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NvOTICE.-EsTATR OF CHARLES BRowS, RAsES
~ Notice Is hereby gwen that the undersigned exec
tors of the last will and testament of Charles Brown a
OF the county OF La Sale and state of Dos decesseu
will appear before the County Court OF said county on @
third Monday (besg the 10Th day. of July 1875 az tne
Court House in Ottawa in said county when ana Sne,
are notified attend present the same IN wiring LOT az
iustment. &C.,
D''e' '''' So" ABBY BROWN,
RUSSELL X BROWN,
PnILlP &. WATTS,
may'j EAecu'o''
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NrOTICE,.-EsTATH OF JOHN WINDERs.-Public no
~ tice b hereby given, that there Is now remaining II
my hands 1900 belonging to the estate OF John Wnders who
died at Ssls In the county OF La Sale and state OF HI
nois on the 18th day OF April 1871 which amount SO re-
nanng in my hands Is the balance after payment OF all
Just debts and charges against said estate which came "
The knowledge the undersigned within two years after
the administration of said estate committed to me
All persons having claims demands ag ant said estate
are hereby notified to exhibit the together with thr
evidence In support thereof before the County Court Oh
said La Sale county within six months after the date Oh
notice, or the same will be forever barred.
Dated at Ottawa this It'll day OF April 1871
EDWARD G. LEWIS,
Public Admn!str aOr.
c. Il. GILMAN, Solicitor. apri-e"
The Van Buren press., 1874-07-07
We will yet Triumph"

This is what Joseph Brooks telegraphs
to the Little Rock Republican. What
does he mean-how hiumphs Is the
Convention to be .squelched and the
members sent home
WASHINGTON, June 90
The leading men here are strong for the
votes of the people, judgments of the
courts and republican government The
committee on Arkansas affairs starts for
Little Rock on the 10th Of July, and will
he present on the assembliaing OF the
Convention. We wiH get hiumph Let
the friends of good government and the
will of the people exercise all the rights
Of citizens regarless Of the militia.
JosEPu Brooks.
This IS significant, coupled with the
dispatch of same date, from old Joe, in
same paper, to Lee Tompson, to "be
sure and have Gen. Pagan elected as a
delegate to the Convention.
The Van Buren press., 1874-07-07
All Hail to Sebastian

Sebastian County, the former hot, bed
Of Joe Brooksism, has covered herself
with glory in the election of Puliam and
Fishback to the Convention. In the Ian.
guage Of the Fort Smith Independent
- Clayton, Dorsey, Mcclure. and the
whole Minstrel gang of Plunderers, rout-
ed, and nary militia at the polls"
The efforts in Fort Smith, of my SON
in-law, to defeat W, NJ. Fishback, was
unsuccessful, Notwithstanding the great
popularity Of Dr. Duyal But by the ef-
forts of j. Ii Rogers, Esq, who canvass
ed the whole county, and others. Colonel
Fishback was elected over DR.. Duval by
a majority of forty two votes. A few
noisy men at Fort Smith have learned by
this time, that they are not the County
of Sebastian, and that the voters outside
of town, propose to take a hand in the
elections. As at Van Burcn, all the
Radical leaders bent every energy for the
Brooks ticket, and against Pulliam and
Fisbback.
The Van Buren press., 1874-07-07

The election, Tuesday, passed fl very
quietly. A large vote was cast in Van
Buren Township, resulting in a majority
of % for James w Sangster, the Farm.
ers' candidate. We are the more graft
fed in the vote here, as well as in ther
County, as oil the Radical leaders, here.
toforc divided, combined and voted and
worked hard for the election Of Thoma
son, and it is to them alone that he is en-.
titled to any majority in the County. Fo
week before the election the Radical
leaders were active workers, and left no
stone unturned to accomplish the election
of Thomson.
We are especially pleased with the vote
Of Van Buren, here where Thomason's s
friends in the morning claimed two to
three hundred majority, as it shows to
the Farmer that the citizens of the town
have not the prejudice claimed against
the interests of the farming classes
Right at the home of Gen. Thomason,
where he labored and his friends labored
night and day for three weeks, he is beat
10y an "ignorant old Farmer" Gen
Thomson may thank his stars, that
Judge Sangster through sickness was not
able to visit the townships outside Of this
one. For week before the election he
was barely able to be about. But on the
other hand. Thomason, Wilcox and 9th.
ers, with all the Radical leaders, worked
necessarily in every township.
While we would have liked very much
for Judge Sangster to have been elected,
still we do not look upon the election as
defeat. The farmers brought out their
candidate under disadvantages, with
very short time for . thorough canvass
The Van Buren press., 1874-07-07
We warn tho Farmers

To look out for the "oflice- seekers
ring They have ordered 1000 bushels
of hay seed, and unless you are very oh
serving you will not be able to recognize
them, for with the seed in their hair. and
by great professions Of love will try and
palm themselves off as full hedged Farm
ers and Patrons. Look out for them.
The Van Buren press., 1874-07-07

to be made, but they have demonstrated
their strength, and it only remains for
them to 60 before the people this Fall,
with ticket, carefully and judiciously
selected, to sweep the County with
whirl wind.
Much credit is due the colored voters
of the Colony--they cast their votes al
most ntire for Judge Sangster, the Farm
er's candidate-although coaxed and Hat
tered and threatened by the Radical
Ring" at Van Buren, they would not
Weld, but voted like freemen for. the man
Of their choice.
Taking a survey Of the outlook, we
are pleased: Sebastian, Washington
Benton, Franklin and johnson, have
elected Delegates in the interest OF Gov.
Baxter and the good government OF the
State, and as far as we can learn, every
thing looks favorable for the friends oil
Gov. Baxter throughout the whole State.
The Convention is carried by vote oi
10000, and the Delegates elected are
largely in opposition to Joseph Brooks
and his rebellion.
If the aspiring" ofiiceseek"rs OF this
County, that have tackled themselves on
to the tail of Old Brind!e Brooks, eau
find any consolation in this election,
they are welcome to it. We shall glrd
on our armor for the Fall campaign and
shall = rattle our wooden nutmegs =
whether it peases the Thomson, Will
cox, Lockhart, Grady combination or
not We ask no office for ourself or Tor
any one else, and do not ask the ncmlna'
ton of any particular man or set OF men
only let the men put in nomination be
worthy.-worthy Of the support OF both
town and country without regard to their
location, and we shall give the selection
a warm support.
The Van Buren press., 1874-07-07
Radical Advice.

Already, Clayton & Cos. organ, the
Little Rock Republican, has commenced
intructing their faithful followers in what
is expected of them:
"wlLL THEY?"
"Wll such men as Gran Wilcox, OF
Crawford Poindexter Dunn, of st Fran
els; C. Thrower of Ouachita; David
Walker, jr, of Washington; Saunders
and Mangum of Phillips; Met l. Jones,
Of Jefferson; j. Nj, Cunningham Of Lin
coin; J. f. Cunningham Of Fulton, Nc
Cabe of Clark; NJ NJ. Dullie Of Dallas ;
James Mitchell Of Washington; l.. c.
Cause Of Jacksoh DR.. Mitchell and Col
Cravens, of Johnson County, and hun.
dred other young and active men Of the
state, place themselves under tire politica
charge of English and Garland, the
Woodrufs, Compton and their kind at
the capital, for the future? viii they
in the coming campaigns in this state
look to these men for advice and politi-
cal counsel, or will they, like men, look
to their own interests and that Of the
people in their various districts, regard
less Of the frowns and smilts OF the
Bourbon ring in this city? We think
they will do the latter. The young men
of the state must save it or it is hope.
lessly gone.-L. R Republican.
wa they! Or will they, look to Clay
ton, Mcclure, Dorsey and Little Rock
for counsel?
The Van Buren press., 1874-07-07
TUESDAY. JULY Z, 1874.
Thomason's Joilification !

The Radicals of Van Buren, with a
sprinkling of other parties, burnt little
powder and serenaded Gen'l Thomasor,
Wednesday night, over the beggarly IN;
jority of .ffty-thres, where they boasted
of having five or six hundred in the
county. After burning their powder and
charging themselves with wbiskey, a pro
cession was formed and marched to the
residence of Mrs Knox. where Thoms-
son is staying, and who was waiting to
receive them. We were not present. but
learn that Gen. Thomson made con
ciliatory speech.
The audience after some shouting and
cheering, broke up with that cid faml
liar refrain, John Browns body is
marching on" and that they would
hang old Sangster. Jack Brown, old
Turner and Dunham, on sour apple
tree" This was, perhaps, unexpected to
our friends Sangster, Brown and Turner,
and at a jollilication over candidate
who processes such undying love for the
"lost cause but we are accustomed to
the application to u.s. 1t has been sung
for our benefit, by this Clayton Bowen
party, at most every election since the
war, and notwithstand, we have "becn
hung on sour apple tree" off and on
the past six or eight years, we are still
marching on in the old track in opposi
ton to the plunderers Of State, whether
in high or low places. The only differ
ence, now, is that they have another man
Thomson, in the lead with Clayton,
Brooks h Co. We ask no favors at their
hands.
The beauty, however, of the jolifca.
tion, was that Brown and others were in.
vited to be present, clasp hands and bury
all past animoslies, but the true feeling
CROPPED oat at the close,..in hanging their
opponents on sour apple tree. They
deceived nobody in their mock friend
ship.
The Van Buren press., 1874-07-07

1t 1.-THE appointment of Gen Pagan
shows that Clayton and Dorsey, are
squoring IF their promises to the Brooks
ites."-L. H. Republican. Jaiy ls
Promises for what? Did Clayton and
Dorsey promise Pagan, if he would en-
ter into the Brooks rebellion that he
should have a good appointment in re.
turn9 Did Clayton and Dorsey "square
OF their promises, by appointing Fa.
gan U. S. Marshal Of the w Western District
OF Arkansas? What else can it mean?
The Van Buren press., 1874-07-07
Monday, June Sth. 1874,

in the Senate Chamber at the Capitol of the
State, in Little Rock, and will be IN session
for period OF thirty (3O) days, for the pur-
pose of receiving such claims, hearing proof
thereof and auditing the same.
Parties presenting claims will be required
to have the same verified by themselves or
their duly authorized agents or attorneys and
stating that the services were duly rendered
and the articles charged for are at the usual
market prices in the localities where the same
were furnished. In all cases where the par
ties hold certified accounts or vouchers from
officers. they must be presented along with
the verified statement of the accounts The
board reserves the right to require addition.
al testimony in regard to any claim present.
ed. The board will also expect the muster
rolls OF non commissioned officers to be pre-
sented. duly certified. As the time for nre-
senting claims il limited 1t is earnestly re-
qnested that all claims will be promptly pre-.
sented.
B. B. BEAVERS,
JNO B. BURTON,
j. Z. EAGLE,
Military Board.
The Van Buren press., 1874-07-07
Crawford County-Crops, &C.
EDITOR VAN BURES Press /:

EDITOR VAN BUREN PRESS
Having been over our County in the
past two weeks, and having good op-
portunity of inspecting our farming pros
poets, desire, through the columns OF
your paper, to let not only the people OF
our County but many others know that
old Crawford is rising in the scale Of
self sustaining, people, Since the late
war until this season you might have
traversed the length and breadth of our
County and you would see cotton, cot
ton, cotton, little corn, no wheat, few
hogs, cribs empty, and everything look
ing dull and unpromising, but | am de-
lighted to see quite different course be-
ing pursued by our farmers this year.
one which is calculated to encourage the
producing of more grain than heretofore,
thus making our County ffee from its
late dependent state upon Washington
and Benton counties, one which tends to
ennobe the pursuit Of tilling the soil,
thereby placing those who follow the
same in a position they might well be
proud Of.
This year what do we see? The most
beautiful fields of golden wheat, luxuriant
corn, fine oats, and once in while a
meadow of fine clover or grass-a hand
some piece Of the latter may be seen at
our old friend Hopkins on Little Frog
Bayou.a Some substantial and reliable
farmers have Informed me that they and
oth,rs that their neighbors have fields of
wheat that will make as high as twenty
five bushels per acre, which is an un-
usually good yield, and enough to EN-
courage and prompt our people to turn
their attention somewhat to the sowing
of small grain. The corn crop through
out the County looks very hattering,
prospect never better.
We must produce our own subsistence
or we will never be that free and indie
pendent community that our laws guar
antee unto us. If the farmers will con
tinue faithfully and perseveringly in the
way they have blazcd out this season,
that is, in the first place, raising their
own bread, meat, etc, then planting a lit
tie cotton for the market, they will un-
| doubtedly arrive in few more short
years to the elevation Of prosperity, and
the building up of firm enterprisine
and progressive people. They should
take courage, pick up self confidence, en-
courage schools, and untiringly press
onward to that mark of consideration
and respect that is olroys due but which
they often fail TO receive to that class o.
our fellow~mef that toll and labor fol
our as well as their own living.
l am Of the opinion that this commend
able course adopted by our farmers may
be attributed to the influence and work
ings Of the Patrons Of IIusbandry. If SC
| hope they will continue to improve
matters and exert themselves to raise tht
standard Of ossa.soil and climate, and un
ruri TUG wefcQEnmg banner to immigra
ton by showing by our productions tC
those who might wish to come among II,
that we have as good a country as tn,
sun shines upon, and that to be a farme
in Crawford county is neither to sin, tt
be disgraced, or to be mental slave.
| OBSERVER
The Van Buren press., 1874-07-07
Light Ahead.

The campaign is closed, the election Is
over and although the opposition elected
their man by scratch" /" they ale
whipped out completely. Although they
had what they called the Democratic
nomination and thereby secured the votes
of hundreds of good Democrats who did
not understand the true issue and sup
posed they were working in good faith
for their party. Also, they had the sup
port of the leaders Of the Radical Repub-
licans, and further had two weeks the
start, and got in by SO majority only.
Let our friends who are opposed to this
new combination of Clayton and Brooks
ties, led by few sore head Democrats,
take courage-that crowd is whipped
and they know it. They know very
we'll that had the people of Lafayette and
Mountain townships known that this was
a fight like the one recently at Little
Rock-a fight of the people against Clay
ton and his minons, as it really was
they could not have polled one-fourth
the vote they did. They need not sup
pose that the Stewards, the Fines, the
Wrights and many others we. might
name, were in sympathy with this new
combination Of Clayton, Brooks and
others-nor will they ever be; but that
they voted for Thomson supposing he
was a Dem ocratic, c,candidate--the nomi-
nee of that party. Let those opposed to
this combination take renewed courage ;
stand together, we are in the majority
and in the right, and will so show them
they cannot Clayton Brooksize this Coun-
t.. 1t is overwhelmingly Democratic,
anti Brooks, anti Clayton, anti Combina'
ton, and as an evidence OF which, we beat
them here in Van Buren, township, where
the question was understood and where
we run their champion 50 closely that he
had in the last speech to unload Brooks.
And they know too that they got many
votes here who were committed that they
can never get again. The new ring is
whipped
The Van Buren press., 1874-07-07
cT The Little Rock Republican of Il

EE The Little Rock Republican of the
Goth, says:
"There are strong grounds for believ.
ing the rumor that military governor
will be appointed to take charge Of Ar.
kansas until congress shall have settled
the matter"
This is the radical paper, that gives
advice to Gran Wilcox, Thomson, Jas
Mitchell, ETC., how to conduct themselves.
A military Governor-break up the Con
vention and put the state back into the
hands Of the thieves who have for the
past six years sucked its life blood.
The Van Buren press., 1874-07-07

VEfs- We learn that the Brodie Bros,
who keep stock of Groceries, etc, at
the upper end Of Main street, are taking
much pains to induce subscribers to the
Press TO stop the paper. Now, we wish
it to be distinctly understood, that if any
there are who do not wish to have our
paper. they are at liberty, at any time, TO
discontinue the same, without any hard
feelings on our part, We might, however,
in retaliation, advise the Farmers and
friends of Judge Sangster to keep clear
of this firm, as being as Objectionable to
Patrons and Sangster men as the Press
could be to the supporters of General
Thomason, but we do not wish to do SO.
The patronage however we, or any other
printer. has ever had from these young
men will neither make nor break any one
They have never been subscriber to the
Press, and it is curiosity with us to
know at whose expense they find the
Press so Objectionable
The Van Buren press., 1874-07-07
Van Buren Grange, No, 38,

RESOLVED. That we learn with regret
that reports are in circulation, that are un-
Just to Van Buren, Grange. No 80. That evil
disposed persons are industriously circulat-
ing this false report, to wit: That Van Bu-
ren Grange. No 80. met in Council and nom
mated James W. Sangster, as a candidate for
the Constitutional Convention" AsaGrange
we totally deny this foul SANDER and de.
nounce the originators and persons crcnlat-
ing the false reports as enemies to our order
and not worthy Of Patrons esteem.
DANIEL MICHAEL. WIN.
Ills HENRY SHELLEY, Sec.
Van Buren, July 2, 1874.
The Van Buren press., 1874-07-07

ky A ." New Party" is what Wilcox,
Thomason and the Radicals want, lin
which Clayton, Joe Brooks and all that
class Of men appear prominent. The old
National Democratic party is good
enough for us and they will not be able
to lead the large mass of the citizens OF
Arksnsss astray from it. They have had
snosgh Of Clayton, Brooks 4 Co. and
Seeonstruction.
The Van Buren press., 1874-07-07
Settling up for the Rebellion.

The Little Rock Republican of the 1st
OF July says;
1t (the appointmen: of Gen. Faean)
shows that Clayton and Dorsey are squar.
ing off their premises to the BrookitSs.
Business is business" Prompt set.
Elements, it is said, make long friends.
The Van Buren press., 1874-07-07
A Good Joke.

Sore OF those clever gentlemen and
standing candidates, who subscribed their
names to a charitable object on the day
of the election, in the hands Of George
Kyle, colored man, refused to pay when
called on because George did not vote
their way We forbear to give names.
The Van Buren press., 1874-07-07
Road Notice.

NOTICE Is hereby given. that On appmsrr ppnsr.
~ ton will be made to the Board oi ~, s,pr,,
vlsors Of Crawford County. at the Jniy law LAW,
1874 of said Board. to have said Boaru n,t ,ns
lay out and establish q County Road co".,"s sor.
at point on the Section line between .,
tions "a and 26 In township D. north rnns@o or
west, In said County. thus running alouEIsrr pIyor
near the north banks Of the Arkansas .m,h,ch m,h
and Lees Creek. to q terminal point wm@dd nosd
shall be the place OF intersection of said reac
so viewed. with county road known
Road District No. 10. and at or near the "v'd "nd
east corner OF Section 10, In said tow" "'D
range.
June 0,7i and osn'''
The Van Buren press., 1874-07-07
Notice =!

FINIIE undersigned. members of the "Mili-
l. tary Board " elected by the legislature.
to audit and allow claims for supplies furnish
ed. and for services rendered to the State,
during the late insurrcction, under an act of
the general assembly, passed May 9th. 1874,
entitled IAN act authorizing the issue of
bonds for the payment OF the expenses of the
militia and the present general assembly and
the appropriation aud disbursement of the
same" hereby notify all persons having any
such claims that they will meet on
The Van Buren press., 1874-07-07
Thomson Unloading.

General Thomson has already com
menced unloading Old Brindle. He
declares openly on the streets, that if the
question comes I'M ip thao n EanNs9iian i.a iH
" Old Joe, that he shall vote to sustain
Baxter as Governor Of Arkansas, until
he shall be deposed by the election Of
some other man How is that" for Joe ;
The Van Buren press., 1874-07-07

ET Hon. Seth j. Howell is elected
from johnson county, over Col Jordan
Z. Cravens. by large majority; not.
withstand,ng Col Cravens is very pop
ular man, Howell represented the Bax
ter element and Cravens the Brooks side
johnson gives Howell, AL majority,
and the Convention 1895 majority.
The Van Buren press., 1874-07-07
" Not for joe"

H" Old Brinie Joe" will not have
over twenty supporters Of his rebellion
in the Convention. How is that for an
endorsement of Baxter2