The Forrest City times., 1891-12-04

Charming Miss Gray Taylor, princi- psi of the Palestine highschocl, ar- companied by her sister, WAS in the city Saturday and made TIE TIMES a delightful call.
 A fine baby girl made her appear ance at the home of C.. E. Pettus Mon- day night at l0:30. Georgesis delighted | with the newcomer, but bears his pa ternity with becoming dignity. The news stand is in receipt of the most superb line of Christmas and New Year cards ever brought to For rest City. They will make elegant holiday gifts. Call and examine them.
 A telegram from Salt Lake City, Utah. today announces that our old friend, Capt. C. l.. Knight, is grand pa. 4 daughter was born tO the Wife of his son Leslie, and all are doing well.
 Charles Moss, an experienced bar Der of Memphis, is now located in the basement of the Forrest City house, where he will be pleased to have the public call and test the quality of his work.
 Mrs. c. l.. Powers, jr., and three children arrived fron Galveston Tex. last night ou q visit to Mrs. k. L. Vadakin. These ladies are sisters and the visit will, of course, prove delight ful to both.
 The north-bound Iron Mountain passenger train jumped the track yes terday afternoon between Lexa and Helena. All the coaches were deralled, {, but no one was injured. The train was delayed about an hour and q half.
 It is "stand-off'' as to whether Dr. Stone, c. L. .Eggleston, Hon. O. b. Rollwage or Col V. B. IZard is the most graceful, ,..rider .of the flying po- nies. Dr. Stone arears to be ilttIe ahead so far, with Mr. Rollwage good second.
 Rev. N. P. Ramsey. of the Memphis Conference. and the father of our MT. J. E. Ramsey, twill preach in the Meth odist church next Sunday morning and night. NIT. Ramsey is one of theslead- ing men of his conference. The public are cordially invited to attend and hear him.
 The annual conference of tue Col ored Methodist Episcopal Church of America will convene in this city on next Wednesday, the 9th inst, Bishop Isaac Lane of Jackson, Tenn, pre- siding. A large number of delegates from all over the state will be present and much important..busineSs transacted.
 The St. Francis County Medical as- sociation met in the office of Dr. w. J. Matthews Wednesday afternoon. A quantity of bU ,iness pertaining to the medical fraternity was attended to. and many things of interest only to doctors were discussed. There was a large attendance of physicians from all parts of the county .G Success to the association.
 J. ". Hines, manager of the Evans plantation south of town, was the vic tim of serious accident Wednesday morning. While, working about the gin his left hand was caught by the saws and three fingers so badly lace rated shat amputatiou was necessary. Dr. John Joyner was called and per formed the operation. MT Hines hand was also terribly injured.
 Bryan & Kimmel's steam flying po- nies have been in town for some time, but, owing to the indictment weather, their patronage has been small. We regret this, for the proprietors Of the swing" are genial gentlemen and have done. their best to amuse the people in the absence of other amusements. We hope they will be more fortunate dur ing the remainder of their stay.
 MT. and Mrs. c. l.. Eggleston enter tained few friends in delightful style last night. A delicious repast was served and all expressed them selves as charmed with the affair in every particular. Those present were: Dr. and Mrs. J. E. Stone, Capt. and Mrs. c. l.. Knight, Mir. and Mrs. k. Loda, Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Joyner and Mir. ". J. Dickerson and Miss Emma DeNeler.
 Next Sunday week is Rev. Mir. Kel ley's last appointment for the year. He will leave on the 18th for the White River conference, which convenes at Newport on the l6th. MT. Kelley IS closing his third year as pastor of For rest City station. He informs us that he has never served more liberal and appreciatlve people. We have the promise of communication from him next week.
 r Last Saturday we witnessed an ex- hibition of the cooking powers of the celebrated "Charter Oak" stove, given by J. NJ. Brown. It is sufficient to say the stove performed all the good things claimed for it. We have never seen biscuits superior to those. cooked by the Charter Oak Saturday. and the roasts it turned out were simply superb. We regret the rain prevented a larger number of persons-fr wit messing the exhibition.
 A burglar has made several uHsuc- cessful attempts recently to force an entrance into the residence of Walter German. On Monday night he was trying to raise a window, when NIT. German heard him and sought his shotgun, determined to make a good ' burglar of him. The gun proved to be not loaded, and in searching for a shell Mir. German made noise which frightened the thief. who deeamped. One of these fine nights this fellow will run mp against a charge of buck shot which will probably purge hiss tsm of ali hnrelarious tendencies. ttr t9aflf1H