The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1890-01-08
A FEW NEWS ITEMS.

Col. Joel B. Lcitwitch, prominent
Virginian, died at his home near Lynch
burg on the 9th, aged 73.
Queen Victoria is such sufferer from
rheumatism that she will not be able to
open parliament in person as usual.
Paul Blonet-Max O'Reil - has ar
rived in New York. and will enter on an
extensive lccturing tour on this continent.
lie begins his work at Boston.
In Louisville. KY. on the 9th. Gerard
Gregory, his wife and four children, were
fatally poisoned with arsenic put in their
coffee. 4 servant girl, who has disap-
pearcd. is suspected.
Out in Australia, that portion oi the
country known as Queensland, has been
subject to excessive floods. much terri
tory being deeply submerged. 1t is re-
gion oi prolonged drought, but when it
does rain, il pours.
II is n strange sound tn the ear to hear
OF lire in Africa which destroyed one
builuing valued ut $500, 900, yet such n
thing happened on the 9Th when the
Erstc Fabrikcr at Pretoria, on the Trans.
vaal, was burned.
Augusta, Georgia. is preparing for n
great cotton carnival and trades display.
which is to take place next week. Rail
road fares will he reduced generally. King
Cotton is not yet u dethroncd monarch.
A noted dcspcrado named Wallace, i'm.
prisoncd NJ Hamilton, Ga, for murder,
was recently liberated by n masked mob
Of his friends and taken To n place oi
safety. Such mobs do not usually make
such visits with like friendly purpose.
All Sing, the most famous Chinaman
out oi China, died IN London on the 9TH.
aged GO. lie was the original oi the
Chinese opium Joint keeper IN Dickens
Mysteries Of Edwin brood" lie passed
his last days reading the Bible aud sing
ing hymns,
The season is not only out of Joint on
the Atlantic coast. but equally So on the
Pacific, The rains have been phcnomc.
nally heavy, producing foods overflow
ing the banks of rivers, submcrging rail.
roads, and suspcnding travel, The Santa
Fe road has given notice that trims
could not run over II for week to come,
and other lines are equally interrupted.
A four year old hoy of French parcn.
tagc, living in Brooklyn, n. V. has given
evidence OF murdcrous propensity far cx.
cccding IN icrocity that OF the juvenile
boy murder Pomcroy. The passion oI
his life is to kill an infant sister, only
u few months old, and he has been ioilcd
IN dozen or more attempts only by the
utmost watchlulncss.
A boy in Knoxville, says the Journal
picked up pocket book which, on being
Opened, proved to contain $4,000. Ht
carried il to his employee. who held il un
I'll the real owner claimed it,provcd prop
crty and received it. The boy received
SO for his honesty. There might have
been much NOR, liberal recognition.
The anarchist Martin Franklcn. VIII,
killed his wife and son in Brooklyn a few
DAYS ago, and then killed himself, is ~
illustration Of what anarchy is mud lead
to. II rebels against law IN this world
and il ignores God in the next. II ltrcgard
none of the ties that most men hol,
sacred aud binding, sewers them cruel,
and remorsclcssly when sclishncss make
them hurdcnsomc, kills wife and childrci
with cold bloodcd calculation, and close
the scene by scli.murlcr aud unbiddcn n
pcarnncc before dciicd God to learn toe
late the lessons of their impicty.