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The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1888-04-18

We are now putting III full line of
Baskets and Wooden ware which we
propose to sell at grOcers prices.
Colgate's New Soap, at 35 cts per dozen,
Blueing at 80 cts. per dozen,
Backing from 25 cts. to 80 cts.'per dozen,
Potash 5 cts. per ball,
Lye cts. per box, = -
Candles at 10 cts. per pound are bargains
that close buyers are taking advantage Of
We have had an im21ense demand for
Choice Y. H. Tea, 80 cents per tb.
&C 6. P. Tea, 30 cents per Id.
g +. B. Tea, 60 cents per ID.
Best . Id. TOmatoes at 81 80 per doz.
Good BIB. Corn L.35
Hart's lb. Peaches t." 25 can.
Pint Bottle Pickles 10 cts.
Quart Bottle g % cts.
Half Gallon 50 cts.
Gallon Bottle " 10 cts.
Acme Sauce 10 cts.
|. =" Catsup, - cts.
And it is right that we should have,
for these goods are very cheap at these
prices. Our energy has been taxed to
supply the demand for
Magnolia Hams at Is cents. Is:
Jowls "S3
Pearl Grist :: 81
Oat Meal 5
Oat Flakes II
Soda Crackers
Waterloo Flour 2.25 per sack
Blue Bird ' 26G " "
Obelisk 800 Il
Our assertion that Obelisk Flour is the
best has been fully coroborated by many
of the best judges in w. N. c. We will
have car load of fresh flour in this
week.
The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1888-04-18

Prescriptions compounded with care
and accuracy at Pelham's Drug store.
S ecial attention given to the prescrip
ton department. None but pure drugs
ard best chemicals employed
w. E. PELHAM,
4S S. Main street.
The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1888-04-18
THE lsAHEE CITIZEN

Will be published every Morning lex
cept Monday 81 the following rates
sjg,rgIs, cCcT,
The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1888-04-18

Packard & Growers celebrated $3.50
and "2o9" Shoes for men, and p SINH.
lar grade for boys.
The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1888-04-18

Derby Hats, Silk Hats, Scft Hats, and
Steamer Hats. .
The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1888-04-18

Wool and Gauz. Underwear, Hosiery
Kid Fabric Gloves, Collars and CUTS,
Ruchings, Scarf, Ties. Ribbons C"rs.ts
Buttons, Braids, and Fancy Goods an
SmallwaTes generally.
The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1888-04-18

ParasoIs, Umbrellas, Fans, shopping
Bags, Club Satcho!s, Trunks, &c.
The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1888-04-18

Buncomhe inferior court con-
yencs Monday next, at 10 o'clock,
The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1888-04-18
CHANGING
Our Trade is Booming

and still lower prices may be looked for.
We scarcely think the bottom las We:
been reached on some goods.
The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1888-04-18

W. nave been receiving this week the
largea' and
The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1888-04-18

.aElE..E. TEGAT,EEENT.
One Price Store.

y large and very attractive line OF
Mems, Bows ard CLildTen'1 suits rang
ing from low priced goods to something
very fine.
Measures taken for \. Raymond < Co.,
New York Tailors, and lit guaranteed.
Samples now ready for inTpection,
All-WoOl Dress Goods Of the popular
fabrics in great vasiety, also Satines. Per
Gales, Dress Gtngh2ma. Lawns, Prints ,&c.
Dress Silks in the new Weayes, Rha-
danes, Satins, Nelvets and Pushes.
Carpets, At Squares, Smyrna Rugs,
Oil-Cloihs, Mattings, Curtain Goods in
great variety, Damasks, Towels, Napkins
Coverlets, Blankets, &c.
Ziegler Bros, Merriam y Tylor'B,
Morgan Bros and StCkleY's shoes roT
ladies, miss s and children.
Banister's and Ziegcr's Fine Shoes for
men.
Packard & Growers celebrated -. .5O''
and "2.o9" Shoes for men, and q simi.
lar grade for boys.
Derby Hats, Silk Hats, Scft Hats, and
Steamer Hats. .
Wool and Gauz. Underwear, Hosiery
Kid Fabric Gloves, Collars and CUTS,
Ruchings, Scarf, Ties. Ribbons Core. t.
Buttons, Braids, and Fame Goods AM
SmallwaTes generally.
Parasos, Umbrellas, Fans, shopping
Bags, Club Satch@!s, Trunks, &c.
Mems Furnia' ing Goods.
Cassimerrs. Coltiugs, Twecds. Ken
lucky Jeans, b,mes'ics, &c.
e. Rodwooa g. Co.,
NOS. d, 9 ratton Avenue.
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The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1888-04-18

Mems Furnia' ing Good.
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COFFEE

is considerably higher and holds very
firm. We still hole prices down on
Green Rio. at 6 lbs. for$lO0
The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1888-04-18

JuIse MacRae hears the mans
dunus case at cha!. bcrs in this city
SAturNnE
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-03-30
THE NEW BAPTIST CHURCH
BUILDING.

Among the important building i'm
proyements to be inaugurated this
spring is the work of completing the
new Baptist church edifice. Contracts
have been let for enclosing the building
and work will commence as soon as the
weather will permit. The completed
building is expected to cost about $12,-
600 and there is no doubt of Us being as
handsome church as Southern Mime
sofa can boast of. The Baptist society
in projecting the building of course went
beyond their own means, and expect to
look to the public for generous aid.
Their idea was to build church that
would be credit to the city and one
that would be in harmony with the
progress and improvement which Man.
kato is sure to make in the years to come.
No citizen who is acquainted with the
plans for the new church will fail to ap-
preciate the great credit to the city the
erection of such an edifice will be, and
all will doubtless be glad to contribute
toward its completion. There certainly
can be no more worthy method of plant
ing few dollars for the benefit of the
city.
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benediction Is the densest crowd, which
watches with upturned faces the falling of
the papers containing copies of the prayers
that have been uttered, which are thrown
down into the midst of this restless multitude
by the pope and his assistants. This being
jubilee year these ceremonies commemorate
ing Easter week at Rome are Of unusual
magnifcence
All the movable religious feasts are regu-
lated by Easter day. Easter Sunday this
year, In consequenceof the lunar movements,
falls early In April, and as natural result
Candlemas was earlier than usual IL oc-
CURED Feb. 2, and the wholesale dealers in
candles throughout Christendom prepared,
as usual, large amount of candles for the de-
mand arising from the religious occasion
The devout Of the Catholic church, from
the richest to the poorest, make an offering
OF candles at their respective churches on
Candlemas day. Some of these candles are
very elaborate, being made by hand and
composed OF pure wax. Some made for the
high altar in the cathedral and other
churches in New York cost, with their elab
crate ornamentation, from $3.50 to $500 each
Persons of moderate means offer candles less
expensive, but even the poorest of the con-
gregation present candle made of pure wax
These candles are blessed on Candlesmas day,
and all the devout are presented with
blessed candle to be used on special occasions
In their homes. To be denied one of the
blessed candles by the priest is punishment
which Is regarded in a serious manner, and
the refusal is only made when the applicant
has offended the laws of the church. Candle
mas day is, therefore, one of the solemn
events of the church, and is usually observed
strictly by all true Catholics
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-03-30
NEW ORLEANS LETTER.
New ORLEANS, March %.

New ORLEANS, March %.
To The Editor:
l have been looking into the matter of
cotton seed oil. We must admit that the
hog, in it's output of lard, has found a
Justly competitor, and that competitor is
cotton seed oil. Here in the South, this
oil has totally usurped the place of lard.
Your potatoes are fried III it; your beef
steaks cooked in it; in boiling pots of it
they drop your doughnuts; they put it
in your soups; 80 called lard is adultera-
ted with it; 1t makes rs per cent. of the
olive oil, and it constitutes a large per
centage of the butter used here. Lard
in the South is actually banished, and
cotton seed oil supplies It's place. By 80
much as cotton seed oil is thus used, by
thus much hog lard is displaced in the
market. Cotton seed oil, for all the pur-
poses indicated, and many more, has
come to stay. The professors of chem
istry claim for it that it is a pure vege-
table product, and in no way noxious to
health. Chemical analysis fails to find
fault with it. It's taste is little as of
rancid butter. People have become
used to It, and as it is much cheaper
than lard, 1t easily holds the market.
We raisers of hogs must accept the stu
alton and admit the facts. It's use now
is only question of taste or economy.
1t found Its way first surreptiously into
the market under disguised names; but
it no longer conceals its face but offers
itself boldly as competitor for all it is
worth. There is plenty of it, and its
production is still widening. Perhaps
not more than 80 per cent. of the seed
is yet manufactured into oil. am told
that there are about forty or fifty cotton
seed oil mills in the South. The COW
found her counterfeit in oleomargarine
the hog has found his foe in cotton seed
1t is veritable vegetable pig.
have taken occasion to look into one
of these mills. The seed comes from
the farmer in sacks of about 200 lbs. The
seed is first put through an ingeniously
constructed machine, with saws and
hooks, which thoroughly cleans the seed
aud it comes out black and bright. II
is then rolled and ground, in a process
about like our fax seed. And in about
! the same manner, the oil is forced out
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-03-30
A LA NEW YORK.
The Tall End of New Works. Big
Blizzard Reaches Minnesota.

To say that Mankato people were dis
gusted Sunday morning when the "beau-
tiful" began 10 fall in a manner that pre-
saged an all days storm, would be put.
ting it mildly. Their humor was not i'm
proved as the day progressed with no
''let up" of the storm, and it was with q
very poor grace that citizens arose this
morning and went at the task of clean
ing their sidewalks for the last (?) time
this season.
The storm was general over large
territory, and does not seem TO have
been more severe in this locality than IN
others. 1t followed out the course pre-
scribed by the signal service official, and
started in Washington Territory and
Montana on Friday morning, with a
heavy fall of snow and high winds, pro-
ceeding IN southeasterly direction I'M
til 1t struck the Indian Territory at sun
rise Sunday morning. From that
country it is proceeding in northeast
erly direction toward the lake region at
the rate of thirty miles an hour, the
storm center at 8 p. m. Sunday being
in Eastern Kansas, and at midnight in
Western Illinois. Snow to the depth OF
three or four inches fell in Manitoba,
Montana, Dakota and Minnesota, and
rain to the depth of .06 inches in Iowa,
Illinois, Kansas and Missouri.
1t showed nearly all day in Mankato,
and covered the ground to depth of
fully five inches. Luckily the tempera-
ture was not low, nor did the wind blow
very furiously.
The railroads all over the Northwest
are fighting drifts, but the delays are not
as serious as heretofore. Trains on the
Omaha have not been over few hours
late, and are running on time today.
The Milwaukee and Northwestern are
also running with fairly good luck to-
day.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-03-30
A FEW WORDS WITH A WINONA
TARIFF REFORMER.

Mr.. E. S. Youmans, one of Winona's
millionaire lumbermen, who is cele-
brated as a very able exponent of the
theory that tariff for revenue only is
what this country needs to cure all its
ills, devotes over a column in a recent
issue of the Winona Herald to finding
fault with some editorial utterances of
the FREE Press. Mr.. Youmans thinks
the farmers of the Second District (he
claims to be one of them) want free fax
and free wool and he Is very indignant
at Mr.. Lind for his recent expression
against the Mills bill. The vigor with
which the gentleman denounces the
Infamous" linseed oil trust is refresh
ing, and We hope it will have the effect
Of soaring the "banditti" engaged in
that sort of thing out of their wIts-if
not out of their combination. The FREE
PRESS has no sympathy with trusts, -
and none of our readers will claim that
ANYTHING has been said except in de-
nunciation of these evil combinations
for limiting competition, raising prices
and making big profits. But we hold
that trusts are a matter that state and
federal legislatures and courts will have
to deal with, and as for the claim that
the policy OF protection fosters trusts OF
makes them possible, that is controvert-
ed by the well-known fact that similar
combines exist in England, which il
known as free trade country; so that
the attempt to make the protection sys.
TEN bear the stigma of the evil connect.
ed with trusts must be failure. The
trusts among manufacturers would &c
on just the same were the tariff removed
always providing that there were any
manufacturers left to form them.
In discussing the linseed oil question
Mr.. Youmans, like all other free trad
ers, comes far from getting down to the
main point. lie looks up some stats
tics and finds that there are only about
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-03-30
In his same article Mr.. YoumanG
makes the astounding statement:

In his same article Mr.. Youmans
makes the astounding statement:
"The tax on tin plate imported into
this country is $6,000,00Oa year, and
there is no industry 10 be affected by its
removal. There is not single family in
Mr.. Lind's district or in the State of
Minnesota that will not be relieved from
gross, unjust, IneXcusable taxation, to at
least $50 to $3.50 year by the enactment
of this law"
Mr.. Youmans made this assertion as
if he believed it and left no qualification
whatever through which to back out
We doubt if there is family in the Sec
ond District who spends $3.50, or even
$50 year for tinware in any and every
form. II there is, it is family as ex-
travagant in the use of tinware as Mr..
Youmans is in his statements.
This millionaire lumberman Of Vino
ma will not succeed in his efforts to con-
vince the farmers or voters of the Second
District that they are interested in hav-
ing the Mills bill passed. Rich men like
Mr.. Youmans would not be inconven-
fenced and could afford to try the ex-
pertinent, however disastrous it might
be, of putting the theory of tariff for rev.
enue OILY into practice; but the needy
farmer and laboring men find them
selves in no such position. They are
not so bad off as the free traders make
out, but have no desire to try doubtful
experiments. By the way, has Mr..
Youmans some large lumber tracts in
Canada? Does he want free trade so he
can import his lumber without duty and
sell it at the prices made by the North
western Lumbermen's Association? We
suppose that organization is not a
trust" however.
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tory, and it has been frequently urged Of
late years that Easter should be made fixed
festival, q Sunday late in April being cele-
brated, or that nearest tho 5th of April,
which, according to Haydn, was the date Of
the original Easter day, as Advent Sunday
Is the nearest Sunday to St Andrews day,
whether before or after A we'll known pro-
fessor of astronomy in one of our leading
colleges, in reference to this subject, says:
1.-THE fact Is t;iat the date of Easter Sunday
simply depends upon the fullneSs of hypo-
thetical and suppOsititious moon, invented and
made to move in cn impossible manner by
Pope Hilarius, the supposed movements Of
which are such as occasionally to make
Easter Sunday vary by five weeks from the
date given by the real moon" 1t is needless,
however, to say that any attempt to change
the system of fixing Faster day would be
certain to prccipitate the livcl.ass kind Of an
ecclesiastical uproar, although it might not
bring armed mobs into tho streets to clamor
for ''the stolen days." as happened with the
change in the calendar.
Easter, which is now preceded by Lent, In
early days was introduced by fasting on one
day only-the Friday in Passion wee known
as Good Friday. By and by the time was
extended to forty hours in token that Christ
had lain that long in the tomb, and from
this it was finally prolonged to forty days
the season of the temptation in the wilder
ness. On Easter morning the primitive
Christians saluted each other with the words,
''Christ is arisen," to which the person ad-
dressed answered, "Christ is arisen, indeed, {"
a custom which is still retained in the Greek
church.
All the ceremonies attending the observ-
ance of Easter were at first very simple, but
In the early part Of the Fourth century de-
cided change was brought about by Con-
stantine, who, naturally fond of parade, sig
nalized his love Of display by celebrating this
festival with extraordinary pomp. At the
vigils instituted for Easter eve, when the
people remained in the churches, huge tapers
Of wax were burned; these were however,
not confined to the churches, but were
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placed all over the city. Easter Sunday was
observed with elaborate ceremonials the
pope officiating at mass with every imposing
accessory that could be brought to bear in
that service.
The churches were adorned at this season
like theatres, and crowds poured In to see the
sepulchers which were erected representing
the whole scene of our Savior's entombment
A general belief prevailed that the Lords
second coming would be on Easter eve there
fore the sepulchers were watched through the
night until o'clock in the morning, when
two OF the oldest monks would enter and take
out beautiful image of the resurrection,
which was elevated before the people during
the singing of the anthem, "Christus Resur-
gems" K was then carried to the high altar,
and, a procession being formed, canopy Of
velvet was borne over it by ancient gentle
men. They proceeded round the exterior Of
the church by the light Of torches, all sing
ing, rejoicing and praying, until coming
again to the high altar it was there placed to
remain until Ascension day. In many places
the monks personated all the characters con-
nected with the event they celebrated, and
thus rendered the scene still more picturesque
Many of the old customs of Eastertide still
lnger with us. The peasantry in certain
portions Of England and Scotland, up to q
very recent date, observed the absurd Gus
tom of 'lifting" or ''heaving," as it was
called.
On Easter Monday the men, carrying
chairs, went about insisting that all the
women they met should take a seat and be
lifted up three times. The performance was
accompanied with loud shouts, and the ex-
acting Of a kiss for each one Of the lifters
The accepted mode, as it seems, was for two
to lift, one on either side, and the chair,
gayly decorated, to be raised high above the
heads Of the hfters. It is further related that
any preferring were allowed to pay forfeit
Of money, instead Of the kiss, before they
were let out.
On Tuesday the women took their turn,
and we read that so anxious were they to do
their full part in this ridiculous proceeding,
that they were wont to guard every avenue
to the town and stop every passenger, pedes-
trian, equestrian or vehicular 1t was a
crude imagination that could see any repre-
sentation in this to the resurrection of our
Savior. But as such it was intended.
Not only were the women allowed a share
In the sport Of "heaving" or "lifting," but
they had their own football match in quiet
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-03-30
INCREASED CAPACITY.

On account of the very large and in
creasing demands being made upon the
Big Mill it has been found necessary to
largely increase its capacity. Hitherto
the extreme capacity has been $50 bar
rels per day. The mill has been shut
down for the past ten days while new
machinery is being put in, increasing
the capacity to 1000 barrels per day. 1t
is expected that operations will be re-
sumed by Friday. With the new ma
chinerY the capacity of the mill will
rank with the very largest in the state,
as it already ranks with the best in re-
gard to the quality of -four turned out.
The community at large will be glad to
know of the prosperity Of the mill COM
pany and can rest assured that the good
satisfaction given in the past will be
maintained,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-03-30

by powerful hydraulic compress. The
residuary oil cake is sold like our oil
cake, for feeding stock. With this also
and the husks ground and mixed togeth-
er, makes a good fertilizer, much used
for sugar cane, cotton and other crops.
This industry also contributes some
thing to the value of the cotton crop.
The seed brings about II cents per BUSH
ell at the mills. Along the rivers they
realize enough out of it to pay the levee
tax, which is about 81 20 per bale of cot
ton. They argue here that 1t is vegeta-
Bile, Just as olive oil, or flax seed oil. The
world has used olive oil with a relish,
for centuries. Why not this Its growth
is clean; ii is well titled, and no I'M
seemly fertilizers are used about it. The
method of manufacture is comparatively
clearly. 1t can be refined thoroughly,
and made tasteless. What we have to
complain of, however, is that it is used
so extensively in adulterating other ar
tIcles of food. Armour & Co, of Chica-
go, and others, use thousands of barrels
in the making of fraudulent butter and
lard. Recent evidence before congress
sional committees, shows that nearly all
the lard of commerce is adulterated with
it. What the public should insist upon,
is that every article of food consumption
should be sold for precisely what it is.
Let us have purity in food products. We
have now u Dairy Commission whose
functions are limited to the inspection
Of the products of the dairy. That bu-
reau wants to be widened in its scope of
duties and usefulness. What we want,
is commission whose functions shall
embrace all food authorizations. Our
food, our drinks, our drugs, should all
enter into rigid examination by trained
experts, and no political consideration
should be permitted TO control their APP
pointment. Our civilization, our prog
ress in science, the protection of our
health, demand this advance. ScIence
itself enables skillful men to poison, or
deteriorate almost every article that
goes into the human stomach. We must
invoke science to protect society from
such invasion of Its health and morals.
Let Minnesots take an advance step in a
matter so worthy of its intelligence, and
80 honorable to its progress in all worthy
things. J. II. BAKER.
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Of ostrich feathers, in which are placed the
eye like parts Of peacock feathers to repre-
sent the eyes or vigilance of the church.
When In the church he rests under rich
canopy Of silk.
The pope, after officiating at mass at the
high altar, is borne with the same ceremony,
to the sound Of music, back through the
crowded church to q balcony over the central
doorway. There, surrounded by his principal
officers, he rises from his chair of state and
pronounces benediction, with indulgences
and dissolution.
The crowd Of people who witness this most
imposing Of all the ceremonies of Rome at
this season is immense. Below the balcony
at which the pope appears to pronounce the