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Rev. W. B. Smith, Grafton, Mass, says;
Il have derived benefit from using Brown
Iron Bitters for low state of blood
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DR.. PIERCE, Buffalo. n. v: Dear ST.
Your Golden Medical Discovery and
"PnrGatiye Pellets have cured my daugh-
ter of Scrofulous Swellngs. and open Sores
about the neck; and your ''Favorite PrescIIp-
ton" has accomplished wonders in restoring
to health my wife who had been bed-fast for
eight months from Female Weakness. am
Nth grateful feelings, Yours truly,
L. III. LONG, Galveston, Texas
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An invaluable strengthened for the nerves,
muscles and digestive organs, producing
strength and appetite, is Brown Iron Bitters
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!, Lord Chief Justice Coleridge will carry
tne American dyspepsia home with him if he
ian more careful.
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Matrimony is said to be lottery, but up
TO the hour of going to press no law has been
cnacted prohibiting the use of the males.
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Professor Devoe. the Jersey weather wrest-
l5f IS saving wood and waiting till the
clouds roll by.
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4; MILLIONS have died with Brights kidney
,''sgase ami rheumatic diseases. DIR. Gilmore
+, II ele hrSt to discover cure He has treated
',uIpsahus with his Rheumatine-G outaline
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Use It. Patrick Salve, and learn its great
value One trial convinces.
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Infallible, tasteless, harmless cathartiei
feverishness, restlessness, worms, constlpa-
ton. 25c.
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"wITu GRATEFUL FEELINGS"

The Vassar girls propose to organize
rowing club If they do there will be funln
the next college regatta.
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The American Miller reports that
even oatmeal is adulterated. a
very large proportion Of the oatmeal
retailed in Chicago is not pure, while
in Iowa the mills are turning out meal
adulterated with barley. The adul-
tcration is not hurlful, yet it is a fraud
upon those who wish to purchase pure
oatmeal, and leads many city consul
mers of this healthful food to buy i'm
ported Irish or Scotch oatmeal
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Clears out rats, mice, reaches. flies. bedbugs
onts,skunks. chipmunks. gophers l5c. D'g'sts
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Az unpleasant feelings, the result of inter
Gul'eu digestion, are speedily removed by
uAsuINE. All druggists.
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Some premature folks are putting two
cent stamps on their letters.
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Coyotes are reported to I've so tame at Min
ta,l fark, Arizona, that they come into
Town and play with the dogs.
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.. vest Virginia negroes horsewhip men of
'1elr own race who desert their families.
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OrrosrrE CT1Y SI,nTvGs

uCTIoN sales every MONDAY, WEba -
4 DAY and SATURDAY, at 1oi9 o'clock,
nreeisclv, of Horses, Mules, Carriages, Wagons,
bugries. Harness, Halters, Brides, Saddles,
blankets. &c. Largo stock Of Horses, Car
riares. Buggics, Wagons, Sc, Of every dcscrip-
tio9 with Harness, Lap Blankets &c-, con-
s.antIy on hand and at private sale at The very
i,..''ssf market prices. ann nov sclin. New
n. y, Dno,,irs from $50 mp % $3.50 AcW TX
rs, ,~l wagons SIS to sloo- Ne@ llare ftW
- s35 Give mo call before purchasing
80 THOMAS Z. pABlETr.
tnctioneer and Commission Mercinpt
dec I7-iy
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FLoRENcF, Ga.-Dr. w. b. Prather say7;
Browns Iron Bitters have given satlsiae',,
ton III every instance l have known II used
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ForfYou,
Madam,

Whose Complexion betrays
some humiliating imperfec-
ton, whose mirror tells you
that you are Tanned, SallOw
and disfigured in cOunte-
nance, or have EruptiOnS,
Redness, ROughneSs or I'M
wholesome tintS of Complex
ion, we say use Hagan's Mag
nOlia Balm.
1t is a delicate, harmless
and delightful article, pro-
ducing the most natural and
enhancing tints, the artifici-
atty of which no observer
can detect, and which soon
becomes permanent if the
Magnolia Balm is judiciOusly
used.
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Ton Kin Sin, a high official - the
Celestial empire, is making a tour of
Europe for the purpose of studying
commercial and manufacturing sys-
tens with view to their introduction
in China. He will also visit this
country on the same mission, and will
spend much time here, examining es-
pccially American manufactures and
engineering. He will probably reach
this country in July next. A gentle
man who has frequently met him at
home is quoted by the Cleveland
Herald as saying that Ton Kin Sin is
affable and courteous in his manner,
simple in his tastes, and, for China
man, unusually averse to noise and dis
play. He has much of the innate ego
tsm of his race but is too well-bred to
show it. He has a quickness of thought
and speech which is rare for one of his
Ia g, and a logical mode of argument
and keenness in asking questions
which are anything but Chinese. He
is a thoroughly competent business
man, and one cannot fail to be struck
" tn the quiet, transformations way in
which he handles dollars by the million
as if they were dimes.
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Aninterestinga and important expert
mcnt has been going on for several
years at the Abbey of the Ire Fontane,
in the Roman Campagna, Rome, I'M
der the directions of the Trappist
monks, its purpose being to determine
whether or not the cultivation of the
soil would result in purifying the poi
sonous atmosphere of the Campagna
The results thus far have been very
satisfactory. AT first the monks were
obliged to live within the city walls
Hduring the bad season; but since the
ground came under cultivation, and
above all since the eucalyptus tree was
planted on large scale in the neigh
eborhood, the abbey has been inhabited
kall the year round, and the fevers
ltrom which its inmates still some
times suffer are of a mild character
hd rarely fatal whereas at the out
Sc something like fourth Of the little
community succumbed every year.
Nh' health of the $50 convicts en-
p0ed on the works is satisfactory,
u average annual deaths from ma
Eia not exceeding three. The gov
nment has lately made a very large
rant of land in perpetuity to the
'rappists. who have already planted
N it no fewer than 100000 eucalyptus
trees, which are all doing well.
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Apossum has been killed in the Capitol
grounds. Washington.
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The Sioux call Senator Logan He
HAIR"
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M. Mr.. Gladstone occasionally reads the
lessons LESSONS at morning service in Howarden
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MENsMAN's pErroNzEp BEEF TONIC. the only

hENshANs PEProNrzEp BEEF TONIC, the only
tIep|aton Of beef containing its entire nuiyL
,toVS properties. II contains blood-mal,ing
,u,Cg generating and DEMONSTRATING properties
r ,.'a. uaole for Indigestion dyspepsia. nervous
ssitos'IatlQn, and all forms of general debility;
r r.s, 10 all enfeebled conditions. whether the
rs,l ot exhaustion, nervous prostration. over
TN W acute disease, particularly if resulting
nv 5oln pulmonary complaints. Caswell. Hazard u
w. Fropneiors, New York. Soldby druggists.
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Ice cream may taste good, but its cold
comfort after all.
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The ancients were acquainted with me VT
tues of Petroleum. Herodotus refers 10 II
and speaks of wells being found IN ;H'u'T
Nowadays everybody has heard of it through
Carholine, the great natural Hair RestofeF'
One hundred thousand chidien earn their
own living in New York city.
Once try Chrolithion colars and cuffs ana
yon will wear no other kind. They nj -
well and feel 50 nicely.
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Jack frost has begun his fall engagement
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A marked GOODNESS exists between Night
and morning
Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-07-14

For about Il quarter of a cen
tury Hon. Jno. NJ. Langsten has
stood before the American people
as the special representative of
negro scholarship. Unlike Fred
erick Douglass and many other
distinguished colored men he en-
JOY ed the benefit of early educa-
tional advantages Of the highest
order, and knew but little by ac-
tual experience of the disadvan-
tages of slavery, having been
emancipated and sent to Ohio in
his early youth. Holding thus
an unique representative position,
he has well and nobly met its re-
quirements and his eloquent voice
has been heard in all parts OF the
land. pleading with the intense
conviction OF an impulsive tenn
permanent, the cause Of justice and
humanity. We have received a
handsome volume containing Sc
leetions from the many able ad
dresses delivered by Mr.. Langs-
ton, and we take pleasure in re-
commenting the same to the
readers of the Mansion as the pro-
duction Of one of the most gifted
and distinguished men of our
race
Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-07-14
LETTER FROM CHICOT CO.

Editor Mansion:
Inclosed find $500, United
Safes, currency, credit me with
one years subscription from date
of expiration. 1 don't know that
there is any thing going on here
that would interest your readers.
However, l will mention that the
cotton crops arc good, the only
complaint being that OF some
what detective stand, caused by
cold weather the past spring, and
to some extent by the use of de
fectivc' seed. / think the latter
cause will not be complained of
again. us quite a number OF good
farmers have been taught IL Lesson
which they will not soon forget,
Our corn crops are simply huge;
acreage about 40 per cent ever
that OF last year.
The colorcd citizens OF these
parts shows no tendency toward
dying out and becoming extinct,
as predicted some years ago. and
to some extent believed until the
comparative per centagc OF IN"
crease was arrived at per recent
census, but Is alive and active. In
fact, he is rapidly proving that
with fair chance, he can paddle
his own dug out, as shown by the
fact, that we now have twenty
eight colored real estate owners
in this township, some of whom
have NIGEL y improved homes With
good crops OF cotton and corn,
and some hogs and cattle. They
also exhibit a marked improve
ment in donicilcs over the old
quarters. During the past two
years we had quite an influx of
good colorcd citizens from Lou
isiana and Mississippi, some of
whom have leased plantations and
brought laborers and teams with
them and run the places absolute
ly. Big house, gin house and all.
There is quite quantity OF
coed land for sale here, improved
and unimprovcd, near railroad,
on Il1uC anu AZ lttli Laws, "i'ii
ample facilities for settlers on
new lands to work open land III
adjacent plantations until they
can make improvements. we
ask that strangers visiting the
capital in quest of settlements for
colored families about to como to
our state, be directed to this sec
ton of it, as we would like to
have them reap the advantages
to be derived from securing homes
ere the land grabbers get in ahead
of them. Hoping that the out
look for the race is rs promising
in other sections as in this, and
that your valuable paper may
continue to be alike profitable to
80 r.; --A--- --I l.""nf"ial la
the race.
l am very truly yours,
S. ii. HOLLAND.
Dermott, Chicot co., Ark, July g, lSS3.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
No. SS7.

No. SS7.
Land Office ut Little Rock, Ark, !
june 8, 1888. J
NOTICE is hereby given that the
IN following named settler has
fled notice of his intention to make
final proof IN support of his claim.
and that said proof will be made
before the Register and Receiver OF
the Land Office at Little Rock, Ark.
on July 16, 1888, viz: Jan les Bland,
who made Homestead Entry No.
1928, for the S half n Il quarter
section 4, II l N. r II west.
He names the following witnesses
to prove his continuous residence
upon, and cultivation of said land,
viz: Milton Mcdonald, of Little
Rock, Ark; Samuel w: Mcdonald, !,
of Little Rock, Ark; Jan mes Good
win, of Totten, Ark; James Oglcsby,
of Totten, Ark.
NJ. w. GIBBS, Register.
G.. f. KELSEY, Receiver
June Is st
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son OF EX-SENATOR THURMAN OF
OHIO, WON'T SUPPORT HoADLY.

The following card from Allen
w. Thurman, son of ex-senator
Allen G. Thurman, is printed in
the Cincinnati Enquirer:
To the Editor Of tho Enquirer:
Office of Allen w. Thurman
No. l South High Street, Column
bus, Ohio, June 20, 1S93.-A cor
respondent of the Cincinnati
Journal states in the issue of the
9th that | have been in the hab-
it of scratching democratic tick.
cts, and that [ did not vote fol
Governor Allen, but voted fol
Governor Hayes. The Journal
of yesterday, referring editerially y
to the matter, says; ut is not a
bolt from this ticket (the present
one), but the result Of a chronio
habit" If this paper and others
that are abusing me, had wished
TO have known and stated the
truth they could easily have OBJ
tanned it, but as misrepresenta
ton only is intended, l feel COM
PEELED, in Justice to myself, to
state that [ did not vote for Gov
ernor Allen each time that he was
a candidate, and, further, that
never voted for a Republican IN
my life, and would not dc so this
fall if the democratic convention
had nominated democrat. AS
it stands it is simply choice be-
tween a republican and a ''politi
cal gymnaH" whose election
means a reorganization of the old
democratic party (the new dc
mocracy, [ believe Judge 1leadly
calls it) on a basis as unsteady as
the candidate himself. [ will
vote for Judge Foraker, not be-
cause 1 believe in republican prin-
ciples, but because [ believe that
the defeat of Justice Hoadly will
preserve those of the democratic
party by putting a quietus in flu
ture on expediency candidates
who nave no political p,in~iI.l~".
The old ship, democracy, can ca
silly stand another defeat, but she
must not be wrecked. Yet, how
can democracy, if they put III
charge a pilot-Mr. Hoadly--
who has never been able to steer
himself politically any stralghter
than to be first Il democrat Ga
long time ago), then an abolition
ist, then a know nothing, then a
radical, then Il liberal, then a
Grant man, then for Hays against
Governor Allen, except to keep
her clear Off the rocks.
Yours respectfully,
ALLEN w. THURMAN.
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GRAVITATING.

A northern journal claims that
the colored people in the south,
ale gravltating towards the DEM
ocratic party, The use of the
word gravitating shows just where
the astute editor is onc-sided and
partial in his statement, for it is
the law of gravitatien that the
smaller body attracts the larger
just as strongly as it Is attracted
by the latter. The apple eXerts
Just the same amount of force up
on the earth that the earth does
upon the apple; according to
Newton's law of motion, action
and reaction are equal Conse
quently, it remains to be seen
whether the colored people are
gravitating towards the demo-
cratic party, or the democratic
party towards the negro. The
recent Virginia duel occasioned
by the word negro or nigger,
seems to indicate that the demo
cratic editors are gravitating to-
wards the negro with consider
able rapldity. They fought sim
ply because one gravitated a lit
tie faster than was agreeable to
the other. The nomination of
Judge Hoadley in Ohio, a revival
of the famous and ridiculous
Greely dodge is another instance
of Democratic gravitating toward
the negro, and there are almost
innumerable instances all over
the south of compromise arrange
ments by which the political
spoils are secured and shared by
democrats and negroes. The great
est danger that threatens demo
cratic supremacy in the south, is
that the "out' faction always
gravitates towards the negro and
secures his aid to route the ems. :
In nearly every southern state
scores of colored men hold office,
who secured it in precisely this
way, and ''gr lvitating' has at
tanned reputable standing as "a
political fine art. The arrange
ment holds just precisely as long
and no longer than it pays, and
IN little while She parties OF the
first and second part gravitate
back to their old political habi-
tats. 1t is merely limited
partnership, and of course expires
by limitation.
Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-07-14
THE GREAT DU Ell.

Two Virginia dudes, named
respectively Squeelcln and Bung,
or something of the sort, recently
made an engagement to go out
and shoot at each other, in cOnsc-
uuence of their differing in re-
gard to one of the knotty prob~
lens over which Virginia states
manship has to- sweat, that Is
whether it is more high tened to
say negro or nigger. 1t was pro
posed to make the affair the nob~
biest thing of the kind that had
transpired in the Old Dominion
since the days of Randolph of
Roanoke, and as in this irrever-
ent age, a bloodlcss duel is jecred
at and foutcd as n farce, it was
decided that there must be gore.
AS beth SqueeleM and Bung
seemed to entertain serious doubts
of their respective ability to hit
anything not in contact with the
muzzles Of their guns, it. was ar
ranged that they should first fire
at the distance Of eight PAGES,
then advance and continue shoot
ing until one or the other made Il
count. This happy suggestion
enabled Bung to give it to Squeel'
nm in the thigh, and "thus the
tale ended" This brilliant affair,
besides it's important bearing up
on the question of orthography,
which gave rise to it, will go far
towards correcting the false i'm
preston SO widely disseminated
by poorly informed English
man who never travelled in Vir-
ginia, that the age of chivalry is
past. That will never be the case
until such men as Squeelem and
Bung learn that initiating the
follies of such really great men as
John Randolph and Henry Clay
by no means suggests a rssen-
blance in other respects between
them and those whose example
they take for precedent.
Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-07-14

The Board of Penitentlary COM
missioners, Gov. Berry, Hon. c..
b. Moore and Secretary of State
Frolich, have returned from a
tour of inspection of the various
places throughout the state where
convicts are worked, and it is
evident frem their printed report
that they have faithfully per-
formed their duty, and not merely
performed the usual farce OF
whitewashing the contractors.
They find many abuses and vio-
lations of law ia existence, sani-
tary condition of stockades bad,
convicts dressed as citizens and
acting as guards, bedding poor,
carelessness in making trustees,
sick mixed ny with the we'll, and
neglect to hold coroner's inqucsts
in case of death from violence.
They instruct the lessees that all
the cenvicts must wear the striped
clothing, and that all the above
mentioned abuses must be reme-
died at once. For their faithful
performance of a duty in the in
terest Of humanity, the peniten-
tlary commissioners deserve spe~
cial commendation.
Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-07-14
A neat piece of diplomacy q

A neat piece of diplomacy al
lowed IL colorcd man to graduate
with high honors from the aristo-
cratic and far famed Washington
Law School of st. Louis. Mo-,
Mr.. Hale G. Parker one of the
teachers Of the ST. Louis colOred
schools, is a young man OF fine
education and very preposscssing
appearance. lie is very fair and
can easily be mistaken for a tan
ned son of a favored race. A bout
two years ago he applied for ad-
mission to the Washington Law
School, was admitted and began
his course taking the highest ses>
sions. No one knew he was col
ored aud everything went smooth
ly for months. His ability as a
scholar and his accomplishment
as gentleman soon made him
many good friends, both with the
students and faculty. In a few
months the fact that he was a
colored man became known, and
for time threatened the peace
and harmony of the aristocratic
institution. Common sense, how
ever, ruled, the managers con-
Guiding that so many good rea-
sons plead for him, that they
would take no steps in the mat.
ter whatever, but allow him to
graduate as he justly deserved.
Let 1t be hoped that the incident
will be the means Of allaying
prejudice there 80 that every man
hereafter will enter upon equal
terms, color being neither aid nor
hindrance to its applicants
TCOnscrvatOr.
Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-07-14
Proposals for Constructing Hos
pital Buildings at Hot
Springs, Ark.
WAR DEPARTMENT, QUARTERMAsTER
GENERALS OFFICE,

WAR DEPARTMENT, QUARTERMASTER }
GENERALS OFFICE,
WASHINGTON, ID. c., June 16, 1855. J
CEALED PROPOSALS in triplicate, SUBJ
- ject to the usual conditions. will be re-
ceived at this office, until II O'Clock noon,
on the 2Oth day of July, 1888. for the con-
struction on the Government Reservation
ut Hot Springs. Arkansas, of the following
enumerated buildings, to be OF brick. VIZ:
1 Mems Building, J6 Y 50; l Hospital, G3
~; Ward Buildings, 130 81 each.
These buildings are connected by contln-
uous verandah. Bath House, 143 X 81.
All material and labor to be furnished by
the contractor. Work of construction to
commence by August Goth, 1855, and be
completed by July 1st. 1854.
Proposals will he received for cOn>truc-
tion Of any one or more OF the buildings.
the price for each building bid Tor to be
distinctly stated.
Each proposal must be accompanied by 4
written guarantee signed by two RESPONSE
bile persons, to the effect that il the prOpO-
sal is accepted within sixty days from the
date of the opening OF proposals, the bidder
will, within ten days after being notified
of such acceptance enter into contract and
give bond with good and sufficient suretleS,
and that in case OF failure of the bidder to
enter into contract and give bond they will
pay the difference between the amount OF
his bid and the amonnt ior which contract
NAV be made with another party.
The Government reserves the right to re-
iect any er all proposals. A preference
will be given to articles OF domestic pro-
ductiOn.
Blank proposals and copies of plans anu
specifcations together with printed clrcl-
lars giving full instructions as to the man
ner OF bidding. conditions to be observed
by bidders and terms of contract and pay
ment will be furnished on appllcatlon 10
this office or Offices of the Depot quarter
masters at st. Louis. .Jeflersonville, j Chicago
New Orleans, New York, or to the Quarter
master Mt Hot Springs, Ark.
Envelopes containing proposals should DE
marked-aProposaIs for construction OF
UospitaI Buildings at Hot Springs, Ark,
and addressed to the undersigned.
RUFUS INGALLS,,
Ouartermaster General,
Bvt. Major General, u. ). A.
Junp % At
Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-07-14

A new A NJ f church has just
been completed at Des Moines,
Iowa. The building is 32 feet
by 60 feet and is a neat, artistic
structure. The pastor, Rev.
Check, deserves great credit for
his untiring effort in building his
church, as do also his congrega-
tion and many white friends who
50 nebly responded to his call for
money. 1t will be dedicated by
Bishop Ward, during the session
of the A M E Conference at Dcs
Moines.
An asylum for orphan colored
children is to be built at Chat
tanoosa, Tenn, by the American
Missionary Association.