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Sf,000 IN PRIZES.
To Be Distributed Absolutely Free.

Use the letters contained in the text: "MoNoN SEEDS GROW" and form as many words as you can. using letters either back ward or for ward, but don't Use any letter in the same word more times than it ap- pears iii "MoNoN SEEDS GROW" For example the words: See, on, none, weeds, etc The person forming the greatest number of words, using the letters in the text, will receive One Hundred Dollars in cash. For the next largest list we will give S75 in cash, for the next $25 in cash, and for each of the next ten largest lists we will give $}0 in gold. If you are good at word making yoa can se- cure valuable prize. as The Monon Seed Company intend giving many hundred special prizes to persons sending the lists containing over twenty-five words Write your name on list of words numbered J and enclose the same postpaid with 42 two-ceHt st&mps for q c0mbina- ton package of Monon Seeds That Grow, which includes 12 packets of the latest and most popular flowers of different varieties, also particulars and rules of distribution of prizes. This word contest will he carefully and eoHscientiouslY conducted, and is solely for the purpose of further introducing our seeds i'll new ioeali- ties. YoH will receive the Biggest yalae in flower seeds ever offered and besides if you are able ton.ake Il ao9d list of words and answer promptly YOU will stand an equal opportunity to secure 2 valuable prize Ne intend spending a large amount of money in the distribution of prizes in this contest. We assure you that yonr -rial order with us will be most gratifyine Write your name piainly and send list as carly as possible Address.
 MoNoN SEED 70.
 , 13d4m2 Monon Bldg. Chicago III
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The City $ New Horses.

Mayor L. E. Goldsmith and Chief of Fire Department Senyard have re- turned home from St. Louis where they bad been on business for the city. During their stay in St. Louis the gentlemen purchased four mag nifcent draft horses for the city $ use. One pair of horses are dark bays and will weigh 5000 pounds. The other pair are blacks and the two will weigh 2,S00. These horses were certainly bargains. having been purchased for tt least s20 each less than first-elass mules could have been bought for The horses will be used in grading tile streets, hauling the enormous steel roller which is soon to be purchased, and for Ha- meraus other purposes for " hieh the city in the past has been compelled to hire teams.
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lifted dagger. to avenge his fathers
 death and his own wrongs.

lifted dagger, to avenge his fathers death and his own wrongs.
 In the fifth act we look on the ex- piring moments of Louis. The hour for the execution of Nemours draws near. All pleadings for his life are vain. The hand of death is at the old Kings heart, but the spirit which guided him through life will not weaken towards the son of his hereditary enemy. Azrael claims alike the monarch and the serf with out distinction The king dies in time to save the life of Nemoues The romance ef 70; g love and the promise Of higher aims of the pau- phin, Low king, are consistent with history. All sconndrels who have reyelIed iH a glut of butchery and crime under Louis, are relegated by the young king to the merited block and aibbet The happiness of N.emours and Marie is assured by the friendship of the king, and the curtain falls on a grand burst of affection as the son bows his head over his dead father.
 No death scene within Our stage memories has eveFsurpasSed keenez : marvellous acting. It is an effort Gf profoGniest realism which seen. can never be forgotten If he had never done anything else, his Louis NI weaits sta lsp Hi. as one @3 the great actors of OUT times
 Seats for this extraordinary ep- engagement will be placed on sale at AltseAaIis cigar store next Tuesday morning at 2 o'clock.
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CONFEDERATE V ETERANS.
J. Ed Murray Camp Holds an Inter esting Meating-A Sponsor and Maids of Honor
 Elected.

The J. Ed Murray Camp 2f Ex- Confederate Veterans held call meeting at the Court House Friday night, with quorum present, and Commander H. \. Mccoy presiding and the following business was transacted
 Mir. J. Y. Saunders was elected to fill the vacancy in the office Of Adiu- tant, caused by the resignation of -lIr. D. L. Colburn, who is HOW not IIsident of Pine Bluff
 The committee on tie proposed e4tertainment to be given by the Camp reported progress. and asked further time, which was gfantea
 The report of Treasurer Trulock was accepted and filed.
 An order from Gen. J E. Gordon
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announcing the 39tb ef June and the lst and 2nd days of JaI.g, lS96. as the dates fer the reunion at Richmond. Na. was read.
 Dr. J. II. PHilRet. q member of L.. 3 Smith Camp &o. 4o2, EX-confed- crate Veterans. Of GeeFgia, was elected an honorary member of j. Ed. Murray Camp.
 Mr. ". K Hope. who served in the 42nd regime1tof Mississippi, was elected a member of the Camp.
 The electien of a sponsor to repre- sent the Camp at the Richmond re- union was thenext order ef6HsiHess, and on motion and q vote of the Camp being taken, the honor was conferred on Miss Sammie Sennett The following young ladies were elected Maids of Honor: Misses Woodie Johnson. Edna Tucker, Sue Knox and Fay Taylor, each daugh- ters of old Confederate soldiers.
 4 committee consisting of Messrs. Vance, Stanley and Valiant was ap- pointed to draft suitable resolutions upon the death of Mir. ". J. Hagler, a lamented member of the Camp.
 The meeting was then. upon mo- tion, adjourned until the 27th of May, at 7:30 p. m.
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Rev. J. B. GodbY In the City

The Rev. j. E. Godby. of Little Rock. is in Pine Bluff and this morn ing he will preach at the First Meth odist church, and at the evening ser vice be will occupy the pulpit at the Riverside church. Dr. Godhy is one oi the most talented and learned di- vines in the State, and he is sure to be greeted by large congregations on both occasions.
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WASHINGTON, March 14-eoHsigef- able excitement was created today when t became rumored that Repre- sentative Linton, of Michigan. the i. ?. !. leader of the House. had re- ceixed . challenge to fight q duel from Representative rarsnex, of Kansas City, and a prominent Cath olie Ma. Linton threw the ehal- ienge into waste basket. but t is feared that q meeting may yet result from it
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CRUSHED TO DEATH.
Monroe Page Killed Under Cotton Belt Train at Beuna
 Vista.

Friday afternoon Monroe Page, a negro boy, was sent to Beuna Vista to buy some medicine for his sick mother While there he att tempted to steal a ride on train of the St. Louis Southwestern railway, aud fell under the wheels. His right leg and left foot was crushed off and death ended his misery and suffering about an hour after the accident.
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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. a. 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 il the lead by an increasing majority. He will carry all three of thecounties, its believed, by good maiorities. Theindieations are that Harrod, for Governor; Hill, for Chief Justice: and Mcfarland, for Auditor, have carried Yell county.
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To the Public.

II having become generally under stood that 1 would be a candidate for County Treasurer at the ensuing election. I take this means of in forming mg friends that l have decided not to enter the race Thak- ing those who so kindly volantered their support and the kind men- tion oi my name, l am.
 Yours very truly,
 J. F. ALEXANDER.
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LOOKS LIKE WAR.
THE BEAR HAS HIS BACK
 UP.
Growing at the Lion Because of Englands Order. of Troops Up the
 Nile.

LONDON, March 1.-The order by the British Government of Egyptian troops up the Nile to occupy Don- gola, has greatly exasperated the Russian Government and war be- tween Russia and England is im- minent.
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Few plays of modern authorship are of stronger interest than Louis XI, to be presented by Nr. heene at the Opera-house next Thursday night. is a Identification of Sir Walter Seott,s novel. Quentin Durward, witll new scenes and situations written expressly for Mir. Keene. aGd found ia no other acting version.
 The s5arY of Louis NI is the his tory Of France of the early part of the fifteenth century, touching upon incidents marking the closing days of one of t.sa most remarkable men that eyer disgracea a throne Louis rule MS 2 continuous fight against the feQdal power of the nobies of France. 1t was also a struggle for supremacy between tbe Orleanists represented 8F Louis. and the Bur gundiaas aader Charles the Bold. Louis. liEa Richard LII, of England was no timia ruler. In natures alke they defend their crowns with all the fed-l4aHzea power of their medieval training. Crafty. cruel, treacherous, loving no one, not even the Daupaia, Louis life was q struggle against averaging super stitioa. 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 tie tress of life. and were the trusted officers of his council; he was slave to h:s physician to whom ha ascribed the powers of
 life and death; lie was constant prey to dread of assassination; and the one spark of affection, flashing at times for his son only was 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 NemoHrs, whose father had been beheaded by Louis, arrives at che 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 Geitier, De Comynes, and his daughter Marie. There is an old love between Nemours and Marie. aud from the confnding girl Louis bE cunning treachery elicits the fact of the presence Of his de termined enemy. As envoy NemOurs' person fs supposed 10 be sacred, but Lcuis who was never known to re- gard an obligation, plans with one of his n3iniops to assassinate him. Circumstances connected with the envoy. however. release Louis from ali further hypoeriey of purpose, and Nemours k arrested and doomed to death.
 Tie impressive fourth act shows us his gloomy tapestried chamber Nemours has escaped. The old king is stricken wieh terror. Marie Coitier refusing to tell of the fugitive, is ordered to the rack. Marie pleading for her lover is hurridly dismissed. In every hurter of the tapestry and every footfall, Louis agonized fancy hears the step of his implacable foe. One of the trusted Scottish Guards is placed in an ante-ehamberIeady with his arquebus to fire on any one who enters. Tn the momentary repen- tance of his extreme agony, Louis tries to pray. but thecrimes of his life rise in myriads before him like accusing ghosts. At this moment Nemours, who has dispatched the guard, stands before him with up-
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Vaugine Township.

We,memhers of yaugine 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.
 ". F. GREENFIELD.
 Chairman. March l3, 1896. City papers please apr4u
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Maria ge License.

The following couples were grant cd licenses to marry by the County Clerk yesterday:
 John Head to Miss Fannie Will Hams.
 Wm. Hall to Miss Kate sehnobel.
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SpECIAh NOTICE ..
THE undersigned, 5. A. Hammons 8

THE undersigned, 5. A. Hammons & Co., \ of Fort Smith, Ark, and WesSon, Miss, have purchased from Mr. ChaS Newton the store known as the New York Racket Store
 In making this our initial bow to the people ot Pine Bluff and vicinity we wish to state that we intend to make this store to the people of Pine Bluff what our store at Fort Smith is to the peo- pie of that city, the greatest trading one-pnce store in Arkansas. The character of goods that will be sold by this concern will not be of the Cheap John order but frst-class in every particular from the very best markets of the earth. Buying as we dld this spring, some S75 900 worth of stuff tor our three stores we were able to get lower prices than ever. and we propose to give you people ot Fine Bluff such bargains as you never had offered you before Mf. W. L. Hammons of MeSson, Miss. will be in charge and as soon as possible due an nouncenent will be givenyou of our grand. Spring Opening. which will occur not later than two weeks.
 We would invite the ladies special attention to the line of Dress Goods Wash Goods, LaceS, Ribbons, Hosiery and White Goods that will soon be on display Don't be in hurry to buy your spring go0dS-We will save you dollars and cents by waiting for our magnificent stock.
 VERY TRULY
 s. A. HAf1MONS & co. Stores 5sWgys6Sl E2aT s7iEa Miss ARK
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1896-02-15
n
For Val.nGin.'s Day.

When he skies be co d and gray
And winds be lid and shrll
Loves meSse lger Sha find lis way
Across tn val and hi
For sunlight he shall have your face
For s;ars-twO G, es that shine
VIII r. my heat has its dwelling
Your own dear Valentine,
He turns to reither left nor right
BuI strai.ht ahead he 2 es:
His guide is Hope, whose foOtst p5
light
The sure,t p thway knows;
He bears MY message in hi, scrip,
y >onS whose every Ii
SIa tura to music on your lino,
My own dear Valentine.
Oh, w2cn you hear his eager knock
Upon the dOO, 10 q giH,
Make haste to 1t tn heavy ok
70 And bid Y ung cupid IN.
CT then s@al CLEAN he SIX es above,
Aud . al thi, heart Of mine
To be last with her Owe
With you, dear Nalent ne.
Frank DempsCcr Sherman in Ladies'
Home JOurn i.
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were worth the caudle; If the object
to be obtained didn't lose it's virtue and
value when obtained at such cost
However, to BOTH The PROGRESS
extends the mosst cordial greeting,
and expresses its sincere respects,
hoping to yet see the olive branch
borne by each towards the other with
the declaration, We'll bury all diff
ferences and hoisting the flag of De-
mocracy will 60 out to the field and
be in at the conquest when
the iles Of April will be
telling their story of q battle we'll
and nobly won.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1896-02-15
CONSTABLE SALE.

No. 4S6G-R, 3. Patterson vs., Annie
Calvin.
BY virtue of a writ of fieri facas issued
to me in the above entitled and num-
bered SUIT. by Hon. G. ID. Hicks. Justice
of the Peace in and for the Fourth ward
Of CaddO parish, Ia, have seized and
will sell at public auction at the Court
room door, 2O5 Milan street, Shreveport,
between the legal hours for sales on
WEDNESDAY,, FEBRUARY 10, 1896.
the following described property to- wit:
One lot household and kitchen furnitlreI
Terms of sale cash, subject to appraise
meut G. w. KELLY,
Constable
The prournSS Euh $50,
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1896-02-15

Why wouldn't a soap factory pay
here? Such an enterprise was the
dream of the late Mr.. W. f. Hamil-
ton. one Of the best business N on that
our city ever knew, and who began a
building for that purpose before he
died. His ideas on this subject are
worth considering, and The PROGRESS
believes such an enterprise would be
a well paying investment.
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III
The Opera.

TIL rehe lrsals fer TIL, OJara, Mix :
do; have been renewed aft.r accusation
OF several weeks. Mr.. I. Leonard
Pooley has assumed the management
and we are sue guided by his jud.-
mem ard dir, cted with his act it Will
lie II ad asuc ess.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1896-02-15

Bro. Hicks, let up on Bro. Tets
and his bass drum. He belonged to
the relief corps during the late un-
pleasantness, and is little shaky as
to what went on at the front. He is
reformer now, you know, and they do
have some wild ideas about drums,
etc.-Vernon Jacksonian.
All right Bro. Bell! especially as
Bro. Tets is just now busy explaining
IUis now said that the Republican
and Populist combination don't care
so much about their State ticket,
knowing they have no earthly chance
to wln, but thai they will exert every
plan to defeat the Democratic nomi-
nee for the Legis .ture, and by this
may keep the Democrats from elect
ing their United States Senator
Banner Democrat.
| Our State could almost forgive
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1896-02-15

The Baton Rouge Advocate recalls
history on Bre'r Hardy Brian, the
sanity saint and patriotic patriot
from VIM or NatchiJoches we don't
know now, which. The PRodREss
will preserve this saying of the Advo-
cate for future reference when Brian
gets too fresh again.
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them for their success 10 being elect
ed, if they would defeat Blanchard,
the straddler.
Jackson parish farmers have killed
and saved more meat this year than
in many years prev ious, and this ex-
pensive necessity will be short item
in the years supply bill. A good
corn crop also materially assists
Vernon Jacksonian.
Pharr wants it distinctly under
stood that no campaign work shall
be done on Sunday He should be
with the angels in Heaven-too good
Il man to run for Governor of any
State observation-disclosures.
Captain Pharr is certainly: to be
commended for this, declaration, not
derided 1t is certainly aisssad com
on the civilization of our
State, when the conditions are such
that political meetings must be held
on Sunday.
The PROGRESS saw very danger
Gus counterfeit silver dollar last
Tuesday. 1t bore the date 1891 aud
could only be recognized by testing
it's ring.
Saturday Judge Taylor passed sen
tence on 70 persons, convicted for
various offences at the recent term OF
the Criminal District Court
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Val, milne Reception.

La ezea ing was the date o, a Val
entine Reception to be given by the
ladies OF the Methodist Church, with
Mrs. Jno. Sewall at her commo ious
HON, on Texas avenue. We goe to
Ir:ssto early to report, bus feel as
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1896-02-15

Miscellaneous
Axle Grease-Sells at ~ by the case.
Butter-Creamerv is held at 19626c by
the tub; dairy; 14@lSc; country, l5O2OCl
Lime-Alabama is held at $l.l5 per
barrel.
Oil-Coal oil by the case sells at $l,9O:
per gallon by the barrel, BE; lard oil,
winter strained. hei3 at lOOper gallon
.Linseed oil, 3507'.
Powder-Whoe kegs. $3.2j: half kegs.
1885, quarters. Sl.lO.
Starch-4114c per pound by the box.
Sah-EvapnrAted, per sack, $l.2O;
Louisiana salt, 95c. Michigan barrels, $50
pounds. 5l.6O. rock, lc per pound,
ShOt-DrOp OF all kinds sells at $l.35;
buckshot, s165.
Soap-PaIm 81 90 Olive $3.50.
Iron and Hardware.
sG.0O@1O.CO,
ANles-619c per pound.
Relows--20@E!c peTimch.
Beltings-Rubber, toe and 10 per cent
Off.
Castings-31}z@41ac per pound.
HOes-:3@G per dozen.
Horse Shoes-Quoted at - per keg
mule shoes IS so per key.
! lron-Flat, round and square. 2slc
rates.
Iron Bound Hames-s3GG per dozen,
| Kelly PlOws Boss. ST. 30 each.
Kelly POiRts-Boss. 81 40 per dozen.
Kelly Land Siides-BosS, Sl.40 per
dozen.
Spades Short handle. per dszen, $3.50
@ll00
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some e our swe t gir.s.

some Ct our swe t glr.s.
Misses josie Flo d and Bess Ogilv.e,
L 'ui5e Rule and others expect t. at
tend the M4rdi & IS festivities.
Mrs. Gussie Carter leaves today for
New Orleans.
Mist Lillian Worthy lift on iast
Monday f-r New Yo.k CITY, where she
will jOn her mother. Her many
friends greatly regret her departure,
bnt rel ice with her over her increased
musicaJ advan ages.
Miss + hel Dillon left on Monday to
visit frie2ds and relative, IN New
York.
Misses Maggie Zoder, formerly Of
his city, now of AIeXandri +, IS visiting
relttives ia the CITY
Miss Hargroy~, of Texas. is the
gust of Mss Josie L Onard.
Misses Marguerite Grain and Katie
Allen retur ned last week from an ex
te nded visit to Aberdeen, Miss,
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1896-02-15

There Is little in name In these
days Of Americans independence.
Get-up-and-get and perseverance are
the requisites at this time.
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AT ffoIn ::

The Misses Dlrrin ger entertained. a
number of their Young friends at an
AT Home" on tuesday evening. a
most pl 'asant evening was spent at a
social game of ca do and her easant
diversions
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Press Echoes
Our Side.

mocracy Of Richland. TO the con
trsry, it Hon. G. j. Boatner's posi-
ton was correct in what the Scott
faction claimed to be able to prove,
the Burmby faction represented
nothing but handful Of political
tricksters. But our position is, that
an appeal having been taken to the
supreme authority, the State Con
vention, and this authority having
decided in favor of the Brnmhy fac
ton. the other should let the matter
rest.
! We believe the decision wd5 actu-
afed by partisan politics; we believe
il was controlled by a desire to gain
a political advantage, but the right
ful power did decide in favor of the
Brumby following and that ruling
must prevail.
We want it understood. Bros.
Mangham and Brown, that The
PROGRESS is not trying to set itself
up as q dictor for your parish; has no
desire to attempt to control affairs
there or take an ot1icous part in it,
but as mediator; as lntercessUr;
Democrat. We hope both will 50
cOnstrue our position. -Shreyepor
Progress.
Now, Bro. Hicks, as neighbor
Mangham has had his say, let The
Democrat have its.
This editor, as chairman of the
Democratic PARISH Executive Com
mittee of Richland, called to order
the Democratic Parish Convention,
which assembled at Rayville on De-
cember 10, last, to send delegates to
their State convention. There were
contests from every ward in the par
ish except from Wards -Four and
Seven, and one precinct in Ward
!. Five, making in all Is uncontested
delegates, o. whom nine were Brum
by men and six Scott men. We pro
: ceeded to call temporary chairman
7 but the Scott faction claimed the
, temporary chairman should be elect
ed by a popular vote Of thu house
when it had not been settled, o
course, who shall be entitled to {
vote. They seem to lose sight OF the
: fact that we were in q convention an(
> not mass meeting. The write
overrnled the proposition and claim
, ed and exercised the right to selec
the temporary chairman, and select
e ed man who belonged to no fac
ton or ring At this juncture tn
Scott men demanded equal rspre
sentation on the committee on ere
. dentials-they only having six un
contested votes and the Brumby me-
I nine and mot receiving an equa
= representation they with drew from
$ the convention; made no demands OF
Il the committee on credentials, an,
! sent no contests to the State Conven
y ton.
Now, Bro. Hicks, can You say Their
t was anything regular in such stuff
y Suggest that they had been accorded
), an equal number, would that no
e simply caused temp III the conven
ton: and are six men, or delegates
Il equal to nine? And suggest agal
:" that they did apply to the credentia
9 committee and each delegation hat
s been seated on half vote, the result
n would have been rs follows.
Nc ct
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The festive scenes of our South IN
metropolis are allurirg many sitors
TO / 5 po,tals and among them a num-
Der or Shreveport people. They
20 to enjoy the beauteouS attractions
of the annua. celebration Of Sh owe
tn sday.