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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-03-19
 TWO DOLLARS FOR ONE. WHAT THE COTTON BELT SHOPS HAVE DONE FOR OUR
 TOWN.
  The Officials of the Road Have More Than Carried Out Their Obli- gations to Our PeO-
 pie.

That the addition of the ear de- partment to the shops of the St. Louis Southwestern railroad has been great blessing to our town there is no question, for these shops are the very life of the town.
 When our people were asked to subscribe a small bonus to aid the railroad to build this important in- dustrial enterprise there were few "croakers'' here who declared that the enterprise would not benefit our town, but on the other hand the railroad company would receive the only benefit. This has been proven to be absolutely untrue, for the new shops have given steady employment to large number of workmen who earn good wages, and these wages are spent month after month with our business men; and now, even at this early day, we venture the asser- ton without fear of contradiction. that there is not subscriber to the fund in the city who has not already been more than repaid by his invest ment.
 When the proposition to put in the car department was made to the citizens. the officials of the railroad agreed to expend two dol- lars for every one dollar subscribed by our people, and the following letter from General Superintendent l. A. Edsen to the Commissioners in charge of the bonus fund, shows that this obligation has been more than carried out, and that the end has not come:
 TYLER, Texas, March IT, 1896. To Messrs. John O'Connell, l. B. Trulock and
 Capt. s. Geisreitsr, members of Commit
 tee for shop building, Pine Bluff.
 Gentlemen:-In looking over the figures today of expenditures made necessary by the new shop building, l find that during the past three years, ending with January, 1896, the expenditures amounted to $50, S52. .93. The obligation of Mr. Doddridge, then General Manager, was that the company would spend, in three years, two dollars for every dollar put,up by the people. The exact amount that was put up have not before me. My recollection is, however, that it was in the neighborhood of $23, ,000. You will see thateven more was spent than the obligation, and still we have not got through.
 Yours truly,
 j. A. EDISON,
 Gen. Supt.
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DIED,

VAUGHN-In Pine Bluff, March 19, 1896. Mrs. MARGARET VAUGHN, aged T.
 The deceased lady was the mother of our fellow citizen, Mr. w. H.. Parker, at whose home she has resided for the past ten or more years. Her death was sudden and a severe blow to her relatives and friends, for last evening she retired in apparently her usual health, but this morning she was found in her bed room with life extinct. The hour of her demise is unknown. Heart failure is supposed to have been the cause.
 Mrs. Vaughn was born at Maysville, Kentucky, in 1919, and was therefore at the time of her death r years of age. She was a devoted Christian lady, who had many friends in our city, and to these, the stricken son, ahd other sorrowing relatives, the GRAPHIC tenders it's sincere condolence.
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THOMAS KEENE
Will Appear at the Opera House This Evening In the Romantic Drama
 Louis XT.

Tonight Thos. Keene, the tragedian appears at the Opera house, in eLouis XI," one of the greatest and most popular Representations, sup ported by his own excellent com pany of twenty-five players, with new and brilliant cos stumes, scenery and rare perfection of stage de- tails.
 No actor in our time has done more to uphold. the supremacy of Shakespeare and other classical dramatists, than Mr. Keene. Since his advent as star he has persist tently played the creations of these masters and nothing else. The best of anything always pays and pursuing this course, so congenial to his own scholary tastes, the tragedian has reaped his reward in fame and fortune. Seats on sale at Altschuls.
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Max O'ReiI

Lectures at Merrill Institute tomor- row night. Don't miss him. It
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CIRCUIT COURT NEWS.
A Number of Pleas to Guilty Entered
 and Sentences Passed.

< The Jefferson Circuit Court, udge John M. Elliott presiding, has now settled down to business, and it is rapidly disposing of those who have been indicted and who enter Q plea of guilty
 Up to .Iast evening the Grand Jury had returned twenty-four true bills.
 The appeal cases from the Police Court have been set for trial for next Monday.
 This morning John Moore, who burglarized Roth's store some months ago, entered a plea of guilty to burglary and grand larceny on five different counts, and was sen tenced to twenty years at hard la bor in the penitentiary. Moore is also an escape from the Sunnyside convict farm.
 Dave Williams plead guilty to lar ceny and was sentenced to one year. Dave stole some tools from the D. B <Riggin mill.
 Ben Davis entered plea of guilty to selling liquor at Wild Cat without ukense, and was fined $2OO, but on account of his being cripple and in feeble health, the court held up the fine on condition of good behavior in future on the part of the prisoner and his agreeing to pay costs in the case.
 Judgment by default was allowed in all the attachment cases against ]. M. Goza.
 The trial of George Beasley, charged with grand larceny, was set for next Wednesday.
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MARRIED.

-CoWAN-In Pine Bluff. March IS. 1896, Mir. CAESAR McMUR- TREY and Miss NORA Y. CONAN, Rev. John F. Carr officiating.
 The particulars of the above TO- mantle marriage. which took place In the parlor at the Arlington Hotel, was chronicled in advance of the event by yesterdays GRAPHIC. The bride and groom left today for their home at Rison. May they enjoy every blessing that a happy married life brings.
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JONESBORO NOTES.
Interesting News From a Live
 Little Town.

Editor Graphic
 Wild ducks and other game is very plentiful around Gikerson.
 Rainy today and snow at D. m., weather will drop 20 degrees in 12 hours. 'Tfs p.m., now.
 St. Patrcks Day was celebrated as usual. The wearing of green. and whiskey being scarce, no trunks are reported. This town is dry.
 Engineer Vim. Williamson is again back to his first love, viz. the middle division, have given up the hog No. 149, and taken the eight wheeler No. 133, and will be in and out of Jonesboro.
 Engineer Ed King made a fine run today with engine No. 1l5. He made the Al miles from Pine Bluff to Jonesboro with twenty-one cars of stock in seven hours and four minutes. How is that for the Cot ton Belt.
 Engineer ". M Eighme is now located for keeps, as he says, at Maiden, Mo-, that means permanent ly, as we taken it. pulling the pas senger train between there and Delta, Mo. NM
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CLARKE IS OUT.
The esVernor Formally Withdraws From the Senatorial
 Race.

Gov. James P. Clarke on yesterday afternoon at o'clock formally with drew from the Senatorial race by addressing card to the editor of the Little Rock Press as follows: LITTLE ROCK, ARK, March Is, 1896. To the Editor of the Press.
 desire to use the columns of your journal to say to my friends and supporters that I have determined not to prosecute further the contest for the United States Senatorship. Very respectfully.
 JAMES P. CLARKE.
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II: C. MCGaug.hy, ,agt
AN EARLY MORNING FIRE. The Home of MT. G. ". Ritchie
 Reduced to Ashes.

About 1 o'clock this morning the shrieking of the whistle of the Wa ter Works and the Cotton Compress warned our people that a fire was in progress, and that some person would be the sufferer thereby. The alarm was caused by the burning of the house on the northwest corner of Third avenue and Cherry street, which was occupied by the family of Mir. G. W. Ritchie. The house was the property of Mrs. w. c Evans, and it was totally destroyed. The building was insured for $1 ,000 in the Bell X Vernon agency. MT. Ritehie, who is the bookkeeper for the Bluff City Lumber Company, had his furniture insured with the Par ker agency for $75O A part of the furniture was saved.
 How the fire originated is mys- tery, for the flames were burning fiercely when the family was aroused from their slumbers. Mrs. Ritchie is an invalid and she was removed with difficulty from the burning building. The GRAPHIC heartily sympathizes with 'the sufferers in their losses.
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Mir. c. II. Owens, the "prince of drummers, who represents the greAt wholesale house of Smith Bros
 < Co.,. New Orleans, arrived here last night from Texas. He reports that "Gobano, the Queen of Coffee, ," is in great demand wherever he goes.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-03-19

The Worlds Fair Tests showed no baking powde- so pure or so great in Ieav. ening power as the Royal
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SEWER WITHDRAWS.
NOT A TIME FOR CONsERvA.
 TIVE DEMOCRATS.
Not in Accord with the People in Their Extreme Silver Views He Withdraws From the GubernatO-
 rial CnOtest.

TExARKANA, Ark, April T, 1896. To the Public.
 l wish to announce my withdrawal from the race for the nomination for Governor. In justice to my friends, whom I desire to thank for their con fidence and support, l will say that l am satisfied from the canvass 1 have made that the sentiment of 6 large majority of the Democratic party in Arkansas is in favor of the most extreme measures in regard to the silver question.
 The present situation reminds me forcibly of the period just before the war A bolt at Chicago, in my opin- ion, will again result in the election of Republican President, and may cause the Democratic party to put on sack cloth and ashes for another generation.
 l am conservative Democrat. do not believe that we can have the free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver at the ratio of l6 to by this Government alone.
 have endeavored to show, in my feeble way, during the present can vass, to the people of Arkansas that the success, and probably the preser- vation, of the Democratic narty, q 8 well as the general welfare and pros perity of the Union, depend upon harmony at Chicago. The effort was in vain.
 So recognizing that State issues, in this campaign, are being wholly dis regarded, or nbscured by the all-ab- sorbing silver question, and feeling that 1 am not in accord with the prevailing idea, that we should re fuse support to the nominee of the Chicago convention unless he should be free silver man upon Il free silver platform, I have decided to retire from the canvass. Respectfully,
 A. H. SEWER.
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TEN PER CENT. INCREASE.
PRESIDENT H. LANE THINKS THAT WILL COVER THE
 COTTON ACREAGE.
He lnveighs Against the Practice of Misleading Other States as
 to the Volume of
Crop

Hon. Hector D. Lane, of Athens, Ala, Commissioner of Agriculture of Alabama, and president of the Amer jean Cotton Growers Association, said in recent interview that an evil has grown to enormous propor- tions among cotton speculators of misleading planters in other States about the conditions of crops from time to time. For instance, the re- port is circulated far ahead of the season that the Texas crop will be enormous. which discourages and gives a false idea to the planters of the other States. This is an evil which President Lane is laboring to check.
 There will be an increase of 10 per cent. in the acreage of cotton this year over the past season" said President Lane, ''at least, that is my calculation from a recent estimate. think the crop of 1S95-6 will reach 6,600, 900 bales. An estimate of 6, ,750,- GOO bales has already been made, but l think that is too much, ince there was great deal of cotton held over from the two preceding seasons. In future 1 think that the reckless sell ing of cotton. unloading it at once, will be discontinued, Now, last year at the beginning Of the season I ad vised the farmers to hold their cotton for cents, and those who followed my advice realized the value of it.
 'I really believe the commissioner of agriculture of Tennessee, who has advised his constituency to discon- tinue the planting of cotton and go in for diversified crops, is right about it. There is no doubt of the fact that the opening of such vast virgin areas of land in Texas and the cheap labor ofsthe MeXicans, Indians and foreign CTS so easily obtainable places Texas farmers far in advantage of those of Tennessee and Alabama, and it is better for our planters to discontin- ue cotton, because they cannot com pete with the Texas planters.
 "Cotton values have been run down recently by the shutting down and discontinuance of many Northern mills. In making coarse cotton fabrics the mills of the North cannot compete with the Southern mills, and that is the main reason they are shutting down, despite any other nretpXts n
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CANDIDATES SPEAK.
Or at Least Some of Them Did, at
 the Opera House Last Night.

We are informed that at the barbe= cue last Thursday it was definitely agreed among several of the eapdi- dates who did not speak that day that they would speak at the Opera house in this city last night How ever that may he, not over half of the county candidates were pres ent at the 0pera-house to fill their engagement. but thnse who were there did not lack for an audience The house was well filled with ladies and gentlemen and, judging from the demonstrations, all enjoyed the speaking.
 On motion of Mir w. z. Tankers- ley, Mir. ]. ". Adams was elected chairman of the meeting and the speech-making was at once begun. Col. R. A. Rogers was the first speaker and he was followed by Messrs. ". G. Street and Creed Cald- well, the only candidates for the Legislature present. Then Mir ! Y. Saunders, for Treasurer, presented his claims. and he was followed by Mr. John T. Marsh forCounty Judge. Then Mir. N. B. Sorrells, candidate for Prosecuting Attorney, was in= troduced, and he arraigned his oppo- nent for not being present in keeping with his engagement. Mir. Sorrells was caustic in his language in re- ferring to the methods some of the supporters of Mir Martin, and especially of the conduct of Judge Elliott, the editor of the Press-Eagle and tine "0ld Lady, "as lie character ized the editor of the Commercial. These references excited considerable merriment and applause. He was severe and unsnaring in his denun- citation of the "curb-stone politics and duplicity" of the Circuit Judge, and the severer his language the more vociferous the applause. Finally Mir. Sorrells concluded by stating that he entertained malice for no one and what he had said had been said in self defense. When he concluded he was loudly applauded.
 MT. Edgar Brewster, candidate for Sheriff, was the next speaker. When he arose to speak he was greeted with tremendous applause. He read from the platform of his opponent and then his own, which evoked for n time considerable ap- plause He branded as utterly false the report that he was an A. P. A., and challenged the man who started the report.
 Mir. Brewster was the last speaker and at Il o'clock the meeting ad- jOurned
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Allie SpOoner

The star of the Spooner Dramatic Co.,, is not yet sixteen years of age, but has achieved a position in her profession of which she may be proud. Gifted by nature with a pleasing personally, with a voice of remark able strength and sweetness, she is in addition possessed of dra- matic talent of a high order. Dnr- ing the engagement at the Opera House this week she will sustain some of the strongest dramatic roles and will nightly be seen in singing and dancing specialties. An idea of the versatility of Miss Spooner can be learned from the fact that she has a repertoire of over sixty singing and fourteen dancing specialties. Among her dances we mention the Spanish Castanet, French Folly, Spanish Imperial, scotch Highland Fling, Sailors Hornpipe, etc, etc. Prices for this engagement will 15, 9 and B cents. Seure your seats now at Altsehuls Cigar Store.
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DIR. REA & co.

If you suffer from diseases you want the best treatment that can be pro- cured. Justice to yourself demands that you should consult the Leading Most Skillful, Most Experienced, Most Successful Specialists in the United States.
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 Treats all curable medical and sur gical diseases, acute and chronic catarrh, diseases of the eye, ear, nose, throat and lungs, dyspepsia, Bright's disease, diabetes, liver. stomach. constipation, rheumatism, chronic | female and sexual diseases, neuralgia, sciatica, dizziness, nervousness, slow growth in adults, deformities, club feet, curvature of the spine. diseases
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Progressive Euehre

Dr. and Mrs J. l.. Goree enter tained number of friends with a progressive euehre party at their residence on Lakeside last Thursday evening which was 8 very pleasant occasion and highly enjoyed by all present. The ladies prize was won by Mrs. G. H. Martin, while the gen tleman's prize was awarded Judge John NJ. Elliott. The booby prizes were captured by Capt. Geisreiter and Mrs. J H. Mann, while Mrs. Will Riley won the consolation prize. At the conclusion of the game delightful refreshments were served
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HORSES FOR UNCLE SAM.
Can't Be Found Good Enough for
 the Government at Any Price.

CHIcAGo, April 27.-A special to
 the Chronicle from Chamberlain, $.
 D., says: John D. Hale, of Tilford, one of the most prominent stock
 men in South Dakotaf some months ago received the contract to furnish the eight calvary at Fort Meade with some seventy or eighty horses. Notwithstanding that he visited practically every prominent horse ranch in Western South Dakota, Wy oming and Southern Montana in the effort to secure horses that would pass the rigid inspection, every. horse
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SO far turned in for inspection. he says, has been rejected. The horses. according to Hale, were the very best that could be procured. Some of the horses could not be purchased on the range are in the markets of Chicago or New York for $250 each. Horse raisers in this section are discouraged at the result and say that any board that holds strictly to the requirements of the govern ment in the selection of cavlry horses would not be able to get enough horses to mount one cavaly regiment.
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Farewell Recital

Gin next Wednesday, evening a | Merrill Institute, Miss Carrie Lash the noted singer who has been in our city for some months, will give her farewell song recital. Shortly afterward she will leave for her home in Toronto, Canada. This re- cital is given under the auspices ol the Ladies Aid of the First Metho- dist Church. and Miss Lash will be assisted by Mrs. Owen, of this city and Miss Hearn, of Searcy, both ex perts in their respective lines o music and eiocution. The price 0 admission has been placed at 5' cents,
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Desha County for Martin.

Desha County held her primaries last Saturday and instructed almost unanimously for Mir. $. c. Martin for prosecuting Attorney of this Judicial District. Today Mr. Martin received the following telegrams: s. c. Martin, Pine Bluff
 ARKANSAS CITY, April N.-Your vote here so far 4SO; Sorrells, none.
 J. .. Ross. s. c. Martin, Pine Bluff.
 ARKANSAS CITY, April 27.-County solid for you. Wilkerson township not yet in. GEO. k. LUCEY.
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.FORDYCE IN TOWN. NOT THE COLONEL, BUT HIS
 SON. Comes to See About the Prospects for An Electric Street
 Railway.

MT. J. R. Fordyee, son of Col. $. w Fordyce, the great railroad mag nate and President of the Cotton Belt Railway. arrived ih the city this morning. Young Mr Fordyce rep resents his father and is here to look over the opportunities for profitable investment offered by our city in the way of an electric railway system.
 Col. Fordyce is largely interested in the Farmers Loan and Trust Co, Of St Louis, which recently pur- chased the street car line of this city at q foreclosure sale, and Col For dyce has sent his son here to look over the situation with a view of converting the horse-ear line into an electric street railway system.
 This afternoon young Mir. For dyce is being driven over the city by Mir. j. B. frulock. and during hs drive our visitor will be given an op- portunity to form some definite idea of the size and magnitude of Pine Bluff, which we hope, will sufficient ly impress itself upon him that an electric street railway would prove a very profitable investment.
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Capt. Hilzheim Complimented.
 Last Thursdays Arkansas Demo

crat pays Capt. s. F. Hilzheim the following weii-aeseryea compliment: {:
 Capt. sam r. Hilzheim, of Pine Bluff, is a candidate for reelection to the House of Representatives. He is a representative business man, and thoroughly progressive in his ideas of needed legislation. He was one of the most vigilant and tireless | workers in the last House anu at the close of the session every man on the floor was his friend. He was faith ful to his constituents and loyal to his friends. He believed in quick
 action. and made a persistent fight
 against the methods employed to ] ohstrust legislation.o
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VALKYRE DEFENDER.
Harry MoCalmont Purchases the English Yacht to Race Her With the De-
 fender.

NEW YORK, April 25. Tt is re- ported that Lord Dunrayen has disposed of his interest in the yacht Valkyre III, to Harry McCalmont, one of the syndicate which built her. When MT. Vanderbilt was in the Mediterranean recently on the Valiant it is said he met Mir. Me- Calmont and agreed to race the Defender against the Valkyrie this season.
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STEVENSON HARDIN.
The Daughter of the vice.fresident to Be Married to the Son of Gen. P. w.
 Hardin.

BLOOMINGTON, ILL, April 20. The marriage of Miss lula Stevenson. elder daughter of Vice-President Stevenson, and Rev. Martin D. Hardin, of Kentucky, son of Hon. P. Watt Hardin, will occur at New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, Washington, D. O., May 28.
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Ansback, the great sleight of hand performer, gave private parlor entertainment at the Bluff City Club Hall last night, which was q very unique and interesting performance. MT. Ansback performed many mar vicious wonders and kept his audi ence in a constant state of bewilder- ment. Those who witnessed his tricks were highly delighted.
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Miss ophela Rhine, after a lengthy sOiourn with relatives and friends in Little Rock and Memphis, will re turn home this afternoon, much to the delight of her many admiring friends here.
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On next Wednesday Mir. Percy Lee Monnen, well known in this city, will be united in marriage to Miss Noriene Wood, at Hot Springs. Mir J. s. Grant, clerk at Hotel Trulock is one of the groomsmen and will leave for Hot Springs tomorrow.
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The U. s. Govt Reports show Royal Baking Powder superior to all others.

The Rev. Dr. Broaddus preached to two large congregation at the Bap- tist church yesterday morning and evening. pr. Broaddus is a very able and interesting talker, and all who hear him are delighted. Services will he continued this week.