The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1888-03-09
LATE NEWS BRIEFS.
Mary Anderson is i'll with cold.
Young james Garfield has been
admitted to the nractica of law.

Young james Garfield has been
admitted to the practice of law.
Messrs. Cummings and Russell,
cotton brokers IF New York, have
failed.
Five men were recently killed in
Michigan by the explosion CT nat
ural gas.
Heaviest earthquake for 18 years
occurred at Los Angeles, Cal,
Wednesday.
A Cleveland, Tenn, jewe.er was
robbed Wednesday night of $4,000
worth of iewelry.
Osman Digna led the attack on
the Italians in Africa on Monday
This looks like BUSINESS.
A cyclone in Grand Couteau on
the 9th destroyed many houses, but
no loss of life is reported.
Boulanzsr declares he does not
want anSofice other than that
which be holds in the army.
The Republicans of Georgia say
they will nominate Ex-Gov. r. B
Bullock for Governor this year.
The estate of the late Samuel J.
Tilden is worth $5,2OO,O00. His
will is contested by his relatives.
Sullivan and Mitchell will slug
each other soon. France will
doubtless furnish the fighting
ground.
Emperor William of Germany is
again seriously i'll, His condition
is considered critical. The Crown
Prince is better.
Hon. G. c. Memminger, first sec
retary Of the treasury for the Con
federate States, died OF Charleston,
8. c.. Wednesday night.
The French Chamber of Deputies
tabled the bill to authorize the Pan
anna Canal Company to issue a lot
terry loan OF 60O,O0O,O00 francs.
The strike on the Burlington road
threatens to spread to other roads.
Engineers on other roads refuse to
handle cars from the Burlington
road.
Rev. Dr.. Talmage writes Miss
Susan B. Anthony that he is and
has always been in favor of female
suffrage. Women should either bt
allowed to vote, or freed from all
taxes, says the Doctor.
The House commitee Oh the Pa
cifc railroads has unanimously
agreed to the Cultivate till extend.
ing the time for the payment Of the
government debt by the subsidized
roads comprised in the Union Pa
citic system.
The Right Rev. Abbott Leo of St
Mary's- Monastery, CASTOR county
has been appointed Roman Catholic
Bishop of North Carolina, and will
be consecrated at the cathedral in
Baltimore as soon as the Papal Bull
arrives from Rome.
Heavy snow has stopped railway
traffic in Sweden and Denmark and
has interrupted it in northeast Ger.
many. Dantzic is completely iso.
lated. A violent sand storm has
been raging in Egypt since Satur-
day, stopping traffic on the Suez
Canal.
Miss Cora Belle Fellows, young
lady of social prominence in Wash.
ington City is determined to marry
ali Indian whom she met while Wis
iting the Territory. The love is
mutual. The father of the would
be bride is opposed to the match
bat the young lady is bent on hav
ing her own way.
The maker of the big steel CUR
recently cast at Pittsburg, Mr.
Hainsworth, says: eff this CUR
proves a success I am going to offel
to make the Governmental steel CUR
IN one casting, the same size as tht
English Hilton gun, and of better
quality for $4,000. The English
gun is constructed of forty five sep.
arate pieces, is forty-three feet long
and will throw a projectile thirteer
miles. which is FIVE miles farthel
than has been done by any Ameri
| can made gun, and cost the Govern
n1ent S225,OOO I knaw that car
do it"