Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1890-07-10
THE SUNNY SOUTH.

| The lottery bill passed the house not
withstanding the governors veto-yeas
6S; nays, 81.
Birmingham Ala, has so many mur
dcrs that it feels that it should have q
city morgue.
The county court house at Chatta
nooga will be improved and enlarged al
a cost of $4,000.
Macon has an ordinance similar to the
one at Atlanta, prohibiting females from,
entering bar rooms.
Columbia, S. c.. had 1o,o 900 popula.
ton in 1880. The census just com.
pletcd shows lG,Soo.
The body of an unknown man was
found floating in the Tennessee river %
miles from Chattanooga.
The Belt Line in Chattanooga hauled
$4,000 passengers on the glorious 4th.
The fares amounted to 500.
The annual convention of the Tenncs.
see State Bar Association is in session at
Lookout Mountain, Chattanooga.
In Columbus, Colorado county, Tex,
City Marshal Pipe shot and killed Ed.
Young and John and Bob Stafford.
The Georgia melon exchange, which
started out to control the watermelon
output Of the State, has gone under.
Jerry Dumas went to sleep on the rail-
road track near Amcricus, Ga. He was
drunk and glad Of it. Now lie is dead.
The headquarters of the fourth district
of the Western Union Telegraph company
will bc moved from Mobile to Atlanta.
Charleston is writing letters to her
sell because over S71 900 has been in
vested in houses and improvements in
that city i'll the past six months.
A man named Collins has been arrested
ut Shelby for hiring negro to murder
his (Collins) wife at Plainvillc, Ga. There
is said to bc no doubt OF his guilt.
An infant son of Robert Howe was
drowned at Amcricus, Ca, by falling in
a hole which the children had dug in the
yard and which had filled up with the
rain.
A wreck occurred on the Georgia Pa
cifc near Temple, Ca, and Engineer
M'Cuc was killed and man whose name
is not known is injured so that he will
die.
Blount county, Alabama, crops were
damaged to the tune OF thousands OF
dollars by recent storm. Several barns
were struck by lightning and three mules
were killed near Brooksvillc.
Clarence McKccroy, waiter in CO.
lumbus, Ga, hotel, made an appoint.
mcnt with Annie Reed. She failed to
keep her engagement and when he found
her he cut her throat from ear to ear.
Alex Hollingsworth, former North
Carolinian, assaulted +. +. Lake at
Spartanburg, S. c., with an iron weight.
He was arrested and placed under ST.
900 bond. Lake is seriously injured.
Ned Robertson, a Charleston colorcd
boy, was struck on the head with CHM
ncy scrapcr and killed. Fred Coaxum is
not lingering around his old home to any
alarming extent although the police
wish he would.
An action is to he brought before the
city council OF Montgomery, Ala, for the
impeachment OF Recorder 7. ]. Rutlcdgc.
He will have to answer to number of
charges among them Incompetence and
maladministration.
The members of the South Carolina
Farmers Alliance pay five cents more
yard for cotton than they would have to
for jutc but they do il Just the same and
already they have the satisfaction OF see
ing the jutc trust down on its knees.
Three hundred and fifty enrolled mem
bcrs were present ut the recent meeting
of the Southern Educational Associa.
tion at Morehcad City. Major Finger,
state superintendent Of public instruc-
ton, thinks just such an association
should bc formed in the South.
Some infamous scoundrcls broke into
Loodcs K Cherry's job printing Office in
Chattanooga, pied the type, broke the
presses and did all the damage in their
power. II was evidently thought to be
very cute job for n note was left.
Catch us il you can. Ha! ha."
Captain Lewis X. Redmond, the
celebrated outlaw who once served a
term in Sing Sing, has again lcapcd into
prominence by shooting James Smith, n
rich saw mill man at Walhalla, S. {. His
victim will die. Redmond is in jail and
will offer for an excuse the fact that he
was drunk.
Napoleon Lcvcllc who was sentenced
to hang at Charleston in September has
appealed to the supreme court and the
lower court has granted n stay Of pro.
cccdings. II is not thought that the case
can be heard before January next and
that if found guilty the prisoner will be
sentenced before June next.
Six weeks ago Alabama grccnbackcrs
held n convention and nominated State
officers. The candidates refused to nc.
ccpt. A second convention has been held
at birmingham and new ticket put in
field. l.. c. Coulson, of Jackson county,
was nominated for governor, and G. G..
Thigpcn, of Laudcrdnlc county, State
treasurer Of the Farmers Alliance, was
nominated for auditor.
General orders for the movement of tho
North Carolina State guard tn the cn.
campmcnts this year have been received
Thirty companies will be In camp. The
first and third regiments will leave their
posts on the morning Of July 22d, and
will remain in camp until the 10Th. The
second and fourth regiments and the cay.
airy troops will leave for camp on the
morning Of August 9th, and will remain
until the ! 9Th.
Col, NJ. T. Hancock, Of Shreveport
La, created a sensation In Thomasvillc
Ca, by bobbing up there Unexpectedly
and kidnapping his two children from
his former wife. The couple were di
vorccd some time ago. the care of tn,
children was given to Mrs. Hancock ant