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The Nevada | 'EY WHITE & GARDNER, AT $1.50 A YEAR.} PRESCOTT, NEVADA CO I MY, ARKANSAS .JUNE 4, l&Sg. { VOL. Vffl. NO. !).. LAWYERS AM NOTASYS. «i. 1’. Smoote, T. C. McRae & L. K. Hinton. Smoote, McRae & Hinton A TTORNE YS-at-LA W, Land and Collecting Agents, PRESCOT'l', • - ARKANSAS Practice in nP. the court* and make col lections in all parts of the state. Are agents for the following INSURANCE COMPANIES: German, of New Ynrek.$2.562,186 09 Underwriters Ageitcv, N. Y.4,957,112 90 Springfield F. A M.2,585,632 83 WVsteTU Assurance Company...1,422,008 14 Now Oilcans...,. .875,588 62 Pinks written tnroughdvt the county, g^r (sir. houses aud farm property in ured i rt r. b. ururtuir. t»ui r. on MoMullin & Boss, Attorneys aid (Melon at Lai, Office ovor Hinton’s Drug Store, MAIN STREET, PRESCOTT, - - - - ARKANSAS. Will practice in the Courts of the Ninth Judicial ‘Circuit, and in the SupremeCourt d Federal Court at Little Rock. Lpecial attention given to the investigation of lsnd titles anti preparing abstracts of title to real estate in Nevada county. Runtrs* '* any kind entrusted to them will receive romwt attention. Correa Dondcntc solicited. GUY NELSON. ATTOBNEYATLAW, TRESCOTT, - - ARKANSAS. Will give prompt attention to commercial practice, and make collections in all parts of tin; State, Office with McMulhn and Ross, West Alain street. W. E. Atkinso* W. V. Tomi kins. Atkinson & Tompkins, lawyers anfl Insurnce Agents, PRESCOTT, ARKANSAS, Will practice in the Courts, Slims ui 7M Ms of the state. Collection* a Specialty “Wj are Prepared to Negociato. Loans on Real Entitle. PHYSICIANS ANDJURGEONS_ Dr C. F« BARHAM, llenident, L>enVi«t. 1IOPEJ - * * ARKANSAS, Executes all kinds of Dental work. Char res reasonable, and satisfaction guaranteed1 Will also Visit Prescott, and vicinity regular ly. .i„d respectfully solicits the pataouagu ot •the public._ DR. A. HARRIS Respect fully tenders liis PROFESSIONAL SERVICES tlic citizens of Prescott and vicinit y. Ho ran be found at bis resilience on « cst * rout Krc t. neU door to J- M. Montgomery s ashen not professionally engaged.__ R, L. Hinton, M., ;iIYSICIAN AND SURGEON, . PRESCOTT, ARk. Office on West Main Street and residence on Kust Second Street. ____ D r. E. R. Armistead, • Respectfully tenders his PROFESSION AL SERVICES to the citizens of Presoott arid vicinity. Ila nmv be found at his residence or at Mon criers Drag Store when not prolcssioually engaged. j. D. JORDAN 7, J- A- Hft® D ra. Jordan 8s Pipkin, VIIY8IUIAN8 & SURGEONS, Presoott, — Ark., Oder their professional services to ha uens ot Prescott and vicinity. I*-Office in old Dispatch b uildln Second stri-et, where thvy can bo fuun not professionally absent. G W. Hudson, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. s PItE8COTT, ARK. Office at roaidenoo, where ho can he at all times when not professionally engagoa. DR WOOD dlfors his professional services to all requiring medical or aurgaroal attention. Office at ros doaci), Boughtoq Arkansas.___ MT STABLE, Bonn i Bissau, Proprietors, Main Street, PRESCOTT, ! ARK. HORSES and vehicles let upon reasonable termB. (Jonveyiug .Commercial Travelers to all points ol the Country a specially. TALXAUE. I I»oes the Use of Tobacco Cause Can cerous end Other Troubles! A Sermon Denunciatory of Tobacco Smok ing and Chewing, and of the llasheest. Opium and Chloral Habit*. -Globe-Democrat. Brooklyn, N. Y., May 17.—Be fore the eerrnon in the Brooklyn Tabernacle to-day, I)r. Talmage road from the first Book of Kings concerning an altar upon which | men’s bones were sacrificed^ and remarked thrft -there is rtidre sacri fice of human life now than ever before, although the altar may not , be admitted. Dr. Talmage’s read ing of tha Scripture lessons is pe culiar to himself, and excites as niuch interest in the audience as the sermon preached. The read ing is a running commentary with practical lessons interjected. The (subject of the sermon was: ‘‘Does the use of tobacco canse cancer ous and other troubles?” The text 1 was: ‘.‘Let the earth bring fetfh grass and herb yielding syed.’’ Gen. 1. 12. I Dr. Ta’mago said: The first born of eartli were the grass blade J and the herb. They preceded the brute creation and the human fam ily—the grass for >rii rouf! life, the herb for human service. The cat tle took possession of its inheri tance, the grass-blailc; and man took possession of its inheritance, the herb. This herh we have for ! food in case of hungar, for narcot j ic in case ofinsomnia, for anodyne j under paroxysm of pain, or for stimulus when the pulses Bag un der the weight of disease. The caterer takes the herb and serves | it up in all delicacies. The physi cian takes the herb and compounds it for physical recuperation. Mil lions of the hnman race take it for ruinous delectation of body and mind. The herb divinely created aud for good purposes, in cases without number prostituted for evil results. ThcTe is a lawful and unlawful use of the herbaceous -kingdom. TBer'e sprang up in Yucatan, on tliis continent, an herb which lias lie witched the world. It crossed the Atlantic Ocean in the fifteenth century, and captured Spain. Then captured Portugal, and then the French Embassadors took it to Paris, and it captured the French Empire. Then Waller Ra'eigh in troduced it into England. The botanists ascribe it to the genius Xicotina; but you all know it as the inspiring, the elevating, the emparadising, the radiating, the | nerve shattering, the dyspepsia breeding, the health-destroying to I bacco. I shall not bo offensively ! personal when I speak on this sub ject, because you all use it, or nearly all. Indeed I know from personal experience bow it soothes and roseates the world and kindles socialty, and I knew what arc its I balefBl results. I know what it *is to be its slave, and thank C! od, I know what It is to bo its con queror. t lmvo no expectation that I will pursnado the great masses of you to change your hab its upon this subject, but I thought I might help you in soiee advice to your children. Yon say: “Lnuivi uou maae j bacco!" Oh, yes, you say, ‘‘Isn’t, God good?” Oh, yes, yon sav, “Then God, #lien he created to bacco must have created it for some good purpose.” Oh, yes, it is good for a great many things, to* j bacco is, It is good to kill moths hi the wardrope and tict iu the sheep, and to strangulate All kinds of vermin, and to fumigate pesti ferous places, and like all other i poisons, God created it for 6oine 1 particular use. So ho did lien bauev so nux vomica, so copperas, so belladonna, bo all those poisons which he directly created or had j man to extract. But the same God ! who made the poisons also croa ■ ted us with common sense to know 1 how to Use them and how not to use them. “Oh,” said one of my friends, ‘‘don\ people nse it with out seeming harm to themselves, and are there not cases of plethora which absolutely need this deple tion!” Oh, yes, skilltul and pru dent physicians have sometimes prescribed it, just as they some times prescribe arsenic, and they pi escribe it well. There can be no doubt about it being poisonous. There was a case reported in which a little child lay upon its mother’s lap, and a drop from her pipe fell on the child’s lip and it went into convulsions and into death. “Rut,” you say, ‘‘don’t people live to an old age who indulge in this tmbitl” Yes; I have seen an inebriate 70 years old. There are some per sons, who, in spite of all the out rages to their physical system, live on to old age. In the case of the man of the-jug, lie lasted so long because he was pickled! In the case of the man of the pipe, he lasted so long because he was turned into smoked liver! Rut, my friends, what advice had we better give to our young people? Say in the first place let, us advise them to abstain from this habit because all the medical fra ternity of the United States and Great Eritian pronounce it the the cause of widespread and ter rific unliealth. Dr. Agnew, Dr. Hamilton, Dr. Olsot, Dr. Rarnes, Dr. Woodt-ard, Dr. Rush, Dr. Hosack, Dr, Ilarvcy, Dr. Mott all the medical fraternity, home opathic, allopathic, hydropathic, eclectic—denounce the habit and warn the community against. One distinguished physician says: “This habit.is the cause of seventy dif ferent stylos of disease; this habit is the cause pf nearly all the cases of cancer of tlie month.” What is testimony of the late I)r. C. War ren, of Boston, than whom there is no higher authority! Ho says: “For more than thirty years I have been in the habit of inquiring of patients who came to mo with can cer of the tongue and lips whether ihey used tobacco, and, ii so. whether they chewed or smoked, and if they have sometimes an swered in the negative as to the first question, I can truly say that to the best of my knowledge and bcTietf, such cases arc exceptions to the general rule When, as is us ually the case, one side of the tongue is affected with ulcerated cancer it arises from the habitual retension of the tobacco in * con tact with this part.” Their united testimony is tnat It depresses the vitals of the system and brings on nervousness and dyspepsia and takes off 25 per cent of tho physi cal vigor of the people of this conn try, and damaging this generation, damaging the next, the accumula ted curse going on to capture oth er centtu't?. It injures the mind. Another eminent physician, for a long while superintendent of the insane asy lum at Northampton, Mass,, says: “Fully half the patients who have come to our asylum for treatment are victims of tobacco.” It is a sad thing, my brother, to damage the body; it is a worse thing to damage the ago and mind, and any mau of common sense knows that the nervous system immediately acts upon the brain. More than that, nearly all roformers will toll yon that it tends to drunkeness; it creates unnatural thirst. There are thoso who nsc this narcotic who do not drink, but nearly all who drink use the narcotic; so that shows there is an immediate af finity between tho two drugs. It was long ago demonstrated that a man cannot permanently reform from strong drink unless he gives up tobaefco. In nearly all the cases where men, having been reformed, nave fallen back, it has been shown they have fisst touched to bacco, and then surrendered to in toxicants. Tho broad avenue leading down to tho drunkard’s, grave and the drunkard’s hell is strewn thick with tobacco leaves. What did Benjamin Franklin say? “'I never saw a well man in tho ex ercise of common sense who would say that tobacco did him any good.” What did Thomas Jeffer son say when arguing against the culture of tobacco? “It is a culture productive of infinite wretched ness.” Horace Greely said of it. ‘‘it is a profane stench.” Dan iel Webster said: “If those men must smoke, let them take the horBc slietl.” One reason why there aro so^ many tho victims of this habit is because there are no many minis ters of religion who smoko and chew. They smoke until they get the bronchitis and tho dear people have to pay their expenses to Eu ropel They smoke until tho ner vous system breaks down. They smoke themselves to death. I could name throe eminent clergy men who died of cancer in the mouth, and in every case the phys ician said it was tobacco. Tliore has been many a clergyman whoso tombstone Was all covered up with eulogy, which ought to have had the honest epitapfi: ‘‘Killed by too much cavendish!” £oihoof them smoke until the room is blue and their spirits are blue and the world is blue and everything is blue. Time was when God passed by such sins, but it becomes now the duty of the American clergy who indulge iu this narcotic to re pent. IIow can a man preach temperance to the people when he himself indulging in an appetite like that? I have seeu a cuspidor in a pulpit where the minister should drop his cud before he gets up to read: “Blessed arb the pure in heart,” and to read about roll ing sin as a sweet mnrsal under the tongue! and in Leviticus to read about the unclean animals that cbdw the epd, I have known presbyteries and General Assem bles and General Synods where there was a room set apart for ministers to smoke in. Oli, it is a very sorry spectaclo, a consecrated, a holy man of God ('looking around for something which you take to bo looking for a larger held of usefulness. He is not looking for that at all. He is only looking tor a place where ho can discharge a mouthful a tobac co juice, 1 am glad the Methodist church of the United States, in nearly all their conferences, have passed resolutions against this habit, and it is tune wo had an an ti-tobacco reform ir. the Presbyto ryan church, and the Episcopal church, and the Baptist church ! and the Congregational church. About sixty years ago a young man graduated from Andover Theologi cal seminary into the ministry. He went straight to the front, llo had an eloquence and personal magnetism before which nothing could stand; but he was soon tliiown into the insane asylum lor | t wenty years, and the doctor said it was tobacco that sent hito there. According then to the custom in vogue, lie was allowed a small por tion every day. After he had been •Jiere nearly twenty years, walking the floor one day he hfed a sudden return of reason, and be realized what was flic matter. He threw the plug of tobacco throngh the iron gates and said: ‘'What brought mo here! What keeps me here? Why fitfr. I here? Tobacco! Tobac co! O, God! Help, help and I’ll uever use it agalu,’’ He was re stored. Ho was brought forth. For ten years ho successfully preached the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and then went into a bliss ful immortality. There are ministers of religion to-day indulging in narcotics, dying by inches, and they do know what is matter with them. I might, in a word, give uiy own experience. It took ten cigars to make a sermon. I got very nervous. One day I awakened to the outrago I was in flicting upon myself. I was about to change settlements, and a gen erous wholesale tobacconist in Philadelphia said if I would only come to Philadelphia, fee would, all the rest of my life, provide ine with cigars free of charge. I said to myself: If in these wartimes wlieu cigars arc 60 eostly and my salary is small, I smoke more tbau I ought to, what would I do if I had gratuitous and illimitable sup ply! And then and there, twenty four years ago, I quit onv*« and for veer. It made a new man 01 me,al though I have since then done as much hard work as any one, I have had the best health God ev er blessed a man with. A minis ter of religion cannot afford to smoko, l’ut into my hands the money wasted in tobacco iu Brooklyn and I will support three orphan asylums a grand and as beautiful as those already estab lished Put into my Laud the mon eys wasted in tobacco in the Uni ted States of America and I w ill clothe, feed and shelter at! tho Buf fering poor on this continent. Tho American church gives $1,000,000 a year for the evangelization of the heathen and American Christians spend $1,000,000 in tobacco. Now I -Stand this morning not only in tho presence of my God, to whom I must give an account of what I say to-day, but I stand in the presence of a great multi tude ot young men who are form ing their habits. Between 17 and 23 there are tens of thousands ot young men damaging themselves irretrievably by tobacco. You ei ther ti80 very good tobacco or cheap tobacco. If you uso cheap tobacco I want to tell you why it is cheap. It is a mixture of bur dock, lampblack-, sawdust, colts foot,pKhtajf.e leaves,fuller’s earth, lime, salt, alum, and a little tobac co. You cannot afford, my young brother, to take such a mess ns that between your lips. If, on tho other hand you use costly tobac co, let me say I do not think ,VQu can afford it. You take that which you expend, and " ill expend, if if you keep the habit all your life, and put it aside, and it will buy you a farm to make you comforta ble in tho afternoon ot life. A merchant ot New York gayo this testimony; “In early life I smok ed six cigars a day at 0 1-2 cents each—they averaged that. I thofcgkt to myself one day, I'll just put aside all the money t’m consuming in cigars and all I would consume if I kept on in the habit, end I will see what it will coir.o toby co -pound interest.” And ho gives this tremendous sta tistic: ‘‘Last July completed thir ty-nine years since by the grace of God I was emancipated from the filthy habit, and the saving amount ed to the enormous sum of 102.0.3 by compound interest. Wo lived in the city, hut the children, who lmd learned something of tho enjoyment of country life from their annual visits to tiioir grand parents, longed for a home among the green fields, I found a very pleasant place iu the country for sale. The cigar money now came into requisition, and I found it amounted to a sutlicient sum to purchase the place, and it is mine. Now, boys', you can take your choice, smoking without a homo, ora home without smoking.” ***** My friends, it is all important t hat by personal example in every possible way wo contend against all influences injurious to so<;iety.f Our opportunity for exercising snob influence is limited. What we do W9 bad better do right away. The clock ticks now and tie ’near it. After a while the clock will tick,and we shall not hear it. Seat ed by a country fireside, I saw the fire Ttindle, blaze and go out. I gathered up from tho hearth enough for profitable reflections. Our life is just like the fire on the hearth. We put on fresh fagots and the fire bursts through and up and out, gay of flash, gay of crack- j le—emblem of boyhood. Then I the fire reddens into coals. The heal is fiercer, and the more it is stirred tho more it reddens. With sweep of flame it cleaves its way until all the hearth glows with the intensity—emblem of full man hood. Then comes a whiteness to the coals. The boat lessens. The flickering shadows have died along the wall. The fagots drop apart, j The household hover over the ex piring embers. The last breath of smoke has been lost in the chim ney. Fire is out. Shovel up the wl ite remains. Ashes! A girl may bo a good violin, player and yet not be able to draw a beau.—N. Y. Journal. A New Hampshire woman claims that she has not broken a plate or cnp for thirty years. Ilcr husband must tie remarkably well behaved.--Burlington Free Press. A Maine former says that a cow can be cured of kicking by catching hold of her leg while in j the act. Just so; and a bee can i be cured of stinging by catching hold of her sting while in the act —Chicago Tribune. Subscribe for the PlCAYUNK. boms from Rer. Ham Jones, tho Georgia Erangcll at, "We see God all around us. The mountains are ftod’s thoughts up heaved. The rivers are God’s thoughts in motion. The oceans are God’s thouglits in pearls I believe that the whale swal lowed Jonah and the only reasiii I don’t,believe that 5onb,h sWaUowr ed the whale is because tho Bible don’t say so. You don’t believe what you dp not understand. Do you uuclcr* stand why some cows have horns and some are mbley? You don’t believe what yob don’t see. Did you ever see your back bone!’ ’ ( Tho hardest thing for me to Be lieve are the Ten Commandments and the sermon on the mount. Custom is the law of fools and is running this country. God pity the man who can't ran his home withont a deck of cards. He ought to have been in hell long before lie’’’ad children born unto him. 1 hsed to dance, but wb«e« I wanted a wife { went to the pray er-meeting, aud i'erft tort, too. If any man don’t like wlrnt I say, let him come to ine ttt.i*! say bo, aed 1’ft forgive him. You dance with this world and you’ll go to hell with this world. I lnve no respect for Mahone’s polities, hat I like his answer to the I question how much lie weighed, ho ! 1 said: “I weigh nine-five pounds ! hut ninety pounds of that is back I bone.” i .ii . ii. Home tret; tlmik they have hack hone, but it is nothing but a cot' ton string run up their hacks. There is more religion in laugh, in# Chan in cryihg. If religion consists in crying. I have the best boy iu the world. I -photograph your own ugliness, and yon sit here and laugh ht it You ought to be ashamed. When the doctor says you can't live but an hour you’ll want just ; such a pVeacher as is talking to you. God bores through the top of a man’s bead to bis heart and on down to hit; pocket The lawyer who knows a little about Blackstone and the Supreme Court reports th lie average Chris - tiau does about the Bible, would never have but one case. The sheriff would be his nest client Bed liquor and Christianity won’t stay iu the same hide. In a Georgia town a number of girls married men to reform them, ami now the town is full of Httto whipoorwill widows. How lovely is a patient woman. God pity the man who has A fork ed- tougued wife. The matter of church doctrino-is an accident. If my mother and Brother Witherspoon’s mother had swapped babies he might have been a Methodist preacher. The devil is to6 much of a gen tleman to stay where he is not wel come. The churches of Nashville fur nish whisky to the surrounding country. Some of our wholesale liquor dealers belong to the church. If Brother Barbee would draw the line where the Lord wants him to draw it, there would not he a hundred members left in the church. The back door of the church Ought to be opened once a year and give all who have not lived up to the rules an opportunity to pass out. Storekeeper.—“I aui getting tir ed of this dfclay, and want you to square up your accounts or I will -” Customer—“I)o yon mean to say you want me to pay you the money I owe you?” “Certainly. What else should I want?” “Now, look here; only a mouth ago your book keeper ran off with every cent you had in your store, didn’t he?” ‘Yes, but-” “Well, now, as a frieud I advise yon to leave my money with me, where it will be safe,”—Philadelphia Call. • FOSTER & LOOM Hardware * WFST MAIN&T., Prescott, Aransas • i, « GENERAL DPALHRSIN hardware MILL AND Fin ucmft, mn nun STOVESi TINWARE, AND FINE CUTLERY • First Hass Tin Shop in conneta tion witlitUo store. Jan. 1, ’84 NEW iwmmmfc GILMAN 4 BRIL PROPRIETORS, PRESCOTT. ARK.. TjNiNIWT BiiKfjlo*. llarka and Horn. ” nouthwcst Arkanwu. mS Ilucks all bran now. Finest outfits for drummers. Gentle saddle hemes Sir lain. TERMS REASONABLE-. Good Wagon Ifard Affochei. At Whit«’« Stable, formerly Edward* mil Carr, East Main titfyt. - HEADQUARTERSE6E CHRIST*! GOODS. </. H. KERSHAW &C(k WERT FRONT STREET, Have just received the lermrt and Rest He)acted stock of Obneb mas Toys ever exhibited in Pm# cott. We Itftve also a Well Select ed stock of Faucy and Family Groceries, all of whin we pro* pose to sell at pricea that defy competition. Nev. 13th. J. M. JOST, MERCHANT TAILOR. PRESCOTT. ARK. Afl Work done in best of stylo, and J?o<dl Bt.« given. Price* As tew As usual. Hoad* Dig done BCntly and espeditiouslf. W. L. GAINES, BOOT!SHOEMAKER. WEST FRONT street, PRESCOTT. v IRE. DAN WARD iTns refitted hia aaloon and built a freezer ao that Ida famous Aa lieuser Beer and hia wihes are al ways ready to be served to hie numerous patrons ice cold, lid lias on hand the largest stock vt whiskies ever brought to Prescott md invites the farmers to give him a call before making a purchaza saewbere. Prices always aa loer llthcdlowest. Thebes! oforded eolvc* at ell time*.