The Forrest City times., 1897-02-12

A lamp is badly needed in the angle of the platform, at the northeast cor ner the Forrest City Hotel A rassen- ger came near being seriously injured at that point on dark night this week. Dr. Bells Pine Tar Honey cures coughs for young and old. Must cough medicines simply help you cough. Dr. Bells Pine Tar Honey helps you not to cough. See the difference Would you like to try it? It is particularly valuable to these who cannot stand the strain of coughing. Ask your drug glst fur it. Take no substitute There is nothing so good as Dr. Bells Pine Tar Honey. Good druggists sell it. F"r sale by D. c. Webb.
 Try the ire h Groceries at Germans. Madame E. Boyle removes to the old stand next week. The store has been remodeled. and the arrangements will aid materially in dis playing the goods in stock and the choice invoice of Spring Goods which will arrive in a few days The ladies are particularly invited to visit the new store at the old stand.
 Providence in his wisdom saw fit to remove from our midst last Wednes
 day morning little Frank. youngest child of Mrs. W. A. Nash. His death came like unto frost upon a morning glory. Only Saturday before he was hail and hearty. but his untiring child est energy and love for out door exer- else proved too great strain for his constitution and that dread destroyer. cronp. took him from mothers fond embrace. The parents have the sym
 pathy of THE TIMES in their sad bereavment.
 Shoes. Clothing. Hats. Trunks, etc, at actual cost. at A. Meyer X Co. One of the most pleasing society events of the season was enjoyed by lot of young folks. at the residence of
 MT and Mrs Merwin Wednesday, night The Phantom Dance" was the style
 of the event, and to the uncutured un. 1 derstanding of a TIMES representative. the participants looked more like ghosts than phantoms. The attire of
 the devotees seemed somewhat out If
 season. to our reporter, being the thin
 est covering usually used on beds and
 as the assembly began to arrive lie
 thought the white squadron had los
 their bearings and were floating up and | down Washington street. With no distinguishing marks of personality
 the timid reporter was backward aboui
 taking much action in he death.lik
 movements of the weird assembly. Si-
 lently. swiftly and mysteriously did
 the strange figures pass and repass and
 mlngle In the waltz Ill the costumes
 of the party blended save one mon
 strosity with paper mask who really | paraiZed the whole company of ghosts
 and would have put gow-row to flight This individual had the audacty and irreverence to claim for himself. ''tht
 only living remainder of the three
 Graces l'' Presto change! Off went the outer flowing garments. and there
 the home boys and girls in all their usual attractiveness emerged from the depth of mystery, and gladdened the
 heart of the shower of the Faber which | by this time had begun to think he
 was in the realm of Tam O'Shanter
 and how he would ever rid hls memo
 ry of the dreadful sight. The visiting ladies present were Misses Laura and l3ettle Govan, of harlanna, and Miss Mary Brown, of Fayetteville.
 Some of the handsomest and prettiest | Dress goods of the season 10 be seen at
 Russell. Fraham t Co.
 A sad sequel to mans weakness and pr0neness to evil was shown in the death of Jeff Davis Williams, who died in d cell in the county jail at an early hour Wednesday morning. Some time during the early fall Williams misappropriated some mortgaged cot
 ton and left the county. He was ar- rested and returned. tried, plead guilty of the charge and Was placed in jail to
 await tlie action of tiles circuit court. From the day of his confinement he started the cause which landed him in | the grave. that of starvation. As the days rolled by he was more persistent in his horrible resolution. refusing norishment and medical aid. Three days before his death he made a clean i statement of his guilt to his cell mate, tO the effect that his chances to es- cape the walls or the penitentiary were at minimum. and that he preferred death to that alternative. He was a
 white man about 40 years of age, with
 d family, who lives in Johnson town ship in their little home down on the | farm"