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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-11-11

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AN ANEcDoTE OF LINCOLN.
He Measured Height With a Miner In a
 Pennsylvania Town.


 Pennsylvania Town.
 In the course of an article in St. Nicholas Mary Lillian Herr relates the following characteristic anecdote of Lincoln:
 Once while on his way to Washing ton as president the train stopped lit- tic time ill the town of Alleghany, Pa. Around the station a great crowd gath cred, eager to see the new president They shouted and cheered until Lincoln had to appear on the rear platform of his car. He bowed and smiled, but the crowd was so noisy he did not try to speak to them
 Very near to the platform stood a miner, wearing a red shirt and blue overalls and carrying a dinner pail. Like the rest, he had stopped hoping to see Mr. Lincoln. The workman was al- most q giant in size and lowered head and shoulders above the crowd.
 No doubt he had heard that Lincoln also was very tall, and, encouraged by the friendly face, the workman sudden ly waved his bare arm above his head and called out;
 'eHi, there, Abe Lincolnl I'm taller than you-yes, a sight tallerP'
 This loud speech sileneed the crowd by its boldness, and laugh arose. But Mr. Lincoln, leaning forward with 8 good humored smile, said quietly:
 My man, doubt it-in fact, I'm sure am the taller. However, come up opd Iaf'o ,,,oac,7Ya
 The crowd made way and the workman climbed to the platform and stood back to back with the president elect. Each put up hand to sec whose head over topped. Evidently Mir. Lincoln was the victor, for with smile of satisfaction he turned and offered his hand to his beaten rival, saying cordially:
 ''I thought you were mistaken and 1 was right, but l wished to be sure and to have you satisfied. However, we are friends anyway, aren't wei"
 Grasping the outstretched hand ill a vigorous grip the workman replied:
 Yes Abe Lincoln -as long as ! live. "
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FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH.
swede Spent Two Years In vindicatins
 His lsrother'4 Honesty.

Swede Spent Two Years In Vindicating
 His Brother'4 Honesty.
 "I praetieed law once ill silverton, Colo, ; said enc of the passengers in the smoking room of the Pullman, and had a case that struck me as a model exhibition of faithfulness. A Swede Jas mail carrier over the pass to the other side of the range It was not a long trip, but it was a severe one, made on foot and with the danger ill winter from heavy SHOWS added to its diffi- culty. Andrew carried the mail for a year, then one day he failed to reach home There wer9 valuable letters in his sack, and the inference that he had decamped was strong On the night he should have come into Silverton his brother, fresh from Scandinavia and unable to speak English, got off the stage. As county attorney l had to break the news to the boy and stood by while he wept.
 Rewards were offered for Andrew, and I sent out parties to search the pass, but to no effect 4 miner claimed to have seen him a week later i'll Leadyille, but we got no more trace of him. The brother refused to believe that Andrew had done wrong and spent his days tramping the canyons searching for his brothers body. We tried to get him to go to work, but he did not yield until by his shorness of funds he was starved to it. In tue summer, when most of the snow was off, he searched again, but in vain During the winter he worked, but when the second spring came he re- newed his lonely trampings up the trail. We thought him demented, but he cared not for our opinions. One day in August he walked along at the base of cliff and saw boot sticking out from some debris. He uncovered it, and his search was ended. That evening he came into town with the mail sack, much stained but intact, and his brothers coat. The grave he dug, with the rough stone he afterward put at it's head, is up the canyon yet. It took two years to vindi- cate his brothers name, but he did not begrudge it. When it was done, he went back to his native land. "-Ohicago Times Herald
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What He Played.

A member of military band at I certain barrack came to the surgeon re, gently with long face and plaintive story about sore throat.
 Sore throat, eh, said the surgeon pleasantly. Let me see. Oh. that's not so bad. A slight irritation nothing more. You'll be all right in day ol two, l think you had better take nc risk in renewing the trouble by using your throat though, so win recon. mend you for a fortnight's sick leave. J
 Armed with the surgeons certificate, the bandman obtained his two weeks sick leave. The two weeks had just come to an end when he met the sur. geon on the parade ground The band. man saluted, The surgeon recognized the face and stopped.
 "How's s the throat?n he asked pleas antly.
 Its quite well, sir, 5 was the reply.
 That's good, :" said tho surgeon. You can get back to your duty with, out fear. By the way, what instrument do you handle in the band?"
 ''The small drum, sir, ; said the mu. sician. Chicago News.
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IrNRr CnNrRACT LEr.

Lieut.. Mason NJ. Patrick Monday opened seven bids for small amounts of levee work that he had projected for the St. Francis and the upper Yazoo basins. says the commercial Appeal. He had contemplated the closure of the Crooked bayou break in the St. Francis line and doing S5,- 900 yards of enlargement and repair work between mile stations l04 and 109 on the same line, and enlarging 90, 900 yards the north half of section so of the upper Yazoo line. But the only bid that was satisfactory to the government officer was that of James H. Gary for the enlargement and repair work in the St. Francis district. He bid 16h cents per yard upon the work, and his bid was ac- cepted, while all the others were rec commended for rejection. The Crook ed bayou piece consists of only 2,60O yards, and Shippey X Johnson were the low biders at 19 cents, while Martin Jennings < Co.'S bid of TX cents was the low one for the Yazoo work.
 The Crooked bayou piece of work Is so small that it would not pay a contractor to put up camp there, and Capt. Pharr, of the St. Francis levee board, will have thu work done.
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COURIERS BACK NUMBERS.
No Longer Any Need to Go Through Eu-
 rope With Them.


 rope With Them.
 Up to t.' within the memory of living m, almost Ho one of means travelled through Europe without q courier. Before railroads were built and before good guidebooks were print ed he was almost indispensable. His tribe survives. but in greatly dimin- ished numbers. To the self reliant tray. eler he is of no use whatever Indeed he is frequentlya a positive inoumbrance, and worse, To my mind one of the great pleasures of travel is in learning to travel by myself. There are satisfae- tion, pleasure and education in plan ming routes, deciphering time tables, making bargains, learning by obserya- tion the lay of the land
 The time may have been when q courier could save a traveller more than his cost. Most certainly that is not the case now. On the contrary, as he gets a percentage on every purchase his party makes, which, of course, comes out of the purchaser in increased price. and as it is often for his interest to advise the more costly route, the more costly hotel CT the more costly excursion, he eats up much more than his wages, while saving positively nothing. Bean declares that in a two weeks trip in southern Spain, which he made side by side with q couple having a courier, he invariably reached the hotel first, got better rooms and saw all the sights to as good advantage, yet the courier was. of his kind, an expert. The fact is that travel has become so general, tourist companies, railroads and landlords have so well s9udied its needs, books are so plentiful. that you couldn't very well get off the track OF have a mishap if you tried.-Herbert Luce in "Going Abroad. ''
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The pn n,aurier Woman.

In an article which the late Mir. Dn Maurier wrote some years ago for The Magazine of Art apropos of the typical pretty woman" of his drawings, oc. ours tho following quaint and character lstic passage; ''Id do hope the reader does not dislike herg-that is, if he knows her --I am so fond of her myself or rather so fond of what I want her to be She is my piece dc resistance, and have often heard her commended, and the praise of her has sounded sweet in mine ears and gone straight to ny heart, for she has become to me as daughter. She l. rather tall, I admit, and q trife stiff but English women are tall and stiff just noW-aad she is rather too serious, but that is only because find it ea difficult with mere stroke in black ink to indicate the enchanting little curved lines that go from thenose to the mouth corners, causing the cheeks to make a sniie. !"
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AGURAl IN MAROCCO.
The Whole Population of the Town Is
 Descended From Renegades.

Descended From ReneS@des'
 Agura is small town surrounded with walls of from 40 to 50 feet Tn height and built of tabia, or con- solidated rubble. It owes it's existence to Mulai Ismail, who held the throne of Maroceo from 1722-1757. One gate alone gives entrance to the place, and in this respect, as well as in its archi- lecture within and without, 1t much resembles the ksor" of the Sahara de- spribed in the writer's .Tafilet. But it owns one feature of curiosity which was lacking in the desert for almost without exception the entire population are descendants of the renegades and Christian slaves of the time of Mulal Ismail. with the addition of stray rene gades who have been sent there since Probably no such cosmopolitan place exists in She world, for it's 300 or 400 inhabitants are representative of no less than l3 nationalities Each family re. members and is proud of it's origin, the Arab equivalent be ng applied as sur names.
 The family in whose home the writer spent the few days of his visit were Flemish, while the next door neighbor on one side was an elderly female, whose father, an Englishman, had be- come a renegade some so years since, and who quickly tired of 1t, leaving a wife and daughter, the nejghbor in question. The other neighbors were the descendants of Spanish gypsies, the head of the family being "Absalam ben Mohammed el Gitano el Espanoi. They were particularly proud of the "Gitano" {gypsy) part of the surname and begged me not to confound them with the ordinary Spaniards, of whom there were many descendants in Agurai. The ancestor of this gypsy family was two generations back. He had left his country, they naiyely told the writer, because he was not OH good terms with his sultan, who wanted to imprison him, being afraid of bis influence. Prob ably it was more of an affair of the pc lice courts than political intrigue.
 The ''Ulad el Alaj" ( sons of the converts J, ds tue luHdottaHts OI ASuId1 are called, have entirely, except in one or two cases, lost the tyre of their Eu- ropean ancestry, and through marriage, no doubt, are as largely Berber in ap- pearance as the wild tribes that sur round them. They speak among them selves both Arabic and Berber, and both. ouriously enough, with strong foreign accent, easily distinguishable. They are exempt from all taxation, but have toserye in the sultan army, where they perform the duties of cooks and butchers Geographical Journal.
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A Norweglan Nirhtinnsl.

Frau Eva Nansen, the wife of the Famous explorer, is great traveller in her own way. Now that her husband is saIe and sound at home, says the Kleine Aeitung, she is about to set forth upon one of her long musical tours through Sweden, Finland and the cold north. s She IS one of the most accomplished of scandinavian soprano songstresses, and one night recently arrived at Stock nom, where she sang before crowded audience in the Festsaal of the Acade. my of Arts. King Oscar was present, and after the concert invited the Nor. wegian nightingale to supper wish him. self and the royal honsahdld.
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SPANlARDS WEAR BUTTONS.
Express Their War Spirit by Peculiarly
 Marked Badges.

maFheu 8huSes
 Henry D Pierce, relative of the late Vice President Hendricks, who has just returned from Europe, says that in all the cities ill Spain he saw persons wear. ing buttons much the same as they ara worn here.
 These badges show small dog run ming away. The dog represents Cuba and is so marked Following the dog al full speed is an immense pig, which is marked with the word America. Following the pig in turn is large, fine ball, running after the pig and evi- dently highly infuriated. The pig is supposed to be running away from the bull, which is goring him with his horns in most energetic manner. The ball is marked "Spain.
 Mir Pierce added that ill every con, ceivable way the hatred of the Spanish people for the United States is made ap. parent. He thinks that the Spaniards are only too anxious for an opportunit, to get into fight with this country -~ Chicago Times-Herald.
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HUNTING PEARLS.

SHERIDAN, ARK September 2.- Quite n number of our leading citi zens are on the Saline river invesfi gating tine pearl finds. 4 party consisting of Sheriff Rushing, ". J Nixon. proprietor of our leading ho- tel, H. Bales and others left town early yesterday morning prepared Tor thoroughly Investigating. None of the party have returned at this writing. The beds Iloi CT streams arc all lined with the mnssells thonght fo contain the pearl.
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 1ame of Three Things.

Three things is a game played hy any number of persons sitting in TOW or circle. The one who begins gives to his left hand neighbor the name of thtee things beginning with the same letter, which the latter must then connect In some way and then give three other things to the next in line. When any one is unable tc connect the names he receives, he must pay forfeit, and the names are passed along to the next play CT. Thus the player gives out, Heii. ham and heayiness. The second says: "The hen tried to eat the ham and f0nnd that heayiness in the crop result. ed. l give door, dinner and duty" The third says, I opened the door to 20 in to dinner, when l had to go back to fnl Ill forgotten duty, and so on. n.--Ex change
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The Mount Lebanon Shakers have l ecently perfected an ingenious cure for dyspepsia. Their Digestive Cor dial consists of a food already di- gested and a digester of foods hap pity combined.
 The importance of thIs invention will be appreciated when we realize what a proportion of the eommu- nity are victims of some form of stomach troubles. Thousands of pale. thin people have little inclina- tion to eat, and what they do eat causes them pain and distress.
 This Digestive Cordial of the Shak- CTS eorrects any stomach derange- ment at once. It makes thin people plump. Every one will be greatly interested to read the little book which has been placed in the hands of druggists for free distribution.
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TIMBER THIEVES.
Two Cleveland County Citizens Bound Over to Await the Action
 of the Federal Grand Jury.

United States Marshal Savage ar rived in the city yesterday with Julius Dyer and J. H. Lynn. citizens of Cleveland county. in his custody.
 These men, both white, were ar- rested by the officer on the charge Of cutting timber from State lands.
 In the afternoon the men were giv- en preliminary hearing before Commissioner Burnett. who bound them over to await the action of the Federal Grand Jury.
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Yesterday Gov. D. ". Jones ap- pointed Messrs. A. Brewster and c. ". Davis to positions on the State Equalization Board. vice Chas. Well and ]. W. Walker. resigned
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We have just received two car loads of the celebrated Stude- baker wagons in all sizes. The Stakeholder took the premium at the Worlds Fair oyer all the leading wagons of the world. Parties visiting the Nashville exposition should not fail to see their exhibit of wagons, buggies and carriages. For sale only by,
 R. M. KNOX & co.
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Gov. Jones has offered a reward for the arrest and conviction of Lo- renzo Smith, Forest White, Dan Matthews and George Hall. negroes implicated in the killing of T. T. Johnson, at KendalIs mill. Cle9e- land county.
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On the occasion of special exeur- sion from Shreveport to Little Rock Monday. Aug. 30. 1897. the Cotton Belt Route will sell tickets from Pine Bluff to Little Rock and return at $l.G0. special train will leave Shreveport about 10 o'clock q. m.. arrive Ut Little Rock about 7.30 D. m Returning train will leave Little Rock Wednesday morning at : o'clock, arriving at Shreveport about 4:30 p. m.-H. Bringman.
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Ex- Governor James P. Clarke ar rived in Pine Bluff yesterday after noon en route from Portland to Camden. He left for his destination on the l:30 q. m train.
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Mrs. Thas. A. Eaton and Miss Sal lie Holmes. of Altheimer. will leave for Water Valley, Miss, tomorrow where they will visit friends for ten days. They will then go to Nash vile Tennessee, and will be at the Centennial on Arkansas day.
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Mir. Fred H. Jones, Division Pas senger Agent for the St.Louis South western. Is here to make arrange ments about running a special train from i.ittie Rock to Pine Bluff on Labor Day.
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The weeds in the Courthouse yard have been cut down. Now, let them be raked up and burned or earted away. The appearance of the yard is not creditable to the city.
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Miss lone Long, of New York, an artistic milllner without q superior in the South, arrived here yesterday, and Is now in charge Of the millinery denartment at the Grand Leader.
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A telegram was received from Col. Fordyce, President of the St Louis Southwestern By, by Master Me chanic Galbraith. today, states that Col. Fordyce will be in Pine Bluff on Labor Day without fail
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Constable John Case, of Jefferson township, brought a prisoner to jail yesterday afternoon. The prisoner was negro charged with forging an order.
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Mir. ". B. Tomlln, formerly with the Simpson Webb Furniture Co.,. is now with the W. s. Beard Furniture Company, where he will be pleased to see his friends.
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Miss Azubah Thompson, the accomplished daughter of Dr. A. G. Thompson, of Sulphur Springs is in the city today visiting friends.
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Miss Lucy Hills. the charming sis ter Of MT. John Hlnis, the popular Cotton Belt ticket agent at thls place, returned to her Jonesboro home this morning, after pleasant visit to her brother.
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A telegram to Mir. N. Garland Streett, from Lake Village, received at an early horr this morning, am nounced that his brother, MT Bruce Street.. was dying. Mr. and Mrs. Streett left for Gake Village on the morning train.
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Mr. T. A. Stroud, formerly with Fox Bros, has arrived in the city and has accepted q position with the hardware house of k. c. Thompson.
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KNOW THEIR POWERS.
The Eternal womanIy In the Rough Girl
 of New York.

The Eternal WomanIy In the Rough Girls
 of New York.
 In the girls of the rougher tenement house districts the eternal womanly wears such disguise of the eternal gamin that 1t cannot always be recog- nized Their pertness and sauciness are only sharpened by their precocity and their tomboy habits of street Arabia. A reporter recently had occasion to visit lower Washington street to ascertain the facts regarding the murder of boy down there. He was obtaining his in- formation from the boys of the neigh borhood, who might have been play mates of the dead youth. A circle of them, together with three or four girls of 15 or s years was gathered around him.
 A big, hulking youth about 20 years old arrogated to himself the place of spokesman He was evidently the ty- rant, the bully of the street, a young Bill the Brute, who had not yet &C., qnired wife to beat and was conse. quently an object of great interest to these misses, whose skirts had not yet grown down to their ankles. With his big, harsh voice he sileneed every inter- ruption of his tale, saying:
 Shut up there! Pm tellin this yarn.
 Of course this adjuration, which forms part of the ordinary courtesy of the neighborhood, did not quiet the girls. They chaffed him and the report CT and giggled until at last the speaker said to the reporter:
 Don't mind them. They're nc count. They're aothia hut girls. ?
 'sOf course he'll mind us, smarty, ? instantly retorted one of the girls Ives the malSin's of ladies. :"
 It was the eternal womanly of strees Arabia. --NeW Yegk Tribune.
 Master-Tombs, this is an example in subtraction, Seven boys went down 10 pend 10 bathe, but two of them had been told not to % iu the water. Now, can you tell me how many went in?
 Tombs--Yes, sir. Seven. - London Tit-Bits
 Justin McCarthy is quite gray haired His beard is bushy, and his gold riui med speetaeles impart benign air to his face, which indeed well suits his mild manner As for his energy, one would say that it was inexhaustible He is politician, journalist nov elist and historian.
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Why is it that after dirt is raked into piles on the paved streets 1t is not carted away, but Is allowed to remain there to be scattered again?
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Mr. Johnson, secretary for the Little Rock Y. M. c. A.. who has been the guest of Mr Kineaide for ten days, returned home last after noon.
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The Parnea Springs camp meeting closed last Sabbath night. Dr. Ino. +. Dye, who was in charge, left Monday. and was succeeded by Rev. Goddard, of Monticello. A large at tendance and great interest are re- ported. and many campers assured for next year.
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Mir. II. B. Allls, a son of Mr. Geo. B. Allls, and Mr. Beni. Woodson, q son of Mayor Woodson, who have been guests of Mir. Tracy Mills, re- turned to their Little Rock homes this morning.
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Mrs. Clara Russell and son. who have been summering at sulphur Springs, moved back to town this morning.
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Mrs. F. j. Hall has returned from Grady. We are pained to state that the lady health is poor.
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Mr. Joha F, Orr and wife. of stutt- gart, are in thecity. They are guests at the 1'rulock.
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Miss Lula Hazeltine left this morn ing for Monticello, where she goes to visit friends and relatives.
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Mr. Nj. l. Clayton, popular young merchant of Altheimer, is in the city.
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NJ. Clem Farerr has taken charge of J. c. Myers books, as book keeper. Glenn Is most estimable young gen tleman and an expert accountant.
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MT. George Butterworth, after spending ten weeks at Sulphur Springs, has returned to town.
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STATE or Ono. CITY OF ToLnpo, LUCAS Co Frank ], Cheney makes oath that he Is the senior partner of the firm Of F. j. Cheney X Co. doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid and that said firm will pay the sum of S100. for each ana every case of Catarrh that connot be cured Dy the use of Halls Catarrh Cure.
 sworn to before me and subscribed in my present. this 9th day if December A. D. 1SS6 isRAIi A W. GLEASON.
 NOTARY PyBLIC. Halls catarrh Cure Is taken internally and acts directly on the blood and mucous sur faces of the system. Send for testimonials, ire. Sold by Druggists. 15e
 Halls FamyIl Pills are the best.
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Mrs. $. B. Erwin, Of Little Rock, is in the city visiting her friend, Mrs. F. s. King.
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Mir. John Bassaque, prominent Jefferson county planter, is greeting Pine Bluff friends today.