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The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1894-06-20
AROUSED PUBLIC SPIRIT.
Lives Of Human Beings May he Sacrifice
but Not Dividends.

Lives Of Human Beings May he Sacrificed.
but Not Dividends.
The wild speed of the Brooklyn trolley
traction system is beginning to pinch
where it hurts-in the pockets of CAPT
talists. 1t is cutting down the profits
and even draining the surplus of the
Brooklyn Elevated Railway company.
At the annual meeting of the stock.
holders of that elevated railway compa-
ny its president, Mr.. Adolph Ladenburg,
told heartrending tale as to the ruth
lessness of the aggressions Of the trolley
upon the innocent and long suffering
capitalist. The elevated road, with thres
more miles in operation, has carried
ESQ, 900 fewer passengers in 1893 than in
1892. Its surplus has diminished from
1896, 295 to $l7S.1S0.
Why" exclaims President Laden.
burg, should carriage coming faster
than six miles an hour be stopped and a
street car be allowed to run at 10 miles
an hour legally and 10 miles per hour NC
tuallyY'
Why, to be sure?
This is question which the public
may now reiterate.
The Brooklyn public has too patiently
seen its first citizens, its frstborn babes,
its gentle old ladies and its children with
dolls or other toys in their grasp felled
and crushed out of life by the reckless
speed Of the surface trolley cars. Now
that it finds this speed a menace to the
aolyency of cornorationa and IN tho divi
dends of capitalists, it possibly may be
aroused to some effective action.-New
York Telegram.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1894-06-20
A NATURAL SODA FOUNTAIN.
! Kentucky Farmer strikes Rain Soda
Geyser While Digging Post Holes.

lKcntucky Fnrmer strikes n riain Soda
Geyser While Digging Post Holes.
A wonderful discovery has been made
on the farm of Mr.. Anderson Miller,
who lives about nine miles southeast of
Barboursville. Ky. While digging a post
hole in the ground Mr.. Miller had gone
down probably four or five feet when he
struck what appeared to be very hard
substance, and he pounded away time
or two on il, when he was suddenly
startled by rumbling and laundering
sounds and kissing of gases, or what APP
peared TO be steam, and his digging tool
was lifted clean out of the hole and
thrown several fee-, and volume of
boiling and Kissing water shot forth $50
feet high. Mr.. Miller made a run for his
life, as he thought the water was billing
hot" as he expressed it.
After getting over his excitement he re-
turned TO the scene and looked upon some
thing wonderful--a steam of water near
ly six inches wide and as clear as crystal
shooting its way upward fully 100 feet
and forming a crystal arch beautiful in
the sunlight, something like the geyser
"Old Faithful" in the great Yellowstone
park. Miller stood still and watched this
phenomenon for about 30 minutes. Then
Of a sudden, as IL done by some mysteri-
Gus hand, this great fountain of water
was shut off. The appearance in and
around the place was entirely changed.
After pause of about 3Ominutes again
came forth the mighty volume of water
as before. Mr.. Miller, thinking he had
enjoyed enough of this grand sight by
himself, started off in haste TO call his
neighbors, that they might also see the
wonderful thing. Word was brought in
to town, and party Immediately left to
view the sight. The water appears tobe
heavily charged with carbonic acid gas
and is pleasant to the taste.-Cincinnati
ENQUIRER.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1894-06-20
MANCHESTER VERSUS LIVERPOOL.
Bitter JealousIes Aroused by the Success
full Operation of the Ship Canal.

Bitter Jealousies Aroused by the Success
full Operation of the Ship Canal.
A'great meeting Of merchants, traders
and manufacturers will shortly be held
at Manchester for the purpose of form
ally starting boycott against Liverpool
shipowners, who are accused of organ
lied efforts to hinder and delay the sue
cessful working Of the ship canal. The
bitter feeling is growing in both cities,
and kind of Kilkenny cat war appears
imminent. Manchester is certain to win
because economic laws are in its favor
and because Liverpool is nervous and
frightened before the fight has actually
commenced.
The Mersey dock and harbor board is
being loudly accused of incompetency,
and the Liverpool Land and House Own
ers' association is claiming the right to
place nominee on the board in order to
help save the city from threatened ruin.
Liverpool is certainly having run Of
bad luck just now apart from the canal
trouble. Fighting In Africa and the
French and German competition are
playing havoc with the once very profit
able west African trade. Southampton
is undeniably cutting into the business
that once belonged exclusively TO the
Mersey port. and now the great Lanca-
shire export cotton trade TO Japan is Sc
riously threatened by the reduction of
cotton freights from India to Japan from
II to rupees per ton. This means that
1t costs the Lancashire manufacturer
more than IL times as much to send his
goods to Japan as it costs rival makers
in India. -Manchester Letter.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1894-06-20
CHEAP DIAMONDS.
Universal Hard Times Said to he Unset
Ting the Market For the Sparklers.

Universal Hard Times Said to BE Unset
Ting the Market For the Sparklers.
1t will not be r" prising if the univer-
sal hard times c,,,..G great crash in the
diamond market. 1t is well known that
the great syndicate which has controlled
the price Of precious stones in the past
few years finds the enormously increased
production, combined with the steadily
shrinking market, very difficult condi-
ton to deal with.
Cecil Rhodes, the virtual king of South
Africa, told the stockholders Of the con-
solidated De Beers mines at Cape Town,
on Thursday, that the cause of the pres
ent depression in the diamond trade was
TO be found in America, which took one
third OF tho worlds production. These
mines have long been the greatest pro-
ducers, but one of the two other South
African companies has recently much in
creased its output in spite of the control
exercised by the syndicate. 1t is now pos
sible to obtain small diamonds in London
at astonishingly low figures. No cutting
of prices has yet been made by reputable
jewelers. in the retail trade, but the sup
ply of small stones is so enormous that
those who know the ropes can buy them
at 20 to so per cent of the prices of 1892
London Gable.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1894-06-20
Tried For Bigamy .. slu.

Recently little girl years Of age
was tried at the Berhampur criminal
sessions for having committed bigamy
with boy three years her senior, her
husband being then alive. The parents
Of the children were accused Of aiding
and abetting them. As the girl was only
years OF age, she could not plead seven
years Of absence from her former part
ner. For three days these two desperate
young criminals stood tearfully hand In
hand In the dock while their respective
parents were being charged with abetting
the offense. II Is pleasant 10 be able to
record that the jury at length returned a
verdict Of not guilty. and the youngsters
went cheerily home again, with the
smallest possible conception Of what all
the bother was about.--Jspan Gazette.
4 - IL. n a. NJ D.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1894-06-20
Mixed the Brides.

While two wedding PROFESSIONS were
fighting for the road at one Of the gates
of Hankow the chairs holding the brides
got mixed and each lady was taken TO
the wrong bridegroom. The gentlemen
never having seen their brides before.
according TO Chinese custom, knew no
mistake until the mothers Of the brides
came TO call upon them. Then it was
found that one of the brides, who was
rich and intended for rich husband, had
fallen into the hands of very poor man.
The problem remains unsolved. -Han-
kow Correspondent.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1894-06-20
John j. lngalls.

Ingalls, looked more attenuated than
ever when he made his address in Kansas
City the other day. His long frock coat,
closely buttoned, accentuated the gaunt-
ness Of his figure, and this, with the
streaks Of white in lis hair, made him
appear 10 DO "a compromise between an
illuminated spook and an animated
moonbeam." The ex-statesman is said
also on this occasion TO have resembled
his cartoons more than his portraits.-
New York World.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1894-06-20
Agricultural BreyitIes.

Tho Moth Dakota station furnishes
tabulated nfo.lnation of experiments
with bordtn aux mixture, corrosive sub
Innate and potassium sulphide to test
their value as fungicides for tho con-
troll OF potato scab. In the field tests
tho corrosive sublimate gave 90 per cent
of potatoes free from scab; bordeaux
mixture 80 per cent, and potassium sui
phide 3 per cent. The untreated rows
produced 90 per cent of scabby tubers.
The number of cattle slaughtered In
Kansas City during the last | months
Is estimated at over 100, 900. The In
crease of this year over the last is ESQ.,
600.
Tho results Of planting corn nj depths
of from one 10 seven inches during four
years are tahulated at the illihois sta
ton. The yields decreased as the depth
of planting increased.
The Illinois corn crop last year is
given as 6,416, 4SS acres, 1908, 308
acres more than in 1902. The average
yield was 20 bushels, equal to that OF
the preceding year. and exceeding II In
the aggregate 10y more than 32, 900, 900
bushels. The total yield is given at
100, 0i6,37i bushels, valued at s5l.-
63S,070.
South Dakota has 80, 900 farms, val
ued at $40. 900, 900, on which are raised
1900, 900 bushels of wheat and 49,,
600, 600 of corn and various other ce-
reals. The wild grass yields 800, 900
tons Of hay, and the wool clip exceeds
5000, 900 pounds.
DIR. Prices Cream Baking Powder
wosid's Psif Highest Medal and Dipioas-
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1894-06-20
A Clever Escape.

Jasper Hill escaped from Jail here at 7
o'clock Monday morning by clever
trick. The sheriff had the evening be-
fore admitted a couple of tramps to the
Jail who applied for lodging. At Z
o'clock this morning the sheriff opened
the door to release them, when Jasper,
disguised as one of the tramps, passed
out to freedom. IL was IS minutes be-
fore the officer discovered the deception,
and the escaped convict had reached the
woods at the outskirts of the city
Frankfort Qnd.) Special in Chicago Her
aid.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1894-06-20
Giving Wine Away.

There is such tremendous quantity
of wine in Spain this year that they alb
solutely do not know what to do with It.
Good red wines are being sold for 8
farthings quart. and even at that price
there are not enough purchasers to take
it all, and in many places the wineyrow.
ers are simply throwing it away. because
they have no room to keep it and cannot
sell it, Near Liria, in Valencia, vine
yard proprietor put out on the highroad
little cart, with barrel Of wine on the
top of it, bearing the inscription, IVAN
derer, drink as much AS you like. but do
not forget to turn off the tap."--London
Tit-Bits,
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1894-06-20
SplIrry /

Spurry is an ANIMAL ike mustard.
and like the latter plant Is not blown
about by the winds, and hence II AL
lowed to ripen sheds its seeds ON the
ground where grown, and like mustard
may become pestiferous, but spurry is
only grown as forage plant or one to
be turned under. Hence II should not
seed, says Prairie Farmer.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1894-06-20
Children Cry for Pitchers Castoria.

When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria
When she was Child. she cried for castoria,
When she became Mas, she chung to castoria,
When she had Children, she gave thom castoriA
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1894-06-20
,HELPLBssS I
INVALID.

INVALID.
about IS months or two
years ago my wife's health gavo
way, and she grew steadily
worse. She could not retain
scarcely anything she ate and
the case finally assumed tho
worst form of
~ DYSPEPSIA and, CHRONIC IL
my DlARRtiHA, UHt!
and size becatne a'helpless inva-
lid At the age of IS. l had her
under the treatment Of a good
physician, but His efforts 70 re-
lieve hor we're of 10 avail. so,
after matters had continued
thus for 8 OF 10 monthsy and
my wife had givon up TO die, l
took the case in my own hands
and purchased a bottle of DR.,
Kings
ROYAL dERMETUeR,
began giving tito horin wator rs
hot as she could drink it, boforo
and after each meal, using II
mild purgatiye occasionally OH
retiring at night.
Suffice it TO say in loss than
week there was
A WONDERFUL CHANGE.
Soc could eat q little of any
thing she desired, and today is
q well woman. She used alto
gother possibly A or G bottles.
In my opinion
0ERnETUER HAS NO EQUAL"
HARRr L. WATTS, winona, Miss.
Mr.. watts 10 travelling sa'csman for u. ~.
tsrbisr Ca. Wholesale grocers, New Orleans.
Kings Royal Germstusr Co, Atlanta. Ga
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1894-06-20
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DISSOLUTION.
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ana PENmANsHIP

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The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1894-06-20

Tooth brushes from l5c. 10 Doc. a
Babbage's.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1894-06-20

Box paper at 25c., this week at Bah
bage's.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-12-14
suitabls chrlstmas pr.sents oheap

The GRAPHIC has just received the remainder of its Picturesque Amer eia" portfolios which completes the series. There are thirty numbers, which sell at 10 cents each, making the volume complete for only $3. %. A handsome back may be purchased
 for a little additional, and all the parts bound together. Here is an excellent opportunity for thought full persons to give beneficial and substantial Christmas present at a small cost. As only limited supply is on hand orders will have to be left at once so that in case our sup ply is exhausted time will be allowed
 in which to replace it. d3w1t
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-12-14

TIE Pine Bluff GRAPHIC says "a dollars worth of nickels costs Uncle Sam thirty cents. Then thirty cents represents the intrinsic value of a dollar in nickle metal, but a dollar in nickles will buy as much sugar over Pine Bluff coun- ter as a dollar in gold. This illus trates the intrinsic value theory of the s'gold-bugo statesman very clearly as a delusion. There has never been any international agree ment to maintain the parity be- tween nickle and gold. Little Rock Press.
 How now, good neighbor of the Press, do you think you have scored a point? Well, let us see about it. The reason that thirty cents worth of nickles Gntrinsic value) will buy a dollar's worth of goods over any counter is because it is a ''subsid- iary coin" and exists in limited quantities only, and is interchange able and exchangeable to limited degree, and the parity is there fore maintained between it and all other kinds of money. In the same manner France maintains a large amount of silver in circulation as subsidiary coin at the ratio oi l5I to l, but at the present time and for years past France has not coined | single solitary silver dollar Ut her hints. With the free and unlimited coinage of nickle, whose intrinsic value is only thirty cents, we could no more maintain it at par with gold than We could the free and un- limited coinage of silver at the ratio of l6 to 1, the intrinsic value ol which is about fifty cents. There is great difference between limited and "unlimited. See2
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-12-14
Chrlstmas. Announcements.

Don't wait till all the best bargains are taken but call and select early your Xmas gifts. We have hundreds of beautiful things which need but to be seen to be appreciated.
 Here are few prices: Cup and saucer from 75 to $2.75 each Toilet tray from $1 to $4.50 each. Picture frames from $2 to $3.775. Ink-stands, from $2 to $6. Veil holders from 50 to 75 cents. Lamps from $4 60 $25. Candle sticks from 40 cents to %259. Candles, erdozen, 75 cents, ,al lcolors Clocks from . cents to $55. Opera glasses from S1.5 to SIS. Gold scarf pins from fb1 to S32 Whisk brooms from $2.75 to $3.25 Clothes Brushes from $250 to $7. Mirrors from $1.50 to S5.
 NJ. PARSE & Co.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-12-14
Special IAssessncnt.

The tax book for the collection oi the special assessment upon the real property in District No. for the pur- pose of sewers has been placed in my hands. All owners of real property lying in the district are required to pay their assessments to me within thirty days from December l. If such payment is not made, action will be commenced at the end of that time for the collection of said assess ments and for legal penalties and costs.
 Given under my hand this 18th day
 November, 1894.
 I5Jan1 w. D. LEARN, Collector.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-12-14

IT is said that Fort Smith will soon have another daily newspaper. Fort Smith already has two of the best daily newspapers published in the State, which would be a credit to any city of Q similar size in America. It does not appear to us that there is room in the Border City for another daily. What the people of Fort Smith should do is to give the Times and Ne,es- Record a better patronage than they are re- ceiVinp.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-12-14
a Related Industry.

In tho matter of nut culture the Unit cd States is far behind the countries of Europe It is little to our credit that six-sevenths of all the nuts consumed in the United States are imported from abroad, although most nuts of the tenn perate and subtropical climates will thrive here as well as as they will in Europe or Asia. The only nut that IS cultivated to any extent in our country is the peanut, and it is not a nut at all, but bean
 The reason for this baekwardness is probably that the nut trees take long time to como into bearing and Americans are on the dead run all time to get hold of something that will bring in returns quick. Bot it is time now to change this policy Fortunes cannot be made in day in this republic any longer.
 The sufest living and possibly the happiest life could be secured by the individual who is willing to plant fine nut orchard and wait from six to eight years for it to come into bearing. What is called the English walnut is In reali- ty the Persian walnut. It is cultivated to some extent ill California and will bring in regularly $200 to the acre. 1 When it is considered that all this comes only for the trouble of picking and marketing the nuts, it is an easy way to mako money.
 Peeans also bring i'll fine income with little trouble The pecan is spe- cies of hickory nut. It has been improv- ed so much of late years that soon pa Der shelled oceans inches long will be common enough. There is loud call for the invention of two machines. One is an apparatus that will hull almonds, walnuts, etc., not shell them, but mere l ly remove the outer, bitter rind. The other machine is one that will sweep tne oceans up into rows as they lie upon the ground and shovel them into ma chine that will sort and clean them. Picking up oceans by hand Is small business
 The Persian walnut will grow wher- ever the peach will. The almond will thrive i'll the southern states. The pc. can fiourishes in all the southern half of the Mississippi valley and in Texas. Most of the nuts of commerce come from Texas. Nuts of almost every kind would do we'll along the Pacific slope any. where Chestnuts, great big ones of the Japanese variety, grow all over.
 1t is pity that the culture of nuts oi improved grafted varieties is not sys- tematically entered on ill this country. It can be made most profitable adjunct to general farming. Besides the profit ill them, nuts are one of the most nutri- tious foods of the race. There Is as much nourishment in meal of nuts as in q 1 beefsteak
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-12-14
TIE City Council should 90 slow i

THE City Council should go slow in making any changes in the payment of saloon licenses. Should the license be made payable in city scrip in place of currency, the probabilities are that the town would be as dry as q powder can and as dark as night in less than a week. The moment water is shut off, up will go the insurance rates, and then we would be in pretty plight It is question that should be considered in allits bearings, and that should be done which will re- dound to the best interests of the entire city.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-12-14
AFEWLNES
Merely By Way of Gentle Reminder
 Along the Lines of Art.

What in all the world is prettier than an artistically painted piece of china. These china pieces are very desirable just now as Christmas birthday or other gifts, souvenirs, etc, or 10 keep for home decoration. Miss Rilla Williams, studio at the residence of Dr. Caldwell, West Fifth avenue, does china, oil or water-color landscape, figure pieces, crayon and pastel portraits and fabric work. If
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-12-14
Francis Magnard, editor of tho Pa,

Francis Maynard, editor of tho Paris Figaro. died too soon. He had ono of the coolest soundest heads in French journalism, and he was only 57, an ago when the intellectis is in it's prime. Mag hard applied common sense to the con- sideration of homo politics. in which respect lie was different from most French editors. His claim to proud dis tinction rests OH tho fact that through his paper ho caused the middle class of Franco to accept tho republic Loyalty.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-12-14

READING the Presidents message and the Treasury report side by side, we have reached the conclusion that there must have been some mis- take in the report that Secretary Carlisle had resigned on account of the last bond issue order.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-12-14
Down Go the Prices of Heating stovei

Down Go the Prices of Heating Stoves.
 Beginning Monday, December 10th, we will reduce the prices on our entire line of heating stoves. both wood and coal, 10 per cent. Our prices were already as low as the goods ought to be sold, but we want to reduce stock. An elegant line now on exhibition at our new stand, 214 216 Main street. Fox BROS.
 II 3t
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-12-14

WE have heard nothing but the cry of hard times from childhood. If people would croak less and work harder there would be better times throughout the community.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-12-14

ACCORDING to the U. S. Commis- sion of Navigation, of Il, 900 vessels passing the Suez canal in the last three years only six have been American. One American ship only has visited Hamburg, the greatest continental port, since 1861.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-12-14
PINE BLUFF. ARK, DEC. Il. 1891
LARGEST DAILY CITY CIRCULATION,
This uate In History Dec. l4.

KO8--The famous French prophet, Dc Nostr'l- danus, born; died 1866. 17al-Charles Wolfe, poet. born in Dublin; died 1923. 1790-Ceneral Anthony Wayne the Revolution ary hero, commonly called Mad Antho- n.y. died on Presque isle, Lake Erie; born 17l5 17po--(;eorce Washington died at Mount Yer non Va; born l7s2 1aRI-Prince Albert, consort of Queen Vieto- ria, died at Windsor castle, aged 42. 1897-(iencral Thomas Kilby Smith died in New York city; born 1920. l600-Eil.aln III, hi,l:, ef the Netherlands. died at The Hague; born lses 1s0l-Shja Enterisin lost off the English coast; 30 drowned. 1892 Mine explosion at Wigan, Fngiand to deaths