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Des Arc weekly citizen., 1869-02-16
Startling Case 09 France.

A number of our city physicians went out to Burlington yesterday, to investigate the case oi' child which for twenty days has beena trance The caseis pronounced one of the most remarkable that ever came under the notice of the mcd cal fac ulty, and there IS little wonder that it ere ates something of Il sensation.
 A lit le daughter, twelve years of ago, named .Mina, oi Cagis,ain kauseh, a Ger. man farmer, living about one and q half miles from Burlington, Racine county, n m this State, has severe attack ot meas les aud d,pthoria. She had nearly reeoy cred from these on the Sth of January, wien she caiied her father to her bedside and told him, she was going to sleep, and that she should sleep for long time She said she should look as though she were dead, but she should not be dead; and she made the father promise that he would not bury her, which promise, it may readily be supposed, has been faithfully kept, Soon after making the request. the child, to all appearances, sank quietly and peacefully into her last sleep. By all it was supposed Nina WIS dead, and the body was enshroudcd and placed in coffin. Aiter the sleep the body showed no signs of death, although the pulse aad the heart ceased to perform their pulsations. and no device could show The respiratory organs were ln use. The eyes closed
 In this state .hina has lain for twenty ,la rs x,itlunt a star,, af lilo and with mn sigu of death, other than sinking of check and eyes, which would be natural with one who had fistel so long period.
 Three days ago a vein was tapped and blood flowed as naturally as it would in living person. A blister raised on the flesh precisely as it would on that of enc alive. A neisbor of Mir Rausch told our reporter that he had pressed fnger on on the hand of the. g,rl fer flesh was solid, and upon taking away the finger the spot was white In iew seconds the color came agaia. precisely as it would if the flesh of living person were pressed in the same manner
 Under these circumstances 1t is reason. able for parents and friends to believe that the child lies in trance, and there is lit. tie wonder that the case is attracting so much attention among the medical faculty It will be watched carefully to the end, and with interest. A large number of persons have visited the house of Mr kausch, and all express themselves as lost in an s.amazement at this strikinglv strange affair.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1869-02-16
NEwspAPERs.

The Hearth and Home comes to us with nnfaiing regularity, and we count it quite an acquisition to our exchange list. With the last number (Feb. 13th) was sent as a present to it's subscribers beautiful print, entitled '.The Pet of the Village" The Hearth and Home is first-class family journal and worthy of success. It is published by Pettengill, Bates & Co. New York, at S4 per annum.
 We have received copy of the Universalist Herald, Published at Notasulga, Ala. It is issued semi monthly at S2 per annum. Any of our readers who entertain the Univcr- salist faith and want an advocate of that religion should send for copy of the Herald.
 The Chicago Courier is q monthly paper, published at Chicago, H., and devoted to the iNtcrst of commerce, finance ana education, IL is neatly rsinted on the best quality of news print, and furnished Subscribers at Sl per annun.
 The Arkansas Hector, which q short time ago resumed publication as . Democratic paper, has been sold to Mir Fred. K. Lyman who now pub fishes it under the new title of the De Witt Sentinel, at De Witt, Ark, The Sentinel is Radical in politics. with the name of Edmund R. Wiley as editor. Thus it is that one after an- other of our Democratic opponents arc forced to give way for the want of patronage and support. The unjust and unconstitutional law of the State that forces all legal work to be printed in some paper designated by the Gov crnor is protecting the freedom of the press" with vim. How long will such law disgrace the statutes of the Slate? Are not our Radical brethren of the press willing to enter the field of open and fair competition?
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1869-02-16
 Wsiat it Costs tO support Con- CsGSS.

Gath" writes from Washington to the Chicago Tribune, as follows:
 The appropriations for the Senate for the next year are put down at Si3U.- 600, or, with seventy-two Senators, abou. ten thousand dollars apiece. The Representatives require, mean-time, two millions of dollars. These appro- priations can be largely reduced. A great burly fellow, named Jones, is "Keeper oi the Senate Stationery" al- though a sinecure office, al a salary Of S2l02 Every Senator has one and q fraction oia servant, there being about eighty rctainers to the Senate, besides promiscuos excess of runners, police men, tiremen, and altogether about half a regiment Of spongers-Jones being lrobabiy tie idiest and fattest.
 The Congressional printer. forced to take regiment of droncs he does not want, expends according to expecta- ton, about Sl,400,0O0, but in the end this and other estimates nave to be pua- ed up by extra congressional appropri- ations. The library Of congress de- mands about fifty thousand dollars, thirteen thousand of which goes to buy books. and seventeen thousand dollars, having nothing to do with the H. brary, is approx rlated to certain remote botanic gardens.
 The working expenses of the library per SC, are extremely cheap and dimin- ished and the appropriation to buy books is one of tnc most iusufiicrutin the enumeration. Yet, for very shames sake Congress has tackled on to the library expenses the cost oi raising bouquets for the parties ottheir house. holds, 100 many of which get to the bosoms of cyprians to make them pre- sentabic in the lobbies of the Capitol.
 The most modest, the mightiest and Vel the mite est appropriation is for that library, an instiiu,ion of which many Congressmen know nothing, but whose quiet treas ures atone for much ignorance, ilitcracy and nisinlorina- ton wlicA one sees in the Hanks oi fle Capitol.
 Altogether the two Houses of Con gress demand for the coming year So,- 3oau0o. according to their ownes,imatc rendered by the Secretary oi the Treas urv. This is about half the cost of the Capitol building, yet how small is t compared to the sums Congress throw away in corrupt enterprises of winch we never hear twice. The Sntro tun- mel. so near passing, would have cost, if mistake not, S7,o00,000 at pop.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1869-02-16
EDITORIAL MEaAxGE.

The fifth convention of the Missis- sippi Press Association convened at Holly Springs on the 2nd inst. An
 essay OH '.The Newspaper Press" was read by J. A. Signaigo, editor of the | Grenada Sentinel. It adjourned to
 meet at Canton on the first Tuesday in | September, 1869. The Memphis papers
 are trying to reform their street rail-
 road system, and promise to ven,ilatc
 the matter until cheaper fare and more
 convenience are attained. Mr. Mof- fet, distinguished Canadian orator i and lecturer is now lecturing at the
 Assembly Hall, Memphis. A cores pondent of the Memphis Avalanche says that Generals Marniaduke, Beall, and Basil Duke, of Confederate noto- ricty, arc living ill St. Louis, the two former in the commission business and
 the latter practicing law. A United
 States soldier was shot and killed by one of Brownlow s militia on the night of the 10th, in Nashville. Tho coro- ner's jury rendered verdict of delib- crate murder The bill appropriating S25.000 10 pay additional expenses Of the militia passed the Arkansas Senate
 on the 9th inst. IL also passed a bill
 on the day following, authorizing the
 Governor 10 appoint Collectors of
 Revenue in each county to hold office
 Tour years. A vote was had on the
 10th inst, in which five oi the Commit-
 tee on Reconstruction voted against
 admitting Mississippi with the present
 government aud the constitution pro-
 vided by the constitutional convention
 which was voted down by the peo-
 ple-and three for it. The Tennessee
 Legislature is busy Investigating
 frauds ia the management of the
 school fund. During the counting of the electoral 4otes for President aud
 Vice President ef the United States in
 Congress on the 10th inst, an attempt
 was made to throw out the vote of Georgia. The House voted to exclude
 and the Senate agreed to accept the
 vote. Grant and Colfax were declared elected. The execution of Whalcn,
 the murderer of Darcy McGee, was
 to take place on the 1lth inst. He ac-
 knowIedged to being present, but de-
 nies firing the shot that killed McGee. 1 The Memphis Ledger of the 1lth says ] that negro as black as the ace oi |spades was in several dry goods stores in that city on the day before with a pretty waite wife. They were said to
 have been from Jackson, Miss. Gem erals Babcock and Porter have made tour of the south and arc to make a detailed report. They find nothing
 particularly wrong except in Georgia.
 wherc the poor negro cannot hold of
 flee. Tennessee and Arkansas arc all
 right with their present Governors.
 Let us have peace The argument ofthe McCardle case was postponed
 from the 2d to the 10th of this month. The notorious outlaw, Cullen Baker,
 has been killed. The Office of the 1 Washington Telegraph, publishedsat ! Washington, Ark, is offered for sale. ! Eatesvile. Ark, is 10 have Il new
 courthouse. Tho wholesale boot. and shoe trade of Louisville amounted to
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1869-02-16
HAMBURG, ASHLEY Co, ARK,
 April i. 1868.

We the undersigned. Druggist of Ham, burg, do hereby certify that we have sold Dr. E. A. Lowdermills Compound Fluid with great success. and in our stock of Patent Medicines, there are none that sell so ready or command greater inquiries from our hundreds of customers We have never heard word of aught or condem- nation of the justly popular Compound Fluid. All Druggist would do well to purchase a supply without delay, as there can be no doubt of finding sale for it as soon as introduced
 R. II. DICKENS < co.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1869-02-16

LowDERMILL's COMPOUND FLUID We received early last year bottle of this fluid, to test in the case of caked breast. One application entirely removed it, allay ed great suffering, and doubtless prevent ed broken breast, which had three times followed tho same indication, in spite of the best physicians. We give it our un- qualified indorsement as an invaluable medicine for that terrible complaint, and advise every mother to provide herself with it Tennessee Baptist.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1869-02-16
A Terrible Affair.

Special Dispatch to the St. Louis Democrat. l
 LOUISVILLE, January 20 -On the zuth Instant negro nian entered the residence of Mrs Haldeman. near Owens boro, Davss county, in broad daylight, and m the presence of the terrified family. committed brutal outrage upon ATS Haldeman, who was encieute. The negro was captured next day and committed to jailin Owensboro Mrs. Haldeman is n highly respectable married lady, and the outrage created intense excitement. Wednesday night last the udiynant citi- zeos foreibly took the uegro from the iail and hung him to the nearest tree in the jail yard. which had opccsbcfere been usei ior similar purpose The negro enfsssed his guilt
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1869-02-16

When an officer of the American navy reaches the age of sixty. and his further usefulness becomes doubtful he is placed npon the retired list. II he has attained to the rank ot Rear-adini- raj us well as to gray hairs, his country bestows on him The sum of two thou sand dollars year; Ii Commodore, his income is eighteen hundred dollars; {; while if he has the misfortune to be only Il Post Captain, he receives sixteen hundred dollars.
 "A living calf with three horns and three eyes is on exhibition al Houston Texas.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1869-02-16
THE PR EsIDENT ELECT.

The fourth of March will soon be here and after it comes the inaugural address and message of the President elect. These documents may probably throw somc light upon the course to be pursued by our next executive. It Is hardly te bc expected that he will disappoint the party that has placed him in power as did Mir. Johnson
 althou.rIl we might hope for as much from him now as we could have from Mr. Johnson ii lsG5. Then Mr
 Johnson was considered 10 bo in bad odor withthe South, and piscsd, ss hc
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1869-02-16

over three million of dollars for 1868, an increase over 1867 of 50 per cent. Three hersethicves were taken from the jail in Dyersburg, Tenn, few nights since and shot dead in the streets
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1869-02-16
The Best Way You Cau Spend $s 50

Is to subscribe for the DIES ARC CITIZEN for one year. and we will send you the AMERICAN STOCK JOURNAL Acknowledged by those who have read it to be the best pa- per of it's class in the United Siates) for one year as q premium. We have made this arrangement in order to have great inducement 10 offer our farming and stock raising friends and to increase olir subscription lists aud influence beyond that of any other country paper, while at the same time we wish 10 create desire to raise better stock here than hitherto.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1869-02-16
IF YOU HAVE ANY PRIDE IN Home Illstit utiOn s.

Make up list of names and send them, with the money, and We will perform our part. We are wording with all the enerey and capacity we possess 10 priist cheap paper and one that wiilmeet the wants of our people IL takes money to run q newspaper, but if We are properly supplied wi.h the one thing ncedful, through the support of those who are directly interested, we promise to keep pace with the tiaes and pre- sent now improvements and attrac- tions as we are justified in doing 90. Think well Of the matter and we are confident you aill see the advantage of patron,ling home institutions.
 Address
 POE X MATHEWS,
 nss ARG, ARxAKsAs
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1869-02-16

Our stock of Cotton Scrapers, Steel Hoes, Trace Chains, Axes, flames, Collars and Harness, Oats, Seed Potatoes, Garden Seeds, Ne, &c., is large and complete. We invite examine our stock and prices.
 febl6f STEWART, GWYNNE & co.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1869-02-16

In presenting this Medicine to the public we take pleasure in assuring it that it is no humhug-no quack nostrum; but that it will most. .assuredly do everything for which it is recommended; for the truth of which we re- fer you to a number of gentlemen who have tried it in their own families with unparal- lelled success. See them personally or ad- dress them by letter if you have any fears as 10 the correctness of the certificates. It is great pleasure we take in saying to the suffering world that safe and sure rem edy is here offered to ease their aching pains, and you need suffer no longer, but try Low 'dcrmill's Compound Fluid, for it will cure. 1t is home discovery and only needs trial, Great inducements to agents to travel 4 good chance to make money--give us q call. A liberal discount to all druggists. Ministers of the Gospel one bottle free. Prepared and sold by
 F. X. LOWDERMILL
 and
 JEROME HARALS0N;
 Des Are, Arkansas.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1869-02-16
AUSTIN MALE AND FEMALE SEMINARY Austin, Prairie County, Ark.

The third sem-annual session, under the control of Prof. V. X. Garner aud Lady, as sisted by accomplished teachers in the vari- ous departments of the school, will commence Monday. February Ist, 1869, and continue twenty -one weeks,
 CHARGES PER SESSION. Incidental fec 50 cents. Tuition in the Literary Department from Sl3 to s25. Draw ing, Painting. Embroidery, etc., from Si0 to S20 Music S2a. Board (ineluding washing anu lights) from Sio to SIP per month. Pupils will De charged from date of en- trance till the close of tue session. pedue- tions made only in cases of protracted illness.
 VIM. SAUNDERS.
 Pres Board of Trustees. WI nosSrlL, secy. janl9m
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1869-02-16
Tuesday Morning, Feb. I6, 1869.

The CITIZEN Is NOT the OGi- CiaI Organ Oft;i Radical Party. It Is not the Recipient os' FORGED Patronage: bsss reIies on its own Merits and On a Dfscrins mating PUBLIC. for success.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1869-02-16
TO BUILD UP 4 HOME PAPER,

That will rank st-class, nothing is necessary but for its own people to encourage it with generous support and it will rise in worth just in pro- portion to tho support given it.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1869-02-16
FLOWS, FLOWS, PLOVSI
AyERY's CAST FLOWS,

Which we are selling at the following re
 duced prices: No. IS, with extra point, Si co Nos. and II, with extra point, $i 50 LARGER FLOWS EQUALLY CHEAP.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1869-02-16
mARusED.

On the 1lth inst, at the residence Of Rev. N. E. Gair. by Rev. J. c kenne- dy, Mir. U. J. Barnett and Mrs. Susan e. Russell.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1869-02-16
IDIEs,

In this city on tho 18th inst., Philip Moore, aged 22 years.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1869-02-16
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Des Arc weekly citizen., 1869-02-16

Bay The following advertisement is published for the benefit of our White county readers:
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1869-02-16
SPEND YOUR HONEY AT HOME

And it will flow hack to you iu some shape. as large amount ci our earn ings are spent in your midst for the necessaries of life. which is not tho case when you send to a distance for paper
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1869-02-16
82 5O-
IT IS A GOOD INVESTMENT

To subscribe for the DIES ARC CIT HEN, as you will get two papers, either of the two being fully worth the subscription price you pay out.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1869-02-16
LOWDERrHlLL's Compound Fluid FOR THE CURE OF

Pneumonia, Neuralgia and Rheuma- tism, Enlargement of the Spleen, Kidney Affections, Cramp or Bilious Collie, Sore Throat, Headache, Earachc, and
 Toothache. Also,
 Painful Mcn-
 struation; To Prevent Abortion, Rising or Caked
 Breast, &c., &c.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1869-02-16
TFyoU wAE9 Cheap Reading Matter,

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Des Arc weekly citizen., 1869-02-16

Special attention 10 chronic or ulccred sore legs, cancers and cases of rheumatism. Patronage respectfully solicited.
 Office on Buena Vista street. jan5-3m
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1869-02-16
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Every new subscriber for the DIES ARC CITIZEN will get the AMERI- CAN STOCK JOURNAL as pre- mium for one year. This makes the CITIZEN by far the cheapest pa per published in the State, its sub scription price being only
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1869-02-16
INSURANCE BY THIS LINE

Less than by any other. Every attention given to interests of Shippers. Freights for points apove Little Rock. on the Arkansas river, VIII receive special attention. APPLY to J. W. ROBERTSON. Sup't Memphis and Little Rock faii-
 road, Little Rock.
 II. D. PARKER, General Freight Agent, Little Rock. JOIN E. DAVIS, Sup't Memphis and White River Pack
 ct Co.,, Memphis.
 LARRY HARMsTAD 4 Co.,,
 Steamboat Agents. Memphis. LEVY & MILLER,
 No. Jefferson Street,
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1869-02-16
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Freights delivered at the door of the
 Consigncc in Little Rock.
Des Arc weekly citizen., 1869-02-16
Route Open at all Seasons of the Year

Thus saving Shippers Time, Trouble,
 Drayage and vacations of delay.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-28
SCIENCE NONPLUSSED.
Remnrknble EfTect ofIIabtninr.

~N--N--N~--@AN
The case Of Mrs. Birney, near Tippecanoe,
Harrison co.. OHIO is a remarkable one. AT the
age ofeighteen, while pitching a load of hay from
wagon into NOV, she was struck by light
ming which paralyzed the right half of her body
from the crown of her head down. She was
entirely insensibe for the space of two hours.
She recovered from the effects of the stroke, and
at the age of twenty-three years married her
husband. About twenty-three years ago she
was suddenly taken i'll, as was supposed, and
while in an unconscious state delivered a reli-
gious discourse.
From that time until the present these spells
have come upon her regularly every two weeks.
AT hrst they occurred on week days, but for the
past twenty years they have invariably happened
on Sunday at 10 o'clock A. NJ, when, rain or
shine, summer or winter, whether there be a
crowd or only her family present, she regularly
passes into an unconscious state, and delivers a
religious discourse always one hour to an hour
and thirty minutes in DURATION and of the truest
orthodox stamp. She always feels unwell
for hours before and after the delivery of a SER
mon. She says she feels painful pricking sem
sation in the right half of her body, which begins
several hours before and lasts until unconscious
ness takes place. Between the spells she feels
perfectly well, and performs her household
labors as vigorously as if she were many years
younger than she really is, being now in her
eighty-second year.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-28
THE END or THE RACE

The agony of the season is overxend two ma
tions breathe freer to-day than they did yes
terday morning. The great boat-race has
been lost and won, and the result, if not as
satisfactory as it might be to the dwellers on
this side of the Atlantic, cannot be said to be
n disappointment. The Harvard crew,
although they failed to win the victory, have
done themselves credit from first to last, and
their pluck in meeting the Oxford crew on
their own ground, and in yielding all the
preliminary points which were insisted upon
by their opponents, thus placing themselves
at disadvantage in the beginning, are points
to be considered in their favor when esti-
mating the value of the work done by the
two boats. If the crews were about fairly
matched in the beginning, the disabilities
under which the Harvards labored rendered
it almost impossible that they should win, and
while every American hoped that they would
come in ahead, there were very few, if any,
who expected that they would; and it is safe
to say that no very large sums of money will
change hands on account of the Oxford vic
tory. 1t is gratifying to believe that the race
was fan one in every respect, and that it
was what such affairs ought always to be, an
honorable contest of strength, science, and
skill between gentlemen.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-28
DESPERATE.
Fearful jump bv n Convict.

Yesterday afternoon Officer Hale started from
Fitchburg with a fellow named Frank Francis
in charge, who had just been sentenced to the
State Prison for four years for pocket picking.
The convict was handcuffed, and sat in the
smoking car two seats from the door, the officer
sitting in the seat opposite him, and talking
with the conductor. All of a sudden Francis
started from his seat rushed to the door,
opened it, and jumped from the platform while
the cars were going at the rate of forty miles
an hour. The officer started and grabbed
him by the coat just as he jumped but his hold
failed and the fellow got away. The cars were
at once stopped and parties started in pursuit.
They found the bushes, and telegraph pole
where he jumped Off covered with blood, but
though they searched for hours they could not
find the prisoner. The place where he jumped
was near Lincoln, in the woods where there is
thick growth of underbush, in which he probably
secreted himself, The impression of those who
searched for him, judging from the blood
spilled, was that he was so badly injured that
he would not live. Warden Haynes offers $50
reward for his arrest.-BOStOn Journal