The Forrest City times., 1894-02-16

Perhaps no firm m Forrest City eX- hibits better taste in the selection of Ladies Dress Goods, than the enter prising firm of German ts Barrow. Their stock is now the mort complete and beautiful in town, and 1t will af- ford the salesmen pleasure to show their goods. Call aud examine to your own satisfaction.
 Suit has been instituted to foreclose the mortgage on the canning factory There is but one way to prevent the sale. and that is for each stcckhoiderr t1 come up to the captains oihce ana subscribe and pay for enoueh stock u pay off the claim. This IS what shouid have been done in the frst place, ana then there would have been no cause to mortgage the plant. This mortgage is for the purchase money.
 Messrs. Becker X Lewis have closed an engagement with the Ariel Lanies Sextette" and this rare musica' Somul- nation will occupy the boards aC tne onerahonse on the night of march IA. Don,t forget the date. and don't forget | that this is the finest talent that nas ever appeared upon our stage. The performance will be of highly artis- tjc order. is pure and chHste through- out. and will be worth many times the price of admission.
 The Brinkley Mirror says: Mrs. q. l.. Ecgleston, of Forrest City: is vis- ting friends in the city" IhanKs brother. That is exactly the way to write it. for while it Is q fact thai Mrs. K does not now reside here we stiil claim her as one of our citizenesses. And bv the way. we are remindeu !o saw saw that we presume she is visiting in Rr;nkley again. as she left here after a very pleasant visit with her friend Mis. Knight, last week.
 St. Valentines day has come ana gone and the usual number oI HlSslu's
 some comic and some sentimental were sent and received. Rosy checked oirls and awkward boys thronged the nostoffice all morning shyly interroga- f,ng the postmaster as to mail for them: Some were glad, some were sad ab1 snme were mad. The day will leave it's impress upon the lives of some, Ior' little as it may be thought. their lem poral destiny was settled last Wedhes- day.
 ,Gns Ezell has thrown an embank- ment around his dwelling to protect it from fine annoying overfows resulting from the grade of the Iron Mountain railroad. Whenever there is consid- erable rainfall the people on the east side of the road suffer great inconven- fence and detrlment through Iiaving their premises flooded. A sewer oi prouer dimensions would aHord tle ue- sired relief, and we trust the conlpa- nv will not procrastinate Ill It's COT str, ctiOn.
 Candidates for the various offices are bobbing up aIl over the county. Dut lI is evident they do not expect mentnn' from the fact that they do not piace themselves before the people tntough the proper channel-the newspapul. An announcement lll HE ,a;.as anns hefnre inc people of the county than q weeks hard riding and talking. and would cost much less. There IS no medium like the newspaper to come properly in touch with any constituent cy.
 THE boys of Clarendon. says the Monr,e County Sun. have invented a new oame of marbles. Marbles are moi now i'm season, and our boys are nlavinp leap frog with venge8nce. Bmf the new game-cut an inch hole in fine end of d cigar box, and the OWL ar nf inc box presides. The player shoots at the hole, and if hc gets in- : s;da the hox he receives three marbles' if ha fails to enter the hole lie pnys the banker one marble. The game IS al the rage among both white ana D'ack schoolbOys.
 It is with a great deal of pleasure that we congratulate the town of For rest City upon the fact that SO far as we know there has not been single pistol shot within the corporate limlts this week If this is due to the vlgl- lance of the officers they deserve high praise; if due to x change of sentiment | among those who have been hring pis- tols, to an extent that they are ashamed to be seen with an old pistol. then 80 much more the cause for congratula- tions all around. There is no doubt but what a;l decent people are disgust cd with the almost nightly fusiladrsi which have been the terror of the wo- men and children for many months.
 The stamps recently stolen from the Bank vault were recovered one day last week. but it was thought best to keen the fact . Secrete in order to try to catch the party who hid them under the Iron Mountain depot platform The matter was given awaybv some one however, and 1t was published in the St. Louis papers who certainty ..scOoped" us. We knew the governor had offered d reward for the arrest of the leader of the outlawery m Prairie township, but we were requested not to publish the item. and supposing there was some policy in the matter. | mo conaouted When 10. the Little