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VOLUME 18. rafSTSK- RUSSELLVILLE, POPE COUNTY. ARK. FEBRUARY 25. 1892. NUMBER 5. DENTIST8. IS73. ,(<90 T. "W. O'lCEUaXaTr, S Surgeon Dentist RUSSELLVILLE, ARK. Office days- First Monday la each north Remain one week. orrici:- Front room, second floor of Hu People's Exchange Bank building. ATTORNEYS. A WHENCE RUSSELL, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Russellvllls, • Ark. OFFICE—South side of Main Street, opposite the Coart House. J EWIS W. DAVIS, f ATTORNEY AT LAW, KU99BLLVILLE, ARK. Will practice In all the Court* of tbeStato. Commercial bualne*. solicited. Unequalled facilities for prompt attentioa to .11 Commercial matter, entru.ted to mj care. Huaaoa KmADLtT. Jakes T. Komu BRADLEY & FOWLER, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. RUSSELLVILLE, ARE, Will practice In all the Courte of the State. Special attention given to collectlona. H. 8. CARTER. J.C. HiRT. U L.OAVI GARTER, HART & DAVIS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW HARUANELLE, ARKANSAS. Will attend the Circuit Court of Pope County Prompt attention given to nil business. Patronage of tbe public solicited. * MARBLE WORKS. H. ELGIN, PaorRirro*. RUSSELLVILLE MARBLE WORKS, Russellville. Ark. PrloM raaaoaabla and satisfaction vuarau IMd PHOTOGRAPHER. JOHN H. OANNER, PHOTOGRAPHER, RfdsK.Lvn.LB, . - Abb. Gallery oa Main street, opposite court hous INSURANCE AGENT, j T. UuLLOCK, INSURANCE AGENT, KtMMllville, .... Ark. OOMPAnTfS KEPBKSKNTEI): Aaclo-Nevada Assurance Corporation of *a Frencisoo, Cal. New Orleans Association. Ul bora I a Insurance Co., of New Orleans, La., Amsricaa Central, of St, Loots. «rm take tnaarance risks anywhere In Ike isssty laeludlnr residence property, (aw aad laarlnr mills, (Ins and farm property. —OFFICE I* CLIEK'S OFFICE ... .M-.-r ■ . 1'ONSORIAL. _ QHARl.EY MAY’S CITY SHAVING PARLOR, Russellville, Ark. Special attention risen to the cutting of la lies' and children's ha*"-. T. C. EVERETT, GENERAL MERCHANT, Has exclusive sale of these celebrated Blasses in Rif«sru.viLLK, Axr. dt The only tnannlsctunur optician* la the South. ATUtti. (is. MMf Toddlers are not supplied with tneas amour classes ■ ■ »- ■» ■" 11 ■ ■——— ' rrs 11 - II -THK DIRECT LINE -TO Memphis, Hot Springs, Vicksburg, New Orleans I *1 Eree Reclining Chair Cars' PULLMAN SLEEPING CARS UTTLX ROC* TO ST LOUIS. cm H C TOWNSEND Geoerm! F«»ai|re ft Ticker Agc» It Louie. Mo ONE ENJOYS oth the method and result* when yruo of Figs is taken; it is pleasant ud refreshing to the taste, and arts entljr yet promptly on the Kidney?, ■*ver and Bowels, cleanses the sys :n effectually, dispels colds, head j lies and fevers and cures habit:: 1 •istipation. Syrup of Figs is the i’ly remedy of its kind ever pro iced, pleasing to the taste and ac eptable to the stomach, prompt in :§ action and truly beneficial in its ifects, prepared only from the most lealthy and agreeable substances, if? i r.any excellent qnalities commend it o all and have made it the inosi xipular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50c nd II bottles by all leading drug j ists. Any reliable druggist wlio j iay not have it on hand will pro ure it promptly for any one wlio wishes to try it Do not accept any ; 'ibstitute. CALIFORNIA FIB SYRUP CO. 9AM FMAMCI900, OAL. LOUISVILLE. MV. NEW VOMM. H. V. ^-. - . - A MAGNIFICENT ENGRAVING ****** FOR THE POSTAGE. - * > THE WEEKLY Arkansas Democrat One Year! -AND A COPY OF "Christ Before Pilate," or "A Roman Chariot Race," or "A Scottish Raid,’ EOW #1.10. Teeming with bright and spicy editorials, fresh tele graphic news, full Arkansas news, full market reports, good miscellany. One Year, $7.50 j Three Months, $2.00 Si* Months, 3.75 ; One Month, .75 MUHHCWIJIK NOW, -INE SHOES. POTTS CARDEN & Co. -..I I. L 1, .. ___ Electricity Sl Electro-Magnetism For the Eye. . . . Those spectacles are recommended bv the highest authorities in tiie medical profession to be the best i" ptesent use. They relieve irri tai ility in the eye and asssist tired and uea..-,ted muscles to perforin thejr ra 'iril function*. As It i* a known fact that electricity is a lile- restoring fluid, we invite ev eryone wearing glasses to come and try them. ISOLB ST U lWMK.it Pitt G OO.. St SSXU.TTLU. -1 BROS.. Rret>fle*»fa, ► OiMt, MVANMH. M. ' sale by Weliaer Drug Co. j ft ..—__ _m_a\_'L\. GETTING HIS MONEY’S WORTH Ben WrlKht Got a ltea<ly Call to Bap. a Oat Or«l*-r 1}tiifk. Ben Wright, who died the othei day, was the most Companionable man I ever met. Tim oyster house which lie opened, at the corner o! Brattle and Court streets, for years : was a Boston institution. I remember going into Wright’s one night a dozen years ago. Seated at the table next me were four news boys, accompanied by two girls who sold papers. The waiter refused tc | serve them. “What’s the trouble, my little men?” said Ben Wright, who over heard the conversation. “Why, this ’ere duffer says he won’t give us dat what we wants.” “What do you want, my boy?” “1 want a great big stew, with plenty of oysters and six spoons.” Wright said “all right,” quietly gave the order and when it was ready served the boy with a big stew, a large plate of crackers and a platter of pickets. The six spoons were there. The stew was passed around, the spokesman seeing that each had his or her share, in a few moments it had entirely disappeared. The leader of the party then walked up to the desk and said : “How much stuff, Ben? I tell you dat was cracky.” “Never mind the stuff, my boy; have the stew with me,” said Wrigbt kindly. “Don’t want no stuff?” “No, my boy.” “Well, repeat dat order quick.” No one laughed heartier or enjoyed the retort more than honest Ben Wright.—Boston News. t’ncomfortnhle We<l<llng King. The Bayanzi, who live along the Upper Congo, have a strange custom which makes life a burden to the married women. Brass rods are welded into great rings around the necks of the wives. Many of these rings worn by the women, whose husbands are well to do, weigh as much as thirty pounds, and this burden must be carried by the poor creatures as long as they live. Fre quently one sees a poor woman whose neck is galled by the heavy weight, and in places the skin is rubbed off by the ring. This is a sure sign that th» ring hits been re cently welded around the neck. After a short time the skin becomes calloused aryl then the strange orna ment produces no abrasion. The weight is a perpetual tax upon the energies. In every crowd of women may be seen a number who are sup porting the ring with their hands, and thus for a time are relieving their wean- shoulders of the burden. A ring is never put around a woman’s neck until she is believed to have attained her full physical development. Once on it is no easy matter to get it off The natives have no files, and, although they can hammer a lot of brass rods into one it is very- difficult for them to cut the thick mass of metal. Women who increase largely in flesh after the rings have been fastened on their necks are in danger of strangling to death, and instances of this sort have occurred. The women, however, regard the curious ornament with pride, imag ine it enhances their importance and beauty anl wear their burdens with light hearts. Brass is the money of the country and in putting it around their wives’ necks the men are cer tain that it will not be stolen or foolishly expended.—Boston Courier. A Modern Ty|>**. The newspaper devotee is a pro duct of modern civilization and bis traits deserve mention in detail. He is an epicure in sensations. If his partieular newspaper chances to fall into someone else’s bands before it reaches him the first fine and dele cate pleasure of his day is lost; and if the interloper is hardy enough to read a striking paragraph aloud, wrath fills the soul of the devotee and the rites of that day are hope lessly maimed. Sundays are his great days. He rises early, and woe to the newsboy who is not prompt. day with a supply of literature which would have sufficed his an cestors not very far removed for a month, and in the evening he lays down the last sheet with a weary but contented sigh, conscious that he has slighted nothing, not even the most obscure advertisement. He faces the future with calm con lidence, for he feels that the supply of newspapers is inexhaustible and that however long he may live, his days shall not want a pleasure which custom cannot stale.—Detroit Free Press. A HM k Mjui I ui uieraed in try W itter. Goshen, ln>., Feb. 19.—News has just reached here to the effect that near Dunlaps last Tuesday the members of the family and neigh bors took Lewis Wogtuau. who was so emaciated by sickness that he could not turn over in Ids bed, to the river and immersed him naked in the freezing waters of the river. The weather was very severe, the mercury registering but a few de grees above zero. The most re markable part erf it is the poor man is still alive. Att t’-upt-r **•*»«•**«- I'alllMtantr. Major W- lives at Springfield, Mo. He has lived there for nearly fifty years. Itarring a term spent at Jefferson fltfcy m a state official. Naturally the major's long residence in Springfield has given him a wide and intimate acquaintance, so be is frequently called upon to serve as a pallbearer. This story lie tells himself: Some weeks ago an old lady, a friend of the major’s family, died. ■ He was asked to assist at the obse ! quies. When the casket was to be i removed from the house of mourn ing, the undertaker, giving direc ! ; tions, then said: j “Mr. Smith, you take this place, i please; Mr. Johnson, you here; Mr. ! Brown, here, and. Major, your usual j place, please.’’—Kansas City Times. HARRISON IS A CANDIDATE. Authoritatively Announced and Uoniiled by a Republican Mmiator. Stephen B. Elkins, secretary of war, announced Tuesday in a letter to a persoual friend in New York that President Harrison is a candi date for re-nomination. The secro | tary added that the president would, moreover, lie the choice of the Min neapolis convention, and further more would be re-elected. This is the first authentic an nouncement that the president is a candidate for re-nomination, al though everybody was convinced of it. That the secretary had sent such a letter was known at the Fifth Avenue Hotel to-night. There were various comments, devoted particu larly to the prophetic decision of the letter. There happened to be a Repub lican United States senator at the hotel just as the discussion over the secretary’s letter was at an interest ing height. He discussed the an nouncement at some length, but asked that his name be not men I tioned. Said he: “As soon as the president’s name is presented to the Minneapolis convention half a dozen of the most brilliant orators in the Republican party wrest of the Alle gheny Mountains, will take turns in opposing his re-nomination. They will ,assure the convention that the president cannot lie re-elected. With the West and the South arrayed against the president I eannot see why Mr. Elkir.s has undertaken the contract with which he seems to have burdened himself.” A VILLIAN ESCAPES. W. «J. Hancock, a Him* Bluff N**|(ro Con victed of a Felony, Karapet*. Pine Bluff, Feb. 19.—Follow j ing telegram was received from Varner this morning: “The jury in the ease of the stab- vs. W. <1. ! Hancock for assault with intent to kill O. W. Alexander returned a verdict of guilty at 10:15 p.m. after j being out ten minutes, and assessed | punishment at 4 years in the pen ' itentiary. While Sheriff Itice was taking Hancock to jail he made a I break for liberty and escaped. He is now at large and a jK>sse in pur 1 suit.” It will l»e remembered that at the last city election W. J. Hancock, | colored, a notorious character, shot down three citizens at the polls. He has had several trials, but every , one resultel in a mistrial till as al>ove. On receipt of the news here j every’ assistance possible was sent, and nothing will be left undone to bring the outlaw to justice. Captured at LaM. TEXABKANA, Akk., Feb. 18.— Ed. Coy, the negro who assaulted Mrs. Jewell on February 4, has, after a long and tedious chase, been captured. The posse who followed reached Red river six hours behind him, and being unable to cross j their horses o .’er the stream, ; only four men continued the pursuit, the rest coming hack to Texarkana with the horses. The four crossed in canoes and continued I the pursuit. The news ‘ pread like wildfire, and the citizens, white and black, turned out to assist in the capture. He was finally traced to bis father-iu-law’g, near Rich mond, in Little River county. Ark. The house was surrounded and some of the party entered, but found be had eluded them, whereupon they seized the old man and with threats forced him to tell his whereabouts. He told them, on Iburtnnw rtf tluur riFUktriinr*A liu eui-rtoil i him to a ditch in the rear of the house and secreted him. He carried the posse to the place, but the bird ■ had flown. They gave immediate chase, running him into a canebrake and surrounding him the second time, when he surrendered. He was brought in on the Texarkana and Fort Smith railway. ' • ( ufrtuml by * Wo main. (Janesville, Feb. 19.—Sam Say worth made four audacious raids on the property of Thomas AV illiau* here, stealing all he could lay his hands on. The fourth trip was ob served by Mrs. Williams who, hastily securing a revolver, started for the bam. As she entered the man was busily engaged filling a large sack with harness. At the muzzle of the revolver Mrs. Williams marched him to jail. A Nurdrm Arriwitod. Booneville. Mo., Feb. 19.— Sheriff T. Horn beck, of this county, to-day arrested Wm. Walker, an escaped murderer of Howard county. : Walker killed Green Morrison at Fayette last October in a most brutal manner. He was arrested i and placed in jail December last, j He, together with other prisoners, | made their escape. When arrested to-day he was walking upon Main street. He was tired of dodging the officers he told the sheriff. For inilitaiy service the Germans ; employ electric lighting wagons, 1 which contain everything that can possibly be wanted for lighting up tmr such military operations as oridge building, throwing up eartb w .rks at night, etc. The wagon weighs three and a half tons and can easily be drawn by horses. NEWSPAPER TALK. Kdtt4»riAl Comment* from .Stale* K*« Iu»ii|£**h. The statement is made with quite a degree of authenticity that lion. Hugh A. Dinsmore will be a candi ' date for congress from his district. —Greenwood Democrat. * • * Silverman are hard at work in congress and will probably pass a free coinnge measure and force the Republican president to show his hand, and veto it if he dares.—Pres cott Picayune. . * * The societies in Helena, known as the King’s Daughters, are doing a noble work to relieve the necessities of the sick, poor and destitute of this city. You can render them much assistance.—Helena World. * * * ! We didn’t think Uncle Tommy Birmingham would keep out of the Johnson county campaign if he has any more of his “salvation” books to sell. He is already “stumping” around for his old friend Powell Clayton.—Herald-Journal. ' What the country press of Arkan sas needs is an editor who, when he first gets hold of the editorial pen cil, will not start his salutatory off with : “In assuming control of the tl _ 1 ¥ 1 •ill upon me.”—Marianna Index. i • l • . There are no doubt many persons in our county who are not aware of the fact that an amendment to the constiti >n of Arkansas is to be voted upon at the coming September election. The amendment provides that every voter will bo required to produce a receipt or other evidence that he has paid his [Mill tax at the time of collection next preceding such election lx;fore he will Ixi per mitted to vote.—Van Buren Argus. * * * a reran 7.er, it is x;t:u mat Hom ing is better than jxiles or timber of any kind put under the ground far enough that the plow will not strike it. The poles, three or four in number, should lx; put down to gether and the crop planted right above. These poles hold the moist ure and open the ground so that the roots can go down. Fine crops can lx! produced for five or six years from this one planting.—Ouachita Herald. • * * No man, nor set of men, who have held office in Garland county for six years, need hug to his soul the de lusive thought that he carries the party in his hand, and that by de clining to run for office he is “sac raficing” himself for party harmony. Ix;t all such run or stop just as they please. It will make no difference. Garland county Democracy has had enough. It has gotten its eyes open, and it is going to assert its supreme cy over the vaunting ambitions of individuals, and act for the public good. Mark this.—Hot Springs Daily News. ♦ * • A report reached here Friday that Senator McElroy had been missing since the 8th o. 9th of January. He left home on the above named date to go to Texarkana, where he expected to get into business, and was last seen aboard the train at Fulton, since which time his family and friends have been unable to learn anything of his whereabouts. It is feared that he has been foully dealt with, as he was a man who never failed to write to his family when absent from home as long as a week or ten days, j —Howard County Press. Ml* Transtcr liont* for Trutu*. Saginaw, Mich., Feb. 2U.—liel ative to the Delaware-Lackawanna new route via Ann Arbor and a lxwit line between Keuwaunee and Frankfort, it is learned that an important departure in fresh water marine will he made in the case. A new boat for which plans anti specifications are now be iu|£ j7j rpai , is w w uvocm. It will lx- an ice crusher, which will carry loaded ears clear across the lake, doing away with the necessity for loading or unloading. Tlx? boat is to have a capacity of 224 loaded freight cars, will lx? run winter as well as summer, and will be so fast that it can make the trip across the lake and back twice in twenty-four hours. 11 is to be corn - I pleted neat fall, and will lx? the first boat of its kind on Ixtke Michigan. A Kvrgod Cincinnati, O., Feb. 20.—The officers of the Third National Bank yesterday made known a forgerj', which was perpetrated ou the bank nearly a week ago. It w as the payment of a draft by the First National Bank of Chatta nooga, in favor of Thomas Hunt for $1800. Hunt’s sig nature was attested by that of Cashier iiuthborti, of tlx? Chat - tanooga bank. The real draft was for $18. It had been raised to $1800. K ven boles were punched in the paper showing the true sum has been filed and the new figures punched correspond with the amount to which it w as raised. --■-- i— ... A Bit Crioaoo, Feb. 19.—The Inter Ocean to-day prints a statement j said to have been made by the Na- ! tional Union Company’s secretary j and treasurer K <1. Spencer, to Dun’s agency, declaring that $905, 000 of the company’s stock has > been paid in cash, and $547,000, the j I amount that has boon invested in forty stcres in va rious locations, chiefly the South and West. The average price paid for a store is said to be $3000, total $120,000. This would leave an apparent discrepancy of I $027,(XX) unaccounted for. The ] National Union is an organization I which was reported to buy up or es tablish 4000 Farmers’ Alliance stores throughout the country, and which is alleged to l>e an off-shoot of the National Cordage Trust. STATE NEWS. Kreith I t«*mn (ilfuned From Fii'lntitirN mimI AvmIIaI»1*> West Plains and Yellville are to be connected by telephone. Railroad excursions from Benton ville to Rogers arc quite popular. Them will be no politics in the municipal election in Camden this year. Black & Miluni’s store burned last Hu ml ay night. loss, $2700; insurance, $1800. Ashley, youngest son of Judge Mansfield, of the supreme bench, fell upon the ground and hurt his shoulder badly last Saturday after noon. How it happened is not known exactly. The Emma Oil Mill, at Pino Bluff, on Friduy made a shipment of 8013 1-2 gallons of oil in one tank car, to Fairbanks &Co., of Hf. Louis. This was the largest consignment on a single car over made from the oil mills there. Ex-Hheriff R. W. Carnes is an nounced as business manager of The Bearcy Economist. It is understood that the paper will be vigorously worked in the interest of the third party in the approaching county and state campaign. The question of moving the coun ty seat of Nevada county to a point near the center, is being agitated 1*> low the Carouse creek. It is hardly probable the move will be successful. The county is already in debt ovtr $20,(XX), and to move the county seat would involve big expense in uujiumg aiiuiiHT cuunuuuw. A sad accident happened at the ranch of the Southern Land and Lumber Company, near Fordyee, Saturday. A teamster was loading logs on a log wagon, and a young man named Charley Bolin, whose home is in Wisconsin, was standing on the opposite side apparently out of danger. A log twenty feet long and sixteen inches in diameter was hitched to with the chain and rolled upon the wagon. The team was un ruly and carried the log over the wagon, where it knocked Bolin down and fell across him just above the hip and buried his body almost its thickness in the ground. He lingered until Monday morning, when he died. DRUNKEN CAJHOUC PRIEST. II* KuterN m ('liurcli Sm lHy Meeting Mitd Att«-mpta to Kill m M**n»l#**r, Buffalo, N. Y., Feb. 18. About a year ago Father Sulek be came pastor of a church in this city, and for awhile all seemed to go well, but of late there has been dissen sions and ill-feeling between the Eas tor and Ids congregation. The itter charged Mr. Sulek with drunk enness and immorality, and here is where the whole trouble began. Branch No. 55, National Brothers’ Institution, connected with the church, says the pastor came to their meeting Sun day afternoon in an intoxicated con dition, broke open the doors seized a man nearest him, Andrew Wikon iski, and tried to eject him from the room. A scuffle ensued in which the priest drew a long knife and struck a powerful blow at his antagonist’s breast. The other members of the society interfered and the priest was ejected from the room. In u luiptiwiti Knndiiv tSiP hfipkI • ¥ • * charged all women with immorality. This caused great consternation among the church member* and a bitter feeling against the priest was manifested on all shies. Andrew swore out a warrant for Itev. Father Suiek’s arrest yesterday, hut Judge Hiller postponed serving until Thursday morning. Contrary Mindnl. She was bright and pretty, the very picture of the ideal typewriter girl. “Ho you want a typewriter in your office!” she inquired of the proprietor. “Yes, miss, I do,” he said with a smooth smile “Can I have the position!” “I'm afraid not,” he replied with a sigh “Why not!” she asked in sur prise. “Because Fve got a wife with opinions contrary to mine. Very sorry. Good morning.” A Traveler. Gambler—Have a game of j*oker, sir! Traveler—Thank you. 1 beg to be excused. Gambler—Perhaps you object to games of chance! Traveler—Not at all. What I ob ject to is playing a game in which i ■ have no chance.—New York Press. , A ad I lupvtt flirt* Hum. Tommy—What ate barbarians, paw! Mr. Figg —They are people who j light with hows or spears instead of repeating rifles.—Indianapolis Jour- I iuu. - The Knonoiuiab. Bkykomish and Kpokane Railroad is the name of a new line in Washington. The names are as euphonious as those of a new i Maine line, t he Kkowhegan and Nor ridgewoek. Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report ABSOLUTELY PURE -J!- — ", .■- r- 'JL.1 " . - CUTTING IT DOWN. Tl»e Telegraph i'tark Wuh MnrritWI Him* Mfir un<l Hr Hurt* Wlitti Kiutlo Wantr«1 to Huy. She was as sweet a little woman as ever wore a tailor-made suit and jaunty hat that made every follow who passed her straighten his tie and look his prettiest . She walked into the telegraph office at Fourth and Vine streets, and timidly in quired of the clerk: “Can 1 send a telegram to my husband here?” “Yes’m,” responded the hollow eyed functionary, brightening up a little and handing her a blank with a pen and ink. “I guess it will go all right if I put the street number, won’t it!" she asked again. “Yes’m,” laconically replied the clerk with a sad, anticipatory smile. She frowned a little while, collect ing her thoughts, and then wrote : Dear Charlie—You do not know how much I miss you while away from home, though auntie is very kind, and we have been stiopjj ping all afternoon. I have bought some of the loveliest swiss to go over my green dress and three pairs of French kid gloves, because they were very cheap, and 1 know you won’t care, will you, dearest! I think of you always and wish you were here with me to see the cute baby carriages and cradles and ta ble chairs for little .Mary. 1 was tempted to buy all three of them, but only took the carriage. Be sure to scald bottle every meal and that the milk is fresh and sweet before it is warmed for baby. Bless her little heart ! She is her mam ma’s darling dear, so she is, and when she cries it may Is- a pin stick ing her and not the colic at all, re member. < live her a drop of cam phor on a nice big lump of sugar if that cough returns, and two drops of peppermint or paregoric in sugar and water in a teaspoon if she Inis a /.an • » lino i././tt. Iittll. The k y to the cake box is under the corner of the mat in the front hall, and if the icing sticks to the knife butter it, an 1 don’t give baby any ; ires ides, be sure to crumble the crackers well in her gruel. Annie wants me to stay all week, hut I don’t feel satisfied away from you and baby so long, dearest, and will come home Wednesday. It seems like a year since 1 saw you, love, though it was only yesterj day evening; so now you see how much I love you and cannot bear to he away from you at all. Oh. if you should die, or anything should happen while ! I am av ay ! On thinking it over J : shall come home Tuesday on the first | morning train, this being Monday , night. 'J ell the girl to warm up the roast from Sunday, or else out it down real thin, with chili sauce to eat over it, and to see that the bread | does not get musty in the pantry. | and to keep the ants jut of the sugar box above all. Kiss baby for mam ma, and I send a hundred for your seif. From your loving little v ife, j Susie Hbown. Gathering together the piles of j sheets filled with the message, she handed them to the elerk. He read ; the telegram while she stood there and blushed. “liow much will it bet” she ) asked shyly. “Twenty-five cents, madam. You j see, we eau shorten it by leaving out a few of the uuneeessary words, and save you money.” ‘Oh, thank you;” she said, beam ing ; “but be sure not to leave out any of the necessary words,” and away she went as happy as a lark. The operator picked up the blank and hurriedly dashed off : “Charles Brown: Will lie home Tuesday morning by first train. “Bt'SJJE Brown.” He was a married man himself.— Cincinnati Cornmereial <Jaasette. Id Kator of Um Colored Maa. DgaMOINKS,F«h. 19.—The Jlyde liopewell ease, involving civil rights of colored m«u, has been settled for the defendant Hopewell. The court held that Hopewell had a right to refuse to serve Hyde in a restaurant, and the fact of the latter being a col- : orci man did net enter into tine case. In other words, the restaurant busi ness is a private one, like a grocery or dry goods store, and differs from an inn, and the proprietor may sell or not to any one who enters the door. _ War on Truafi. lt«Kwa. TyUES, Feb. 19.—Tb* Smith county grand jury at its last session, j returned bills for B. W Tipton, j local agent of the Waters-Fierce (hi Company in Tyler, and state agent F. A. Austin, of Marshall, of the same county, ou the charge of “conspiring against trade” and they were arrested under the state law relative to trusts. The men gave! bond and are now waiting results. This is the beginning of war on trusts and will he fought to a fimsh. j mm ■ 1— ( oulu*t Will 4**' SAt'iiT Btk. Marik, Feh. IB.—It now appears as if Coulter-, the mur- i derer, who was sentenced to ten years for penury, will §i< have to | serve thirty days vieted of having sworn at the murder trial that his father cut the houses’ fue<«s with an axe, which was perjury. Coulter’s lawyer, in looking the evidence of the murder trial over to-day, dis covered that ( 'oulter did not swear that his father cut the faces with an axe. Coulter told the story to neighbors, who wore under the im pression that he so swore The. pros ecuting attorney now has no ease against ('oulter and he will he re leased. A BAD RUN. A PrUonerMhot While Att«m|Hlng to Ka* cape. PAHIH, Feb. 19.—Quite a sensa tion was created on our streets yes terday evening by the attempted es cape of a prisoner by the name of Woldridge, who is confined in the county jail. About sundown as the jailor, Mr. Dandridge, went to see after the prisoners, one of them had burned a hole through the cell floor in which ho was confined, thereby effecting an entrance into the main outer room of the prison. As Mr. Dandridge unlocked the door and stepped in the prisoner all of a sud den darted by him and was out in an instant. Mr. Dandridge fired two ineffectual shots at him. He was making good his escape, till Mr. J. A. Ingle, who, having discovered the affair, secured a pis tol, and, after repeated commands to stop, fired at the fugitive, in flicting a dangerous if not a fatal wound, the shot entering the back just below the kidneys. The doc tors as yet are unable to ascertain the possibilities of the wound. —-♦ Kirst IniprttHsioiiN. “It takes a New York baggage runner to make a man keep his eyes skinned,’’ remarked the drummer at tl... 4'iolillue tlie i.flier ovcniiii' when the crowd had settled to talk. “As to how?” inquired a young salesman from Jefferson avenue. “Every way; hut only one has been tried on me lately,” lie con tinued. “The last time I was theie, I met a fellow at the Pennsylvania ferry and agreed to give him twenty five cents to carry my grip up to the Aster House. When f came to pay him, he objected and said it was thirty-five cents. We jawed awhile and at last 1 got mad and reached for him. Sflnrat as big as I was, but I got him first, and before he knew what was happening I bad him in the corner ready to be thumped. “ 'Hold up, mister,’ he exclaimed. ‘Jlold up. I’ll call it square at twenty-five cents.’ “ ‘What do you take me for any how!' 1 asked, letting him go. J)o you think I’m a jay?’ “ ‘You bet I don’t now, colonel,’ he said in tones of real admiration, as he looked me over, ‘but dat’s about de size oh de measure 1 took w’en 1 ketched on to de sarytogy at de ferry, see?’ “I offered to kick him downstairs after that, but be deelined and we parted amicably.”-—Detroit Free Press. Tlu*y Couldn't I ud*-r»iatid It. Mr. Tyrer-—Horde never yisits us now. Mrs. Tyrer—No; it’s rather sin gular. Mr. Tyrer—It is. The last time he was here 1 did iny best to enter tain him, >Sat with him two solid hours relating to him the smart say ings of our children, and you helped to entertain him, too. Mrs. Tyrer—Yes, 1 showed him the baby and told all almut her cute ways, and even tried to get her to talk to him. Mr. Tyrer—1 can’t understand why he keeps away.—New York NoumzIioumI Jiurl, San Dikoo, Feb. 19.—A sens a tioual duel took place near beie be tween two druggists, named Boole and Sapp, both well known citizen*, as the Jesuit of the affair which grew out of an old quarrel. Boole was instantly killed aud Sapp is in jail charged with murder. -. ~~ I*—!■ "I 1 It* ( Iju iun to Vhdl Aljfi* la The empress of Iiussia will proba bly go to Algiers for a few weeks toward the end of this mouth to join her second son, the Grand Buke George, who is in a most precarious state of health. The grand duke is passing the winter at El Biar Vil lage, a few miles from Algiers.— Xew York Tribune. lwjur*d. BewiTT, 1a., Feb. 19.- By the explosion of the engine in the Cyclone Manufacturing Works yes terday. Miss Bora Fuller, Miss Hall, Fred. Johnson, Frank Jones, Homer Keed, Norman Hail aud James Crone were severely injured The explosion was caused by one of the men putting gasoline in hot water by mistake No % a.ltd Kouaojj. There is no valid reason why the milkman s wife should stay away from the ball if she wants to go even if she does have to wear pumps.—(Somerville Journal.