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OCEAN TRIPS.
Only direct line for Cottage CITY, Mass, and Port
land, No. steamers sail every week lny. except
Wednesday. from Pier No, -. T.. H., NJ . i. NJ, Tues
day, Thurfday, aud SATURDAY st"amrrN stop AZ Cottage
CITY IN rout,'; the new \. :. joins ENi'l.lS sails Mon
DAYS and Fridays for Portland direct Connections
made for liar HarlOr. Old brrhari, roland spring.
White Mountains. Il. John, y Il. and all Eastern sum
mcr rcsorts Steamers nttrd with every modern I'M
nruv.ment for comfort mud cpEv. n!rncc o: tourists.
III, most comf",tnbl" rput" Tor 'l y 'iAis East, n%co.'
sitatIuy no change, llCHrts mas he purchased at
Maine = :. Gomnany'A nnirr, No. ~ Broad way. at
ttn nric, So, 429 soptL St, uurOsltr the p:er, and
Thos cook & Son, 2hl AMI l221 li'"nlway
MOTH DEEMAS LIOYD ~STEAMSilP co,
N SIonT ROUTE 80 I.OANO' ANb CONTINENT,
Asst ENPHE STEAMERS.
Iabn Ia AlE, 1, INA " SRalc. tn, sept. z. 40 A.. NJ.
HawcL IN, ,Aug.al.l 10 y. NJ. Trnvr.T "scrt. IA, 10 A. NJ.
OELIuCHS * co. 2 bowling Green.
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BUILDINGS. Stores. Lofts. and onices-A large
ID number TO let ON Spruce, hickman. Fulton. john,
Maiden lane. DEFY. vesey. Barclay. Park place. Murray,
Warren. Chambers, Reade, Broadway. Nassau, vii,
liam. Gold, Clin, Pearl. Water, Front. South. and
many other streets. kuLASD& WHITING,
Il Beck Ian st.
DUILDISGs stores. lofts. Onlces, aud studloI 10 let
ID In d. sir 4bl- locations.
FOLSOM BROTHERS. $40 Broadway. cor. 18th st.
VNO LET-Three fine lofts. 25xlO0 It. eacn. 8 ngly or
i together. In the suh,'1n'iRl building. 43s Pearl st.;
an ONCE on second no.. eco - ha with them II dc.
sired; nne accommodations for q substantial printer
and photographer; from such the rent, to a large ex.
tent. would be taken in work; equally desirable for
(AlmOSD any manufacturing business. Apply on the
premises.
RTH Ayr ~sss.-LaTgs moor for ugGs business q
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ISLANlANlRLOCK ISLAND.

Steamers Shinnecock and Montauk
leave New York daily except sun.
ri. days. at . i. NJ, Saturdays at 1
=. NJ, from Pier 40. +. r., Pike slip.
= Saturdays boat does not 20 to Block
'or' Island, and Tuesdays, Thursdays,
and Saturdays boat does not go to
ISOuthOld,
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9th Av, a89.-LArge moor for ught bu1iness 81
dwellinEi hot and cold water.
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Albany Evening Line.
HARTFORD LINE

from Pier 81. East River. daily except sunday at 8 P.
NJ, for Connecticut River landings. connecting for
Worcester, Boston, ant all New England
points. Saturday excursions at reduced rates.
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Deal Beach.
Pc WV

MOUNTAIN BROOK HOUSE., near Delawa are Water
Vl Gap.-Delightfully located scenery unsurpassed
rates e6. s.. o. COSS, Marshali's Creek, Pa.
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flats and Apartments % get.
THE

ea2 WEST Esd ST. Ono of the most desirable
apartment houses in the city: absolutely %nreproof
all modern Improvements; restaurant of superior
excellence; partment furnished or unfurnished.
GEORGE y. ATHERTON. Manager.
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aeal estate fur Sale-New ssrseY.

IT A TO ~ A GOOD ARTICLE! 1t pays to In
i vest your money In n first class suburb. where peo-
pie are building their own homes and high.grade i'm.
proyements are being male.
The Forrest City times., 1897-10-08
ABOUT WOMEN.

Queen Victoria has conferred the dec.
Grafton of the Royal Red Cross upon the
following women nurses because of
their self-sacrificing devotion to the
sick and wounded: Sister Mary Ana
stasia Kelly, Sister Mary de Chantal
Huddon, Sister Mary Stanislaus Jones
and Sister Mary Helen Ellis.
Women are beginning to find flower
growing healthy, useful and profit
able occupation. There are about
5000 practical women florists in this
country. Three hundred own and
manage large greenhouses, and more
than 600 run large flower gardens
for commercial purposes.
In the recent appointment of Elsa
Eschelssohn as professor of civil law
at the University of Upsala. the first ap-
pointment of woman as a university
professor ever made in Sweden, that
country has taken a step forward and
emancipated herself from the old world
theory OF sex distinction in brain.
A small number of women have for
several years served as letter carriers
In England. A famous old postwoman.
who had been a carrier since the Queens
accession in 1887, died few days ago
at Cutsyke, near Leeds. During the
first 80 years of her service under the
British government she was never alb
sent from her duties for single day.
The Forrest City times., 1897-10-08
Sixtieth Anniversary.

The sixtieth anniversary of Western
Star Lodge, f. & A. NJ, was celebrated
in an appropriate manner at the Masonic
Temple, Little Rock, October 5. This
lodge dates its inception from October,
1887. 1t took part in the organization
of the Grand Lodge of Arkansas in No.
vember, 1883, together with Washing
ton Lodge, No. 50, of Fayetteville,
working under authority of the Grand
Lodge of Tennessee. Morning Star
Lodge, No. AZ, of the Post of Arkansas.
under the Grand Lodge of Louisiana.
and Mount Horeb Lodge U. d., of Wash
ington, under a dispensatiop from the
Grand Lodge of Alabama. and upon the
organization of the Grand Lodge of Ar
kansas received charter under the
Lame of Western Star Lodge, No. ..
Many prominent Masons from through.
ont the state were present aud took
part in the celebration.
The Forrest City times., 1897-10-08
More Liberia Victims.

A dispatch from Liverpool, England,
tells Of the arrival there of Otley Waite
and five children and g. w. Farmer and
wife, who were of the party OF SIS coll
ored emigrants who sailed from the
United States in 1896 for Liberia They
reached that place penniless, but ex-
pressed themselves as glad TO get out of
the promised land of plenty with their
lives Farmer is from this state. Pre-
vious to his departure for Liberia he
was tenant on the jeff Fletcher plan
tatioD 20 miles below Little Rock. He
had saved up something over 81 900 from
his earnings, and was doing we'll. but.
ike hundreds of others, he was carried
away by the colonization scheme and
concluded to emigrate Farmer is now
over go years of age, penniless in a
foreign land, and. like the old time
darlley of ante-bellum days, is longing
for 'the dear old southern home, where
be can rest his tired body in peaceful
slumbers on sunny ewes beneath the
shade of the sweet magnolia. and dream
of those happy. youthful days, down
on the farm" when slick schemers and
colonization agents were unknown.
Some friends will probably raise fund
to defray his expenses back to Arkansas.
The Forrest City times., 1897-10-08
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.
October Weather.

The following data, taken from the
records at the Little Rock weather
bureau, for the month of October, GOV.
ers a period of Is years, and will prove
of interest to meteorological students:
Temperature-Mean or normal. SO degrees.
The warmest month was that of 1881 with an
average OF 90 degrees. The coolest month was
that OF 1895. with average of 50 degrees
The highest temperature was 81 degrees, on
october .. 1895 The lowest temperature was
80 degrees, on October 2s. 1885: October 81, 1887
Average date on which hrst ''kiiling'' frost &C.
CURED in autum. November & Average date
on which last killing forst occurred in spring
March -
Precipitation-(rai and melted snow Aver.
age for month. $50 inches. Average number
OF days with .0l of an inch or more Z. The
greatest monthly precipitation was or inches
in 1887 The greatest amount of precipitation
recorded in any twenty-four consecutive hours
was 2.N inches. on October 2s-2e 1882 The
greatest amount OF snowfall recorded in any
tgenty-four consecutive hours (record extend
ing TO winter OF lssi-5 only was none.
Clouds aud weather-Average number Of clear
days, IS; partly cloudy days, 8; cloudy days, 8.
Wind-The prevailing winds have been from
the northwest. The highest velocity OF the
wind was 80 miles form the northwest on Octo-
her 1891
The Forrest City times., 1897-10-08
Sudden Death of Hon r. |. Goodrich

Hon Ralph l.. Goodrich, clerk of the
United States circuit and district courts
for the Eastern district of Arkansas,
died suddenly at his home in Little
Rock on the 9th inst. of heart disease.
Mr.. Goodrich was married just month
previous to his death to Miss Juliette
Churchill, daughter of ex-Gov. r. j.
Churchill. He came to Arkansas in
1859, teaching school until the breaking
out of the war, when he joined an Ar.
kansas regiment and fought through to
the end. He returned to Little Rock
in 1865 and was shortly thereafter ap.
pointed deputy clerk of the United
States courts at that place, and in 1879
was promoted to the clerkship of the
circuit and district courts. The de.
ceased was 32d degree X. C. c. II.
Mason, and one of the ripest scholars in
the United States. He was born in
Oswego, n. Y, in lS42.
The Forrest City times., 1897-10-08
FAILED TO PAY POLL-TAx.
And His Right to Serve Tax Equal
ization Board La Questioned.

And His Right to Serve on a Tax Equal
ization Board Is Questioned.
The question as to whether citizen
who failed to pay his poll tax is quail
fed to serve on tax equalization board
will probably be tested in the courts of
this state. The Pulaski county board
raised assessments on personal prop
erty in all in the neighborhood of ST.
600, 900, and several petitions have been
filed with the county court of that coun
ty protesting against the boards action.
The petition of the Waters Pierce Oil
company, whose assessment was raised
from s3,1o to $4,000, alleges that C. S.
Collins, one of the members of the
board, had not paid his poll tax, and
that said failure upon his part to pay
his poll-tax within the time prescribed
by law, deprived him of the privileges
of an elector and rendered him ineligi-
bic to appointment as a member of the
board, thereby rendering the proceed
ings of said board invalid Mr. Collins
contends that members of equalization
boards are merely officers de facto and
that his failure to pay poll tax within
the required time does not render the
boards assessments illegal. Should
the county court refuse to lower assess
ments it is probable an appeal will be
taken on the question of Mr. Collins
legal right to serve on the board. The
case is an interesting and peculiar one.
The Forrest City times., 1897-10-08
Negro Whitecapper Slain.

John Hamilton, colored. shot and
Instantly killed another negro named
Joe Martin at Anderson, a small village
on the Cotton Belt Hamilton was re-
Gently taken from his house at night by
o crowd of negro whltecappers and un-
percifully beaten and ordered by them
to leave the community. This he re-
fused to do, but swore out warrants
against his assailants, whom he knew.
He had come into town to have his
wounds dressed by a physician, and
while standing near the saw-mill he
recognized Martin, one of the mill en-
ployes, as one of the"cappers, and shot
him through the body with Win
chester. Hamilton surrendered to the
sheriff.
The Forrest City times., 1897-10-08
Crime Among Youth.

Gov. Jones has been requested by
Gov. Mount, of Indiana. to address to
each of the mayors In Arkansas a re-
quest for statistics showing the extent
OF crime among the youth OF the state.
The information is for the approaching
national convention of the Boys and
Girls National Home and Employment
association. TO meet at indianapolis De-
cember IA next. Gov. Mount says it
will be of great value In aiding the as
ISOLATION to bring before state legis-
latures series of laws for the purpose
Of suppressing crime among youths,
and OF equal Importance in furnishing
city councils with much-needed infor.
nation. The request has been com
piled with.
The Forrest City times., 1897-10-08
Found Dead in the Road.

RUssELLvILLE. Oct. Sit is reported
here that John c. Vaughan. the prose-
cutting witness against a Conway county
negro moonshiner, was found dead in
the road near Appleton. shot through
the heart. Vaughan has been mixed
up with the Illicit whisky business for
some time, and to save himself impli-
Gated the negro arrested short time
ago. 1t is said the negro informed
the moonshiners that unless he was
released he would give the whole gang
away, and some letters were sent to
Vaughan warning him not to return
to the neighborhood. Vaughan was
undoubtedly assassinated by the gang,
who feared he would tell all he knew
of their operations.
The Forrest City times., 1897-10-08
THE STATE IN BRIEF.

The express office at Brinkley was
destroyed by fire.
$4,000 Episcopal church is to be
erected at Helena.
Fort Smith has new incandescent
electric light plant.
John Messenger. aged "a, an old citi-
zen of Grant county. is dead.
Gov. Jones delivered an address at
the opening of the Stuttgart fair.
The state republican executive COM
mittee will meet this month.
The Kramer Mortimer Grain COM
pany, Little Rock, has Incorporated.
Lift Judson, said TO be notorious
counterfeiter. was arrested at Fort
Smith.
The axe-hapdle factory of Decker &
Co. at Black Rock vas destroyed by
fire. Loss, $4,000
Many sections of the state have been
experiencing water famine as a re-
suit of the long drouth.
Fred Kenneway, Pine Bluff con-
tractor, fell from the roof of house
and was Instantly killed.
The Prince good roads law was re-
jected by the Conway county quorum
court by vote Of % to-
A new postoffice has been established
at Jacobs, Jackson county, and j. X.
Odom appointed postmaster.
Commissioner Vincenheller was on
hand at the Monticello fair with a por
ton of the states horticultural display.
The United States Dish commission
will restock the Ouachita river with
game fish, to be put ia near Hot Springs.
Pulaski county cotton planter saws,
after trying the experiment, that cot
ton seed is worth more than $l2 a ton
as fertilizer.
The cotton gin OF ii. w. Burrow &
Son, of Conway county, together with
IS bales of cotton, went up Ia smoke
No insurance.
DIR. ID. s. Deaderick, citizen of Mann
moth Spring, claims tina. he has per-
fected cotton picking machine that
will be a success.
Candidates for the Eureka Springs
postmastership have decided to hold an
election and let the voters decide who
shall serve them
The Citizens Bank, OF Harrison, has
been organized with capital of $50, 600.
j. L. Knight is president and Charles
M. Greene cashier.
Gov. Jones has offered 800 reward
for 0rie Ennis, charged with the as
sassination of Marion Trutbman in
Lincoln county last February.
Ike Harris, colorcd, was convicted in
Federal court at Fort Smith, of COM
plicity in the Coretta train robbery,
which occurred three years ago.
Hon Thos Roles has been appointed
clerk Of the United States circuit court
for the Western district of Arkansas,
vice Gen. stephen Wheeler, deceased.
1t is reported that the receiver of
the Lott road has made financial ar
rangements to complete the Lott road
from Hot sptings 10 Wister Junction.
The lO-year-old son of M. j. Bishop,
near FL Dorado, while playing in bin
of cotton seed, fell into hole he had
dug in the seed and smothered to death.
The Forrest City times., 1897-10-08
Saws He Was kidnaped.

Elmore Mitchell, who mysteriously
disappeared about four weeks ago and
who was supposed by some to have been
drowned in the Mississippi river, has
been heard from. He telegraphed his
uncle at Conway from Wagner, l. T.,
asking for ticket home, explaining
his sudden disappearance by stating
that he was kidnapped in Memphis while
on his way home from Nashville by a
gang of train robbers. This story is
hardly probable, and Mitchell's actions
are as much a mystery as ever
The Forrest City times., 1897-10-08
The Cattle Quarantine.

Gov. Jones, in a communication to
the secretary of agriculture at Wash
ington, states that he has caused an in.
vestigation of the complaint. from Hi.
nois authorities that cattle with Texas
fever were being shipped out OF this
state, and it had been found that the
fever exists in a mild form in only one
county in the state. The governor
asked of the secretary that the quar-.
antine be not changed, stating that he
would use every means to see that the
present quarantine regulations are not
further violated.
The Forrest City times., 1897-10-08
MONARCH OF The SEAS.
The Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse
Smashes Records.
A PHENOMENAL PASSAGE TO PLYMOUTH.
Eighteen Hours and Eleven Minutes
Better Than the Fuerst Bismarck,
Which Held the Record Since
August, 1896.

New YORK, Oct. IA cablegram re-
ceived from London announces that
the new North German Lloyd steamer
Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse was sigh ted
passing the Scilly Islands light at l0:3e
a. IN. This announcement makes il
quite certain that the leviathan steamer
has broken all previous records held
to Plymouth and Southampton,
and brought the time OF passage
across the Atlantic to the English
channel very close to the much-tallxed.
of five days. The Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse sailed from New York for
Plymouth and Bremen on September
80, clearing the bar at 600 p. M, and
the lightship 20 minutes later. Allow.
ing four hours for the run from Scilly
to Plymouth, she was due there abou,
2:35 p. IN. This would make the
time of passage about 5 DAYS.
10 hours and Is minutes. This
is better by Is hours and
IL minutes than the time of the Ham.
burg liner Fuerst Bismarck, which ha.
held the Plymouth record of DAYS 9
hours and "a minutes since August,
1895, and the rate beats the Southamp.
ton record held by the American liner
st. Louis, of days, 10 hours and Ia
minutes. made last month, by about Is
hours, for had she been going to
Southampton she would have been due
there about $50 p. IN. The average
rate OF speed made on the passage
would be about 2L6O knots per hour,
with her arrival at Plymouth at the
time reckoned. The time here given
for the arrival of the big steamer is, OF
course, approximate, and she may make
still better showing.
The Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse, on
her arrival here on September 26. on
her maiden trip, made the passage from
southampton in days, 20 hours and
IS minutes, at an average speed of
21.39 knots. lowering the westward
Southampton record held by the st.
Paul by hour, Sc minutes. BY smash
ing the records both eastward and
westward she is now queen of the
| Southampton course.
The Forrest City times., 1897-10-08
CoIored Copvention.

Many leading negroes of the United
States were in attendance at the coll
ored carnival and convention, held in
Hot Springs under the auspices of the
Business Mems League of that city,
Prof. John l.. Blount. of Forrest City.
delivered the opening address, in which
he stated that the purpose of the con-
vention was to improve the coDdition
of the negro race generally by discuss
ing various topics of interest, and for
mulate plans tending to their educa-
tional and religions advancement
The Forrest City times., 1897-10-08
Carnival of Grim0

ST. Louis, Oct. MANY west enders
went home Tuesday night after the
Yelled Prophets parade and ball to
find their homes had been broken open
and jewelry, money and clothing stolen.
In one residence carpets were ripped
up and furniture overturned. These
burglars are said to have travelled
about in carriage, the wheels
which had rubber tires.
Down town men were held up and
robbed, and purses were snatched from
women.
On the south side occurred another
saloon hold-up.
The Forrest City times., 1897-10-08
More to Follow.

The following is the latest batch OF
Arkansas postmasters appointed: Era,
Miller county, j. ii. Martin, vice L. A.
STATE; Alread, Van Buren, county, j. w.
Millsap; vice B. Colvin; Hazel. Wash.
ington county, S. b. Hanna, vice w. A.
Cattron; Montreal, Sebastian county, }.
Ii. Shaw, vice J. f. Stewart; Esther,
Franklin county, M. c. Scott, vice c. L.
Mccartney; Marmaduke, Greene coun.
ty, c. Z. McAuley, vice NJ. Il. Huddle.
son; Independence, Baxter county, j.
A. Messick, vice J. w. Reynolds; Orch.
ard, Benton county, J. ii. johnson, vice
w. " teele
The Forrest City times., 1897-10-08
THE GREAT FRUIT CROP.
IL Has Brought Prosperity TO washin gton
and Benton Counties.

and Benton Counties.
Hon. w. q. Vincenheller, who re-
Gently returned to the Capital City after
q stay of several weeks in Washington
and Benton counties, says the farmers
In that section of the state are enjoying
prosperity, as the result of their own
thrift and enterprise, to such an extent
as was never known before They
started in with strawberries" said the
Colonel to reporter, (which brought
them $3.50 net per crate, yielding about
$4,000 to the growers. Potatoes are
selling at 81 a bushel Washington
county alone raised 10000 bushels of
wheat, which brought from so to 90
cents per bushel. The peach crop of
both counties was immense. The farm
ers got from 60 to 40 cents bushel for
their peeches in the orchard. And there
is the apple crop, which is the largest
ever raised. 1t may be roughly esti-
mated at half million bushels, and
the market is excellent, 81 per barrel
In the orchard being the prevailing
price. Orchard owners have deposited
in the Bentonville banks in the neigh
borhood of 100000. Rogers, Fayette-
vile, Bentonville, Springdale and other
towns are turned over to apple growers
and the streets are actually blockaded
with their wagons. In the western part
of Washington county it will require
100 teams 80 days to get the crop to
the railroad. The orchardists are not
required to seek market; the market
has come to them, and for the first time
in the history of the state buyers from
Canada, England, New York, Portland,
Philadelphia and other large markets
have come right into the orchards to
barrel and ship the fruit"
The Forrest City times., 1897-10-08
Killed in a Drunken Row.

At Little Rock r. ID. Miller, white,
was struck on the head with large
rock by John Williams, colored, and
died within an hour. The two men had
been drinking together, and in drum
ken condition got into rough-and-
tumble fight, when Williams picked up
large rock and hit Miller a terrible
blow, crushing in his forehead.
The Forrest City times., 1897-10-08
Reward For Bruce and Skidmore.

United States Marshal Cooper has
issued a circular giving description OF
Harve Bruce and Turner Skidmore, the
Pope county moonshiners and murder.
ers. There is reward O: $3.50 for each
OF the outlaws. with an additional re-
ward for Bruce offered by relatives OF
d +. Taylor, who was one of the depu.
ties assassinated by Bruce and his gang.
The Forrest City times., 1897-10-08
Must Be Taxed.

In answer to the equalization board
of Ouachita county, which addressed a
letter to him seeking information on
the subject, Attorney General Kins-
worthy says all unconfirmed swamp
lands that have been sold by the state
land commissioner should be taxed the
the same as other real estate.
The Forrest City times., 1897-10-08

Two pardons out of the ordinary were
recently granted by Gov. Jones Billy
Wild, who had been fined $50 on two
counts for selling liquor without a
license in Conway county, and who
died before the cases were finally dis
posed of, was granted remission of the
fines imposed by the circuit court.
The Forrest City times., 1897-10-08
A Contradiction,

LONDON, Oct 7.-Guy Nickalls, the
famous English oarsman. contradicts
the announcement that he and Mr.. j.
u. Gold, the stroke of the Oxford and
Leander Fights of the past two years,
are going to the United States in order
to coach the Yale crews
The Forrest City times., 1897-10-08
Striking for . Ten Per Get. Ra,se.

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. About 200 OF
the 800 employees of the Bradford mills,
conducted by John and James Dobson,
manufacturers of dress goods and
worsted cloth. have gone on strike be-
cause of the refusal of the firm to
grant an increase of ten per cent. in
wages
The Forrest City times., 1897-10-08

the ssollaeh that II not turned lhuH ~ ,
Eh4sine - ga the bfinv wave must l,e !
well iortIiied one The gastric apparatus car
be rendered proof against ssasesness will
that stomachic so popular among travellers hl
sea and land-Hostetter' Stomach Bitters
IL defends the system against malaria anc
rheumatism, and subdues liver complaint
constipation and dyspepsia.