The Asheville Weekly Citizen from Asheville, North Carolina • 3

THE WEEKLY CITIZEN THURSDAY FEBRUARY 20 1890 3 THE POSEY HERDER TRIAL WHAT -THEY HAVE TO SAY SAFE IN THE PRISON SMART BUT NOT SAGACIOUS I THE ARE OPINIONS OR RONE CITIZENS ON STREET PAVING SIX PRISONERS NOW IN RALEIGH NORTH CAROLINA TREACHERY The Case will be Given to tbe Jt This Morning From Daily Citizen Feb 15 Mr George A Shuford returned last night from attendance on Henderson superior court now in session and gives ns some information of the trial of A Posey now on trial for the killing of Furman Forrest some time during the last fall From the position of both parties the trial has aroused intense interest Mr Posey is an attorney at law has been mayor of Hendersonville and has large and influential connections in Western North Carolina Mr Forrest bad a large circle of friends and was a man respected in the community in which he had lived The trial has occupied a large portion of the week The evidence was concluded yesterday at 1 and argument of counsel was begun It will close this morning and the case will then go to the jury- Solicitor Brower is assisted in the prosecution by Lusk Esq of Asheville and Mr Rickman of Hendersonville For the defence appear Mike Justice Esq of Rutherford Jones and Shu-ford of Asheville Ferguson Esq of Waynesville Gudger sr and A Gudger Esqs of Asheville and A Smith Esq of Hendersonville The Subject Thoroughly Discussed Yesterday A Majority Endorse the Action of the Board-All About the Subject From Daily Citizen Feb 13 The paving question was the principal subject discussed on the streets yesterday and the supporters of the action of the Board of Alderman were apparently in the majority Not a few however expressed a decided opinion that the matter should be submitted to the people Then there was a vague idea that an injunction would be begun against the board as soon as the work was started and another to the effect that Some of the more extensive bond holders would certainly contest the payment of the money on the ground that the action of the Board of Aldermen was illegal and altogether the question assumed some serious phases that will prove perhaps to be puzzlers One bond holder summed up the hint as to the contest ol the payment of the debt tersely and significantly would be very he said such a suit were not In reply to a question as to whether he would begin tbe action be would not reply IRREUl'LARITIER IN MAILS erived with a little hesitation as the other report that for his indorsement influence Ewart received from Collector Eaves in addition to the contract to ap-loint such officers of Jhe district as the representative might select a large sum of money and a promise of much more to be raised from t've salaries of tbe officers when appointed With this story goes the report that Ewart is to be renominated for congress and that he is to be re-elected if it takes hallol the salaries of all the officers in the district If it be true that Collector Eaves is instructing his officers to afford opportunities to the distillers to deprive the gov- rnment of taxes it would not be a matter of utter astonishment hen he was a deputy collector under a former administration it was found that illicit distilleries were flourishing under his administration until such men as Agent Chapman now ol Atlanta Ga and Capt Abe Bryan of Trap Hill got alter them Capt Bryan was an old Union soldier and for many years was in charge of the special force ot deputies in the western part of the State He did more service than any other dozen men to suppress illicit distilling in the State but has been denied any recognition by the present administration Was it because he was so active and because he was reported to have destroyed an illicit distillery in Eaves's "back yard There is disbursed in the district in the course of each year in salaries between three and four hundred thousand dollars That is the largest amount expended in that way in any district in the United States It can be readily seen that there is abundant opportunity for a among politicians who see in thedistrict an easy way to collect large for political and personal use The United Stales senators who are required to and to the appointment of the man ought to be extremely careful before clinching any bargain that may have been made to degrade tbe service to such base uses as it uppears to have been put to It was only after the most heroic efforts had heen made some years ago that the practice of mulcting employes was broken up It did not prevail under the last administration and it would be scandalous to the republicans and to the President if it should turn out that he had been made a party to the restoration of practices that the republicansol North Curolina admit were not permitted by their adversaries All the prominent republicans in the district are denouncing Ewart for his share in the business and they do not believe that he can secure a renomination except through the eflorts of a coi-rupt revenue ring As for a re-election that is absolutely out of the question He will be beaten by several thousand votes and among those who will oppose him will be many ol the republicans who were most active in securing Eaves's appointment and who are now the loudest in demanding to be relieved from i the corruption and oppression of his rule I Virginia and Georgia Moving From Daily Citizen Feb 15 Yesterday evening Col Berry president of the Bedford and James River railroad company in company with Captain Brosious ol Atlanta Ga reached this city and are here for the purpose of confcrnng with the authorities of the Atlanta Asheville and Baltimore railroad company relative to a consolidation of the charters of in the three States They evidently mean business and assure us that the project shall be pushed with all possible speed until the grand line for which Captain Atkinson and his associates have worked so untiringly and persistently has been completed The company of which Colonel Berry is president has recently been formed and organized to co-operate with the Atlanta Asheville and Baltimore this State and the newly chartered road in the State ol Georgia We can say truthfully to these gentlemen Asheville extends to them and the purpose they have in view a most hearty welcome and and bids you speed in your efforts To-morrow we hope to be able tort-port progress in regard to this matter and give our readers further resultsof the conference It Appear That There la Very Just Grounds of Complaint A large number of letters addressed to Asheville were but recently by mistake to New Orleans La" They were resent here but were several days late As these little short comings are of too startling frequency it may be about time to inquire into the personality of the blacksmith who is responsible And up ironi Franklin conies a gentle wail A subscriber to The Citizen wants toknow why the papers come It is the fault of some postal agent The gentleman says the matter with the postal agents and postmasters We got no Citizen on Saturday night and to-night on ojiening the paper mail sack it all turned out to be lor Webster and other offices and 1 suppose the Franklin mail is well on its way to Murphy Johnston" And in connection with the subject we take the following from the Tuckaseegee Democrat: There is a great carelessness in handling the mails Frequently our Raleigh exchanges which should reach us daily do not reach us for as many ns three days together and then all coine by the same mail The same is true of the Ashe- Sheriff Reynolds and Hla Party Return to There was No Attempt to An Account of the Trip Prom Daily Citizen Feb 14 Sheriff Reynolds and the officers who accompanied him on the trip to Raleigh with six prisoners returned yesterday morning to the city They had no difficulty in getting the men to the penitentiary Berry who got seventeen years for manslaughter was sick before leaving the jail He was a victim of tbe gripand as soon as he reached the prison he was sent to the hospital until be shall improve Fore will also go to the hospital but in a different capacity He is to act as a nurse Young McElrath will probably act as a waiter and errand boy around the prison He is too small to do any hard manual labor For the first time since his arrest Berry gave way to his feelings on the day he left the city His wife who has been by far his best friend since his trouble began was at the train to bid him good bye She carried their infant child in her arms Her husband talked toheruntiljustasthe train was pulling out and when the little woman burst into tears and kissed him for the last time he broke completely down and cried like a-baby He did not recover control of himself until after being gone an hour and then he turned to Deputy Smith and said I tried to keep from it but His feelings have never gotten the better of him before and after that he settled back in his seat and to all appearances did not bother himself about his future or present He was sullen during the entire trip In the afternoon a correspondent of a New York paper who was aboard the train came into the smoker pulled out a tab and began to sketch the faces of the two Berry and Fore The former paid no attention further than to pull his hat down over his eyes and look savagely at the artist Fore however looked at the operator for a minute and beckoned him to come ucross the aisle you had just as lie said to him wish you would not put a picture of me in your paper I am ashamed of myself and want any more notoriety than I have The correspondent looked at him for a moment and then he and the prisoner began a conversation on the crime of the latter It lasted for some time and ended in the promising him that he would see that the article tavored him That put Fore in good humorand he wus happy during the remainder of the trip Berry who was handcuffed to him necessarily heard the whole of the conversation but he took no interest whatever At the prison as soon as they were entered they were sent to the bath and then taken to their cells and were seen no more by the officers Tbe quartette were glad to get back to Asheville The job was a most unpleasant one and required all of their time Each of them commented on the remarkable coolness of Berry Just belore leaving he looked at his handcuffs a moment turned to the sheriff and said "This is an entirely new pair of cuffs I am wearing it Mr Reynolds told him he had taken several men to Raleigh who wore them "Is that so?" he remarked quietly thought they were new" And he turned as calmly to the inspection of them again as if it were a toy he were examining instead of a piece of cold steel that restrained him of his liberty Although he is a lather and has been since the first week of his incarceration he did not put himself out to say good bye to his child when lie left and the only time lie has ever been seen to take any notice of it was the day he was sentenced He carried it from the court house to the jail the officers think that much of his coolness "was forced and that beneath it all he was doing some strongthinking That he is dangerous they freely admit and while they say they iiked him they are glad they are through with him will nevefstay-there seventeen years" one of them said "He will either escape or be killed trying it" From Daily Citizen Feb 13 Colonel Coxe is building four cottages on Battery Park Hill VVestall is I the contractor Colonel Coxe will build nal revenue collector two of the three lived west of the Blue Ridge and in Ewart's district Tltcy were Patterson and Cooper In that part of the district in which they lived bad been made all the great gains secured by the republicans The third candidate Eaves lived east of the' Blue Ridge and his county that hod frequently been republican and by a good majority illustrated the incapacity of Eaves in the last campaign by going very strongly democratic Eaves was the nominal bead of the State committee His most brilliant exploit was the issue of a a very mischievous and unnecessary publication to put it mildly It was called the Afraid of the Devi" circular and coming out just before the election and too late to hie counteracted by republican effort it made an impression upon the people of the State precisely the opposite of hat the author intended and unquestionably deprived the republicans of several thousand votes In no section was the loss greater than in that in which Eaves lives where the loss was several hundred Having first promised both Putterson and Cooper that they each should be collector Ewart called upon the President and the secretary ol the treasury and made his recommendation for Col Cooper as strong as his command of language could put it In addition to reminding the President and Mr VVindom of the services that Cooper had rendered in order to make Ewart a representative he directed the attention ol the secretary of the treasury to the fact that as a collector Cooper had been the most efficient man in that service in the South and when he went out of the office in 1885 his accounts were the first settled by the treasury department He admitted to both the men ol power that he owed his election to Cooper This strong indorsement was assumed by all of Col Iriends as sufficient to put him in the office Cooper was at Raleigh at his post of duty in the house of representatives At this juncture Eaves and a host of his friends turned up at Washington They took possession ol Ewart After many consultations the news got out that Ewart had withdrawn his support of his benefactor Col Cooper and had transferred it to Eaves To say that the Cooper men were surprised would be to express their feelings in very mild lan-guage The explanation followed soon after It was about as bad as it could well have been The allegation was Ireely made that Eaves had entered intoa contract in writing with Ewart stipulating that he should control all the appointments in the district and when Representative Brower made the charge that such a combination had been entered into he could not get a denial There has been no explanation ol the appointment of Eaves that accounts so lullv for the abandonment of Cooper and the transfer of support to Eaves At the same time that Eaves was appointed the promise was given by Ewart to the ieople of Ins district that the office should be located at Asheville Again he was lalse to bis promises lortlie office was taken toStatesvilleand it is understood that he personally secured the order for its location It is not so easy to prove ns it is to repeat the story current in the State that soon alter the appointment ol Eaves the congressman liorrowed Irani Eaves $5000 to be repaid as soon as it was possible to secure from applicants for office such advances as they felt that they could afford to make in recognition ol their preference lor employment At all events it is stated that about the time that Eaves was appointed he mortgaged his farm and other projierty lor a considerable sum for a purpose surmised When Eaves took possession of the office Ewart was on hand with a list of lor whom he demanded employment Eaves prepared to carry out his contract Nearly all the republicans ol good character had by this time become disgusted with pcriulv and treachery and they declined to have anything to do with him or to aeeipt any place that he nnghtcare to offer them The result was that the men whom Eaves undvr the terms of his contract appointed Ewart were creatures ol the worst rei utations in the whole section There art few distillers in district When he had procured (laces for his tribe of there -vns no employment lor them at home tint tl army ot storekeepers and gaugers had to be sent elsewhere lor duty Like a swarm ol locusts they swept over the Blue Ridge and into the eastern country included in the district of Representative Brower Here the great number ol small distil-lieries is situated So great was the haste to get the nevvlv chosen men in place that many of them were on dutv belore they had received their appointments or completed tlair bonds They knewjQothing about the business for which they had been-ehoenand to the delect of incompetent they addedth offense ol bad reputation The result was what might have been expected The distilleries were put to inconvenience their proprietors 1 were greatly harassed and many complaints were sent to the collector accompanied by evidence of the incompetency of his subordinates as well as of their dishonesty The collector did not remove them The assumption is that he could not do so without violating a compact with Ewart As the dishonest and incompetent men were retained the result wus that some of the distillers were compelled to suspend operations and even to go out of It was the cause of the ruin of several distillers One instance of the oppressiveness of the iucomK'tent and dishonest officers may be cited to illustrate a state of things that prevailed soon after Eaves came in The law provides that the distillery shall turn out a minimum amount of spirits from a specified quantity ol grain Sometimes the grain yields more i han the minmum All must pay the tax The new officers men of bad habits and with little regard for oaths kept a lot ot loafers ubout the distilleries and issued spirits to Ahem lor immediate consumption This was not only robbery ol the distiller but a fraud upon the government The eagerness of some of the to obtain employment is illustrated by the stories that are told of their going to hstijjers to implore them to continue thgassurance that it ville dailies The Murphv papers utmost several more cottages on the eminence in I imnably reaih us Um mnil Asheville last week the Franklin came that wav and hence we charaelcr- the near tuture A Tale Wblcb Show tbat a Bpollsman fa nl Always a Bncctiwfnl Politician New York Time Asheville February Although thervpublicansof this (theNinth) -district of North Caroliaa are away up in the mountains they aie not quite beyond the reach of reports from Washington that exhibit Representative Ewart in a most extraordinary role That he should presume to go before the civil service reform committee of the house to assail the reform and to gain some cheap notoriety ot Washington was easily on-stood but that he should force himsell into publicity with such a political reputation as he has at home was certainly an indication that though he might a he is not a politician This is Mr first term and like many another beginner in congress he is trying to be rather than to become sagacious If it were the province of thecivil service reform committee ol the housd to make an inquiry concerning the appointments for which Mr Ewart can be held directly or indirectly responsible the report would be much more interesting than anything the committee seems likely to get by investigating the civil service commissioners If the inquiry could begin in the summer of 1888 take Ewart up at about the most anxious period in his career He had then been nominated lor congress and he was lustily begging for money and other aid from the congressional and national committees He was also appealing for help to the republicans ol the district Manyof his lormerfriends are now asserting openly that he received in answer to his appeals large sums of money and that the national committee was particularly liberal as it was making a strong effort to capture close districts and secuie a majority in congress Men who were familiar with the details of the campaign have not been at all backward in asserting that Mr Ewart spent the money turned over to him not It to secure his own election but' to satisfy personal obligations It is immaterial now whether the campaign fund was spent for "legitimate campaign or not The thing that Irets the republicans who have had about enough of Ewart is that the actual work of the campaign tell upon them This was a strong Union section during the rebellion and of the old loyal white stock and their descendants many are active republicans It was only by the most heroic efforts on the part of the leading men of this class that Ewart was elected by a small majority running behind the Stale and national republican tickets The leaders were nrouderof their victory than they were of the man they had elected and they fancied that the industry and fidelity that they had shown would entitle them when the new administration came in to be consulted and gratified if possible in the appointment of good republicans and honest officers Harrison having leen elected President there were at once many applicants for the offices There were to be filled the places of internal revenue collector district attorney United States marshal postmasters and many others of less im- portance Among those who applied tor the office of internal revenue collector were A Patterson chairman of the congressional committee tor the district Colonel Thomas Coojier the former collector and Eaves chairman of the republican State committee Patterson had rendered excellent service during the campaign and he was confident of recognition Colonel Cooer having stood as a candidate for the legislature in his own county of Transylvania hitherto largely democratic had put all his energy into the fight and had won carrying the whole republican ticket along with him Ewart cut no figure in the fight He did not make a single seech in the county and only visited it once to urge Colonel Cooper to become a candidate for the legislature Alter the inauguration of President Harrison Representative Ewart bobbed up in Washington He was conscious of his election and of the greatness that it conferred upon him lleannoumed that the proH-r thing for the President to do if he wished to make no mistake about Southern appointments was to send tor Ewart Either the news did not reach the President or Harrison disregarded it for finding that the President would not call upon hun Ewart condescended to call upon the President About this time the applicants for the offices were on band ready to urgetheirrespeetiveclaims with all the ability and recommendations thev -could command Major Wallace Rollins was ari "applicant lor the office of United States marshal Ewart'in-dorsed him and after promising that he should have the place and the attorney general had agreed that he should be ap- pointed Ewart doubled on him and left him in the lurch -Thire were several applicants for the office of United States attorney in Ewart's district They included State Senator Lusk of Asheville who formerly held the office and discharged the duties with great satisfaction to the government and with credit to himself and who by his canvass had contributed largely to the election of Mr Ewart the Hon Bowman of Mitchell county the banner republican county--wirhoutthe vote of which Ewart would have been "beaten by-1000 majority Smathers a prominent and talented young lawyer ot Waynesville who has several times been a candidate for the senate and the house ot reprtsentatives in counties largely democratic always in the thickest ot the fight and who made an active eloquent and effective canvass for Ewart and Henry Hardwicke a young and very bright luwyer of Asheville and the editor of a republican paper who devoted his and his means to help Ewart to 8uceed These four applicants all had the indorsements and the promised support ol Ewart He was lalse to each und all ol them Forgetting in his the men who had helped to make him great he gave another endorsement to Charles Prieend transferred his efforts to the cause of that candidate Price lives in Salisbury in a democratic district ami he had ever vbted the republican ticket the republicans of Rowan county had not been allowed to find it out Moreover it was reported during the campaign that he had openly denied being a republican and the only qualification that has yet been discovered in Mr Price for receivitg the office is that he had with some abilityiacted as the attorney for the Richmond and Danville railroad Of the applicants for the office of inter ize such handling ol mails as "inexcusable Unavoidableaccidents causing detention of the mails should lie overlooked but these annoying inconvenient unnecessary blunders should be remedied If incompetent (lersons are in charge of the mails surely such as are competent can he found to take their places We do not complain for the fun of it or for the love of it hut we contend that it is due to the public that these abuses should lie corrected EDISON CUMING Mr and Mrs Geo West celebrated their golden wedding anniversary yesterday A number of friends went out and spent the afternoon with them at their lovely place on the French Broad river The Rev A Nelson was out ycstei-dav for the first time alter more than three weeks confinement to his house fiom an attack of the gnpie His re-apiearance was cordially welcomed Mr Kennedy grand organizer ol the Grand Council Mutual Life Insurance Company of Nashville Tenn is sta ing at the Western hotel and can be found there at any time to explain the workings of the order We were much pleased yesterday to see on the streets again Mr ArsemusCartcr He was attacked with the grippe over three weeks ago which assumed a very aggravated form and for some time he was seriously ill He is still feeble hut with prosjiects of a speedy restoration to his usual health From Daily Citizen Feb 14 Mr Hargrave and Mr Pink Herring of Haywood were in the city yesterday and we think returned home this morning Mrs Geo Bell the widow of the man who was killed by John Berry yesterday made a final settlement of the estate of the deceased Mr yfficient clerk of the criminal court is able at his office after an absence of three weeks Mr Patterson indulged in a most severe case of the grip The Morganton Herald says the little three year old son of Crow who fell out of a window several weeks ago died recently as a result of his injuries Mr Crow will be remembered by many as a deaf and dumb compositor for a number of years in The Citizen office The premiums offered at the Alliance Warehousc--wereawiirded as follows: Best pile of wrappers fiTsF'G: Mr Robertson second Janies Payne best cutter McLean second Dr Anderson best smokers Brown Payne second Morgan Two Notable Deaths From Daily Citizen Feb 13 Many jieople throughout the State will hear with regret that the venerable Beverly Rose of Fayetteville is dead He was born in Person county in 1794 and was therefore 97 years old He was a good useful old man blessed with good health and clear faculties a true Christian a devoted Methodist and devoting many of liis last years to the service of his Maker as an active colporteur He was the father of Sieaker Rose of onr House of Representatives Mr Lilly another old and prominent citizen of Fayetteville is also dead dying suddenly at the age of about 80 years He had been in mercantile business in that town since about 1833 a very successful merchant prominent in all the public affairs of the town and a leading member of the Methodist church Tbe Nezvbern Ftsb Fair From Tnily Citizen Feb 13 Opens on the 34th to continue during the week It is one ol great interest and also of novelty and one which the people of Western North Curolina should havean opportunity of attending that they may learn the extent of certain great resources and industries of our State of which they have only faint conception It will also be a rare treat to many visitors here in Asheville who might wish to view North Carolina in almost its whole length and contrast our seacoast with our mountains and learn the extent of our fishing interests The trip from here to Newbern leaving here at 1230 a is made in about 20 hours We hoe our railroad authorities will interest themselves in making reasonable rates and do so in time that publicity be widely given belore the 24th A Marriage In Hickory From DoilyCitizrn Feb 14 The twu popular society leaders of Hickory was celebrated -oil Tuesday evening The contracting parties were Miss Lillie Burgin and Mr A Crowell The ceremony took place at the Presbyterian church the pastor Rev A Monroe officiating A large nnmbcr of invited guests witnessed tbe ceremony and subsequently partook of a banquet at the home of the bride The presents were numerous and costly Mr Crowell is one of rising young men He is the private secretary 'jto- Messrs IIall Bros and has the confidence ol not oifly "his employers but the city as well Miss Burgin is £pleadiag spirit ih the society of that pleasant town A Car Fattory The Wilmington Star says: i Ga is to have a car factory with $1000000 capital to has already been subscribed We are not a prophet but we expect to see in the near future a great car factory established at Greensboro asone of theresulta of the iron and steel works organized to go into operation 1 This is in the line of a recent editorial in The Citizen Why not Asheville as well as Macon or Greensboro with advantages in all respects equal in some superior to both of those towns The Illustrious Electrician to Visit Asheville From Daily Citizen Feb 14 The Charlotte Chronicle of yesterday says that Thomas A Edison "the wizard of electrical science and the holder ol 450 patents lor electrical and mechanical inventions" is in Charlotte accompanied by his wife and two sons After remaining in Charlotte two weeks they will come to Asheville for a visit we do not know of what length The great inventor will be pleased to find in this to him remote and obscure mountain town the resplendent fruits of his genius the tall graceful towers crowned with light soaring so high in the air as to swim like planets in the ether and surpassing them in splendor the offices and dwellings brightened with more mellow and suliduedjustre and everywhere and in every way flashing outresponsive sparks to the genius which subdued the subtle fiery-Jlyid and chained it to steady though mayliap'dangerouSjWork in the service of man We will be glad to welcome him We will be glad to let him see that we had known him in spirit before we had seen him in person What the Criminal Court Did From Daily Citizen Fib 14 The term of the criminal court just completed disposed of forty-five cases and the amount of money expended for jury fees alone to do that much business was $31905 ThejJocket for the next term in April already None of them are of especial interest charges are mostly minor ones The most of them are cost cases Three cases which were belore the last term will go to the supreme court on appeals One is an assault and battery case the second is the case of the State vs Tyne Bruce who is charged with larceny and the third is the case of the State vs Officer Torn Hunter who was charged with false imprisonment' Oxford July 13 Mrs Joe Person Madam: As I have been very much benefited by the use of your Rcm-e iy I think it mv duty to testify to the same 1 have for some time past been ubled with Rheumatism ana also an eruptfijffofi-theskin on tlye chest and shoulders which asvcrv-fHmoyiiig I Mr HC Hunt Has returned from Washington City and his temper is the same as indicated in a telegram we published a day or two ago In fact his feeling for the President intensified the longer he remained in Washington and he pants for the time to draw the sword against him Certainly Mr Hunt feels himselfan ill used man and has just reason to reproach Mr Hnrrisoil with base jngratitude He handed us a clipping to showThat-thc action was not exceptional but characteristic and in which presidential promises were proven to have been made only to lie coolly violated Mr Hunt is nursing bis wrath to keep it Nad Doable Death The Richmond Dispatch of the 13th contains the following sad information: There is great mourning and distress in the house of Mrs Mary A Branch on Franklin strcctrnear-Nineteenth Two daughters of this venerable widow her sell over eighty years of age lie dead there Acute pleuro-pneuraonia was the cause of death in each case The life of Miss Julia aged forty they did thev would be OTdrded-oppufcthree ended at 915 a yesterday Without a License From Daily Citizen Feb 15 Byers is accused ofTiaving sold a barrel of whiskey at Flat Rock during the Christmas holidays without having first gone through the formalities of securing a license His home is in Header-son county and yesterday he was brought to the city to answer to the btforea tunnies to defraud the government It is even asserted as a mutter of actual knowledge that in one case the storekeeper represented to the distiller that hr had instrnctions from the collector to fiursue just the course that he was Allowing Incredible us it may seem this report is current and it is believed by a great many persona to be true It is re- tfiatTjfMsa-Sarah A aged fifty-nine closed at 5 The deceased ladies were aught ers-oH-the late Moses Branch and sisters of Mr Charles Branch of the firm of West Brunch and were beloved by a large circle of triends all of whom sincerely sympathize with the stricken family Both were well on Monday wmmmm and furnished a bond'to-appeflrjor trial in March much -relieved of the Rheumatism nefl Geo Reavis.