The Forrest City times., 1892-09-23
GENERAL NEWS.

Hicks predicts a tempestuous and
 cold winter, and Hicks is good | guesser.
 War is imminent in the Indian Ter ritory over the election of governor | Jackson and Jones both claim to De
 elected and are being backed by their several factions.
 Wednesday afternoon was the Jew | ish holiday Rashhobannah, or New
 Year. Ten days after this they cele- brate Yum Kippur. the day of atone ment. This is observed as fast day.
 Harrison Nickerson. New York lumberman, wants to fight Corbett for any sum not to exceed S50,600. Mex erson is feet 6 inches high weighs lso pounds. He has spared with iboth Sullivan and Corbett.
 On last Friday Bud Baswell killed a scorpion with two heads--a head on each end of the reptile. It could run in either direction-baclzward as fast as forward-''a-comin' or a.gwin'." 1t was quite a curiosity.--Batesville Bee. The life of Gov. Roswell F. Flower was thretened by an internal machine sent to him at the Windsor hotel, New York city, on the 18th. The detectives brought 1t down to police headquar- ters and delivered to the inspector,
 who put it in pail of water and left it there to soak for twenty-five minutes l while it was opened.
 NASHVILLE. Tenn, Sept. 16.--Mrs
 Aaron V. Brown, wife of Teunessee's s ex. governor, and the most famous
 woman in the state since the death of Mrs. Polk, died this morning aged over
 80 years. She aided in the history -mak-
 ing of the state, and was a member of
 the Pillow family, being the sister of
 Gen. Gideon J. Pillow.
 | In the box was found three-quarters | of pound of giant powder. A lever
 was connected with the cover of the
 box and when the latter would be
 raised three parlor matches fastened i to the lever. would be rubbed against
 a piece of emery paper on the side oi
 the box, and ignited, thus causing the
 explosion of the powder. Had the gov ernor not been warned by an anony-
 nous letter, he would have beed blown into snitnereeps.
 | MONTGOMERY, Ala, Sept. 16.-Ex. l Gov. Thomas H. Watts died suddenly
 at his home here this morning from
 heart failure. He has been member of the state senate and legislature
 He was colleague of Yancy ill the constitutional convention here in 1861
 He was elected governor of Alabama
 in 1868, to accept which he resigned a cnlonelcy in the Confederate army
 President Jefferson Davis appointed 1 him to his cabinet in 1862. The de
 ceased was wise statesman and al
 able jurist.
 There is more Catarrh in this section ot
 the country than all other diseases put
 together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. For a great
 many years the doctors pronounced 1t {
 local disease, and prescribed local rene
 dies, and by constantly falling to cure with local treatment pronounced it in
 curable. Science has proven catarrh to bt l a constitutional disease, and therefore re
 quires constitutional treatment. Halfs Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J Cheney X Co.,, Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the market. It |;
 taken internally in doses from 10 drops tt
 teaspoonful It acts directly on tht blood and mucous surfaces of the system | They offer one hundred dollars for anl
 case it fails to cure. Send for circulars
 and testimonials. Address,
 l F. J. Cheney & O., Toledo, O l Sold by Druggists. T5c.