Asheville daily citizen., 1892-03-18


Saturday generally fair weather; west
er!y winds and slowly rising tempera-
ture.
Manager Thornburg, of the telephone
exchange, has the grip.
At Grants pharmacy at p. m. today
the thermometer registered 290.
Mayor Blanton is still suffering with
the rheumatism. being unable to leave
his room.
Internal revenue collections for the
Fifth North Carolina district yesterday
were $S,206.71.
G. H. Smithdeal, of Salisbury. is in the
city today on business, autographed at
the Swannanoa.
The county republican convention will
convene in the court house in this city
tomorrow at II O'Clock.
w. H. Hargrove, of Pigeon River, G.
w. P. OF the state division Sons of.
Temperance, was in the city yesterday.
Shine or rain, snow or hail. public in
terest in The CITIZENS Want column
never dlminishes. The Wantlets are pop
ular.
Baxter Foster and John Murphy, two
"Sorter" drunks, were before Recorder
Miller this morning. and were assessed
$5 each.
In THE CITIZENS advertising columns
today will be found an advertisement OF
Kings Windsor asbestos cement, sold in
Ashevile by c E. Moody.
X. {. Ivory, tor several months past
proprietor of the Grand Central hotel,
has been succeeded by |. Z. Baird, who
ran the house during part OF last year
The bond for tie performance OF the
contract for the erection OF the colored
graded school building on Catholic Hill
was given yesterday by Joyner & Leon
ard, the contractors.
A subscriber to THE CITIZEN contrib
ties this would like to know" as he
SAYS. in the interest of landlord and ten
ant. at it would not be better to
charge less rent, and get it, than to have
so many vacant houses on hand"
The devotional meeting of the Epworth
League Of the Central M. E. church
south, tonight will be led by l.. B. Alex
ander. Subject, Ruth and Naomi
Ruth l, 1+-22. A meeting of the execu-
tive committee will be held at the close
of the devotional meeting.
Karl Mayholter, OF New York state,
who has been here for some time past
for his health, died yesterday, of con
sumption. He was about Is years OF
age. The remains were taken to the old
home OF the deceased today, accompanied
by his father and mother.
Will Robinson, white, was locked up
for drunkenness last night. This morn
ing he was unable to appear in
the recorders court, having been
seized with an epicptic tit, to which
he is subject. City Physician Jordan
was sent down to the Jail to attend to
unfortunate.
The meeting of the lyceum society
next Tuesday night will no doubt be
one of great interest. The subject is,
The experience of three Asheville wo-
men in Boston," The address will be
prepared by three members of the Ashe-
vile W. {. T. IT,, and will tell of what
they saw and heard in the cultured
Huh"
There will be hare and hound chase
rom the Battery Park hotel Saturday
morning DIT Il o'clock Daniel {. Rob
inson, ESQ.,, and Miss Grace Edwards OF
| Boston, will represent the hares, and it
is expected that the veteran rider, Col
rhos. Lambard, OF Augusta, Maine, will
be leader OF the hounds. About fifteen
riders will start.
The funeral services over the remains
of Mr. Alfred Dunn, of Clifton, Bristol
Eng gland, whose death occurred in this
city Wednesday, will be held at the Epis
Copal church tomorrow, Saturday, ~
clock in the afternoon. The corteg,
will leave 113 Chestnut street at 2:3C
p. NJ. The interment will take place at
ter the service, at Riverside cemetery.
Capt. b. A. Newland, district passen
ger agent of the Chicago and Altor
railroad with headquarters at Asheville
has been busy during the past week, get
ting emigrants started on their way
west. On Wednesday he sent party
of twenty-three from Cata Sba and
Caldwell counties to Dayton, Wash
Capt. Nevland went down and accom-.
panied them as far as Ashevile on their
long trip. On yesterday he sent party
of nine from Madison county, their des
tination being Oklahoma.