The Forrest City times., 1892-09-30
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS. Georgia holds her state election on October Sth.
 The cotton acreage in Texas this year is 20 to 23 per cent less than last year.
 The Coal Creek (Tenn.) rioters will be brought to trial some time this week at Clinton.
 Governor-Elect Fishback addressed the people at Memphis Tuesday night. He was accorded rousing well come.
 The boiler of locomotive exploded at Birmingham. on the 26th, killing Engineer John Elmore, and seriously injuring four others,
 The officials at the port of New York have officially declared that there is not even suspect of cholera there. The big scare is over.
 The presidential campaign was opened at Hot Springs Monday, by United States Senator Jones, who ad- dressed large crowd of people at the court house.
 Wm Muldoon, a John l.. Sullivan enthusiast, says he has $5000 to bet that his favorite can whip Corbett or any other man in the world. Good, we believe so, too.
 Justice l.. Q. c. Lamar, of the Su- preme Court, was strickenNwith paraly- sis on Wednesday,, in Washington, shortly after his return from Highland House, on the White Mountains of New Hampshire. He is now much better.
 At Springdale, O., Wm. Small is under arrest for entering the Third Lutheran Church Friday evening and taking up the carpet from the audito- rum. He says he thought the church people could stand the loss better than d private individual.
 At Chicago, in cheap lodging. house Sunday night, Michael German, aged 70 years, was brutally beaten to death with q club or heavy weight. This fact was not discovered until Monday morning. Three other men, whose descriptions have been given to the police, occupied the room with Cor man.
 The state democratic headquarters of New York Haunt banner with the iOiloWiuB luott uCtifC tdti III lcSSOu uDOtI it: WOolens advanced 40 per cent. " cent" Leeches free" "Black Alpaca 66 per cent.o Birds free" .Cotton laces 50 per cent.n Bladders free" Flannel shirts 100 per cent.' "Tur- ties free"
 The sixth annual convention of the German Catholics of the United States was begun on the 26th at Newark N. J. The convention will, in point of influ- ence as well as of numbers, exceed any previous meeting. With members of the German Catholic societies, and with the masses of Catholic laymen generally, the total number of partici- pants may safely be estimated at from 1000 to 5000 persons. Every territory within the jurisdiction of the United States is represented.
 Export trade in Mexico is booming, corn shipments are going into the re- public at Eagle Pass in such quanti. ties that it is found impossible to for ward them promptly to destination The hauling capacity of the Mexican National Railway is strained to the utmost. Although passenger engines and leased locomotives are employed, the freight still accumulates. Ten trains containing 300 cars, hauling 150,000 bushels of corn, left Pedras Niegras Sunday for the south, yet there are 600 cars of grain for Mexico side. tracked between Eagle Pass and San Antonio.
 Hon. Frank Burkitt, in his speech at Louisville, Miss, advised all his friends who are not registered voters and who are ineligible to vote at the coming election to attend the polls and when refused the privilege of voting to set up an outside box, vote in it and keep account of the votes so cast. It is supposed that Candidate Burkitt's $ advice is intended for those whom the restrictions in the new constitution have disqualified, and that he is trying to stick in peg to hang contest on in case of his defeat, which now ap. pears to be absolutely certain. There is more Catarrh in this section oi 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 it z local disease, and prescribed local rene dies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment pronounced it in curable. Science has proven catarrh to bs a constitutional disease, and therefore re quires constitutional treatment. Halrs Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney X Co.,, Toledo, Ohio. is the only constitutional cure on the market It i. taken internally in doses from 10 drops ts a teaspoonful. It acts directly on thS blood and mucous surfaces of the system They offer one hundred dollars for an, case it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. Address, F.J. Cheney < O., Toledo, o l Sold by Druggists. 75c.