The Asheville Citizen

Yesterday was another dull day
for the local. It frizzled and drizzled
but that was all.

Fine shoes and good sausage is in
season just now.
Herring and
Weaver keep the first, McIntire the
latter.

We have met a number of gentle-
men the past few days from the
North viewing out this promising
land of ours. And all seem greatly
pleased at what we have, what is
doing, and what the city and sec-
tions are capable of doing.

Gov. Scales, yesterday, appointed
Capt. Natt Atkinson to be one of the
dele gates to represent the State at
the Southern Forestry Congress
which meets at Huntsville, Ala.
Oct. 26th. This is an excellent ap-
pointment, and we hope Capt. A.
can attend.

The "cyclonic disturbance" which
the telegrams of Monday night in-
form us was developing on the
West coast of Cuba must have ex-
tended, a few of its breezes thus far
inland. Last evening the wind de-
veloped about 20 miles an hour in
this locality, and being accompa-
ied with scattering drops of rain
made thick overcoats very accep-
table.

We regret to announce the death
of Prof. James A. Gray, which oc-
curred in Atlanta yesterday morning
at 4 o'clock. Professor Gray was
editor of the Atlanta Medical Jour-
nal, a Professor in the Atlanta Med-
ical College and held other positions
of honor and trust. The deceased
was a brother-in-law to Judge C.
A. Moore, of this city. Judge Moore
has left for Atlanta to attend the
funeral.

The Supreme court of the State
met Monday. Justices Merrimon and
Davis on the bench. Chief Justice
Smith, who has been in New York
for some days for medical treatment
was not able to return in time for
the convening of the court. He is
expected daily.

Thirty-five applicants to prac-
tice law were examined Monday
and Tuesday, one of whom was 55
years old.

Asheville will soon boast another
splendid
avenue,
indeed
better
than any now possessed. It will be
75 feet wide, nicely graded, with
four rows of beautiful shade trees.

Our beautiful South side, which
has been resting while other sec-
tions have been improving, and
encouraging withal, has become
aroused to its own attractions, and
will soon show a life and energy
and improvement which will put
other sections on their mettle. And
thus we grow all over.

A BEAUTIFUL INNOVATION.

One custom has come in vogue
which is very pleasing. It is for
ladies to drive up to a store, sit in
their vehicle, and have the clerk to
carry out arms full of goods, of any
and all description for examination.
The special beauty of this custom
is the elegant ease which the lady
assumes, and the exercise which it
gives the clerks. Clerks certainly
should be required to take exercise:
to stand on their feet all day and
move about the store waiting on
customers is calculated to give them
torpid livers and other ailments pe-
culiar to such quiet habit, and the
introduction of this new custom
must have been the thoughtful con-
sideration of the fair sex to stimu-
late the energy of their male friends.
And how nice it is to lug boxes of
fancy goods, bolts of fine goods,
boxes of shoes, different parcels or
grades of sugar or coffee to the
front for examination and compar-
ison, and then have the fair cus-
tomer not find anything she wants,
and go off to report the same exhil-
ating performance at another store.
We have had our sensibilities of ad-
miration deeply amused in witness-
ing clerks lugging an armful of
goods and boxes, and standing bare-
headed in the rain or the sun, wait-
ing the inspection of very bonnie
ladies. And knowing, too, the store
to be full of customers. Oh, haven't
we envied them? It is truly a beau-
tiful innovation, and one well cal-
culated to develop all the finer
qualities of a good clerk.