The Banner-Democrat., 1896-05-09

RIVER GAUGE.
Gauge report for week ending May
!, 1896.
May 1,.. 90. 20. ..... 1913
:" 2.... 1920. ...........1 Is 50
4" 3,...... 1920. -. So. .1l.so
4,.......... II 40 ........... ll.lo
5. ........ 1890 ...........l6. 80
g.. 1890. .......1 1850
.s 7,.. 1885 l7.Oo
Fall during week 3.95.
Highest water was June /. 1892, gauge
W. S. MAGUIRE. Observer.
TO THE TRADE.
S@J. &. P. Coats Spool Cotton
at 45 less per cent. This price is
to merchants only.
w. N. WHITE, ACT.
ICEi ICE!l
During the season will keep constantly
on hand supply OF Ice, which will sell at
!" CLUM HAMILTON.
Next to Pecks store on Levee street.
Rev. C. Mahe left on Sunday even
ing last for his long journey to his
home in France, where he will spend
the next six months with his relatives.
A safe voyage is our wish.
The rains we have had in the past
week has caused both cotton and corn
to come up. We learn from our
friends in the country that there has
never been prettier stand of cotton.
Mr.. and Mrs. d. I'll. Parker came
down TO their old home on Saturday
last on a short visit to the family OF
Sheriff Dunn. We were pleased to
meet them and to learn that the boy
never cries.
Our popular sheriff left last Friday
evening for New CLEANS to attend the
meeting of the State Central Commit
tee that was called to meet on Mon
day evening. He will not return
until the latter part of next week.
The subject OF Mr.. Knickerbocker's
next Sunday night sermon will bt
"Mermaid's head but Dragon's tall
There are being additions to the
Methodist Church right along-ter
having joined in the last few weeks.
The City Item has been sending 1T
sheet to some eight or ten sore-head
in Providence who thought they wer'
getting it without cost, but Tuesday
mail brought them a dun TO pleas'
remit. We wonder how many o
them did as requested.
The Lumber Company have th'
telephone in working order out to th'
mill. They have four boxes, one a
the mill, one at Mayor Hamley's resi-
dence, one at his Office and one at the
landing. The line is about sever
miles long and works like charm.
The popular secretary ofProvidenc
Fire Company in his closing remark
at the picnic on Wednesday, hit tn
bulbs eye when he said there wer
merchants, business men and others il
our town who should be members o
the company. We hope Mr.. Davis
remarks will bear fruit, and that q
the next meeting of the company ther
will be large acquisition to its ranks
An Arkansas editor puts it ~
thusly: "You may have all the star
in nail keg, hang the ocean on RAJ
fence to dry, put the sky in goard t
soak, unbuckle the belly band G
eternity, let out The sun and the moor
but never delude yourself with th
. idea that you can escape the place o
J the other side of purgatory unless 20
pay the printer"
The river is now down away belo'
lis banks, having fallen twenty-h'
> feet in the past fifteen or twenty day
D There is a slight rise in the upp'
Mississippi, AID also in the Ohio, b'
E we do not believe that 1t will chez
the fall at this point. This is encou
aging to our planters, who have bee
/ spared from high water for the pa
three years, and who are now gettir
in good shape.
The Providence aud Mayersvil
4 base ball clubs crossed bats on We
g nesday'e y'evening. On account of Meth
club having any practice the game W
10 slow and tiresome. Ii the clubs wou