The Monticellonian., 1894-11-02

nOllCtS. ls IutSliOi iildI have been frequently asked since resuming control of the MoNTIoEL- LoNIAN, q month and halt ago We do not! is our answer. Hav- ing published this paper for 20 years, and never having felt the necessity for charging our friends for saying few kind words in memory of their dead up to this time, we think it rather late in life to adopt such a policy now. The people of Drew county have been kind to us in many ways and we could not be so unkind to them as to even think of extorting mon- ey from them because they felt like leaving a record of their lov- ed ones who have passed away.
 These are not the hardest times many of us have seen in this eoun- try. The years of 1874 and 1881 were both great deal worse than now. It is true that cotton was higher then than DOW, and so was corn; but the trouble with us then was we made very little to sell. If anybody, hereabouts, starved to death in either of those years we have never heard of it. Let us all take heart and pull through. Better times are ahead.
 Every family in Drew county should have the MoNTIcELLoNIAN. It gives you the latest news, both domestic and foreign, and you can get it without paying out one cent in money. We will take wood, corn or cotton seed for it. One dollars worth of either of these will get the paper for one year. Where is the farmer that cannot afford 10 take q good coun- ts paper upon these terms.
 A little two year old son of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. McClerkin. of this city came very near drowning on last Monday. The little fellow Was playing on the gallery and accidentally fell into a barrel of water, which was standing under the gutter-pipe. A eolored boy saw him fall in and reseued the child from tho watery death. It required someti me to restore the little fellow.
 All kinds of Dry goods are be- ing sold in our town cheaper than was ever known before. Our merchants realizing that the farm CTS are short of cash, owing to the rapid decline in cotton, are divid- ing profits with them and selling goods at very little margin. A little money will go a long ways here now.
 We are told that our old color ed friend, Richard Ashley. who lives on the Bayou Bartholomew, raised 9 bushels of rice, this year, on a small piece of wet land On his farm.
 Nearly everything that grows out of the groud can be raised in South-Eastern Arkansas.
 Cotton is very low. It is sell ing for less than 5 cents, in this market. It may go lower or it may advance in price; but whatev- CT it does, our people must change their plan of farming. It will not do to depend, altogether, on the cotton crop.
 Ire only permanent cure for chronic catarrh is to thoroughly expel the poison from the system by the faithful and persistent use of Ayers Sarsaparllla. This won- derful remedy proves successful when all other treatment has fail ed to relieve the sufferer.
 Jack Carter and Jim Dye, two colored men. were lodged in jail last Saturday, for burglarizing J A, Thompson X Co.'S, Grocery Store, on last Friday night. They got about S17,00 worth of gro ceries.
 To relieve headache, correct disorders of the stomach and in. crease the appetite, and for the cure of liver complaint, use Ayers Cathartic Pills. They are perfect ly safe to take, and invariably