Semi=weekly graphic., 1896-12-16

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 THE oNIx WORLDS FAIR
 WSaFsa paEiIla AYxTs PILLS Promote Good Digestion.
 tFrom Sundays Daily.)
 Misses Moore and Craig. of Cam den. are guests of Mrs. J. B. Speers.
 Miss Mae Chilling. of Pendleton, is the guest of Miss Jennie Mccain. on Lakeside. The police force now has instruc- tons to wage a vigorous warfare on all tFamps who come to this city.
 hiSs Fannie Jordan, daughter of Superintendent of Public Instruction Junius Jordan. will arrive here this week and be the guest of Miss Bettie Houston. The accomplished Miss Rosa Stan ley, whois candidate for the posi- tioa oi enrolling clerk in the lower house of the next Legislature, is nov an Monticello visiting friends. h the Circuit Court Saturday morning the eases of Emma Jones. charged with murder, and that of ". A. Cunningham, charged with embezzlement. were continued.
 Friday night Damascus Comman- dry held convocation, at which che degree of Knight Templar was conferred on our worthy townsman, Df. 4. C. Jordan.
 Mrs. clary. the estimable wife of Prof. !. D. Clary, of Fordyce, is in the city visiting the family of Prof J H, Hinemon.
 Harry Rogers. of the firm of Schon- nensehein & Rogers, is quite sick at his rooms in the Norris block.
 The Excelsior steam laundry is aow iii operation. and is turning out work that is, in excellence, equal to any that can be done abroad.
 Saturday morning Attorney J. G. Taylor left on. the south-bound Val aey train for Rives, near which place te has large landed interests.
 Airs. Dr. H0ll-es, who lives near Altheimer. Is reported to be critically | dil. Her daughter, Mrs. Frank Wine rich. has arrived from San Antonio, aad is now at her mothers bedside. |
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 That popular young liveryman, Mr. Clarence F. Philpot, returned | iron. & visit to Little Rock Saturday | morning. at least he came in on lhe .sGuth-bound Valley train and said ahat he had been to the Capital.
 A large force of men are now busy at work in the Cotton Belt shops, at | this place, upon two mail cars, to be equipped with all modern im- pFovements, and when they are com pieted will be placed in service on the | line between Cairo and Texarkana. l Judge J. ". Bocage and wife are BOW in Hot Springs, guests of their daughter, Our citizens generally | will be pained to learn that Judge | Boeage Is tR very feeble health, and | all sincerely hope that his visit to the Valley of Vapors will fully re- estore him t0 his usual vigOr.
 The Washington-Irving Society of the City High School held an inter- srsting meeting Friday afternoon. The vocal sole Dy Miss Victoria Har- yell deserves special mention. Many | patrons of the school were present. i
 ---------- The fox chasers were out, "by the light of fhe moon," Friday night. The party consisted of Aldermani Hightower, Messrs. Trlgg, Tread we'll | and Taylor. Mir. Trigg was Master of Hounds, and 80 successfully did | he msspage the pack that the hunters secured q bush from renard as q | trophy of their chase.
 Saturday. on account of the en- forced absence of Judge John NJ. Elli- ott, who was called to Little Rock 1 before the Supreme Court, it became necessary for the Pine Bluff ba.. to | elect Special Judge to preside over the Jefferson Circuit Court, and the hsrconferred the honor upon Mr. $. N. Taylor
 There Is not the least excuse in the world for Pine Bluffians to send abroad to have their laundry done. | In this city there are now two steam | iaundries. both fully equipped with modern devices fordoing good work and the competition thus engen- dered will force both enterprises to | do their utmost to please ana turn away UOfhiup huf f3rof-aIo ,, -,