Asheville Citizen-Times from Asheville, North Carolina • Page 2

THURSDAY, AUGUST is, AN OLD MAN OF THE SEA HISTORY OF AN EARLY DAY The Asheville Citizen BY THE CITIZEN COM I A NT. THE THE JOHN R- SMITH THAT TO THE GOVERNOR. Men's Outfitter, SETTLEMENT OF SWANNANOA. Liver) Afternoon Except Sundays. I faces for 20 years that we were a nation of shopkeepers not a disgraceful thing, either, if we were and that we placed the dollar far above honor.

It is known now that we will fight if we have to, and that we are capable of deciding when fighting time has come; we do not have to be driven into war. We know, too, that we are equally as willing to quit fighting as to begin It. We do not glory in fighting for the mere sake of conquest or of bloodletting. We know now that, however much one section of the country may CONDITION OF NEW WARSHIPS Hichborn Seports en tha Naval Vaa-aela Now en tha Stocks. WASHINQTON.

Aug. 16. Constructor Hichborn's monthly report on the condition of work on ships building for the navy shows that all the battleships except the Wisconsin are more than half completed, most of the torpedo boats under the big program of two years ago are nearly finished and that rapid progress Is being made by the others. The Kearsarge and her sister ship, the Kentucky, are 63 per cent, advanced toward completion; the Illinois 50 per 'while the Alabama. "Leaders of Fashion." 14.00 2.00 LOO 40 .10 One Year Six Months Three Months One Month.

La One Week, to der Gen. Francis Marion In lower South Carolina. Before the close of that war he became a captain. He was engaged In the fight which occurred near Ninety-six. This fight began, he said.

In the following manner: A woman j-egu laxly carried water from a spring in front of the fort to the Americana within It The British seeing this, commanded her to cease from doing It and threatened to kill her if she disobeyed. She continued, however, to carry water and the British killed her. The battle began Immediately upon this act. When I was nearly grown, I went several times to Augusta, Ga. On the way I had to pass William Rhodes house.

I always stopped there. He waa a very intelligent man, of fine personal appearance and fond of telling his war experiences. He told me much of his history, and. among these things. Reminiacence of John S.

Rice as Gathers by Him From First Set-tlsrs A Sean of Indian Fighting Historic Characters. Editor The Citizen: The following account of things which occurred many We've already received ohi- ine of Fall Clothing and three of the. leading manufacturers in this or any And Still No Report For tha Mu-aeum The Beat Damoc ratio Hand beoK Ever lesued Political. RALEIGH, N. C.

Aug. 18. The State museum has received 100 Jars of speql-mens of marine life, which are now being specially prepared by Curator Brimley. There are seven scholarships In Pea-body university in the gift of the superintendent of public instruction of rcnii OtlllT The Semi-Weekly Citizen Is issued Tuesdays and Fridays. In advance.

years ago In our own neighborhood THURSDAY, AUCUST Is, 1SS8. seem to misunderstand another, will, I think, prove both entertaining and instructive to many of your read all sections can get together on the common ground of any battlefield that Tha Dingley Defieit. a sister vessel of the latter, and launched at Cramps last spring, is within 2 per cent, of the Kearsarge, authorised a year in advance. The Wisconsin, on The Republican no longer claim that fi 1 i I 'I i ers. So far as I can learn, the facts stated have never been published and faces an enemy that needs whipping.

mentnnea tne races regmu Swannanoa valley and the battle with th cherokees which I have narrated the Dingley bill will produce the reve are unknown to those who have writ 4jo pau I W1UUM.W in Ollj per cent, completed, but this backwardness has been due to the difficul nue n-cessary to run the government. ten about Buncombe's history. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury country. Schloss, Adler and Hamburger. Any man who knows anything about good Clothing ka vs Ihey st in ut tl head.

We will guarantee colors, fit and or money cheerfully refunded. Our line of Fall NeckwiMr it's'swagger." See windows. MEN'S OUTFITTER, 'PHONE 78. 11 PATTON AXE. ties" in securing prompt deliveries of The narrator, Mr.

John S. Rice, is It has been for good that men from all parts of the country have fought and camped, together. They know now the prejudices of eath other and what the foundation of them is. Each has broadened his point of view; each has IlowcU made public a statement Au well known topmost of Buncombe's peo gust 3d which shows that, leaving off ple and many of them will remember the Pacific railroad Items, the deft material from the east. Of the torpedo boats, the Rowan la finished and ready for commission; the Farragut, a 30-knot destroyer, is within 5 per cent.

of readiness. and the Dahlgren, a similar type, within 15 per cent. The Craven is 30 per cent, from that a few years ago he improved and ch-nc-y in the revenues for the year be more respect for habits and cus ginning July 1, 1837, and ending June this State. For these there are already 35 applications. It is the current remark here that Governor Russell is making desperate efforts to unload his late "trusty and well beloved" friend, John R.

Smith, upon the Republican party. John R. continues his "roaring farce" of farmers institutes. He is a veritable "old man of the sea" to the Governor. The latter is really more thin skinned than most people think, and this John R.

Smith business has, to use the slang of the day, "got next to him." Republicans are swearing that they are not and will not be responsible for Smith. But they have also for these many beautified, at a considerable expense to himself, the spring near Biltmore toms and manners he did not before 3J, lyjH, as, in round numbers, understand, or that had been misrepre completion, the Stringham 55 per v). Much or this was due to the ex sented to him. Three months of war and the Goldsborough and Bailey are traordinary war expenditures, but spoken of in his account which follows. When I chaneed to inquire of him his reason for so doing he gave me this ac- out of the history of the spring and has killed more of sectionalism than it above.

He was then an old man and died many years ago. David Nelson was likewise a soldier in the American army during the Revolutionary war and also belonged to the command of Gen. Francis Marion. After the war ended he settled on Jonathan's Creek, in North Carolina, and in what is now Haywood county, and continued to reside there until his death, which occurred a great many years ago. It was near the same time, at which my trips of which I have spoken were made to Augusta that he told me of the Indian fight and the settlement of the Swannanoa valley.

Just as I have stated it in this account. He, too, was then an old man and died not long afterwards. I have been thus particular In giving my authorities for the above statement and telling who they were, for the reasoa that I think the facts which I have set forth in it are almost, if not altogether, unknown to making what Mr. Howell considers hajs of Spaniards. conservative estimate as to the service by thelate autumn.

We know now that no one builds bet The naval program about to be un amounts spent for war there is a de the matters connected with it. This was something entirely unknown to me ter shiiie than we do. and that our men dertaken, however, equals that now In fkit in revenue on ordinary expenses on them are as well trained as any in progress except as to the number of before and proved of bo much Interest The Asheville and Biltmore Street Railway ancTTransportation Co. over $12,000,000. tne world, and perhaps more efficient battleships.

Plans for 32 destroyers that I asked him to permit its publica That the Dingley bill should have and torpedo boats, three battleships, tion. While the language is mine, the Certainly the marksmanship of our and four monitors will shortly be In the statements are his and both he and I failed of lis mission as a revenue pro gunners has astonished the world. hands of contractors. If there Is nof have taken much care to see that the ducer is not surprising. In fact, it has We know that the richer a nation is some delay in deciding the speed to be I facts are correctly reported.

The state ment has been read over to him, sen required of the battleships. N. T. Sua. done nothing naore nor less than what the Democrats said it would do.

But it tence by sentence. He is satisfied with the more it costs to make war. It will be years before the revenue taxes are abolished, if they ever are. The tariff anybody now living except myself. THEIR NEW DESTINY.

Its accuracy and has attested his sat Runs iis cais on a regular schedule from City PostotTice via French Un avenue to Passenger Depot, and from. City Post office to Swannano.i near Biltmore Station, beginning at 7 a. m. and leaving very 20 thereafter until 9 p. except on Sunday, when cars will not leave Vlw is surprising to read the alleged argu isfaction by affixing his signature.

JOHN S. RICE. Asheville. N. August 11, 1898.

merits of Republican high tariff papers Havana Pa para Discusa American months been swearing they are not responsible for Governor Russell. The comment made upon the Democratic handbook is that it is the best ever issued. It certainly makes every edge There are now 127 United States prisoners in the penitentiary, only 50 of them being negroes. United States Prison Inspector LaDow inspected the prison today. The grape crop in this section has been praetically all marketed.

Prices have ruled low. One report today says the Second regiment (Burgwyn's) is to be at once mustered out of service; another that it to be the Third (negro) regiment. Regiments mustered out will go to the a means of raising revenue is slow It cannot be disputed that the vicin 'Victory in a Tone af Resignation! in favor of the workings of the Dingley and uncertain and unfair. It has prob ity of the mouth of the Swannonoa was, for some reason, a well known HAVANA, Cuba, Aug. 16.

La Lucha Postoffice until 9 a. thus making a schedule for oth the Ashevil'e a. ably seen its best days as an issue that bill. This from the New York Mail and Kxpress. one of the most Intelligent of place long before its settlement by the BOSS DICTATION.

A Country Republican" Ooea Soma Vary Plain Talking. Editor The Citizen: I note in the would attract devoted adherents. publishes today the following editorial: Rntmore stations leaving CAtv V. whites. It was appointed by John Se its class: "We hope that within a short time we 0 vier when setting out upon one of his We now that we are safer from aggressions than at any time perhaps "It Is.

we believe, conceded by must expeditions against the Cherokees as will come into a new social situation, 1 uuio uciuic me uour. returning, a car leaves en ti K'-publirans that the Increasing stim a place for meeting when the cam Register of the 12th the call for the Re and that tne country insieaa 01 navinB nour ad 20 minutes before and 20 minutes after the hour. A ulus to American manufactures result paign should have been ended for the since the civil war began. No nation on this hemisphere approaches us in car 1 10 in this citv the Spanish which ing from the Dingley tariff law will publican county convention, In which not only the day is fixed for holding purpose of concluding its affairs and City Passenger depot on fhe half hour and 10 minutes before during four centuries has signalled to rausc a decrease in imports which will adjusting and disposing of its results. capitals of their respective States.

The ceremony of muster-out is an impress the world that Cuba is a castillian pos- 1 the township convention, but also the mat there must nave been some strength, and from the other hemisphere the recent revelation of the sea power of the United States navy will session, discovered by the great admi alTe adversely, in some degree, th iiimii.il customs receipts. "This but natural and it J3 whole strong reason for this, such, for in hour and minute. I want to say to the ites after the our. C. E.

WADDELL, Superintendent. ral. Columbus, and civilized by the stance, as the notoriety of the place, is Republicans of Buncombe county that give us protection lor years to come. blood of sobs of Spain, will hoist the siine. since the loss in one direction Is demonstrated by the fact that it was ive one.

Mention was made of the fact that vhe Republican and PopuHst committees were giving orders as to who such is nothing better than boss dicta starry banner of the United States ol in. than ma.de up to the country by pome distance off the nearest and best V. Know that in England we have a in another, the latter being due di route for his return march. tion from town rlngsters. irieiid in a time of need.

Had it not America, the motherland of Washington and Lincoln. Thus ceases a great reeily to i-aus'S which create the for- Asheville, N. August 13, 1898. I don't believe Mr. Harkins wrote or should be votecf-for as Congressmen.

tner." epoch, and glorious tradition, for the been for Great Britain it is almost certain that th European nations would fudges and solicitors. A Populist State THE VALLEY OF THE SWAN. frailty of human things has contribu read this call. The chairman and secretary of the county executive com That to My, the government la getting less because the manufacturer ted to lower the banner, which hat- ifficial remarked that it could be now NANOA AND -ITS HISTORY. have combined in a notice to Spain and Hie United States to confine the war waved since the discovery of this is mittee has no power given them by the officially said that there would be com In the Revolutionary war the Chero Republican plan of organization to land was made.

plete fusion on judges and solicitors wholly to West Indian waters. Had kee Indians formed an alliance with The history of humanity and of the Senator Butler has been moving heaven make any such dictation to the precinct committees. If they had and the requirement of 1 p. m. for holding was and earth to get Fowler re-elected to the British and aided them by making not England refused to join in this attempt at interference, it is likely that Europe would also have tried to limit Congress.

There is no telling what attacks upon unprotected frontier set new world eannot show in its paes--anything that will detract from tho trlory of Spain nor make to disappear from the surface of the American con carried out there would be no atten concessions he may maKe to get mis done. On Tuesday he spoke with great tlements, raassacreing the settlers with their women and children and destroy- dant? in the county precinct meeting except by the goodsbox whittlers that the amount of our demands on Spain tinent oar idioms, our blood, our reli confidence of Fowler's re-election. Now gion, our habits. All countries have sit around country stores, and the re as the price of peace. comes the news that one part of the ng and carrying away their property.

undergone the crisis that Spain under sult would be a stuffed delegation sent White settlements had been made on Republicans have called a convention Rett of all, it is pretty certain de is getting more, and the loss the treasury is the gain of the protected class, ami the people foot the bill. "This is natural," says this profound reasoiier, "and wholesome, since the loss in one direction is more than made tip to the country by gain in anothwr, the latte.r being due directly to etiuses which create the form nr." Certainly. The law which puts money into the pockets of the manufacturers keeps it out of the treasury, and the ame law hits never been able to force money into the treasury and into the coffer of the protected monopolists goes today, and, notwithstanding that up to the county convention, while the the upper Catawba, but none of them luding on the settlement we make of i whose house Is conspicuously clean, whosa work worries her least, whose leisure time is greatest, how slie manages. The chances are ten te one she will answer I do all my leaning with fact, they have not disappeared, as. farmer and honest laboring voter, who at Warsaw August IS to endorse Fowler.

It appears that there are certain Rennblicans who kick against this, but reached beyond the mountain. The tl 1'hiiippme question that the vie- Spain will not disappear out of the con makes his living by the sweat of his valley of the Swannanoa was unoccu cert of nations. brow is digesting his dinner, and wait tones we have won have not gone to it is no use to kick if the Republican ,5 1 pied. No Indiana inhabited it. but It ing on his horse to eat.

committee has so ordered. "Countries are the continuation of in- I dividuals. and consequently the' fulfil was frequently visited by hunting par ur heads; that we can see clearly that imperialism" goes only with a vast Another total Ignorance usurpation Seven recruits were sent from here ties or Cherokees, who came from the or boss dictation of the plans of organ vesterdav to the First regiment. The Indian towns further west and en the mission that Providence designs. Spain has not disappeared, nor can she ai my and navy thrice as large as we ization is shown in the call by saying camped for weeks on the Swannanoa regiment is now full, save that a few hanrismen are needed.

die." "and to choose one member to suggest and its tributaries. lave any use for; that we are not al- Other papers comment upon the situ to said convention as a member of the A tplpcram came here today from The valley abounded in game of ured by the thought that we can have at the same time. executive committee for the county to some Republicans of Wilmington say many kinds and the river contained ation in the same tone of Sun. serve for the coming two years." ing they must insist on Dockery's stay fish in great abundance. The low lands ft for the asking 7,000,000 of ua-Ucsirable people and 1200 islands, to be governed, if we should take them.

ine plan or organization says no at the mouth of the river and extend oM bj all frocer. Largest paokage greatest eeoaomr. THE N. K. FAIRBANK COMPANY, Chicago.

Bt. Louis. Niw York. Boa ten. Phllad-lrlili.

For tha Y. M. C. A. Army Work.

such. It says, section one, "The elec ng up it on both sides for several tion precinct shall be the unit of coun Secretary O. Ii. VanHorn has received nnes constitutea an immense cane as colonies contrary to the Bpirit of our ty organization. Each precinct shall a letter from State Secretary Lewis ol brake with here and there patches of tall grass and rarely a trte in the political institutions.

have an executive committee consist ing in the race for judge, i-sut tnej need not trouble the Populist and Re publican committees have agreed that Loftin shall be the fusion candidate. That appears to be the trade. A negro Republican office-holder here says the Republicans will not support Stroud for Congress. One of the funniest things of the year the Y. M.

C. in which the statement ing of three active Republicans. They midst of the canes. Through this val In the last three months we have learned may valuable lessons, and the is made that the army department ot shall be biennially chosen by the Re ley ran an old Indian trail occasionally passing, where possible, to the higher PORTFOLIO OF ILLUSTRATIONS publican voters of the precinct and the association is doing a great work war was worth what it cost shall lect one of their number 1 1 at St. Simon's island, but that the tent would necessarily come down ualess They shall convene together at such The American Navy, Cuba and Hawaii some additional financial encourage The at tit.

ii of the CJermau cruiser Helping tiuveiiiur Uvueral ment was received. Every effort will time and place as the majority of them may eloct. is to hear Populists, who a few months ago were crying out against "the negro," lalk about "why we are bound to fUSe the Democrats drove us into while by the confession of other Populists the proposition maci to the Dem be made to avert such a deplorable land and running parallel with the river along the ridges where the growth was less dense and the ground less moist. By this trail, traces of which yet remain, the Cherokees passed from their towns on the Hiawassee, Tennessee and Tuckaseigee rivers and the countries adjoining them, across the French Broad, up the Swannanoa, over BY MEANS OF 160 ACMFiCENT REPRODUC "They shall biennially elect a county event and the people of Asheville who escape ir, fiom the information we aow nave of it, a successful attempt to rob us of a piisoiier who, under different executive committee to consist of not feel interested in seeing this army work less than five members who shall elect ocrats was without even a suggestion continued are requested to leave sub a chairman from their number." sinceritv and it was known all tne i ill un.staaces, migill be valuable. ll scriptions at W.

A. Blair furniture! Now, Secretary Arnold In this call store. while there would be fusion with the Republicans. Auditor Ayer made this August! hud been in danger of his life the Blue Ridge near the Swannanoa tunnel into the valley of the Catawba Waiting. We betray no eoiiiidenre when we te-veal the fuct that there is a wailing in Warsaw or thereabouts over the faet that so far in the peace campaign the pre-eminent merits of the Asheville Slialegy i.oaid have not been recognised.

Tile Roaid at great expense se-ciied iiu.ps and charts and consulted leading authorities oil the best naval and military strategy, vvoik.iig tor, at hast, talking) day and night over the problems of the Spanish ar. Members of the Hoard neglected tneir private biir-nu ss tlue that bad anj, which some did, bm not enough to hurt an. 1 now tiud themselves adrift ou the sea ol unceitaiiny. Nolle of the Board is desperately anxious to go to i'oilo Rico or to Cuba, but they arc ai.iaj.- willing to sacriliie themselves on tne altar of their country's necessities ana could be induced to help oui by the Washington Board for a Unit say a year or two. trust this hint will be received In the proper quarter ill betouiing spa It.

If iivo ssui vv can make it more direct and moic appealing. We. may also add that it the Piesul. nt wishes, or 1" of the Board fixes the day, the hour and minute for TIONS OF PHOTOCRAPHS. Bound In Tan Separate Volumaa.

The entire set will be delivered free of charge to any ad.lrass in the Uniteo fixates. Mexico, or Canada, on receipt of ONE DOLLAR, fb-mgle Parts, TEN CENTS each.) rut 0ut the coupon below, stat- nflW III fipf TflPm ins now many you wish, and brin (or UUTT IU UWl lllWlll send) It to The Dally Citizen with 1C cents for each Portfolio wanted. without having given just cause fol these precinct meetings. Gee whiliken! Licensed to Wad. statement.

Joyful Laugnter Kamsey had. however, anticipated him weeks and down that stream to the flat coun try beyond the mountains. Their in losing it to Ueiieral jiietrilt, the asyium Prom Register Beachboard's office li he is much larger and stronger than the plan of organization, Isn't he? Why didn't he go on and appoint delegates, cense to wed has been Issued as fol given him by the cierinaii cruiser til tie coulii make better terms than ti ago, after the Populist "proposition was made and before the Democnats rejected it. cursions, maue along tms route, upon the whites settled on the banks of the Catawba and the Yadkin, had proved whether it suited the townships or not. lows: give up his head might be justinable.

That is the way the ring run the other E. W. Brown and Minnie A. Christo A DAY AT HOT SPRINGS. a source of great annoyance, damage and danger to the latter.

This continued, in some degree, even up into the but in this case he was in no peri pher. William Johnson and Catherine John- whatever anu the (o-linuil conilliaildej Excursionists Had a Fine Time Yea- county convention, and I dare them deny it. And that is what they are planning for again in the county convention. If not, why not conform to the plan of organization. present century.

Tht Daily Citizen mill please send lo'Jhe undersigned reader Ike following PORTFOLIOS of the Kaisciin Augusta Knew u. It terday. One of the finest excursions ever might, therefore, as well attempt to A COUNTRY REPUBLICAN. After the commencement of the Revolutionary war these Incursions grew much more frequent, since they were encouraged by the British, and, since the settlers were often away from Tea It oral is the hif haet ar baking eewear run over the Southern" is the verdict lake from us the several stand of anus we crfplured as to aiioru kaawa. ActI ts It a takd farther taea ear etaar arae FOR STATE SENATOR.

regarding that run to Hot Springs yesterday by Messrs. Zealy, SherriU "i i 2 fi i i 63 HI 1 1 i 8 home fighting in the American army. Augusti meciis of escaping. Seeing that peace has been declared it does Tony" Raoves of Sandy Mush if Nos which is inclosed. Aa Street Cny Slate and Keeling.

The train was tne em- they were made with greater chance of not being punished and greater damags Urged aa tha Buncombe Man. Editor The Citizen: I beg space in ripnt hands of Capt. L. K. Perry, ana not much matter, but it is one more un to the whites.

there were near 400 peopl aboard. They lav oi able if not unfriendly incident, to At one time during that war a party to will go to Washington at any time spent the day visiting the points ot interest about the springs, in the swim place on the score against Germany or cnerokees made an attack upon a your columns to say a few. words relative to the selection of a candidate to represent this senatorial district in llllll to and enough has gone there already ming pool, in dancing and in wander- picseiit their claims and prevent tn.m lonesome. Anv thing olitige. white settlement on the Catawba In North Carolina, killed and scalped some of the whites and, after doing since tile Spanish war began.

ng over the fine grounds and veranaas the next legislature. I fear that in the wild excitement and much damage, crossed the Blue Ridge of the Mountain Park hotel, where many of the visitors took luncheon. The Bearden orchestra gave excellent mu on their return to the Indian towns. Gains and Losses of the War flurry consequent upon a campaign in which the county and local officers are THE SERIES COMPRISES No 21 The Hawaiian Islands No. The Hawaiian Island- No.

22 The American Navy No. 27 Cuba aad Wrecked Mains 5V No. 23. The American alavy No. 28 The Hawaiian Irlan.is.

No. 24 The Hawaiian Islands No. 2 Cuba. No. 25.

The Maine No. 30 The Hawaiian Island? They were pursued by a body of the sic. 1 ne aay inrougnoui was mo.si en- First and foremost there is the gain settlers on the Catawba and overtaken joyably spent. to be chosen and elected, we are apt to subordinate and lose sight of the importance of the office of State senator. of coming to know our own strength The excursion managers compnmeni in the valley or the Swannanoa at a place about two miles above the mouth ami weaknesses, and of impressing on the Mountain Park for the courtesies 11 In the selection of all of our candi the the civiliziil world as well as on dates we want to choose the very best extended the visitors.

It is probable that the excursion to Hot Springs will of that stream and near the present residence of Mr. John Cheesborough. Here a fight began between the pur a material in our ranks, and I am proud most em 1 be made an annual affair. half-. iv ilized world, in the phalic way possible, that suers and pursued which continued at there has to say that there is no dearth of good material in the Democratic party.

POWDER AbMliitely Pure ntervals throughout 11 successive in fighting been no deterioration For the position of State senator, I Just For Himself. Editor The Citizen: As it is being spirit of this nation, liudyard Kipling days, the Indians fighting from their hiding places among the tall canes and gradually falling back down the river. One of the most cooling telegrams of the whole war escaped trom Santiago the oilier night and staled lo the people ot this country that certain oilicers of the American and of the Cuban ar my had gotten together and resolved that the I'nited States ehould pay ofi the Cuban soldiers a trilling matter ot The telegram went on to state that "the expenditure is most important to the prosperity of the island, whose wealth is entirely agricultural, nobody, planter or farmer daring to cultivate his lauds while th insurgent bands are in the fit Ids raiding and burning." It is also important that the I'nited States should not pay every debt that can be dug out of th situation in Cuba, and that we should keep :.1 :n.i on that we were all indecision have in mind a man hom I think possesses all of those qualities and attributes of character, which mark him the man for this place. In this prolonged skirmish many of Augusta Brewing Co. Brews and Bottles a Fine Quality ROYAL aUUCINQ POwOBft NEW VOftk generally circulated throughout the county to my injury that I am running as a candidate for sheriff in the interest of D.

L. Reynolds or R. F. Lee, I take this means of saying to my friends and others that any statement He has that age and experience which till aw oke. "The drumming guns have no doubts," and that thereafter all indecision vanished.

Hut non of us felt absolutely the Indians were killed, most of these fell near the ford Just beyond Fernl-hurst on what afterwards became the Buncombe turnpike road and near the gives confidence, he has an acquaint ance and friendship which extends throughout this senatorial district, his of BEER. Call for It old Col. John Patton house, more recently known as the Haunted House certain thre months ago that the mili When you smoke get the best there is to smoke for the money. moral character and private life is pure unsullied, he has the respect, the comfi dence and the esteem of all who know tant qualities the army and navy and now removed. In this vicinity the heaviest fighting during the battle took were still of the kind that brightens so that I am running in the interest of any man other than myself is false, and I request that they denounce the same as untrue and intended to Injure me in the race for the nomination for sheriff of Buncombe cotanty.

JESSE PENLAND. Orders will be filled for Bottled Beer by applying or telephoning him. to place. Finally the Indians retreated The man I have in mind is J. A.

beyond the French Broad river, crossing that stream at a eheal Just below ii Reeves of Sandy Mush, Buncomb. our litt le pat Kages ai uouir many pages of our history. The past at least is secure wo knew, but we might well have some doubts of the The navv we believed waa The Younger' the month of ths Swannanoa. The county, commonly known among hi friend- a "Tonv E. for a rainy day.

Any notion that we; whites pursued no further and the C. B. Mclntyre, Swannanoa Hotel PatCarr, Frank O'Donnell, Halyburton and are in debt to the Cuban army is fan tastic. picturesque, but there were plenty abroad, and a few at home, to tell us Is the leading FIVE fight ended here. During this battle the whites encamped at night at the spring about one hundred yards north of the north bank of the Swannanoa river and about one-eighth of a mile, or something less, above tha iron Old Ceiu ral Debility Is about to win CENT CIGAR on the another great victory, and His Htiiines Bj PAT HcINTYRE, Agent Angnsta Brewing Company market today.

Try it t'nup I-o XIII. will soon be laid with Ta tha Public Editor The Citizen: Many of my friends having been kind enough to urge my nomination for sheriff of Buncombe county, I desire to say that, while I greatly appreciate the interest shown in me by my friends, my name, for personal reasons, will not be presented to the nominating convention. Very respectfully, FULTON WEAVER. August 1898. bridge across that stream at Biltmore, the fathers of the exeat churah They subsisted on such game as they killed during the day and parched meal, a small sack or "poke," of which Rome.

"She" or Editor The Citizen: In your leading editorial of yesterday you say: "Sctfne of the comments of the press on the selection for viceroy of India of the husband of she that was Miss Leiter of Chicago are amusing." It is with some diffidence that I take issue on a question of grammar with as high an authority as yourself, but I feel obliged to except to your use of the word "she" In the above quoted sentence. In order to present the question fais-ly, I move to strike out "she" and sub stitute "her." LEX. PEOPLE. each man had brought with him. From this time forward the white men claim ed the valley of the Swannanoa, from Henry S.

TradweII. postmaster its head to the place where the river South ltoston, and supreme lieuten enters the French Broad. At first they ant governor of the Pilgrim Fathers that it was not much else; and. besides, years of p.ace had perhaps enervated the reat body of the people from whom the volunteers must be drawn. Well, we know now that the do and iljrv spirit, sot greater In th people of any nation on earth.

is still ready at call to arms: that it Is capable of brilliant achievement that it can win imperishable renown if it be but given the opportunity. We know that our regulars are as pood as the best in discipline and better In respect of taking the Initiative without waiting for urgent orders. Thus at San Juan, an of-Ilcer said that it was not a question of spurring the soldiers to make the charge across an open plain and then ui a hill defended by Spaniards in resorted to it only for hunting and fish NORMAL AND C0LLEQ1A1E INSTITUTE FOR YOUNG WOMEN ASHEVILLK, N. FALL TERM BHGINNING SEPTEMBER 21. 1S9S OFFERS TO THE STUDENT, Jr.

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Y. ANNOUNCEMENT. I hereby announce myself a candidate on the Republican ticket for the office of register of deeds for Buncombe county subject to the Republican nominating convention on September ID. SAMUEL KENNEDY. Systematic study of the Bible assumed that the decorations were in her honor.

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Asheville, N. C. hite men the spring mentioned above ited onelof the Rothschilds that he had been for many years a favorite trenches and bIM-khouses; it was a auestion of sprinting fast enough to camping place for the Indiana The cane and grass were tramped and was so fnd of his malachite sleeve buttons that he insisted upon exhibiting them to his host. The latter looked at them and said: it is a pretty stone: 1 have a mantlepiece keep up with our troops. We know that the volunteers are Bt mashed down for some distance around it.

and the place presented numerous tie behind the regulars; only so much and unmistakable indications of hav made of it in the next room." ing been used aa a camping ground for Asheville a lona- while. Xhe nrat wagon roaa Dr. Custave H. Morre. who acted as in into this valley ran down the Swan nanoa and paot this place, and the terpreter between ten.

Shafter and C.en. Toray at Santiago, speaks 21 lan guatres and is a sculptor and painter spring at once became, and for many years continued to be. a favorite camp- of some note. He is soon to go to ESTABLISHED 1888. THE WINYAH SANITARIUM.

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improved it for the sake of its historic asoeiatlona. The facts above stated I derived, whan Captain Chichester of the British cruis I waa a boy and young man, from my er Immortalite. now In Manila bay, grandfather, John Rice, and William has become a baronet through the Rhodes, and David Nelson. They were. all of them, among the nates who Will Open September 15, '98.

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We know, too, that our best fighting material is ni't found in any one class of society. Col. Roosevelt says that one of the best of the Rough Riders was, until the war broke out. a dude of the rankest type. He went In shoulder to shoulder with the Georgia mountaineer and the New Mexico cowboy, and" no one says there was any difference between them on the field of battle except that the dude came out as he went In, with a toothbrush stuck into his hatband his oae concession to his former life of ease.

We know that the commissary and medical departments of the army are weak and Ineffective. They have not mastered the problems of transportation on either the land or on the sea. Supplied with the best of everything their work waa defective. We know, that we have Immensely Increased the respect ta which we are hel abroad. It has been flint into our described and agreed in tneir statements about It In every substantial Bainbridge's Pound Paper is I for vug particular.

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Attached to the Twentieth Kansas regiment is a drill Instructor, whose language while instructing his men is somewhat lurid. The regimental mascot is a parrot which swung In a cage at the drill ground when the regiment arrived at San Trancisco. A party of ladies visited the camp one day and began talking to the bird, which suddenly replied as follows: "Flours right, fours right; it, why dow't you tours right!" tained the advanced age of 110 years 18 SouthMaln Streat.l and six days. He waa a soldier In the American army and told ma tha facta mentioned above not long before his death, which a occurred 'when I waa MOUNTAIN PARK HOTEL, Hot Springs, N. C.

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