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The Monticellonian., 1899-03-24
Fire Insurance Business,

The annual statement of the business of fire insurance companies in Arkan- sas for the year 1898, issued from the auditors office, shows the total amount collected in premiums was sS53, ,635, 46, while the amount of losses incurred was S434 ,656.Os, making the loss ratio to premiums collected less than 51 per cent. There are 63 companies doing business in this state, and they are re- quired by law to file annual statements with the auditor showing the amount of premiums collected, losses paid and insurance written
The Monticellonian., 1899-03-24
Appointed Iieutenunts.

Joseph Whitehead and M. A. Elliott have been appointed by President Me Kinley to the two second lieutenancies allotted to Arkansas under the new army bill Lieut.. Whitehead was cor poral in the First Arkansas Volunteers, and is brother to J. N Whitehead present assistant clerk of the Arkansas house of representatives Mr. Elicit is son of the present postmaster at Camden, and served first as sergeant and then as second lieutenant of Con- pany II, in the First Arkansas Volun- teers.
The Monticellonian., 1899-03-24
 They Donated,

A Jonesboro minister adopted novel plan to raise the sum of s100 for church purposes recently. After announcing the sum needed and using all the per suasive power at his command, he found that only $40 of the sloO had been pledged He then ordered the ushers to lock all doors, and allow no one to leave until the full sum had been subscribed. It is said some at first were inclined to "sit it outn with the good man, but the money was raised lust the same.
The Monticellonian., 1899-03-24
Senate Proceedings.

Little Rock March ls-During two hours session the senate passed the following bills:
 By Mir. Hardy=To amend an act relating to public improvements in cities of first and sec ond class. As amended, the act provides that where persons are notified to repair sidewalks and failing to do so. the city authorities may have the repairs made and assess the cost against the property.
 By MT King-To amend an act authorizing the enclosing Of certain lands along White river in Independence county.
 By MT. Buekner-Giying county judges au- thority to order the holding of elections for school directors under Australian ballot law.
 By MT Hammoek-Amending election law, to prevent frauds in election.
The Monticellonian., 1899-03-24
The House..

H. B leo (Jobel. making 1t unlawful to kil Mongolian pheasants in this state for a period Of five years, was read third time and passed.
 The insans asylum bill was taken up and MT Parker moved to strike out S30OO0 of the ss4. 0o0 for the building of two annexes and an in frmary Considerable time was consumed in discussing the amendment which was adopted and the bill made special order for March 2Oth
 II. E, 7s (Lefierl, relating to pensions of ex- Confederates. was read third time and passed. The bill provides that ex-Confederates own ing less than S5o0 in value Of real and personal property shall be considered indigent and pen sionable; also that widows of ex-Confederate soldiers who are over 65 years old and have not remarried, shall receive a pension of s25 per annum.
 II. E 259 tHead} authorizing the sale and transfer Of judgments and of causes of action upon which suit has been brought, was read third time and passed.
The Monticellonian., 1899-03-24
Told to Get Out.

James Boston, the labor leader, who is said to be at the head of the present coal strike in this state and the Indian Territory, has been ordered out of the Territory by Indian Agent Wisdom, on the grounds that he is "a nonresident, and menace to the peace of that sec tion." Boston claims this is scheme of the operators, but says it will not win the battle for them. as the best miners are already leaving the territory for other fields.
The Monticellonian., 1899-03-24
 Must Leave the state.

Gov. Jones pardoned Ali Crum and Will Shipley, serving terms in the pen itentiary, on condition that they leave the state. They were convicted in Law renee circuit court in 1896, on change of venue from Independence county, of arson and assault with intent to kill, and sentenced to four years.
The Monticellonian., 1899-03-24
Says She Was Hypnotized.

Dr. Chambers, the spiritualist who ran away from Texarkana with the wife of a wealthy merchant, was held without bond on the charge of abduc- tion. The woman testified that Cham bers kept her hypnotized the entire time she was with him. Chambers de- serted a wife and four children when he left Texarkana, and since his arrest three other women have written the authorities, claiming to have been law fully married to him in different parts of the state.
The Monticellonian., 1899-03-24
Killed His Neighbor.

Luther Walker, a Mississippi county planter. was shot and instantly killed by T. II. Musgrove, The men had been neighbers for years, living on quarter section of land which they owned in common. They fell out over division of the property and the killing was the outcome
The Monticellonian., 1899-03-24
:'':INNSAS LEGISLATURE.
unty Uniform Text Book Bill Passed in the House by
 Big Majority.
SENATE PASSES NEW STATE HOUSE BILL
Local Measures Passed-Confederate Sol- diers Owning Less Than Five Hundred Dollars of Real and Personal Property Declared Indigent.

Below is given the actual business transacted by the legislature the past week. Such proceedings as reading of bills, defeated amendments, etc, are eliminated. This report will enable the reader to keep up with the business done and laws enacted without wading through a detailed and voluminous ac- count of the proceedings.
The Monticellonian., 1899-03-24
MONTICELLO, ARKANSAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 2f, 1899

gued against the measure, and Messrs Rector of IZard. Brooks and Casey in favor Of it.
 The bill failed 10 pass-ayes 8, noes 80
 MT Letler's bill amending Confederate pen sion law, being special order, was taken up
 Mir Humphreys offered the following amend ment. which was adopted, and the bill set for March 18th:
 That the word indigent as used in this act shall mean any person owning less than $500 in real estate and personal property"
 H. B. l9 tReece) providing that county judges shall appoint boards Of three equalizers for eacn township instead Of three for each county as at present, failed to pass.
 H. E. l9s tWelton) providing that counties shall not be liable for mileage per diem or other costs of witnesses subpmnaed on either side unless attorney makes afidavid that said witnesses are material. was defeated,
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1899-05-06
CALDWELL VS.. WALKER

Chancery Court, Washington
County; 4. H. Longino, Chan
ceIlor, 80,
Miller. Smith & Hirsh and Cal
vim Perkins for appellant; 4erger
& Percy for appellee,
Whitfield, j, Ii profound le-
rarability, were all that Gas need.
ed.to save ..n utterly bad cause
1e appellant might entertain
hone. But the facts in this rec
ord are beyond legal medlcament
and bring the case squrely within
the condemnation of Letchford Y,
Mclean, 50 Miss, and May v
Voight, 60 Miss, 500, as appel
lant was duly advised at the out
sci bv learned counsel.
II is said that there has been
here nm ex-post facto purgatlon OF
fhe actual fraud tainting the orlgl-
mi CONVEYANCE, and the Oriental
Bank v. Hoskins, 3 Met, 532,
and IIutchings V. Sprague, I New
Hamp., 469, and Thomas v. Good
MIN. l2 Mass, 40, are mainly re-
lied an tc+nFPnt the view. In
fbo first case there was a new
sl.roenent" =" bv reason of which
t6e original paper stipulatlng for
4 conveyance had become unlm-
nortant, and the whole discussion
lbows that it was the validity OF
fbe new agreement which protect
ed the party. Hutchins V. spra-
one. m Is severely criticised in a lat
fer case IN New Hampshire
Boardman V. Cushing, u n H.,
to5: and in Albee V. Webster, 10
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1899-05-06

Fhird: 1t proves that the Gov
ernor was finally forced, against
bis will, to keep his promise in
part and that under pressure a
conditional pardon wos at last
signed, which is disgrace to him,
and an insult to Miller, to the
memory of Mcdonald, and to the
friends Of both.
Luckily for Mississippi, Nc
Laurin's reign is fast drawing to u
close. Each day, however, adds
some new and startling scandal to
the long list that has gone before,
From has drunken orgies in the
city of New York, the subject OF
metropolitan comment, to his CON
ditional pardon of lvo Miller, he
stands out as the
coBsAIR OF MISSISSIPPI POLITICS.
with One virtue and thousand
crimes.
Ills one virtue, itl almost need
less to say, consists in "eatlng
Greens with u knife, while his
DoHucal crimes are too numerous
and, aagrant for present discussion
or immediate mention. bolivar
Democrat.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1899-05-06
n. H, 1862, 80; Hutchings

n. H., 1862, $40; Hutchings v.
Sprague, and Thomas V. Good
win, supra, are both said by Chief
Justice Parker to hold merely
that: CAS- sale may be fraudulent
as to creditors on account of a
secret trust accompanying 1t, but
if by a subsequent agreement, be-
fore the creditors interfere, the
secret trust is discharged, and the
sale is otherwise valid, the fact
that the trust once existed will
not operate longer to vitiate the
sale, the fraud being purged. "
And Mr.. Bigelow says q Bigelow
on Fraud, p. 40S) that where
''after the conveyance has been
made and before any steps have
been been taken against it by the
creditor, a reoonveyance is made,
this is proper, and there is noth-
ing then for the statute to operate
upon" and concluding review Of
the authorities he says: "On the
whole" (p. AID Kit is difficult to
sustain the doctrine of purging
fraud, in its ordinary manifesto
ton, and it is better to leave the
parties to the unlawful transaction
in the meshes OF their own net.
The true view is that it is not
properly speaking any eX post
facto pnrgation of frauds a doc
trine which would encourage
fraud and put q premium upon
its perpetration, Cases which 9 -
said to illustrate that 4,,;no "ro ,'r .
= lA:eN Understood, and simply
, nold that where a conveyance
| which is voidable for fraud has
has been abandoned, and before
the rights of third parties inter-
vene, q new and independent con
vevance is made in good fAth. 1t
will be upheld not because of any
supposed purging of the fraud
from the old, but because of the
good faith and legality of the new
conveyance. But whatever the
true doctrine it has no possible
application on the facts of this
case, 1t is wholly immedlcable;
We see no good to be subserYed
by setting out at large the facts.
- Affirmed.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1899-05-06
TnE MO AnLLER PARDON

The release OF Iyo Miller
through Executive clemency adds
another laurel to the gubernator-
ial crown(9 Considered in the
l$ht of the unanswered charges
o. the public press, it roscues sew
eIal facts from the realm Of doubt
and uncertainty.
FIRST 1t proves that the
Governor of fhe State had, in
Violation Of The law OF the land
psa AL The prQprieties, promised
pardon in advance to man charg-
"a with murder, provided bo
s, would plead guilty before the cir
cult court.
sfcond proves that this re-
ularkable Governor" became
alarmed, after this remarkable
|; promise was given, at the inhuen-
tal opposition 10 the pardon. and
s tlen violated his promise outright
ior io many months by keeping Mil
toi isI ilncarcopated in the State peni-
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1899-05-06
How would it do to send the

How would it do to send the
negroes to the Philippines, and let
the fittest survive Public .opin7
ion seems to be feeling its way in
that direction. The St. LOUIS
Republic proposes that the army,
in the Philippines be REINFORCED
with negro soldiers, and consider
atelv adds that their families
might be sent along to prevent
them from becoming dissatisfied
and suffering from the homesick-
ness which makes white soldiers
80 unwilling to remain in service
lin the Islands.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1899-05-06
IN ONE EAR AND OUT
THE OTHER.

is where the advice to insure your
property often goes to, but when
your home has been reduced TO
ashes, and You have nothing to
recompcn,e YOU for yoLr loss.
you will wish you had needed our
warning. We will insure You at
a low premium, aud see that YOU
get your money promptly in case
Of fire.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1899-05-06
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El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-21

whispered-and loudly in tourist and
Euglish circles in Africa-that she
very often takes hand in the washing
and that she scrubs and rolls the
clothes with the skill and strength OF
the b. st of them.
She also insists upon making her own
beds. This may be because "the
Kruger" needs an untroubled pillow, a
sheet without wrinkle to ease him
from the arduous duties of scheming to
make empires and millions, but if she
does the rest of the hard work 1t Is
probable she makes the bed also to
save the penny-or whatever the
money Is in that land.
When her husband has state guests
to dinner, this is, indeed, the time the
good lady shines; here she shows the
stuff of which she is made, and does
honor to her millions and her position
as wife of the president.
Not at the foot or the head of the
table, but in passing the dishes. 70
no butler will she ever trust SO great q
responsibility. There might be slip,
q mishap, that she couldn't guard
against. So. shining and splendid, with
large white apron over her capacious
form, she waits GU each guest.
"Surely," she argues, mo hostess
can take better care of guest than
this."
Every plate is then heaped to per-
fiction, each glass kept filed to the
brim, no slightest wish from any one
goes unnoticed.
II any one Is rash enough to extol to
"Auntie' Kruger, as everyone calls her,
the glories of her wealth and the i'm
mense amount of pocket money she has
to control, she would tell that person
secret, one of which she Is proud, one
in which she glories.
1t is this: That she and the presi-
dent have never lived beyond their
"coffee money"
And that amounts to two thousand
dollars year allowed them by the
government!
So, you see, they never touch the
other great capital, never put their
hands on the income of one of the
greatest fortunes in the world!
Where it will go no one knows.
Like many other great millionsires,
Dom Paul may leave it to persons who
will enjoy throwing it away on all I'M
subjects that come under their
notice.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-21

rum to thaw us out" Jesse used to say
when telling the story.
On night in 1861 an order came by
telegraph from the war department to
keep steam up in the ferry boat Puri-
tan, and await further instructions.
At o'clock in the morning train
Numbered into the Garrisons station
nd President Lincoln walked to the
ferry-boat and ordered Austin to pro-
ceeq to Cozzen's dock, where he met
Gen. SCOTT.
Austin never tired showing the uni
forms that the forty cadets who left
West Point at the beginning of the
civil war discarded on the boat. He
gathered them up and they are now
among his effects. Grant, Sheridan
and Sherman all knew the old boat
man.-New York Herald.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-21
THE OLDEST PILOT.
This Man Once Saved the Life of
Robert e. Lee.

| Jesse Austin, the oldest pilot on the
Hudson river, was buried at Garrisons,
| N. Y, Monday. Many prominent re-
sidents of nearby places attended the
funeral. Had he lived until January
Austin would have been 100 years old.
Austin was born eight years before the
Military Academy was founded. The
greater part of his life was spent on
the river between GarrisOns and West
Point, and for years he met nearly
every body who visited the academy.
His first ferry WAS a rowboat. The
commanders of the garrison then lived
on the east side of the river, and they
landed at Arnold's Point, named after
Benedict Arnold. Most of the provi-
sions of the garrison were also ferried
across.
tin 6nally rugged up scow that was
worked by horse power. According to
q local legend the scheme was aban-
doned during q visit of Jefferson Davis,
then secretary of war, to the academy,
in 1857. Austin was ferrying . dis
tinguished party of military men
across the river when the machinery
the river. The boat nearly capsiZed,
and the man who Afterwards became
President of the Confederacy had q
narrow escape from death in the Hud-
son river.
Austin saved the life of Robert e.
Lee when the latter was superinten-
dent of the military academy. Lee
was attending q party in Garrisons,
and ats O'Clock on q winters morning
got Jesse out of bed to row him ACROSS
to West Point. Ice was forming on
the river, but the men braved it.
When half way across Austin lost his
bearings and couldn't make shore.
he kept rowing to avoid freezing to
death, while the passenger sat wrap
ped in long cloak, and stamped his
feet to keep warm.
The boat ran against heavy ice foe
and Lee, thinking it was shore. jumped.
Austin dragged him from the water,
and rowed toward glimmer of ligh'.
1t proved to be sentinel's lantern.
and the soldier helped both men up
the hill. st took more than q pint of
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-21
MRS. KRUGER
Husband Worth $25,OOO,OOO: She
Does the Cooking And Makes the
Rods
cial Correspondence of the HERALD.


From the philadelphia Press
Mrs. Kruger, wife lof the president
of the Transvaal Repu bile, is unhand-
some.
She is also economical. though the
famous husband has capital of S25,-
600, 600.
She is so rich that would take the
greatest effort to spend her income in
vested, as the capital is in great pay
ing interests. To do this she would
have to live in almost barbaric splen-
dor, but, bless you, she even does her
own cooking.
1t il probable that her acute subtle
husband approves of her style of liv-
ing.
If he objects, none returning from
that far land has ever heard of it. 1t
is more tnan probable tn at by just such
thrifty methods Mr.. Kruger himself
rose into his present eminence.
But think of it!
A fortune of s25 100000 and to do
ones own cooking!
To fuss and fume and fret and stew
over q boiling stove in q hot, hot land,
rather than spend the money on a
madi! And not only to cook. for it is
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-21

Hughes-Saddles. lib Utah st.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-21
Here and There.

Finest line of tablet and composition
books at Twins.
New wheels for rent at r. s. Tan
ner's, lib Oregon St.
O'Brien Coal Co. sell pitch paper,
lime, cement, plaster. etc. .lf.sf
The burning question is about the
millinery display at Posener's.
Pillsbury's Best Flour is the best in
the world at Ell Paso Grocery Co.
Ask for "EL PAsO TRANsFER,'
the best cent CIGAR on the marke t
Use Pillsbury's Vitos the ideal wheat
food. For sale at the Ell Paso Grocery
Co. az@ T.
The great success of Chamberlain's
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea remedy
In the treatment of bowel complaints
has made it standard over the greater
part of the civilized world. For sale
by ell druggists. 80 7 -sl ac
"Best on the market for coughs and
colds and all bronchial troubles; for
Group it has no equal,' writes Henry
One Minute Cough Cure. Fred Schae-
fer, druggist.
"They are simply perfect" writes
Rob't. Moore, of La Eayette, Ind, of
DeWitt's Little Early Risers, the
'famous little pills" for constipation
and all liver ailments. Never grippe.
Fred Schaefer, druggist. ~,
DeWftt's Little Early Risers per-
billioush ess, nervousness and worn out
feeling; cleanse and regulate the entire
system. Small, pleasant, never grippe
or sickep.-''fsmous little pills. ''Fred
Schaefer, druggist.
Chester 81. Brown. Kalamazoo, Mich,
says: "Kodol Dyspepsia Cure cured
me of severe case of iudigestion; can
recommend it to all dyspep-
tics" Digests what, you eat without
aid from the stomach. and cures dys-
pepsia. Fred Schaefer, druggist.
E. E. Turner, Compton, No., was
cured of piles by, ,DeWitt's Witch
Hazel Salve, after suffering seventeen
Years and trying over twenty remedies
Physicians and surgeons endorse it.
Beware of dangerous counterfeits.-I
Fred Schaefer, druggist. ss.,..s
For wounds. burns, sealds, sores, skin
disease, and all irritating @eruptions;
,othipg SO soothing and healing as |
0eWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. Mrs. |
emma Bolles, Mstron, Englewood MUIR |
cry. Chicago. says of it: when all |
Use falls In healing our babies, it will |
ure." Fred Schaefer, druggist.
Kodol Dyspepsia Cure is scientific |
having the endorsement of |
minent physicians and the medical |
'ress. It "digests what you eat" and |
positively cures dyspepsia. M. A. Ket-
on, Bloomingdale, Tenn. says it cured |
lin of Indigestion of ten years stand
nR. Fred Schaefer, druggist. ID
There's always hope while there's |
)ne Minute Cough Cure. "An at
ack of pneumonia left my lungs in bad |
hape and 1 was near the first stages of |
One Minute Cough Cure |
cured me.' writes Helen |
Bismark, N. D. Gives instant |
'elief. Fred Schaefer, druggist.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-21

Have you seen Posener's Millinery
opening? It is the topic of converse
ton.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-21

Use Pillsrury's Vitos. the ideal wheat
food. For sale at the Ell Paso Grocery
Co.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-21

DAILY HERD 15c per week.