The Forrest City times., 1893-04-14


 chilly sensation. Stop it in time. Plantation Chill Cure will do it, or it will cost you nothing. Sold by l.. Rollwage x Co.,, Pettus Bros. & Bu- ford, German & Barrow and $. II. Mann, Forrest City, and l. Goldberg, Wheatley, Ark.
 . Last week two uXorcides were rec ported in the bottoms east of town. but the officers were very reticent con corning the matter and no particulars were obtainable. It seems two negioe concluded to be rid of their wives and | proceeded to execute the idea, one smashing his wife's skull with an axe and the other choking the life out of his victim. No arrests have yet been made, though every effort was used to | capture the criminals.
 A. M. Nash is shipping lumber to Pullman Ill.,, for use in the construc. l ton of the celebrated sleeping cars, | etc, built by the company of that name. Mir Nash informs us the con- | pany is glad to get all the oak he can 1 ship them, and would take more if it could be furnished them. This is an- other evidence of the superiority of | Arkansas timber. Whenever 1t is used | it's excellence IS recognized. Arkansas leads the world in variety and quality of it's woods.
 A few drunken loafers made the midnight air of Saturday hideous with their yells, and they seemed to have had their own way too. as far as the pre- servers of the peace were concerned. Their maudlin attempt to sing where is my wandering boy tonight'' should have been encored by well directed | load of squirrel shot, so that my boysn | could have been located Sunday morn. l The authorities should see to it that l the suburban residents are protected 1 from the nightly nuisance of shooting and yells of drunken vagabnnds..
 say@ BLAcK-DRAJGHT tea cures Constipation. THE TIMES is in receipt of an invi- | tation to attend the fifteenth annual convention of the Woman's Christian l Temperance union. to be held in the | state house at Little Rock on the 25th, 26th and 27th insts. Mrs. Emma c. | Prewett of this city will repond on be- | half of the convention to the address of welcome by the local union. An att l tractive and instructive programme 1 has been prepared. and the meeting will certainly prove most interesting one.
 | During the storm Tuesday night the | large poplar tree standing in flont of 1 $. II Manns dwelling was so shaken l that it careened and there was great danger of it falling upon and crushing l the building Mr. Mann secured as- sistance and succeeded in propping the tree so as to prevent it from topping over. He took his family across the street to the nome of E. T. Gray where | they spent the night, and ednesday the tree was felled. The timely dis covery of the danger warded off very 1 Serlouis calamity:
 | The initiative has been taken in the organization of free library and read- ing room in this city. It is proposed | to make 1t the resort of young men, where their evenings can be spent Tn | the acquisition of useful knowledge, and one of it's objects is to counteract the vicious influences of street-cor.
 ner loafing. As the case now stands,
 d number of young men of this com munity have no place to pass their idle | hours except on the streets. No other resort is open to them. The con- trmplated library would effectually overcome this. It will afford them pleasant and profitable entertainments | for many an hour that might other wise be spent in dangerous pastimes | The plan is to stock the reading room with leading periodicals, books, etc., l and furnish 1t in an attractive manner. l The enterprise is in the hands of ladies | and gentlemen of influence and energy, and there is no valid reason why 1t l should not prove a success In all re- spects.
 An effort is making to establish
 d telephone line between Forrest City | and Madison, and it would prove of | considerable benefit to our merchants | and professional men. The White 1 River Slave company has established
 large plant at Madison, and from 5000 5000 will be distributed each month III
 the shape of wages alone. Most of
 this money should come to Forrest l City for the purchase of supplies, cloth- ing, etc. and would form no insignifi-
 cant factor in the prosperity of our
 town There is no telegraph office at | Madison. and the telegraph company
 refuses to establish one there. The | problem of communication would be
 solved by the construction of teie- phone line, which. once in operation,
 would be more than sef-sustainiDg.
 Mir. Bard is endeavoring to induce the
 Western Union company to allow the
 use of its poles for stringing the wire,
 and if he succeeds, which is probable.
 the cost of the line would be reduced
 to d comparatively small figure. Mir.
 Bard will visit our business men Tn the
 interests of this enterprise. and we
 trust the responses will be sufficiently