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THE OUTING CLUB.
The Finances of the Club Reported in Good Condition-H Honorary Mem
 bers Elected.

Annual meeting of the Outing Club was heid yesterday at the office of N. B. and J. B. Trulock. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved.
 The following members were pres ent: President R. G. Atkinson, Vice President ]. M. Goza, Secretary c. Voss. and J. B. Trulock, J. F Hut, A. B. Grace, A. Brewster, Gordon E. Greenfield and E. B. Bloom.
 On motion Messrs. s. w. Fordyce and Superintendent McGowan and Master Mechanic Galbraith, of the Cotton Belt Railway, were unani- mously elected honorary members of the club.
 President Atkinson reported that Mr. Fordyce had expended $500 in fixing the dam and improving the platform, and that the improvements were substantial and of great bene- fit to the club.
 The Secretary reported the flnan- ces in good condition and the club out of debt.
 On motion the Secretary was d. rected to procure insurance on the house and contents to the amount of $400.
 The following officers were re- elected for the ensuing year: K. G. Atkinson, President; A Brews ter, Vice President; c. Voss, Secretary and Treasurer, and Messrs. R. c. Atkinson, E. B. Houston and E. B. Bloom, elected Executive Commit tee.
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CONFEDERATE VETERANS.
J. Ed Murray Camp Holds an Inter esting Meeting "A Sponsor and Maids of Honor
 Elected.

The J. Ed. Murray Camp of Ex- Confederate Veterans held q call meeting at the Court House Friday night, with a quorum present, and Commander H. A. Mccoy presiding and the following business was transacted
 MT. J. Y. Saunders was elected to fill the vacancy in the office of Adiu- tant, caused by the resignation of Mir. E. l.. Colburn, who is now not a resident, of Pine Bluff.
 The committee on the proposed entertainment to be given by the Camp reported progress, and asked further time, which was granted.
 The report of Treasurer Trulock was accepted and filed.
 An order from Gen. J. B. Gordon announcing the 30th of June and the 1st and 2nd days of July, 1896. as the dates fnr the reunion at Richmond Va, was read.
 Dr. J. H. Philpot, a member of l.. B. Smith Camp No. 402, Ex-Confed- crate Veterans, of Georgia, was elected an honorary member of J, Ed. Murray Camp.
 Mr. w. K. Hope, who served in the 42nd regiment of Mississippi, was elected a member of the Camp.
 The election of a sponsor to repre- sent the Camp at the Richmond re union was the next order ofbusiness and on motion and a vote of th' Camp being taken, the honor wal Iconferred on Miss Sammie Sennett The following young ladies wer elected Maids of Honor; Misse Woodie Johnson. Edna Tucker, Su Knox and Fay Taylor, each daugil ters of old Confederate soldiers.
 A committee consisting of Messr' yance, Stanley and Valiant was al pointed to draft suitable resolution =I the death of MT. " ] Hagle a lamented member of the Camp. Il The meeting was then, upon m tiipn adjourned uiiti. ttisc Eth ei Ma it it 77:;,seo 77:::;,seo ?. m
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TWO HORSES KILLED.
A Live Wire Did the Work The First Accident of the
 Kind in the City.

About $40 o'clock Sunday after noon two horses hitched to a dairy wagon ran into live wire on Sixth avenue, directly..in front of the resi- dence of Col. R. M. Knox, and both animals were instantly killed The horses, as our reporter is informed, were the property of MT. W. H. Nichols, the dairyman. A broken telephone wire fell across an cleo tric light wire and was charged with electricity, and the end hanging on the street struck the horses and caused their death. The accident was probably caused by the wreck of the telephone pole and wires at the Valley depot.
 Mir. Nichols and his son, who were in the wagon at the time of the accident, were also badly shocked, but when the horses fell to the ground they jumped from the ve- hicie and caught hold of them and at tempted to help them to their feet. The shock was so great that the gentlemen suffered severely from its effects all night
 This is the first accident that has eyer occurred in this city from cleo tricity.
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JONES LEADS.
WILL CARRY JOHNSON, POPE
 AND YELL.
J. H. Harrod Has Safe Lead in
 the Race for Governor.

LITTLE ROCK, March 15, .. m.- Specials to the Gazette state that James K. Jones carried Johnson county in the primaries Saturday by a large majority. Full returns have not been received from Pope and Yell counties, in which primaries were also held yesterday, but as the count proceeds Jones is in the lead by an increasing majority. He will carry all three of thecounties, it is believed, by good maiorities. Theindications are that Harrod, for Governor; Hill, for Chief Justice; and Mcfarland, for Auditor. have carried Yell county.
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JUMPED THE TRACK.
A Smash Up at the Valley Depot A Telephone Pole Knocked
 Down.

Two freight cars attached to the train which arrived at this place from Little Rock Sunday evening at $ o'clock, jumped from the track as the train was approaching the depot yesterdaylevening crashedinto a telephone pole and almost knocked 1t down. All the wires on the pole were either broken or knocked loose. The coupling pin connecting the cars to the train broke and allowed the cars to run down grade until they had attained great speed, when they jumped from the track.
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vaugine Township.

We,members of Vaugine Township Democratic Committee, recommend that primaries for the nomination of five magistrates and one Constable be held at the time and under the regulations as provided by the Democratic Central Committee of Jefferson County.
 ". B. GREENFIELD,
 Chairman. March B, 1896. City papers please copy.
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HISTORY IF LOUIS XI A Crafty and Blood thirsty Mon
 arch. CAN ONLY BE LIKENED TO RICHARD III, OF
 ENGLAND. An Interesting Story of the Tragedy of Louis xI, As it Will Be Presented By MT. Thos. Keene on
 Next Next Thurs Thurs
 day Night

Few plays of modern authorship are of stronger interest than Louis XI, to be presented by Mr. Keene at the Opera-house next Thursday night It is a Identification of Sir Walter Scott's novel, "Quentin Durward, with new scenes and situations written expressly for Mr. Keene, and found in no other acting version.
 The story of Louis XI is the his tory of France of the early part of the fifteenth century, touching upon incidents marking the closing days of one of the most remarkable men that ever disgraced q throne. Louis rule was a continuous fight against the feudal power of the nobles of France. It was also a struggle for supremacy between the Orleanists represented by Louis, and the Bur gundians under Charles the Bold. Louis. like Richard III, of England, was no timid ruler h natures alke they defend their crowns with all the red-handed power of their medieval training. Crafty, cruel, treacherous. loving no one, not even the Dauphin, Louis life was a struggle against averaging super stition, and an abjest fear of death. Prisons swarmed with the victims of his hatred and his policy; the ax of the headsman was very busy; he trusted none for none trusted him; the meanest tools of his were chosen from the dregs of life, and were the trusted officers of his council; he was a slave to his physician to whom he ascribed the powers of life and death; he was q constant prey to dread of assassination; and the one spark of affection, flashing at times for his son only wos always marred by distrust that the son might conspire to remove him from the throne, as he himself had been more than suspected of acting to- ward his own father.
 The plot of the play is unique and intensely dramatic. The young Duke de Nemours, whose father had been beheaded by Louis, arrives at the French court, held for the time in the castle of Plessis less Tours. He comes as envoy from Burgundy, his identity as Nemours being alone known to Coitier, De Comynes, and his daughter Marie. There is an old love between Nemours and Marie, and from the eonlinding girl Louis by cunning treachery elicits the fact of the presence of his de termined enemy. As envoy Nemours person is supposed to be sacred, but Louis who was never known to re- gard an obligation, plans with one of his minions to assassinate him. Circumstances connected with the1 envoy, however, release Louis from all further hypocricy Of purpose, and Nemours is arrested and doomed to death.
 The impressive fourth act shows us his gloomy tapestried chamber. Nemours has escaped. The old king is stricken with terror Marie Coitier refusing to tell of the fugitive, is ordered to the rack. Marie blending for her lover is hurrldly dismissed. In every flutter of the tapestry and every football, Louis agonized fancy hears the step of his implacable foe. One of the trusted Scottish Guards is
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The Riggin NH Re-Sold.

At noon today Assignee c. M. Philpot sold at public outery the D. B. Riggin shingle and plaining mill, situated inst across Crooks Bayou, in this city, for $620, to Mir. c. M' Dial. This sale Is subject to the approval of the Chancery Court This Is the second time that tht nroneriy has been sold since Mir Higgins assignment.
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BAD BLOOD UP.
CONGRESSMAN SENDS A
 CHALLENGE.
Representative Tarsney, a Catholic, Challenges Representative Linton. an A. P. A.
 Leader.

WASHINGTON. March Consider able excitement was created today when it became rumored that Repre- sentative Linton, of Michigan, the A. P. A. leader of the House, had re- eeiyed challenge to fight a duel from Representative Tarsney, of Kansas City, and a prominent Cath ollie. Mr. Linton threw the chal- lenge into waste basket, but it is feared that a meeting may yet result from it.
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ALI POLL TAXES GOOD.
Either Last Years or This, in Elections This apring, Primary or
 Otherwise,

LITTLE ROCK, ARK, March 10, 1896 Hon, ]. L. wadley, Hot Springs, Ark.
 DEAR SIR:-Yours of recent date, asking what poll tax receipt will qualify one to vote at your legalized primary election for city officers, re. ceived, and in reply to the same ] have this to say:
 On the 7th day of March, 1895, de livered an opinion in which 1 stated that in order for one to be q qualified voter in the municipal elections that were held in April, 1895, that he must have paid his poll tax in 1894 for the year 1893, and that he must have paid the said tax on or before the 2Gth day of June, 1891.
 At the time this opinion was de liyered this was the law; but on the 18th day of March, 1895, the General Assembly passed an act which changes the time for paying taxes, and states at what elections poll tax receipt will permit one, if otherwise qualified, to vote. Section 5, page 5 of the Acts of 1895, states: "The time for collect ing taxes, as this term is employed in the Constitution in connection with the payment of poll tax is here by defined to be the period between the first Monday in January and the Saturday next preceding the first Monday in July"
 This same section of the Act of 1895 states: Any person liable to pay poll tax and who has paid the same at any time within the dates named, shall, if possessed of the oth- CT qualifications required by law of an elector, be entitled to vote at any election held in this State before the first Monday in July of the year sue ceeding that in which the payment is paid.
 1t will be readily seen that this act of 1895 states that he who has paid his poll tax, not after, but within the dates mention, fl otherwise qualified, will be permitted to vote at any election held before the first Monday in July of the year succeeding. Under the rules of construction given by the courts I am satisfied that this act is constItutional and in every respect valid.
 I am, therefore, of the opinion that, under the law, AS it now ex- ists, if one has paid his poll tax since the first Monday in January of this year, or should pay the same at any time before your city election to be held in April next, if he is otherwise qualified. should be permitted to vote at your city election.
 Again, under the law, a poll tax receipt paid last year within the time required. would permit one, ii otherwise qualified, to vote at your city election, as the election takes place before the first Monday in July of this year. l am, there fore, of the opinion that any one 7whlio V hlio has has paid lis poll tax iii the year 1895 for the year 1894, or who paid his poll tax since the first Mon- day in January of this year.if other wise qualified, will be entitled to vote at your city election, and that either of said poll tax receipts would qualify one to vote at your legalized primary election, if he is otherwise qualified. Yours truly.
 E. B. KINswoRTHY.
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The Worlds Fair Tests showed no baking powder so pure or so great In ieav- ening power as the Royal
Her Royal Highness.

Max O'Reil. the great comedy lecturer. lectures at Merrill Institute next Friday night on Her Royal Highness, Woman fuli house is expected. Reserved seats at Hart 8 Thursday morning.
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Col. R. NJ. Knox spent yesterday in Little Rock in attendance upon a meeting of the stockholders of the Dickinson Arms Co, in which Col. Knox is large stockholder. At the stockholders meeting Col. Knox was elected a member of the Board of Directors of the Company
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For the March Term, Convened
 This Morning.
An Excellent Grand Jury Empan- neled-The Jury Charged
 By Judge Elliott.

The Jefferson Circuit Court, for the March term, was convened this morning with Judge John M. Elliott presiding. The following is list of the Grand and Petit Juries
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GRAND JURY. W. B. Alexander, Foreman. B. D. Benton, John Temple, J. s. Seabrooks, W. H. Riley, J. W. Bradford, w. H. Louthan, M. J. Mead, c. c. Collins, L. E. Quinn, c. H. Hawk, W. G. Lockhart, J. M. Reynolds.
 After listening to strong and forcib.e charge from Judge Elliott, the jury at once repaired to it's room and began it's labors. The jury is composed of representative men, and their work will doubtless be thorough and rapid. The Petit Jury will not be empanneled until next Monday.
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hey jumped from the track.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-22

have reappointed the present board
of park commissioners. That body
is, as far as we know, acceptable to
the entire public. 1t is conscientious
pafnstaking, Woodworking, absolutely
honest, and has cared for the advance
ment of the public parks of st. Paul
with rare intelligence and disinterest-
edness. There is no conceivable rea-
son why any change should be made
The mere remaining of these men by
Mr.. Doran would save all possible
question of future legality.
No one at present can tell absolutely
whether the present park board has a
legal existence or not. If not, then
when it is so decided all it's acts dur
ing the interim will be technically in
valid. There is just as little common
sense in inviting this possibility as
there was in refusing to permit the
board of public works and the com
missioner of public works to act to-
gether until the status of each could
be legally defined: Common sense
does not appear to command a pre-
MUM in the administration which
the voters of ST. Paul brought upon
themselves last spring. It's lapses are
not grave enough to be threatening.
but they are pronounced enough to
be funny. We foresee, though posi-
bly, at some slight public expense, a
vast fund of amusement for the peo-
pie of ST. Paul in the conduct of their
municipal affairs for the next two
years.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-22
LAST But NOT LEAST.
Think Newspaper Men of Their Day
at the Fair,

Tomorrow afternoon at o'clock an
other meeting will be held Of commit
tees from the Minneapolis and St. Paul
Press clubs and the state editorial as
sociation at the rooms of the ST. Paul
Press club, to further decide upon
features for the programme of news
paper mems day at the state fair.
Saturday, Sept. 5. Two newspaper men
have heroically volunteered to go up
in balloon, and one of them intimates
that he is willing to risk a parachute
jump, If it is necessary to furnish still
further proof of a reporters nerve. A
race is being arranged between a
quad and a ''quint," furnished by
the Fowler Cycle company. Hank
Seelye, Of Minneapolis, offers to send
his PAGER Albatross, the fastest
quarter horse in the world, against
any cyclist who may be selected for the
distance Of a quarter of mile Sew
eral other features are to be considered.
F. j. Waterous, manager of the
Waterous Engine company, yesterday
visited the state fair grounds and made
arrangements for water throwing tests.
The company will show several fire
engines, besides hose carts, hook and
ladder trucks and fire towers The
engines are to be put in direct com
petition and the test will be to see
which can throw water farthest.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-22
PROBABLY 4 HUMBUG.

The attention of the Globe has
been directed to an article published
in a recent number of the Fergus Falls
Globe, purpcrting to be the republica-
ton of an article appearing in the
London Financial News of last March.
This article, entitled 1.-THE Grip of
Cold" is long screed in the very best
style of the American free silver ad-
vocate. 1t sets forth how desperately
England has need to fear the adoption
of the silver standard by the United
States; how this would drive her from
all the markets of the world, and what
an excellent prospect there is that
America will stand at the head of the
world when free coinage has become
assured. This Is published as inclosed
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-22

from a correspondent of Duluth, and
is assumed to represent the real opin-
ions of the English people.
1t seems hardly necessary for us to
expose this particularly foolish hum
bug. No file of the London Financial
News being available. we do not know
whether such an article really APP
peared in 1t or not. Possibly, it may
have. A few people, like Mr.. Moreton
F'reWen, to whose performances we
called attention recently, have been
scattering such screeds throughout the
English press whenever they could get
them published. These have been dis
tributed in the shape of clippings very
widely throughout this country; by
whose agency and by whom paid for
we do not pretend to understand. The
G e, however, has received a num-
Der Oh such, which are sent to editors
with a request to notice and repub-
lish
1t is perfectly plain what is the pur-
pose OF these, and wherein lies the ne
cessity In securing their publication
mere 1t is also plain that, except as
iholcations of not understanding pub
TIC opinion, they are absolutely worth
less. 1t would be easy enough. for in
stance, to get a Prohibitionist to write
an article proving to his satisfaction
that If Great Britain should adopt
prohibition that country would forth
with squirt so far ahead of this coun-
try IN all kinds of industry that we
could never catch up That article
reprinted in England would have pre-
clsely the same standing as the one re-
ferred to has in the United States Mo-
BODY is in any doubt whatever as to
the sentiment of the English people on
the financial question. That country.
which transacts by far the most enor-
nous business done in this world, finds
no difficulty in conducting it on the
goid standard. Although the mercan-
tile transactions of Great Britain are
lncomparably greater than those of
other nations, she does not seem in
the least embarrassed by the need of
more money" On the contrary her
industries were never in a more -four
1shlng condition than they are today.
ana her laborers are better paid than
those OF any competing country ex-
cept the United States.
She does not stand in the slightest
fear of anybody doing business on the
silver standard; particularly since it is
oy d1scounting bills of the silver stand
ara countries that her moneyed classes
make large share Of their profits
Nothing could please her better than
10 nave the United States adont the
silver standard, SO that English money
changers might dominate our foreign
exchanges and settle our bills for MS
on such terms as would turn an honest
penny for themselves. AS to Industrial
competition, Mexico and Japan do NOT
seem to have driven England out of
the field today any more than Austria.
did when that country was on the sill
yer basis, or than the Latin Union did
when it maintained the alternating
standard. Whether the article referred
TO Is fraud or an invention, or merely
an effusion inserted at the instigation
OF the American free silverites. it is a
humbug all the same
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-22
1T CUTS THE LIFE OUT OF HIGH
FARES TO THE ENCAMP-
MENT.
EASTERN VETS ARE LUCKY.
THEIR TRANSPORTATION ExPEN-
SEES BEING REDUCED ABOUT 20
PER CENT.
ALSO CUTS IN THE NORTHWEST,
Making the Limit of Special Rates
200 Miles Instead of ESQ ON
Other Lines.

There is a very bitter duel going on
between the 500 and competing lines
over G. A. r. rates. The 500 has
slashed off huge slices on rates from
Atlantic sea board points to the G. A.
r., the K. p, and the state fair for
the trio of events is bringing the Twin
Cities more to the attention of the
Eastern cities than any events of re-
cent years. Yesterday along came a
circular over the signatures of the 500
officials announcing still more reduc-
lions in passenger rates. The 500 can
do 1T with impunity. It is not mem
Der of the Western Passenger asso-
citation, and therefore is not bound by
any agreements or understandings. If
the other lines secure their share of
business, some sweeping reductions all
along the line will have to be made
The schedule, which was announced
yesterday, shows some startling cuts.
A few Of the figures are given below,
also showing the figures of the COM
peting lines:
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-22
LOCAL NEWS NOTES.
Diphtheria is reported at 5ss cvpress

Diphtheria is reported at 5s3 Cypress street
Clara Louise Thompson closes her engage
ment in the Chinook" at Como tonight.
The retail butchers have decided to close
places Of business the day Of the parade.
Examinations Of applicants for positions as
teachers In the public schools will be held at
the Central high school Thursday and Friday.
The G. A. r. committee Of the Order OF
Eastern Star and members are requested to
meet at Masonic hall at 3 o'clock this after
noon to complete arrangements for enter
tanning visitors during encampment week.
Ex-Ald. Murphy has provided a summer
garden in the rear Of his place on Wabasha
street, opposite the court house. Tonight will
witness the formal opening Of both establish
ments. Music will be furnished in the gar
den.
Ole Anderson, who, In a drunken fight with
Frank Rosseau, cut the latter in the back
with pocket knife, had his case continued
In the police court yesterday for one week
Rosseau Is at the city hospital, and although
pear in court for several days.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-22

when 1t is known that the same conditions
.hat prevailed in Minnesota and North Da-
kota We're pretty general throughout the land.
IN 1924 the crop in the United States amount
eo 10 lf0.00O,0 600 bushels, whereas In 1895 the
crop amounted to nearly 300 600 900 bushels
VI this enormous quantity North Dakota
raised little over 100000 bushels and
Minnesota contributed nearly "a 900 900 BUSH
els; Where everyone miscalculated no indI-
vidual producer need feel badly about his
own slight loss. nor give up potato raising
IN consequences of one disastrous year New
YORK state put 1fty-one million bushels on the
market; Is 1t any wonder that potatoes were
too plentiful to bring profitable prices?"