The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1890-01-03
\ FEW NEWS ITEMS.

The Grady monument fund at Atlant
has reached $4,000.
Mary Ann Carter died in Mount Sa,
age, Md, on the 31st, aged 1O6 year
and 10 months.
Ex-Emperor Dom Pedro, late of Bra
zil, has recently been very i'll, but is bet
ter. He lives in the hope Of coming t.
his own again"
Secretary Blainc's brother, Professo
Melville G. Blaine, principal Of an Indial
school i'll Oregon, died at Salmon, Oregon
on the 31st, aged 63.
The electric apparatus being prepare,
to execute the murderer kemmler in New
York has been tested on calf and dit
its work instantaneously.
The steamer Faraday has recently re
paired one of the Atlantic cables in mit
ocean, feat akin to finding the proven
bal needle in haystack.
A report is current that Mary Ander
son is to marry young man, Mr.. Ma
varro, of New York. The young lady.
brother Joseph Anderson is dangerously
i'll in London with typhoid-pneumonia.
A bar tender at Port Jervis, N. Y, los
ing his situation, became respondent
went to railroad track and threw him
self before an approaching fast train
His head was cut as clear off as IL chopped
| Oft with cleavcr.
DR.. Alcnus, leader of the German vege.
tarians in Germany, has abandoned the
| ~ al Il .at
it intcrteres with the proper functions
OF the arteries, causing chalky degencra.
ton. French physicians confirm his
views.
new magazine enterprise has beer
started i'll Nashville, Tenn, BY the Round
Table Publishing Company, and is duly
chartered. The capital of the company
is fixed at $780, 900, and the first number
of the magazine has been contracted for
and will be issued from Nashville in Feb
ruary.
Mrs. Anna Bradbury, of Council Bluffs,
Iowa, has inst received letter from a
daughter who was abducted from her
fifteen years ago. She was hen a child
of three years of age. and has been kept
in hiding ever since by the parties who
stole her, man and his wife who were
without children, and wanted some one
upon whom to lavish their affections.
Hon. Thomas c. Platt, of New York
General X. A. Alger, Of Michigan; S. V.
White, millionaire New York broker
S. II. Richardson, wealthy Chicago
broker; \. Wills and Colonel ". NJ. Dam
can, of Nashville, are in Birmingham
looking for investments. General Alger
and Mr.. White veinvested very largely
in Alabama coal lands Of late and big
developments are expected.
A young negro cook recently arrived IN
New York from Charleston, fell among
thieves OF his own color, who assumed
the part of friendly guides. took hin, 70 a
house where they had drink, and then
the party fell upon the stranger, PIT a
pistol to his head, choked him nearly to
death. robbed MIN of his money, and
then thrust him into the street. Two oi
the robbers were subsequently arrested.
Col. Elliott +. Shepard offered $500 for
the privilege of writing the inscriptions
on the monument to be erected to the
late Henry w. Grady. The offer. which
Shepard evidently regarded as perfectly
proper one, was refused, but it offered
the New York World the opportunity to
say that it knows several persons who
stand ready to pay 81 900 for the priv.
lcge of writing inscriptions on Col.
Shcpard's monument, and, "as a private
tip" it mentions that "one OF them will
make it 1000 for immediate delivery"
The British steamship Bcntala recently
cleared at Wilmington, N. c., for Liver.
pool with cargo of $500 bales of cot.
ton and 395 barrels OF rosin, This is the
largest cargo ever shipped from Viii
mington. and is 800 more bales than
the same steamer took from Galveston
two months ago, all she could take, and
cross the bar. With the load taken at
Wilmington the Bcntala drew seventeen
feet water. This is fine record for our
chief North Carolina port.
The Sun presents singular summary
of deaths in New York CITY during 1889
other than by disease. 1t says:
There were deaths from electric shock
in this city last year, whereas 80 persons
were run over by cars and wagons and
killed. OF death from sunstroke there
were but four cases, the lowest sunstrokc
record in many years. OF suicides there
were 1872, Of which 60 were by shooting,
81 by poison, 81 by hanging, 10 by stab.
bing, 10 by jumping from high places, 9
by drowning, and by asphyxiation by
gas.
The United States of Colombia ar,
likely to arouse the ire of the United
States of America by the unwarranta.
bic seizure on the high seas of American
vessels engaged in the fruit trade. Three
such vessels have been taken and carried
into Carthagcna as prizes, the prctcxt be.
ing found in an obsolete law requiring
the payment OF license law of $500 lev.
led on each voyage Of a vessel engaged
in the trade instead ofthc newer and now
existing law OF $50, with which law the
offending vessels have faithfully complied
Uncle Sam is not likely to submit to any
such nonsense.
sums Cotton Review.