The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1888-01-28
BRIEFS.

nearer an end.
Henry Groebel & Co., of New Or
leans, have failed.
Several republican nominees 70
State offices refuse to accept.
! Milwaukee brewers have deter
i mined to stand by their Union.
| Orders of arrest for six Irish men
beIs of Parliament have been issued
A gale prevailed throughout Eng
land on Thurtday, doing some dam
age.
Canada retnrns the rmpiment
An absconding bank cashier ha!
come TO this country.
A dynamite exptoeino occurred
near youngstown, O, ThuTsday-F43ll
and wounding several.
A celebrated stallion, Happy Me.
dium. died the other day at Lexing-
ton, KY. He was valued at $4,000.
Jot n Wilson, a wealthy bachelor
Of Montgomery, Ala, died Thurs
day, and lett $4,000 to charitable
institutions in that city.
The coming orange crop ofSouth-
ernCalifornia is expected to be much
greater than last year. One esti-
mate is 2,200 to $500 carloads,
against 1900 carloads the past sea-
son.
P. H. Nell, chancellor of the Uni
versity of Georgia, and for many
years president of the Southern
Baptist Association, died at his
home in Athens, Ga, Thursday
after a long illness.
Enough new steel has been res
ceived from the Atlantic and North
Carolina railway to complete the
track-laying to Goldsboro. By
March 1st, it is now asserted, it will
be put down.
The venerable DR.. McCosh will
retire onthe LIST February next from
the Presidency of Princeton UniYer-
sity. He is a grand man-one of
the greatest of the American clergy.
He is Of foreign birth, but he has
been a blessing to the United States.
At Beaufort, S. c., on the 25th,
Miss Julia Leverett, daughter of the
late Rev. G. E Leverett> most es>
timable lady, assistant teacher in
the Beaufort white public schoos,
died here this morning suddenly
and unexpecte lily alter very short
indisposition.
A Binghamton telegram Of the
25th sayt: A large fire. is raging at
Susequehanna, Pa, twenty-five
miles south of here. Assistance
has been sent from this city. The
fire broke out about 3 A. NJ. and
spread rapidly. Two hotels, five
residences and business block had
been destroyed up to 6 A. NJ.
An iron built steamer, with
speed of seven miles against the
current, and with a capacity of 500
bales of cotton has been but on the
Congaree river, and on the Oath,
with large party of gentlemen on
board made trip from Columbia
to the railroad bridge. This was
the first trip of the kind in forty
years.
Pike county, KY, authorities
have called on the Governor for
troops to suppress the Hotteld
gang. The troops were refused, but
the people were given permission
to slm themselves. The sheriff of
Pike county has invaded West Vir
ginia to capture the outlaws out a
West Virginia sheliff is out with a
posse to drive them back to Ken
lucky.
Fifteen prominent citizens of
B iinbridge, Ohio, Including the city
marshal, a hotel proprietor and a
Presbyterian preacher have been
arrested for stealing coal from cars
The detectives say that half of the
citizens of the town are implicated
in the steal.
The peculations amount to many
hundred dollars, and the extent of
them may be imagined when it is
known that although coal is uni
versallY used in cambridge, not a
single car load has been billed to a
resident of that place this winter.