The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1890-01-16
A FEW NEWS ITEMS.
Five deaths occurred in Chicago on the
10th from the influenza.

Five deaths occurred in Chicago on the
10th from the influenza.
The first vestibule train of the season
bound south reached Savannah on the
18th. Travel is increasing.
The recent cyclone swept over an ex.
tent of country a thousand miles in
length, exhausting itself on the northeast
New England coast.
A New York syndicate proposes to buy
FIVE OF the largest tobacco factories in
Winston. This is a new form of grip"
in North Carolina.
Jack the Ripper is supposed to be at his
work in Pesth, woman there having
been found murdered in the butchers hor-
rid secundcm artem style.
The deaths last week in Philadelphia
were us, an increase Of 226 over the
previous week. OF these 1O1 were caused
by consumption of the lungs.
Mrs. John F. Cleveland, sister of
Horace Greeley. recently dicdin New York.
She died at quite an advanced age, of
pneumonia, after briet illness.
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the "drys" in Lynchburg, Va, very
bitter one, was also very close one in
results, the latter winning by n majority
of seven.
II is understood in Raleigh that the
Supreme Court will not convene again
until Feb. LIST. This answers the ques-
ton, often asked, why no action had yet
been taken by the court in the Boyle case.
The charges against DR.. Rylance, rector
of st. Marks Episcopal Church. New
York. which were once formally with
drawn by the parties making them, are
about to bc renewed by one of the vestry-
men, Mr.. Quackenbos.
Three or four thousand negroes are re-
ported by the sheriff of Wilson waiting
to be taken of to some new Eldorado.
they know not where. At present, though
they may become prosperous, there is
much suffering among those gathered to
go away from their old homes.
One of the freaks of the late storm at
Toledo. Ohio, was to blow freight car
three miles down the track; but this was
not as bad as that which happened on
"uStS ~ phsNSHSSt was
blown bodily from the track, turned up
side down and burned. with no loss OF
life. but serious hurts to many passengers.
A party of five Cinnamon were seen
passing through a street in New York.
bearing the dead body of one of their
countrymcn. partially wrapped in
blanket, with head and feet dangling
down. and deliberately dumped it into
gutter. After this ghastly barbarity,
they scampered back to their lodgings
aud locked their doors.
A case of yellow fever is again reported
at Key West. This is probably renewal
of the report which has become chronic.
As there is no winter at that place, there
is as good reason for yellow fever in one
season as well as in another. But there
is no cause for the disease there, except
by communication with Cuba, lying close
at hand. where there is always more or
less Of the disease.
DR.. L. c. Fisher, the first Superinten-
dent of the North Carolina Asylum for
the Insane, opened. we believe, in 1852.
died recently at Staunton, Va, where he
was one OF the Assistant Superintendcnts
of the Western Lunatic Asylum. He was
so years old at the time OF his death. He
was an cmincntly good man. and in his
vocation an able aud useful one. He held
his position in this State until succeeded
by DR.. Grissom in 1868.
The City of Worcester, the steamer
which run on the rocks few days ago
in Long Island Sound. will probably I've
gotten off and saved. She is one of that
class of boats for which the Sound waters
are famous. the finest OF their kind and
service in the world beyond any compari-
son. The City of Worcester cost $780,
900. She is $40 long, 40 feet beam, Of
$500 tons measurement, and has engines
Of 5000 horse power.
Three negroes are to bc hung at Rocky
Mount, Va. for firing that town during
the last campaign, and burning twenty
seven houses. They were convicted, part.
~ on their own confession. saying they
were instigatcd to do so because the use
of the tobacco warehouse, to which the
fire was first applied, had been denied to
Malone for place OF meeting and speak.
ing. The Roanoke Light Infantry has
been detailed to he present at the cxccu.
ton to maintain peace and order.
The New York Tribune has taken time
in the midst of its very active labors to
publish all sorts Of outrage accounts
about the South. to direct its eye to the
religious conditions of New England.
and asks:
"ls religion dying out in New England:
Look at Vermont. for instance. Forty.