The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-01-08

WANTED-Room, or rooms, and
board, by a gentleman-in small
family preferred. Willing to pay
fair price. Address G. w. s, this
Office. lat
It Leave your towel and soap at
home tonight when You go 20 the
q Turkish Bath. The funny men will
lather you with laughter by their
antics.
Mr.. Z. Richards, train master of
the Cotton Belt is here today, as is
d also, Mr., p. J, Conley, holding
similar position on the same road,
{ but different division.
Sheriff James billiard has a notice
u in today's paper to tax payers, to
meet him at stated places aud at
stated times. Read it, post your
" self and meet the Collector,
The street car company have
e mile OF iron on their hand, and
cross ties to complete another mile.
" If you want it to run on your street
you had better get hustle on your
self
/. Yesterday, while cutting down
tree, Mr.. ]. L. Shipp, of College
" Hill, was severely injured, AS the
tree was falling, it rebounded and
# hitting him, it bruised him up con.
e siderably
We noticed several wagons loaded
q with building material going in
q different directionsin our city to-
day. There is some building going
on, but not as much as will be,
e when spring opens.
What is the matter with Texar
kama having a candidate for Gov
u ernor? We have half a dozen men
= here who would make as good a
Governor as Clarke. If we don't
4 ask, we will not receive.
II There were three immersions at
the Christian Church last night
Rev. Moore will put many more un-
l. der water before he leaves here |
We like to see our people embrace
Christianity and live pure, good
), lives.
Louis Heilbron is making arrange
ments to commence an auction sale
q of jewelry tomorrow at the Sig
> Hecht old stand. He will put up
all kinds of jewelry and silverware
t If you need anything in this line,
+ see that you attend
1t takes money to run newspa-
s per, the same as any other bust
V ness. 1t seems to be the idea of
some that anyb )dy, without money
who can get hold of some sort of a
Z printing outfit, can rum a paper sue
d cssfully. The past history of such |
ventures, here and elsewhere, dis
prove such a thing.
l. The very men who buy our cotton
:. and would be expected to want it as
cheap as they could get it, are the
ones now advising a curtailment of
. the crop. There has been an over
;. production for many years, and
they want to get the.crop down to
one where the staple will sell for at
d least as much as it takes to raise
+ it,
Texarkana is noted Tor being a
graveyard for newspapers and
e the reason for it is that papers have
= been too numerous here. People
r can not, and will not support so
many papers. One on each side is
amply sufficient. 1t is burdensome
> on the people to have more. Yet
! there is talk Of having two on each
side.
Mr.. j. G. Tierney, of Lewisvile
Arkansas, big railroad contractor
i is here today. We learn that Mr.
Tierney has closed contract with
the Texarkana & Shreveport rail-
e road officials to grade and clear l6
y miles of the road leading toward
q Shreveport, and that he will begin
as soon as word is given and push |
the work through.
+ Lord Salisbury has given out that
e his government is not responsible for
the invasion of the Transvaal, by
Dr. Jamison, filibustering expedi-
, ton. All Of Europe laugh at Sails