Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1890-07-09
THE SUNNY SOUTH.

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Confederacy, has returned from Europ,
to New York.
Thirty rows of cotton thirty feet lonl
was killed by fire ball at East Dough
crty county, Ga.
Senator Wade Hampton, who ha.
been stumping South Carolina, has re
turned to Washington.
P.J. Jackson, who is supposed to hav.
murdered William Youngblood at Hunts
vile, Ala, has been arrested.
There is movement in Chattanooga
to have the city authorities manufac.
ture the ice used in that city.
Gov. Nichols of Louisiana has returned
the lottery bill to the house of represent.
atives without his approval.
Rome, Ca. says that Atlanta is boost.
ing her census by the addition of the
names of guests at the hotels.
George Dugger accidentally shot and
badly hurt his daughter, Nellie Dugger,
at his home near Chattanooga.
Mayor Ellyson, who is a delegate to
the peace conference to be held at Lon
don, has sailed for Liverpool on the I'm.
bria.
| Judge ID. l.. Snodgrass of the supreme
court Of Tennessee was hit on the head
with rock and badly injured, in Chat.
tanoosa.
General +. 7. Stackhousc, president OF
the 1880 South Carolina Farmers ALI
ancc is candidate for congress from his
district.
The official census shows up the twin
Bristols with a total population OF 6,691
souls. Bristol. Tenn, has 3,742, and
Bristol, Va, 2,9+9.
A negro man supposed to be Bob
Brewer the notorious outlaw who shot
n deputy sheriff at Boardman, has been
arrested near Live Oak. Fla.
Hon. Beverly Tucker, consul to Liver
pool under President buchanan and
well known in the South, died at Rich
mond. He was 20 years old.
Bud Lowndesberry shot and killed ].
NJ. lngraham and wounded ]. X. Gar.
rett near Milligan, Fla, over game Of
cards. Lowndesberry escaped.
A negro giving his name as Williams
has been arrested in Knoxville, suspected
of having been the one who stole the dia-
monds at the Lookout House in Chatta-
nooga,
Archbishop Jansscns, Of New Orleans,
is on visit to the Northern States.
On July he was right royalty enter
taincd at the Catholic school at Notre
Dame, Ind.
W. l.. Tarplcy stood on the platform
of train at Montgomery, Ala, until he
fell off and under the wheels. His right
arm was badly manglcd and from the
amputation he died.
Dock Thomas, a colorcd man living
near Albany, Ca, has lost but one half
days work in ten years. Then he was
forced to leave the field because it was
too wet to plow.
James Hamil has been found guilty of
the murder of Policeman John Maguirc
at Mobile, Alabama, and sentenced to
the pcnitentiary for life. II is the first
time in years that so heavy n sentence
has been passed.
The Atlanta city council has passed an
ordinance making il n misdemcanor for
woman to enter a barroom in that
city. The fine for both the barkecper
and the woman violating the law is
placed at 500 limit.
Four men entered the cage of the shaft
at Rucna Vista, Va, when il suddenly
fell to the bottom of the mine. dista nee
of llO feet. I'D. Painter, John Mont
,,I ,nnu Sp,nI ,.,.,s, .,,ut ., ,,t Ia,
killed. Floga Marion was probably ia
tally wounded.
Jack Moore, a section foreman. was
run over and killed by train on the Co.
lumbus Il Western road, near Birming-
hmm, Ala. The tracks Of the Georgia
Pacific and Columbus and Western roads
are close together at that point. Moore
heard train approaching and thinking
it was on the Georgia Pacific stepped
over on the other track Just in time to
he killed.
Rev. 4. l.. Harding, Of Cartcrsvillc,
Ca, who has been engaged in taking the
census, has found a monstrosity In the
seventeenth district. II is n bonclcss
child, about twelve years old-a male
never has spoken n word, walked n step
or eaten a bite that his mother has not
chcwed for him. lie is the son of John
Stockman, of Euharlcc, and weighs only
about twenty pounds.
A despatch from Nashville. Tennessee
states that trouble with negroes in that
town isapprchendcd. Mr.. T. J. Peace was
shot and dangerously wounded by u ne
gro who accused him Of following him
On Thursday a secret society ncgrt
hacked farmers nose with swort
without provocation, and Saturday q
colorcd military company took posses
sion Of the streets, insulting cvcrybod,
who failed to make way for them. The,
charged the motor man on an clcctri,
car with bayoncts, and held up numcrou,
parties in vehicles.
tS" As the time draws near interest il
the great Loughran auction sale In
crcasrs Everybody is talking Of II m,
why should they not' II is the frs
time in the history Of Ashcvillc that suel
valuable business and residence lots hav
been offered at auction. Property s,
near to the city is now nearly all in til
hands of monicd men who are hOldin,