The Forrest City times., 1890-12-20
GENERAL NEWS.
The pocahontas Free Press has sus.

The pccahontas Free Press has sus- pended.
 North Arkansas has had heavy snow, the first pf the season.
 Dsrdanelie and Monticello were almost completely demolished by fire Sunday. Loss, sl50,00o
 The field appears to b. pretty full of gentlemen who would like to occupy the exalted position of associate julge. Sanders Bunn. DnVal, Mansfield iIallim and Putnam are being urged by their friends.
 X special from Prescott says: ''There is quite an exodus af disappointed politicians fir 'm this section. mostly ot the Greenback persuasion. They go Lo join Anslry. in tue state of Washing ton EXGov. Norwood left in the last cargo. Some others have the emigrant's fever and will go as soon as they can get away"
 Sunday night. while preaching to q large congregation at the East Mill stone Reformed church. at New Bruns- wick. x J.. the pastor. Rev. J. F Strong. said: \ man might fall as easy as Il star from heaven.h In a instant his face turned nshy pale, ht clutchc1 wildly at the pulpit for sup port and then dropped to the floor in !, fit of apoplexy. The petritied conere- gation was spelhuund for moment, then the cooler ones rushed to the prostrate pastor and raised him from the tloor.- Gazette.
 The Clarksville. Tenn, Tobacco I aaf Il,rAni.lu n>ptaips. ..EpI hlass Inc women and merchants. Remem. Der tue drummers for their good work in the campaign Reed has tightened his surcingle, letting his mouth fly open and his tongue wag. charging the tidal wave to the dyummers who went all over the country preaching ad. vanced prices on account of the Me Kinley bill and then women were told the same thing by merchants and clerks, and went home. directing their husbands, sons and brothers how to vcte.'
 The talk of change in the cabinet comes from the possibility of Attorney General Miller being appointed to tlte supreme court But this point has npt yet been determined, It is not improbable that the presidents $ de- cision will be delayed until after the holidays The president has asked questions of his republican associates during the last twenty y-four hours, but he has not sionitied to any ef them what he is going to do. Ot the three names mentioned Miller, senator Spooner and Judge Russell. of Michi- gan-the chances seem to be in the order of the persons named.-Gazette \ correspondent of the Louisville Courier-l ourlml says: T have il from Il good source that. i'll eonsersa ton with Il well known republican Quay said in substance: I am now, as 1 have always been against the force bill It's bad politics. and if passed wonid defeat any party passing it. am satisfied that if the bill should he- eame law in the present congress We would lose New York i'll 'q2 hs fifty. il uot one hundred thousand majority
 he bill is not only bad political measure. but to large extent tinan. cially bad. There are hundreds of millions of dollars invested by New York and the North i'll Spilhern inter. ests There is ile good business man that dues not know that the passage oi Nutii t tifs Aouiu pitNt 0iSstStifFAtN iA the business interests of not only the south, but the entire country
 While some of the largest woolen mills in the country are failing under the Hew tariff and turning miiliitudes of workers atlrltt without employment, others, like the Radclitf mills at Bir- mingham Conn. have cut wtges l5 Der cent. and produced strikes l hese miils tind that the increase nf their ptutecti II to 4b ar ao per cent IT 'n S5 does no compensate fnr til. iner. aNeti r 'st at he raw materials under the heavy adai- tional taxes on the same. It k true the wool Lax has f.tiled ta raise the price of wool in this country, and the wool growers afe as much disappolnt- ed ;.s the mill bosses. Bat hy eS clHdiag foreign mixing wools from our market il has nnt only mad. oui clip less avail ,hle at home, but has given foreign manufacturers d larger aud cheaper supply of woal to draw 0poIf~-an advantage which enables them t0 still un,iefsrll with our ham. perel manufacturers in our own markets iu spite of the higher dusis. all imported woolens. Post Dispatch