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The Monticellonian., 1894-12-28
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The reader of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been ablo to cure in Catarrh Cure is the only positive ,u, cure known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving u e patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting naturein doing it's work. The proprietors have so much faith in it's eura- tive powers, that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that 1t fails to cure Send for list of testimonials.
 Address, F. J. CHENEY 6 Go, Toledo, o. aSSold by Druggists, 75c.
 Halls Family Pills, 9 cents.
The Monticellonian., 1894-12-28
Went Into the Ring.

Says dispatch from West Point, N Y: Thomas Emery Morrell, of Ken lucky, member of the fourth class at the military academy, and Lloyd En- gland, of Little Rock, Ark, mem Der of the second class, settled a dispute by pugilism In room on the third floor of the barracks. England fouled Morrell in the fourth round and the fight was awarded to his opponent. The dispute arose last September, and 1t was then agreed to settle it in the prize ring. All the paraphernalia of the ring was used, including sponges, etc, and each man had his St onds. They fought like game cocks, and both have been under ex-Surgeon Forney's care since
The Monticellonian., 1894-12-28
THE AMERiCA'S CUP.
Lord Dunravcn's Personal Representative
 Believes There Will be Race.

Lord DunraNcn's Personal Representative
 Believes There win be Race.
 NEW YORK, Dec. 22.-H Maitland Kerscy, who is Lord Dunraven's per sonal representative in this country, received cable dispatch from Lord Dunraven yesterday morning. The message contained the brief but inn portant announcement that d meeting of the Royal Yacht squadron had been called for January ], 1895, to consider the terms under which the challenge of December for an international yacht race was accepted by the Amer ica's cup committee.
 Mir. kersey said when asked for his views on the situation: Tt is my opinion that there will be race for the Americas cup next year This may be but little more than surmise on my part, but firmly believe that the Royal Yacht squadron will ratify the challenge of December To-"
The Monticellonian., 1894-12-28
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.
Attempts to Hold Up Street Cars.

Two attempts to hold up electric street cars on West Ninth street, Int. tie Rock, were made the other night. Moterman Tom Euler had just reached the terminus of the line, and was in the act of starting in on his return trip when two men heavily masked hailed him with com. mand to stop. He immediately gave his controller jerk, and in an instant the motor was going a 2O-mile an hour rate of speed. Meeting car at the first switch he gave the alarm to his brother motormau, who paid no atten- tion to him, but kept going until the terminus was reached. This mortorman was attacked by the same pair of masked men. Seeing that he was about to be held up he jumped from his stand, and in an instant was safely hiding iii the bushes. The wouid-be robbers, after firing several shots through the windows of the car, de- parted.
The Monticellonian., 1894-12-28
Gathering Them In.

Dave Gibson, of Little Rock, was ar rested by Deputy Marshal Sappington the other night on the charge of sell ing whisky without license and placed in the penitentiary. J. II. Hollis, Jr., of Rison, special deputy United States marshal, arrived the next morning, having in custody James Schultz, in dicted for selling whisky without li cense. Dr. H. B. Garner, of Williford Sharp county, was brought in during the day by Deputy Marshal Sapping ton on the charge of selling whisky.
The Monticellonian., 1894-12-28
Battle with Cotton.rhleres.

Constable W. L. Vinson, of Texar- kama, was called out to the Ivey planta- tion, on Red river, to arrest some ne- groes charged with stealing seed cotton from the pens in the fields. He took posse of five men with him, as the accused were known to be tough characters. When the officers approached the house in which the negroes had barricaded themselves, the latter opened fire with shotguns, badly but not fatally wound ing William Hannagow, one of the posse. The officers then sought safety behind stumps and trees A regular battle followed, without further in- jury to officers. The officers finally exhausted their ammunition and re- turned to town for new supply.
The Monticellonian., 1894-12-28

a little now and then, with a gentle, cleansing laxative, thereby removing of. lending matter from the stomach and bowels, toning up and invigorating the liver and quickening its tardy acaion, and you thereby remove the cause of multitude of distressing diseases, such as headaches, indigestion, or dyspepsia, biliousness, pimples, blotches, eruptionS. boils constipation, piles, fstulas and maladies too numerous to mention.
 If people would pay more attention to, properly regulating the action of their bowels, they would have less ire quent occasion to call for their doctors services to subdue attacks of dangerous diseases.
 That of all known agents 10 accom- plsh this purpose, Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are unequaled, is proven by the fact that once used, they are always in favor. Their secondary effect is to keep the bowels open and regular, not to fur ther constpate as is the case with other pills. Hence, their great popularity, with sufferers from habitual constipation, piles and indigestion.
 free sample of the " Pellets" 4 to 7 doses or h7ai, is mailed to any address, post paid, on receipt of name and address on postal card.
 Address, WORLDS DIsPENsARY MEnf- CAL ASSOCIATION Buffalo, N. Y.
 A. N K 1532.
The Monticellonian., 1894-12-28
A GENERAL STRIKE
Expected Among the Shoe Lasters of Hav-
 erhtll, Mass, and Vicinity.

HAvERHu.L, Mass, Dec. 22.-The striking shoe lasters of this city held monster demonstration Thursday night in the city hall with 2,oOO per sons in attendance Previous to the rally there was a street parade of all the unions in the city, with 1000 men in line. All of the speakers urged the men to organize, and to make deter mined effort to secure the prices paid in this city a year ago. A general strike is expected.
The Monticellonian., 1894-12-28
MISSING VESSELS.
Revenue Cutters Ordered to Proceed in
 Search of Them.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.-Secretary Car lisle has ordered the revenue cutters Grant, at Port Townsend, and Rush at San Francisco, to proceed to sea at once and stem northward in search of nine American vessels which are eleven days overdue from British Columbia ports. It is only six weeks or so since the Ivanhoe foundered in the Northern Pacific ocean, and much uneasiness is felt for tue safety of the missing yes all
The Monticellonian., 1894-12-28

SrRANGER-"Zum Donnerwetter, now you have cut my chin second time. If you can't shave better than that, you will lose all your customers pretty quick" Barber's Apprentice-"Not at all 1 am not allowed to shave the regular customers yet, only shave strangers l'-Fliegende Blatter.
The Monticellonian., 1894-12-28
No Substitutes

For Royal Baking Powder. The "Royal" is shown by all tests, official scientific, and prac- tcal, stronger, purer, and better in every way than all other Baking Powders. Its superiority is privately acknowledged by other manufac- turers and we'll known by all dealers.
 If some grocers try to sell another baking powder in place of the Royal" it is because of the greater profit. This of itself is good evidence ofthe superiority of the Royal" To give greater profit the other must be lower cost powder and to cost less it must be made with cheaper and inferior materials, and thus though selling for the same, give less value to the consumer.
 LOOK with suspicion upon every attempt to palm off upon you any baking powder in place of the Royal There is substitute for the Royal"
The Monticellonian., 1894-12-28

SURE TO HAVE Coop TIME.-SHave you received an invitation to the Bachelors balli' "Yes, indeed. I'm to be the only girl there" "Whatp ''Yes; really You know the bachelors only had an invitation apiece to send out, and I've received one from each. .n-Harper's Bazar.
The Monticellonian., 1894-12-28
If Santa Clana-

Were bilious he wouldn't be the jovial friend people are cross. They ought to take Hostet- ter's Stomach Bitters and banish the bile from their blood and their tempers at one and the same time. The Bitters is an in falllble preventive of malarial, kidney and rheumatic ailments, and triumphs over dys- pepsia and nervousness It regulates the bowels without griping them.
The Monticellonian., 1894-12-28
A Fatal stroke.

H. D. Dennis, of Pope county, farm CT in good circumstances, aged 50. was stricken with apoplexy on the streets of Atkins, and died.
The Monticellonian., 1894-12-28
Stock Sold.

The stock of dry goods of Rosenberg x Miller, Pine Bluff, which firm re- gently failed was sold at auction and brought SEQ, 1925. The stock inventoried S33 GOO
The Monticellonian., 1894-12-28
To Fridge Rivers,

Congressman Terry has introduced a bill to authorize the Little Rock tS Pa ciic Railroad Co. to bridge the Fourche La Fevre and the Petit Jean rivers in Arkansas
The Monticellonian., 1894-12-28
Residence Burned.

The residence of E. Poole, at Fordyce, burned the other evening while the family were attending a lecture. Origin of the fire unknown; loss, about s. 900; insurance, S1. 800.
The Monticellonian., 1894-12-28
Wagon Factory Burned.

The Sweitzer Wagon Co., factory at Fayetteville was burned the other night. Loss on the building and ma chinery about &, 900; insurance Sl, 300.
The Monticellonian., 1894-12-28
4 Banks Condition.

The Citizens bank of Little Rock re- ported the other day S230, ,33s.2 20 depos- its and total assets of S356, 23s 46 Cash on hand and in sight, S132, ,69S 60.
The Monticellonian., 1894-12-28

SToCKLY-'I hear that your son went into the office to work this morning. Jobly- "He went into the office to work me. l was out, but guess I'd have been out more I'd been in. Philadelphia Record
The Monticellonian., 1894-12-28
Mothers. When Your Ch,,arsn

Take cold and are sick with a Cough or Group, give them Aliens Lung Balsam: you will be pleased with the result. It contains no opium and It's action is expectorant, causing the phlegm to rise and the inflamed membrane to heal rapidly.
The Monticellonian., 1894-12-28
CnI. G. ". CollIcr.

Col C. W. Collier. late of Conway, but who for some time had been man. aging the .Icnkin, plantation near Pine Bluff, died recently
The Monticellonian., 1894-12-28

"You'D better discharge that new writer he can't spell" "You are mistaken; NC have merely discovered a great dialect ge- nius. o-AtlaHta Constitution.
The Monticellonian., 1894-12-28

Nor Ills WEAK PoISr-Aiax-"W thou not wounded in the battle to-day, Achillesl MethoughtI saw thee stricken by Tro- jan spear" Achilles-"I was stricken, Ajax, but, fortunately, Igotit the neck" Puck.
The Monticellonian., 1894-12-28
Gr.At Rock Island Route PlayIng Card,

If you send 15 cents in stamps or coin to JOHN SEBASTIAN, Genl Pass. Agent, C., R. l. & P. By, Chicago, you will receive post paid the slickest pack of playing cards you ever handled. Beautiful steel engraved Whist Rules accompany them free.
The Monticellonian., 1894-12-28
stsbb,ng Array Between Boys.

At Rison John Henderson and Will Benton. aged 12 and 16 respectively, quarreied, and Henderson stabbed Ben ton, making bad wound.
The Monticellonian., 1894-12-28
Cotton Burned.

A fire at the depot of the St. Louis & Southwestern railway at Camden the other night destroyed two box cars of cotton shipped from Magnolia.
The Monticellonian., 1894-12-28

JuNIoIus- -'The governor writes, in reply to my last letter asking for money, that he is on the verge of giving up fl despair y Sophomorocus That's encouraging. My dad curtly informs mo that he doesn't pro pose to give up at all. n-Buffalo Courier.
The Monticellonian., 1894-12-28
Depot nnd Cnrs Rurned.

The depot of the Camden X Gurdon branch road at Camden was burned, to- gether with four freight cars and a cabin Nothing was saved.
The Monticellonian., 1894-12-28

'I AM summoned to another climb" said the bellboy as the indicator announced q call from the top fioor.-Philadelphia Rec ord
The Monticellonian., 1894-12-28

How My THROAT HURrs Why don't you use Hales Honey of Horehound and Tarl Pike's Toothaehe Drops Cure in one minute
The Monticellonian., 1894-12-28
What Clark SaYa.

Gov.-elect Clark says he will not let Corbett and Fitzsimmons fight at Hot Springs or anywhere else within the confines of Arkansas
The Monticellonian., 1894-12-28

TEACHER "Now, Charley, tell us what you know about Cr9susfn Charley wear em in their pants. ."-Harlem Life.
The Monticellonian., 1894-12-28

CONDUCTOR How cd are you, little girl}1 Little Girl" If the company deesn t object prefer to pay my fare and keep my own statistics '-Vogue.
The Monticellonian., 1894-12-28

Pisos Cure for Consumption has no equal as Cough medicine.-F. M. ABBOTT, 3S3 Seneca St., Buffalo, N. Y, May 9, 1S94
The Monticellonian., 1894-12-28
For an Old Murder.

The governor has offered S2oo reward for the arrest and conviction of A. J. Testament, who is wanted in Benton county for an old murder.
The Monticellonian., 1894-12-28

The temperature at which bread is both raised and baked is of the great
 st importance in producing the per
 ect loaf. Dr. Woods, of the Con hecticut experiment station, places the proper raising temperature at from so degrees to s5 degrees Fahrenheit, and Ithe baking temperature at from 100 degrees to 300 degrees. In a late paper on bread-making he cautions the housewife against cooling the loaves of bread too rapidly after taking them from the oven. Much of the souring of bread" he adds, lis doubtless due to lack of care during cooling. Owing to the high-water contents, and the large amounts of nitrogenous substances and sugar which bread contains, it is, es- pecially while warm, a good soil for the development of various kinds of molds and bacteria. A loaf of bread hot from the oven, taken into poorly ventilated room crowded with people, will become sour in the course of two or three hours. "-N. Y. Post.
The Monticellonian., 1894-12-28

The reason beer is often weighed instead of measured is due to the fact that when the beer is drawn the foam makes an accurate measure impossible. pound and a quarter of beer is equiv alent to n pint, although it would measure much more.
The Monticellonian., 1894-12-28
Tn Our Great Grandfafhcr's Time,

,ilkypills were in al Use. Like the lunde erbuss of hat decade they we're big and cluili- y, but inenec- i've. In this cent ury= of enligltt- enn1ent, we have | Dr. Pierce's s \ Pleasant Pel-
 } lets, which
 cure all liver, stomach and bowel deranpe- nlcnts i'll tie most effective way
 Assist Nature
The Monticellonian., 1894-12-28

WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS PLEASE state that you the Advertisement in this paper.
The Monticellonian., 1894-12-28

A. N. K, 1.
The Monticellonian., 1894-12-28
Hoods 'is':'''ii' Cures
Important In Bread Making.

Hoods Pills are tho best after-dinner Pills assist digestion, euro headache. 25c.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-10-25
THE NEW HOG.

There are plenty of people living
who remember when the hog was an
athlete, could jump fences and beat
horses in the race. The pig litters were
not infrequently twenty to twenty five
in number. The early hog also had
nose for business, and put it where he
liked. He had great wind bellows,
and little fat to retard his motions.
In those days his bacon was lean and
lean, and he had barely enough lard to
fry the balance. 1t is barely possible
that we are tending to the mistake of
extreme refinement by breeding.
Whether this is so or not it is well
to call the attention of breeders to
what has occurred and is occurring.
They know not fully what damages
have been made in fifty years. They
hear something about it, but cannot
realize these things as older ones do
who saw the athletics of fifty years
ago and look upon their descendants
now. A writer on the subject gives
the following note of warning and adj.
vice: The hog has had his nose and leg
shortened, his bones developed, his
back broadened, his assimilative pow
ers enlarged, and his vital and repro
ductive powers impaired. His educa-
ton and refinement have been carried
too tar in many cases. He is dude;
he cannot give vigorous squall nor
run forty rods without danger of
death. -Indiana Farmer.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-10-25

Many natives use the carbonic acid to
make spurious champagne and other
sparkling wines. Oil has been ex-
pressed for many centuries by the
chance, a mortar having revolving
pestle driven by hand or bullock power.
The residual cake contains a large
quantity of oil, and is used as food for
cattle. This mill is still in general
use, excepting where Europeans have a
hand in the production, European ma
chinery, of course, giving better re-
suits. Until six or seven years ago,
vegetable oils were almost exclusively
used for every kind of fabrication in
India. At first mineral oils made a
bad impression, but this was soon re-
moved. Ghee, a clarified butter used
by the natives, is adulterated with veg
etable oils and animal fats. Scientific
American
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-10-25
HE KNOW HOW TO SPELL SALMON.

A lady who buys provisions regularly
of small dealer was little puzzled
over one of the items in her monthly
bill The item was as follows:
ITO three pounds of psalmon, six
shillings. !"
1t occurred to the lady that she had
purchased three pounds of salmon ON
the date given, and the meaning of the
mysteriously-sp spelled word was apparent
to her. Greatly amused, and feeling
well enough acquainted with the pro-
vision dealer to tell him of the laugh
she had enjoyed at his expense, when
she went to pay the bill she said
"Mr. Blank, / had quite a laugh over
the way in which someone in your es-
tablishment spells salmon.
When the item was pointed out to
him, Mr.. Blank said in tone of con-
tempt for such ignorance:
That's the work of a new book
keeper, madam. I'm ashamed to have
such bills sent out, and | shall have to
speak to him about it. He is good
bookkeeper, but he has got to learn tc
spell correctly if he stays in my en-
ploy. Let me correct the bill, madam. u
Taking pen, Mr.. Blank drew sew.
eral lines through the word and wrote
above it:
"Sammon.
''There, madam" he said, compla
Gently, handing back the bill, "TlI
teach that bookkeeper how to spell
'sammon' when he comes in, or tell him
to find new place. Scottish Night
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-10-25
SALVATION OF OUR COUNTRY.

Our densely crowded cities are cess
pools of physical, mental and moral
corruption. Where men cannot make
homes they make hells. There are
thousands of men and women who
burrow i'll the cities without ambition,
and without hope, and whose only pur-
pose in life seems to be to eat, drink
and sleep. And yet millions of acres
Of fertile land are tenantless III this
country, land enough to give every
man, woman and child in this country
a great abundance of all the necessary
comforts and luxuries of life. Why
does not the artisan, when he finds that
he can no longer secure the wages to
enable him to make respectable liv-
ing, go to the country? Mainly because
he has an incorrect conception of coun-
try life. He thinks farming is isolat-
ed, cherries, unremunerative drudgery,
and he gets his impressions from pic
lures of farm life, which represent only
its hardest aspects. He hears and reads
of farmers who live in the plainest
manner in the plainest house and
drudge, drudge, drudge from morning
till night in the efforts to raise a crop
of corn or wheat which may or may
not yield them something, depending
upon whether the chances are ON their
side or the side Of the weather, bugs,
flies, worms and other unfavorable in
tiuences.
Improbable farming is of course,
not attractive, and when we adopt the
means by which we are enabled to
make the outcome of the year reason
ably certain, and are absolutely sure of a
comfortable living, we make the occu-
patton of farming more inviting and
clothe it with greater attractiveness.
Scientific framing has little to do with
one-crop agriculture. 1t naturally
leads to diversity. 1t means choice
garden, fine orchard, select dairy, a
flock of thoroughbred fowls and all
other conditions necessary to provide
variety in abundance for the table, and
what is quite Of as much importance,
variety i'll work and interest. All this
means that if one crop fails wholly OF
partially, there are others to fall back
upon. 1t makes the farm a place fol-
the exercise of mind a.s. We'll as muscle.
When. farming Is studied scientifically
and practiced intelligently, we do not
hear mutterings of discomfort. 1t il
the slip-shod, mechanical, dull routine
/ xunrl- that 1iunsts ~
its charm, and when farming is raised
to the dignity of a business, and it il
understood that it is not the best lane
but the best man that wins, the cite,
will not long be crowded with idle arti
sans, for with farming no longer con
Quoted by chance, they will not b,
afraid to go to the country and tax,
life's bounties direct from the prodiga
hand of nature. Western Plowman
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-10-25
THE RUSSIAN THISTLE.

The Russian thistle has made its
appearance in Northern Illinois, and
the farmers are much alarmed concern
ing it. This injurious weed was in
troduced in South Dakota by means of
flax-seed from Russia, in which its
seeds were mingled. 1t has spread
througL. inc Northwest, and is distrib-
uted over an area Of $4,000 square
miles. 1t has caused damage to the
extent of several millions of dollars.
In North Dakota it is known as Rus
sian cactus. 1t forms dense prickly
mass three or four feet in diameter.
Wherever its seeds take root the thistle
crowds out the small grains.
A writer in the Chicago Tribune
says patches of thistles ten feet square
may be seen scattered all through a
wheat field; in harvesting horses will
not walk through these thickets unless
their legs are protected in some manner.
In Nebraska and South Dakota the
crops of '93 in many flax fields and
some wheat land was left standing as
not worth harvesting. This year the
injury is moe severe.
The thistles cause great difficulty in
running harvesting machinery. In
many places binders cannot be oper-
ated at all and even headers are used
with extreme trouble. The large, rigid
weeds interfere with blowing and con-
tinually clog harrows and cultivators.
Many farmers of the Northwest be.
lieve the thistle cannot be exterminated.
Some farms are entirely abandoned tc
it, the owners giving up in despair
The only effective manner in which
to oppose the thistle seems to be to hoe
it down before it natures.
California farmers should be ON theil
guard against the introduction of this
pest, by means of foul seeds or IN Other
ways. Wherever it appears it should
be exterminated without delay and al
any cost.