The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1890-02-15
A FEW NEWS ITEMS.

Augusta, Ca, proposes to build filtee
miles of electric street railway. and t
nave the finest system at cost of 500
600 per mile.
-Four persons, comprising whole fam
lily, were buried by slide from a noun
tain side near Florence, Oregon, som
time this week.
-Four men charged with conspiracy t,
bribe the ronin jury have confessed tlci
guilt. The penalty is a heavy one. AL
OF them will be used as witnesses. agains
the other accompliccs in the conspiracy.
A sale of a consignment of eight boodet
horses from the stables OF the late Colo
mel William Cassius Goodloe took plac
at Lexington, KY, on the 10th. Th,
eight brought $27.s5O. Sixty-eigh
horses in all were sold for $65,5l5.
r. A. Williams-Peg Leg-chief Of tn,
labor agents, says that he alone has SEN
$4,000 negroes out ofNorth Carolina. ant
has contracts for 5000 more. He ha.
certainly reduced republican maiorities il
some OF the large negro counties.
The attorneys of Halves announc,
that they are done with the case, anc
will leave it to the law to take discourse
They had proposed to take the case III
to the federal court by habcas corpus
hut find they have no good grounds for
such movement.
A prominent musician in Louisville
Louis Hast. entered cutlery store
| asked for razor he wished to buy, thci
asked the seller to put n good edge upor
1t. and while that was being done, picked
up another razor and drew it across hi.
throat with such effect that he ilnmcd
a,ely fell dead,
Some outsider furnished the prisoners
in the jail at Durham with kew ias
tened to the end of long pole whicl
was thrust up to window which was
broken. With the key, the cells were IN.
locked. and the prisoners came into tn,
corridor. picked n hole through the wall
and all escaped.
A New York stock bi oker, Douglass
Green, recently scandalizcd the fraternity
by deserting h,s wife and children and
running off to Europe with a divorced
woman. The marriage with the latteri>
said to have taken place at Old Point,
Va, and to have been celebrated by a ne.
gro minister. Green was formerly from
Savannah, Ga.
A startling rumor prevails in England
that Prince Henry. brother OF the En-
peror OF Germany, is about to start to
restore Dom Pedro to his Brazilian
throne. The emperor permits it, and
even allows his brother to take soldiers
with him. lfit be true, it is a move
more in the interests Of Germany tnan
of the deposed emperor.
The Colombian gun boat La Popa is
again at work seizing American fruit vcs.
sells on the San Bias coast. These mon.
gres need to be taught to respect tn,
American name and flag. which they
must do on abstract principles, without
being influenced by the knowledge tina,
just ut this time Mr.. BENJAMIN Harrison
and Mr.. Tom Reed are their Americana cx
ponents,
This in Northern city! a poor wo
man staggered into Church street sta
ton. New York, early in the morning
having wandered all night through tn,
streets with baby in her arms. Sh,
begged the sergeant to help to bring til,
child back to life. unrolling the bundl,
of old clothes. an infant OF six weeks olt
was found dead. frozen to death by tn,
cold OF that long cruel night.
1t is said now that it was not Taylor
the Atlanta colorcd lawyer and cx.minis
ter to Liberia who recently created tn,
sensation by dining at the Riggs house
Washington. but II. c. {. Astwood, cx
minister to Hayti. The re- cmblance he
tween the two caused the mistake. W,
had given Taylor credit for more sense
What he was charged with doing wa'
exactly opposite to his recent public cx
prcssions made in Washington.
a Young and attractive woman
named Elizabeth Vincent is under arrcs
in London for making an attempt to xii
Lewis Henry lsaacs, n member OF Parlia
mcnt. lsaacs betrayed Miss Ninccn
| when she was fifteen years old, and ha
since allowed her c4OO u year. Th
Young woman did not think this enough
and induced him to come to her house
when she tried to force him to sign ;
number of checks. lie refused, and sh
shot him in the arm.
a party of picnickers went out on tn
10Th on u beautiful bright morning, iron
Colorado Springs, to spend the dav il
Cheyenne canyon. A blizzard came nj
suddenly, and grave fears were excite,
for their safety. Searching parties wcr
out all night. They were found mex
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