The Forrest City times., 1891-06-12
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During it's eighteen years existence the Knights of Honor has paid over $34 600 900 to widows and orphans.
 Foster, the celebrated weather prophet. says the great storm period begins the first week in May of this year and end in June. 1892. and W ill he the greatest storm period since ls32-3. Its greatest force will be dur. ing the coming winter.
 During the year of lsSo-90 the sugar product of the world amounted to F : I'll 600 GOO pounds. Of this amount 7.700 000 GOO were beat sugar, and 5,0ll 600 900 pounds were cane sugar. Seven years previous the quantity of beat sugar was only slightly greater than that eff cane sugar. The figures further show that the yield of cane sugar has slightly decreased during the past seven years, and that during the same time the yield of beet sugar has increased about 4S per cent.
 Think of it Lady doctors, editors, lawyers and preachers in Japan. Wo- men have been among the greatest sufferers from prejudice and supersti- tiOn throughout the dark and bitter past; but now. thanks to the freedom of thought and action that have begun to bless an ill-starred world, the gall ing shackles are failing from their limbs. On American. soil the rights of women were first comprehensivrly pro- claimed, and among the rich fruits that hang upon the branches of the glorious tree planted by the revolution ary fathers woman's emancipation is one of the most precious. Sunny South.
 The imposition of the higher duties on wool and cloth" says the Dry the character of the goods at the dis posal of clothiers, whose trade is in a mixed condition, so that they are pug zled to supply their customers with suits that will wear at prices that they can afford tO pay. For this reason it is coming about that largely in conse- quence of the effects produced by re- cent legislation upon the wooden and worsted trades public feeling is more pronounced in favor of free wool, and taxed wool has more opponents than it had before the passage of the McKin- ley bill"
 The The0sophists of the world as- sembled in Boston short time ago, and more is now being said of their creed than probably has ever been said in all times past. They hold to the doctrine that human beings simply continue to appear on earth in differ ent forms, or rather the spirits of those who die return to earth in other persons from time to time, as they are able to stand the racket, progressing to more perfect state of existence in each visit until they become entirely too good for earth, and then remain m heaven. Their idea is not an un- pleasant one, but the trouble is in finding proof of it's truth.
 So far only five notices of contest of seats in the house of the Fifty-second congress have been filed with Clerk McPherson, who will csll the roll pre- liminary to the organization of that body. They arc from: Alabama Fourth district, John V. McDuffie (repl vs. Louis w. Turpin (dem); South Carolina-Seventh district, Thos. F. Miller (rep) vs. Wm. Elliott (dem); New York-Twenty-eighth district, IT. Y. Moves (rep) vs. Hosea H. Rock well (dem), Pennsylvania = Twelfth district, Thomas s. Grevy (dem) con testant, vs. Edward Scull (rep); Twenty-fourth district, Alexander K. Craig (dem) vs. Andrew J. Stewart (rop).