The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1888-03-07
Turkeys were selling on the mar
ket Yesterday at 81 .25 each.

| wa VI oCO' Al. OLhnVhCISs y
Waynesville, was in the city Yes
terday::
L X. White Esq, of Lima, Ohio
was registered at the Grand Cenvra
yesterday.
A frst-class dramatic company
has secured dates at Opera Hall fo
next week, go we are Informed by
Mr.. Brown, the manager.
We know of party in this city
who is ! repaired to loan any amoun
of money in sum- of from 800 Il
$500 upon real estate security.
Messrs. Daniel and Robinson, two
young gentlemen from Whining
ton, are in the city, intending tc
engage in the brokerage business
Register Patterson issued thirty
marriage Licenses during the month
of February. Of this number
twenty-five were for whites, and five
for colored people.
Mr.. Hosea Lindsey, Of this city
has applied for a patent upon an
improvement to his patent car ven.
tilator. The improvement is said
to greatly simplify the working OF
his ventilatnr.
On next Tuesday and Wednesday
mis- hts the Boston Stars will occupy
the boards at Opera Hall in grand
concert. Every member of the
troupe is star and the entertain>
ment will he one of the most en-
joyable Of the season.
Spears woodland, in North Ashe
vile, is being cleared up ard will
be laid off in lots. The location of
the lots is most beautiful, and sey-
eral offers have already been made
to the owner by real estate dealers
in the city for their purchase.
Mr.. Woolsey, q Northern gentle
man who has been living in Ashe =
vile for some time since has begun
the erection of a magnificent dwell-
ing in North Doubleday, upon the
property he recently purchased from
Capt. Atkinson. The cost of the
residence will exceed $4,000
Mr.. Max Marcus, formerly with
the Baltimore Clothing House. of
this city, has rented the store-
room in the new Chichester build-
ing, formerly occupied by 8. w.
McCrary, and will open up Il full
line of clothing and gents furnish
ing goods. on or about the Goth inst.
The sales of tobaccofin the Ashe
vile market for the month of Feb
ruary shows a very satisfactory in-
crease over any preceding month.
1t is probable, however, owing to
the shortness of the crop, that the
receipts of the season will not ex-
ceed, ii they reach, those Of last
season.
Messrs Randolph & Kerr, book
and job printers, of this city, yester'
day received a very handsome pow
er Campbell printing press, Of the
latest and most improved style.
They inform US that this is the first
power press ever brought west of
the Blue Ridge. The date of the
issue of their paper has not yet been
definitely determined upon.
Let the farmers follow the lesson
taught by last years experience: pay
close attention to the provision
crops, plant reasonable acreage of
tobacco, cultivate and cure it we'll
and have nothing but good tobacco
to put on the market. Planters are
slow in realizing how much bad to-
bacco gluts every market in the
world. The prices for such is not
only small, but badly Influence
the value of the better grades.
See the new advertisement Of Mr.
II. l.. Lang, jewelcr, &c. We have
frequently spoken OF the elegance
and full equipment of this estab-
lishment, and it is only necessary
to say that its reputation for rich
stock and fine workmanship is kept
up in the highest plane. Mr Lang
is himself master Of his craft. He
is now assisted by Mr. E. S. Dinkle,
lgte OF Lynchburg. a most ski!iful
workman in every branch Of his
business, and Mr.. w. W. Goldsmith.
who is we'll ktown here as long a
mot competent workman with the
late Mr.. Canada Cowan. Lang is
fully equipped.
The Knoxville Journal of the 9th
says: Mr. A. B. Fortune, contractor
on the Caroline, Knoxville and
Western railroad, has a large force
of hands 1t work Oh the French
Broad Rive, seven miles above the
city, quarrying stone for the piers
OF the bridge to be built across the
Tennessee river. Mr.. Fortune has
the contract for building the piers
and will push the work for all there
is in it. A bill has been introduced
in Congress allowing the railroad
company to bridge the Tennessee at
this point. AS soon as the bill
passes work will be commenced on
the piers. The bridge will be To-
Gated at Bakers shoals, just a mile
above the wharf.