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The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1896-08-06

1t looked like it: "Why did Solo
mon marry Thousand wives?" asked
the Sunday school teacher. perhaps
ho wanted to be the father of his
country" replied ono of the older
pupils.
1t is q mis6emeanor to throw upon
aly road in New York State glass,
sacks or any sharp substance likely to
lnjuro bicycle tires.
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1896-08-06

1t is again rumored in Washington
that Secretary Hoke Smith will in /;
few days be requested or enforced to
resign from the Interior Department
on account of his attitude in supporting .
Bryan and Sowall, which is supposed
to be at variance with the views of the
President and the other members OF
the Cabinet. 1t is understood that Mr..
Smith proposes to go to Gray Gables
and explain his attitude to the Prcsi.
dent, but the Secretary himself declines
TO make any statement for publication
regarding the matter.
There is one small village in the
south o! Ireland, 1900 habitants, in
which there are 52 licensed public
houses for the sale of strong drink. IT
requires 81 police to keep the inhabi,
tants Of that village in order.
mckinley stands as the rich maus i
candidate, and the charge that Bryan
has never made more than 81 800 q
year will not hurt him with the mass.
cs, who mean to elect him.
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1896-08-06

Two women were asleep on u
foatherbed in thoir homo at Bonne
Terre, Md, when lightning struck the
house, and set lire to the shuck mat
tress under the bed, but the women
were unharmed. The feathers ropcll-
ed tho electricity.
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1896-08-06

= Iowa. almost from the date of its
admission, has been called the 'IJnwk.
eye State" Hawkcye was the name
OF a noted Indian chief.
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1896-08-06
"P," p. N. "A," o. m.

Trains 8 and 10 carry elegant Pullman
eleeping cars botweon Columbia and Ashevlllo,
enroute daily botwesn jackson Vile and Cinoin.
natl.
Trains leave Spartanburg. A. 81 O. division,
northbound, 6:iS q; M, B:2a p. m, 6:l8 p. M,
8.05 p. m, II :S7 Q. M, tvestibulo 1,mited.l
Trhihs lsave Greonville, A. and G. div1aion.
porthbound, 5:26 q. M, 2:l8 D. m. aud 30 o. m.
lNestibuled tiuitedl southbornd, 80 q. na..
A:AO y. m, 1928 p m. (Vestibuled Limited)
Pullman servIoo.
Pullman palace sleeping cars on Trains IS and
e6, u and 98. on A. and c. division.
w. II. GREEN, j. M. CULP
Gen. Superintendent, Traffic N'R'r,
Washington, d. O. Washir ;ton, D. q
w. a. TURK, S. Fl. HARDWICK,
Gen. Pass. Agt. Asst Cen. Pass. Ag't.
Washington. D. O. Atlanta, Ga
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1896-08-06

Condensed Schedule OF Passenger 1rrninn
The Forrest City times., 1896-05-01
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

ON the 24th the French senate unani- mously voted the Madagascar credits, which they had previously refused to grant to the Bourgeois ministry
 ON the 18th duel was fought be- tween Baron Fejrvary, Hungarian minister of national defense, and NJ. Bernath. a member of the cham Der of deputies. After bloodless exchange of shots, they fought with sabers, and M. Bernath was seriously wounded in the head.
 ON the 25th Col. Edw. Higgins, who is to replace Col. Eadie as chief secre- tary to Commander Booth Tucker, and who will be next in command of the Salvation army in the United States, arrived in New York, carrying impor- tant communications from Gen. Booth to his son-in-law and daughter
 FIVE times within the last three years have hearses been taken to the shop of George Hallowell, of St. Paul. Mlnn., for repairs, and in every case a death has occurred in his family within a week.
 TIE president allowed the agricul- NuA dl pAAi oCSOIht d Id w W HIS SlR- nature, presumably because it thwart- ed Secretary Morton's purpose to abol- ish the seed distribution.
 PRESIDENT FAURE of France. on the 27th, summoned NJ. Moline to the pal ace and requested him to undertake the formation of a cabinet.
 THOUSANDS of people met in Galen a, H., on the 27th, to do honor to the memory of Illinois most removed citi- zen. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant The event was of a double nature. the reunion of the survivors of the Twelfth Illinois regiment taking place at the same time.
 ON the 27th Miss Barton telegra phed favorable report of the progress of the relief work in Armenia to Secre- tary Olney.
 ON the 27th W. l.. Sachtleben. of Alton, Ill.,, who went to Turkey in search of the missing Pittsburgh (Pa. wheelman, Frank Lenz, and ascer- tained that he had been murdered by Kurds. spent the day at the home of Lenz' mother, giving her detailed re- port of his search and discoveries.
The Forrest City times., 1896-05-01
CONDENSED TElEGRAMS.

The Cuban junta has chartered seven Tessels iD American ports for service between New York and Cuba. The ieet, 1t is said, will include two fast steamers.
 The rate committee of the Southern Passenger association has established I uniform rate of 25 cents on each bicycle checked on a passenger ticke, for all distances.
 A runaway team dashed nto a crowd )f school children at Milwauke, and g of the little ones were prostrated Seven were badly injured, two of then oroba bly, fatally.
 The plant of the Carlyle Qll) Can. ming Co. was entirely destroyed by fire, together with large amount of can ned goods and empty cans. Loss, s10,. 100; partially insured
 Thomas Thornton, aged so years. oi Wilmington, H., committed suicide by taking arsenic. He had had quar-. rel with his daughter. He had lived 10 years in Wilmington.
 William Paul was executed at the Ohio penitentiary at Columbus for the murder of his father-in-law. His neck vas broken, and life was promo ounced extinct in just ll16 minutes.
 The coroner's jury in the second in Iuest on the remains of Fred Kusch. nam, at Rock Island, H., returned a verdict that the deceased was mur. tered by Henry F. Bastian.
 Gov. Stone of Missouri declined to interfere in the case of Bill Taylor. condemned to death, in connection with his brother George, for the murder of he Meeks family in Linn county.
 A report comes from Cuba that the Spanish turned loose three pack mules oaded with poisoned provisions in the nope that they would fall into the hands of the insurgents and be con. sumed.
 Senator Berry, of Arkansas. has in. troduced bill to require persons whc make their residences on boats on the Mississippi and Ohio rivers to take out a license at a cost of five dollars an. aually.
 William Cramm set fire to his resi- dence at Olney, H.. which was con pletely destroyed. He afterward took Rough on Rats" was pumped out and fingered several hours, when death ended his sufferings.
 Frederick de la Tour Booth Tucker. the chief of the Salvation army in this country, was arrested in Chinatown New York city, while stunning. for appearing on the streets in disguise. Steve Brodie bailed him out.
The Forrest City times., 1896-05-01
Immigration to Arkansas

A late issue of the Texas Siftings say, Probably Arkansas is to-day attract. ing greater attention and receiving heavier immigration than any other state in the Union. That this is true will no doubt be cause of surprise to the readers of the Siftings generally. For many years this state has been over. looked by home seekers, and its won. derful natural resources have gone a-begging. Now. however, all this has changed. and the fertile, prosperous state is dotted with a score or more of growing, enterprising cities. There has been great error in the minds of many people that the state was principally of swamp land. The low country borders the Mississippi, and the western part of the state is mountainous. There are vast forests of pine and oak and thous. ands of acres of coal land. Probably the largest area of any state in the Union without railroad is in Arkan saA"
The Forrest City times., 1896-05-01
MISCELLANEOUS.

COMPTROLLER ECKLEs was advised. on the 24th, that the Grand Forks national bank at Grand Forks, N. D., had failed. It's last statement showed assets at s604, ,00o The banks capital is S2O0.- 900. and it owes depositors and other banks S369. .0O0.
 A DISPATCH from Buluwayo, South Africa, stated that Captains Napier and Duncan, with 200 whites and 100 natives, with Maxim and Hotchkiss guns, met the Natal beles three miles from Buluwayo. The Matabeles num- bered 15,000. and fought desperately, at one time forcing the allies to fall back. The latter rallied, however, and repulsed the natives with great slaughter.
 WAR has broken out in German Southwest Africa between the Ger mans and the Gababis and Hottentots. A battle was fought in which two Ger man officers and six men were killed
 PART of the Italian garrison at kassala, conjointly with detachment of the Italian forces from Mokram, made an attack upon force of 5000 Dervishes. on the 18th, whom they de- feated and pursued to Golsa. The Italians killed 800 of the Dervishes and lost 100 of their own men.
 TIE Massachusetts supreme court has declared that the veterans prefer ence bill passed by the legislature of 1893, is unconstitutional. The act per- mitted the appointment of war vet eran in preference of those who had passed a civil-service examination. the veteran not being required to pass the examination.
 THE impression is general among the oldest and best-informed members of the house that congress will adjourn some time between May 15 and June ]. If there is no delay over the river and harbor bill it is expected that an ad- journment will be reached as early as May 15.
 ON the 27th the flagship Newark of the South Atlantic squadron. direct from Montevideo, Argentina, arrived at Fort Monroe, Va.
 ELwOOD tInd.) and Chicago capital ists are behind a movement to establish a new ten-lnill tin plate plant in the former city. which will be erected at once and give employment 500 hands. The capital stock of the new company is placed at SlOo, GOO.
The Forrest City times., 1896-05-01

WILLIAM F. DUNLOP and Willia m Turner, the Burden diamond robbers, were arraigned in the Marlborough Street police court, London, on the 24th, and remanded pending the ar rival of witnesses from America.
 ON the 25th the mining city of Grip pie Creek, Col, was visited by con- fagration, which caused the destruc- tion of hundreds of buildings. entailing a loss of sl,000,00O, upon which the in- surance was estimated at S250, ,0O0. The progress of the flames was stayed final- ly by blowing up buildings with dyna- mite.
The Forrest City times., 1896-05-01
Homestead Lands.

According to the report of W. c. Yin. cenheller, commissioner of the bureau of mines, manufactures and agrieul- ture, the state of Arkansas has about 1000, ,000 acres of land, of which four fifths is subject to donation; that is to say, available to home seekers under state homestead law. None except the lands forfeited for taxes are subject to donation. The state gives quit-claim to the land on condition that it shall be improved, occupied and cultivated by the donee. For s1O.50 cash, dona' tion entry may be made on l6O acres or less, of these state lands, which sun IS in full payment of all charges by me state, but in no case can more than loV acres be donated to one person.
The Forrest City times., 1896-05-01

Facts about Arkansas are interesting to the citizens of the state and valuable as means of stimulating state pride but to be of benefit in a pecuniary sense they must be placed before people wnO reside in other states. The weeA5 newspaper is the best medium for col veying these facts. Immigration socie ties are accomplishing much by senaing out circulars and pamphlets, but II s the newspaper that speaks most dlrecu. and effectively to the masses, as eseiy edition of a newspaper worthy ol ln' name contains not only facts about ArA ansas but variety of facts, such as so cial, business and political as wen 's statistical. A general effort should '. made to get the weekly newspapers Arkansas into the hands of citizens o' northern states.
The Forrest City times., 1896-05-01

and mistake erroneous,r pa,ehoea certain lands to the a s.e e Arkansas." In other words :, s'a'e Oi ernment has instituted these ne gov. correct its own alleged mis,a, suits to question of title is not therefo," The pute, as the government e aS.. ih dis. .he lands were certified or patan,at that ehe railroad company" but bv ;.'sa 'o tance or error. The railroad oa-er au'er mas had possession of these l,ns pany the date of transfer by the s,a,s sinee ing taxes to the state tho s' pay individual land owner, and has no. as an veyed an acre to which it did n"., ao. con straight title from the gora- nave
 In view Of this fact it is pla;n,4 nt dent that persons who own or eN' plate purchasing railroad I.ns n'en' abundant reason to rest in seeur;t~ 1ase the score of title, as the railroaa on pany occupies good grounds wbea Oll' sumes to warrant and defend .n s conveyed by it. ' iaoas
 The outcome of the sp;to .,,
 awaited with interest bv tbo n,,,l. oe well as by persons owning land ;r I.sa as gation. It is law incident of naa,,.' '. ,.'' interest, and the result will 'lai sr whether lands deeded to tba r.;,a 'oW nearly 40 years ago, by mistake or ;,Oal ;a's yertance, can be reclaimed by the au aa ernment. and if so. who is acconn.st' sp' for direct and incidental loss to nssaa4 ..aUle affected by such change.
 Broad Field for speculatio,
 Much of the land in litiga.;o.
 shared the fate of other lands-tb.. s is to say, has passed from one ovrar.' another, while much of it is m aont. under mortgage and subject to fo,s closure. Here are complications wb;o, afford broad field for speculation .nS add new interest to the forthcou;-s verdict.
 While the situation is comnl;ca..a d and interesting it is scarcely neeessarr to say that the bulk of the land cedas to the railroad by the government; ;s no, included in the suits filed. It is onlv tract here and there of 10 to S20 aeres aggregating 5000 to 5000 acres. set oH by mistake, as the government alleoas that Is in dispute. and as both parties to the suit are responsible, innocent nur. chasers have no cause for alarm. m matter which party wins or loses
The Forrest City times., 1896-05-01
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES,

PosTMAsTER-GENERAL WILSON, on the 22d, denied the privileges of the mails to three firms sending circulars through out the country offering to sell marked cards, loaded dice and other gambling devices to defraud. They are Ogden & Co.,, 1855 Clark street. aud Geo. Mason & Co, l2a Dearborn street. Chicago, and the American Novelty Co.,, of Colum- bus. o.
The Forrest City times., 1896-05-01

ON the queens birthday in May the great fort near Victoria, B. C., will be opened to the public with extensive military and naval display and sham battle. The fortress is named Fort Macaulay, and is said to be impregna- ble. But in case Mir. Bull falls out with this country it might be neces- sary to change it's title to Fort Prescott or Fort Bancroft.
The Forrest City times., 1896-05-01

THE fact that the two shifts of men Washington navy yard are to be in creased to three, utilizing the entire 24 hours, does not indicate that the presi- dents silence means an excess of con f. dence in Spain's good intentions.
The Forrest City times., 1896-05-01

THE suppositiop that pirates no longer exist is quite erroneous. The Riffian pirates of the mountains oppo- site Gibraltar appear to carry on their work in defiance of all nations. When we consider the case of the Armenians and that of the Riffian pirates, we may easily perceive how feeble the civilized world has become.
The Forrest City times., 1896-05-01

What is termed the "Mountaih " gion' of Arkansas abounds in coinpa, atively level plateaux, varying ID VII from 1 to 20 miles, of fertile soll spe.nl ally adapted to the production ol sra., ~ls grain, grass and fruit-the winter app.o being the leader. This region is a-ss bountifully supplied with the pes, ~, rieties of hard woods, such as "ain u,so maple, oak, cherry, etc. It as a abundantly watered with no"' springs
The Forrest City times., 1896-05-01

IT seems that somebody has blun- dered" at Buluwayo as we'll as at Ba- laklava. The night charge of 300 Brit ish troopers against horde of several thousand Mata beles resulted in need less sacrifice of human life.
The Forrest City times., 1896-05-01

TIE London Saturday Review. re- ferring to the Venezuelan question. says: Tt is incumbent upon us to reach an understanding on the general question of arbitration before the American commission reports. and one can only hope that the marquis of Sal isbury will not allow the accepted time to slip away unused"
The Forrest City times., 1896-05-01

THE Venezuelan commission is pro- ceeding in a very deliberate way, and will probably not be ready to make a report before next December; but mean while England is pursuing a policy of masterly inactivity in the case, and so there is no reason for haste on our part.
The Forrest City times., 1896-05-01

IN mineral production, last year was a remarkably good one for the United States. The total reached S62s. ss1. .505, an increase over 1894 of Ss4, All, ,437. This goes far beyond the record of any other nation.
The Forrest City times., 1896-05-01

WE speak of the Ohio man as per sistent office-holder, but what shall we say when the Ohio woman shall enter politics? The newspapers have just mentioned an Ohio lady who has been a postmistress ever since the war.
The Forrest City times., 1896-05-01

MRS. F. E. M. HELLER, of Chicago, wants a divorce. She says that the wedding was just joke" among party of friends, but the judge says that he does not know whether or not he can help her out of it.
The Forrest City times., 1896-05-01

The report that Boston lady bi- cycler has made B centuries should be so explained that her age may not be mistaken. Many Boston ladies are much younger than B centuries, even though they do know so much.
The Forrest City times., 1896-05-01

ONE trouble about Gen. Weyler's fortified line across Cuba is that he is unable to say which side is front or rear. Military writers heretofore have considered this bad fix, but Weyler calls it a trocha.
The Forrest City times., 1896-05-01

CHICAGo young man, thinking of marriage, asked for an option on the girls hand for 30 days. He can leave it if he finds something that suits him better in the meantime
The Forrest City times., 1896-05-01

A BOSTON man, who is strong Sec ond Adventist, has prepared clauses to be inserted in life insurance policies making them payable when the a.- sured is either dead or caught up to meet the Lord in the air.
The Forrest City times., 1896-05-01

WELLER declars that the campaign is going beautifully for the Spanish army He continues to win his battles with his mouth.
The Forrest City times., 1896-05-01

BY the death of Leon Say the world loses one of it's most distinguished political economists. Say was not a moneymaker, but he claimed to know good money, and to teach others how to make it.
The Forrest City times., 1896-05-01

HARRY HILL, who was once known in New York as "the king of the sports, and was reported to be worth S1, 900. 900. is 75 years old. and is said to be living in extreme poverty.
The Forrest City times., 1896-05-01

Every county in Arkansas has .;on los option, and at each biennial eie0sss the people vote for or against hcens.1 ,atv the sale of liquor. Even when a couals sls votes for license. a majority or the ,na nd and female adults in any neighooi p. .as may vote it away from within 1 bv miles of any church or schooi hou'
 petition to the county authorities
The Forrest City times., 1896-05-01

AN ice trust has been formed in New York. Between the ice trust in sum- mer and the coal and oil trusts in win ter, the lot of the average man is hard.
The Forrest City times., 1896-05-01

THERE are more than one thousand men in New York and Brooklyn who are credited with fortunes of a million and upward, and few of their names are known to the public.
The Forrest City times., 1896-05-01

Ar last accounts potatoes were sell ing in some of the Alaska mining re- gions for si00 a sack. There is rush to the mines this spring, but they are certainly no place for the impecunious.
The Forrest City times., 1896-05-01

ENeLAND's campaign, planned to take the soudan, if successful, will re- suit in the emancipation of at least 500 GOO slaves
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-09-13
The PaImer-Ruckner Ticket.

General John Mckinley Palmer has been Democrat, Republican and Demo crat and is now gold Democrat, which is neither fish, flesh, fowl nor good red herring. As to his seat in the senate, two Populists added to 101 Democrats put him there. They say he promised to vote for silver at all times and on all occasions. This he denies and leaves the issue thus.
 Perhaps e,000 will vote for Palmer i'll Illinois. Whether these voters will be votes drawn back from Mckinley or taken away from Bryan divides opinion. There is general thought that it would be largely otherwise stay at home vote, falling to neither side, and there fore, instead of rusting weapons, equal ly harmless, as shots fired into the air. The main purpose, it is known inside, of this third ticket is to enable gold Democrats to air their sentiments on the stump, thus seeking to divide the party and elect Mckinley. McKinley's election they freely eoncede is the end they seek, and if 8 voter confesses a de- sire to vote for Mckinley he will straightway be urged to do so.
 ONE THING LOOMS FOR PROPH- ECY. THIS THIRD TICKET CLEARS THE DEMOCRATIC FORT. NONE BUT DEMOCRATS ARE ON GUARD, AND THE FUTURE COURSE OF THE PARTY IS AS SURE AND UN- ERRING AS THOUGH JEFFERSON WROTE ITS PLATFORMS AND JACKSON I1EADED ITS TICKETS. = Alfred I1lmy Lewis i'll New York Jour nal.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-09-13
CAMPAIGN OF EPITHr [
But It Comes to Pass That the Hard
 Names All Come From the Gold de.

bnt It Comes to Pass That the Hard
 Names AN Come From the Gold de.
 1t las come to Lass that iu thl, cam. palgn shreWd and conscienceless lour- hals aud politicians have distorted into sedltlon every manly utterance of the real champions Of the people. If it be sald that wealth shoala bear it's fair snare ot tho cos5 of government, they 3sy "Ireason!'' If demand be made for such regulative legislation that the cor VT i@re=- - wtjh railrcad ef}c;ale wnlcn orealeu bne sJandara x1l trust shall not be paralIeled, they cry ''So- c1allsmP' If VIC ask that great bankers be estopped from depleting the treasury and multiplying the burdens of taxation little of which they bear-by corner Ing gold, the parrot cry is "Anarchyr' And when we insist that the debtor shall not be compelled to pay back his debt in money twice as valuable as that he borrowed the frantic shout of all who profit by this spoliation is "Repu- diationp'
 Are there not two sides to this cam paign of epithet? Even those who have focked to the banner of Mckinley ad- init their opponents to be nearly if not quite their equal in numbers. What is to be said of the patriotism of men who hold half the citizens of the United States to be revolutionists, robbers and anarchists? What is to be thought of the intelligence of class which, as- serting its possession of all real knowl- edge on public issues, meets every ar gument in opposition with intemperate abuse? And what of the wisdom of those who worship wealth, however got and however employed, as something nobler tb2N Eeoe.nhood, more worthy than pa triotism?
 That classes should develop in na- tion of great population and of growing wealth is inevitable That this election should haave taken on the appearance of struggle of class against class, of the roor against the rich, is due to the folly of the spokesmen of plutocracy in denying any sincerity, any patriotism, to those who attack unjust methods Of money getting and methods of money using dangerous to the well being of the commonwealth and its people. - New York Journal
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-09-13
Effect of moKin,er,s Election.

What then is to be the upshot of the campaign if the syndicate candidate is elected? The perpetuation of the gold standard, more bonds to sustain it. lower prices and the further robbery of the American producers for the benefit of the British manufacturers.
 AS Dr. Otto Arendt, the great Ger man bimetallist, well says, the Ameri- can producer and wage earner who fails to vote for Bryan cuts his own throat. = Atlanta Constitution.