Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-08-18
yoTE FOR PROSECUTING ATTORNEY IN I'll
 SIXTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT.
News Items.

The Ice cream saloons ot New ork, are beds of iniquity. The city papers are exposing them. The amount of liceutiousness carried on in them is almost beyond belief They are the graves of the virtue of thousands of women.
 very "artful dodge' was lately prachcel in an eastern city. A fashionably dressed female called in jeweier shop and bought several very valuable articles These were handed to her as she sat in chair, on a stool by the coun- ter. She carefully put the articles in small box that she held in her lap, and after carefully locking it, placed it on the end of the counter, saying that she had some other purchases to make, after which she would call for the box and pay for its contents. Some time after she had gone, the proprietor of the store having occasion to move the box, was surprised at its lishtness and upon examining 1t, found it had no bottom. The woman no doubt had a pock et in her dress in which the articles were dropped through the box.
 MT. Barnard Housman. citizen of Cincinnati, died last Sunday evening week. He was one of the oldest residents of the city, He was taken sick three weeks ago, and on the first day said, ''In three weeks shall die" His milk man was present, and told him he should not talk so. He asked the mlkman what he would bet on 1t, and after some conversation it was agreed that if he died in three weeks the milk man was to supply the family year for no- thing, and if not, double price was to be paid | for milk one year. This Was done iestinglv by the milkman. Mir. Housman insisted daily that he would die just at the time mentioned, and prepared accordingly. His prophecy proved | trne.
 difficulty occurred lately, at Versailles Kv., between Thomas P. Porter, and Hon. Tom. F. Marshall. Porter choaked Marshall and chal- lenge was sent. They are, both fighting men. l Quite spicy debate took place in the Meth odist general conference lately held in Nash vile, on proposition to amend the "Discipline'' of the church by striking out the rules respect ing dress. The article on that subject has the following passages:
 Receive none into the church till thevD have left off superhuous ornaments Give no tickets to any that wear high heads. enor nous bonnets, ruffles, or rings" The putting on of gold and costly apparel is also, in another place, reckoned among sins to be avoided.
 The Rev. Mir. Lush, of Mississippi, tue nov er of the resolution to strike out, contended that the law was dead letter, and that it was a 'scandalous inconsistency that the precept and practice of the denomination should be so wide | ly at variance with each other
 The speaker was very severe upon his brother ministers for wearing gold spectaces He said the glass would magnify just as we'll if set in steel or iron. He denounced gold studs, gold watch-chains, gold headed canes and diamond breast-pins with much tervor.
 "Another speaker was for bringing the prac- tce of the people up to the standard of the Dis clpline, instead of accommodating the discipline to the practice of the people. He thought 1t very ridiculous to admit that superhuty of dress was wrong, and then expunge the rule because people would not comply with it.
 <Another contended that the rule against 'su- Epcrhuous ornaments did not apply to such things as spectaces and walking canes. He agreed, also, that even if these things were forbidden, there was not a word in Scripture against the use of them by Dsen-that the precept applied exclusively to the woman'
 The Rev. Dr. Lee, of Virginia, was in favor of expungng He admitted that he had to use his gold spectaces to see what was in the dis cipline. He did not understand, and never had I understood it. What ornament was superhuousi