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LIQUOR LICENSE.

THE usual annual question now
confronts US. Whether license
should be granted or not. And If
granted how. This applies alone to
city license. Under the law the city
can refuse license; so can the county.
Can either afford it? Would it be
right if they could? That covers
two sides of enquiry.
High license might reduce the
number of saloons, but it would
lead to only rich men having the
privilege. Low license might lead
to dives and licensed haunts of vice.
No license would lead to blind
tigers with no revenue attaching,
except that which went to the
school fund. That might be one
way to help the school fund.
But so holy an institution as a
school fund must not be builded on
fund derived from a punishment
of crime.
High license belongs to the organic
control Of the city just now. So
does low license. So does inter
mediate license.
To favor a few by high license,
would be more undemeeratie aud
worse than to refuse license alto
gether.
To grant license indiscriminately
world be the major i'll Of the con-
dition.
We treat liquor as an evil. That
It's existence mars much happiness.
That to control its use invades
mans personal liberty We invade
that when we punish larceny.
The liquor traffic, like the tobacco
traffic, belongs to the infirnity Of
man, and its eradication is as i'm
possible as is that of the maxim,
hunaaaum est erronum, Tits humane
to errl.
All these questions are bound to
be submitted tc practical tests, and
all that can be assured is to let
good judgment and fair eonsidera-
ton of the subject prevail.
Our own opinion is that we had,
amidst the conflict Of opinions,
better let well enough alone.
There is never q place for re-
form unless the act of reform, with
out unnecessary, disturbance makes
it of peculiar advantage to the gen
eral public. In this matter, this is
not apparent.
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Two SISTERS DEAD.


enc Dies Frosn spasm mad Tie Other
From erlei.
Ausrs. Eog. a7.-Two sistoes died
here Wednesday within few hours of
each other, the first from a sBasm and
the other from the effects of her grief
just after noon Miss Aanie Blocker,
while bathing in bathtab adjoining
her bedroom, was siezed with u spasm
and died before assistance came. She
had only been n the tub about 70 min
utes when she was discovered, but Is
was too lare to bring her back to con.
seriousness, as her body was cold in
in death She had been u sufferer for
some years.
Her sister, Miss Mary Blocker, was
wild with grief ON being called so her
sisters side Al tine afternoon. she had
been yerging on the hysterical. That
night at 5:l5 she became freuzlod iii
her grief and so violent that she burst a
bloodvessel, killing her instantly thus
bringing about the death two sisters
within seven hours OF one another. Both
are prondnentin Texas. owing to their
wide circle OF family connections.
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RUNNING WIpE OPEN.
New York safoonmen said to stand /
VIII, the Police.


New York saioonmen said to stand In
viii, the Police
ALBANY. Nov. 27.-Thero are between
1900 and 1000 places within a radius of
10 miles of the New York city hall that
are selling liquor without state liquor
tax law, presumably under police or
seme other protection
This astonishing statement was made
by Senator John Raines Of Canandaigua
at the meeting of the special excise
committee of the senate. It brought
Senator Samuel J Foley to his feet
He said
Senator Raines do you mean to say
that there are that number Of places in
New York City that are receiving po-
lice protection in their violations of the
Raines law?"
YES, was the reply eUundoubt.
eddy they are receiving police or some
protection, for the violations in many
cases openly exist. -
At this point another senator, who re-
fused to be quoted publicly, said "There
is no doubt of the truth of Senator
Raines' statement. have it upon the
authority of one of the best known
saloonkeepers of New York City
that the old system of the
police leyying tribute upon tho saloon
keepers is again in vogue He told me
that the city had been divided into ais
tricts, as formerly, and that they were
again paying tribute to the police cap
tains. -
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PINE BLUFF. ARK. NOV. IS, 1850

SINCE The 9th of November, the
date on which it was known that
Mckinley would be the next Presi-
dent Of the United States, and that
the single gold standard would pre-
vail, cotton has decreased in price
over 81 per bale. This means a loss
to the South of at least S34, 600, 00O.
This IS a trifling sum to our farm
ers-and they can stand Tint.
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500 nTOnIn. 60 a. TaLEnn "a


FrankJ. Cheney makes oath that he is the
senior partner eff the firm of L. 7. Cheney 4
Co, doing bushes in the city of Toledo
comfy aud state aforesaid, and that said
firm will pay the sum OF one hundred dol
lars for each aud every case Of catarTh that
cannot be cured by tine use of Halls Catarrh
Cure. FRANK j. CHENEY,
sworn to and Subscribed in my presence.
this sixth day of December, a. D.. lSS6.
- A. ". GLEASON,
SEAL Notary Public,
--A
Halls Catarh Cure is taken internally
and acts directly oH the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system, Send for testimonials
free. H.J.GHE&E3 NCO. TotedO. q. .
Sold by all druggists. ZOE.
lIri Family pins are tine best;
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rewards o0ered.
INnoe.

AUSTIN, Nov. 97.-The governor has
offered a reward of $3.50 for the arrest
of Arson Charlton, charged with the
murder Of his wife on Nov. 20, in Mac
ogdoches county. Also reward of
500 was offered for the arrest of J. W.
Howell, charged with the murder Of
Pink Kirkpatrick in Houston county
Oct 20 last.
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CoRsIcANA, Tex, Nov, 27-On nc
count of some trouble with one of the
dynamos at the electric light plant the
experiment of max ng gas from the
Corsieana oil was delayed. IL was tried
and proved to be success in every way.
The gas company here VIII discard tho
northern OIL altogether and use the
home product exclusively.
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No city should ever issue a
municipal charter, granting i'm
portant privileges, without ia
cooperating a misuser or non-user
clause in it.
Usually. young cities like Pine
Bluff are so anxious to make rapid
strides in their growth and i'm
provements, that they surrender
their proper control Of their fran
ehises with all the fervor of youth,
to be regretted when they grow
older and wiser. This is illustra-
ted by two railroads running
through the heart Of the city. They
had just as well been maze run up
Lakeside and have union depot.
Now by charter right and by limi-
tation, they are assure fixture, while
the City Council has scarcely
power to make them keep their
crossings in good order When
notified to do so, with their easto-
mary cooperation brass, they do it
when they please.
IT, two charters for street rail
ways in our city are conspicuous
for their careful guarding of the IN
terests of the ineorporators, the
thorough yielding OF all the rights
of The people, and the main and
original charter is issued entirely
for a money considerations a sale
by the city Of It's franchise, Just
how far that sale Is legal, remains
now for the courts to say, if it be
comes necessary to invoke their
voice on the question. Both works
are now Abandoned both companies
at least are guilty OF non. user, il
not also misuser. The law has no
fixed rule for non-user, by which a
charter is forfeited. / might take
twenty-one years. Misuser is al
most as uncertain, if carried to the
courts, because it is a question of
fact, with the defence Of ali the
concomitant necessities for sus-
pension of service.
We are not advised whether the
old charters will voluntarily step
aside and give away to new aud
more capable and accommodating
enterprise But souless corpora
tions are not prone to give up
something for nothing. If they
choose to give annoyance to the con-
structors OF a new system of rapid
passenger transit, they are doubt
less in attitude to do so. lie
JaJula docet- that no new charter
of permanent character shold be
granted by our city to any corpora
ton, foreign or domestic, confering
important privileges, without com
plying with it defeasance, in case
of the misuse or abuse of its charter
rights. 1t teaches more, that a
charter granted should contain re-
taliating clause, preventing it sim
ply having an existence without
effective action. both Of construction
and operation, within a reasonable
time.
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CONVICT LABOR.

ALMOST any laboring man with
constant employment in agricultural
pursuits can produce enough to feed
and clothe himself and one other II
this is true, and we hardly think
any competent person viii dispute
it, why should the State be unable
to employ half of its convicts in
such a profitable way as to main
tain the whole? We honestly be-
lieve that it can be done, and that
the other half could be employed
continuously for the next few years
in building State railroads, with out
imposing any extra tax upon the
people. Why should we not employ
the State convicts where they would
be most likely to do the most good?
Nobody will deny that three or four
hundred miles OF railroad would be
a more valuable property than any
thing we might acquire through the
use of the convicts in the next ten
years. It would not take ten years
nor even five years to build five
hundred miles of railroad with five
hundred convicts, and If we had the
road built it would be an easy mat
ter to secure the steel rails and pat
on the rolling stock. There is an
opportunity for the State which it
can easily grasp, and failing It viii
still have almost a thousand convicts
on its hands from which source It'll
derives no appreciable revenue. TIL
the Legislature will provide a
means for carrying out such
scheme as this, the results will re-
turn like bread cast upon the waters
to bless those who help to make it
possible. We commend the plan OF
building State railroad to the con
sideration Of members who are
anxious and wiling to see Arkansas
take long stride in the direction
Of prosperity There is nothing
that could be done towards the de-
velopment and advancement of our
great commonwealth that would
benefit 1t SO much as the inaugura-
ton Of railroad enterprise that
would give us five hundred miles Of
railroad Ia the next five years.
5kaasas Democrat.
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SAN ANTONIO, Nov 27.-David Darst
of Coleman, Tex, cadet at the West
Texas Military academy of this city,
fell under q moving electric streetear
here which he was endeavoring to
board, The car passed over his right
leg, crushing the bone SO badly that the
member had to be amputated below the
knee.
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Held without Bond.

ST. Louis. Nov. a. Charles O'Leary,
charged with the murder of Morita
Pietzsch, the old grocer, at Twelfth and
Brooklyn streets, was held to the grand
jury without bond by Judge Murphy i'll
the. court of criminal correction.
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No Loss of Life.

GUTHRIE. Q. T., Nov 27.-Later re-
ports from that part Of the Senonole
Nation which was swept by a prairie
fire Tuesday indicate there were no
fatalities. The loss of property was
considerable. but no estimate Is given.
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Warning order.

In the Chancery Court of Jefferson county.
Arkansas Levine Brown. Plaintiff. Us.
Willtam Brown, Defendant. The DEPENDENT.
William Brown. is warned To appear in this
court within thirty days and answer the com
piaint of he plaintlH Levine Brown Given
under nay hand and the seal Of said court this
alh DAY 0i NOV a. d. 1895.
]. 4 I;anefori. i. G. IA. Mccoy. Clerk,
II II II II
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severe snow In North nal.ota.

BISMARCK, Nov. 27.-Two feet of snow
on the level and still showing is the con-
dition that is making cattlemen in this
section desperate. With thousands of
cattle on the ranges without food or
shelter, the situation is most critical and
heavy losses are expected.
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The steamer York, from Galveston,
Tex, to Bremen, had one-third of her
cargo burned.
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My seize Corn island.

+ PANAMA, Nov. Fl Colombia vii
make a descent on Cora island eli tn
Mosquito coast and take possession. I
is proposed TO iaud an armed force, rails
the Colombian and haul down the Mica
laguan flag. Such are the reports PIE
vailing here and in Colon.
THE FLOUR OUTPUT.
Production and Comparison at tho Foul
Crcet Conters.
MINNEAPOLIS. Nov. a7 Tho North
western Miller reports as follows Of the
-four trade and the output for tine past
week at four eenters, with comparisons
Minneapolis, $4,000 barrels same
week last year. 983, 500 barrels.
Superior-Dulnth, 101720 barrels; last
year, Iol, 06e barrels
Milwaukee, $1,000 barrels last year.
3s. s85 barrels.
Totals. 447. $50 last year, 489. 500.
st. Louis, 7o,5e0 barrels las5Nyear
81, coo barrels.
Aggregate, 54S. 800 barrels; last year,
49l 500 barrels
Minneapohs-The irregularity Of the
water power, causing many short stops
and the large employment Of steam viii
tend to reduce the output this week.
Next week the ourtailment promises &c
be quite as marked as the present weeE
is expected to entirely shut off lake
shipments, making transportation to the
seaboard coast IN inIpossiiibitiiiitty. Fer
eigners We're generally out Of the mar
ket and did not deign to make offers
Consequently the orders booked wer1
virtually all domestic and were IN small
lots.
Export shipments We're $500 barrels
against 50. 100 week before last 6s.3ol
in 1895. 62,So0 in 1884 Ocean rate
were weak and considerably lower.
Superior Duluth-All tho mills ara
going and the output should Be very
heavy again The near approach Of thu
close of navigation Is stimulating opera.
tons. Stocks Of flnur Saturday wer
PIG, coo against 2e6 900 the Week beso5
and a year ago. Exports were s7,e0l
against Is. 800 the preceding week II.
DOE IN 1895. and $. 200 ii 1891
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3AYANTED QUICK Statesmen to WISH trade
w aud supply cauvassers for greatest
selling bicycle Specially of the age 100000
behind The guarantee. Duns, BTadStreet's or
Bank reference. Fine chance; square treat
ment
BUFFAHo SPECIALITY MFG co.
- sm n Buffalo. N. Y.
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hoods
Sarsaparilla

Prepared only by c. l. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass.
Be sure to get HOOPS and only HooD's.
-. are the best after-dinner
Hoods Pills pills, aid digestion. 25o.
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heaVy losses are expected.
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CYYY CHlRTERS.

No city should ever issue a
municipal charter, granting i'm
portant privileges, without ia
cooperating a misuser or non-nser
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-10-30
BAYLOR & HARTMAN

didly. a cents worth of fuel will
heat tho iron for three houps, co YaD
haye perfectly oven heat gon eau
iron IN half tho THUG md no ,rngcp
OF ecnrphina tho clothas az with tho
old iron, and yon eau get the most
beautiful GLOSS. i aell at nearly ev
cry house, NJ tho irons saves 30
much fuol everybody wants one.
make 81 so ON ench iron aud have,
not sold iesa than ten any day !
worked. My brother is doug we'll
aud | think anyqHo can pinke lots
of money anywhere selling irons.
j. T.. Caeey & CO., st. Louis Mo,
will siart apyope in business. as they
did lpe, if you will address them.
Mrs. A. Russell,
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-10-30
Ex-Speaker Crisp load.

Hon. CHARLES Frederick Crisp,
Speaker of the Fifty first and Fifty
second Congresses, died at Holmesls
Sanitarium, Atlanta, Monday. A
parcxysm of pain iu the heart pre-
coded death,th paroxysm probably
resulting from rupture of the
heart as the result of fatty degen
er;.tion. Mr.. Crisp went to Allan.
tn six weeks ago for treatment.
The death of Mr. Crisp removes
from the field of active politics one
of the ablest of leaders of the Dem
ocracy for the past eight years.
Personally he WAS esteemed in CIV
cry Congress since tho Forty eighth
in which lie became Known to the
national leaders on both sides. and
by none was lie more esteemed
than by the present speaker, Thorn
as b. Reed.
Mr.. Crisp would have been elec
ted to the United States Senate had
he lived few weeks longer.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-10-30
local AN.D GENERAL
NEWS BRIEFS.
The Miferate Koten.

Attorney General Scatt on May
13, 1896, rendered the following
decision, and the attention of the
Judges of election are called to the
following extract from said letter:
"The illiterate votel canuot take
with him into the booth "a memor-
audum,' and from it require the
special constable to prepare his
ticket. he must conform to tho
laws requirements and demand
such service as it allows the consta.
ble to render, aud his service must
be rendered in tue mode the law
lays down and prescribes.n
Subscribe for the NEWS.
Vote for Samuel w. Williams for
Congress.
Rev. j. A. Leslie went to Bran
well last week.
Look out fur Harrison Surface &
Co.'S new al. next week.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-10-30
OLD PEOPLE.

Old people who require medicine
to regulate the bowels and kidneys
will find the true remedy in Electric
B'tters. This remedy does not stim
ulate and contains no whiskey nor
other intnxicant. but acts rs tonic
an Alternative. 1t acts mildly on the
stomach and bowels, adding strength
and giving tone'to the organs, there
by aiding nature in the performance
Of the functions. Electric Bittcrs is
on excellent appetizer and aids di.
gestion. Old people find it just ex
actly what they need. Price fifty
cents per bottle at A. f. Hargravc's
Drug Store.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-10-30
Voters Consider This.

"Thp man who owes the banker q
note of $500 will, with the single
gold standard, be compelled to pny
ono thousand dollars 10 discharge
it, hpd tho banker who has $500
loaned out will receive one thous-
and dollars in discharge of it. 1t is
therefore very natural, if not very
patriotic, il the banker should want
every COLLAR he has loaned out TO be
worth two dollars. --Gen. James A.
Walker.
Gen, Walker made the above
statement in letter to Mr.. j. L,
Clute, OF Smyth county in Febrg:
ary 1896.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-10-30
A WIFE EQUAL TO A GOLD
IIINEl

Will some of your readers give me
recipe for making cold starch? J
am ceiling self.heatiyg fat irons and
iron little OF every house and bave
to use sope starch every place and
want to know how to make good
cold starch. Ny husband was in
debt and I being anxious 10 help
him thought ] wonld sell self heat
ing flat irons, aed ! am doing splep
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-10-30

tHS AbiuSuvu v uStuiuu Nus uettl
sold. Geo. w. Gary bccoming the
purchaser It is understood that
Col. j. w. Bauscll, editor Of the
Lebanon News, is negotiotipg wirh
AIR. Gary aud may become IL part
|ner with him as nwuer aud publish
er of the yirginian.
Judge S w. Williams spoke at
Richlan,ls Wednesday to a crowd
festimated at between six aud eight
hundred people. Parties who were
at Richlands when Gen. Walker
spoke there, they say the crowd
was larger Wednesday than when
the General was there.
With two little children subject to
Group we do not rest easy without a
bottle of Chamberlains Cough rome.
dy in the house, for the most severe
attacks quickly succomb to few
doses of it.H=Morrison, Colo, Bind.
For sale at % and 90 cents per bot.
tie by All, Hargrave Druggist.
We are informed by tho con
dealers in town that they are sell
ling coalat the same prices they
have been selling it ut since they
went into business this year, and
we paid Messrs Hrrmun and Botti.
more the Same for coal this wear
that we paid other parties for it
last Year, for the same goal.
DIR. w. L. Hall has purchased n
one half interest in the property of
Dr. r. b. Gillespie on Main street
anu will move to Tazcwpll soon.
Dir. Gillespie will build at once on
the seminary lot. These young
men have formed a partnership in
the practice of medicine and will
occupy jointly the Office occupied
BY Dri Gillespie.
A farmer or lahnyer who votes
with tho bankers and trusts aud
millionaires, does so with Just as
much reason ~ if he would 60 out
and set fire to his harm or house.
He helps people to continue their
robbery of him in the ana Instance.
and thus renders himself poorer,
in the other he makes himself poor.
pr in the plain straightforward way.
Both lead to the same end-pover
~.
Monday morning Hiram Steele.
n negro. killed II negro woman Tx
the namc of Mary Nash i'll ~ house
on the firm of Mr.. j. G. Watts.
After shooting the woman he broke
and run, hut was captured near
North Tazewell and put in jail
here. When brought to town he
had the appearance OF being crazy, |
and his actions seem to favor that
Idea' bnt many of his own race de
;larcs that he is only putting on to
escape the drnalty Of his crime.
Steele WAS sent to the pen;itrnti ry |
A few years since for shooting IA
c0lored woman and later was tried
IN the county court for shooting n
,olored boy, previous to which he
had been in the insanp as,lun.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-10-30
lNOMNiIsSIONER.S NoTICE.

" Tazewell, Va, Oct. 90, 1896.
Law Office of Chapman Gillespie.
w. o. Barpes, who sues, &c,
VS.. In Chancery.
j. Howe Sayers admr. ct ais.
Geo. d. Witt Shoe Company ct ais,
VS.. In Chancery.
j. Howe Sayers' admr. ct ais.
Notice is hereby given to w. o..
Barnes, Geo. d. Witt Shoe Company. n
corporation organized under the laws
of the State of Virginia, H.. II. Harris,
Jr., VIM. Doyle and 7. A. Woodson,
merchants and partners under the firm
name of Harris, Doyle & Woodson, s
s. f. Hartman. administrator of j.
Howe S8yers, deceased. Mrs. Salli' Say
ers.D. j. Taylor, ]. q. Watts, adminis-
traitor of Henry Harrison, deceased,
VIM. Aitken. +. G. Staten, John w.
Crockett, Sheriff of Tasewell County,
and assuch administrators Of Reuben
Sayers. deceased, Lettie Dunn. a. e..
Dunn, Ella Coleman, Robert Coleman
Matamer Conner, Lillian Conner, Maggie
Conner. Mamie Conner, Ella Fender
grast and = Pnndergrast, her hus-
band, and Howe Sayers Deaderick, and
to all parties interested in thr taking of
WV" hShtsObSu uOCOQHps lDtb luNc
fixed upon Monday, the 10th day of No
vember, 1895, Mt the law Office of Chap
man & Gillespie at Tazewell, Va, for
taking the account directed by decree
of the Circuit CONT of Tazewell Coun-
ty. Va, entered in the abrve styled
causes at the August Term, 1896, of said
court.
Said account will be taken for the
following purposes: To ascertain all the
assets, real and personal, belonging to
the estate Of j. Howe sayers, deueaeed
end. To ascertain all the debts duo from
the estate of J.. Howe Sayers with their
character and priorities; 8rd To settle
the administration account of s. S. +.
Hartman, administrator of ]. Howe Say
-ers, deceased. Said Commissioners will
also report any other matters deemed
pertinent by himself or required by any
of the Parties.
n A. S. I5IGGINBOTHAM,
|. 1O-28-4t Commissioner.