The Forrest City times., 1900-02-16
LOCAL ADDENDA.

cough and is pleasant and safe to take. It prevents any tendency of cold to result Tn pneumonia.
 Mir N. Harris. of BrinkIey, Ark, formerly of Water Valley, Miss. who had been for five years the official watch inspector for the gfeat l. c. Ry., has just opened up new repair shop in the grocery store of M. A. Brown. Blanton Building. and located in For rest City He will do all kinds of re- pairing of fine watches, clocks and jew. elry. Every watch'or piece of jeweIry left for repair will be fixed same day, if customer desires. Best of reference.
 A. D. Allen, of Little Rock. was reg istered at the Belser. Wednesday. The chat between Mir. Allen and our senior must have been pleasent, for it was the first meeting since they manipulated the "leaden messengers of thought in the '70s. Time has dealt kindly with Mir. Allen, and the tickle Goddess of Fotune smiled her sweetest upon him. He is superintendent Of the Consumers Cotton Oil Co.'S mill in Little Rock, and is on a tour among the mills.
 BUGGIEs-We have two carloads of Buggies, just in from Mannfacturers- bought for cash-that we will sell from Sl0 to SIS less than the same bug gies can be bought for in Memphis Our freight from manufac.ories is no more than local from Memphis, there fore we can save you S5 on each buggy. We have no big rent CT clerks salary to pay and can save you another s5. Call and look at them before you buy.
 FORREST CirY BUaGY Co.
 The sequence of w. G. Melee, sent up from this county for a term of ten years for violating the age of consent statute, has been modified by the Stu preme Court to three years. He was ably and successfully represented by Hon R. J Williams. and iu view of the fact that McBee has family comI osed of a wife and children who are said to be almost in destitute cir cumstancesa and solely dependant upon him. the modification is numerously endorsed.
 THE TIMES job department has just received series of " Ipvitation Script :" type made specially for all kinds of Invitations-weddng, reception, par ty, balls, etc, etc, and 10 initiate per fectly the finest steel or copper plate engraving We can assure patrons of perfectly handsome and latest style invitation. and we solicit orders of this kind specially, because our prices are about onethird what you will pay in the cities for invitations no pretter than ours.
 Conductor Hawley of the log train on the Choctaw, met with a serious ac cident Tuesday afternoon near Widen CT. He was experimenting the loading of the train with logs, when the skid on which the logs were rolled broke, the end striking Hawley. throwing him some distance. cutting and bruising his face and body frightfully. He was brought to this city and carried to the Hotel Divine. where Dr. Alley cared | for him until he was conveyed to his family at Brinkley on the night train. The meeting for the purpose of dis cussing a public library for Forrest City l was held last Monday afternoon in the home of Mrs. Louis Rollwage. Owing | to tLe InclemeDcy of the weather the
 attendance was small. The subject
 was fully discussed. Resolutions pre-
 pared and adopted by a committee at q previous meeting were adopted at the
 meeting Monday. Three persons were
 appointed to investigate the availabili- tty of certain lots in town cons ldered suitable locations for d library build l ing. Two persons were appointed to I find out from architects the prices of designs they will submit The meet.
 ing adjourned to meet Monday night,
 Feb. 26lh, at the Courthouse, hoping
 for d full attendance.
 Jim Clifton, colored, was arrested yesterday on charge of burglary
 which was committed at Wheatley | Clifton having broken into the resi-. dencr of Geo; Smith. where he go,
 away with pistol and 95 cents Tn mo-
 ney, and 1. Goldberg & Co.'s store
 where he was caught iu the ac. of steal.
 ing a silver watch and Sl l5 in cash l Goldberg found the negro in his store
 and ran 10 get neighbor, Prof Nall,
 who came to his assistance with shot
 gun. Going in on Clifton by the rear
 door. Prof. Nall shot at the man twice, infiicting slight flesh wounds on the ] leg. Clifton was arrested by Dsputy | Murphree about two and half miles | WcSl OA " ucdtity, dL W aSu itHitUtlu l house. When the deputy came upon Clifton he had Winchester shot gun | across hIs knees and revolver m his pocket, and resisted the officer vigor. ouslv. who, .however. fortunately got the drop on the negro. and with the as sistanch of some bfriends overpowered him. He now languishes in the county jail.
 Cant R. Fl. Morrow of the iIl-fated steamer Lorna DoQne. passed through the city Friday afternoon on his way to his home at Levesque in Cross county l He was just from the wreck of his steamer which lies sunken on sand. bar some one and half miles below Madison, in the St. Francis river. In conversation with a TIMES reporter, the captain stated that he was using every effort to raise his boat and seemed sanguine of ultimate succrss The captain recently purchased the Doope at St. Leuis for Sl700 and She was on her maiden trip up stream, in