Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1890-04-10
THE SUNNY SOUTH.

The United States steamer Baltimore
is in the dry dock at Portsmouth, Va.
Mount Olive church at Bedford. Va,
was unrooied by a severe wind storm.
The grocery and liquor store OF W. W.
Wyatt, at Portsmouth, was destroyed
by fire.
Frank Josephs, who killed Griff Bonds,
near Union Mines, W. Va, last week, has
been arrested.
The Sharon Baptist church, fifteen
miles from Danville. Va. was totally de-
stroyed by fire.
Walter King, aged 10, was accident
mate. He died instantly.
Some young men at Atlanta. Ca, have
organized the Grady Cadets, in honor oi
the late Henry W. Grady.
William Duffie Newell. an old Confed.
crate veteran of Portsmouth. died and
was buried with military honors.
The grounds of the Interstate Farm.
ers' Encampmcnt at Spartanburg, S. c..
have been sold to the city for park.
The liquor license fee at Augusta, Ga.
has been advanced and druggists wh'
sell fire water will have to pay special
tax.
Judge ]. A. Lancaster. of Montgomery,
fell from a new fiat boat into the COosa
river and sustained probably fatal inju-
ries.
Confederate decoration day was oh
served IN New Orleans. Jefferson Davis
monument was loaded with foral trib.
utes.
Postmaster Gates. OF Newcoinb, Tenn,
filled man named Coins full of shot b, p.
cause Of his being too familiar with Mrs.
Gates.
A Newfoundland dog. which was taken
for black bear, came near causing II
riot among the negroes of Lynchburg,
Va.
l.. Grant Eakins, of the United States
geological survey. thinks he has found Il
valuable deposit OF polvcrusc near Mari
eta. S. {.
Mary Jane Hatch, quadroon, of Tus.
cumbia, Ala, died suddenly after tht
visit Of faith cure doctor and foul pla.
is suspected.
In test case brought by Armour &
Co.. OF Chicago. in the Virginia suprem,
court the meat inspection law has been
declared unconstitutional.
lie Roye Douglass, of Mobile, Ala,
has been called as an expert to examin,
the books OF detaulting State Treasurer
Hemingway, of Mississippi.
Twenty.six indictments have been
brought against Ben Pullcn, jr.. at Mem.
phis. for the embezzlemcnt OF city funds.
lie is accused Of walking away with &c..
900.
The Louisville Times says that il
Chauncey Dcpew was correctly reported
in his Washington interview he is both
"a miserable coward and n contemplate
liar"
In dispute over line fence, near
Charleston, W. Va, Wood Cochran was
shot bv ". L. Thompson. The wounded
man is in critical condition and Thomp'
son is in jail.
Marshal England was fatally wounded
at lrondalc. Ala. by friends of negro
who he was attempting to arrest. Other
officers opened fire on the darkies aud
got three Of them.
The trouble with the bricklayers oi
Petersburg has heen compromised. Nine
hours will constitute a days work, ana
there will he an advance of fifteen cents
per day in wages.
The Georgia Farmers Alliance vii
make every man who is up for offict
promise to do his best for the abolition
nf the convict lease system before the,
will vote for him.
lanes Mcdonald, IL year old lad o
Augusta, was accidentally shot and in
stantly killed by Charles Spears, aget
II. They were examining rcvoivcl
when it was discharged.
Frank NJ. Bell. Of Montgomery, Ala.
| rode his bicycle u quarter OF mile III 3.
seconds. The hest record heretofore il
| Sc 30 seconds and was made at Spring
field, Mass, III 1885.
The South Carolina poultry and pc
stock association have invited the Amer
lean poultry association to hold its mex
annual meeting at Charleston. bctweei
the DAYS Of January - and IS. 1891.
A. New York syndicate has made I
proposition to connect West Lynchburg
Va, with tho city proper by electric stree
railway IL the city council Will grant tn
right Of way through n certain street.
Thomas Parrish told a saloon keepc
ut Nashville that the police were goin,
to raid him and when they found 1t ou
they arrested Thomas for interfering
with officers in the discharge of thei
duty.
A man named McHan and anothe
named Smith fought bloody fight nca
| Morristown, Tenn. and McHan was s,
badly beaten with a rock that It
thought he will die. Whiskey caused th
affair.
William Quarlcs was found guilty G
the murder of Edward Walker nt Bc
ford City. Va. and sentenced to thrice
years IN the penitcntiary. On a forme
trial he got eighteen years, but the vel
diet was set aside.
Phosphate hunters at Orlando, Fla
found piece Of pctrificd red cedar in
creek The grain Of the wood is SO nat,
rally preserved that il looks as Il It coul
he cut with knife, but Il is solid ston'
and the red color of the wood has bee
precipitated in bright carmine spots.
The Nashville American tells n story {
man who went to church in that cit,
listened to n song by the choir and wa
no affected that lie confessed an ho,
later 10 being a S10,O0o-rcward.outlav "
The story reads well, but as the Amer