The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1890-01-24
\ PEW NEWS ITEMS.

Queen Victoria will 90 to Aix-les-B Bains
in April, and will remain there for II
month
The Prcsbytery ofPhiladelphia Central
has voted down by 81 to 10 the pro-
posed revision Of the confession OF faith.
1t is said that Robert Garrett, once
president of the Baltimore and ohio rail
road, is now absolutely mentally ire
sponsible.
News comes from Rome that Joan d
Are, as soon as the documents relating
to her life are ready, will he canonized as
| a saint.
Senator Riddlcbcrgcr still lives, hut is
no better. He may yet linger for several
days, but there seems to bc no cxpecta-
tion of his recovery.
Austrian scientific physicians claim t"
have discovered the bacillus of the pre-.
vailing influenza. 1t is distinct from tn,
pneumonia bacillus, hut resembles it,
Thirteen Indians, mounted on ponies.
attempted to cross Flat Head lake on
the ice some days ago. The ice CAV,
way, they all iell in, and five of them
were drowned.
At Winchester. Va. on the morning OF
the 22nd, the mercury was down to g.
above zero. Only week before, tina,
city reported the full blooming of tn,
peach and cherry trees.
The Richmond, Va, Locomotive and
Machine works have secured large con
tract TO furnish steel and Hanged plates
to he used in the construction of two
cruisers. of 5000 tons each, to be bull,
al the New York navy yard.
The charter of he city of Jackson. Miss.
has been SO amended MS to make two
years residence, and the payment of poll
and street tax a prerequisite for voting
This heads off colonization. There are
no property or Observation-Disclosures
required.
In Chattanooga on Tuesday night n
| negro entered the room ui q white cham
bcrmaid living with Mrs. liillas, ana
drawing a revolver, forced her to submit
to his wishes. The brute then escaped
through an open window The uniortu.
nate woman gave a detailed description
OF the outragcr.
Squire William Rogers, n member oi
the county court, died at Chattanooga
on the 21st, aged 40 wears, dying OF the
grippe. lie was brought to Chatta-
noOga at the age OF one year, and lived
his other 10 years there. and was thus
without doubt the oldest continued resi-
dent of the city.
There are now in the port Of Whining
ton, y. G., twcnty-cight square riggcd
vessels. Every one OF them floats q for
eign flag: there is not an American ship
among them. So much for a republican
policy which has driven the American
flag from the ocean, aud almost oblitera'
ted American shipping except in coast,
wise trade.
We may believe now in waves running
mountains high, when we read the ac-
counts oi the steamers which are stag.
gering into port after having breasted
the tremendous westerly gales. said by
all to bc the worst they have ever known
One of them, the Catalonia, reports that
one day the waves ran over the ship and
were So high that they poured down tn,
tunnels. or smokcstacks, as We call them
and cxtinguishcd seven fires. Next.
At Chippewa Falls, Wis. Charles Bcr
gcron. wealthy logger, together with
his wife. were publicly excommunicatet
from the Roman Catholic church nj tha,
place, and the congregation was forbidden
To hold business or social relations will
the couple. The offence is that Berger
on's wife is his niece, which relation il
matrimony is forbidden by the Roman
Catholic church and the laws of Wiscon
sin.
A tragedy incident To the bloody col
lision some months ago between tn
Woodpcckers and Jaybird factions IL
Fort Bcnd county, Texas, was cnactc,
at the court house in Galveston. Par
ties implicated in that affair. and boun,
over for trial, changed the venue Ia Gal
weston, where the representatives Of th
opposite factions met, and came into col
lision on the court house steps. XVI
Terry was to I've tried for the killing q
one Gibson. a brother Of the latter n
soon rs he saw Terry, fired and kille
him instantly. Terry was nephew q
, Judge David Terry, not long ago killed !
California. Over thirty shots were iircf
and several were wounded, but non
Others killed.
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