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Evening star., 1897-05-05
Virginia Candadates.

W. P. Kent of Virginia Was introduced
to the President by Representative Walker
OF Virginia. Mr.. Kent mas applied for
tn CoTcan or Persian mission. He was
formerly democrat but edited repub-
hcaa paper during the last campaign. He
Is son Of Lieutenant Governor Kent, a
democrat Mr.. Kent believes he will get
one of these missions. The Persian mis-
sion is held by Virginian.
G. f. Mayors of Stephen City, Va, was
introi ced by Geo. E. Bowden and r. j.
Walker, the republican lea der of the sew
enth district. Mr.. Mayors wants the con-
sulate al Valparaiso
Evening star., 1897-05-05
Ohio Heard From.

Almost the entire republican delegation
in Congress from Ohio called on The Presi-
dent today and urged the appointment of
ex-Representative George w. Wilson as
controller of the currency. The Presid ent
referred the delegation to Secretary of the
Treasury Gage. Representatives Grosve-
nor, Bromwell and Northway were in the
dC.egation.
Evening star., 1897-05-05

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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-08-20

friends. She will go to Little Rock in the fall where she has a position SIS teacher.
 Mir. l. E. Moore was in town Sat 'urday ell route home from Pine Bluff. He is now engaged in the timber business where he hopes, in uart, to regain the loss sustained in 1farming this season. He is d man C I wonderful energy and will never be known to give up on account of a failure.
 Esq E. A. McMurtrey, secretary of the Farmers Institute informs Us that winter turf oats can be laid down in Pine Bluff iR hundred bushel lots at 60 cents per bushel. The The freight from there here will have to be added Those desiring to go to Pine Bluff can get them there, but all parties desiring oats. should first notify squire McMurtrey as to the number of bushels wanted. Quota tions as to wheat will be given next week.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-08-20
LORD woLsELEY.

1 The Commander-in-Chief of the Blhtish Army is not expected to live. His condition is extremely critical and little hope is entertained for his feeovery. Viscount Garnet Joseph
 Wolseley was born June 4, 1883, and elftered the army in 1852. He served in the Burmese war, in the Crimea
 ahd was at Lucknow and Alumbagh.
 lie commanded the Red River forces, stfie Gordon relief and in 1S49 was raised to the rank of Field Marshal, becoming Commander-in-Chlef oi the British Army in 1895.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-08-20
THE COTTON CROP
Outlook Now is Fer a Heav, Yield, Says Statistician
 NeilI.


 NEW ORLEANS, ,, Aug. 20-Mr H. H , Neill, the wellknown cotton statisti- elan, has issued q circular on tue growing crop.
 After referring to thecerrectness of his estimate made in July, 1894, of the crop of that season, Mr. Neill says:
 At this moment. for this year, the promise is equal to any previous year in every State but Texas, and on the present acreage, even allow ing that Texas should fall short of her maximum product per acre by LOGO, ,000 bales, the outlook now is for a crop of at least 9,750, ,0o0 with 100000 to 100000 more within the rhnle of possibilities.
 This figure of 9,750,0 GOO is really very conservative, for a product per acre, outside of Texas. equal tols94-5 would give 7,350,000 bales, and a maximum for Texas would be 3,950,- 900 bales, from which, allowing ,000- GOO off, would leave q crop of 0,300, GOO bales.
 "The crop is now so far advanced from recent rains and heat that it will reach maturity and beindepend- ent of frosts at an unusually early date, and should we soon have good rains in Texas, her crop also would be near perfection, and the possibili- ties for total crop would then be something enormus,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-08-20
OUR NEIGHB0RS.
Fordyce Items.
From the chronlcle-Enterprise.

From the Chronicle Enterprise.l : Mir. Coleman has bought a lot from Miss Hattie Grimes and is build ling fine large residence thereon.
 Bud Grimmet says Ed Atkinson screamed like he was snake-bitten Monday when hekilled that fine deer.
 Elder George Richardson closed an interesting protracted meeting at Macedonia church Sunday.
 The members of the Christian church have purchased q new organ and engaged Miss Mamie Graham as organist.
 Ran Jordan has been figuring on his onion patch and concludes that if he had had an acre of such onions they would have brought him over $2OO.
 T. NJ. Smith has Jersey heller fourteen months old which never had calf, and gives half a gallon of milk day
 
 The Christian people have engaged Elder Gallager to preach for them a year and he and his good wife will hereafter make their home in For dyce
 Phil Cox stepped on q rusty nail recently and now has a foot large a,,1,,rcl, fx.. +,,o s,,,ol, ,,,an NNa o ra glad to state, however, that it is growing beautifully less at this writ ing.
 The first bale of new cotton was brought to this place this morning by c. A. Williams, of Summersyille, and sold to Bruce Jones for eight cents per pound, besides the pre- miums mentioned.
 Messrs. J. W. Lea, the well known drummer, and Robt. Graham have bought the stock of the Fordyee Hardware Company. They are both very pleasant gentlemen and have our best wishes in their venture.
 We are pained to chronicle the death of Mayor J J. Danniel, which sad event transpired last night about nine o'clock. The cause of his death was relapse of slow fever. He leaves devoted wife and five bright children.
 Paul Horton, who was tried be- fore Squire Lea Holmes, at Prince ton, last week, for killing Wm. Me Quade, was found guilty of man slaughter and committed to jail to await the action of the grand jury. Horton's lawyers took out writ of habeas corpus, and went with the prisoner before Judge Hawkins, at Warren, who released him upon a bond of 5000. Will Horton was also indicted by the Coroner's jury and released on a bond of $1,00C.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-08-20
SHARP SHOOTERS AT WORK
These Pests and Boil Worms Doing
 Great Damage to Cotton.

Complaints of damage being done by the sharp shooters and boil worms in all parts of this and ad journing counties are daily reaching the GRAPHIC office.
 These pests of cotton planters do great mischief and lessens the cot ton product wonderfully.
 Today the GRAPHIC received let ter from Mr. John W. Tucker, en- closing some cotton bolls and squares which show the damage of the sharp shooters and boil worms. The letter IS as follows
 EDITOR GRAPHIC, Pine Bluff, Ark:
 Dear Sir Enclosed find a few squares and bolls of cotton that the boil worms and sharp shooters have been at work on. They are num- erous and will do great damage to lthe cotton crop on my place. fear they are all over the country. The cool nights are also damaging the crop very much. Yours, Etc,
 JOHN W.TUCKERss.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-08-20
Obeyed The Officers

PIrTsBURa, August 2o.-Campers at Plum Creek marched yesterday according to announcement, but were stopped by deputy sheriffs and turned back to their camps. The deputies took high hand in af- fairs and none of the strikers were allowed to be on the road even though they were in pairs and 3 hundred yards apart. The strikers did not stop to argue the matter, but obeyed the officers of the law with out murmur.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-08-20
Red Rust.

Mr. J. ". Gibson has returned from an inspection of the cotton crops on the north side of the river, in the vicinity of Altheimer and sherrilI!...s-.sad-==re ports red rust among the cotton in that section This, he says. does great damage. The leaves are falling off and cotton planted in old land is seriously af- fected.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-08-20
|., MONTHS OUTPUT OF r YELLOW METAL BY. THE MINERS
 OF SOUTH AFRICA.
eapacity of the Mines 10 be
 ,aereass;. and Others to be Opened-AlasiSa
 Not the Only
 Kl0ndike.

!, ! recent letter from Fred E. |.,oo who it will be remembered .ooaced as an expert mining en- [.sr in the famous gold mines [r Iobannesburg, South Africa, Norton makes the following tement relative to the output of celebrated mines of that section, =eb would seem to indicate that EIe are other Klondikes than found Alaska. Mr. Norton says.
 Inc miners are going along in old way and are slowly increas- l the output, which was over a *rter q a million ounces for the month, and there is a prospect this will be exceeded this th. When one considers that is nearly eight .tons a month of one can see what a great coun- [this is. The queer thing is that Boers do hot want any more es to start up, though they are only thing that makes the coun-
 
 worth anything. There VII be be rext year about q dozen very mines started up, and the out may be expected to increase l00,000 ounces i'll that time.
 hen it is considered that the h Africa gold as 1t comes from mines is considered about on a with the California article, h brings in the market from $16 Sper ounce, it will be readily that the output from these is something enormous to emplate. What with the exo- b the Klondike region and the that section will produce when Fho have reached there make find and add their wealth to which has rewarded the skillfal and iron man in South Africa, nay expect a return of the n time of Montezuma and the ean splendor that dazzled the Df Cortez.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-08-20

A bomb was exploded in the pal ace of the Sultan at Constantinople Thursday, wrecking the department of the Grand Vizer. The bomb was thrown by an Armenian anarchist.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-08-20
M W. BURKE,
Eupionl EupIon!! Enpion!!l

No doubt many people are awar that Eupion Oil makes a much bet ter light than the lower grades of coal oil, but we doubt if there are any that know that gallon of Eupion lasts longer than cheap oil. Then, why not have the best light when the differencein cost is scarcely nothing. Eupion is sold at the fol : owing places:
 dcCain Grocery to- John Talbot C Go Robinson $ Greenfield, J. L. Lloyd, Ma anTankersley Co, F Bros,
 " L. Dewoody < Go Houston $ Roane, Il E. oldsmth X c. Thalheimer Bros, Ferguson < Russell P. E. Mercantile Co II. F. Sevel1e. 2. Lumpkin, J F. Simmons. Bluff City Lumber Co. C. N. Hart Drug Co. ". Beard Dedtf .z Hearin X Alexander.
 Mrs. ". J J.Galbraitll and daughter, Miss Ella, are now sojourning in Chicago.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-08-20

Rabbi Rubenstien delivered his farewell lecture at the Temple in Little Rock last night. He goes to New York.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-08-20
TERMINATED l THE CHICKENS
Ink Plays Havoc in a Sixth Pyenue Grocery Store.

\ evening when Mr. Feiix G. \ closed his Sixth avenue gro- |'ore Tor the night he left four nee, half-grown chickens Tn a n the store. When he opened pfedoor this morning hefounl the chickens dead, with their E cut, the work of a mink,
 had killed the chickens and their blood.
 s are very plentiful in Pine
 several have been killed re- and the chicken houses of a -ol citizens have been despoil- pne of these blood-thirsty var
 Where they are all coming
 mystery.
 slslt made to Mr. Snart's 0s the mink last night was oad one this season.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-08-20

The Postal Telegraph Company now controls all lines in Mexico, and is extending it's line from Little Rock to Laredo.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-08-20
A. J. Mitchell.

Kissing both delightful sweet like Mchel's beverages tow Cola Dr. Pepper Orange bert Red Banana Ice Cream soda Pineapple Flip Cheese Gorena Nix Nit and anything else that line the and sold Main street at stand Call around new regret neither will I.
 P s. My Number is 208
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-08-20

IMr. Will McCrary has accepted q position with the cotton firm oI ;. c. Alexander X Co. Will is an expert cotton buyer and. we congratulate the firm on securing his services.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-08-20
THE BILL.

Assembly Arkansas now E session that 1t misfortune not fault and the greatest mistake make their lives who fail the only oate eonetoner and newsdeae the city Pine Buf count Ark
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-08-20
NEWS BRIEFS.

A race war is reported near Dal- las, Texas.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-08-20
From Cleveland County Herald.

Miss Lucy Taliaferro is visiting relatives in Pine Bluff
 County Treasurer ". J. May and little daughter, Leona, were visitors to Pine Bluff yesterday. I've are sorry to learn that little Frankie Taliaferro is quite sick with slow fever at her mothers home in Pine Bluff. s MT. A. B. Reed, of Miller township, who was last week arrested and placed in jail in Pine Bluff, has been released on a three hundred dollar bond.
 Mrs. H. Jewel came down from Pine Bluff Monday where she had been visiting Mrs. l.. E. Austin She was met here by her little sons who accompanied her to Mr. E. T. Brew CTS. I Miss Linda Taliaferro, who is just back from taking q special course at Vanderbilt University, spent Tues day in town visiting relatives and
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-08-20

Miss Mabel Frank, of Little Rock. who has been here visiting her sister, Mrs. Jake Katzenstein, returned home yesterday morning.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-08-20
1t Will
 Please You.

Many people plunge into the ocean of misfortune, would sink is they hadn't some real estate to float them. Every rightly made man has a hankering after real es- tate-it is an instinct that goes with man, and it is something that is within the reach of all. Continual small payments will eat up the lnrg won't amount to any more than you pay for foolshness.
 Think it over.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-16
4 Stiff Breeze,

They were party OF Office seekers. and
mad very little to occupy their time ex-
cepting to tell stories. A friendly rivalry
mad sprung up. and some OF the imagina-
tive productions which resulted were CO.
lossal and unique. tale of shipwreck
mad just been concluded and the silence
that followed showed that its narrator had
discouraged the others. a SLIM quiet mar
VINO had thus far figured only as an at
tcntlve listener, coughed timidy and said.
nat was pretty stiff breeze YOU were
teiiing about just now in your shipwreck
story"
L guess it was about the stiffest breeze
that ever blew. replied the raconteur who
was leaning back in his chair with the air
OF conquering hero.
Oh. no. L don't like to oontradic, any
body. but that wasn't the stiffest breeze
that ever blew. by great deal
"a IKE to meet some one who ever saw
anything to beat it,
well. L am the man you are looking for
was farming in Kansas a number of
years ago
Hold on interrupted the man who had
a reputation to sustain: 1.-THE Kansas cy-
clone is barred. L stated clearly that the
wind which drove as ashore was worse
tran any whiriwind that could possibly
happen
Wait till you hear about it, / am pre-
pared To admit that cyclone in its nat
ural state may have seemed like a sigh
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-16

a long time since I gave you anything as
token CT my afectionate esteem
Il need a winter wrap" she suggested
gently.
I'VE will think of that later. What I
mean to give you now is a diamond ring"
Right now?" she exclaimed.
Yes he answered, he dived into
his pocket. Here is a dime and here
touching the servants belD is the ring.
There you have a dime and ring
Then he said "Ha-ha!" at the top of his
voice many times.
He was rather tired when he got home
that evening.
as there any dessert?" he inquired after
he had eaten all that had been placed be-
fore him
YES" she answered. "It is something
that 1 am sure you ought to appreciate. 1
went out and had it especially prepared
for you"
She took from the sideboard and placed
before him small card, upon which was
printed.
"MC1NE"
whats this?' he inquired, as he held IT
Off and stared at it.
That" she replied swestly. sis mince
pi.''
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-16
SHE THOUGHT 1T A LARK.
But She Changed Her Mind BcfOr,
She Got THROUGH

Hut She Changed Her Mind Before
She Got Through.
A young girl living in the West End had
peculiar experience few nights ago, and
the fact was communicated to a Star re-
porter by a younger brother, who told it as
good joke on his sister.
The young girls people have not yet re-
turned to their city residence but she came
to town with her father one morning last
week TO do little shopping. When nearly
time to take the evening train back to the
country the girl received a note from her
father. saying unexpected business wouId
keep him In town over night, and advising
her not to make the trip alone. There was
one servant In the city house, and rooms
were prepared for the father and daughter.
An admiring youth. learning the young
lady would spend the evening in town, pre-
vailed upon her to attend the opera with
him. She thought 1t would be lark. and.
arming herself with latch key set forth
to enjoy herself, without saying q word to
the servant or her father. The evening
was success. and all went well until the
admiring youth took the latch key, and,
with true gallantry, essayed to open the
front door upon their return. Now, Just
below the lock there yawned huge key
hole of ancient date and no longer in use
In the darkness the youth thrust the key
into the first available opening, which, of
course, was the large keyhole; and 10! the
key escaped his grasp and went flying
through, dropping with a tantalizing ring
upon the floor inside. Then followed q
fugue upon the door bell, lasting for quite
half an hour. but the one servant slept on
in the third-story rear room. 1t was ter
rtble predicament for a young girl not yet
''tn society,"" and she and her escort we're
anything but calm. Basement windows
were tried and knobs were ratified but all
In vain. Then the youth took or his coat.
ha 10 antr
into the yard beyond. expecting lnomen-
tariiy to run afoul a burglar alarm. After
repeated instructions given through the
entry gate the youth began to shy pebbles
at the servants window in the rear. n
was nearly an hour-it seemed longer TO
the pair Of MISUNDERSTANDING his efforrs
met with success. and the repentant maid
promises to attempt no more 'larks," and
the young man will exercise due caution in
his future selection Of theater companion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-16
ONE OF THE SMART KIND.
A Young bridegroom Who Makes an
Expensive Guy of HIMSELF


Expensive Guy of Himself.
A lot of travelling statesmen spending Sun
Gay in Washington. were doing what drum
nIers at rest always do. when one, who was
very fresh and aggressively knowing, got
up and left the hotel office
Il never liked that fellow" said one of
tie two remaining. land 1 don't like his
kind 1t is that sort that gave travelling
men the reputation they have, and I'd like
to see the last one of them fired out Of
their positions and decent men put in"
Which reminds me- said the other "of
the very freshest chap of all 1 ever saw.
He had a little money of his own and he
lived in a country town in Indiana, and
Travelled around the state for the only
wholesale store in the place He kept his
job because he had money in the concern
and because he did have some ability as a
salesman, though he was insufferably con-
oeited- used to be thrown with him &C.
Cas- sionally and never went to a hotel with
room In the house. Well after awhile he
got married, a couple Of years ago that
was. and he made his first trip to New
York accompanied by his bride, who was
dorf was the only place in New York good
enough for them, and do you know what
the zap did when they got there?"
Il can guess" smiled the listener.
That's just what he did. He lined up
alongside the counter of that elegant place
as If it were the Hotel de Hoss in Sque-
dunk. and with wave Of his hand-that
same old wave l remember SO well: BY
Jinks. he said to the clerk: gimme the
best room you got in the house. And the
clerk did. but after letting the young fell
low spread himself on Ii for a minute or
two he told him the best would cost him
S''O day, and for once in his life Freshly
had to acknowledge that he had bit Off
more than he could chew"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-16
SIX THOUSAND DOSES.
The Physician Did Not Know the
Strength of the Drug.

The Physician Did Not Know the
Strength of the Drug.
'It isn't always safe to base your esti-
mates of value on size or quantity" said
a Washington physician to Star reporter
yesterday. Il was convinced of that when
I was the resident physician at one of the
largest hospitals In town and was younger
than am now. On one occasion the senior
attending physician came to me and said
that he wished 1 would secure certain
drug which he said was then being used
with remarkable success in some Of the
principal hospitals In Europe. asked him
how much I should get. as it was some
thing had never heard Of before.
oh, just get little; it's very powerful;
an ounce or two would be enough, should
think.
We'll, I telepnoned to a wholesale drug
gist and gave an order for an ounce A
couple Of days afterward the druggist sent
me word that there wasn't as much as an
ounce of the drug in the whole United
states. SO told him to get me all he could.
During the course of the week he sent
me three or four drains The stuff had a
name in inverse ratio to the quantity. a
half dozen chemical phrases linked to-
sether with hyphens. but in direct ratio to
It's strength. I remember the little phiaI
cost an even so, and when 1 came to in
vestlgate found that dose was such q
small traction of grain that I had lust
6.ooo doses on hand. That bottle stared me
IN the lace as long as I remained at the
hospital until it came to be a veritahie
nightmare. When left think there were
sun o,3S6 doses on hand, and I shouldn't
wonder II that supply Is sufficient to last
through the next century"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-16
MAY HAVE MEANT WELL.
But Her Efforts Did Not Meet With
Much Success,

1t takes fully six months for a story like
the following to become public property.
Last season a Washington woman DOS
sessing both social and charitable ambi-
ticns. elected to give a reception. The at
fair was to be very exclusive. Judge of
the surprise when a bundle of invitations
was left at the door Of a hospital in town
upon whose board of managers Mrs T.
serves. The invitations were found to be
addressed to the trained nurses of the in
stitutior, and great was the wonder that
the professional ranks had been invaded
for society recruits.
A few days elapsed, and Mrs. q. paid a
visit to the hospital Making herself ex-
tremely agreeable she remarked to the
nurses:
Well. girls. hope you received cards to
my reception
Smiles and Acknowledgements answered in
the affirmative, and Mrs. z. went on com
placently:
Indeed. I was only too glad to remem-
Der you all l appreciate how much work
and how little play you girls have. and
thought you would enjoy a little glimpse
of society fun"
mo doubt Of it. Mrs H." one of tn.
nurses spoke up, but none of us are likely
to have gowns suitable to wear at such
function
"Oh. that reed not trouble you in the
least, returned the smiling Mrs H. Now.
my idea is this. OF course, understand
you have no evening gowns, and that you
know very few society people. but these
facts must not interfere with your getting
a peep at my guests and eating some Of
my supper. thought the whole thing
would be simplified If you all came in your
pretty uniforms and caps, and took up
your stations in the dressing rooms You
would only have to assist the ladies with
their wraps and you could see the gowns
to such good advantage, and" But such
a chorus of indignant EXPLANATIONS rent
the air at that juncture that Mrs. rs SEN
tence was never completed.
The social veneering must be thickly
coated on Mrs. T., for to this day she does
not seem to understand why the nurses
meet her advances with frigid Indifference
and why her visits to the hospital are no
longer pleasant.