The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1890-02-06
A FEW NEWS ITEMS.


York custom house are now 81 900.
There is a belief in Washington Cit
that the house of Secretary Tracy wa
fired by robbers.
1889 was S61+, 100000. and the tota
expenditures 1921 100000.
In the kniflin murder case il is ex
pectcd that an indict ment for murdc,
will I've found against Emma Purseil.
Bids for $4,000 sewer bonds wer,
opened February in Chattanooga
Tenn, and awarded to the Chattanooga
bank.
The committee in charge has asked foi
designs to be submitted for the Grady
monument. The ahoun, to be expended
is 81 5000.
Major ". l.. Hnrkins, long clerk in
the New York supreme court, died on the
Bird in the court house during the pro.
gress of a trial.
a Gloucester fishing schooner, with a
wrecked off the Newfoundland coast, and
all hands were lost.
A man in Camden, \. J., while recover
ing from the effects of a spree, partially
swallowed q large pewter spoon, which
was finally extracted by surgeon in
the Cooper hospital.
Editor West, of the Chicago Times,
has brcn convicted of the fraudulent is
sue of $4,000 of Times stock, and is
sentenced to five years in the penitenti-
ary.
A sneak thiet entered the rooms of the
students OF Wotford College, while they
were attending the meetings of the liter
sweep flight valuables.
The jury of inquest on the body of
Banker Ditman, found floating in the
Schuylkill many weeks after his diSap-
pcarancc, reached verdict that he was
drowned by accident.
J. ID. Durham, one Of the leading green.
hackers of South Carolina, was found
dead in his bed at his residence on Bull
Swamp near Orangeburg. He died. it is
believed, from heart disease.
Mrs. Belle Mitzcr died of heart disease
on the 3rd on an Alabama Great South.
ern train between Birmingham and Chat.
tanooga. She was on her way home
from New York to New Orleans.
Gov. Gordon will appoint Gen. Philip
Cook secretary OF State of Georgia to
succeed the late Col. Barnett. Gen.
Cook was in the Confederate army. and
was Tor twelve years a member of con-
grcss.
The Rev. DR.. Talmage has returned
from his oriental tour, reaching New
York on the Sd on the steamer Aurania
He went through Greece. Egypt. Pales.
tine and Syria, and returns well. and de-
lighted with his trip.
The library of the late Samuel l.. NJ.
Barlow was sold in New York the other
day at auction, many of the books bring
Virginia brought SLIPS. The entire
sale will reach $4,000.
rhrc, so:;s of q man living near Deca-
tur. Ind, were found dead in their beds
on the morning of the End. They had
been suffering with influenza. but when
they weIt to bed tn, night before there
was nothing in their condition to indi.
cate danger.
In the Belcher district. twenty miles
west of Gainesville, Texas, meningitis is
raging as fatal epidemic. Thirty per-
sons have died during the week. many
more are beyond the hope of recovery,
and there has not been single case Of
cory yalescrnce.
Father Mcnamara, once well known in
Raleigh, now an cx-pricst. is lccturing on
Long Island, New York. on Protestant
ism" In attempting lecture at ia
maica, the doors were shut on him. and
he was not permitted to enter the hall,
the audience gathered To- hear him be-
ing Of a very turbulent character.
Amons other III effects resulting from
the grip. and of which there are reported
many cases at the North. is an affection
OF the eyes sympathetic with the other
parts of the body, parl icularly the mus
vular system. The symptoms are II burn
inilamcd, and in some cases the range OF
vision is affected.
\ blind man, Il German chair maker.
living in New York, in fit OF rage tried
to kill his wife and infant child. stabbing
the first with n pair of shears, and try
ing To dash out the brains of the other
against red hot stove. Failing To com.
pletc his work, he snatchcd a paper OF
Paris green and swallowed enough to
cause his death next day.
From the Morristown Herald We learn
that new railroad company has been
organized at Morristown, Tenn, under
the name of the Iron l,clt railroad, with
capital OF S2OO,OOO. The cincorporators
are some of the foremost business men OF
the city. The line OF the road is from
Morristown to Cumberland Gap, This
road will bc an important factor in build.
ing up Morristown, already thriving
growing place.
Body snatching. or disintcrmcnt of
corpscs for dissection at the medical
schools, il not unknown in Knoxville. a
few days ago the father found the body
of his son on the college dissccting table,
and the son of n poor woman, Mrs. Nc.
CURE, was informed that her grave had
been robbed, aud obtaining n search
warrant went to the Tennessee Medical
College where he found the remains OF
his mother horribly mut,lated.
CI.OUDBURsT IN CHINA.