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COLONY OF WIDOWS.
At Least There Was One, but Now All
 Arc Married.

At Least There Was One, but Now All
 Arc Married.
 4 small hamlet across the river from GoalDUrg, N Va. Is known as ShreWs- bury. It's only distinguishing feature has been the multiplicity of it's widows Some were old and some were buxom There was 9 16-year.old and one of 90.
 Most of them were ehildless, but sev- eral had one or more remembranees of the one dead. Two grass widows were sn the group, and one other had q glass eye. Several had money, two or three q farm, one owned grocery storo and fife or six had a pension.
 There were others who only had ex. perience and hope, but today there ia not widow in Shrewsbury. One died of old age Another went away to ac- cept position as second cook on a Big Sandy pushboat, and of tho others every one is married.
 There was one elopement. A girlish widow of 10, with bangs, went down the river with boy coal miner but she was determined not to be left Squires caught eight or ten couples, and minis. ters had q few who gave 9 cents for the ceremony
 A lot of rooms win board for eligible widows can he had cheap at Shrews. bury, and nambcr cf unincumbered men, weary of single fife, are willing to exchange thoir fsriorn condition for the smiles of a not too old or exaoting widow.
 The trains carry all widows for half fare, fol good luck -. New York Record CT
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China Closet Hints.

Irregular edges are in favor 8oEplates. saucers and all sorts of dishes except cups. They are, so far, smooth edged.
 White and gold china is enjoying as much popularity as in our grandmoth- ers' day, the plain gilt band being now. as then, the favorite decoration. Fili- gree borders are also seen, and gilt mon- ograms of varying degrees of ornatenesa are set in the center of tho dishes.
 Gray china is one of the season's nov cities Another is a peculiar faint green known as Flemish.
 All the new coffee and tea cups are in the low bowl shapes, with outturned tops. The after dinner coffee cups are smaller than ever. In tue heart shape they are very dainty.
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Mrs. Avery Is Not Wealthy.

Mrs. Rachel Foster Avery. while att lending the recent executive meeting of the Woman's National Council ill Bos- ton, was described by some of the papers IS a woman worth $3, 500, GOO A few years ago Mrs. Avery had abundant means and gave literally to the suffrage cause. A few years hence she Is likely to have abundant means again and will then no doubt contribute with her usual generosity. But we have the best au- thority for saying that, through certain business complications, Mrs. Avery is at present the reverse of rich. The news paper report about her millions, by which many women would have been fattered, has been a cause of sorrow to her, as it has brought her many appli- cations to which she is quite unable to respond. Boston Letter.
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NO. 4I4,
 MAIN ST.
A WELCOME GUIDE.

On receipt of 20 cents will forward to any address, postpaid, hand some catalogue of = pages profuseiy Illustrated, giving full description of fruit trees. small fruit, ornamental trees, evergreens. shrubs, vines. roses bulbs etc, also giving formulas for spraying, when to spray, plant etc. The descriptive catalogue is q wei come guide to aii those in neei of information, and should not be with out 1t. Send for it, it will please you. From the first order you send of one dollar or more. the price of the cata loGue can be deducted therefrom.
 Yourcorrespondenc kindly solicit ed. Yours very truly, Ambrose Martell, proprietor Peoria Banner Nurseries, office and sales grounds, Nos. III to IF $. Jefferson ave, Peoria. III. 2.23-d &sw If.
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Parlor Ornament.

Something which demonstrated that the human hair grows after death was discovered recently in Golesville, N. <
 There lives in that town family named Howo, well to do farmers. They had , daughter, Jessie, 1a years old. She had beautiful golden hair. When sine was stricken with q fever, 1t was necessary to cut off her locks Finally she died and was buried After two years the parents decided to remove tie remains to another spot The grave was opened. It was found that her hair had grown 10 reach nearly to hec feet. It WAS as bright and glossy as though its wearef was in the best of health. The tresaes were cut off. They measured over five feet. They were put into glass case il Mrs Howo's home, where they are now shown to visitors. New ! ork Press.
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Tennessee centennial Exposition.

Aeunessee Centennial Exposition. At Nashville, Tenn, May 1st to Oct 3lst, 1S96
 For the above occasion the cotton Belt Route will sell tickets Pine Bluff to Nashville and return as follows: Class "A"-These tickets will be on sale April 24th and daily on and after April 2Sth, to and including october 18th 1897. with final return limit Nov. 7th, 1897. as $lS.75.
 Class .B9-Tickets on sale April 29th aud daily thereafter to and in cluding October lath, with return limit of 20 days from date of sale at $l370.
 Class "C''-Tickcts on sale April 29th and every Tuesday and Thurs day thereafte to and including Oct. 26th with return limit of 10 days from date of sale at Sl000.
 I. ". FARLEY. Agent.
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PINE BLUFF papers are complain ing of the bushes men of that town running from one office to another when they want to get a little job printing, in order to save a few cents. Printing offices should have an established rate, and adhere to it. If there is anything that looks little in a business man, is for him to try to starve his county paper by low prices, and if there is any thing that is smaller than this, it is for hungry newspaper man to do work at cut throat prices. Such fellows as this are certainly hard up. - Warren Sentinel.
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. pr ring !

new yigor in eur physical systems. As the fresh sup carries life into tie trees, so our blood sAonld give us renewed strength and yigor. In it's impure state it cannot do this, and the aid of Hoods S2rsaparilla is imperatiyely needed.
 It will purify, vitalize and enrich the blood, and with this solid, correct foundation, it will build up good health, create good appetite, tone your stomach and digestive organs, strengthen your nerves and over come or prevent that tired feeling. This has been the experience of thou sands. It will be yours if you take
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-06-10

THERE are always lots of people who wonder at mistakes they detect in newspapers but they seem to be oblivious of their own mistakes. Doc.ors, lawyers and preachers all make them. The doctors mistakes are buried; the lawyers twist out of their mistakes, and the preachers are forgiven. The man who can keep errors out of newspaper can get a large salary.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-06-10

Little Rock Conference Woman's Foreign Mission Society, Pine Bluff. Jnne l6 to 20-For the above oeea- sion the Cotton Belt Route will sell tickets from all points south of Pine Bluff in Arkansas at one and one third fare for the round trip oil the certificate plan. Tickets 10 be sold June E to B, return limit June 23.
 E.W.LEBAUME, J. ". FARLEY,
 c. r. T. A. Agent.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-06-10

SEVERAL journals have recently suggested the propriety of paying our legislators stated salary, the favorite figure being $500, and then permitting them to revel in all kinds of legislative riot and tom foolery, according as the spirit moves them. This is quite a good idea, but a better reform would be to reduce the representation and increase the pay. Helena World
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-06-10

Ex GOVERNOR HeeG, of Texas, is grooming himself down for a place on the national ticket in 1900. Texas gives the biggest democratic majority, and if Texas is anyway Hoggish, there is no telling but what a particular razor back may break into the national pen for a nomination. There has been small CT calibre men in vice presidents place than James Stephens Hogg, to our own personal knowledge. = Ie1arkanian.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-06-10

THE Grant family present an ex- pense account of about 5000, upon account of their attendance upon the unveiling of the monument to Gen. Grant last month. This family has circulated good deal of money since the general was a poor farmer in Missouri. Bee.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-06-10

WEDNESDAY the Senate passed +he Williamson bill granting the com pany which proposes to build rail road westward from the Mississippi River via Hamburg to Texarkana, 1000 acres of laad in the counties of Chieot, Eesha and Ashley
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-06-10
PINE BLUFF, May II. 1897.

PINE BLUFF, May II, 1897. This is to correct any misunder- standing that may exist ill regard to the rate to Nashville, to be given the Confederate Veterans. The rate will be ten (Sl0.00) dollars, Pine Bluff fo Nashville and return. Tick cts will be sold June 20th and alst limited for return to ten days from date of sale. J. W FARLEY.
 Agent.
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Summer Tourist Rates.

To Mount Nebo, Searcy Spring. Ravenden Springs. Ark commencing June 1st and continuing until Sep tember l5. 1897, the St. I. Nj. x <. Ky. will sell round trip tickets to Mount Nsebo for $7 80; Searcy Springs, $4 $$4 a5; a5 !; Ravenden Springs, Ark, $s75. final limit for return October fl, 1S97
 H. B. MIzELL, Agent.
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snangled Ysimn.inee.

The fancy for beaded and spangied decoration continues, and these trim. mings can be very easily made and at little expense by adding tho beads or spangles or both to gimp, velvet bands, ribbon, lace net. etc These, ia nearly every color of the rainbow. can be bought by the ounce or package at very trifiing cost. and the work of sewing them on is nothing.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-06-10

Religious Convention, Jackson, Miss. June 6. For the above occa- sion the Cotton Belt Route will sell tickets-Pine Bluff to Jackson, Miss. and return at one and one-third fare ($1l80) on the certificate plan. Tick cts on sale June 3 to ,. Return limit June 9. !. v. FARLEY, Agent. F. W. LEBAYME, G. F. < T. A.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-06-10

A LITTLE town in Kansas started a lying match to secure fund for a public library. Just now it is nip and tuck between the editor of a Populist paper and the oldest inhabitant = Herald
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THE conference report on the A l. U. appropriation bill was agreed to by the House Wednesday.

THE Boon County Bank, at Harrison, closed it's doors Thursday. Assetts, $83, ,OO0; liabilities, $55, 900. Heavy withdrawals was given as the cause for the closing of the bank.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-06-10

Special Excursion Train Pine Bluff to Wesson and return, Saturday. June 5th, 1897. For this occasion the Cotton Belt Route will sell tickets Pine Bluff to Wesson and re turn at 50 cents. Further announce ment will be made as to time of de parture and arrival of this train.
 ]. w. FARLEY Agt.
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glfteYlv Gad.

"Yes, spake they of the one who had gone, he was utterly and hopeless ly bad. His wiekcdness might have been forgiven had il baen accompanied by any redeeming trait, but ho had none. He couldn' even tell funny story '-- Indianapolis Journal
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The Result or a Spree.

A spree in North Miami. Fla. has brought one Seminole Indian into deep disgrace before his tribe Some one cut his hair, and he has been forbidden to return to the tribe until it shall have grown again. His fellows think mean white man triekAd him.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-06-10

1t is not believed that literary life lmpairs vitality. Mrs. Oliphant is a rarely bright woman at 68, Miss Brad don still prolific novelist in her six. tieth year aud Ouida as capable as ever of writing startling romanees, although she coafesses that she is 56 years old.
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Keep Cool!

Get on the outside of some of our cream orsoda and imagine your self in q breezy forest. Yon may trust us completely. You can get whatever you want here, whenever you want it. We are never out of yoar favorite flavor. You know just what is in the cream or soda you buy from us. It is foolish to get-you don't know what, when you can get-yon know what
 NO. 4I4, K ANDY
 MAIN ST. KITCHEN.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-06-10

A GENTS WANTED-For War in Cuba. by - senor Quesauda Cuban representative at Washington. Endorsed by Cuban patriots, In tremendous demand. tonanza for agents. Only S1.50. Big book, big eonfes- si0ns. ny body wants the only endorsed reliable book. Outfit free. Credit Viven
 Freight pHid Drop al trash, and make S300 a month with War in Cuba Address today street. Chicago 2Sdln
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For the State Convention of the Christian Church. June to 12, the St. L. I. NJ. & s. Ky. will sell tickets, for the round trip. a the rate of one and one-third fare, certificate plan; return limit, June l5.
 H. B. MIzELL, Agent.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-06-10

FOR. RENT-My residence. Nc. 729 seetth Pine street, : rooms; furnished. for the summer; also, my cottage ot Sulphnrs brings, which is partly fnlnished For particulars, apply to Alexander Bfos.
 SC d6t J F. ALEXANDER,
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FOR sALE-Yellow Yan southt rn Queen, ' and NineleSs, or Bunch Yam, slips also fine eggs. Addrcs, F. ". ANDERSON,
 29 dew Jacksonfort, A k.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-06-10

FOR RFNT-After May the flee HOW oecu- ! pied hy the Pine Bluff N ate X Light O. at Merrill Institute. 20 q 6t
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-06-10

X6T ANTRB-A A geod. second hand two seat
 w ed carriage. Address, 'L." care Graphic. 30 d6t
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-06-10

EOUND-A bunch ef keys tied en one | string Owner can have same by ealing at this office and paying Tor his ad.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-06-10

Good pasture. with plenty of water 2l &@miles south of town. Horses Si cattle 75c. 4 15-d Ct. A. c. EDWARDS
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-06-10
An Immense Organ.

The new organ of the Church of St. Ignatius, San Francisco, weighs more than 100, GOO pounds and has more than 5, GOO pipes
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-06-10

For sale. my residence property en Olive st | Lake Side, at Bargain. A o. EDWARDS
 4-15-d Ct.
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Advertise Your Wants.

QTO0h PASTURE -0ne iBle from city
 J Cattle 8ii Q cartd fer end fasiafed at 75 csnis per Int nh. B. F. CbEGG. 53I tt
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-06-10

Doors and windows, house patterns, everything we manu- facture cheaper than ever be" fore.
 BLUFF CITY .4UNTBEIs co.
The record-union., 1897-02-15
e CASTLEMARYS FUNERAL.
The Church in Which 1t Was Held
Was Crowded.

NEW YORK, Feb. 14.-Probably no
person connected with the theatrical or
operate profession had such a tribute
paid to his memory in this city as was
displayed this afternoon at the funeral
services over the body of Count Ar
mand De CASTOR, known as Customary.
the opera singer who died at uhe y. ttro-
politan Opera-house on Wednesday
night while singing in Martha
The crowd that collected in and
around the French church of st. Vim
cent De Paul in West Twenty third
street was so large the forty policemen
on duty there could hardly control it.
More than 1000 persons were in the
church and many women swOoned. All
the members of the Metropolitan
Opera Company were present and NJ.
PlancOn, Nine. LiVinno and ViOlinist
Hasselbring participated in the elabo-
rate musical programme. The floral
tributes were profuse and came from
all the stars of the company and many
who knew not the dead man, but who
had applauded him at the opera. The
body was buried in Mount Kisco ceme-
tprV
The record-union., 1897-02-15
CANEA BOMBARDED.
The Governor and Foreign COnsuls Go
on Board the Ships.

CANEA. Feb. 14.-(Sunday evening)
The Christians occupied the nights
surrounding the town this morning and
began to lombard Canea- AS soon as
the firing commenced, Prince Gorgi
Berovitch, Governor of Crete, with
thirty recently enrolled Montenegro
gendarmes, boarded the Russian man
of-war The Greek Consul also en-
barked on another vessel. The Turks
from the fortress replied to the fire
from the Christians. 1t is reported that
the fighting was attended with blood
shed.
The Military Governor has been re-
moved from his post The foreign Con-
suls also embarked on board the vari-
ous vessels lying off the town of Canea.
The Greek Consul at Heraklion went on
board the Greek warship Nauarchos
Miaulis. The Christians at Heraklion
are also hurrying on board the ships.
Fighting occurred around Halepa Sat
urday After a brisk fusillade the Turks
routed the Christians and occupied Ak
rotiri Hills. The French Consul was
obliged to quit his country house at
Halepa and return to his official resi-
dence at Canea.
The record-union., 1897-02-15
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.
Office of the Pittsburg "Post" AL
most Totally DESTROYED.

P1TTSBURG, Feb. 1.-THE office Of
the Post" on Fifth avenue was almost
totally destroyed by fire this morning.
causing loss to the paper of about
S6U,OUO, we'll insured. The loss on the
building is not yet known. The only
other tenant in the building was
Gleason, the railroad ticket broker
whose loss is small. The Commercial
Gazette, next door TO the Post" was
in imminent danger, but good work by
the fire department saved that plant,
the only damage being caused by
water. The Commercial Gazette's"
presses and engines are for the time
being disa bled. The papers edition to-
morrow Will be printed at the Press"
office. Both the Post" and CONNER
cial Gazette were promptly rendered
the use and services of machines and
presses in the offices of the other news
papers in the city. The Post" Will
be issued from the office of the Lead
err until new plant can be tablish-
ed. The temporary business office Of
the Post Will be on the first floor of
the Leader building
The cause of the fire is not known. 1t
broke out about s o'clock and made a
f1ue of the freight elevator shaft, get
ting under big headWay before the
Watchman discovered it. 1t is sup
posed that electric wires. are response
bic for the conhagra tion. The flames
shot up the elevator shaft from the
first floor and in a very short time had
communicated to the entire building.
which was soon beyond hope of being
saved. On the fourth floor was the
composing room, where the linotype
machines (ten in number) were all 50
badly damaged that they will have to
be rebuilt Type and other material
were also a complete loss. In the edi-
torial rooms ON the third floor the COM
plete files of the paper were destroyed
and everything in the room drenched
with water or consumed by the flames.
The business office is a wreck. The
large safe broke through the floor and
chashed down upon one of the presses,
which was Immediately under it in the
basement. What damage the safe and
presses have sustained cannot be
known before o-morrow.
The record-union., 1897-02-15
McKINLEY'S SUNDAY.
He Spent 1t at Church and in His
Home.

CANTON (O), Feb. 14-It is not
definitely known whether President
Mckinley will s'3rt for Cleveland in
the morning or 4lei1 his visit to that
city for a day or .. But it is ap-
parent to his friends that he should
take rest and seek retirement from
the strain of receiving the army Of Wis
itors constantly besieging his home.
He has held up remarkably we'll under
the heavy task that has been placed
upon him since the election and always
gave the visitors free and hearty well
come. But his friends are impOrtuning
him to seek relief and rest, and it is
understood that he will be away from
his Canton home for at least part of
the time this week Definite plans have
ECt yet been announced.
The past week has been a remarka-
BILE one for visitors. The modest little
home has been almost constantly
crowded from early morning till late
at night, every day during the week,
and there was scarcely a time the Ma
jor could seek rest without leaving a
room full Of men waiting an audience.
The visitors came from all sections Of
the country, and their missions covered
every topic which could possibly be
referred to to a President-elect.
Some called to urge Cabinet claims
and more important posts of the dip
lomatic service. Some came TO offer
advice or seek assistance in matters of
legislation. But the majority came in
quest Of some smaller allotments of
patronage ranging from Postmasters
Up.
To-day the Major received scarcely
any visitors. He has always been
averse to attending to business mat
ters on Sunday, and at no time during
all of the busy campaign We're the Sun
days TO any considerable extent given
over to political consultations or polit-
ical work by the Majors household.
Congressman D. X. Watson Of Co
lumbus and c. a. Chickering of New
York, who We're late callers last night
accepted an invitation to accompany
the Major to church this morning. and
the First Presbyterian services were
attended.
Besides, the Major left the house for
a call on his mother and a drive with
Mrs. Mckinley.
The remainder of the day was spent
at the house with Mrs. Mckinley and
in reading.
Jerome Carly Of Philadelphia was a
late caller Saturday night He is deep
ly interested in the candidacy of Cen
eral j. II. Weidensham for Commits
sioner Of Pensions Mr. Carly is a
prominent attorney of Philadelphia.