pearance yesterday-trading was
active among merchants, and the
crowds on the streets were larger
Than fer several days past.
The Pomona Terra Gotta WORKS
at Greensboro are said to be most
successful. They make fire brick,
drain tic and stove-piping. Mr..
Harris of the State Department pro.
nounces these goods as much supe-
rior to those of northern make.
Last nights arrivals at the Swan
nanoa included Mrs. A. Kingman
Robt. Kingman and Miss Blake
Brookline, Mass; D. P. Dewitt
Wilmot, o.; George Terrell, Raleigh
N. c.; R. W. Anderson, Baltimore
G. Nj. Limont, Quebec, Canada.
A violator of the prohibition law
has been detected in a long stand
ing practice of evading the law
Under an old guano store house
built on a sloping hillside there wat
room for a person to crawl under
the rear and most elevated side. Al
the rear end was found by an in.
quisitive investigator to be a box il
which, when a quarter" was drop
ped, there was an automatic revolv
ing motion which brought round {
bottle of whiskey in place OF tht
quarter. No human hand or agen'
cy was visible; but of course ther,
was "a power behind the throne :
and such power was found anC
bound over to answer and explair
at the next term of the court.