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What Posterltx May See.

New York state has one elephant on its hands that seems to grow more bur densome the older he gets. It is the capitol building at Albany It is now stated that the building can be complet. ed next year if mother million dollars is appropriated. At this estimate the total cost of the structure will be over $s1. GOO, 900. Perhaps the grandchildren of some of the men who were living when the building was started may live to sec it finished. Baltimore Ameri- ran
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1 20 dtf
A War Antnefs..


 War would unite this people. 1t would chase away the yapors of diseon- tent. It would exalt patriotism. It would burn away the eanoerous tissues of anarchy that threaten to extend deep CT into the body politio. It would scarf fy, but 1t would heal. In the end we should be better off. We should feel hu- manity had not been crushed by our permission. War would stimulate art, poetry, music, manufactures, com merce, trade, civilization We should come through it rejuvenated and reha- bilitated in the glory of noble enter prise, for we should have helped to strike the shackles from the wrists of man. -Chieago Journal.
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 eIloW Kid SehOttische.

w have just received copy oi the bDve named schottische com pose by Charlie Baker, the popular music writer. This piece of music IS without doubt destined to have an unprecedented run of popularity. It is very easy, remarkably pretty, and can be played on piano or organ.
 Price 40 cents percopy. All readers of our paper will receive a copy by sending 25eents in silver or postage stamps to The Union Mutual Music Co, 265 Sixth Avenue, New York. esasoNDERFUL are the cures py NE Hoods Sarsaparilla, aud yet they are simple and natural. Hoods Sarsa- parilla makes PURE BLOOD.
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Little Rock Conference M. E.

Church, at Forrest City, Ark., Jan uary 26 to February ?. For tie above occasion the Cotton Belt Route will sell tickets Pine Bluff to Brinkley at one and one-third fare on the certificate plan. Tickets On sale Jan. 24 to Feb. 1. Return limit, Feb. ,, 1897. Delegates can secure reduced rates from Brinkley to For rest City via the FIittle Rock and Memphis Railway. J. ". FARLEY,
 1 ? 5t Agent.
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At Public Auction.

The office furniture, fixtures, and law library of the late Judge ". b. Johnson, will be sold at public auc- ton i'll front of the Court House in Pine Bluff on February 1, 1897. Also at same time and place 1 will sell one pony, one race-horse, one phaeton, set of harnesss, saddle and two brides. Sale will begin at 10 o'clock q. m. Terms, cash.
 R. LEE JOHNSON, 1 20 dtf Executor.
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DALLAS COUNTY NEWS.
From the Fordyce Chronicle


 Lemuel and Miss Hettie Coker are very low with slow fever.
 MT. W. D. Adams killed pig the other day, which weighed 301 pounds at nine months of age.
 Mir. Jas. A. Amis requests us to cx- tend thanks to his friends who so nobly came to his assistance when his dwelling was ablaze yesterday.
 It is rumored here that Polk Atkin- son has resigned his position with Albert Aeruman, at St. Louis and joined a company of fillibusters to go to Cuba.
 The Baptist church has recently been given a fresh coat of paint on the outside and now we are told that the inside is to be remodeled and fixed up.
 Esq. Darby and daughter will leave in a few days for Eureka Springs. They will probably make their permanent home in the "great Northwest" ," as his son, James, likes the country, and is improving in health and will probably, buy a farm.
 J. A. Underwood, who was sent to the pen some two'years ago, has re- turned to his family at Bearden. He says that he had an easy time book keeping for the lessees and did not wear stripes very long. He was pardoned several months before his time was out.
 Chas. Hodge, former Fordycian, and Miss Ray Smart, of Pine Bluff married few days since. MT Hodge, it is said, was dangerously i'll and the young lady came with her mother to his bedside where the ceremony was performed. Chas. has many friends here who wish him a speedy recovery and long and happy life.
 Buddy" Mays and Miss Emma Benton married in Camden last Thursday. The parents of tht young lady objected to their mar riage on the ground that she was too young to leave her mamma; but 1t seems the young couple thought that they were old enough. Miss Emma had gone to Camden the day before ostensibly to attend the mar riage of her cousin, and Nr. Mays followed next morning, and now two fond hearts beat as one. May they have smooth sailing.
 Mir, Jas. A. Amis came near losing his residence by fire Tuesday, While Mrs. Amis was preparing dinner a coal of fire seems to have popped out on the carpet in the sitting room, for she soon smelt something burn- ing and returning from the kitchen found the room so full of smoke and fire that she could not enter. She gave the alarm and neighbors soon rushed in and eXtinguished the flames. The carpet and several quilts and blankets and other furni- ture to the amount of $25 was ruin- ed; besides 6 valuable collection of flowers were destroyed. The furni- ture was amply covered by insur- ance, but Mrs. Amis' rare and beau- tiful flowers were total loss.
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For Men Only.

The best bargains in mems fine suits, and pants at slaughter prices. Uncalled for suits, now, only $S.75. The same kind would cost you to order from $15 to $25.
 Uncalled for pants of fine qualities, your choice of 240 pair, only $2.75.
 HENRY MARK & Co.
 Up-to-datc tailors
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EIGHTH ANNUAL BALI
 fl GIVEN BY ETNA LODGFgE ERHO0D OF L0CT
 FIRy
 GIost Delightful Social One 6flts That Ever Occurred in This City.

Pine Bluff is deservedly noted for it's many delightful social functions, but rare, indeed, has been the op- portunity afforded our people to attend such magnificent and pleas ant affair as was the Eighth Annual Ball given by Htna Lodge No. 163, Brotherhood of Locomotive Bremen, at the Bluff City Club Hall, Thurs day evening, January 18th, 1897.
 Never before has such congenial crowd of people assembled in @ pub lie hall in Pine Bluff, and rare in deed has been the occasion when so many lovely faces and beautiful dancers were to be seen among the ladies, while the gentlemen present were, as a general thing, stalwart, handsome and manly, and perfect Chesterfelds in politeness, grace and courtesy to their charming partners.
 The magnificent hall never ap- peared to a better advantage, for it was brilliantly illuminated by elee- tricity, while clusters of red and green lanterns suspended from the chandeliers threw out soft lights which lent mellow effect to the scene.
 At 10 o'clock the orchestra, com posed of twelve pieces, and brought from Texarkana for the purpose of furnishing the music, sounded the grand march, in which seventy-ave couples participated. At the con- clusion of the march the first num- bers of the program, which was a splendid one, were called, and the ball, which will be recalled in the memo ries of those present as one of the happiest affairs they ever attended, was begun, and continued with una- bated pleasure and vim until the ap- proach of the rosy dawn in the east. As the town clock pealed forth the hour of midnight, an intermission in the dance program was called, and the dancers were invited to the din- ing hall, where covers were laid for eighty-five people.
 The supper was prepared and
  served by the ladies of the Catholic Church, which is in itself an assur- ance that it was bountiful and su- perb, but unless you had seen the tables, loaded as they were with delicacies and substantials of every imaginable nature and variety, while the shimmering of the silver, the sparkling of cut glass and the happy effects of the decorations of cut flowers and evergreens, en- twined artis tically from the chande- Hers, your imagination would not do justice to the scene which presented itself to those who entered the sup per hall last night.
 The committees appointed by the Brotherhood had much to do with making the ball the success it was, andl to the Brotherhood those who attended the ball are largely indebted for happy evening
 The committees were as follows:
 Arrangements-J. c. McDermott, N. P. O'Neal, L. Dixon, D. Hart nett, G. J. Merrill.
 Floor-John Kennedy, c. J. Mer- Till, J. 0. McDermott, J. J. Good man, L. Dixon, Y. E. Whitmore, G..
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Convention Woodmen of the

OOHFGNGI0H WUOuIHoII Vt tllS World, at Vicksburg, Miss, Febru- ary ?, 1897. For the above occasion the Cotton Belt Route will sell tick cts, Pine Bluff to Vicksburg, Miss, and return at one and one-third fare on the certificate plan. Passengers have choice of Route via Memphis or Shreveport. Tickets on sale Jan. 30, 31 and Feb. 1. Return limit Febru- ary ,, 1897. J. ". FARLEY,
 1 2S 1t Agent.
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Engineer Estes and Fireman Moore are proud oftheir new engine, No. 132, which came out from the shops at Pine Bluff on Saturday last, It had been there about month and was almost entirely rebuilt and provided with all the new and im- proved attachments under the di- rection of General Foreman Gage. It is now not only thing of beauty, but is joy in practice, having made it's first run without an accident to any of it's parts. It pulls one of the locals from here to Pine Bluff and back.-Ouachita Herald.
 
 >S .s tie founs
 -. i.e..t Ext is why
 ...4..is, i.:a 1,-s True
 Purifier, g;yes ts EALTH.
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Meeting Southern Lumber

Meeting Southern Lumber- men Manufacturers Association, at Memphis. Tenn, February IF and IS. 1897. For the above occasion the Cotton Belt Route will sell tickets Pine Bluff to Memphis and return at one first-class fare. $5.10. Tickets on sale February 15 and 16 and for train arriving ut Memphis the morn ing of Feb. IT. Return limit Feb ruary 9, 1897. J. W. FARLEY,
 Agent.
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Harvard Quartett.

Hear the Harvard Quartett at the Merrill Institute, next Monday night, February lst. Reserved seats at Hart's Saturday morning at 9 o'clock. 29 d2t
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The General Understanding.

It Is pretty generally understood by those who have talked with Major Mo Kin1ey that it will be his policy to per init efficient officials appointed by Mir. Cleveland to serve out their full terms MT. Cleveland followed out this policy, and it is one which commends itself to the good sense of the people. Sioux City Journal.
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M. Yscion-N. P. O'Neal, J. c

- Reception-J. F. Franey, J. H. Wilson, E. J. Bedding, John Dinan, J, V. Jones, c. Kumero, G W. John son, E. E. Deane, H. Gleason, G. c. Moore.
 supper-G. J. Merrill, John Maher, o. B. Mckenzie, D. Hope. s. L. Ellis, T. Coshey, W. E. McDowelI.
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River News.

The Government steamer Beaure- gard, Nat Downs, master, passed up the river this morning.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-29

Three deaths occurred in Little Rock Thursday, as follows; Henry c. Laweson. aged 51 years; Elias R.. Yiekers, aged G5 years. and Joseph 4. Mcconnell, aged about Az years.
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The Nevada glove contest bill is now ready for the Governors sigma ture end the Corbett -Fitzsimmons mill will probably take place at Car son City.
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A party of investors from Iowa are prospecting in Arkansas county.
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The cold weather is causing steam boat men to have much trouble with labor
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TELEGRAPH BREVITIES
The Cream of the News Compiled for the
 PerusaI of Busy People.

Fire Friday morning destroyed over $3O,00O worth of property at Devalis Blaff.
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TheArkansas river packet, Eugene, arrived at the Pine Bluff wharf about 8:3O last night, with con- sigpment of 4,5OO sacks of cotton seed, and other freight.
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The Arkansas river is rising slowly.
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The John N. Harbin will leave Memphis for Pine Bluff and all way landings Saturday at noon.
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The Texas Supreme Court has de- cided that the State railroad Com mission has the right of correcting abusive rates of compress com panies
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On it's last trip to Pine Bluff the Harbin was delayed at this wharf two days on account of being unable to secure labor to load her. Negro roustabouts do not care to work in the cold.
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The State Legislature has repealed the Morrillton Smile liquor act.

Application has been made at Lit tie Rock for a receiver for the Cove nant Building and Loan Association of Chattanooga.
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Lyman J. Gage, of Chicago, has been tendered and accepted the place of Secretary of the Treasury in Me- Kniley's cabinet.
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Little Slater af the Nation.

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Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-06-02
JARVIS BILL CONSTITUTIONAL.

The Supreme Court of this State, in
a lengthy opinion handed down last
Saturday, declares the Jarvis Criminal
Costs Bill to be constitutional This is
the bill which Peter Turney and others
of his ilk have been most vigorously
fighting, and declared unconstitutional.
We give the salient points of the
courts opinion:
jackson, Tenn, May 29.'-The Su-
preme Court this morning. in a lengthy
opinion, handed down by Judge Wilkes,
holds the Jarvis criminal costs bill to
be constitutional The opinion embraces
a comprehensive review of the case
which came up from Shelby County
and the objections urged to its consti-
tutionality, and sums up the matter by
saying the bill is free from constitu.
tional defects.
Chief Justice S~nodgrass dissented
from this view of other members of the
court, and submitted q lengthy mi
nority opinion.
The court held, 1st, that ordinary
services Of officers and witnesses may
be required by the State without com.
pensation, and that they are not pro-
tected by the particular service clause
of the constitution.
2. That the clas~si6cations of the act
are not arbitrary and capricious, but
based on good and sufficient reasons,
and that this was a matter largely of
legislative discretion.
8. That there was nothing in the act
that deprived the accused of any con
stitutional rights touching his trial;
that jury and officers who summon and
attend them are paid, as before the act,
out OF the public treasury.
A. That the act is not open to q
constitutional objection whatever, and
that it is in all respects valid.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-06-02

ton OF the proposed new charter is all
to be engineered under the late most
villainous Democratic election laws.
which in a general, as we'll as q special
way, d~isfranchises the people of the
State, depriving the counties of home
rule authority and placing the whole
election machinery Of the State in the
hands and power of q so called Gov.
ernor, not elected by the legal popular
vote; and, as far as can now be seen.
his successor or successors will take
their seats in the same or similar way.
There is but n seeming" good rea
son for the new constitutional, move.
ment. That is, Peter Turney processes
to be opposed to 1t. On general princi-
pies, it would be safe to favor what
ever he and his clique associates CD.
pose.
In this case. though, it may be, and
probably is, a trick designed to deceive
the Republicans Of the State. Care.
fully looking over the entire ground, 1
am disposed to come to this conclusion:
AS Bob Taylor now holds in his clinch.
ed political fist all the electoral power
of the State, why not Ito save trouble
and expense) let him sit down and
write out new charter lines for the
State; and then, issue his proclamation
ratifying the same for and in the name
of the people?
There would be this advantage in
such straight through instead of round
about action; The new instrument
would be good; If not good in the or.
binary sense, it would be good for
nothing" OLD LAWYER.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-06-02
N

We have had fine showers of rain
again. Vegetation is very much re-.
vived; it will help wheat to fill out; all
crops are promising, yet times are hard
and money is scarce. Having good
crops, people may redeem themselves
to some extent, for old wheat and corn
is getting very scarce, but harvest will
soon be here. As we are writing we
near Bob White calling to his mate.
but alas, we feel sorry for you, Bobbie,
for it will not be long until the law
that has been protecting you, will be
null and void, then sportsmen will not
have any mercy on you. Hope u
Legislators will take it 10 time to pass
a law to give the poor birds protection
for years to come. Mr.. PAYNE had a
little>child to die with the flux, and
was buried last Friday evening at
Germantown Cemetery. DR.. III. Mead
preached here last Sunday in the school
house. John Smith is still taking mic.
lures and doing pretty good business.
UNCLE BEN.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-06-02
TENNESSEE DAY AT NASHVILLE.

The first day of June, 1897, was an
occasion that will long be remembered
in Tennessee annals. 1t was distin-
guished and set apart as Tennessee Day
and Governors Day at the Centennial,
and there were present prominent peo-
pie from not only the State of Tennes.
see, but from all the States composing
the American Union,
There was orations from famous ora
tors. There was a military pageant of
United States and volunteer troops, as
also uniformed bodies of other organi.
cations, imposing and inspiring. A
large number of magnificent bands of
music were in the parade, and the oc.
c%asion, altogether, will be long re.
membered by this, and reviewed with
pride by coming generations.
The day was intended to memorabilia
the admission Of the State into the
Union n hundred years ago, hen
the Father of his Country was Presi.
dent and signed the articles of her coro.
nation OF a sovereign, with equal rights
of her sister sovereigns. There passed
In review the list of historic and illus.
trous men who made the fame of Ten
nessee afterwards and during the cen.
fury just closed.
The people Of Tennessee have never
adequately appreciated the peculiar
characteristics of these men. They
were a dominating race. No people
ever had a broader or juster sense of
true American democracy. They i'm.
pressed themselves upon their surround.
ings, made precedents where prece.
dents were lacking, and demonstrated
their ability to lead. They were patri
OTIS, and their love of country rose
above all merely selfish ambitions. The
men who sprung from the loins of the
sturdy and brave Tennessee frontiers.
men were a noted race. Where thew
left their mother State, and went into
the territories of the South and West,
they instantly took place in the front
rank of all the people gathered there,
and were, as if by some divine right,
recognized as natural leaders of men.
Five of Tennessee's gifted sons have
been chosen as first Governors in States
added to the Union during the last
century, while hundreds have reached
positions of prominence and distinc.
ton in various States and in the Ma.
tional Government. Their memories
should be honored. The children of
Tennessee should BIZ made familiar
with their names and their brilliant
performances, and taught to cherish
with reverence, love and pride a glow
ing memory of them throughout all
time.
Tennessee Day at the Centennial Elk.
position was a fit occasion for this holy
work, and Tennessee forgot their BUSH
ness and went to Nashville inA.body,
making the day what it should be-
an everlasting memorial Of the valor,
worth, learning and eloquepce of these
men to whom 30 much is due.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-06-02
A Sketch of Mr.. Browning's Legislative Career

Prepared for the Nashville Banner by w.
+. Lindlay, special, on the stan of that
paper.l
1.-The pen is mightier than the sword"
has been said and we'll, for in the his.
tory OF most civilized nations, where
it was possible under the laws of the
land, for citizens born out of royalty
to reach the pinnacle of fame and for
tune, it has ever been the wielders of
the pen, the moulders of thought who
have risen steadily above their fellows,
and have been the cause of the greatest
good to the greatest number of people.
The wielders of modern thought are
the men who own the daily press, and
who compose the editorial staff of u
newspapers. They are the ones to whom
the "hoi polloi" look up to in the great
issues of the century.
Among the members of the lower
house of our Legislature there is a
promising young editor in the person
of Hon. j. 7. Browning. the represen.
tative from Washington County. He
is a native of Greene County, and is
only thirty years old. He received his
education in Washington College,
Washington County, graduating there
from in 1889. Subsequently he went to
Johnson City, where he accepted the
principalship of the city schools, a DO
sition he held for three years with
marked success, acquiring a brilliant
reputation for executive ability.
In 1879, MI. Browning founded the
Staff and is now its present owner.
This newspaper is one of the ~cleanest
and best Republican papers in Tennes-
see and has met with success since it's
first issue, where others and many of
them have failed.
At the last election Mr.. Browning,
who has since his majority, ever been
foremost in the ranks of the young Re-
publicans, was honored by his party
with the nomination for Representa-
tive in the lower house. His opponsnt
on the Democratic side was w. Devault.
a popular young farmer, on the Wa.
tauga River, whom he defeated by the
largest majority ever given a candidate
in Washington County.
In the present legislature, Mr.. Brown.
ing's education and experience as a
newspaper man were of the greatest
benefit to him. He is a clear headed.
logical speaker, quick to see and quick
to grasp an advantage from a political
opponent, withal an affable, kindly, in.
telligent gentleman. He is a member
Of the committees on Education and
Public Schools, New Counties and
County Lines, Banks, Public Printing
and Labor, and his influence in their
deliberations has been felt.
He was chosen as Secretary of the
Republican House caucus, and, as a
legislator, he is honored as the author
OF the Public Library Bill, which will
be welcomed by every town in the
State.
In private life Mr.. Browning devotes
his time to his newspaper, and is a so.
Der, industrious, Christian young gen.
tleman, who is a credit to the COUNTY
whose representative he ia,