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PRACTICALLY EFFECTED.
The Removal of the Headquar- quarters of the B. of R. 1T. from GaIesburg
 to Peoria.

PEORIA, ILL., Dec, 2O.-The re- moval of the national headquarters of the Brotherhood of Railway Train men from Galesburg to this city is practically effected and the arrange ments are completed for issuing the January number of tine Trainmen's s Journal from this city. The new quarters occupy the entire second floor of the Niagara building which also ontains the national headquar- ters of the Order of Railway Teleg- raphers and the Brotherhood of Lo- comotive Bremen, both of which were recently removed to this city. r. H. Morrissey, Grand Master oi the Brotherhood of Railway Train men, is confident the change of loca- tion will result in a great benefit to the organization.
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A CUT IN LIQUOR LICENSES.
The City Council Reduced the City Licenses From Nine Hundred In Scrip to Six Hundred
 In Cash.

A meeting of the City Council was held last night for the purpose of considering the question of Il reduc- tion in city licenses, asked for by the liquor dealers of Pine Bluff.
 For the past few months he license has been $500 per annnm, payable in city warrants. The saloon men claim that this license was exobitant and that they were unable to pay it. At the meeting last night an ordi- nance was unanimously passed cut ting the license down to 5000 per annum, payable in cash.
 No further business came before the Council and on motion the meet ing was adjourned
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THE PRESENCE OF THE ATLANTIC
 SQUADRON
n the Caribbean Sea Excites Consid- :
 erable Speculation as to the
Probable Outcome.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.-There is considerable speculation being in. dulged in about the the Capital as to the probable effect the presence ot the Atlantic Squadron in the Car rlbean sea and within easy reach of venezuelan ports may have on the present status of the Venezuelan controversy. The fleet, in command ol Rear Admiral Bunce, including the hagshlps New York and the Raleipb Montgomery and Columbia, leaves Hampton Roads tomorrow and d. though the itinerary as made public pY the navy department makes no mention of Venezuelan ports. it is regarded as significant that the first stop will be made atSt. Thomas, only few days sail from Venezuela. Alter the stop at St. Thomas the ships are expected to put into a number of ports on the Gulf of Mex leo and the Carribean sea. On the way south the vessels will be puu through a.series of fleet maneuvers. broader and more complicated than has ever. before been executed by vessels Of the American navy.
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THE GLOVE CONTEST.
Twenty five Round Bout Between Joe Drew and Billy
 Pool.

The question as to which is the better man-Joe Drew or Billy Pool-has long been discussed by the sports of Little Rock and Pine Bluff. and now the Pine Bluff Athletic Assoc ation proposes to decide the matter, forit iias arranged U match between these two men to take place in its arena on the night of December 26th. This contest will undoubtedly be the most exciting event of the kind that ever occurred in Pine Bluff. As only a limited number of tickets can be sold, fl you wish to see q rare and scientific sport yon had better ar once secure ticket of admission before they are all gone.
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WERE THE WORDS WHICH STARTLED A STREET GAR
 DRIVER LAST NIGHT.
Two Masked Men Hold Up and Rob Pine Bluff Street Car
 and One Passenger.
Tine Passengers Gun as Well as His Money, Taken From Him.-A Description of the
 Robbers.

IL seems improbable, yet it is a fact, that a Pine Bluff street ear was
 held up and robbed last night, and
 the remarkablething is that Inc rob brrs secured %i5.7O in cash and pi,- tal $$i33 77e from tic driver and $2 and a pistol from passenger.
 This bold hold up occurred on Cherry street. just beyond the bridge about II o'clock last night, as the last ear for the night was on route to the stable.
 Just after crossing the long bridge on Cherry street a man stepped upon the front platform of the car and presenting q pistol at the driver ordered him to throw up his hands, q request which the driver instantly complied with. At the same mo- ment another man entered from the rear, and covering the one passenger with gun, ordered him to put up his hands. Thus, having the driver and passenger at their mercy the men compe led sthem to shell out what money they had with them.
 From the diver the first robber succeeded in securing S13.70 in the coin of the realm. The second rob- Der was not so fortunate in getting cash, but 10 make up for loss in cash he took handsome revolver from his victim, whose name is Burks. The men then stepped from the car, ordered the driver to go ahead and then disappeared in the darkness.
 One of the men was tall and slender. with a sandy complexion. The other was heavy set, below medium height.
 Mr. Benny Altheimes, who was a passenger on the car which preceded | the one that was robbed, says that he noticed the men on the car on which he was a passenger, but as there were several passengers on that car the men got off of it near the switch on Cherry street, walked out beyond the bridge and met the ear which they robbed.
 The officers are busy searching for the robbers and express the be- lief that they will certainly capture them.
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AND THERE WAS DANGER OF
 CUTTING PRICES.
How the Yellow Pine People Came to Gsta Hold with Their Product -The Fight Gaused Everybody to Til Up---Eow Orders
 Are scarcc.

The recent meeting of lumhermen
 at Texarkana, at which it was decided to redhce the production of yellow pine about one-third, by
 working the mills only four days in the week insteado six, as atpresent, is important to the lumber interests of the South, says the Little Rock Press.
 some years ago the white pine lnmberIren of the Northwest con trollcd the market, and having ac- cumulated great wealth, were i'll a position to dictate prices. The Southern Iumbcrmen, whose output was yellow pine, had never been able to gain ioothold in the markets of the country. The last financial depression furnished an opportunity, however, that they grasped, and today they are in position almost as strong as their great Nofthwestern rivals. The financial depression caused the builders sfb loook about for material which was cheaper than white pine, and they found it in yellow pine, which wasiust as good, ifnot better in some respects. than the white wood of he North. Thus yellow pine gained q foothold that it could not have gained with many years of hard work with eanvass- CTS.
 I.asak fall the white pine people began A fight to regain their lost territory, and rate war, in which the railroads took q big part, re- suited. The consequence was that the purchasers availed themselves of the reduced rates to such an eX- tent that everybody filled up, and an enormous business was done for while. This could not last for all time, and then came the let-up, and now during the holidays business is dull. If all the mills were allowed to go ahead and saw lumber they would soon find themselves stocked mp with q vast quantity which would induce a cutting of rates and thus break up the company. The problem was solved by a resolution Limiting the product to four work ing days in the week, affecting about l,5O0, ,000 900 feet q year. No change was made in the current prices of yellow pine.
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IN CONVENTION.
The Kentucky Equal Rights Associa-
 tion at Richmond, Kentucky.

RICHMOND. KY4 Dec. 1S.-The Kentucky Equal Rights Association in annual convention here today is in unanimously support of the action of Miss Marry E. Clay, the daughter of General Gassius Nj. Clay, in protesting against paying taxes without the right to vote. Miss Clay is the young woman who, in paving her county taxes few weeks ago, wrote on the margin of the duplicate: ''I protest against taxta- ton without representation.
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FEATHERWEIGHT ERNE
Will Be Given Testimonial Benefit
 Tonight.

BUFFALO, N, Y., Dec. 20. Frank Erne, the Buffalo featherweight who recently fought a draw with George Dixon before the Empire Athletic Club of New York, will be rendered monster testimonial ben eft tonight by his admirers in this city. The principal feature of the program will be boxing bout be- tween Erne and "Young Griifo. , Erne has announced his intention Of endeavorine to get on a finish fight with Dixon at the earliest op- portunity.
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FINE ARTS EXHIBIT.
A Handsome Prize Given for the Best American Painter by
 w. L. Elkins.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 20.-The sixty-frst annual exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, which will open on Monday next, will be one of the largest and most interesting art exhibitions ever held in this country. There are three gold medals in the gift of the acad- emy besides an annual income of $1, 800 to be expended on works of art; there are also special prizes of $100 and $500, the former competi- tion being open only to women ar tists The leading features of this years exhibition, however, is the great prize of $5, 900 offered by Wm. L. Elkins for the best work of an American painter. The list of en- tries for the competition includes the work of the most eminent ar tists in the country.
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TO BREAK THE RECORD,
A Fast Train to Leave Cleveland for At
 lanta Loaded with Teachers

CLEVELAND, O., Dec, 19-The Big Four train which will leave here to- morrow morning with the Cleveland school teachers bound for Atlanta is expected by the railroad officials to eclipst the fast record made by the recent Chamber of Commerce train to Atlanta. The train is made up of seven Wagner sleepers and the fastest engines and best engineers have been provided for the run.
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In Session.

SYDNEY, NEB., Dec. 1S.-The annual meeting of the Nebraska Irrigation Association was opened here today with :. ;,;s,ss.egc attendance of deiegga tes from all parts of the State and from South Dakota, Colorado and Wyoming as well. The morning session was consumed with the work of organization. The session will continue for two days and will be devoted to the reading and dis cussion of papers on all' subjects re- lating to the work of practical irrigation.
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l d ypuiisrtf community Is not pDssiDlf
 of meniory than this example set by
 the South to New York and to all 1 America.
 And yet the difference of Southern
 ideas is marked only as it serves as
 a contrast to those which prevail in
 other sections of the country. The
 Southern idea in this matter of Sab
 bath observance, as il is in q great
 many other directions. is. simply the ] pure, sound American idea. The
 most wholesome American ideas,
 those ideas upon which our govern
 ment rests, are nowhere SD preya-
 lent as they are tt present in the South. We who live Tn the more. progressive East and in the busting
 West are prone tospeak of the south as slow, Of itspeople as lackadaisical.
 We like to think of the South as be- hind the times. But no tIMer words can be uttered than those which say that if we would find today the American people tt their best, where
 
 men and women are guided in their actions by wholesome sentiment, where people live righteously. and where the best of our customs are perpetuated and lived every day, where our own language is spoken by all, where hearts beat to the most loyal national sentiments and where people esn be trusted to uphold what ia highest and most lasting in our national life--we must 1 turn to the South. How Sunday l should be kept, or the manner in | which it shouldsbe observed, does not trouble the Southern people. | Their respect and honor for the | day are to great and deep-seated to | question it's saeredness. They dol not question Divine laws in the South; they accept and perpetuate them. Intellectual progress there goes hand in hand with a strict | adherence to the accepted beliefs of religion. The Southern mother does not explain the Bible to her in the light of so-ealled ] modern teaehings;' she places 1t in their hand as her mother gave it to her. And with the fundamental principles of religion the Southern child is taught patriotism and n lovel hencefeligion and patriot ism stand sideby sidein the education of a Southern child. The Southern people believe in progress, but progress along healthy, rational ines. Theories which mentally up- set find no sympathy with them. They are content to move slowly, put sanely and surely And some lay when the vast majority of us who live in other potions of this country get through with our civilization, when we lrop our boastful manners. when we set old enough to understand that there is a strong hold of con which stands between tyranny and anarehisin, our eyes will turn towards the South. And we will see there n people who are American in ideas and in living; q people worshipful, progressive, courageous and patriotic . people who have made of their and, against defeat and prejudice, fthe heart of America. ''-Ladies Home Journal.
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Last nightJ II. Young. a coun- tryman, and four companions, put D their wagons in Clements wagon yard. After taking ifdHe town and .imbibing q quantity Of ''red-eye
 they returned to the wagon yard and feeling their potions, indulged lin dance about the yard This did not content Young. He said that he must trip the light fantastic in a wagon. He began crawling into the wagon nearest to him, but it contained a negro woman who rose
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LOUISIANA DEMOCRATS
la Convention at Shreveport Today-A Full
 State Ticket to Be Nominated.

SHREVEPORT, LA, Dec. 18.-The Democratic State convention is in session here today for the purpose of nominating candidates for the off ees ta he filled at the April elections A full State ticket will be named. In spite of the strong anti Foster sen timent which developed in several sections of the State sometime ago. It looks as though Gov. Foster would be re-nominated without op- position. This is attributed in part to the early date fixed for the con vention, which gave the anti-Foster element butlittle time to build up any opposition after the withdrawal of Judge Samuel M. Emery upon whom the combine had fixed as their 
 The Cotton Belt Band of Pine Bluff is furnishing the music for the and it is meeting with praise on all sides.
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SUING THEIR AGENT.
A Michigan Insurance Co. Claims It's Little Rock Agent Owes Them
 Big Sum of Money.

The Standard Life and Accident Insurance Company, of Detroit. Michigan, filed suit i'll the Pulaski Circuit Court today against Thomas E. Buck, local agent, for $l ,0Gs 20 which amount plaintiffs aiiegc ii,e defendant is indebted to them .-- Little Rock Press.
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NICARAGUA CANAL
Convention Gonvenes-The Gulf States
 Represented.

JACKSONVILLE, FLA, Dec. 18.-A meeting of the Nicaragua Canal con vention convened in this city today in response to the recent call issued by ex-Governor F. P. Fleming. Rep resentatiyes are present from all the Gulf States. The convention will endeavor to formulate plan to in duce the Government to lend the project it's support.
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COL. THOs. G. LAWLER
of G. A. k. Fame In LouisvIlle--A Ban
 quet In His Honor.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Dee. 19.-Colonel Thomas G. Lawler, late commander in-chief of the G. A. R., is in the city as the guest of the members of the executive committe of the recent national eneampment in the city. Arrangements have been made for a banquet in his honor this evening.
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OUR CLUBBING RATES.
Leading Newspapers at Reduced Prices When Taken With the semi-
 Weekly Graphite. M

me twice-a-week GRAPHIC has made arrangements with the leading newspapers of the country whereby It can secure them for it's subscribers at greatly reduced prices. The list appears below, the price named he ing for the twiee-a-week GRApHIe and the newspaper mentioned both for one year.
 The twiee-a-week GRAPHIC and the: Weekly Commercial Appeal. $1.75 Farm News 60 Home and Farm. .75s Farm Journal. a0 Texas Farm and Ranch 2. .OO Weekly Courier Journal. ... 2.25 Thrice-a-Week New York World 2.l5 New York Daily Advertiser. 300 Womankind e0 Atlanta Consultation. ................ 200
 In the above list are free silver. sound money, Republican,, Democrat le, farm and household publications. and everyone can find q paper to suit him. The Farm News, Farm Journal, and Womankind are pub- lished monthly: the Home and Farm twice month; Commercial Appeal, Farm and Ranch. Courier ournal. and Aiianta Constitution. weekly; New York World, three times week: and the New York Advertiser daily.l including Sunday.
 Parties should avail themselves of these prices at once, as they are sub leet to change at any time.
 Select your paper, send the amount stated above, and you will receive the paper selected uni tine Iwlce-a week GRAPHm for one year.
 SEAnWEEKLY GRAPHIC.
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IN HONOR OF THE CLOSE OF THE FIRST CENTURY OF CONNER
 GiAL LIBERTY IN AMERICA.
Many Prominent Business Men From All Parts of the | nited States Will
 Re in Attend
 ance.

NEW YORK, Dec. 19.-Delmoni- co.'s will be the scene this evening of banquet which is expected to eclipse in brilliancy all similar func- tions ever before held within it's his toric walls. The banquetis held in celebration of Commercial Day, or iil other words ia ca:aGs a:.;.l ;.lo:at;oa Of the close of the first century of com mercial liberty in America as se cured by the treaty negotiated with England by John Jay. The list of invited guests includes the names of representative men in all sections of the country. The idea of having a Commercial Day was conceived by Chauncey M. Depew and he secured the hearty cooperation of the lead ing men of New York and the coun- try at large.
 The speakers and their topics are as follows: Gen. Horace Porter on 'tThe American Business Man" Gen. Charles H, Taylor, of Boston, on "The American Press Don M Dickinson, of Michigan, on "Amer- ican Commerce. and Senator Wm. P. Frye, of Maine, on Our Mer- chant Marine.
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THE STORY OF A TOPAZ.
After Passing Through Many Hands It Comes Into the Possession
 Of Corinne.

A good many people have be come interested in the remarkable brooch worn by Corinne, on one of her costumes in "Henariek Hudson, Jr." It has a curious history, which appears to be we'll substantiated.
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BEING SOLD AT AUCTION
Are inc Personal Effects of the Late
 Samuel J. Field.

NEW YORK, Dec. 19.-An auction sale of the effects of the late Samuel I. Tilden is being held today at the Tiden residence in Gramercy Park. The sale is the result of the desire of the Taden trust to wind up the affairs of the estate as speedily as possible, and it is not improbable that the residence property will go under the hammer of the auctioner in the near future. Among the in teresting articles included in today s sale are the flat top desk where Mir. Tiden always sat and received his callers; the chair in which he died, and also his famous collection of photographs, pictures and engrav- ings.
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LATER.-A telephone message to the GRAPHc at 3 3o'cloek states that the attorneys are arguing the case.
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a younger community is not possible of meniory than this example set hy the South to New York and to ali America.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1895-05-09
Why Canadians DO Not Favor Annex
alton.

AT present, assuredly, the people 81
Canada can see no reasons fura ''pulltical
union in the weaknesses and evils III the
purely democratic system Of their neigh
bors. When Canadians are invited, even
On the floor Of Congress itself ITO cast III
their lot with their own continent and
are assured THAT they shall have all that
the continent can give, they refuse to
consider the offer seriously not because
they have no interest in the progress OF
their American cousins who are also the
inherltors Of English institutions, but be-
cause they know that they are working
out those institutions on principles far
more conductive to the pure and effective
administration Of public affairs that in
this respect, at all events, they are al
ready in advance Of a great and prosper
Gus people who have been led III the
course Of Years by reckless politicians
int" methods ~ government which have
lowered the standard Of public morality
and created scandals of far reaching in
tluencc un the nation. Canadians havc
higheraspirations at this critical period Of
their political Development. when they
are laborin9 amid many difficulties u
form new Power Oh this continent one
half VI Which they now possess as their
territorial domain. .lno. George BouM-
not. In tbs May Forum.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1895-05-09
Weak, Irritable, Tired
81 Was No Good on Earth
Dr.. M;les,

Or. Miles Nervine strengthens
the weak, builds up the broken
down constitution, and permanently
cures every kind Of nervous disease.
4b0Hf one yearago Lras AFFLICTED
Wifh nervousness, sleepfe ssmess,
creeping sensation ia my legs.
Slight paIpifHtiCu OF 3,sy heart.
Disfracfing CON fusion of' the mind,
serious loss or lapse Of memory.
weighted dOrM rifh care and
T0rry. completely lost appetite
ana fetf my ritGfity reari,.g Onf,
'r1* Te0E. irritable and tired,
Ny freight sras reduced to 100 lbs,
IN fact 1 sCas no good. on earth.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1895-05-09

A friend brought
me Pr. Miles book.
New and START
ling Facts" and
! finally decide
to ny 4 bottle Of
DR. siILEs' Re
ora'ive .Nervine..
Before | had taken
ore bottle l could
Sleep ~ wcll as III
io-yr.-oll boy. Wy
appetite returned
CREAMY 0il4srt a.eti. NJ
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1895-05-09

weeks ACC 500 lay dead in the street Of
Lima alone. Look at all these lovely
countries which nature has endowed viii
incNhaustiLc riches. and which. but fo1
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spanish soldiers aua Cuban lstv recruits.
while the in>ti9ators OF the trouble, re-
the inevitable ncxt uprising. and ten fold
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