The Van Buren press., 1877-10-02
Wheat selling at so to 95 cts. Flou

Wheat selling at so to 95 cts. Flour
from wagons, $3.50 to S2.75. Corn
meal 40 to As cts. Oats 20 cts. Prairie
Hay, $3.50 per ton, Irish Potatoes so
cts. Sweet Potatoes so cts. Chickens
1925 per doz. Coal, from wagons, 20
cts. per bushel Cabbage 3 cts.
ANY of our friends who are visitors
in St. Louis, cannot possibly find any
hotel or boarding house, more supreme.
" excellent than the house of Mrs. M.
w. Davis, 514, Walnut street.. 1t is 10.
Gated near 4th and 9th streets, and in the
very centre of the city. Mrs. D. keeps a
first.class house, and we recommend it to
all our friends who visit st. Louis.
Mr.. Herr has packed his f" goose y
and gone down the road.
Phil Scott got back from Little
Rock, Thursday night. Thanks for
favors.
Sheriff Faulkner, of Sebastian, pass
ed up on the train, Thursday night, from
a trip to Little Rock.
Jim. Whitfield is disconsolate.
Cotton. pickers get 60 cents per hun
bred for picking cotton.
"A postal card from Capt. Yerkes an
nounces that he did not get off from Gin
einnati, as soon as he expected. He
leaves, to morrow, and will come right
through
1t is reported that Capt. Tom. OAR
ragh will take charge of the Maumelle,
and will run her in this end of the river,
as soon as there is water sufficient.
Mrs Laugtrec and Mrs. Jordan
naased nm on tho train Wednesday night
to Fort Smith, to make arrangements for
the entertainment of the excursion party
that will leave Little Rock, next week,
the 10th The Little Rock young ladies
propose to give an entertainment, COM
posed of tableaux, etc.
IN +. Cornelius has returned from
the eastern markets.
Bishop Fitzgerald and Father Law
rie Smythe passed up on the train, Tues
day night, on their way to Fort Smith.
The latter gentleman has been on va
cation trip to St. Louis. We have not
learned whether the Bishop will pay a
pastoral visit to our town or not.
Our young friend Qucsenbury aud
his charming bride, Miss Bessie Green
took passage on the Wednesday morning
for ST. Louis, where they will take in the
Exposition and other sights.
"A little work, by the city, at the
crossing, at the NJ. E. Church, would
not be cut Of place.
If reports are true, Drew Hathaway
has not spent his Sundays in the bottom
for naught.
John Hathaway, chief engineer on
tho steamer Maumelle, is at home for a
day or two's recreation.
Geo. s. Austin left, Thursday, to
enter the University of Virginia. We
expect good deal from George, and
don't think we shall be disappointed.
Prof. J. F. Gooding, of Evansville
Institute spent Saturday in Van Buren,.
As an educator. the Professor has we'll
established reputation, and scholars be-
come at once attached to and hate to
leave him.
Judge William Walker and II. s.
Rogers, Of Fort Smith are in attend
ance on the court
The colored cxcursionists, Wednes
day morning, for Little Rock, left here,
with % tickets sold at Cherokee and 30
here.
Uncle Jerry Kennedy, and his good
wife, were over, Tuesday night, and wit
messed the marriage ceremony of their
niece, Miss Bessie Green, Wednesday
morning.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Quesenbury, OF
Mulberry, came up on the train, Tuesday
night, TO be present at the marriage OF
their brother, Wednesday morning.
Good wheat is quoted at Sl,2o at
Little Rock.
Jim. Scott is Off for st. Louis, tor
new goods.
Lewis johnson returned from trip
to St Louis, Wednesday night, after
months absence, with stock Of new
goods.
--Alvis Smith says he never objects TO
but one kind of sitting, and that is I" SIT
ting on aijury." We should think the
jury might object to such a" sitting
Quite crowd is at the depot, every
night