Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1890-07-23
THE SUNNY SOUTH.

Charlotte has exactly II 500 residents.
A white b,lzzard was recently seen fly
ing over Durham.
Green Cove Springs, Florida, had a
SEQ, 900 fire recently.
Winston amateurs are going to pro-
ducc the chimes of Normandy.
Jack Smith, a Jcllico miner, was killed
at that place by a freight train.
In West Virginia the prohibitionists
are talking of Joining hands with the re-
publicans.
Atlanta has secured night service tor
the postotfcc, and the office will be kept
open all night hereafter.
Toe Mason, a Memphis bar keeper, had
his skull crushed in by a beer glass
thrown by drunken man.
Philip Barnakcr, puddler working in
the iron mills at Birmingham, Ala. sur
cidcd with morphine after weck'ssprce.
Lightning struck the Crown cotton
mills at Dalton, Ca, and they were de-
stroycd along with 360 bales of cotton.
A man was drowned in Cartcrsvillc,
Ga. while bathing, but he had changed
his name so often that it is not known
who lie was.
The Mary Pratt iron furnace at Bir-
mingham, Ala, one of the best paying
and most valuable in the South, is to bc
sold at auction.
DIR. X. {. Ward, a prominent physician,
oi Decatur. Ga, and professor in the
Southern medical college at Atlanta, died
at the latter city.
Grace benjamin and Alice Grayson.
who instigatcd the suit against Rev. DR..
u. NJ. Harris at Nashville, have plumcd
their wings and flown away.
An item going the rounds places the
population of Mobile at $4,000 and the
gull city vigorously and pointcdly OBJ
iccts. Its population is $4,000.
Deputy United States Marshal ". +.
Charleston was severely wounded III
Bibb county. Ca, while attempting to
arrest two moonshincrs. The men cs-
capcd.
A. Rinaldi. of Orlando, Fla, has one of
the oldest coins in that city. 1t is Il 20
cent coin Of n Spanish denomination
dated in i773, and is worth considerable
as relic.
Sardis, Mississippi, has received con
signmcnt of liquors in the original pack
age. The best people of the town are
protesting against the sale of the stuff
and will fight to the bitter end.
VIII Joncs, n mail carrier on the Roam
okc and Rock Mills route. in Alabama,
riilcd the mail bags and succeeded in get
ting away with several hundred dol.
lars. lie has been arrested i'll Elizabeth,
NY.
A San Francisco correspondent writes
that the mantle of the late Henry W..
Grady has alcn on the shoulders of Rev.
Thomas Dixon. jr., the North Carolina
divine who is creating so much OF stir
in the North.
4 negro N the ncighborhood Of lIollcn-
vile, a suburb Of Griffin, Ca, went to
town aud spent all his money for Win
chester rifle, aud at night, while showing
the little negroes how 1t worked, shot
his left hand completely oil.
Zachary Bray, Of Calhoun, Ga, 10
years oi ngc, committed suicide by shoot
,nr himself IN the chest. lie was accus.
toned To drinking heavily and often sui
icrcd from temporary insanity. IL ~
supposed that was the cause.
T., NJ. Wilson, commissioner Of immi-
grafton for North Carolina, has re-
signed. The office is now vacant. The
resignation was rendered at the last
meeting of the agricultural board. His
successor will doubtless Nc elected at the
next meeting of that body.
Columbia, S. C., has btcn shamciully
treated by the census cnuncrators and
.hc people are mp in arms. The mayor.
n live, progressive man. has issued n call
foi all who have been overlooked to re-
mort at once and the complaints are
more than pouring IN.
Rev. Dr. u. {. Kelly, of Gallatin. Tenn,
who cannot bc both preacher and politi
cnn because his presiding elder has said
him nay. will give up the former and
next Monday will begin his canvass o.
the State as the nominee of the prohibi
ton party for governor.
Two hundred drunken negroes riotcd
in Ilcll's Half Acre in Nashville and tive
policeman attempted To quiet the dis
iurbnncc. Onc was severely cut with q
razor, the other barely escaped with hi'
hlc, The attention oi "Col." Shvphcrt
is respectfully called to this Southern
outrage.
During a discussion in n court room al
Petersburg, Va, between a leading law
yer named Mckcnney and Mayor Col
iicr, tho latter called the governor n lia,
and was slapped in the mouth for hi
pains. Then the Judge took hand i
the proceedings aud fined the mayor S2I
and Mckcnncy SO.
Down in Florida negro tried to stca
ride on the cowcathcr. The cngincc
did not sec him until the train ran into
COW on the track, when the COW few on
side aud the negro on the other, exclainl
ing ooh lordy ]" forty times before he hi
the ground. lie was left to keep th
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