Asheville daily citizen., 1892-02-09
AROUND TOWN.
Forecast till p. III. Wednesday
cooler, north westerly winds; fair
weather tOdaV and wednesday,;
probably fair Thursday.

Revenue collections Saturday amount
cd to $7,767.0+.
DR.. John Hey Williams has returned
from Philadelphia.
J.Y. Jordan left for Atlanta today, to
be gone about ten days.
At Grants pharmacy at y. M. today
the thermometer registered AZ.
Clerk !. r. Patterson returned ycstcr-
day from his trip to Aiken, S. {.
Chas. ". Brown, now travelling for a
Louisville coffin company, is in the city.
The contest for thee prize offered by
Thad. W. Thrash & Co. closes tomor.
row. A goodIy number of lists have
been sent in. The prize will be awarded
Thursday.
Henry B. Mays, the new Young Mems
this afternoon and will be present at the
committecmcus tea in the y. NJ. {. A.
rooms tonight
THE CITIZEN erred yesterdayin stating
that Thos. Ashton died OF meningitis.
The cause of his death was tumor on
the brain. His physicians were Drs. Bur
roughs and Jordan.
Rev. ]. l.. White, the new pastor of the
First Baptist church i'll this city, is eN-
pected here next week. His resignation
of the pastorate of the Durham church
takes effect next Sunday.
The funeral services over the remains
of the late Mrs. L. Chapman, were held
at II O'Clock today at Trinity Episcopal
church, after which the nterment took
place in Riverside cemetery.
Maj. T. c. Westall will lead in the dis
cussion of the subject, SHOULD AShevie
encourage the issuance of her bonds -
at the meeting of the LyCeum tonight
Business begins promptly at $50 o clock
Notice is given in THE CITIZENS COL
umnS today OF the formation of the Sky.
land Springs investment company. The
incorporatorS are Otis \. Miller, of Sky.
land, and number Of Charleston, 5. C..
and Savannah, Ga, gentlemen. The
capital stock is $40 900, with privilege
of increasing to 100000.
Several days ago THE CITIZEN had an
item to the effect that there was an TN.
claimed pension warrant in Register
Mackev's office for Mrs. $. Freeman.
he warrant had been sent to IIomiuy
Creek. but was returned. Mrs. Freeman
has been found, at Morgan HILL aud now
has her pension money.
MIR. Blaine's letter declining to allow
his name to go before the republican ma
tional convention, was very interest
ing document, but ii was nothing to
compare with THE CITIZENS Want col
umn, which goes into the homes of the
people six days i'll the week. \ Wantlct
placed in this column is sure to do good.
Those who looked at the town clock
this morning were surprised to find that
IL was only few minutes after four
O'Clock. 1t caused a considerable ripple
among many of the Sons of Leisure, who
thought they had got out OF bed several
hours too soon. The clock was started
ABOUT ~ O'Clock and is now doing we'll
The people in ASheyile who buy the
New York and other northern Sunday
papers found out yesterday what it was
to have only one train from the north
over the Western North Carolina rail
road. The papers which formerly came
IN Monday morning did not reach here
TIL last night, But that is one of the
smaller objections to the withdrawal OF
The night trains
Recorder Miller had one case before
him this morning, but as several wit
nesses failed to appear, the case was
continued totomorrow morning. lanes
burnett, a colored railroad hand, was
charged with carrying a pistol James
vowed by all the saints in the calendar
that he never owned or "totcd" pistol,
and said he was only carving the pistol
IN his hand to keep a couple of friends
from getting into trouble. He will have
achance to testify again at . o clock to-
morrow morning.