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All chnngei foe advertisements to appear In Sunday' Gazette ibotild be left at the office before 2 o'clock this afternoon. SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 8. Idaho is about to insist upon admis sion to the Nine prominent Republican editors nave been subsidized with a federal office by the National Administration. Ex-Senator Kellogg of Louisiana declares he will not be a candidate (or Congress to succeed Representative Gay, Rhode Island, already distracted with politics, will vote on tho twentieth on a proposition to repeal the prohibi tion amendment. The Chicago detectives have not only to catch Tascott, but to prove that be murdered Sqell.

It is not likely, from present indications, tbat they will ever do either. Aw eminent engineer's examination of the broken dam above Johnstown condemns its construction in the se verest manner, as being in violation of (every principle of engineering art. The Alabama Statu Health Officer reports there is little danger of an outbreak of yellow fever in the South this season. This is encouraging, and It is to be hoped it is well founded. Dick Kerens, who is gener ally accredited with knowing a thing or two about the inside working of the Administration, thinks Warner Miller will be sent as Minister to Russia at an "early day.

A special election will be held in Ashley County today for Clerk and 'Treasurer. Mr. R. R. Bradford and C.

Wilson are the Democratic candi dates and are being given enthusiastic support. Gov. Hill bas vetoed the high Uoense bill recently passed by the New York Legislature. Gov. Hill doesn't seem to be in favor of anything that represents" a moral or reformatory principle.

The twine trust, liko the bagging trust, is beginning to learn that the faming community is not so easily fleeced as it had at first supposed. Both went in to shear and are about to come out shorn. Great is Chicago and great are her people! Whatever she undertakes elie carries through. Chicago mail. Then they ought by all means to be Induced to undertake in real earnest the exposure of the Cronin assassins.

The Stephens Gazetteer expresses the opinion that "if let alone by the politicians the negroes and the whites would never have any serious trouble." This is true. Politics is the most fruitful source of such trouble. It requires two sessions of the General Assemby every year to satisfy the Legislative cravings of the little State of Rhode Island. The Legislature of Massachusetts meets annually and is in session6 more than half the time. These are over-governed States.

Ltnch law is never to be approved, but there are times when it seems less obnoxious than at others. New York Tribune. The further away it occurs the more obnoxious it seems to the Tribune and it is superlatively obnoxious only when it occurs below Mason and Dixon's line. The following from the New York Herald will command National approval: Kvery man who loves Ireland Is interested in hunting down, the slayers of Dr. Cronin.

Every man who loves the United States Is interested in breaking up tbe s'ieu conspiracies that develop such asstsslns. The Philadelphia Record takes a phllosophio view of the next Demo- cratio Presidential nomination, and expresses the idea as follows: When the time shall come for naming to next Democratic candidate for the Presidency the peopla who are in tho habit of attending to this year's business this year and next year's business next year will have something interesting- to say. The attempt meantime to kill Cleveland off by prematurity has been happily defeated by his own modesty and good judgment. Sufficient onto the day Is the evil thereof. Why should present political discussion be cumbered by guessing at unnecessary, on-hatched and nnbatcbaole enigmas? day and the most of them bad writ ten Indorsement from former employers.

I hired and ship pea Kock five men, and Mr. Hendricks also sent several. I left him there with, at least a carload of men ready to come if wanted by the contractors, and I will hero say enough ten-hour carpenters can had in St. Lotus today to do all the work in Pulaski County for a lifetime Nearly all the men who went put on the strike in March are now idle, and men from outside places are doing the work. I talked with several leading contractors, there and they are all working ten hours with no particular scale of wages.

The strike was a failure in St. Louis, as it will be R. Richardson. BORROWED ITEMS. Capt.

w. S. Jeter of Pine Bluff was In Washington, D. last Wednes day. J.

E. Prindle has been appointed postmaster, to succeed J. P. Cowen, democrat, at rerryvuie. W.

Meeckle has given himself up to the Sheriff of Logan County to stand trial oa the charge or selling whisky without license. A rat attacked a little child of Will jam Anaerson, near raragould, one night last week and bit it severely be fore assistance tame. Col. T. J.

Andrews of Cleveland County, a once prominent member of the Agricultural Wheel, has removed to Texas to reside permanently. The Waldron Iieiwrter says it bas beed unable to find where the reported suit of Sheriff C. M. Wise for the Col lector's office has been brought. The publication of tho Daily Echo, Eureka Springs has been resumed by Mr.

A. B. Adams, one of tbe best all around newspaper men in the State. The Jackson Democratic one of the best in the State, still keeps up its organization and holds regular meetings. Certainly a good example.

The election of a judge in Logan County, a clerk and treasurer in Ash ley County will take place today, to fill vacancies caused by death and resig nation. D. B. Russell of Morrilton, formerly Marshal of the Eastern District of Arkansas, has been appointed a special agent of the General Land Office, Washington, at a salary of $1500. Cadet Charles E.

Hudson, at the Naval Academy, stands thirty-fifth in the six year class, and will surely be one of the men to be retained in the Navy. He is a son of lion. Mat Hud son of Pine Bluff. The business men alone the Iron Mountain Road south of Little Rock feel very much put out because the "Cannon-ball" mail has been disco tinued. They say it is a great loss and inconvenience to loem.

Pensions have been granted to Ark ansans as follows: Original invalid: John W. Brown. Increase: Granville Fisk, Justin Van Echauta. Original widows: Sarah E. Summers, former widow of H.

Merritt; minor heirs of Hezekial Merritt. The commencement exercises of the High School, Memphis, were held last night. Among the graduates were the following young ladies from this State: Misses Georgia Harry, Lena May Cum by. Etta Clyde Revell, Mary Louise Clopton, and Hattie Waters. A Logan County citizen possesses a treasured heirloom of revolutionary time.

It is a tea tray and belongs to Dr. W. A. Heartsill of Morrison's Bluff and is over 100 years old. It was used at the wedding of his grand mother and that of his mother.

The Texarkana Independent rises to remark: Whatever may be said of Powell Clayton, it is certainly true that he has the ear of the Administration, as every Federal appointment thus far made in Arkansas was on the recom mendation of the committee of which he is at the head. Judge R. D. Hopkins, an old attorney and newspaper man, aud the senior author of Hopkins Morgan's Digest of Arkansas Reports, is spending the summer at Eureka Springs, where he will probably locate. Of late years he has lived in Florida.

Last January be was injured in a shipwreck on the Gulf and comes back to Eureka to regain his health. Now is the season of the year when tho bed-Bpring man evades the county and charges the farmers four or five prices for a piece of twisted wire; then comes the man with a patent churn, another with a fruit jar, and so on, until the whole army of agents will have invaded the field with the book and map agent always in tbe thickest of the fray. William Phillips, of Lee Township, Pope County, is an ex-Confederate soldier, broken in health and needy, and "too proud to beg, who would suffer all the pangs of hunger until his great big heart would cease to beat before he would make his necessities known." His needs came to the ears of F. Darr, another soldier, and in a short time he had raised an amount large enough to fill bis old comrade's present wants. Among other misrepresentations it is being puDiisnea, says tne times, that Forrest City has a "blind tiger." This is not true, and Republicans and Democrats alike will so testify.

We would naturally think that Arkansas papers especially would oe cautious about publishing any misrepresenta tions of this town, as it can do them no good and will do harm. The peo ple here are sorry they cannot get justice from the press. The Eureka Springs Times gives the following account of a remarkable meeting in that city: Among the pas sengers who came into Eureka Springs yesterday was an old lady named Lydla Marshall. She came from an interior town in South Carolina, and was in search of her sister, Mrs. Jose phine Wright, who resides here.

A bus driver at the depot knew Mrs. Wright's place mL residence, and assisting. Mrs. Marshall into his conveyance, he rapidly drove ber to the door of her eister, on the Mrs. Marshall is 79 years of age; and Mrs.

Wright is 75, had not seen each other for oi years. It is needless to say that there was much joy at the meeting, and that the two old ladies are now having a nrst- rate time talking; with each other of their experiences during the many years' of separation, Mrs. Marshall will I probably remain here daring tbebal The building committee, Capt. J. T.

West, S. W. Brundidge, and W. Y. Foster, have received the plans for the Hope Female Seminary, says tbe Oa zette.

They were designed and drawn by C. L. Thompson, architect of Little Rock. It will be a beautiful structure. admirably adapted to the purpose for which it is intended.

Bids for build ing will at pnee be advertised for and the work will commence as soon as the contract caa be made. It is expected tbat the building will be completed and the Seminary opened about the first of September. The Father. Interfered. Special to The Arkansas Gazette.

Ravenden Spring 8, June 7 Yesterday the two sons of M. A Brooks, a farmer residing three miles from this town, became involved in an altercation. The younger son being worsted in tbe meleo, their father in terfered and becran striking the older son. He turned on the old man and knocked him down and badly dis located his loft shoulder Three physicians have been unable to reduce the dislocation. The boy fled.

The son of P. B. Allison, who lives near this place, had a similar injury He is now all right. POLICE COURT. Hon.

U. IJInnks, Judge. Two very sheepish (except as to colorV looking negro boys, named Ed and Will Weathers, came trembling beneath the accusing eye of the Ty coon yesterday afternoon, in com panywithalot of other boys Ed had made too much noise last Wednesday night out at Bethel University when the closing exercises of that institution were being presented. He and the other boys sat out on the steps and ran a rival exhibition, at least so far as noise was concerned. A colored man named Davis came out and requested them to keep better order or leave A fuss ensued between him and Ed Weathers, in which each col lared the other.

About this time the younger brother, Will Weathers, was seen prancing around with a rocK try ing to get a clianco to hit Davis. Aft er hearing all the evidence His Honor fined Ed $5 and told ill ho could go "But don't you come back here any more under a charge like this. If you can't behave yourselves when you go to public-school examinations to partake of the fruit of the tree of knowl edge you had better stay at home, and vour education will cost you less. Whenever they don't behave them selves out there at your meetings, Davis, you just bring 'em up here; I'll fix 'em!" At the morning term J. Kirsack was arraigned under a charge of being drunk and asleep, Robert Higgs for a misdemeanor, Annie Martin, a white woman, for disturbing the peace, ana William Ferless for occupying the pavement as a bed, he being at the same time very extensively drunk.

Each case had a One of 5 entered op posite it on the record. KRAMER HOSE COMPANY. The Boys Putting in Some Good Drilling For the Clinton Contest The Kramer Hose Company of this City will be a contestant in the drill at Clinton, next week, at the Fire men's Tournament. They are putting in good work every night and are get ting things to work so smoothly and rapidly as to give them reason to hope for a prize. A run was made last night from the corner of Second and Spring to the corner of Ninth and Reo- tor Streets.

The Kramer Company was the second on the ground. They will leave Sunday evening at 6:10 o'clock for Clinton, and the fol lowing men will compose the com pany: M. W. Eagan, Chief; C. J.

Kramer, Foreman; P. M. Anderson, L. Baer, F. Baer, A.

Halberstadt, D. Hoeltzel, P. Hoeltzel, Charles Hardy, J. Havlin, G. F.

McDowell, William Phillips, J. W. Williams, II. Yager, Gus Ginocchio, H. D.

Mc- Cowan, Al Weaver, F. Roberts. The bestv-wishes of Little Rock's population goes with them. Ninety in the Shade. Yesterday a week ago overcoats were worn in Little Kock, not for show, but for comfort, and to protect the wearer from the chilly blasts of.

well winter, such as it was. The ex tremes in tne temperature wave felt yesterday when it was almost as warm as the hottest days of last summer, the thermometer at Zim merman's, which is considered very reliable, registering as high as ninety degrees. There was a stiff breeze blowing in the forenoon, but in the af ternoon It was as hot as blazes. Indorsements, But So Offices. (Searcy Deacon.

1 Dr. Norwood, late Union Labor can didate for Governor, has been indorsed by the Republican Executive Commit tee for an appointment as Indian In spector. Hon. J. W.

Dollison, mem ber of the Legislature from Clay County, and for tho same party, has been indorsed by the samo powor for Post-office Inspector. But an indorsement is all they have got so far. Ga zette. AM" probably they will get nothing more, but their services in the interest of the Republican party of this State entitle them to some of the chicken pie now being handed around. They have done more to advance the cause of Republicanism- in Arkansas than a whole barnyard full of Edeertons.

Spellmans and Raleighs. The Statistical Fiend Again! From the London Standard. Up to 1884 the English Post-office had issued RQstage stamps. That would cover 3762 square miles, and would reach to the moon and pack if placed end to end. the Methodist in this City daring that session of the Legislature and ap pointed a special Committee on Tern erance which reported bill that be came a law.

-Whichever one of these did most to secure the adoption of this law may never be cleared of dispute, perhaps; but each one bas contributed much to the enactment of temperance laws and the promotion of temperance- sentiment in Arkansas, which will stand to their lasting honor. From the promptings of a heart full of sympathy for destitute and suffering numamty, and from, means which a kindly Providence has guarded In ac cumulation from misfortune, to day liberally to alleviate the sufferings of bur jpvn countrymen in the flood-swept valley of Pennsylvania. He who honors charity makes a good invest' ment on the best of all securities. tub following is a sample paragraph from the sensational speech of Major Edglngton at Memphis on Deo oration Day: There is in irrepressible conflict between white suffrage and negro All dreams of dividing the colored vote aro Utopian. This vote is now and always will be a race vote.

The negro never can attain to tbat post to tion of superiority that will permit his vte to ever Become anytning out a race vote. The enactment of negro suffrage was tne great orime ot tbe age. Tbe guardian angel ot our unfortunate country was sleeo ing when tbat foul deed was done. Any Republican who sincerely favors negro suffrage is tbe misguided -viettm of a maudlin philanthropy. Any Democrat who favors It favors also the stealing of tbe ballot wnen.it is aepositea The speaker declared negro suffrage to be the work of politicians and the direct result of tbe quarrel between Andrew Johnson and Congress, SOUXUEUH SESTUtEHT.

Because Congressman McKinley has been welcomed aa a speaker on our own soil Is urged by the New York Tribune as a reason why his recent moral lecture io the South npon its al legea remissness of duty to the negro should receive earnest attention. To argue that courteous treatment extended a political opponent (and the South always extends an honorable opponent such treatment) gives such au opponent a right to harsh criticism and places those whose guest he is un der peculiar obligation to accept such criticism and act upon it as graciously as possible, will be recognized as a new principle in ethics. The fault must be Congressman MoEinley's, and not those Georgians whose guest he was upon one occasion, if he cannot under stand that the negro enjoys in Geor gia all the rights of citizenship ac corded to him in Ohio. The Tribune is kindly enough dia posed to believe that the number of those at the South who are willing to thwart the practical application of equal rights to the negro is becoming smaller year by year. It would not re quire much of an effort for the Tribune to believe that the number of persons of that character is so small that they represent the South to no greater ex tent than the same elements in Ohio and New York represent those States The effect of distance in this instance is to magnify.

THE NOBTH WILL OBJECT. The New Orleans Times-Democrat concedes the full power of Congress to control the Congressional election machinery in all the States, but does not believe that even a Republican Congress, with an intensely Repub lican administration at its back, will venture to put into operation power that has been dormant for more than a centaury. The Republicans did not care to resort to this method of winning members of Congress in the heyday of their arbitrary power; and the sober sentiment of the country would not tolerate it now. The Republican States of the North, themselves, would not submit to the exercise of that power, as they must submit if the South be subjeoted to it; for it cannot be exercised over one section without being exercised in precisely tbe same way in the this point the Times Democrat says: New Encrland and New York would never submit to it, or if the law was passed, it would require but a short experience of it for them to demand its repeal. Tbey will protest, with good reason, against a sys tem which would take from them au lnue pendenoe in order to bring out the negro vote for the Republicans, when it is very donbtful whether the negroes would vote after all.

Twenty-six Northern States would surrender control of their Congressional elections on the slim chance of the Republicans carrying three or four negro districts in tne eoutb. we have the satisfaction of knowing that if the Republicans find it possible with their majority to pass It, notwithstanding the many protests against it from tbe best men in their party, the Northern States will be the first to Suffer from and denounce this mischievous political intermeddling. The North thus fortunately protects the Southern States, in this matter, from Republican interference. The Sherman bill was introduced In the last Congress, doubtless, to elicit publie sentiment on this subject. It has done so, certainly; buc it does not encourage the further consideration of the bill.

A MILL MAN'S SAY. K. Richardson ExponmU On the Strike and Vreiltots It a Failure. To the Editor of The Gazette: Little Rock, June 7,1889 Sir: I see by an article in a recent number of your paper where one ot me union carpenters of St. Louis purports to have Interviewed me while I was there getting men to take the places of the strikers who left our employ In the recent walk-out I don't remember talking to, the particular-person in volved, but I did talk to- several hundred, for during the first three days of the week we (Mr.

Hendricks and my- Johnstown until Ine waters swept her away are but two of the many in stances of sublime heroism and self sacrifice reported from those desolated regions. There is never a calamity like this that does not prove that men are as ready to risk everything' and die for each other now at ever In hu man history. Toe most careful and reliable estimates place the loss of life from the flood In the Conemaugh Valley at 12,000. The conflagration at Seattle has eu tailed a loss of $20, 000,000, upon community that heretofore has been one of the most prosperous on the Pa ciflo coast. The meeting at the Board jfof Trade yesterday for the relief of the suffer ers from the Pennsylvania floods re suited in a thorough organisation rfor soliciting aid in the City.

Little Rock will send a liberal contribution to the unfortunates in tbe ill-fated valley. The Atlanta Constitution, looking far ahead into the future, thinks it sees something there and describes it follows: as If the Democratic party falls to make rover Cleveland its leader in tbe campaign of 1892 it will repeat the stupendous folly in which it sot aside Mr. Tilden in 1830 for Gen. Hancock. Ons outcome of the Conemaugh disaster will probably be legislation providing for roi 'lobe' systematio inspection of dams.

It Democrat. There is always a great rush to lock the stable door after the horse has been stolen. The loss of 10,000 lives in this disaster ought to secure all the inspection necessary for the future Senator Brown of Georgia is seriously ill. His Senatorial term will end in 1891, aud he will not be a candidate for re-election if he should live until that time. Gov.

Gordon, whom Sonator Brown succeeded in the Senate, will probably succeed Senator 'Brown, in turn, to his old seat. Some of the papers discussing Major Edgington's sensational speech on the race question at Memphis on Decoration Day have spoken of the orator, who is a prominent Grand Army man as a Republican, to which tha Mem phis Scimitar replies: This is a mistake Col. Edglngton is a red-hot, dyed-in-the-wool, Eighth Ward Democrat, and be does not want it over looked. Chief Arthor of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers has declared that: "Under no condition of circum stances of which I can conceive shall I ever sanction another strike." This plan for settling business disputes, so wasteful and ruinous to both the parties to it, is rapidly falling into disre pute, and especially so with the most skilled labor. Business methods and moral forces are more effective in set-.

tling business disputes than mere physical force. THE Atlanta' Constitution discusses the proposition for the forcible re moval of the negroes to some territory purposely set aside for them in the fol lowing sensible fashion: In a time of profound peace the arbitrary removal of any considerable body of our citizens is not to be thought or. The expul sion of the Moors from Hpain was a war measure, remaps, considering tne lacx 01 transportation facilities at that time, it was as difficult to ship 500,000 Moors as it would be now to remove twenty times tbat number of people. But the harsh and cruel methods of Phillip of Spain would not be sanctioned by the people of this day and generation. 1 TnERE is no disputing that Congressman Kelley of Kansas is a gentleman of grit, who is not afraid to express his honest con victions.

This was demonstrated last weeK, when he told tbe Fort smith, people that their Htate was in general disrepute because 01 its unpunished political mur ders. Philadelphia Press. Arguing on the same low scale, "there is no disputing the fact" that the people of Arkansas are no such lawless creatures as they have been painted, or they would have tarred and feathered this Kansas blatherskite, instead of entering a polite and formal protest to his defamation. Eel- ley's own knowledge that he was in no danger whatever served to embolden him. The Republican State Executive Committee has endorsed several promi nent Union Labor men for federal appointment, but as yet none but Re publicans similarly endorsed have suc ceeded in getting their appointments.

This discrimination "under like condi tions," is the unkindest cut of alL if not a positive violation of the Interstate Commerce law. The Union Labor men have made only a "short-haul" as yet, it is true; but it is In the same direction and under similar circumstances. It looks like the Union Labor people were being easily hoodwinked with endorsements while the old veterans get the offices: THE THREE MILE LAW There is some disagreement among the temperance leaders of the State as to the orgin of the three mile prohi bition law. The Woman's Christian Temperance Union" oh the State has given the credit and gratitude for the conception of tbe idea to Mrs. Ruth Riley of Judsonia; the Arkansas Methodist accords Hon.

Idus L. Fielder of Franklin County the honor for drawing and introducing the bill in the Legislature of 1881; others have claimed the'distlne'tion" forTJOl; Will iam Porter Grace -of Pine Bluff, and Hon. George Thornburg, the editor the Walnut Ridge Telephone and Speaker of the Housq; of 1881, asserts that he made Tho Eighth Annual Commencement At the Opera-Houa Last Night. The Graduating Class Acquit Themselves In a Alanoar Creditable to Them- el tea and Teachers, The Musical Part of tbe Programme Ploliant-An Overflowing House Show Hearty Appreciation The eighth annual commencement of the Union Public High School was given at the Capital Theater last night, making the fohrth time this week that immense audiences have gathered there to witness similar exercises. Tho number of spectators last night, while not so large as the night before, was sufficient to fill the house much more closely than comfort demanded.

The exercises were very successfully carried through, and in character ami entertaining features very creditable indeed to the management of tho school, as well as the entire colo.ed population of the City. The first feature of the programme was a chorus song by the entire school entitled "Where Roses Bloom," which tbey rendered iu a very ilcas-ant manner. Mary Armstead, the salutatorian, then road her essay, choosing as her subject "Rifts in the Clouds." She acquitted herself most creditably, receiving a hearty applause from her hearers. She said: "The lessons which have been taught us are as suud sown in our minds; some have fallen by the wayside, some fell on rock, ome among thorns ana some, wo trust, on good ground. But every word which has been spoken to us as a guide or caution by which we might be lecLto perfection carries with it an import that will sound the depth it touched." An essay, "The Youth of Today," was recited by Adina Ferguson.

Her opening words were: "The young men and women who live in this pro gressive age, should be striving each day. to reach that plaee in life where they can be surpassed by no one. This place can only be reached by obtaining knowledge, having respect for themselves and others, and all tho oilier qualities which constitute true men and women." Her essay contained niauy pleasant sayings. Cornelia Stratford tnen sang quite smoothly aud nicely "King Bibler's Army," She received a very beany applause. "The Remembrances of tho Pat" was the subject of Fannie F.

Holmmi. She treated her subject in a very cred itable manner. "If I do not stariie you by any novel expressions, I fed certain you will forgive me. A-k yourself the question if it is not a tak to give utterance to 'Remembrance' in an entirely new way? For I suppose my predecessors felt as I now since their lives were spent in much the same way as I have spent my own." Annie M. McNiol chose the subject of "Life." In dealing with a field so broad and so intricate she very neaJ.v remained on the outer edge and spoke rather of the influences and inspira tions for good which should guklo men's actions here.

Her essay was well received. A female quartette, "Tho "While Squall," was sungvery evenly and smoothly by Cornelia Stratford, Esmo Rector, Hattie Sanders and Tillie War ren. The valedictory by Lallee McGee was the best effort of the evening. Her language was well chosen, her ex pression and articulation excellent, and her composition very credible. Among her first sentences were tho following: "Sweet, happy schooldays, your delights are forever vanished, your pleasures can never return.

Dreaming forever, life to tho last pursues its flight, but as soon as we grasp the ideal bliss, it vanishes like a bubble beneath tho touch. How despondent it makes 0110 feel to have the state of exquiiste de light broken on by realizing it was only a dream, one of those dreams called forth by music, and, when lost in the future the soul wanders on, ami all of this life but its sweetness gone." Her essay received a very hearty applause. A piano solo was played with good taste by J. A. W.

Phillips, a former graduate of the school. The music of the school is in charge of Mrs. J. O. W.

Alexander, wife of the Principal. The manner in which the musical features were rendered was a very graceful compliment to her. Mr. Fred Kramer, President of Public School Board, in his most grace ful manner, presented diplomas to tho throe graduates, Mary Armistead, Fannie Holman, and Lallee McGee. A duet and cnorus was then ung by the scholars, Cornelia Stratford anJ Tillie Warner taking the duet parts.

HE WAS RELEASED. A Young Attorney of Clay County Char ci With Passing Spurious Coin. Deputy Marshal Faulklnbury re turned yesterday from Clay County, having in charge W. II. Moore, whom he arrested Thursday at Greenway, a charge of passing a counterfeit lar.

Four witnesses came with the Marshal. Moore, who is a yount 1 yerOf some prominence in that coan had au examination before Coiinm-- sioner Goodrich, late last afternoon, which resulted in his release, there iwt being sufficient evidence to warrant the authorities in holding him. Mo rd was defended by J. A. Watkins, an I -S.

R. Allen represented the Govennm U- Business Changes. Mr. C. P.

Ackert of Fort Smith bJ arrived in Little Rock and is in the office of the Waters-Pierce Oil Com pany, be having taken Mr. J. Pomeroy's place, who succeeds Mr. T. B.

Rawlings as bookkeeper for Herman Kahn Mr. Rawllngs, it rUmored; will embark in the commission business on his return from Oai- veatoa. Out of all the terrible suffering In the track of the Pennsylvania floods there have come tales of heroism as sublime a were ever, jecorded. The nameless "Paul riding head long through the fated valley warning the startled people of their danger until the rushing waters, overtook and drowned hint, and. the little woman 'awho, despite all warning, stood by her..