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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-11-03
 AlB1dfAH4GRE.
The Dickinson Hardware Company. at
 Little Tuck, Goes to the Wall

LITTLE Reek, Nov, 2.-Shortly after o'clock this afternoon the Dickinson Hardware Co.. made an assignment for the benefit of credi- tors, sIrJohn N. M.Rosebeing named as receiver. Assets, $100, ,00o; liabilities, S130 000.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-11-03

Grossman. Attorneys for legal services between January 1st and October 90. 1t was granted on the ground that he is q resident ef New ark. x. J.. and it is stated that he has property here liable to attach ment.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-11-03
 Iitz's Money Attnehetl.

K YORK, Nov. 2 2An attach
 aas been obtained here against s '. .fltzsimmons, the ppgilist,
 -'OVO by Friend, House and
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-11-03

REED-In Jefferson County, Nov. ,, 1885 MR L. $. REED.
 Mir. Reed was one of the oldest citizens Of the county. He had been in feeble health for some months. He was an upright, honorable man and his friends were numerous. Mr. Reed leaves many relatives to mourn his death, and to these the GRAPHIC joins other friends in ten ders of sympathy.
 Deputy Sheriff Brewer returned Saturday from trip to the Davis place, where he went to capture ]. S. Ray, who on Friday evening last cut the throat of George Ieekett, 0n theeveningof themurder Ray secured his horse and fled. It has developed that Lockett had Ray $ pistol and refused to give it np. This angered Ray and he stabbed the negro in the throat.
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Ne in order TO be easily seen from all
points on the river, which is nine miles
wide; SO it Is reasonable TO presume
that within a short time there will be
handsome monument erected at
Wakefield to suitably mark the birth
place of the Father of His Country.
1t will probably be interesting
TO give right here a brief history
of this old estate and the manner I'm
which the Washingtons were identi-
fed with it. The only object which in
any way now discloses to visitors the
identity of Wakefield Is memorial
stone on the site of the dwelling, which
states that there, on the 18th day of
February, 1852, George Washington
was born" IL was a beautiful June
day in 1915 when Mr.. GUSTS, with three
other gentlemen, sailed from Alexan-
dril in his own little vessel, with this
memorial stone wrapped in an Ameri-
can flag; and, landing ct a convenient
Place, bore It TO the destined spot
They gathered few bricks from the
ruins of one of the chimneys and con-
structed rude pedestal, on which they
laid the stone and commended it to tie
care of the American people.
The first of the Washington family
in America was John Washington, who
settled in Westmoreland county in 1851
He was prosperous, and acquired a
large landed estate. His eldest son,
Lawrence, succeeded aim, marrying
a Miss Warner, of Gloucester county.
Among his children was Augustine,
who, at the age of twenty-one, married
Miss Jane Butler, neighbor's daugh-
ter, who bore hun two sons, Augustine,
Jr., and Lawrence, who became the
half brothers of George. In 1928 their
mother died. Two years later their
father married Mary Ball, and the first
born of this union was George, the
afterwards great patriot, soldier and
statesman.
Washington, when president in 1902,
wrote genealogical table of the Wash
ington family. In it is the following:
"Jane, wife of Augustine, died Novem-
Der 81, 172s, and was buried in the fam
lily vault at Bridges Creek. Augustine
then married Mary Ball, March 6,
1890" The Washingtons for three
generations were buried in that
vault at Bridges Creek. Mary Balls
father was a well-to-do planter on the
Rappahannocl1. Her mother died in
172S. Marys older brother, Joseph
Ball, was a lawyer, settled in London.
and after the death of their mother she
joined this brother and his family in
London. About the same time Angus
tine Washington also went over to
England. lie married Mary Ball in
England in the year 1880, and for a
wedding tour recrossed the Atlantic
and went to the old homestead in
Westmorcland county, Va.
The dwelling to which Augustine
Washington took his second wife was
very modest, yet it ranked among the
best at that time. 1t had four rooms
and spacious attic, with the usual big
chimneys at each end. On the river
front was piazza. II re in this model
home Mary Ball Washington gave birth
to the son who made his name immortal
This Virginia manor about which clus-
tered so much of the interesting history
of the Washington family was doomed
to destruction. One morning in April,
1885, while the servants were burning
some brush in the garden, the dry
shingles on the low roof of the house
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caught fire from a spark and the flames
spread SO rapidly that nothing could be
done to check their progress, and the
whole structure was destroyed. Only
the old chimneys remained standing.
Augustine Washington owned the
Mount Vernon estate, and also one in
Stafford county, nearly opposite
fredericksburg, and on it was a
dwelling almost the counterpart of the
one consumed at Wakefield. Thither
Mr.. Washington conveyed his family,
and there he dwelt the remainder of his
life. He died in 1743, when George was
eleven years old. His body was laid in
the family vault at Bridges Creek, near
his old homestead. BY the death of
Augustine his wife and children came
into possession of large estate.
Lawrence was bequeathed Mount
Vernon and when he died he left his
property to his daughter, who died
without issue, and George Washington
then took possession of Mount Vernon,
while the second son, Augustine, Jr.,
took the property in Westmoreland
county. The old house at Wakefield,
in which George Washington was born,
was never rebuilt; and now, after
many years, fitting memorial Is to be
erected at that place.
SNrrU D. Fry
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Tnnnd Her YnIca.

1t was in a big dry goods store and the
clerks were weary. Consequently their
usually indistinct utterances were
positively comprehensive and their
manner more arrogant than ever.
"How much is this ribbon?' demand
ed would-be customer.
"Nintecentsyar," was the intelligi-
BILE reply.
~ beg your pardon?" said the Gus
toner.
"Ninetcentsyar." repeated the clerk.
~ can not understand you" protest
ed the buyer.
"Ninetecentsyar," mumbled the
clerk.
The customer looked little daunt-
ed Then she recovered herself.
"Ah, l understand" she said. see
that French, Spanish and German are
spoken here. But / should like to be
waited on by one of the English-speak-
ing clerks"
And the clerk recovered her voice.
Chicago News
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snread Of RnnwIedea.

First Four Year Old Bet you don't
know which is the biggest thing, fire
or water?
Second Ditto-Bet l do It's fire,
cause fire can burn a house up and
water can't.
mo, faint. It's water, cause
water can put it out, an the fires all
gone an the waters there yet"
We'll, bet you can't tell how many
countries there are IN the world"
bet / can. There's Europe, an
Asia, an Africa, an North an South
America, an Oceanica. Bet you don't
know which is the biggest" -
bet do. It's Asia"
"No it amt"
"Why not?"
"'Cause it's Africa"
Glow do ye know?"
Cause Jumbo was born there"
Anyhow, bet you can't tell where
the orstriches come from"
But l can: Orstralia- Chicago
Tribune.
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method are that tits more expeditions,
that it gives the fleece a better appear
ance and that the equipment is more
economically provided. After a little
practice one can become very expert in
this method so that he can tie for five
or six shearers. Or where several
shearers are at wdrlx on a raised bench,
each can have his ball of Irvine and do
up his fleeces on tie bench just where
he shears, thoughsit is better to let one
man tie mp all thee feeces on a separate
table. They will shus be gotten more
uniform in appearance. / know that /
encounter danger of being taken to
task for practicing deception, but | am
going to urge the practice of studying
to give the fleeces,the best possible out
ward appearance. i continually raise
my voice, both ate home and in public,
against concealirag any worthless ma
terial in fieeces, bat it is no fraud to
fold the fleece inssdch a way that the
brightest parts ofIthe fleece will show
and the dark ends the coarse locks and
discolored fribs NIT appear.
We never put any pulled wool, I'M
washed tags. shSrt-stapled or cotted
fleeces in others and never divide a
rams fleece, making two, though |
consider this latter in no way fraud.
A fleece that hasl bulk corresponding
to its weight ought to pass without de-
duction, though il grew on a ram and
has a tell-tale odbr Wool should be
placed in a dry airy place. The direct
rays of the sun aad even the full light
of the day will give it dingy hue.
But if packed a4ay in a dark Gloss
bin, moth and mice are apt to damage
worse.
1t is generally believed that wool
will shrink in weight one per cent. or
more in the few weeks Immediately
following sheariIsg. But for two years
our own Glib sacked in the fall and
weighed gained nearly three pounds
to the sacls during the winter. 1T was
kept in the same room after being
sacked that il was before, it being on
an upper floor peSfectly dry, well ven
tilated and light 1t was result not
expected and not explained. As a
rifle, think the changes in weight
need not be taken into account one
way or the othsr-H p. Miller "
Ohio Farmer
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CANNON BALL VELOCITY.
Its Measurement by q simple and Also
luteiy Certain P-ocess-

tutetF certain y -OCceS
How to measure the velocity Of pro-
iecti.e in its fight from gun seems TO
the uninitiated difficult problem. and
vet il amounts to little more Than Just
the division of a certain space passed
over by the time which II has taken to
do tits. both space and time being de-
terInined by measurement and appar-
atus of the simplest character. Some
where in the path of the projectile are
placed two wire screens each formed of a
simple frame across which a wire runs
back and forth. forming part of an cleo
tric battery circuit. in which an sou
rate tinpepiece is also inverposed. AS
the projectile. on being fired from the
gun. passes through the first screen, the
circuit of which il is part is broken
and the cloclxwOrlx started, the index
originally pointing to zero. On passing
through the second screen the projectile
interrupts the second circuit, with the
effect of instantly bringing the clocl
mechanism TO stop. knowing then
the exact distance between the two
screens, usually several hundred feet,
il follows that by dividing it by the
number of seconds or fractions of sec
ond marked on the clock dial, repre-
senting the time which has elapsed
during the passage of the proiectile
from screen 20 screen, we obtain the
number of feet per second which the
prOiectile was travelling. Nothing
much simpler could well be devised.
the whole secret OF satisfactory meas
urement lying in the accuracy of the
time determination. in which even so
small thing as frsction OF a second
becomes a factor of the utmost impor-
tance.-Cassier's Magazine
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WAKEFIELD MEMORIAL.
Washington's Birthplace TO Be
Appropriately Marked.
One OF the Most Picturesque Spots tho
Potomac Rivera Brief His
tory OF Ancient vIr-
ginfa Estate.
[special washIngton Letter.l

Half century more ancient than
Mount Vernon, and one of the most
picturesque spots on the Potomac
river, is Wakefield, Westmoreland
county, Va. the birthplace of George
Washington. 1t has been a subject of
general remark that Mount Vernon,
the home and last resting place of
Washington, has been taken care Of
and beautified, while Wakefield, the
birthplace of the Father of His Coun
try, has been almost totally neglected.
Wakefield is situated about seventy
miles down the Potomac, south of the
national capital, and sixteen miles
from Colonial beach, an excursion re-
sort to which hundreds of pleasure
seekers go daily on the boats to fish
and sail and battle in the salt water.
Many years ago there were plans
suggested for erecting a suitable
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BODY GRAPPLERS.
Some of the Difficulties In Recoverfn
Drowned Persons.

Some of the Difficulties In Recovering
Drowned Persons.
Graphing for dead bodies Is difi-
cult and laborious task. In seaport
cities where harbor police force is
maintained, the work of looking for
people supposed to have been drowned
is allotted to them. In other places
the regular police force generally car
ries on the work, though it is not in.
frequent for private parties TO grapple
on their own account, with the hope
of obtaining the standing reward Of
fered by the state for the recovery of
drowned bodies. In Massachusetts,
the amount of the reward is Eve dol
lars. and it Is paid to the persons who
take the body from the water.
1t requires three men to operate one
grappler. Two are the oarsInen of the
boat and the third is the man who con-
trolls the graphing iron. A grappler
is straight bar of iron, upon which is
fixed about a dozen iron hooks. The
hooks are placed on two sides of the
bar, and there is long iron handle in
the center of the bar, to which the
rope held by the man in the boat is at
tached. In addition to the big hooks,
there are about dozen Goldfish hooks,
attached all along the iron bar by lit
tie pieces of cod line. The grappler is
dropped to the bottom and dragged
along behind the boat.
The moment the hooks come in con-
tact with anything on the bottom the
man with the rope in his hand can tell
IL in much the same way that fisher
man knows when he gets bite" 1t
requires no great strength TO haul a
body from the bottom to the surface.
1t is then lowed to the shore and land
ed. and then the medical examiner is
sent for to inspect it 1t must not be
moved before.
OF course, it is often more luck than
anything in finding a person supposed
10 be drowned. In still water, such as
lakes and ponds, and when the spot
where the person sank can be pointed
out with a reasonable degree of ,ac-
curacy, the success of the searchers is
an easy matter. But in rivers, and
harbors especially, where there is a
good deal of tide, not one body in ten
can be recovered, even when the
drowned person was seen to sink and
the spot Is pointed out.-Boston jour
ual
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A LIVING SHADOW,
Remarkable Transformation of a
North Carolina Man.
Strange. But True, Story from the Lumber
Regions of a Southern State-yer-
lied BIZ Personal InyestigafIon.


lied By Personal Investigation.
(From the GreenrHEe. NJ c., Refector)
The following interview has Just been
given our reporter by Mr.. G.. A. Baker, the
overseer at the farm of Col Isaac A. Sugg,
of Greenville, N. G. 1t win interest any
one who has ever had Typhoid fever. Mr.
Baker said in part:
81 was living Ia Beaufort county, and on
the I'd day of October, 1893, Twas stricken
down with typhoid fever. / had the best
Of physicians to attend me and on the 18th
day of January, 1891, was allowed TO get
up. / wa emaciated, weak and had no ap-
petite. i could only drag along for a short
distance and would be CONT elled TO sit
down and rest This continued for some
time and began to give up hope of ever
getting well. 1 lost my position in Beau
fort county and having secured one in Pitt
county, clerlIng In a store, | undertook it,
but was so weak 1 could not do the work,
and had TO give ii up. The disease settled in
my knees, legs and feet. was taking first
one kind of medicine and then another, but
nothing did me any good. Twas mighty
low spirited. l moved out to Col Sugg's
about four or five months ago and COM
menced taking DIR. Williams Pills. / took
three a day for about three months. began
to regain my appetite in weeks time,
and then my weakness began to disappear,
and hope sprung up with blessedness that
Is beyond all telling At the expiration of
the three months was entirely cured and
could take my axe and go in the woods and
| do as good days work as any man. was
troubled with dyspepsia and that has disap-
/ peared. 1t is also splendid tonic for weak
people. 1 say, Mr.. Editor, God bless DIR.
! Williams. May he live for long time.
know he will 20 up yonder to reap his re-
ward, for he has done a wonderful lot of
! good. Tell everybody that asks you about DIR.
! Williams Pink Pills for Pale People that il
/ they will come to me / can certainly satisfy
/ them as to their merits. l always carry a
| box of pills with me and whenever feel
! bad | take one"
We were forcibly struck with the earnest
/ ness of Mr. Baker and his statement may be
/ relied on.
! DR.. Williams Pink Pills contain, in a
| condensed form, all the elements necessary
! to give new life and richness to the blood
/ and restore shattered nerves. They are an
/ unfailing specific for such diseases as loco
motor ataxia, partial paralysis, st. Vitus'
dance, sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism,
| nervous headache, the after effects CT la
/ grippe, palpitation of the heart, pale and
! sallow omplexions, all forms of weakness
| either in male or female, and all diseases re-
/ sulting from vitiated humors in the blood.
! Pink Pills are sold by all dealers, or will be
/ sent post paid on receipt of price go cents
/ q box, or six boxes for s2. 50) by addressing
| DIR. Williams Medicine Co., Schenectady,
N "
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CATCHING COLD IN BED.
That 10 the Way Much Sickness is Com
tracted.

tracted-
Mark Twain once wrote a paper
pointing out the appalling danger Of
going to bed as exemplified in bills Of
mortality. For one person who died out
of his bed several hundreds succum bed
in bed, and now we have Mr.. Ashby-
Sterry drawing attention to the same
thing. Hitherto he has hymned in
graceful verse pantalettes. frills and
the tempestuous petticoat, and now,
quantum mutatus alb lilo Hectore, he
lahds the pyjama. In recent number
of the Graphic he SAYS:
81 have a theory that most people
catch cold at night after they are in
bed, and il is to this fact that | attrib-
ute great deal of the violent colds.
the bronchial catarrhs and influenza
which have recently been so prevalent.
The temperature goes down suddenly
in the night. and people catch cold
when they are asleep without knowing
II. This evil is to be counteracted. not
! by piling on a lot OF heavy blankets.
but by wearing thick, close-ftting gar
ments Of pyjama-like nature and
warm socks on the feet. II this system
were adopted am quite certain that 1t
would be found beneficial.
There is common sense in this. Peo-
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THE GIRL DoCroR.

IfelI cutie III the other day
Somewhere IL ives In MaiIet,
aud found could not ride away
Even on a palace trafa-
So. having reached q quiet place.
To rest a throbbIng head.
NY valet. with an anxious pace,
Shot out with rapid tread
No doubt doctor should be called
In such a case as this.
But ! was terribly appalled,
To ind this one a Miss"
She pressed her fingers on my wrist
And recommended rests
Ifelt as II my hand she kissed.
So tenterly she pressed
Ny pulse run up n fever heat.
Ny head was In daze.
For she was VERY young and sweet,
With most bevitching ways
These sudden symptoms grew so grave
She dared not 90 away.
And afferward-my life 20 save
She came SIX times day.
II vss q trying maladT.
Ard many things befeI:
She said month OF two would be
Before could be we'll
Tat sickness never came so pat
think she saved my life
And though I'm not so sure OF that-
I'm sure she is my wife.
Once Week
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she was passe.
She could not deny this now.
Too long she had deluded herself
that she did not look her years.
But to-day the blow had fallen, and
Isabella Hszbin gazed at her reflection
in the glass and realized the fact, as
only woman can who sees, at last,
that youth has fed and cosmetics can
no longer repair the ravages of time.
It was true. then; it was no dream.
A young man had that very day got
up aud given her lis seat in the crowd
ed car.
Her face set hard and determined as
she picked up the cat and resolved 10
make it learn to love her.-N. Y.
World
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Tuberculos,s and Cholera.

Tuberculosis may be stamped out b.
vigorous effort, but it is time to con.
slider whether inb breeding in some cases
has not weakened the herds and rem
dered the members more susceptible tc
the disease. Vigor is the best safe
guard. and only vigorous and healthy
animals should be used for breeding.
1t will always be an advantage to pro
cure a male from a herd not akin "a
the cows. Cholera in hogs has been
greatly preventSi by avoiding inbreed
ing within the past ten years, and
that fact is one that should not be
Overlooked bv Ia elders of cattle.
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Animal LIE In Hawaii.

Some interesting discoveries have re-
Gently been made about animal life on
the Hawaiian islands. II appears that
all the land and freshwater shells are
peculiar to the locality. Nor is this all.
fifty-seven out of the as species of
birds and 700 out of the 900 species of
insects do not exist in any other po--
Sion 4 { the plohe
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Wanted 20 Know the Reason.

"You don't keep bad cigars, / sup
pose?" said Hostetter McGinnis TO to-
bacconist.
mo. indeedr' was the indignant re-
ply.
Then that is the reason you worked
some of them of on me yesterday
Texas Siffincs
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How's ThIsf

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for
any case Of Catarrh that cannot be cured by
Halls Catarr.! Cure.
F. j. CHENEY q Co, Props, Toledo. O.
We, the undersigned, have known f. J.
Cheney for the last Is years, and believe
him PEE fectly honorable in all business
transactions and financially able 20 carry
out any obligation made by their firm.
West q Truax. Wholesale Druggists, To-
ledo, o. Walding, Kinnan a Marvin,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, q.
Halls Catarrh Cure ia taken internally,
acting directly on the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. Price, 75c. per bot
tie. Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials free
Halls Family Pills. 25c.
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pie unquestionsbly may catch cold in
bed, especially If they are at all rest
less and so kick the bedclothes of. In
that event, if only clad in thin cotton
nightshirt, they are sure to catch cold,
whereas If clad in pyiamas, not neces-
sarily thick but made of some wooden
material, the chance of chill is much
lessened. Our ancestors, even as late
as the eighteenth century, went to bed.
as Mallory centuries earlier phrased it,
las naked as a needil;" but only the
hardest of them survived. We, how
ever, are east in more tender molds.
and require protection by night as
well as By day. The feminine portion
of the community will. we fear. not
adopt Mr.. Ashby-Sterry's suggestion.
for though. as an eminent authoress
orce remarked, "a woman looks so
down-trodden IN her night dress" still
that vesture offers opportunities for or
nament which pyjamas, at best unlove-
ly garments, never do. Perhaps the Ra-
tional Dress society may take the mat
ter up, and Mr.. Henry Holiday might
turn his attention TO devising really
artistic as well as hygienic night gear.
London Lancet.