The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1888-04-19
LATE NEWS BRIEFS
Carefully Condensed from Mail and
Wire.

Mr.. John Barring, one of the bank
ing firm of Barring Brothers, Londo1
is dead.
Col. J. Q. Marshall has been appoin
ted secretary of State of South Caro-
lima, vice w. L. Leitner, deceased
by Governor Richardson.
1t is expected that the first locomo
tive will enter the city Of GuadaIa,
jara, place of 5000 inhabitants, on
Thursday next over the Mexican
Central's new branch line.
The only woman lawyer in Georgia
is Mrs. Hamilton Douglas, of Allan
ia. She is graduate of the Law
SehoPl The University of Michigan,
and when she graduated was com
plimented by Judge Cody on her
legal attainments.
1t is said that there is a postofffce
for every 1000 men. women and
children in the United States, and
that if the expense of carrying the
mails was paid directly by the people
pro rata, each citizen would pay an
average of 50 cents year.
A lemon was picked at Los Angeles,
CAL, the other day, that weighed 33
pounds, was g inches long, and )
inches in di meter. The tree on
which it grew had but half 4 dozen
lemons on its branches, but the weight
of the fruit bent them almost to the
ground.
The NcGs and Courier says: Three
trains over the South Carolina Rail-
road reached here between 8 80 and
II o'clock last night, bringing in near
ly five hundred visitors. This is 4
good showing, considering the fact
that Charleston's gala week has hardly
as yet begun.
A Greenville; IS. c., telegram speak
ing of the Carolina. Knoxville and
Western road says:
Six carloads of lumber consigned
to the Georgia Construction Compa-
ny arrived here to-day, to be used in
building of the trestle in the city which
will probably begin to-day.
A Kansas City telegram of the
18th says, John Bogard, sixteen years
old, pleaded guilty to day to murder
in the first degree and was sentenced
to be hanged. BOgard held the hands
of James Weir at Independence, Mo-,
last January while Charles f. Meyers
struck him on the head, killing him.
He is the youngest person even sen
fenced to be hanged in Missouri.
According to Prof. GouId's inyes-
legations, it appears that aerial tele-
graph wires on poles transmit elec,
tricity at the rate of from $4,000 to
$4,000 miles per second, and that the
velocity of tran mission increases
with the distance between the wires
and the earth, or, in other words,
with the highest of suspension; and
that subterranean wires, like Subma-
rine cables, transmit with reduced
A Berlin telegram Of the 18th says:
new trouble is not q case
of simple bronchial inflammation,
but an extension of the disease in
the larynx to the bronchial tubes and
thus to the lungs themselves.
This new complicat on is the result
of what occurred last week. The
canala cannot lie in its proper posi-
ton, and is becoming stopped up
and the secretion from the larynN,
instead of Atling an outlet through
the canala, passed along the outside
of it intO the bronchial tubes. pro
ducing Inflammation.
Statistics collected by the Railway
Age show that in the first three
months of 1888 ''more miles of track
were laid in a greater number of
States and Territories" than were
laid in the same period in 1897. The
record is 1895 miles laid on 81 lines
in % States, for the first quarter of
1883.
These figures indicate, according
to the Railway Age, that the con
struction this year will reach from
5000 to 200 miles, and even 5000
would be about 5000 miles above
the average for the last twenty years.