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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-09-09
EVERYTHING indicates an unprece-


 EVERYTHING indicates an unprece- dented era of prosperity this season. The price of cotton continues to ad- vance, and while it will bring good price in the market, it has been pro duted cheaper than any previous cotton crop in this country, thereby greatly swelling the profits of the cotton planters. In addition to this encouraging fact the farmers have raised their own sshog and hominy'' for next year, so that they will neither have to buy nor go in debt for food supplies. Whenever the far mers raise their own supplies and make cotton their surplus product, then we can have general prosperity in this country, and that condition has now been reached.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-09-09
NAL J. B. SPEERS.

In,the death of Maj John B.Speers, of Pine Bluff, in this city, at the res idence of his son-in-law, MT. w. H. Langford, at 1:55 o'clock this morn ing, the State loses one of her no blest and most patriotic and pro gressive citizens. Maj. Speers was beloved by all who knew him. He was one of the States wealthiest citizens, and one of her most chari- table and philanthropic. No chari- table need ever appealed to him in vain His purse strings were always loose for suffering humanity and he literally carried out the Bib lical injunction, "Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.
 Mai. Speers was a self-made man and always appreciated the efforts of struggling young men. Energy, effort and industry always received their just recognition and reward at his hands. He was friend of the poor and struggling, and in his death the human race has lost noble friend and benefactor. Peace be to his ashes. Little Rock Press.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-09-09
A NEW CITIZEN TRAIN.
The Hair of the Philosopher of Madison
 Square Getting Black.

The Hair of the Philosopher of Madison Square Getting Black. A remarkable change is coming over George Francis Train, the sage of Mad ison square His bronzed face and leo nine head, with its mass of snow white hair, may soon be q thing of the past, for youth is upon him again, and his locks are turning black. The change be- gan about q month ago, he says, and was noticed first by one of the young sters who find in him so stanch friend.
 With this comes another change ln the man who built the Pacific railway; who established the first line of clipper ships to Australia and China, and who had $90, 900 year income, made by himself, before he was 20 years old. His eccentricities, so called, are not as marked as formerly. He is doing a lot of think ing, and in circular he has recently sent about the world is a quotation con eluding as follows:
 "When Train concludes to become sane T
 His ownership to great tract of land in the center of the city of Omaha is claimed by many of the best real estate lawyers i'll the country.
 When asked about the rejuvenation and the possibilities of his entrance into public life, Mr Train said: ''Curi- ous, isn t it, about my hair? may, as my friends hope, decide to assert my rights to my property. Ast public life. what is it? I have been through it. Many of the greatest men of the times --Bnlwer. Victor Hugo, Lincoln and Seward--were my intimate friends They have gone am content to rest as I am. Still, am as young and well as ever. The future may mean much or lit tie to me. We shall see. New York World
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-09-09
CORN TO BuRNl
Eli Perkins Thinks the Crop VIII Br&Sg
 $500, GOO, ,OOO. ss

SSO0.00O,O0O.
 After travelling through Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska Eli Per kins passed through Chicago recently. When questioned about the corn crop, he said:
 "We will have corn to burn. Recent ly the best judges estimated the crop at 2,600, 900, 900 bushels, but when I got to Lincoln, Neb. found the only bad corn in the country. found a section which should raise 100, ,000, 900 bushels destroyed. It was already burned ,
 "Can you bound the section?"
 "Yes; draw line from St. Joseph, Mo, to Columbus, Neb., and all that triangular section of this line to withis 90 miles of the Missouri is dried up ruined.
 "What will the crop be worth?'
 At 25 cents bushel it will bring $500, 900, GOO. Now" continued MT. Perkins, "compare this corn crop with the cotton crop Last year the south raised 9,000,o 900 bales of cotton, fol which the farmer got $25 a bale, q $dH0, 0,UVV,U UVo. a Dalo ol cot1oh ID Hotob about the same as an Iowa hog. No sin gle man in the south can make ovel eight bales of cotton. What would bs the poverty of an Iowa farmer with on ly eight hogs to show in the fall?
 Then think how many people thii corn crop would feed in China and Jap an, where four bushels of millet, barley or rice is 8 years ration. Why, oul corn crop would feed 625, 900, 900 peo pie r'-C Chicago Times Herald.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-09-09
CARROLL ARMSTRONG, Chairman (

CARROLL ARMSTRONG, Chairman of the State Central Committee, pre- dicted in a speech in Little Rock be- fore the silver editors convention,
 that the sound money" men would bolt the Democratic State convention next year if that convention declares for free silver at 16 to l. This ex- pression, coming from the Chairman sof the State Central Committee, is yeryintemperate, to say the least of 1t. and manifests disposition on tho part of the extreme silver men to read old Democrats out of the party who do notsubscribe to their fanati- cal views. If Mir. Armstrong will ] pause to reflect he will remember the .s'sound money" men were loyal to the party last year, and there are no evidences whatever that they will not prove SO again. Our free silver fri4nde caajKeli afford to be reason. abl1 apte as they % along, n A3y yeteet the Democratic pasf1 {n suA sore straits that they I'll z i1 X q i1 X o tllse hound
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old Postage Stamps.

Ih philately many harmless persons still find recreation and some dealers substantial profit. During the season foi the sale by auction of rare postage stamps, which seems to be just now drawing to close, one firm alone has disposed of specimens of the aggregate value of g20, 1000. Messrs. Ventom, Bull 6 Cooper, who hold the record took e1 ,2S1 at their last sale, and the lots included collection of 8, 100 va rieties, which fetched e210; pair oi New Zealand, watermark IN. Z.," Id. brown, which sold for e82; Finland errors. 6p. and 10p., for which e30 was obtained, and block of four Great Britain, 1854, Sd, violet, unused, which realized e28.--London Telegraph.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-09-09
What We May Expect.

Congress ir the year 2000.) The bloomer party was debating on it's suf- frage bill ill a manner that showed the man party that if something wasn t done soon their cause would be lost one. The grim visaged senator from New York whispered something into tho CT of the page standing near him Who then waht to the rear Of the hall 5pst as the bloomer party was about to call . quorum q voice yelled, A 1nQnseto Press dispatch, Congress ad- journed, " Syracuse Post.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-09-09

IT is about this time of year that most boys develop unaccountable symptoms of sickness. They last only a few hours every morning, however, beginning about 8 o'clock, or just before school hours.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-09-09

THE Earthquake 'R-r-r-r-B Booml Crash! Banglp The aroused Phila- delphian(awakening) Great Seottl Isn't that celebration over the sur render of Cornwallis over yet. - Chicago Record.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-09-09

THE Stuttgart Free Press issued a handsomely illustrated trade edition last week which was very creditable to Bro. Matthews and Arkansas county. Bro. Matthews is nothing if not always enterprising.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-09-09

ABOUT 300 exchanges in the land are now claiming the authorship for the designation of Pennsylvania as the "Quay-ker State" Since Quay seems to be complete master of the situation in that, State no one can doubt the appropriateness of the narun s.{sl
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-09-09

THE free silver editors of Arkan- sas held conyention in Little Rock Saturday to bolster up the dying cause of free silver in this State About thirty editors were in attend ance
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-09-09

As the dull dop-days have passed, the sea-serpent and third term news paper correspondents are growing happily and beautifully less.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-09-09
PINE BLUFF, ARK, SEPT. 9. 1895
LARGEST DAILY CITY CIRCULATION.

As the price of cotton advances the calamity howlers grow beauti- fully less in the land.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-09-09

THE Defender defeated the Valky- riein 8 beautiful race, and the hap piness of New York's aristocraey is now supreme. aAaaaAi49
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-21

to arrest me again even If am acquitted.
and to keep on arresting me, since, as he
said, it would not cost him anything"
ID. 4. Cooper of "Cooper's," on Market
street, expressed the opinion that Mr..
Kane had been very foolish, The matter
been tried both here and in the East. he
said, and the paper was allowed to cir
culate.
eve don't keep those papers now" he
continued, "but it is only because we have
no call for them"
why, the Decameron is a classic" said
William Doxey of "Doxey's' in the Palace.
II would not sell it to a young girl, but I
would not hesitate to give it to mature
person. There is a great deal of good
work for man in Mr.. Kane's position to
do. But he must use discretion"
6. H. Meyers of the Dodge Book and
Stationery Company, LOT Montgomery
street, recalled the fact that men lad
twice had been put on trial in San Fran
cisco for selling the Decameron and were
both times acquitted.
Men in Mr.. Kane's position get to look
at things with unhealthy eyes,'' he said.
"Why, Mr.. Kane ordered my clerk to take
q copy OF Fitzgerald's 'Rubaiyat of Omar
Khayan' out of the window because of a
picture of Eve in the Garden of Eden on
one OF its pages. And the picture was one
of Elihu Vedder's, too," he added.
]. Ephrian, at IL Geary street, had al
ways sold the seized periodicals and said
there was no question of their decency.
These sentiments were re-echoed at the
Paper Covered Book Store" 1903 Market
street, whose managers declared that Mr..
Kane only complained of things as inde-
cent when they were exposed in the win
dows; while, if they were kept inside, he
thought they were ali right.
MIR. Kane says he is satisfied that he can
suppress the habit of exposing Police Ga
zettes and similar publications in public
view. He expects to have complete list
OF those selling such papers by tomorrow
and will follow the matter up.
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-21
NEWS-DEALERS INDIGNANT
They Condemn Frank Kane's
Recent Seizure of Books
and Papers.
THE DECAMERoN A CLASSIC
The Seized Periodicals Approved
and Mailable as Second
Class Matter.

All the news-dealers in San francisco are
in arms over the last declaration of Frank
Kane, the secretary of the Society to Pre-
vent Vice. The decree was made known
by the seizure at the store of e. P. Levy,
331 Bush street. Copies of the Standard,
the Police Gazette, Sarony's Living Pict-
ures, Art Idols of the Paris Salon, the De-
cameron and a number of other publica-
tions were seized.
cisco News Company, says the pictures are
neither indecent nor obscene.
"We handle the Police Gazette and SIM
liar periodicals" he said, "and the Stand
ard. Both these papers pass through the
mails as second-class matter. Anthony
Comstock is Postoffice Inspector, and
you may be sure if they were indecent he
would prevent their being mailed"
Mr.. Levy claims that the matter is a
case of persecution. He had taken a re-
production of a picture from the Paris
salon out of the window at Mr.. Kane's or
ders. Later he replaced it because he saw
the same picture in the windows of other
dealers.
"Then Mr.. Kane seized the books and
papers. Though he must know they are
exposed for sale in almost every news
stand in town he only seized those at my
place. There are from 1000 to 5000 Police
Gazettes sold in San Francisco. NY place
was one of the few that never put th EN-
on the billboards. Yet my place was
raided and all the rest have been allowed
to go free. What is more, Mr.. Kane has
threatened, in the presence of witnesses,
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-21

the Supervisors and the Auditor, explain
ing the condition of the hospital, but they
said they were helpless in the matter. The
unfortunate patients here have to be cared
for, and as last resort appealed to the
public for help"
This appeal touched the hearts of a num-
ber of people and temporary relief was
given. George A. Root of Sixth and How
ard streets forwarded to the hospital all
absorbent cotton bandages, etc., he had in
stock and gave an order upon a wholesale
house for such medicines as are needed at
once.
Redington & Co. contributed 100 pounds
OF cotton and lint.
Clinton D. Worden, a manufacturer of
drugs on Townsend street near Fourth,
gave an order for supplies in his line.
w. A. Plymire, q druggist. offered to
divide his stock with the hospital.
These gifts are but a means of temporary
relief, and considerable of the supplies
thus donated have been used up already.
The donors,. while giving freely, have
politely declined to become creditors of
the City or furnish ten cents worth of
goods on a contract.
"There is no immediate danger of our
patients starving for week as the sup
plies of food are received on yearly con-
tracts. What we are in the greatest need
of are such medicines as pills of various
kinds, qulnine, glycerine, cascara sagrada,
bandages, disinfectants, etc. said Dr.
Titus.
Last Friday the contractor who fur
nishes the mutton declined to allow the
City TO get any deeper in debt to him. He
said that it the City will not pay its bills,
with over two million dollars in the treas
ury, he would not lose any more on his
for few days. This will last until
Wednesday. After that don't know what
we will do.
"With the supplies we have on hand and
those promised | think we can get along to
the end of this week. If the Supreme
Court decides that the Supervisors cannot
make tax levy to. pay back bills I know
off the supply, for they have told me they
would. This hospital will have to have
relief soon. We have nearly 800 sick peo-
pie in the wards, and outside of the salaries
of the surgeons and attendants it costs
nearly $4,000 month to conduct the in
stitution."
The condition of affairs at the County
| Jail, House of Correction and Almshouse
is but little better than at the hospital.
| Superintendent Clarkson of the House OF
Correction states that while the prisoners
are not in actual want, they are liable to
be at any time. Instead of receiving a
months supplies, the contractors give
only enough to last from week to week.
They are waiting for the Supreme Court
decision and are ready to quit at mo
ment's notice if the decision is adverse to
any chances of receiving their pay.
At the Almshouse there is a scarcity OF
feed for the livestock, but the inmates OF
the house are not suffering yet. There are
provisions enough to last for week or ten
days Yesterday the milkman became
scared and refused to deliver any more
milk until the question of pay is legally
settled. For time the City's wards will
take black coffee straight.
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-21

truth for material for such book was an
honest and natural one. l realized that
there were too many half-told tales of suf-
ferlng, crime and duplicity in real life, and
that II the whole truth and both sides of
these same tales were told in plain terms
the unsuspecting public would be shocked
-horrlhed at the unveiled aspect as de-
picted. believe that it is high time the
masses should learn the underlying cor
ruption and the despotic power of these
moneyed men who go through lite masked
in the garb of philanthropy and Chris
tians with all due Difference to those who
are what they seem), and if have chosen
an array of incidents to illustrate the
theme which seem unreal and extravagant
it is because they are true-for truth is
stranger than fiction.
"If succeed in putting gullible public
upon their guard against those emulators
of Judas 1scariOt, who stalk the land in
the garb OF him whom they betray, and if l
show the necessity of close scrutiny into
the motives of many social and criminal
condemnations shall have accomplished
the object of my ungarnished story.
Il shall probably find my publisher in
the East. am all ready to 20 ahead now,
and but for my decision Of having the drama
precede the book, the manuscript would
now be in the printers hands. When /
consider that my audience will be drawn
from the 14,000 creditors of the Pacific
Bank, less those that committed suicide,
and when ! include the vast number OF
outsiders who have watched the McDon.
aids career, think | am not too sanguine
in anticipating couple of weeks run for
the play. No, | shall not send DR.. McDon-
aid box for the first night. am afraid
he would not find it convenient to come, u
concluded Mr.. Swain, with grim smile,
as he refolded the manuscript of his book.
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-21
DEPENDING UPON CHARITY
The City and County Hospital
in Most PitiabIe
Condition.
THE MEDICINES ALL GONE.
Citizens Donating Drugs and Band
ages for the Unfortunate
Patients.

Since last Thursday nearly 800 patients
in the City and County Hospital have
been dependent upon private charity for
the medicines and bandages they have
used. 1t was only by entreaties that one
of the meat contractors was induced to give
enough mutton TO last few days. A few
public-spirited citizens have done what
they could to alleviate the sufferings of the
unfortunate inmates of the hospital
AS is we'll known this deplorable state
of affairs is due to the alleged shortage of
funds in the City treasury As a fact
there is now in the treasury s., 300, 900, but
this cannot be touched. not even if the
hospital patients perish for the want of a
few dollars worth of medicines and other
necessities. This large sum of money was
raised for other purposes.
DR.. Titus has been at his wits end for
the past week to devise means for provid-
ing for those under his care. He said :
1--WE have been particularly short of sup
plies in the drug department for some time
past. These supplies are furnished by the
month and not upon yearly contracts.
When it became doubtful about the con-
tractors getting their pay they simply de-
clined to bid for the hospital patronage.
This month not single dealer came for.
ward to furnish us with medicines, and as
we never carried any stock on hand we
ran out completely on Thursday. I was
then obliged to close the surgical depart
ment, where we attend to patients who are
not inmates, in order to save the bandages
and lint for those who are under this roof.
called upon the Finance Committee OF
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-21
NATIVE SONGS,
Another Large Audience tc
Hear the Musical
Foreigners.
The Songs Prove the Most Attract
i've Part of the Evenings
Programme.

| The Hawaiian National band gave its
fourth concert at Metropolitan Hall last
night. There were several hundred of the
music-loving public of San Francisco pres
ent, and they were not slow in showing
their appreciation of the music.
| The first item on the programme was
Boetiger's Volunteer" followed by se-
lection from Suppe's "Poet and Peasant"
This last was very strong, two extra pieces
being necessary to satisfy the clamorous
audience. The best selection of the even
| ing, however, was one by Libornio, the
| leader, called Hawaiian Songs" This
was particularly well rendered, the people
ciamorlng for more and more, until the
musicians seemed literally tired out.
| OF the regular scheduled native songs
| Clancy Leaves" and 1.-THE Flowers of
Hawaii" seemed to strike the popular
| fancy, though every song rendered by the
| musicians from the little Pacific republic
| was well received.
excellent, that gentleman being called be-
| fore the footlights three times.
| Senor Llbornlo is doing all that he can
| to satisfy the musical critics of San Fran
cisco, and the increased attendance each
| night would seem to indicate that his
| efforts are appreciated.
| The following excellent programme has
| been prepared for tonight:
March, sThe High School Cadets. .sousa
Overture, FRA Diavolo" Auber
/ Waltz, "Hawaiian" ................... Libornio
/ Selection, ssFaust''. Gounod
Allegro, "kun Ipo Nohen'' (The One Love)
Andante, "Wailua Alo Lahilahi'' (Kanai, Beanti-
ful Stream).
"Pun Ohulu"
"Hula, Maunakean CThe Bellies OF Maunakea
street).
Clarionet solo, "Auld Lang Synen Hartman
O. Palikapu.
/ Duet, "I Due Foscaris' Verdi
| Schottische, "Rosas Abrojos". Viderigue
March, Columbia Guard" with songs)... Brooks
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-21
THE VALLEY ROAD.

Survey of the Line to the Stanislaus.
Directors Meeting.
1.-THE line between Stockton and the
Stanislaus River" said Chief Engineer
Storey of the San Joaquin Valley Railroad
yesterday, "is practically surveyed, with
the exception of distance of a few miles
near Stockton, where the surveyors were
called back to alter the course so as to
avoid passing over certain improvements.
The changes, however. are very slight.
This week two surveying parties will be
sent further on to commence work"
the Valley road viii hold an important
meeting, when the question of pooling
stock will be brought up. Other matters
of interest to the stockholders will also be
considered.
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-21

bend slightly to the pull of her great
spread OF sail swelling out to the breeze.
So jaunty did she appear that she might
have been taken for some large yacht on a
pleasure-trip around the harbor instead of
deep-water vessel just in from the sea.
The Santiago is 97S-ton bark, built in
England. She was purchased by the J. D.
Spreckels Company to take the place of the
wooden bark Gatherer, sold to the Alaska
improvement Company. The vessel sails
under the Hawaiian flag, and is regular
sugar packet, and at present under the
command of Captain Johnson, an ex-
perienced sailor and shipmaster.
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-21
BUDD'S OUTING.
Booked Yesterday With Party
Friends for the Yosemite.

Booked Yesterday With Party of
Friends for the Yosemite.
Governor Budd and party of eight
gentlemen were booked yesterday for the
Yosemite by Agent Sam Miller. June 1 is
the day set for the departure of the Gov
ernor and his party of friends, but the
rush for accommodations this year TO the
ing privileges good number of days in
advance of the proposed trip. Trout
fishing in several valley lakes, but recently
opened for anglers, will form the chief
source of amusement of the chief execu-
tive and his companions, most of whom
are deyout disciples of the late lamented
Mr.. /. Walton.
Those who will accompany Governor
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-21

Budd on his summer outing are as follows:
H. X. Field, Oakland; J. H. O'Brien.
Oakland; ]. B: .Sperry, Stockton; Max
San Francisco; j. F. Sheehan, San Fran
cisco; H. ]. Ostrander, Merced, and Gen
eral E. P. Johnson of Los Angeles.
Mr.. Miller sent a party of fifteen OF
twenty people to the valley yesterday,
composed of prominent Stockton and San
Francisco people, with a party OF eight
State University students. Among the
party was one Easterner, Jacob Schaff, the
New York banker.
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-21
A PRETTY NAUTICAL SIGHT.
The Fine Steel Bark Santiago
Cruises Along the Water
Front.
She Comes In From the Sea and
Goes to Her Moorings Under
Full Sail.

To the admirers of things marine the
fine spectacle of vessel under full sail
coming up the bay was presented to the
water front yesterday, when the iron bark
Santiago came in from Hilo, Hawaiian
Islands.
Clothed in canvas from deck to truck she
swept grandly by the docks with no other
power of propulsion than the fair wind
that clung to her quarter and drove her
ahead.
She was loaded only deep enough to