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The Van Buren press., 1874-06-09
PROCLAMATION OF ELECTION.

EXECUTIVE OFFICE,i
LITTLE Rock, Ark, May y, 1874 !
The State of Arkansas TO the Sherihs of the
several Counties, greeting:
WHEREAS, By an act of the General Assem-
bly, of the State of Arkansas, approved May
18th, 1874, it is provided that Convention
of the pie Of the State Is called to assem-
blc at Little Rock on Tuesday, the litIi day
of Judy, AID 1874, for the purpose of framing
IA new Constitution and providing for and
putting the same in force, ard that an election
shall be held at the several election precincts
Of every County of the State on
Tuesday, the 30th day of june,
\. ID. 1874. for the purpose of electing dele
gates to said Convention;
Now, therefore. |. Elisha Baxter. Governor
of the State of Arkansas, do hereby proclaim
that on Tuesday. the 30th day of June, A. ID.
1874, an election by the qualified electors OF
the State OF Arkansas in accordance with
said act will be held at the several election
precincts OF each County of said State for the
following number of delegates to said Con-
stituliOnal Convention from each County, re-
xnpptiN iNplN ta-wit
The Van Buren press., 1874-06-09
THAT COMMITTEE.
Dorsey, Bent. Turner and District
Attorney Harrington Swear
with ease,

The following dispatch explains itself
WASHINGTON, June B.
Gov. ELISHA BAXTER: We appeared
before the Congressional Investigating
Committee to-day as your representatives
and Gen. Pike argued the points in our
protest The chairman authorized us to
say to YOU that the committee has decld-
ed 20 visit Little Rock at an early day.
Mcclure, Turner, Harrington, Dorsey
and others had already testified with
much richness, and they swear with much
ease to an awful reign of terror, and that
the life of no one is safe who is not for
Baxter, but is right.
PIKE & JOHNSON.
We understand Harrington arrived
home Wednesday morning Weare sur
prised he should return to state where
reing of terror exists-L IT, Gazette.
And who is it here that rejoices with
Clayton & Co., that a Committee is com
ing to Arkansas, and, if possible, to
break up the Constitutional Convention,
and turn the State over to Brooks, Clay
ton and Co 1t is the same men, who
in their profound wisdom, contended that
the little Circuit Court Of Whytok's,
could make and unmake Governor
They are willing any thing, most shoulc
happen to the State, if their inordiaNt'
vanity is only satiated.
The Van Buren press., 1874-06-09

Cremation makes light Of grave
subject
The Van Buren press., 1874-06-09

The Shcrids Of the several Counties are
hereby required to cause said election to be
conducted according law.
In testimony whereof have hercunto set
my hand and caused the seal of the
L's state to be affixed. at the Exccu-
tive office, at the city cf Little Rock,
this 22d day Of MAY. A. D. 1874
ELISHA BANTER.
Governor Of Arkansas.
BY the Governor:
y. Nj. JOHNSON. Secretary of State.
The Van Buren press., 1874-06-09

|, p. X. ROoTs, Cashier of the National Bank of
Western Arkansas, do soemnly swear that the above
statement is true, to the best of my knowledge and
belief. p X. ROOTS, Cashier.
Sworn and subscribed before me this llth day of
May 1874. c. J. SWIFT,
Notary Public
Correct-Attcst
(Signed) B. BAER,
h. X. DUVAL, Directors
p, X. ROOTs,
The Van Buren press., 1874-06-09
NATIONAL BANK
Oh
Western Arkansas,

Fort Smith. State of Arkansas,
AT the close of business the ;27tn day Of Februa
w A. D. 1874
RESOURCES.
Loans and Discounts SSi $50 Il
t. :. Bonds to secure circulation 5000 %
Other stock bonds and mortgages 30li SS
Due from redeeming and reserve agents 10ll9 10
" " National Banks ,4Ii 80
a" " State Banks and bankers 7t0 II
Furniture and fixtures 1900 90
Premiums paid 1900 %
Bills of other National banks 4S00 %
Fractional Currency Gncuding nickel 2l} 50
Legal Tender Notes 81 900 90
slsG ,30s 50
LIABILITIES.
Capital stock paid in $4,000 %
Surplus Fund 2,750 90
Exchange 20 IS
Profit and Loss 3.136 50
Circulation Outstanding 1900 90
Dividends unpaid 6,062 so
Individual deposits 80, ,S33 56
Demand certificates Of deposit i,j0j 80
Time Certificate of deposits 5000 90
SlS6, ,3OS Is
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-08-06

1t cannot be possible that the man
whom you saw talking to me was Mr.
Gaylord. You surely must be trying to
play joke on me. | beg of you to tell
me that it was not he
Ok cannot, my dear; for it certainly
was he replied Miss Grace Why,
what is the matter, Clara? Didn't you
like him? If you did not, am sure you
will when you become acquainted with
| him. He is one of the most refined and
agreeable men in the world, and his wife
is just as agreeable as he is / thought
| that you were one of the most fortunate
of girls when your father told me that
they had consented to take you to board.
l wish that were in your place
49, ou'd wish you were anywhere but
in my place if you knew what
Miss Grace interrupted her in her
sentence by exclaiming:
Why, here is Mr. GAYLORD now
49, Mr.. Gaylord she said as he was
passing, without looking toward them,
this young lady, whom you were speak
ing to few minutes ago, is my friend,
Miss Clara Evans, whom we were expect
ing today
He turned, and, stepping into the
seat in front of them, gave his hand to
the young lady with who he had rode
thirty miles that morning, and smilingly
said:
How do you do, Miss Evans? 1t
gives me pleasure to make your &C
quaintance. When | first saw you, with
your books and packages, | felt pretty
sure that you were the young lady whom
we expected down from Summerville this
morning, and as soon as | heard your
fathers voice / was confirmed in my
opinion. Now that you know me, Miss
Evans, and know that | am not a carpen-
ter, you will permit me to take your
things for you and see you into a car
riage, will you not?'
AS he stopped and took her packages
from her, he asked, in a low tone:
Have you ever thought, Miss Evans,
that it would be well for the reyisers of
the New Testament to omit to state in
the new revision that Christ was a car
penter? You know some people might
feel so much greater reverence for him
if they did not know that humiliating
fact
She stood like one transfXed and
neither answered his questions nor OBJ
jected to his taking all of her bundles.
Then she meekly followed him out of
lhe cars. Her face was so crimson and
she looked so utterly crestfallen that
your tender-hearted aunt said that she
could not help plying her, richly as she
merited the lesson. But [ could not pity
her, Alice, she had shown such thor
Oughly selfish and disagreeable spirit
And | wished that the White-headed old
man had remained in the car long enough
to witness her discontinue [ think
that he would have said again: That is
just what she deserved And / told
your aunt so and she said that she hoped
that the poor girl would so profit by that
days experience that she would never
deserve to be so Inundated again"
And | hope, Uncle John" said Alice
in sOftened and subdued tone as Mike
came up to the door with the carriage,
that never again shall merit the re-
buke conveyed in your story."-N. 7.
Independent.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-08-06
Our Young Folks.
4 PRETTTER BOOK.
BY MRS. s. VI. Z. PIATT.

BY MRS. :. NJ. E. PIATT.
" He has prettier book than this
With many sob between. he said
Then left untouched the nights last kiss,
And, sweet with sorrow, went TO bed.
a prettier book his brother had,
~ let MOnder-plctures We're in each.
ne different cOlors made him sad;
Inc equal Yalue-could teach:
An who Is wiser: Here we sit
AROUND the worlds great hearth and look
While Life fre-shadows flash and hit,
Each, wistful, in another's book.
see, through fierce and feverish tears.
Only darkened hut in mine:
L Ct IN my brothers book appears
a palace, where the torches shine
y peasant seeking bitter bread
l. I'm II ne ne unwilling earth TO wiring
Is IN my book; the wine is red
Ihere IN my brothers for the King.
A wedding. where each wedding guest
mas wedding garments on. in his;
IN mine one face in awful rest.
one coffin never shut, there Is!
In ms on many bridge of beams
bet"gen the faint moon and the grass.
DRESSED daIntily in dews and Dreams
Inc meet midsummer fairies pass.
In mine unearthly mountains rise.
Unearthly waters foam and roll
And-stared at by its deathless ewes
The master sells the iend soul!
=. -. Put out the lights. We will not look
At pictures any more. We weep,
= My brother has prettier book"
And, after tears, we 90 to sleep.
". Y. Independent.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-08-06
FACTS 4Nb FIGURES,

About 100000 gallons of linseeG
oil are used annually in the United
| States.
The Iowa State Fish Commissioners
| have just planted 10000 'shad in the Des
Moines River.
Hartford estimates, from its new
directory, that it has now population OF
| 4S,161, which is an increase of over 10 DOC
from 1870.
The total amount of pig-iron manu-
featured in the United States in 1872
was 2,S54.55S tons; in 1873 the amount
rose to 2,S68. 276 tons.
Tomatoes were first used in this
country as an edible in the year 1919 hut
! they did not come into general use until
more than twenty years subsequent to
that date.
1t appears from returns to the De-
partment of Agriculture that an increase
in the corn area of fully 1000 600 acres
is apparent, or per cent. above the av-
erage of the last year
The number of pilgrims Who visited
the tomb of MahOmet at Mecca this wear
is said to have been 100000, and owina to
the precautions adopted by the Egyptian
Government their health has been I'M
usually good.
Some lover of statistics has found
out that of the 500 members of Congress
1913 are LAWYERS. so business men. 20 edit
ors, and Is farmers. There are about
10000 lawyers and 100000 farmers in
the United States.
There is one Westinghouse in Bos-
spectively at $4,000, $4,000, S1G3, 900,
$14S,000 $145,000, $141 900, S13O,OOO,
1927 900, 1925 900, $4,000; two at S115.-
900, one at $101, 900, and four at 800, 900.
The pencil mill at Castleton, which
has been idle for three or four wears, is
now being put in running order, under
the name and firm of the Vermont Slate
and Alum Company, and will soon be
turning out sc, 900 pencils day,
The latest estimate Of the total cost
of the new State House at Hartford is
81, 100000, this sum including the cost of
a marble dome Gnstead of wood and of
making the edifce tire-proof The Legis
lature at its next session will be asked to
appropriate 81 100000.
The public debt of Mexico acknowl-
edged by the Government, and including
the amounts thus far awarded by the
Mixed Commission, amounts to 81 ,464,-
273, which, divided among 100000 of
inhabitants, would be but $1.13 per
head.
There are 100000 beehives in the
United States. Every hive yields, on an
average, a little over twenty-five pounds
of honey. The average price at which
honey is solids twenty-five cents pound,
so that, after paying their own board, the
bees present us with a revenue of S.
100000
-Providence's new census divides its
population Of 99,6O8 into 1891 Ameri-
cans and 51,257 foreign, according to
parentage. The figures for voters are
given as 1885 of American birth and
2,759 of foreign, but good judges say that
the number of American voters is really
greater and that of foreign less The
ColOred population has more than doubled
in the last ten years, rising from I'LL in
1865 to 1907 in 1874
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-08-06
BUS YBODIES.

IT is fact, as I've been told
That people, IN the days of old,
Got rich in silver and in gold,
No matter what they bought or sold,
By lIinding their own business.
They did not try 10 woGnd ones fame,
Or SANDER anybody name;
They cared not when you went or came;
They pleased themselves-you did the same
If it was your own business.
And i man did what was right
In his o wn mind, and in the sight
OF God and Law, by day and night,
he " ent ahead and fought the fight,
Determined on his business.
But in degen rate modern days
There's quite q change in peoples ways,
And what person does or says
Must be held uD unto the gaze
OF every busybody.
And if you do not tell them. too.
Where you are going. and what to do,
They get in such awful stew.
They'll even watch and follow you
These very busybOdies.
And inen they surely think they know
Just when YOU come and when you 20,
And they viii whisper. so and so,
To every friend and every foe
These very busybodies.
But if we take the pains to see
Who these same busybodies be-
We find there's not he or she
Who has decent history,
Among these busyb0dies.
But let rs no more notice take
Of evil tongues: but. for their sake.
Wen hope and pray they soon may wake
From WIckedness- and money make
by mindlng their own business.
-ChicagO Tribune.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-08-06
It's Mighty InprOYin'.

The Irish peasantry have tales of a
parabOliC Character-StOrieS which, by
means Of some striking action or cir
cumstance, set forth hearty moral On
hearing such their usual phrase is, Oh,
it is mighty improvin'" And that, too,
is what Molly Malone, a worthy washer
woman, used to say-and say almost in
ably-after hearing sermon on
Sunday. One day, however, her clergy
man, who was not quite content with
| this generality, spoke to her respecting
his discourse, and Molly suddenly be
! came what they call in ireland a little
bothered. Nevertheless, she got out of
her difficulty with one of parabolic an
swers which are such f2yOrites with her
class, and which, while it completely
evaded the question, satisfactorily re-
piled to it.
Rev.-Well, Molly, you liked the SER
mon, you say?
Mol.-Oh, yes, your riverence-it was
mighty improvin'.
Rev.-And what part of it did you
like best?
Mol-Well, sure, sir, liked every
part.
Rev.-But 1 suppose there were some
portions of it that you were more struck
with than you were with others?
Mol.-In throth, phase your reverence,
I don't remember any part exactly, but
altogether twas mighty improvin'
Rev.-Now, Molly, how could it, be
improving if you don't remember any
part of it?
Mol-Well, your reverence sees that
linen I've been washing and dhrying on
the hedge there?
Rev.-Oh, certainly.
Mol.-Wasn't it the soap and wather
made the linen clane, sir?
Rev.-Of course they did.
Mol.-And isn't the linen all the better
! for it?
Rev.-Oh, no doubt of that, Molly.
Mol.-But not a dhrop of soap and
water stays in it. Well, sir, its the same
thing wild me. Not word O. the sar-
mint stays in mel suppose it all dhries
out O. me-but I'm the better and the
claner for it, when it's over for all that.
/ From LoUer's " Unpublished Papers,"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-08-06

thou art. how nobel how disinterestedl"
. o virtue, how lovely, how noble, how
disinterested thou artl"-T0uuq Folks
Rural.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-08-06

A POLITICIAN, wishing to compliment a
wellto-do farmer, said: " You must have
begun life early to accumulate such an
estate as this" "Yes," replied the
farmer, Il began life when was mere
baby"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-08-06

The Chicago doctors are trying with
lambs blood to feed the lambent flame
OF lie IN consumptive patient Doubt
tul II they succeed thus in pulling the
wool over the fell destroyer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-08-06

DURING a game of base ball at Mem
phis recently a negro and a ballist had a
controversy, in which pistols were used
on both sides and the negro was killed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-08-06

All bachelors are not entirely lost to
the refinement of sentiment, for the fol
lowing toast was lately given by one of
them at public dinner: "The ladies,
sweet briers in the garden of life
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-08-06

A BOILER in the Eagle Iron Works at
Terre Haute, Ind, exploded the other
day, badly scalding VIM. Fisher, the en-
gineer. He will probably die Of his in
iuries.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-08-06

a DISPATCH from Brownsville, Tex,
reports the first bale of cotton shipped
to New Orleans a few days since from
the rancho of J. Hynes, at Santa Maria.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-08-06

THE ore richest in iron is the magnetic
or black oxide.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-08-06

THE chief cause of fires is careIessness
Of servants.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-08-06

LARGE bands of elks are reported il
different parts of Oregon.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-08-06

AN orator who had raised his audience
to great height by his lofty roarings
exclaimed: - l will now close in the beau
tiful language of the poet-I forget his
name-and-and-Ifo forget what he said,
too
The New York herald., 1874-11-06
A CATHOLIC CONGRESS.
A Grand rntsrnstisnai Congress Of Catholics to
Astmbls in London-Arehhshop nanning's
pcnniton Of the work Of the Council

LosDox. Nov. S, 1sfA
The chief authorities OF the church have decided
TO hold great international Catholic Congress IN
London. with the object OF mslntaining the doc
trine OF Pspai inianlbiiy. reasserting the Pope's
right 10 temporal a. wen ~ spiritual power, and
proelaiming the bounden daty Of all Christians to
return 10 allegiance to Rome.
IL is stated that tnis determination Is the re-
suit OF direct instructions nom the Vatican. and
some OF the highest dignitares OF the Church VIII
attend the Congress.
Archbishop Manning. In o speech ~ westmin
ster. admitted that the spiritual influence OF the
Pope had greatly increased since the loss OF his
temperatures II arbitration was ever to super
sede war the Pope would be the only possible
authorized arbitrator. The Catholic world. he
added. was threatened with controversy on all
the DEGREES OF the GcumenlcaI Council There
was undoubtedly approaching one OF the mightiest
contests the religious world had ever seen.
Therefore IL was necessary 10 fearlessiy assert
through the free press OF England the Pope's
rights and his pretenslons to worldwide allcgi-
anea-
The New York herald., 1874-11-06

had stabbed him; went to take scheibe into Gus.
tOdy, when the latter ran away and LAY behind .
manure heap took him before deceased. VINO
Identified MIN: the prisoner had been pushed or
pulled away from ex-O61cer Dewey, VINO nrst ar
rested himj the prisoner was pretty drunk ~ the
time; found the knife on the day after the occur
renee.
Fred. Becker, deceased,s son-in-law, sworn
saw the prisoner on the evening OF the occur
renee endeavor to force an entrance into tho
place where the excursionists were; snoveo MIN
back, when he called me q "God damned sucker"
and said he should get In; my father-ln.law tde-
ceased) stood outside the door ana said, "Look
out, children, he's got knifen
James II. Dewey testified TO having seen ScneiDe
Dolsterdus and using insulting language; severM
persons gathered round him; deceased struck tne
prisoner with his INST, saying about the same
time. 'I'm stabbed;" prisoner ran away and fell
over heap OF manure, when several men as-
himW
mary sandhausen. residing on the Paterson
around on the stoop that evening; advised him 70
20 nome est ne might get into ngAt he drew
Iorsu knlle saying ne was ready to hght any or
them; the next thing | heard was moan from
M scnutZ saying 'l'm staDoed.n
County Physician Stout sworn-I made post
mortem examination OF the body or deceased aud
found externally wound three and half inches
to the the right OF the medlan line; it extended
upward, inward and toward the right; death re-
suited from hemorrhage and Inflammation or tho
intestines occasioped hy the wound.
The testimony OF these witnesses regarding the
maui features oil the occurrence was corroborxted
by several other persons.
The Coroner charged the jury. who retired 70
deliberate; but they failed to agree up to late
hour, some OF the Jurors being evidently disposed
ever, VIII commit the prisoner without bail, to
await the action OF the Grand Jury.
The New York herald., 1874-11-06
1.-THE HEROINEs OF HISTORY"

Meeting OF the Woma ms Suffrage Society
Last Night-Psper by Mrs. DR.. Mix ON
the ssHeroines OF History"
A regular meeting or the New York woman's
Suffrage society was held last night at the house
OF the president, Cemence L. Lozier, N. D., No.
36l West Thirty.fourth street. Among the advo-
Gates OF the cause present were Mrs. Helen n.
Cooke, MRS. NJ. A. Miller, M. D.; MIS- Hinton, Mrs.
DR.. Bendick, MRS. Lille Devereaux Blake, Mrs. II.
n. Slocum Mrs. Nance NJ. D., and Mrs. Elizabeth
Underhill.
the reading OF paper on the "Heroines OF HIS
tory" by Mrs. E. b. Mix, NJ. D., which was In
tended as the feature Of the meeting. the I'm
sclentious treatment OF the "Heroines OF HIS
tory" led to the anticipation OF lengthy
document, an anticipation which Mrs. MIX did
not dsappoint, as her paper was more
noticeable for length than anything else,
NEUROLOGICAL ny,dS acpmen excepted; the WORK
essay could not be done IN volumes, and con-
sequenIly her very ambitious paper iel short OF te
OBJECT. she began with Eve ana told something
oi all the great women from her time down to the
in . sorry muddle with NEUROLOGICAL characters.
Miss Braddon was talked OF on the next page alter
Zenobta. Cleopatra Isabella OF Spain, Catherine
OF Russia, Joan OF Arc and Elizabeth
were oniy mentioned ''ust to save tlme'
and make room for long ana loud eulogy on
Lady Montague and the Introduction or vaccina-
tion. The author OF "Middlemarch" aud the "fair
lecturess" OF Bologna were mentioned In tho
same breath in analogous terms. The reading Oh
the paper occupied about one hour and quarter,
sought to perform was the province Of . DIograph-
tcal encyclopaedia.
The New York herald., 1874-11-06
THE DIRECT UNITED STATES CABLE
Progress of the Steamship Faraday In
Laying the New Line for Com
munication with Europe.
Paving Out Satisfactorily in the Face Of a
Heavy Gale and Sea Swell.

LONDON, Nov. s, is7A
Tho following despatches have been received
\ from the steamship Faraday engaged In laying
the direct United States cable:-
STEAMSHIP FARADAY, Nov 3-lP.M,l
Lat. SO IA, Ion. 28 OF.
Paid ont 77e Knots OF cable. A heavy northwest
gale prevails
STEAMSHIP FARADAY, Nov. l-8A M.
Tne gale is abating bat there Is very high sea-
Have shifted paying out from the fore to the ait
tank successfully. Paid out 87l knots
STEAMSHIP FARADAY, Nov. IL p. MI
Lat so 03. Ion. 80 So
Paid out Ss3 knots strong gale and high
cross sea prevail. Going at full steam with lore
and ait canvas set.
STEAMSHIP FARApAY, Nov. SIS A. M.
PAID out l29 knots OF cable since last report.
There ID heavy swell.