Des Arc weekly citizen., 1869-02-09


 permanent situation at this office.
 esS-Thc man Jones, who was arres- ted few days ago for horse stealing, was brought up last Saturday and given in charge of deputy sheriff Brock, for inc purpose of being confined in the town prison, the county having no jail of its own.
 g&a-0 Our old frend B. F. Johnson who was wont to hand the ''rule and stick" 1" left us on last Saturday morning to visit his people in Maryland. We hope Washington, as he may have something to say about the euriosities of the place especially that side wheel craft that is now running on ore wheel. Send us an item, old friend, or we will never divide our twist" with you again.
 
 WIFE MogHER AND SIsrER.-Who have been neglected and permitted to fall into that state of i'll heath which blaaches the checks, facilitates the system, paralyzes the nerves. harrows the soul and hastens 10 the grave, should not fail toprocure the English Female Bitters,3 and il will arouse and restore nature. remove Instructions, relieve monthly suffering, add beauty, give intellect, color the pale, and give satisfaction to all. See advertisement. FIRE.-I.ast Friday morning, about g o'clock, the kitchen of MT. J. Sims Allen, living in the southwestern part of the town, caught fire from some un- known cause and was totally destroyed. There was no one at home when the fire occurred It was with much diifi- culty that the flames were prevented from reaching the other buildings.
 gSy~It will be but a short time until the Citizen will enter upon its fourth volume of the new series, and before that time comes round we want 10 have larger list ofnames on our book, than we have ever had since the war. None can complain at the price, for it Is al- most nomlnal, no profit accruing from subscribers unless we had as many as two thousand. We would like for our friends to take an interest in the Citi- zen, and help us make it a iirst-class paper They are directly interested, for they want a paper here that will try to represent the Il in the right light. Let every body take an interest in pro- curing us subscribers and sending us all kinds of news items. We want to give more of the local news of the country around us, but cannot get it until it becomes stale. Read the inducement we offer in our advertise- ment, and think well of the matter.
 ksg- When we sat down it was with the calculation that there was some local news of some sort that we could make an item of, but we "take it all back" Nothing ever happens thai might be accounted passing strange ir this moral community. Some might count this peculiar blessing, which we will mol attempt to deny but is il not rather hard on ye local who is ex' pected to find something in the course of a week that would be new ana worth the telling? We rather feel tha it is. While we are thinking about it we will tell our readers that they neet not expect anything very startling t' happen in this particular section, o meek ofthe woods" There does no seem to be any disposition manifested on the part of any ono to do anything that might appear out of the regular line of conduct followed daily. No body ever sends us anything 10 mak' us feel funny, or to try to hang our ha up on the ground, nod 10 post on tn corner, or to feel srich generally. WI are denied the bissful vision of seein: the houses on Buena Vista street dane fig, or the Harvey House and tn Missouri Hotel taking drink togetho out of White river. The time wa when these things were not so. Bu those halcyon days have flown, and il their stead comes this "aching void whereof we complain. Sympathiz with us ye fortunate ones who go fort with note book and pencil and retur not until ye are we'll laden. Bear wit us oentle reader. you who expect {