Asheville daily citizen., 1894-02-22

. irishg temperature.
WI Hardin of Morganton is here
today.
Trinity church choir will rehcarsc at
SIS this evening.
J.C. Ramsey is at the Ashevillc hotel
from Spartanburg.
John Rosenthal and Harry |. Winters
Of Baltimore are at the Swannanoa.
Mrs. E. E. Heston has returned to the
city from visit to relatives in the West.
Mrs. ]. friedman OF New York is in the
city for the winter with her sister, Mrs.
Bauman.
Ten dollars was the fine imposed by
Mavor Patton in the one case before
him this morning.
W. Cash & Co., southern represent.
atives of the Bar-Lcck typewriter, are
giving to their friends very useful
book Of Popular SYNONYMS" contain
ing $4,000 words in ordinary use.
The prohibition meeting in the court
house will be addressed bv Rev. G. Fl.
Detw;ler of DesMoines, la this evening.
The public are cordially invited to at.
tend. The meeting will begin at 8
O'Clock.
There will be Demorest contest this
evening at the Industrial school chapel.
Nine girls, three each from the citv
school, the Episcopal school and the In
dustrial school, will contest for a medal.
Exercises begin at 7;3O.
DR.. T. c. Smith, the Court Place drug.
gist. has in his large advertisement in
THE CITIZEN today chapter on pre-
scriptions. DR.. Smith says it is bad
enough to he sick, without using second
grade drugs-but read the advertise.
inent.
Constable ]. V. Johnson brought in
from Avery's Greek last night George
Clayton. who was arrested on acapias
from last court. and is charged with as
sault with deadly weapon. He was
committed to await the next term of
court.
County Superintendent Way and J. IL.
Tucker, esq will deliver addresses to-
morrow at the closing exercises of Miss
Creasmau's school on Avery's creek
This school has been very successful
one, and the celebration tomorrow will
doubtless be very interesting.
Yesterday afternoon as Mr.. and Mrs
J.D. Murphy were crossing Patton avenue
near Powell * Snider's store they had
narrow escape from being run down by
horse driven bv colored man. Mr..
Murphy struck the horse over the head
with his umbrella and stopped it when
1t was danger ously near them.
Dossey Battle, an old newspaper man.
called on the TIE CITIZEN this morning.
He is graduate of the Greensboro
Kelley institute over two years ago and
will lecture on the Kelley cure for alcohol.
ism and opium addictions in Y. NJ. {. \
hall Tuesday evening, the eth, at s
O'Clock. The public, the ladies especially,
are invited.
A number OF Asheville bicyclists are in-
terested in the meeting OF the general as
Sembly OF the League OF American Wheel.
men in Louisville. Kv., as the league has
several members here. AT Mondays
meeting Chas. H. Luscomb Of BROOKLYN
was elected president. Just before the
close Of the meeting the assembly passed
a law barring colored men FROM member
ship in the league.
The question TOR discussion by the Or
ange street literary society tomorrow af-
ternoon is "Shuuld There bc Co.educa-
tom" The speakers in the affirmative
will be Miss Blanche Randolph and Rufo
Iitzpatrick in the negative, Miss Maud
Bean and Will Alexander. Recitati is
will be given by Miss Bingham and Joe
Justice. and essays will be read by Misses
Addie Fortune and Ger. Walser.
DR.. Van Artsdaleu of Philadelphia, an
eminent Odd Fellow. is in Ashevile,
coming here, as the Odd Fellows Sift
ings says, to recuperatc his shattered
constitution aud strengthen his nerve
force, rendered necessary to repair the
wear upon his physique caused by too
strict devotion to the demands Of his
large medical practice. DIR. Van Arts
dalen will remain here several months.
liz Is dI 10 SldrueS avenue.
A. Frank Richardson Of New York, one
of the best known advertising agents
representing many OF the largest papers
Of the country. is at Kcuilworth Inn
Mr.. Richardson came here to recover
from an attack of the grip, and has been
greatly benefited by his stay here. He
gave THE CITIZEN pleasant call yester-
day and expressed himself as delighted
with Asheville, and surprised at The evi.
dences of unusual business life he sees
here.
General Storekeepcr I. {. Starnes re.
turned yesterday afternoon from Otter
Creek, Mcdowell county. Mr.. Starnes
says that in that section one can scarce
ly meet a man without being engaged in
Il converse tion on politics. Cougression-
al candidates are the sole subject of con.
versation, those mentioned hcing w. T.
Crawford and ]. II. Merrimon. Rich
mond Pearson has also been down in
that section, circulating among 1.-THE
hoys" with an eve on Congress.