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The Van Buren press., 1895-07-13
Governor Culberson's Letter.

AUSTIN, Tex, July q. Gov. Culber-
son today gave out an open letter bear
ing on those issues that he judged Of
paramount Importance during the com
ing election. He advocates first policy
by which the national expenses Of the
government should be curtailed. He
also insists that the great question of
tariff reform should be resolutely pressed
until it is carried to success. He cites,
however, that the greatest issue of the
times will be the discussion of the cur
rency question. He places himself
square footed to the front in advocacy
Of the policy Of free and unlimited coin
age of gold and silver at its present
ratio, and asserts that the interests of
the masses demand that ratio. He says
that all this single gold standard fever
is being agitated by Eastern money
holders and bankers, who are naturally
pecuniarily interested in cutting down
the amount Of circulating medium in
order that they can secure higher rate
of interest for the necessarily small
amount that will be in circulation with
a single standard. The governor says
that he trusts all Democrats will meet
at Fort Worth in August and there,
within party lines, decide this silver
question once for all, SO far as Texas is
concerned.
The Van Buren press., 1895-07-13
DR.. Prices Cream Baking Powder
Worlds Pair Highest Msdaland Diplema.
SENTINELS ON GUARD.
The Country Newspapers the Faithful
Friends of the Masses of the
PeOpIe.

From the Atlanta Constitution.
In this day Of financial squeezing,
when daily newspapers are forced to
tone their editorial expressions to the
music of Wall street, there stands out
In bold relief the country press,
unpurchased and unpurchasab1e.
There was time when the great
of the country led public
sentiment, because they were responsive
to some strong individuality whose
power came from voicing the wishes of
the people. Gradually as newspapers
controlled by national bankers or
capitalists who held stock for the mere
profit or power that it gave. they lost
that touch with the people, and became
mere news peddlers, with editorial
attachments representing trusts,
monopolies and cliques.
Some few daily newspapers have
resisted this innovation, but It remains
for the country press to claim that
independence of expression which makes
it power that warns monopoly of the
wrath Of the people. It is the news
papers Of the small city, of the cross
roads hamlet, which lies nearest to the
hearts Of the people, and If would Judge
of the popular temper it is to such
organs that we must turn for the most
potent work to be done in behalf Of the
people.
In the tariff fight it was the country
newspaper that led the way, and in the
great issue now before the people it is
the country newspaper that stands by
the cause Of the people. Throughout
all the Southern states, while daily
newspapers crippled by debt and by
obligations due in the money centers,
are cringing at the feet of power, the
country newspapers are battling
gloriously for the free coinage of silver
and against the gold monometallism
that would enslave every farmer and
working man in the union.
The Van Buren press., 1895-07-13
The Hope Of Kentucky.
From the Batesville Guard.

From the Batesville Guard.
A staff correspondent Of the Republic,
sent to Louisville for the special purpose
Of reporting the Kentucky convention,
makes this observation two days after
the adjournment Of the convention:
1t is well for Hardin aud the state ticket that
he made fight for the free coinage OF silver at
IS to l.. 1t places him In better position to
Riesd TOT n,Iaey harmony when hs gets down IN
but Democrats aud where the free silver
sentiment was strongest
This and other information Of like
character helps one to a better under.
standing Of the situation In Kentucky.
1t is well to understand, for instance,
that free silver is strongest in Kentucky
where the Democrats are strongest
that Jefferson county, in which is
located the city OF Louisville, which
sent 108 sound money delegates to
the convention last week, being one
eigth of the whole number of delegates,
gave Republican majority last fall Of
5000 and that the mountain counties in
Eastern Kentucky, which are largely,
II not overwhelmingly, Republican,
sent solid goldbug delegations to the
convention. The counties that roll up
Democratic majorities and make
Kentucky Democratic state, are for
silver, and, beaten as the goldbugs
boast they were, these free silver
counties constitute the only hope Of
Democratic victory in the state at the
approaching election.
The Van Buren press., 1895-07-13
Dr.. Prices Cream Baking Powder
Worlds Fair Highest Award.
THE UNIT OF VALUE.
The Old Silver Dollars Settle the
Controversy.

NEW YORK, July 9.-Hon. L. Brad
ford Prince, for years governor and
chief Justice Of New Mexico, is In the
city. In an interview he said: IA
couple of months ago there was q great
discussion in Chicago as to what was
the unit of value under the original
coinage act Of 1892, which embodied the
views of Washington, Hamilton and
jefferson. They made large bets on the
subject, some contending that the unit
was in silver and some In gold, and
finally the matter was referred at one
of the clubs to Judge Vincent, who
rendered decision which was no sooner
made than it was contrOverted.
1.-The joke is this: That the people
Of Chicago never thought Of looking at
the coin itself to see whether it said
anything on the subject.
Now, here,'' said the governor,
taking out Of his pocket two finely pre-
served specimens of our early coinage !;
there are two silver dollars, one of
1895 and one of 1902. On the diverse
of each is the words Liberty and the
date, on the reverse, u. s. Of Ameri-
ca. Now look at the edge where the
milling is placed in our more modern
coins. What DO you seer One dollar,
or unit. Hundred cents.
IF the Chicago brethren had only
thought of going to the coin itself as q
witness, they would have seen in mo-
ment that the silver dollar was the unit
by this direct statement imprinted on its
very substance.
lyon know the silver dollar never
varied in weight in the United States
from the foundation Of the government
to the demonetization of silver In 1878,
when it was worth 81 .03 in gold dollars
when the change in ratio was made
in 1884 it was the gold coin that was
altered, not the silver dollar.
THE latter was always the immutable
standard of value till struck down by
the monopolists who desired a dishonest,
constantly increasing, single standard,
in 1878. When the unit question comes
up again, just remember to look at the
coin itself.
The Van Buren press., 1895-07-13
Populists VIII Call q National Conven
ton for St. Louis,

LITTLE Rock. Ark. July s.-The
Populists will issue general call +,
signed by the leaders of that party, for
a peoples convention to meet in st.
Louis early in August.
Free silver men from all political
parties from every state In the Union,
will send delegates to the convention.
Populists here say if the movement
develops sufficient strength free silver
platform will be issued, Presidential
candidates for 1896 agreed upon, and
the fight made for success on the one
principle of increasing the volume of
currency.
The Van Buren press., 1895-07-13

FRANK CARVER and John Allison,
white, and Eli Lucas, Choctaw Indian,
have been sentenced in the u. s. court
1t TT. Smith to be hanged Tuesday, Oc-
tober 1. Carver killed Alice Maledon,
his mistress. at Muskogee. l. T., March
80, and Allison killed his father near
Pryor Creek. 1. T., January 5. Lucas
was convicted of killing half witted
negro near San Bois, l. T., September
80, 1894. He made long talk before
sentence was passed, protesting his in :
nocence and accusing witnesses against
him OF perjury. 1t was sentence day
and thirty other convicts were sentenced
70 the penitentiary.
The Van Buren press., 1895-07-13
To Fight Brlce.

SPRINGFIELD, o., July 9.-The
political sensation Of the day is that
Hon. John h. Thomas. the millionaire
manufacturer, will start morning
Democratic daily here to fight Senator
Brice, his old antagonist, boom silver,
and create demand for himself for the
gubernatorial nomination on silver
platform.
The Van Buren press., 1895-07-13
August 10th The Anniversary Of the
battle Of Oak MiIl.

Our suggestion 10 Bro. Hfggs that No
and / go over to Boone county to be
present at q little racket" Of the Oak
Hill or Wilson Greek veteran soldiers
in commemoration Of the anniversary
on the 10th Of August. the day that
battle was fought. has had as bad effect
as shaking red rag in the face Of a
bull. Van Buren, had two companies
in that hard fought battle. While =
number were killed and mained on that
long to be remembered day, quite a
good many Of the officers and soldiers
of those companies are still living In
our midst. From the st. Louis Sunday
Post Dispatch we make the following
clipping and. with permission of Bro.
Higgs. publish the same:
The next battle happened to be
that Of Wilson 9 Greek, fought against
the regular soldiers of the United States,
and here is q description Of the men
who won 1t:
MANY Of them had not even en-
listed, but had only come out to fight ;
thousands of them had not been
organized into regiments many OF them
were unarmed; none OF them were
uniformed: very few Of them had been
drilled. Their arms were mostly shot
guns and rifles, and they had no other
equipments of any kind no tents at all
no supplies Of any sort and no depots
from which to draw subsistence or
clothing or ammunition, or anything.
They had no muster rolls and they made
no morning reports. They bivouacked
In the open air they subsisted on the
ripening corn, and they foraged their
horses on the prairie grass.
''In all their motley array there was
hardly q uniform to be seen, and then
and throughout all the brilliant
campaign on which they were about to
enter there was nothing to distinguish
their officers, even general from the
men in the ranks, save bit of red
flannel or piece Of cotton cloth fastened
to the shoulder or to the arm of the
former. Among them there was hardly
q man who could not read and write and
who was not more intelligent than the
great mass Of American citizens not
one who had not voluntarily abandoned
his home. with all its tender ties, and
away all his possessions, and
left father and mother. or wife and
children, within the enemy S lines, that
he might himself stand by the South in
her hour of great peril and help her to
defend her fields and her firesides.
And yet that motley army never met
one defeat in all of the four years
fighting, and it is recorded Of their
great battle at Wilson 8 Creek: Never
before, considering the numbers en-
gagged, had 80 bloody battle been
fought upon American soil; and seldom
has a bloodier one been fought on any
modern field.
The ploughboys who accomplished all
this are no myths of strange history.
but are living amongst us today, active
business men-men who again would
probably have no trouble finding out
which end of gun to hold when they
intended to shoot.
1t is qualification for these old
veterans to get together on the 10th. let
them do SO with our blessings. One oi
them, we know, passed away q few
months since and others are just on the
brink of the eternal city Let il
not be said of Us that we begrudged
them any pleasure within their reach OF
this side
The Van Buren press., 1895-07-13

THERE were three little maids at
Gray Gables Monday night, and the
immediate family Of the President was
increased to five members. The
accouchement Of Mrs. Cleveland took
place 1t 4:30 O'Clock this afternoon,
with DR.. Joseph D. Bryant in attend
ance, and half an hour later the news
reached the village that girl baby had
been born at ssThe Gables. DR..
Bryant confirmed this, and added that
Mfs. Cleveland and her third daughter
were doing las well as could be
expected. baby Ruth,'' Mrs.
Cleveland's first born, is now nearly
f0ur wears old.
The Van Buren press., 1895-07-13

Ex- CONGRESSMAN BRYAN may now be
considered . full hedged Populist. He
! says that under no circumstances will
he support = gold standard candidate,
even though he be nominated by the
Democratic party. Il. r. Gazette.
And President Cleveland will not sup
port free silver man II nominated by
the National Democratic convention.
What Il the diRerencei
The Van Buren press., 1895-07-13
BIMErALLBM.
Senator r. 4. Ceekrell Speaks for
Silver.

senator r. Il. Ceckrell SPEAKS for
Silver.
In an interview with Senator Cockrell
Of Missouri, on bimetallism he said
among other things:
1.-The whole record of our party from
its organisation shows clearly that
bimetallism has been, and Is, one OF Its
cardinal principles.
Search the world records from the
day when Adam and Eve were driven
from the Garden of Eden. and you will
not find Q nation that has had more gold
and silver, or either, than it could
profitably use.
when the gold standard is perma
nently established. then every dollar OF
redeemable money coined or issued Will
enhance the value and increase the
purchasing power Of gold by increas-
ing the demand for 1t as the only money
Of final redemption. "
THE efforts already made to main.
tain the gold standard have burdened
the people with 800, 900 900 of 10 year
S per cent. coin bonds. and $62 400, 600
80 year 4 per cent. coin bonds, issued
in time of profound peace.
s.The annual interest and the
principal of these bonds must be paid
BY the people, and when paid up to the
maturity Of the respective bonds will
amount to t2s7. $50, 600, principal and
interest, which amount will be the
actual cost to the people Of maintaining
the gold standard thus far.
Had gold been demontized instead
of silver, it would have fallen In
commercial value as silver has. =
mo nation on earth, nor all the
nations, can maintain the parity, the
equal commercial value Of gold and
silver coined into money at any rates
whatever, when they give to gold free
and unlimited coinage and deny such
coinage to silver. -
There Is no possible danger that we
shall have too much irredeemable
money Of final payment and redemp-
tion.
The Van Buren press., 1895-07-13

A SPECIAL to the Kansas City Times
from jefferson City says: 1hsI agony
over the meeting OF the Democratic state
central committee to take action in re-
gard to calling a convention is at an
end The committee will be convened
In st. Louis next Monday Wednes-
day night the secretary of the committee
received kilograms from Chairman
1lafiit ut St. Louis, stating in effect that
he Is now satisfied that majority of
the Democrats Of the state desire the
committee to be again convened for the
purpose Of considering the advisability
of calling state silver convention. In
conclusion he directed the secretary to
issue call for the date named.
The Van Buren press., 1895-07-13

UNITED STATES SENATOR WARREN, Of
Wyoming, who was elected on the
free silver Issue, In an interview Mon
day IN regard to his leaving the
Republicans II the party shelved silver,
said: Some time In the future / may
have TO leave my party on account Of
silver. Until that time comes, how
ever, shall not make any announce
'ment Of any threat TO do 50. I would
Ike to see free silver, even II we went
70 silver basis.
The Van Buren press., 1895-07-13

THE Supreme Court Of the State,
Saturday, the Chief Justice rendering
the opinion, held that miscegenation
r unlsvfnl. The contention was made
That marriage d civil contract and
that whites and blacks have . right to
enter into such contract with each other.
Tho court declares It Is not true that
marriage Is only civil contract, but
that It q = domestic and social relation,
subject to the police power.
The Van Buren press., 1895-07-13

A spncrAL from Versailles. KY, says:
s'eenator Blackburn laughed when
ehown : telegram today from the New
York Herald saying It q reported In the
Eagt that he had withdrawn from the
senatorial race. i was never more In
H. Yace than I am now, said the
sssnator, and never felt more certain Of
The Van Buren press., 1895-07-13

WILLIAM J. HORTON, Of McAlister, l.
r., late OF Kentucky. has been
appointed United States Attorney for
.t6s Central District Of the Indian
TERRITORY. This is the position lately
occupied by Val. Walker, Of Fayette-
ville. This appointment, It 1t said. was
made on the personal request Of Mr..
Carlisle.
The Van Buren press., 1895-07-13

An appeal has been issued to the
women Of the south for funds with
which to build . monument to the
mother Of Gen. Robert e. Lee. An
association formed for the purpose has
.the matter IN charge. It Is proposed to
erect the monument In the churchyard
of Christ Church, Alexandria, Va.
The Van Buren press., 1895-07-13

T1xRx Il = printing press In use in
The Dispatch offlce, 1t Dewitt, that
NJ history. How old 1t Is Is not
dednitely known, but It was used in
printing The Arkansas Gazette when 1t
Was Published at Arkansas Post. =
Little Rock Democrat.
The Van Buren press., 1895-07-13

TN Arut bale Of this years cotton
crop Was ginned ct San Diego, Duvall
county, Texas, Monday, and IL ready
n shipment. The bale weighs $40
pounds and was made from 1900 pounds
The Van Buren press., 1895-07-13
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
LAND OFFICE AT DARDANELLE ARK. i
Illne d lAgS

June "a 1895.
Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has fled notice Of his Intention "a
make fnal proof in support of his claim. and
that said proof will be made before the Comfy
Clerk Of Crawford County at Van Buren,, Ark.
IN Entsv nuyss ,Ss,a ~ asso w: Joseph Hooper, Hd
2S TIP. r. North Range 20 West - WV
ne names the following witnesses to prove his
connhuors con- ,n residence upon, and cultivation Of
Mathew Spencer aud A. Reese, ali OF Chestep'
WIN. 7. woorES. Register
The Van Buren press., 1895-07-13

A. ]. EDusroN q SoN have purchased
~ Pnfrie Grove Banner. The editorial
department. is In charge Of Mr.. Edgar
Edmiston, Judge 81. p. Greene retiring.
I'm Press wishes success to the out
ecing and incoming gentlemen.
The Van Buren press., 1895-07-13
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
LAND OFFICE AT DARDANELLE. ARK,
June ri. 1S95.

June a. 1885,
Notice is hereby given that the fo,low,re
named settler has filed notice OF bis intent;on so
MAKE NJ nnal proof In support of his claim. and
that said proof will be made before the Comfy
o1erK o. CrawfSra \, ssn County at Van Buren, Ark
Entry No. 1880 for the Mex Of Sec I2 T,n = ~ ~
North, Range 30 West. wv - p'i A.
i. He names the following witnesses to prove his
continuous residence upon and cultiyation n,s ns
vaus sn,u lana w; n Nelson Reafro, VIM Bur, <. G.
Ark. ~ Va "ouh'ainpurg.
WV. p. woorEs, Register,
The Van Buren press., 1895-07-13

KAnsAs saloonkeepers and gamblers
vjso nut mp funds to elect Morrill, COVER.
uor, afo Ticking ct the sudden moral
GIaem that has seized him and caused
him 70 60 back on his promises to them.
The Van Buren press., 1895-07-13

euaAroRD. W. VOORHEES,, of Indiana,
= ! lake arrival at the Arlington Hotel.
Hot Springs, where he expects to re-
.nain several weeks.
The Van Buren press., 1895-07-13

TN sentences Of Debs and his associ-
etes Were again made concurrent. Debs
Win eerve but SIX months.
The Van Buren press., 1895-07-13
FivH Hives were lost In . cyclone at
BAXTER Springs. Kansas, Saturday.

SENATOR BLACKBURN has been taken
o. the stump by the state central COM
smittoo Of Kentucky.
The Van Buren press., 1895-07-13
Mortgage Sale!

WHEREAS, Zack Williams and LUZ
~ Williams, his wife, did on the 10th dsy !.
E. L. Cooper on the Sereimsfter s,r described real
estate, situated in Crawford County, Arkanss.:
70 secure the payment of their promissory ss nyss
0f even date with said mortgage deed, wheNW
they promised to pay said <. r. Cooper or orH, o,mv
SIX Hundred and Forty three Dollars ana i.sI
Cents september %, lS9a with interest tne,v ~,
from maturity until paid at 10 per cent ~ ~
paid. -.
Now, therefore be II known, that the unoSSS
signed by virtue OF the provisions OF nv
mortgage decd will on
Saturday, the goth day Of July. 1885,
within the hours ofjudcial sales offer for sale g
the highest bidder for cash In hand at the Wr
door Of the Court House III the city o. q -,rs
Buren, In said County and State. the follo~'"s
described real estate, viz:
Buren,. E. T. CooPgR
June %. 1895. Mortgages
The Van Buren press., 1895-07-13

GERMANY has quarantined against all
European cattle.
The Van Buren press., 1895-07-13
WARNING ORDER.

In Crawford Circuit Coun'
Sarah Branoch, Plaintiff.
vs.
Thos. Branoch. Defendant
The Defendant Thos. BrRnoch, is warned v
appear In this Court within thirty days - -
answer the complaint Of the plaintih, ss.sA
Branoch. L. W. BLACK, Clefs.r
June n, 1895. BY w. T. SADLER, ". u
s. A. Miller Atty for nonresident Def't.
The Van Buren press., 1895-07-13

SENATOR J. <. JONES, by request.
~ "a on the silver question.
The Van Buren press., 1895-07-13

Joan D. YouHo. JR.. son Of IN ex-
Cousroo1man Of Kentucky, cut his
cDusIn's throat. causing his death.
Young II IN jail.
The Van Buren press., 1895-07-13

OELAnoMA's s divorce colony now num-
befs over 500 persons.
The Van Buren press., 1895-07-13

JOB PRINTING Of all kind.
ca nS st !. ne hs, pREss oFFICE. Neatly, promptIv
ace Block. ~"s in sne wal
The Van Buren press., 1895-07-13

the Csar Of Russia Is reported seri-
ously III.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-08
THE NEW TERMINAL COMPANY.
The Stockholders Organize Under Their
Recently Granted Charter.

The Stockholders Organize Under Their
Recently Granted Charter.
The stockholders of the Savannah Rail-
road and Terminal Company met yester-
day and organized and elected the follow
ing officers:
president-Pope Barrow.
General Manager and Superintendent
James w. McAlpin. Jr
Secretary ana Treasurer-Walter p. La
Roche.
The company has just been chartered
and will at once build Wharves on the
river on the lower water front Of the
Hermitage tract and proposes 20 con-
struct a railroad 10 the junction Of the
Central, Florida Central and Peninsular
and the Charleston and Savannah rail
roads. The company owns 100 acres Of
land lying on the river, and extending
back "a sufficient distance to give 10 eX-
cellcnt terminal facilities for handling any
kind of business. When the road Is com
pleted IL viii connect with all three Of
the above roads at the point where they
form junction with each other Tt will
also be I'm position to connect with the
other roads now in process Of construc-
ton from the interior to Savannah.
The enterprise viii undoubtedly be an
advantage to the business of the port, as
it affords superior additional terminal
facilities 10 those railroads which have
none of their own, and il also gives TO
those engaged in shipping business addi-
tional facil ties
The location on the water front is ex-
cellent The ground is high and dry and
the current is next the bank, giving all
ready seventeen and half feet at mean
high water, which VIII be increased within
"a few months 10y the harbor Improvement
to about twenty feet.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-08
A SURVIVOR OF A MASSACRE.
Louis Fetio Who Was Mai. Deds's
Guide piss az jacksonville

Jacksonville. Fla. Jan. Louis Fatio.
a fuu bl0oded negro ninety-fve years Of
age. and for nearly half a century the
only survivor OF the Dade massacre in the
Seminole war Of 1885. died in this city last
night and the body was inferred to-day at
Magnolia. on the ST. Johns river Fatio
was owned and reared b. the ancestors
Of the Fatio family I'm this county. The
venerable Mrs. Susan Farfo Lengle OF this
city, in her girlhood, taught Fatio TO read
and write. He used 10 have a habit Of
running away and returning 70 his master
after "a long period. For some years he
lived with the Seminole Indians and
learned their ways. habits and language
and it was on account OF this familiarity
with the saVages that Mai Dade took
Fauo as a guide when he started out on
his fatal expedition from Fort Brooke.
Historians differ as 10 the part the negro
guide played In the massacre. most Of
them declaring that he betrayed Maj. Dade
and his soldiers 10 the Indians, and that
as "a reward for it the Seminoles spared
his life. But Fauo claims that he was
actually surprised by the Indians while
showing Mai. Dade the way, and that he
escaped the scalping knife by falling on
his face and pretending TO be dead. One
soldier and this negro guide were the only
Survivors Of the massacre, out of a force
Of several hundred men and officers.