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The Arkansaw traveler. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1882-1???, 1888-12-29

"
he was dragged through town, fight
ing all the way, tearing the uniform
of the officers, and a crowd followed
TO see the fun. How Is IL now? The
first indication of a row some idiot
rings the telephone, and in two min.
utes the COMPOUNDED patrol wagon
comes up ringing a bell like a fire
engine, with policemen enough to eat
up a crowd, the rioters are put in the
wagon and sat down on, and the
wagon goes off on q gallop, and before
you can say Jack Robinson the pris-
oner is in Jail, very likely before he
has voted, and he is no good all day
long, and has TO pay fine next day
What does the right of suffrage
amount TO TO a man who is in Jail?
Bah These new tangled ideas make
one tired. When was on the turf
and used to get fuD occasionally, walk
ing was good enough for me, on the
way To the lookup. Now they make
drunkard a distinguished guest, and
go after him with a coach-and- four.
Next they will have a slide 10 run the
prisoner into the roof of the Jail, with
another slide to send him TO the police
court, and another 10 fire him into the
street, or TO the house of correction.
If they keep making inroads on our
old, time honored customs, they will
IL II so man can send his vote by
telephone, or pneumatic tube, or pho
nograph, from his home to the polling
place, and he need not visit the polls
At all. When il comes to that | will
not vote. The country can go to the
deuce. What | want is society when
| vote. want 10 60 to the polls and
argue with everybody, inspectors and
all. | want my vote sought after, and
TO feel that | amount TO something.
One might as we'll be deaf and dumb
as TO be endowed with speech, to go
TO an election where every body is SOL
emn, and don't dare say their souls are
their own. When | voted this MORN
ing fingered a minute, and asked one
of the inspectors how the thing was
going. lie looked at me as though he
would eat me, and then | told him he
needn't put on any scollops because
he has got a job for one day, when
he hadn't done stroke of work for a
year. knew him well, and wanted
to make him feel the power of an in
dependent voter. What did that man
do, you suppose? Why, l could buy
him for car fare. Outside of that poll
ing place he would be no account, but
in there he had the power of the car
of Russia. He snapped his finger at a
policeman and winked, and the police
nan told me TO move on That made
me hot. got that policeman on the
force when he was driving a brick
wagon. | withered him with look,
and told him l would see that his
uniform was stripped off, and that he
was bounced. Then he took me by
The neck and the back of the pants, and
fired me bodily out the door. was
going TO send a brick through the
window, but l saw the patrol wagon
patroling in the distance, and 80
came up and took car. Eli? Going
to get off here? Well, remember what
l tell you, the country is going to
ruin," and the old kicker went to
talking with the driver. through the
CHANGE hole
The Arkansaw traveler. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1882-1???, 1888-12-29
Langly's Swallow-Tail.
opie =. Read, In Time.

opie T. Read. In Time.
General p. Langly, q we'll known
farmer living near Frankfort, KY, was
invited TO attend banquet given by
the governor TO the members of the
legislature. The old fellow was much
flattered by the invitation. Ii was
the tirst great attention ever bestowed
upon him, for although he held with
a grip OF pride the title of general, his
military services had been confined TO
the collection of mules for the Confed-
crate army. lie consulted several
friends, and was told that IL would be
a Disgrace TO appear at the banquet in
other than the conventional regi-
mentals of a great social occasion
namely, a full-dress suit of broad
cloth.
"lOu don't mean one of these skeer-
crow lookin' coats with the sides all
chawed of, do you?" he old general
asked.
ayes, a regular swallow tail"
al don't like IL, but reckon I'll
have TO get me one"
Having no ready money, he merit
gagged fine horse, went TO town and
ordered dress suit. At the banquet
he was delighted TO see that every one
else was dressed In similar manner,
and so much at ease did he feel that
he proceeded at once TO make himself
at home. lie had never tasted cham
payne before, and was much surprised
at the mildness of the insinuating bev-
erage. lie had drunk at least n quart
of the wine when he called waiter.
"Say, haven't you got something to
drink here?"
"Oh, vas, sab got champagne, plenty
o. hit"
al mean haven't you got some
Ticker like sweet milk we'll
enough, but IL don't take holt.
Haven't you got something that will
stick?"
The negro grinned. He saw that
the general was "tenderfoot."
Boss" said he, pointing to the
wine, You jist stick ter hit and hit
will jist stick ter you"
"All right, I'll give ii chance, but
| wish you had something to drink
that. would jolt little"
About two o'clock the next morn
ing the general was found in a narrow
alley, standing on his head, yelling
Justify for some one to come and help
him down; and two days later a man
passing along road saw the general,
in full dress, clearing out horse pond.
"Why, general, what's the .natter2"
"See anything the natter"
ayes, decidedly. Why do you wear
a dress suit while doing such work."
ITO show what a blame fool am.
Were you at that banquet"
Eyes"
"Well, there wasn't but one sensible
man present"
"Who was hep"
"a blamed darkey who told me that
if I'D stick to that stuff they had to
drink it would stick to me-"
The Arkansaw traveler. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1882-1???, 1888-12-29
For Biliousness

Use Horsford's Acid Phosphate.
DIR. w. B. GILLIEs, Winnipeg, Man
itoba, says: IL have used 1t in a typi-
cal case OF indigestion with bilious
ness, and found it to be, without ex-
ception, the best thing l ever used in
such cases."
The Arkansaw traveler. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1882-1???, 1888-12-29

Little Girl-"Mamma, | want you
to do me a favor" Mother-"What
is it, Fanny?" Little Girl al want
you to make me q present of a nice
new baby brother, but pa isn't to
know anything about it until he
sees Detroit Netos.
The Arkansaw traveler. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1882-1???, 1888-12-29

Advice 10 Mothers.-Mrs. Windows
Soothing Syrup should always be used
for children teething.- It soothes the
child, softens the gums, allays all pain,
cures wind collie and Ii the best remedy
for diarrhea- Twenty-Five cts. . bottle.
The Arkansaw traveler. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1882-1???, 1888-12-29

Man is awfully clever in some
things, but nobody has ever discovered
one that could jam hat pin clean
through his head and make 1t come
out at the other side as the women do.
-EIchdnge.
The Arkansaw traveler. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1882-1???, 1888-12-29

A pamphlet on the nature, causes
and successful treatment Of asthma,
bronchitis, catarrh and consumption,
by DR.. Robert Hunter, Of 10S State
street, Chicago, will be sent free to all
persons afflicted on application g
above.
The Arkansaw traveler. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1882-1???, 1888-12-29

An Irish magistrate asked q prisoner
IL he was married. "No," replied the
man. "Then," said his worship,
amid peals Of laughter, aft IL q good
thing for your wifi l"-E Exchange.
The Arkansaw traveler. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1882-1???, 1888-12-29

To THE EDITOR: Please inform your
readers that i have o positive remedy
for the above named disease. By its
timely use Thousands of hopeless cases
have been permanently cured. shall
be glad to send two bottles of my
remedy free to any Of your readers
who have consumption II they win
send me their express and post-ofice
address. Respectfully,
T. A. SLoCUM, II. c.. 1s1 Pearl ST., N. Y.
The Arkansaw traveler. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1882-1???, 1888-12-29
THE OLD KICKER.
PeckHsnn.

"The country is changing so an ole
man don't hardly recognize himself
said the old kicker, as he got i'm tia,
street car, on election morning. afte
depositing his vote. did you ever Sc,
any thing so disgusting as the sigh
around the polling places?' he added
turning TO the b. ard of trade man VIII,
was reading the market reports.
40, don't know" said the boarC
of trade man, cit is quiet enough
around the polls. Since the new poll
ing booths have been established mar
can go and vote at his leisure, withou
being run over by a crowd of ware
strikers. like it
"Well, | don't" said the old kicker
"The old fashioned way of voting il
the hind end of a saloon, where yoI
could get treated half dozeI
times, and have your coat collar tori
off, was good enough for me. Thes.
new tangled shanties TO vote in, PLACED
by themselves a hundred feet away
from a saloon, and no electioneerins
within fifty feet, may do for yoI
monopolists, but ii is too much re.
tirement for me. You go in the booth
select ticket, and then go one at :
time into an adjoining room. whert
the ballot box is, and you are mum.
bered like dog with license check
and you have to call out your nam,
and residence, and the inspectors lool
at the books with as much importanc,
as st. Peter at the gate of the new
Jerusalem, and if your record CORE.
spends with the books, they take your
vote, and policeman fires you out o
another door, and you find yourself il
the street. You can't argue with
the inspectors, and there is nobody
around outside to have quarrel with
1t is disgusting"
"Oh, you have no enterprise" SAID
the board of trade man. "You would
like to go back to the old way, wher,
halt the crowd was drunk, and bt
pulled around. You better GO to
Texas"
"You bet l like the old way the
BEST" said the kicker, as he tried tC
think who he had voted for. ain tn.
good old times man could 90 TO thu
polls and loaf around all day, and gel
his keg full, and when the crowd got
thick it was picnic. You could just
wailow in beer, and have free lunch
and talk politics, and see fight occa
sionally, and the police would come
along and mix in, and drag somebody
away all bloody. 1t had some excite
ment ABOUT 1t. A man could stand
around all day, making up his mind
how he was going TO vote, and candi-
dates would help him decide, and sci
'em up, and the day was a regular
Fourth of July. What is il now? Ii
is sort of Thanksgiving, with preach
ing at the polls. The air around 9
polling booth is like Sunday school
and after you have sneaked up and
voted, and been fired out, you might
just as well go home, as all the other
places are closed. DO you know,
don't suppose l can get a square drink
anywhere to-day? Every saloon looks
as though the proprietor was dead.
And this idea OF using patrol wagon
to convey prisoners to the lookup, ID
. farce. In the good old days, when
there was row on election day, the
first policeman that showed up had a
head put on him, and was laid out in
IN alley, and the second also, and by
the time any more police got there the
rioters could get away to another pre-
clnct and Be having row there, or Il
The Arkansaw traveler. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1882-1???, 1888-12-29

Biliensaess, dizziness, nausea, head
ache, are. n lieved by small doses of
Carriers Little Liver Pills.
The Arkansaw traveler. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1882-1???, 1888-12-29

The criminal who disguised himself
to escape, evidently made way for
liberty, and dyed.-BOston Gazette.
The Arkansaw traveler. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1882-1???, 1888-12-29

Pretty well off-the leaves.-Pack.
The Arkansaw traveler. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1882-1???, 1888-12-29

childrsn Cry Cor Pisehsr's cassoria.
-AdA
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-04-07
BORDER BRIGANDs.
Murderous Assault on a Party of French
Colony Agents.

MurderOus Assault on Party of French
Colony Agents.
iCopyrght, 1883, by the California ASSOCIATED Press
NoeALEs, April 6th.-Two Frenchmen,
named NJ. Hilliate and Ulysses Gundot,
arrived here several days ago, as representa-
tives of French colonization company, to
settle in Arispe district, Sonora. Yestel-
day morning they left here on horseback
for Arispe. When about six miles from
town they were assailed by party of four
men, who fired about ten shots at them.
Hilliate returned the fire of their assail-
ants, but his horse became unmanageable
and he started for Nogales.
Hilliate arrived in nearly exhausted
condition, and suffering from a gunshot
wound in the leg below the knee The
ball shattered the bone, and the physicians
here think amputation will be necessary.
Gundot escaped unhurt and took refuge
at a ranch near the scene of the assault
and was brought into town last evening by
party sent from here. The men had been
buying horses, ETC., and spending money
pretty freely.
1t is thought the men making the attack
on them supposed they had large sum of
money on their persons. and undoubtedly
attacked them for the purpose of robbing.
On Hilliate's return the Mexican author
tiles Immediately organized a posse and
started them after the robbers, but after
securing the country thoroughly discovered
that the trails led to Nogales, and the posse
returned without making any arrests.
The Mexican police officials have the
case in hand, and will make every effort to
secure the parties.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-04-07
TELEGRAPHTC BREvITIEs.

The citizens of Tulare have for the second
time voted against incorporating the town.
]. K. Shannon was found shot dead yes-
terday at his mine, near Steamboat Springs,
New. He was probably murdered.
The Pope will send Monsignor Mocenni
to st. Petersburg to expedite negotiations
with reference to the Catholics in Poland.
Recorder Smytb, of New York has sen.
fenced Francis W. Pittman to imprison.
ment for life for the murder of his daughter
Rachel.
Ex-senator Roscoe Conkling has been
confined to his home with an abcess in the
right ear. His physicians have ordered
complete rest and quiet.
. Gold diggings of great richness are again
said to have been discovered in Lower Cali
fornia. Some of the quartz is said to Weld
upward OF $1,000 to the ton.
The President yesterday approved the
Acts granting a pension to the widow of
General Logan and increasing the pension
of the widow of General Blair.
The celebrated brood mare Nora Crema.
% years, by Mahomet. dam American
Eclipse, died on Thursday at Mrs McFad-
den's farm, near Lexington, Ky. The mare
was the dam of many noted horses.
At Centralia, w. t., last Tuesday, Maude
Beach, 8 years of age, while playing with
other children, took newly sbarpened
butcher knife to cut switch. While re-
turning to the house with the knife she
slipped and fell, the knife piercing her
breast near the heart. She died in few
minutes
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-04-07
THE PRoHIBITIoNIsTs.
Delegates at-Large-Presidentia Electors
Central Committee-Etc

Genital Committee-Etc.
SAN Francisco, April 6th.-The Prohi-
bition Convention concluded its labors by
selecting the following:
Delegates At-large-Mrs. Joel Russell.
Samuel Fowler, John H. Hector, Jesse
Yarnell.
Provisional delegates as follows were
elected: W. W. Smith, G. J. Covalland. L.
J. Beckett, Mrs. Whitmore, John Dewey
and w. R. Somers.
General John Bidwell and DR.. R. H.
Mcdonald were elected delegates at-large.
Presidential Electors-Jesse F. Wilson,
of Siskiyou; Rev. W. II. Briggs, Acampo;
H. A. Gregg, Alameda; FL. H. Luse. San
francisco; Charles w. Peddler GiIroy
and Judge A. d. Bourne, San Bernardino.
For Prohibition candidate for Chief JUS
tice of California, Judge r. Thompson was
nominated unanimously.
State Central Committee-RobertJ J. Nor
ris and H. B. Lamb, Alameda; NJ. C.
Briggs. Amador; DR.. W. II. Henderson,
Butte S. NJ. Davis. Ell Dorado; S. G. Smith,
Fresno; J. H. Blanchard, A. Huddelston
and w. Gould, Los Angeles; R. H. Nc
Donald, Mrs. Z. P. Stevens and Charles
Henderson. San Francisco; W. H. Briggs
and D. ]. Spellman, San Joaquin; Rev r.
Dunbar, San Luis Obispo; K. l. Knapp,
San Mateo; Frank E. Kellogg. Santa Bar
bara; d. c. W. Bronster and 7. D. Hol-
land, Santa Clara; James Hopkins, Jr.,
Santa Cruz; ]. T. Wilson, Siskiyou; E. NJ.
Chase, Solano; Rev. K. Ewing and o. 7.
Baldwin, Sonoma; DIR. Mclean, Stanis-
laus; NJ. @. Winchester, Sutter; A, a. Paul,
Tulare; W. H. Barron, Tuolumne; Z. C.
Gilbert. Yolo: E. j. Covelo, Yuba; Rev.
Il. w. Stopp, Contra Costa; E. X. Abbott,
Monterey county
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-04-07
CROOKED BUSINESS .
How q Dead Mans Family Were Deprived
of His Estate.

CHICAGO, April 6th.-The surprising ab-
sence of all evidence that Colonel Thomas
Snellbaker, the we'll known theatrical man.
ager and ex-Chief of Police of Cincinnati,
who died fortnight ago, left any estate
whatever, led to an examination in Court
to-day, with peculiar results. The lessee of
the Casino Theater, John B. Hopkins, had
informed Colonel Snellbaker's Admins.
traitor that considerable scenery and cos
tunes belonging to Snellbaker could be
found in the possession of Alice Arlington.
handsome actress, who had been associ-
ated with Snellbaker
Miss Arlington admitted in Court to-day
that she had the property, but claimed that
it belonged to her. She then volunteered
the information that for three months prior
to his death Snellbaker had softening of
the brain that all the money for the
Casino Theater had been put up by him,
and not by Hopkins, and that Snellbaker,
when dying, had handed 81 600 IN cash, to
be sent to his wife, to one William H.
Eppler. The money was never sent, Miss
Arlington said, but was in part given to
Hopkins. Eppler is Board of Trade man
and is interested with Hopkins in the
Casino.
Judge Knickerbocker finally dismissed
the citation without prejudice, as no dis
covery could be made A bill in chancery
is now to be brought for an accounting to
determine Snellbaker's interest in the
Casino Theater.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-04-07
Natural Sculpture.

Though the Yellowstone Park is, so far
as we know, the most remarkable geologi-
cal and scenic region on the earth, there
are other spots of very exceptional geologi-
cal interest, notably Mount Roroema in
British Guiana. The summit of the noun
tain is curiosity in aerial denudation. A
traveller who has ascended that mountain
says: "Our first impression was one of in
ability to grasp such surroundings: the
next, that one was entering on some strange
country of Nightmares, for which an appro-
pirate and wildly fantastic landscape had
been formed, some dreadful stormy day.
when in their midnight career and broken.
elastic clouds had been stifened in a single
instant into stone. For all around were
rocks and pinnacles of rocks of seeming
impossible fantastic FORMS standing in an.
parently impossible ways, seeming to defy
every law of gravity-in groups, singly in
terraces, etc.-rocks as walls, as terraces.
as pyramids, as caricatures of the faces Of
men and forms of animals, umbrellas.
churches, etc. No trees or animal life was
visible. Look where one would, on every
side ii WIS the same"
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-04-07
Congressman Biggs Makes an Argument
on the Central Pacific Bill.

on the Central Pacific Bill.
WASHINGTON, April 6th.-Representative
Marion Biggs, of California, to-day ap-
peared before the House Committee on Pa
citic Railroads in advocacy of the passage
of the Huntington bill for the settlement
of the Indebtedness of the Central Pacific
Railroad Company to the Government.
He said that he had introduced the bill
originally by request, but after an exami-
nation he was prepared to fully indorse ii.
He said that he had no interest whatever
in the railroad company, but had in view
the effect of the proposed legislation on the
State of California
Without attempting to discuss the feat
ures of the bill in detail, he urged upon
the committee the wisdom and Justice of
allowing the Court of Claims to adiudicate
the various claims and counter claims
made in the case. The road had not, in
his opinion, been fairly treated by the
Government. 1t was possible that the rail
road people could be induced TO accept
bill providing for shorter extension of
time for the payment of the debt than was
proposed in the bill introduced by him.
Touching the value of the additional lien
which the company offered the Govern
ment in the event of the acceptance of its
bill, Biggs said the Pacific Railroad Com
mission had travelled through the country
too rapidly to correctly estimate its worth,
and he urged that subcommittee of the
House be sent to California TO look into the
matter. Travelling in dining-car. in a
leisurely way it would be able to acquire
thorough knowledge of the subject
According to the present intention of the
committee, this will be the last hearing on
the subject of the Central Pacific Railroad
debt, so far as this session is concerned.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-04-07
BLAcK-LIsTED SALOONS.
Chicago's Mayor Creates Alarm Among
the Saloon Fraternity.

CHICAGO, April 6th.-Mayor Roche has
made new move in the interest of reform.
Detectives were yesterday sent out to notify
the proprietors of 210 saloons that they are
on the blacklist and need not renew their
leases, as no licenses will be granted them.
To say the order created a sensation in the
whisky business but family expresses the
idea. The blacklist is based on two ordi-
nances, one providing that no saloon shall
keep open after II O'Clock at night, and the
other that no whisky. rum, gin, beer, ETC..
shall be sold within 200 feet of church or
school-house.
The latter has always been dead letter
and the former mainly so. But the city
administration is determined that reform
is necessary and careful watch has been
kept on all saloons in the habit of keeping
open after midnight, and the list was put
away for reference. Chain-men were sent
out who exactly measured the distance be-
tween any church or school-house and the
neighboring saloons, and it was found out
whether the latter were outside the 300 foot
limit. This made another list, and these
two made the blacklist that was compiled
and which contains 210 names.