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portion of the river districts and will be severely felt as soon as the chop ping season fully opens. Complaints of dry weather are comingin South east Arkansas has been without rain since the 14th Of April, while in this section and the Northern part of the State the seasons have been much more favorable. general rain would do good. Corn planted early is looking fine. Potatoes have sui fered from the ravages of the potato bug, but they have been checked with Paris green.
 This is the year forgreat surprises, and if the entire cotton belt is stirred up like Arkansas as to how the gen eral government shall be run, and who will run it, much of the in- creased acreage in cotton will be swallowed up Ill grass. In old times our hands were kept full of local pol itics, counting the Negro at home and keeping the South solid.
 But the Australian ballot has eliminated the Negro from politics and filled our c0tton-growing States with free slverites and gold bugs. Populists and statesmen Under these circumstances we do not he- lieve q tenmillion bale crop will be made. even should the seasons be favorable.
 Cotton raising and politics will not mix successfully; it always proves detrimental to cotton.
 Yours respectfully,
 $. c. ALEXANDER & Co.
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DEMOCRATS IN SESSION.
Meet in Chicago to Make Final Arrangements for the National Conven-
 ton.

CHICAGO, ILL, May 8.-A conference of the subcommittee of the National Democratic Committee and the local committee having iii charge the arrangements for the National Democratic Convention is being held at the Wellington Hotel today, the chief object, says Chairman Harrity, who is among those present, being the adjustment of the financial guarantee pledged by the local com mittee. Various other matters re- lating to the hall decorations, trans portation, the printing and issuance of admission tickets, etc, will also be disposed of.
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County Nermals.

State Superintendent Jordan has opened three normal schools during the past week, each with an average attendance of fifty. Prof. L. E. Quinn is in charge of the one at Rocky Comfort. In Arkansas Coun- ty the institute is located at Dewitt with J. c. Gibson in charge. W. T. Hammond is conducting the normal at Hazen. During the next four weeks normals will he opened in forty nties-Arkansas Depart ment of the Commercial-Appea1.
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concerning the organization enmitY to Major Mckinley and its opposi- ton to his presidential candidacy. By the constitution of the order this duty does not deyolve upon the Supreme Council as a whole, but upon the Advisory Board now in session, for to the latter body is given full charge of the management of the presidential campaign. At it's first regular meeting in St. Louis last fall the Advisory Board ap- pointed an executive committee of thirteen to Figidly investigate the religious affiliations and influence surrounding each of the men talked of in connection with the presiden- tial nomination of both parties. Unless there has been a leak some where the result of the committees inquiries are as yet unknown, and the first that will be learned of the attitude of the A. P. A, as an organization toward the respective candidates of Reed, Mckinley, Nor ton, Allison and other presidential possibilities will be some time next week after the report of the com mittee of thirteen has been submit ted to the Supreme Council and q circular copy of the decision mailed to each member of the order throughout the country. 1t cannot be ascertained whether the Supreme Council will take any action regard ing the talkedof boom of Congress man Linton, of Michigan, as the choice of the A. P. A, for the presi- deney.
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The Worlds Fair Tests showed no baking powder 70 pure or so great in ieaV. eni1g power as the Royal.
AN ACCIDENT
In Which MT. John Hon Gets
 His Foot Smashed.

This morning Mir. John Hon, in the employ of the Bridge Building department of the Cotton Belt, got his foot badly bruised and mashed in the yards at the shops. He at tempted to cross between the cars and put his foot on top of the coupling pin when the cars came together, badly injuring his foot. He was brought up town on a switch engine and taken to Dr. Troupe's office, where his injured foot was dressed. His injuries are painful and will dis able him for several days, but are not regarded as serious.
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 NOTES.

There is no change in the great way employees.
 The twenty-fourth annual council of the Episcopal Church of Arkansas convened in Little Rock yesterday with q large number of delegates in attendance.
 Thursday the Indiana Republican Convention instructed Its delegation for Mckinley. The platform adop- ted by the convention was "Pro- lection and free silver"
 Kid Mccoy, of Memphis, and Jim Daily, nf Buffalo, fought a l2-round battle before the New York Man. haitian Club last night. Mccoy knocked his opponent out in the third round.
 The grand jury of New York has found indictments against ]. K. Duke and nine directors of the American Tobacco Co.,. charging them with conducting monoply in the paper cigarette trade.
 Robert L. Taylor was nominated for Governor of Tennessee yesterday by the Democratic convention of that State. The convention declared for free silver and elected the follow ing delegates-at-large to the National Convention: Senator Isom G. liar ris, ". B. Bate, E. w. Carmack and T. NJ. Mcconnell.
 H. H. Holmes, the multi-murderer, was hanged at 10:30 o'clock yester- day. On the scaffold In a brief speech he proclaimed himself innocent of the crime for which he was hanged, but acknowledged that he was responsible for the death of two women, who died under his hands from criminal operations.
 An attempt was made to kidnap Thomas E. Hall, well known in- surance agent of Fort Smith, by a Missouri Sheriff Friday. Hall is wanted at Ozark, Mo, to answer to an alleged crime said to have been committed four years ago. The Mis- souri officers undertook to kidnap him to prevent his release upon a writ of habeas corpns. They were frustrated by Halls attorney.
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A. P. AS. IN SESSION.
The Advisory Road Convenes in Washington Preliminary to the Meeting of
 the Supreme
 Council.

WASHINGTON, D. C., May S.-The Advisory Board of the American Protective Association, as organized at Milwaukee a year ago, convened in secret session here this morning as preliminary to the meeting of the Supreme Council of the order next week. The veil of screcy is kept about the proceedings, but it is learned in general way that all the national officers and many of the leading lights of the order are in attendance, and that owing to the importance of the business to be disposed of the board will probably remaing in session until the Supreme Conncil meets on Tuesday and to the latter tthe results of the board s deliberations will be reported.
 Members of the order do not deny
 that the primary purpose of the meeting is to take action on the question of recommending some presidential candidate for support to the members of the organization, and the council will either refute or confirm the floating political rumors
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FOR MURDER IN THE FIRST
 DEGREE
The Grand Jury Returned 8 True Bill Aainst the Constable
 this Afternoon.

The Grand Jury at o'clock this afternoon returned an indictment gainst Constable Beni. Franklin Walker, of Niven township, for murder in the first degree It will be remembered that Constable Walker shot and killed Dan Kirby with a winchester rifle in Niyen township last Saturday night, q full account of which appeared in the GRAPHIC of last Monday. Kirby, it will ke re- membered, with two other tramps, were burning the fence rails from Walkers fence when the latter and his son went out and fired upon them. Kirby was the only man struck by bullet and he died from his wounds last Sunday morning.
 Constable Walker has employed Judge Jones to defend him.
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ELECTRIC STREET CARS.
Talked By Col. F0rdyce at a Big Meeting at the Bluff City Club Hall Yester-
 day.

As stated in yesterdays GRAPHIC, Col. $. W. Fordyce met a large number of citizens in the parlors of the Bluff City Club hall yesterday afternoon and talked electric street cars to them. Col. Fordyce repeated in the main his informal talk at the Citizens Bank yesterday morning, published in yesterdays GRAPHIC, to the effect that it would require $100,00 to convert our present street ear line into an electric system, and that the St. Louis owners of the line would furnish three.fourths of that amount if Pine Bluff citizens would fournish the other one-fourth.
 After the conclusion of Col. For dyce's remarks, d committee con sisting of Messrs. J B. Trulock, $. Geisreiter and w. H. Langford was appointed to consider such definite propositions as might be made by the St. Louis owners of the street car line to the citizens of Pine Bluff, looking to the change of the line into an electric system.
 The committee expects to hear from these gentlemen after Col For dyce's return to St. Louis, at which time the proposition will be placed before the public.
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BAPTIST CONVENTION.
Annual Gathering of the Southern
 Baptist Association.

CHATTANOOGA, TENN., May 8.-The great annual meeting of the South ern Baptist Convention, the largest delegated ecclesiastical body in the world. opened here today with bright sunshine and blue skies to favor the plans of the 5000 delegates in attendance The presiding officer is the Hon. Jonathan Haralson, of Alabama. Today was given over to the exercises of formal opening and to the preparation of the pro- gram for the six days ses sion to follow. Although the program is largely confined to a review of the organizations of the Baptist Church. South, the Southern Missionary Society, with headquarters at At lanta; the Home Missionary Society, with headquarters at Richmond, and the Sunday Schools Publication Society at Nashville, there are enough live questions on the agonda to insure some interesting sessions. The Woman's Missionary Union, the leading auxiliary to the convention, held it's first convention today with representa- tives of fifteen Southern States in attendance. The business sessions of the convention are to be
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ROE. |. E. QUINN.
IA CARD OF THANKS TO HIS
 FRIENDS.
|l Catholic Nor an A. F. A., Hence Could Not Win in the Late
 Primaries.

sH COMFORT, Ark, May ,, 1896. zae Bluff Graphic
 I Sir-Please allo W me to say DO the columns of your paper most cordially thank my ibr the valiant manner in they stood by me in the re- |Atest for Legislative honors. |bute my defeet to this fact: 1 |lget enough votes; however, Ipd during the canvass that FRg q Catholic nor an A F. A. |Iatle to be "knocked out y I llp consolation of knowing am q Demucrat-one of the |Rls chickens-and now that |Rht religious warfare is for the
 at least, over, 1 am in the |of Democratic supremacy in |ad Jefferson.
 Gect to be home about June |Rn I'll do all in my power to Flle election of our nominees. Tours, most truly, l.. E. QUINN. E-lam conducting a Normal \ it this place. L. K. o.
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LUTON REPORT.
aOs ;. c. Alexander & Ce. Me New York and Liv-
 erpool Markets.

N DUFF, Ark, May s, 1896.
 |s'nen;-The continued up- |,l aoveMent in the price of cot N %'u " some New Workers the Ou0ble,' has brought out ['''lllng bales of the remnant \ Eraatations. Memphis, New ana St. Louis are inquiring
 sfades, stains, mixes and \ aasty cotton. This is the throw at n bubble. but it \ N 'e had to any great extent }, |,'sas' s' Planting is practically N 'Afoughout the State, and 's, coming up nicely. Good bs NY generally reported; chop bd so'amenced in some locali- l.s sofk is progressing fairly
 '0or IS still scarce in a large
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literally interspersed with features of entertainment and the citizens committee have arranged for daily drives about the city and jannts to Chickamanga Park, Lookout Noun tain, the old fort and other places Of interest in and about the city.
The Daily Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 18??-189?, 1896-03-02
ARTICLE y.
The Department of sanitation.

Section 1. There shall be a Board Of
Health, which shall consist of three physi-
clans, graduates from some accredited
medical college, who must be physicians
in active practice, to be appointed by the
MAYOR and confirmed by the city council
and who shall have supervision of all
matters appertaining to the sanitary con-
dition of the city and its public institu-
items.
Sec 9. The members of said board shall
hold office for three years and serve with
out compensation. The terms of office
shall be so arranged that one of them
shall go out of Office in each year. The
member having the shortest term to serve
shall be president of the board and the
health officer shall act as secretary of
the board.
Sec. g. The city council shall provide
an office for the board of health. in which
the meetings of the board shall be held
Such meetings shall be held at least once
a. month, and whenever requested by the
president or two Of it's members.
Sec, f. Said board shall appoint and
remove at pleasure health officer, who
shall be physician, and such other sub
ordinate officers as may from time to
time be deemed necessary by the city
council The health officer shall act as
city physician. He shall be the executive
officer of the board and see that all ordi-
nances relating to the sanitary affairs
of the city and the rules and regulations
of the board are enforced.
Sec s. The health officer shall visit the
public buildings and institutions of the
city and the public and other schools
within the city once in each month and
as frequently as may be required by
the boaro of health, and inves+ igate the
sanitary condition of the same, and make
monthly reports of such examination to
The Daily Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 18??-189?, 1896-03-02
ARTICLE XII.
The Fire DEPARTMENT.

Section 1. There shall be a fire depart
ment, which shall consist of chief of the
fire department, and as many subordinate
officers and f1remen as the city council
shall from time to time by ordinance pre-
scribe.
Sec. 2. The mayor shall appoint the chief
OF the hre department after examination
under civil service rules, as provided by
Article XVI. of this Charter and may re-
move him for cause in accordance with
said rules.
Sec. 8. The fire department shall be un-
der the management of the chief Of the
fire department, except as otherwise pro-
vided by law or in this Charter.
Sec. 4. First-The mayor shall prescribe
rules and regulations, not inconsistent
with law and the ordinances of the city.
for the government and control of the fire
department, and fix and enforce penalties
for their violation.
Second-The chief Of the fire department
shall, subject to the civil service rules
appoint subordinate officers and firemen.r
Third-The chief shall make monthly
statement of expenditures of the depart
ment to the board of public works, and al
so furnish to said board an estimate of the
needs of his department for the ensuing
month, with such recommendations as he
may deem proper for the betterment of the
service.
Fourth-The chief of the fire deparA lent
shall make annually, or oftener if 1dired
by the council, or if he may deeA list, a
report 20 the oil ~ council of an eipal
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-12-18
A REUNITED DEMOCRACY.

The Admission Hot Blast, which by the
way is becoming one of the ablest and
most farseeing democratic dailies in Ala
bama under the editorship of Mr. Aver,
'thusly treats the hypoeritieal utteranoes
of the Montgomery Advertiser on "a re-
united democracy:"
The Montgomery Advertiser pretends
to be in favor of a reunited democracy
but its utterances are by no means cal
culated to bring the men together who
heretofore have worked in the ranks Of
the democratic party.
Last week there was a meeting a In
dianapolis of the silver democratic lead
ers of Indiana, and the press reports say
that the sentiment of those present was
against any further fusion with the pop
ulists. There was also in the same city
and at the same time meeting of the
so-called national democratic party, and
1t Is said that the members Of that COM
mittee decided that any alliance between
the democratic boilers and the republic
ans is impracticable.
The Advertiser would nave 1t appear
that the democrats who believe in the
free and unlimited coinage of silver have
been marching in the direction of popu-
lism for several years, but that the men
who bolted the last democratic nominees
and platform and Joined the Mckinley
aid societies have never turned towards
republieanism, but have always had their
back to the republican party.
This talk by the Advertiser is the very
worst kind of rot and is by no means cal
culated to restore reunited democracy.
The Advertiser might succeed in fool
ing young children by saying that the
men who bolted the democratic ticket this
year had never turned towards repub-
licanism but it can't fool grown men
with any such rot. 1t is known of all
men in this country that they bolted for
the express purpose of electing the re-
publican ticket, and that they voted for
Mckinley by the thousand. The men
who are sincere in their advocacy of the
gold standard make no effort to deny the
fact that they preferred the election of
Mckinley to Bryan.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-12-18
NEWS OF THE RAIL.


The fact that the United States has
become competitor with Europe for
traffic with the eastern powers in rail-
way supplies is demonstrated by the
Railway Review in a column Illustrated
article concerning the shipment of two
specially constructed railway engines to
Japan. The engines, while having been
built in America, by the Brooks Loco
motive works, have some of the charac-
teristics of the English style of engines
The Graw-heads and eouplers are of
English design, but the other and more
important parts are of American design.
The engines, from the Illustrations are
clumsy-looking machines, but are built
for service and not show
NEW METHODS ADOPTED.
A State Herald reporter yesterday Wis
tied the shops of the Birmingham Rail-
way and Electric company. and through
the courtesy OF Master Mechanic Harry
English, was shown the several depart
ments. There is large force of hands at
work repairing and rebuilding cars for
the several divisions of this popular rail-
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-12-18
IS YET LIVE QUESTION.

Are we to have free coinage in spite or
the result of the last election and regard
less of the results of the republican eff
FORTS to bring about International agree
ment? 1t Is a fact that at the present
commercial prices of silver bullion there
would be considerable. profit in the COIN
age of counterfeit silver dollars, the coun-
terfeiter putting just the same amount
Of silver and alloy in the dollar that the
government has put in the dollars turned
out from the government minis. 1t mas
developed that the dollars can be cast In
dies made by the "hot metal process SO
nearly like the coins turned out by the
minis that even the cleverest OF govern
ment experts fail to detect them. This
being the case what IS the country to ex-
pect other than free coinage.
1t has been suggested that the govern
ment might change its dies and possibly
in that way put q stop to the counter
letters but from that source little COM
fort can be derived because there is no
way OF telling whether there is in circula-
ton S75 600 goo of silver of the coinage of
1879 or only $5,000,000 rs 1t Is practically
impossible to get all the coinage Of any
year together or sufficiently near togeth-
er to have it counted and therefore 1t
would make no difference with the coun-
terfeiters how often and how radically
the government might change its dies
they could go on turning out silver dol
lars as of the coinage of 1S79-S0-s1-S2-S3
and so on making a net profit of 40 to
SO cents on each dollar they succeed in
putting into circulation.
That the subject of free silver coinage
is still subject of great moment the fol-
lowing special from Washington, D. c., to
the New York Journal clearly evidences:
Treasury officials are in a worse guam
dairy than ever over the question of how
to stop the counterefeiting of silver coins.
1t has been ascertained and proved to
their great dissatisfaction that the ex-
pensive engraved dies used for stamp
ing the coin can be duplicated at trif-
ling expense from the coin itself, by what
is known as the "hot metal process,
These "hot metal dies will do as good
work as will the engraved dies, the only
difference being that they have not as
long life. A set of these dies were made
by mint employee in Philadelphia, and
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-12-18

coins We're struck from them so perfect
that they withstood all tests. This was
done at the suggestion. and in the pres
ence of mint officials, who had doubted
the possibility Of the feat.
The conclusion is reached that counter
felting is being carried on extensively in
several places. Occasionally counter
felt coin is found which, ON assay, Is
found to be of different fineness from the
standard 800 fine. or of different weight.
but since 1t otherwise defies the tests the
inference is plain that by making the
coin 800 fine and Of just the right weight,
any quantity of counterfeit silver can
be coined and floated with safety from
detection.
No change of device will afford any
protection, SO long as millions of the old
coins are outstanding, nor has any device
been suggested which in reality offers
any great difficulty for counterfeiters to
overcome
Where the counterfeiting is being done
is equally mystery. If the director of
the mint had directly under his control a
number of special officers he might be
able to break up the gang of operators,
but the secret service Is a separate branch
and has so far proven unable to grapple
with the situation.
When it is remembered that the thous-
ands of Internal revenue officers and dep
uty marshalS can only in q degree check
the making of moonshine whisky. it is
small wonder that the immensely profit
able work of counterfeiting silver coin
should be rapidly developing.
There Is strong suspicion that ma
chinery from some of the numerous inde-
pendent Mexican minis, which have of
recent years been bought in and closed
by the Mexican government, has been
transported to quiet places in the noun
tains in the vicinity of one of the rail-
roads and near the border line, and that
its output gets across the line in the form
of United States dollars. -
1t is an easy matter to dispose of coins
which defy treasury experts, and there
does not seem to be any remedy for the
situation except free coinage
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-12-18
2OIl FIRST AVENUE.

well Eastman, Mabel Tachoir, Gussie
Raphael, Eta Raphael, Lottie Wren
Warner, Augusta Reid, Mamie McCurry,
Matte Givaltney, Haidre Meade. Lucy
Sanders, Bessie Cunningham, Lizzie
Hughes, Scilla Addison.
Fourth Grade, Sr,-Alline McGehee,
Edna Moore. Merle Smith, Amy Barney,
Eugenia Shivers, May Butterdeld, Mil
dred Walters, VIII Dunn, Whelan Culley.
F'ourthGrade, Urinary Gillespey Jan
ct Barrow, Alice Collier, Rowena Allen,
May Mcknight, en- Stephens, Irene Cole,
Julia Dockery, Lucy Downey
Third Grade, Sr.-Lizzie Curry, Ethel
Smith, Fay Harris, Mamie Keife.
Third Grade, Jr.--Walter Hood, Lucy
Martin, Mary Lou Wilson, Sadie Giles
pey, Fannie brennan, Meta Wane, Min
ME Kroman.
Second Grade, Sr--Elizabeth Haney
Catalan, Estelle Nabb, Mary G. Cruils-.
shank, Nellie Smith, Annie Castleman,
Eppie Cheny, Mariel Eastman, Brett
Reid, Lottie Watley, Henry Chairsell,
Chas. Stewart.
Second Grade, Jr.-Winona Hill, Emily
Donaldson, Clair Johnson, Neppie Nell
Camp, Cynthia Byram, Louise Smith,
Mildred Tynes, Leland Weeks.
First Grade, Sr.-Frank H. Anderson,