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HANDSOME FIXTURES.
The Pine Bluff Wood & Cabinet Works a Credit to Our
 City.

The Pine Bluff Wood & Cabinet Works, owned and operated by Messrs. Smith and Franklin, is an en- terprise which is steadily increasing in importance, and which already gives employment to many skilled workmen. As the name implies. this firm does all kinds of wood and cab inet work. and as it employs the very finest of workmen, the work turned out cannot be surpassed in beauty and finish by any concern of it's kind in the South. Saturday G GRAPHIC reporter had the pleasure Of visiting the works, which are situated on West Barraque street, over the American Steam Laundry, and while there saw a complete set of fixtures that had just been finished for Mir. W. k. Appleton, druggist of Fl Dorado, Ark. These fixtures, which consist of shelves. counters and show cases, were made entirely of oak, and the design, workman- ship and finish would do credit to the best cabinet works in the United States. Similar fixtures were made ny Mir. Smith for MT. Appleton about three years ago. but they were burned by the recent fire at Fl Dorado, and the Pine Bluff Wood X Cabinet Works were given instruction to duplicate the order. This speaks well for the enterprise, when it can successfully compete with Little Rock, Memphis and Cincinnati concerns.
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A Narrow Escape.

Friday afternoon about 5 o'clock. Mir. Lew Owen had narrow escape with his life, but fortunately by the good luck which kind Providence sometimes bestows, he only sus- tained severe bruises, where, per haps, another man, under similar circums tances, would have been killed or maimed for life.
 Mr. Owens owns vcrp beautiful and spirited buggy animal, and it's owner had been out for a short drive with his friend, Mr. Cokefair. The
 css .lish ed from Inc vehicle in front of Hotel Trulock, and the animal was hitched. During the absence of Mr. Owen, the horse slipped it's bridle and soon after the owner came out and got into the buggy and the horse started off at a rapid gait. There was nothing to guide the horse or check. it's speed, so it dashed down the street and the buggy struck telephone pole and Mr. Owen was thrown out and severely bruised. The horse con tinued it's course unchecked until il reached the stable at which it is kept. Neither the horse nor buggy was injured.
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COL. FORDYDE'S ROMANCE.
He Failed to Capture Con- tederate Officer, but Won
 the Latter's Daugh-

WASHINGTON, March 2S.-When Sen ator Mills delivered his great speech on Cuba in the Senate on Tuesday, a speech described by that competent critic, Senator Morgan, of Alabama, as majestic and splendid and bril- liant oratory," he related an incident that called forth cheers from the gal lery and aroused deep interest on the floor of the Senate. Mr. Mills was describing the cruelty of the Span iards and their habitual murder and violation of women. Then he drew this contrast:
 ssMr. President, while thinking of the slaughter of this girl, who at tempted to save her father, there comes up in my mind the recollection of an incident that occurred in Ala
 bama during our civil war. A Colo mel of an Chic regiment was in com mand of a district in North Alabama, within whose lines the family of a Confederate officer resided. Some times the bold rebel would slip through the lines, undiscovered, and visit his family. On one occasion he was discovered by someone more ] sIesateal ia tho uninn than to his personal welfare Information was lgiyen to the Colonelcommanding the
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A Statement.

Rumors are current throughout the county to the effect that I will withdraw from the race for Sheriff before the primary election April 28. There is no foundation what ever for such report, and l here by inform my friends that I am in the race to stay, whatever the out come. It has also been reported that ii deieated ili tine primary i wifi remain in the race independent of the Democratic nominee. This, too, is utterly false. I have al ways been a Democrat, and if beaten by the nominee of my party in the coming primary, as a Demo crat will willingly accept the result and support the nominee.
 Respectfully yours,
 EDGAR BREWSTER
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Organ Recital.

Thursday evening, April ?, Prof. Minor c. Baldwin will give an organ recital at the First Presbyterian Church. and will render recital that will excel the one given here on his way to Houston, Texas.
 The program will be jnterspersed with good music from home talent and will be one of the grandest ever heard in the city. He will repeat the ssStorm" and play "The Old Ken lucky Home" !" Of his recent engage ment.in Houston, the Daily Post says;
 "Last evening the beautiful audi torium of the First Presby yterian Church was gathered all audience
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The Terrible Fate That Befsll the Little Daughter of Mr.
 Bond.
While Playing on the Cotton Belt Railroad Track She Was Struck by an Engine
 and Killed.

In a little cottage on East Second avenue lies the crushed and mangled
 remains of sweet little girl, who.
 on yerterday, was full of life, health
 and beauty, and as happy and joy
 ous as only the young and innocent
 can be.
 The child was the 6-year.old
 daughter of Mir. Ed. Bond, copper
 smith in the employ of the St. Louis Southwestern Railway shops.
 Yesterday afternoon the little girl.
 i.s company ef some companions cc:: racs:ssss of f
 about her own age, left the home of
 her parents to go out aud cull some
 violets that grew along the railway. track just below the shops. The little children were enjoying the bright, balmy day, and in quest of wild flowers they had wandered down the right-of-way for about three quarters of mile below the shops. near by eattle-guard. While busy with their play on the railrord track and engaged in marry prattle, they were startled by the heavy rumbling of an approaching train and the shriek of alocomotive whistle. Glanc- ing up, the afTrightened children be- held a freight train rapidly ap- preaching them from the north. The little daughter of Mir. Bond. in her fright, started to run down the track. She had only gone a short distance when she tripped on the uneven ties and fell to the ground. She struggled to her feet and screaming with fright, again started down the track and ran into a the cattle guard and fell between the ties. Before she could extricate herself the eagine was upon her. Some part of the pilot struck the little girl on the head and the poor little child was knocked clear off the track and escaped being crushed by the car wheels. The blew crushed the little girls skull and her death must have been stantaneous.
 The engine, No. 135, of the St. Louis Southwestern Ky, which ran into the child, was in charge of Engineer Brady, and whether he exercised the precaution and dilli- gence required by law and humanity to prevent the accident, the GRAPHIC is unable to say.
 Soon after the terrible calamity the body of the child was put on a stretcher and into cabose and about 6 o'clock 1t was brought to the city and carried to Robipson's undertaking establishment, where it was prepared for interment. The funeral will take place from the family residence this afternoon.
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LADY INEz WINS.
SHE CAPTURES THE PURSE IN
 THEARKANSAS DERRY.
The Attendance Derby Day the Largest in the History of the Little Rock Jockey
 Club.

The spring meeting of the Little Rock Jockey Club, now i'll progress, is one big success. A larger number of horses and horse owners than ever before attended a similar meet ing in Arkansas are on the race grounds. The weather for racing has been all that could be desired. Saturday was Derby Day, and the attendance on that occasion was most fiattering to the Club and showed how popular racing is with our Southern people. Hundreds of people went from Memphis, Hot Springs, and in fact, from all parts of Arkansas, Tennessee and Louisi- ana to be present on Derby Day Pine Bluff was well represented, and some of the most enthusiastic race lovers on the grounds hailed from our city.
 The entries for the Arkansas Derby were as follows: Aristander. l12; Whisper, .ll5; Garlan Br., 1l2; Sid kell, ll5; Lady Inez, IF; Ben Eder, 122; Rondo, 122.
 The result of the race was as fol- lows: Lady Inez. first; Ben Eder, secon1 and Rondo, third.
 Among the Pine Bluffians who witnessed this magnificent race were.
 Mir. and Mrs. T. A. Eaton, MT. and Mrs. l.. E. Goldsmith, Mrs. Eugene Fies, Misses Josie Bluthenthal, Grace York, Minnie Roane, Woodie and Lillie Johnson, Beatrice Wertheimer; Messrs. D. c. Bell, $. NJ. Taylor, E. c. Philpot, W. P. Eskridge, John o. Harrison, $. T. Mallory, ]. F. Hut, c. H. Hodge, Charles Deutsch, Louis Roth, A. E, Peterson. W. A. Lee. l.. D. Searles, Frank Ragland, James Matthews, D.. c. Howell, Duvdl Johnson, V. D. Wilkins, Jr., G. D. Street. Herbert Bluthenthal. Dr. l.. K. Land and Col. k. NJ. Knox.
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dRGorEoD Ea4lNfE2a MErn puNEa eQY NE SOME MuREw.A

district, who took half dozen of his men, and under cover Of darkness, wen. to the house to capture this Confederate foeman. Arriving at the house he rushed in the door, pistol in hand and found tine Confederate sol dier in the midst of hisi family, his pistol and belt lying upon the bureau within reach of his daughter, beau- tiful girl of Is summers. In an instant she grasped her fatherfs pistol to shoot in defense of her fhther's per son. The Colonel sprang forward, seized the pistol in her hand to dis arm her. Not being Spaniard, it never entered his mind to shoot her. In the struggle her pistol fired and she was shot through the hand, but her father succeeded in making his escape. fine gallant officer returned in a few days to see about that wounded hand. He came again to express his profound regIets for that wound and again and again to hope
 
 for its early recovery. He did not stop coming till he carried that hand off with him, clasped ins his. It is his hand now and has been for a0 years. Around that family heartha stone there stands group of nehle sons, half Yankee, half Southron, but all Americans. We did not shoot women ana children We ufu not shoot prisoners in our great civil war"
 Soon after the Senator concluded his speech q correspondent met him and inquired regarding the identity of the Ohio Colonel and the fair Ala bama Confederate. The Senator re- piled that he referred to an incident in the lives of Col. s. W. Fordyce and his accomplished wife. Col. Fordyce is the President of the St. Louis Southwestern Railroad, and is known and loved from the lakes to tlie Gulf.
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A Compliment Worthily Bestowed

Pine Bluff can justly boast of many highly educated and accom- pilshed young ladies, and of these many have been called to fill import ant positiors in the most famous edu- eational institutions in the country. The last of this number which has been elected to fill d position of this kind is Miss Ida Mann, sister of Mir. J. H. Mann.
 This young lady was recently elected Professor of Mathematics in the Millersburg, (Ky.) Female College. She will enter upon her duties at the fall term Of the college, leaving Pine Bluff for that place sometime in September. Miss Mann is one of the most accomplished young ladies of our city. She pos sesses a brilliant and cultivated mind that compels the admiration. of all with whom she comes in con- tact. and this, together with her many graces of person and charm ling manner, have not only made her very popular in social circles, but have gained for her legion of warm personal friends. Millersburg cols llege is indeed to be congratulated n Isecuring her services.
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"P|NK'' HAWLEY,
THE GREAT LEAGUE BASE BALL
 T0ssER,
Will be Seen at the Park in n Game Between the Pitts burg Regulars and Re
 serves Tomorrow.

On tomorrow afternoon the Pitts burg National League team and q reserve force will cross bats at Wiley Jones Park. There itre twenty-one. members of the club and the game between the Regulars and Reserves promises to be very interesting, in- deed.
 The Pittsburg Club is one of the best in the National League and they are prominent candidates for penant winners this year. -s Pink Hawley.rtIse great sArjsan- sas twirler, who stands sixth in gen. efai average among the great pitch CTS of the League, will be in the box tomorrow for the Reserves. and he will, no doubt, be given a cordial re- ception by the Pine Bluff lovers of the sport. Hawley was Il member of the Fort Smith Club several years ago, and his work in the box has been witnessed before on Pine Bluff grounds. Since that time he has won name and fameon the diamond. and the Arkansas cranSs have wit messed his upward career with pride and admiration.
 The battery for the Regulars will be Killen and Mack, while Hawley and Sugdcn will do the work for the Reserves.
 The game will be called at 2o'clock.
 Chairs and score cards will be pro yided for the accommodation of all.
 Admission, 50 cents.
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THAT WAGON FACTORY.
No Site for the Building Has Yet
 Been Donated.

Truly our people seem utterly in different about factories, and yet if the town does not secure en nterprises of that kind before many years, it will die of dry rot.
 Pine Bluff now has an excellent opportunity to secure the establish ment of a wagon factory in its limits, and all the promoters of the enterprise ask as bonus is a site on which to build the same. The gentlemen who propose to build this factory agree to give bond for $20, GOO as a guarantee that after the site ssi tee ;s is donated they will, within ninety days, erect plant on same which is to cost not less than $l0, : 900, and give employment to at least thirty skilled workmen.
 Unfortunately for the enterprise, these gentlemen are our own citizens and while they are backed by ample capital with which to do all they contract to do, our property owners and people will not give them the assistance and encouragement that would have been extended to stran- gers. This is decidedly wrong, and such indifference on the part of our people to this important matter is sure to result in great injury to our city.
 Give the wagon factory lift. Let the Commercial League take hold ol the matter and secure a building site for the factory. If the proper steps are taken this can be done without trouble, and then in less than one years time we will have g successful factory in operation and | it will be a nucleus for others.
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IN THE HIGH COURT. City Ordinances Not Reviewable on Certiorari, Declares That
 Tribunal.
Interesting Case, on Appeal From Pine Rlnff. Decided satur-
 day by Justice Battle.
Arkansas Gazette. l

Justice Battle delivered an inter- esting opinion relative to the writ of certiorari Saturday in the Supreme Court in the case of the Pine Bluff Water and Light Company vs. the City of Pine Bluff.
 The question arose upon point for certiorari to quash an ordinance of the city of Pine Bluff. The petition alleged that the plaintiff was, under m ordinance of Jannary r, 1SS7 granted a franchise to lay it's mains in the city Of Pine Bluff, with author ity to repair and make connections of the same; that it is necessary to excavate the street for the purpose of making repairs and connections; that the company built it's works under the franchise granted it by the city and continued to make repairs and connections, exeavating the streets as required, but that on the 2lst of November, 1891, the city, in violation of the plaintiffs franchise, passed an ordinance providing that before making any excavation the plaintiff should make n deposit with the city of $50 for each fifty lineal feet or fraction thereof. and that the replacingu of the street should be done under the supervision of an engineer designated by the Board of Improve ments. who should be paid 8 cents per hour by the party making the excavation; that this ordinance is wholly unnecessary and imposes a heavy tax upon the plaintiff in yiola- ton of it's franchise; that it is un reasonable and oppressive. Itthere- fore prays that the ordinance be brought up and quashed.
 The city answered denying that the ordinance was unreasonable, and i alleged that it was a proper exercise | of the city's power.
 The writ was refused and the | plaintiff filed a motion for new trial anu appealed.
 In Indiscussing the questioninyolyed. ! Justice Battle said in substances: s.Does the writ of certiorari lie to re- view the ordinance Of the city of Pine Bluff, which is question in this pro- ceeding?
 "At common law the writ lies only | to review the judicial action of infe- rlor courts, or of public officers. or bodies. When the action of the off cers, or public bodies, is purely legis- lativesor administrative, although it | involves the exercise of discretion, it is not reviewable on certiorari.
 s'It is insisted here that this ordi- nance is reViewabie, by certiorari, under section 1l25, Sandel's and Hills Digest. How this can be done is difficult for us to comprehend. It's meaning can only be determined hy | the aid of the commonlaw. In Rail- | way vs. Barnes, B Ark. 99, this court held that it did not so enlarge | the office of the writ as to make it | answer the ends of an appeal or writ | of error, for the correction of mere | errors in judlcial proceedings.
 "The office of this section-1125 | Digest-was to authorize Circuit | Courts to review only judicial and | quasi-judicial proceeding of the of eers, boards of officers and inferior tribunals and no others.
 'sThe ordinance under eonsidera- tion is purely legislative and is not review able on eertiorari."
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The Country Editor.
tNew York Dispatch.l

The country editor is a combina-
 tion of the entire staff of a city news paper. His sphere of usefulness,
 although not so ubiquitous. is quite as important as that of the great contemporaries. His single weekly paper is in miniature the seven issues per week of the great dailies. His constituency is often the lpost moral and high minded to be found in the domain of history. He reaches the homes Of brain and brawn that sends to the colleges and cities the
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The Candidates for Governor.

The candidates for Governor of the great State of Arkansas were in Pine Bluff last night, and left for Jonesboro this morning. On We'd nesday morning at 10 o'clock the distinguished gentlemen will speak at Rison and on the following day at 80 o'clock at Kingsland.
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the bar, in the hospital, and even
 become his most distinguished CO.,
 workers in journalism
 The country editor may take
 wood and potatoes for lis subscrip
 ton price. but he never lies about
 his circulation. He may mention in
 detail the process of construction of country barns anc the intervisita- ton Of unimportant pumpkins, but he makes no attempt to 5nill his fortunes on scandals, broken homes, nasty twaddle. and unflue prying into private life He may write wretched English and deplorable grammar, but he never talks about
 sinnoeuous desuetnde" and ssmaster- ful' efforts. lIa may publish three pages of patent inside to one of original matter, but he never steals news and brains of others because a geographical difference of time favors his loca tion. He may set his own type and turn tho crank of his own press, but he never scales down the wages of his employees. nor treats printers like cattle, nor pays starva- ton wages to reporters. He may deplOre certain local usages and want of appreciation of his columns by business men but henever pursues people who have no means for reply with vindictive hate, with vile car toons and outrageous persecution to the grave. He is not n life wrec- ker, nor scandal monger, nor n party political poltroon, nor u bribe taker, nor q washer of dirty linen. W hatever his mistakes, troubles and ludicrous exhibition at times, the country editor IS m honest, pains 1 taking citizen, ,one of the most potent | factors in the higher civilization of | tine age.
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Police Court business has been rather slack during the past foW days.
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BORN.

To Mir. and Mrs. Charles Harris. Monday morning at 2:30, March 30, 1896, daughter.
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great well balanced men of the age.
 He may not uproot scandal, expose corruption, tear down religious and political parties, create empires or crush dynasties, but he reaches and influences the majority Of the army of boys who, in after years, fight the great battle of life in the pulpit, at the bar, in the hospital, and even become his most distinguished co-
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The child was the 6-year-old daughter of MT. Ed. Bond, copper smith in the employ of the St. Louis Southwestern Railway shops.
 Yesterday afternoon the little girl.
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In little cottage on East Second avenue lies the crushed and mangled remains of sweet little girl, who, on yerterday, was full of life, health and beauty, and as happy and joy ous as only the young and innocent
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1896-05-28

FOR RENT-Four unfurnlshed sunny
rooms, oGl Cedar street. Adoph johnson.
FOR RBNT-A furnished room. 1856 srd
street.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1896-05-28
FIRST PILE DRIVEN.
Work Commenced Within tho city Lin.
its ON the Astoria Railroad


Yesterday afternoon the nrsI nile Waa
driven by Wakefield 4 jacobson near
Seventh street IN order TO test the work
To Dc done by them The pllc was
driven down thirty feet and good bot.
tom was found. About 6 o'clock a Soc
ond pile was driven down lorty.clght
feet and sun good bottom was found
The test WAS made In the presence OF
Engineer Curtis and proved a most
satisfactory one, Mr Wakefield will
push the work forward As RAPIDLY as
possible and will put his mcu to work as
soon as the first consignment OF piles
arrives, which Is expected In day or
two
Mr. Goerig viii have his men rrady 10
go 10 work In a few days. and soon the
city water rront will hc a scene ot much
activity. Yesterday afternoon gang OF
men commenced tearing down the Fla
vel warehouses 20 make room FOR the
rlilroad IL Ia Understood that work will
proceed all along the water front In
clearing out old buildings and other OBJ
structlons now standing on the right-of-
way Clinton Rros will commence IN
the morning driving the piles for Fisher
Bros. new dock. and that frm. as wcll
as Ross, Higgins & Co. hope 70 get their
new docks and warehouses completed
before the railroad builders reach them.
With all this work going on In the city
and the work which win commence In a
few days on the big dock and hotel az
Flavel, good evidence will hs given 10
strangers visiting the city OF the earnest.
ness OF Astorians IN securing th.ir new
railroad. Good times can certainly be
expected in the near future