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SHKEVEPORT TIMES: Til UKSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1897. ghrcucpovt imc AeS. Murray and Wife 8PRINQFIELD, MO. of number and Is In a flourishing condition. From the preparations being made for the Christmas tree, It will undoubtedly be a big success.

The tree will be at the college chapel, and all of the churches will Join together In making the oceslon a happy one. As the weather has partially cleared Reitora Restored to Health by Dr, Mile' tive Nervine. Fybllsned Dally. Monday, Excepted, bs 8. B.

JOHNSON. canoe poverty to wealth and greatness. Most of us here to-night can recall the dark days of doubt and from them have seen the people emerge triumphant a nation of freedom, all free. A continent's width may divide us, but the same flag greets us, with the forty-five stars all blazoned alike upon Its azure field, all yours and all ours. In days of peace as In time of war the altar of patriotism Is an altar of sacrifice and please God we will start the new century on its Journey to tlw stars laden, with the hopes and aspirations of a happy and undted people." Mrs.

Anita H. MeKee, nays n. special to the Tlm has entered the political arena as an aspirant far the position of the Internal revenue col lee-torshlp, of Louisiana and Mississippi. She Is a widow and has filled the positions? reglslter of the land office at Jack son, Miss. She has been interviewing the.

republican great guns and visited the president with Senator Hoar as nn escort. She claims that she is a sure winner. Her appointment would be a solution of one. of the Louisiana fat takes. Office, 207 Milam street, between Spring and Market streets.

up, and we had no rain to-day, business was quite lively and promise to be considerably Increased to-morrow. Rev. Bruce Bon-ton left yesterday for his old home in North Carolina to spend the holidays. ANNUAL FESTIVAL. entered at the Fostofflee at second-class matter.

A SENSATIONAL LETTER. rE TIMES has the largest etrcula tlon of any Taper Published In the Btate outside of New Orleans. Tables Decorated With Miniature Pyramids of Yellow Doughnuts. New York. Dec.

22. The ninety-second annual festival of the New England society In the city of New York was held at Delmonleo's to-night. Four hundred members of the society and their friends, Including many distinguished men, were present. The tables were devoid of decorations, except for the mln- "First, then, a woman will or won't depend on 't; If she will do't, she will; and there's an end on't." Danger is always near SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. Daily (one year) Daily (six months Dally (one month) Dally (one week) is Sunday Times (per year) 00 Weekiy Times (per year) 1 00 Whcm druira ar nppdAd.

ha ium th drugs are pure and carefully compound ea. ii you come to us you can always feel perfectly safe. None but the yery purest drugs can reach our shelve, and our system of compounding prescriptions assures absolute correctness. never make mistakes. The drug business Is no side line with us.

Respectfully Blanco's Policy a Combination of Assassination and Bribery. Philadelphia, Dec. 22. The Press tomorrow will publish a sewsatlomal letter written to a resident of this city by "A Distinguished Resident" of Havana, whose name is withheld for obvious reasons. The lettetr says, In part: "You know that the policy of General Blanco has always been a combination of bribery and assasslnatlom.

You will not be surprised therefore, at what Is to follow. The Information has been given to me by a Cuban who, owing to the autonomist farce, holds a position in the councils of the captaim general. "The friend tells me that Dr. Congos-to, who fs the Machlavelll of General Blank-o, has several schemes In store, but the most Important ones, those that will give you a clearer insight into the method of pacification that the Spaniards intend are the following: The first scheme Is most Important. Dr.

Congosto It MURRAY, engineer for Keet St At' Rountree Mercantile Spring field, writes: "I suffered from E. J. CONGER CO. NOTHEK THREATENED INVASION. The national quarantine questlno la arousing very free discussion and almost united opposition to such a measure In the It Is looked upon, and Justly so, as another invasion of the rights the states ami a fresh stride Let the democrats of Louisiana rally to a man In support of the constitutional convention.

The suffrage question alone is worthy its convocation. Tl brainy men who hive been selected to settle that long discussed issue, will formulate a law that will hereafter set at rest this problem that has brought so many woes upon the state and trouble into its political contests. Its regulation is the overshadowing problem of the times. On it will depend honest elections, the rule of intelligence and pure government. No true democrat can afford to oppose or Ignore such an issue that vitally concerns himself.

220 Texas St. Shreveport, La, In the direction of the centralization of aiture pyramids or yellow doughnuts and rosy red Baldwin apples. Throughout the evening the parlors of Delmon-Ico's were thronged with New Engenders representing every one of the states so designated. An hour was spent in social intercourse and although the dinner was set for 6:30, It was 8 when the guests seated themselves at the tables. Among those who sat at the guests' of honor table were J.

P. Morgan, Joseph H. Choate, General Wesly Merrltt, Jas, Whiteomb Riley, Richard Olroey, Senator Edward O. Wolcott, Rev. Lymam Abbott, Governor Frank S.

Black, Senator Hoar. President Charles W. Eliot. ex-Senator George F. Edmunds, General Nelson A.

Miles and Mayor Wm. L. Strong. The dinner was made up of good old New England dishes, and during its discussion a quartette assisted by the greater portion of those present sang popular airs. Senator Edward O.

Wolcott spoke In part, as 'follows: "Mr. Wolcott began with humorous reference to the political resignation with which the exiles from New England bore their banishment; then sipoke of an alleged desire of the Canadian government to acquire the state of has sent an emissary to New York. I do dyspepsia, was unable to eat anything without severe distress. Treated by several physicians without benefit, I became almost a physical wreck and unable to attend to my work. I took Dr.

Miles' Restorative Nervine and in tilx weeks I was well. My PJVl iT.hlch brought on 3 troubles peculiar to A-WCrVirJC rlarscx. The Restor-! fl-r sSTatiro Nurvinc Is the vj.v,. lielj)ed Lcr We both JmtjA'i-rM'M hope you 1U use this not know his name. He Is a tall man with full beard, black eyes and a marked Spanish accent though I am not sure FIRST NATIONAL zOF SHREVEPORT, LA of hfs nationality.

He has probably already started for New York, where he power by the general government It Is believed tha.t the governor of Alabama Iias struck the keynote- of a solution of tha quarantine problem by the advocacy of a convention of the gulf to adopt systematic, rigid and leasable quarantine regulations to prevent the ingress of infectious and Con hopes to Join expeditions Human, acts, human character mould and reach the army under Gomez. JTe to find the depots of arms and the hospitals. When an occasion presents the standard of all human pursuits. Hence whatever is the enemy of virtue and the foe to good morals is made itself he Is to murder General Gomez. His recompense for all these services in a way to help othf as we bare been." Dr.

Miles' Rerr.cclW ore sold by all druggists under a positive guarantee, first bottle benefits or money refunded. Rook on Iieart and Nerves sent free to all applicants. DR. MILES MEDICAL Elkhart, Ind. so, not by the pursuit or calling itself, will be some thousands of dallars.

My trouble Is to understand where they are to get the money. "The second scheme is with reference Capital, $200,000. Surplus, 40,000. but because of the attributes with which men clothe and surround it In this connection it can well be said that public tastes encourage or diminish the evil that may grow out of any calling. to overturn? to be mode fighting In the field for Cuban liberty.

"You know as well as I do the old man Jose tagious aiseases ana to uaru against thleir spread should such epidemic appear in any town or city on the gulf coast It is imperative that some plan should be iformulated and adopted that will put a stop to such stringent neighborhood regulations as existed during the past year. Concerted action, it ie well FIRE WTORKS. The firing of fire works of any char Maine and portions of the New Hampshire and Vermont In exchange for territory in western Canada. Serious thought on the subject of a 'possible cession of a part of New England, Mr. Wolcott said, brought him realization Roban, and you remember as as I acter of crackers, bombs, torpedoes or W.

B. JACOBS candles Is hereby strictly forbidden that In the former uprisings he showed himself to be a Spaniard of the All human recreations may become W. E. HAMILTON Vice-President Spaniards. elevating or pernicious according as I of what it would mean to this people wtihin the district of the city bounded by McNeil street.

Lake street. Cross bayou and Red River, or within two blocks of the Kansas City depot. A fine W. J. BAYERSDORFFER.

Cashier Now his son. Luis, Is the lender men and women cater to these qualities. UJ lne PosDiiity or cnangrng oy manding the insurgent brigade In Sa- A. uie snaaow or a tne contour or The theatre Is hurtful only as men statee or thf? cf a gua. For this cri'me the father wafe ex of not exceeding five dollars for each lower its standard of morals.

of its native granite, however barren. patriated and sent from Sagua to Havana, where he now Dr. Foreign and Domestic Exchange violation will be Imposed. The police are required to promptly arrest every He continued. "Not only does this Bought and Sold.

Congest knows that Gcn. Come2 has People complain of the visitation of sentiment pervada the land but we declared, by the gulf- states, is far preferable to national quarantine, 'This invasion of the rights of com-rmmUles by' the grneral government, as la outlined in the national quaranitna Xill, would virtually tbke from the people that which they prize as their dearest right self-government, and r.o this theorv of srovErnment Accounts and offender, old or young. R. N. M'KELLAR, Mayor.

Collections Respect 'horrible weather." Very few, it seems seem at tiirn to developing an incli issued a proclamation ordering every emistsaries who may present them fully Solicited. have acquired sufficient knowledge of nation invite some other country to differ with us in order that we may selves with prepositions of pence that MINISTER OF WAR. the workings of nature's laws to know aare not rased' on the absolute inde dafnorsstra'te our united aggressiveness pendence of the isltind shall sn- Montevideo, Dec. 22. Gen.

Gregorio Castro has leen appointed minister of war In succession to Gen Le Perez, who that there is a close affinity between weather, time and seed-sowing in their proper season. Hardships may be tern- to death. Hr; further adds that a71 infractions cf this order gh.Vl be "I directions our domestic different ts arc? ehrystalizing osnd not disintegrating. For more than a generation we have waited for the day alone, but the very existence of popular Mistake resigned the ministry of war and considered treason. Now.

Dr. "There have been some serious inva marine yesterday. porarily worked by unpropitious when parties would divide solely on our weather but out of its presence will national questions and the old sections! sions upon the accredited as weJl as TOYS, TOYS, TOYS, has conceived the Idea of sending the father to the son with looking towards autonomy, thus placing the son in the position of either his father or being himself declared a traitor. The poor old rran refused, but spring abundent harvests during the rights of the states of late For both old and young, a full assort issues growling out of the war and the race problem would be buried. The parties met on a broad economic, question and lo! wo emerged from the con proper season.

years, by the federal government. Such rr.ent, at law prices for cash. Have se assumptions of unnecessary authority cured the store formerly occupied by S. News continues to arrive from- the Gordon, next to my present establish have not failed to elicit popular pro- I know haw long he withstand the prcsjlaure that is being brought to bear New England cotton, mi 11 At China, tent threatened with another 'bitter, sectional division. The far, ly, the child of the, east and pulsing ment No.

212 Texas street where Will be made by you when your der for any kind of Job Printing placed with me. I iiave a record as being a neat Job Printer, anl nothing will be left nndone to sustain it always. The best for th least money and satisfaction guaranteed. Try me. Telephone 120.

0. P. 0GILVIE. Commercial Printer 207 Milam Shreveport. -tests and indignant denunciation.

on Mm. Pembroke, and Webster, N. that a will be pleased to see all my customers and friends and give them my personal Every invasion of the rights of the peo with its joins hands with the last, scheme is as follows; Dr. reduction 'of 1 per cent in the wages Congcsto is endeavoring to secure the pie through centnalMed power, is a attention. of the operatives is announced to take The new alignment is not dTiy debtor against creditor, e'iiss aga-meifc class, but in a land pervaded' 'with services of promjnent'man In the blow aimed at the spirit of liberty.

place en January 1. Cotton mills will move out of that section before long. Thera.ore conspirators at work who ASKED FOR MAIL is to eoroar here ami on his return to states," Is to declare that autonomy is equal devotion to what its, bej Hewed is the. truest welfare of the always urging the increase of the Then the Postmaster Looked Into the on accompllsehd fact that peace is standing army. They aim to build up Tha Berlin' papers.

'are particularfly wlhale country, great majorities in ona Pigeon Holes of Pistol. firmly established and other foolish section face "equally great majorities an oligarchy, control the various gov Dallas, Dec. 22. A special to the things. aggressive, since the Haytien affair as regards the Monroe doctrine.

Some Eu Tha west is not decadent; its view ernmental departments, eventually. 'As if this could alter the real staite of are of men virile, industrious and gen VICTORIA LUMBER LTD Manufacturer of 1 STRICTLY "LONG LEAF, through, the power of gold or willing News from Guthrie says: As Postmaster Rhines, oi Chandler, was making up the mail for the Gurthrle uine, and their beliefs are hone-fit. They affairs and as if Consul -General Lee was not here to tell the truth. And by ropean country will monkey with tha American buzz paw until they test the metal of which it is composed. would scorn any sort of evasion of an tools to do their bidding and finally per-peUiate themselves in power by force tithe by, I very much fOT.r that if this obligation.

They are patriotic men. stage at six o'clock this morning, two masked men entered the office and sak- gentleman (Lee) does not take his de Yellow Pise and; Cypress Lmnlr if necessary, through the military There is in the Whole far west hardly a. nr'tiherner born who was old enough parture irr goo time he is running the power. risk of being blown 6 pjeces." Cypress Shingles, Laths, PickU, to go to the war whom you will not see on decoration day wearing proudly the badge of his ioldr corps. They are Ther? nn be no more insidious, more Oanga-oufs and menacing encroachment a I .3 i Internal revenue collections for the past five months show a decrease of $5,112 as compared with last year, Another straw of that "prosperity" and the boom from the DcngLey bill.

xauuiuings, oa.au, uuum una ouaa. NEWS CAME FROM TOKIO Build Stairs, Mantles, Counters and Americans to a proportion tgreater than upon- the rights, the prerogatives of the in the; east native born American cfti- ed for mall. He turned to look and was covered with a revolver and compelled to open the sack. The men took J600 In cash and $100 in stamps. put them in a sack, left the office and mounting horses a short distance away, rode off toward the Indian Territory.

A posse at onoe started in pursuit but have sent back no report. Rhines was removed a few days ago and. his successor would have taken charge of theoffice to-morrow. Soft Wood. zenisi'-' The views they cherish are held people than these stealthy invasions of oommuriities, the usurpation of their powers and the final domination of wl'tlr practical unanimity.

TELEPHONE NO. 147. i Patronize Home Manufacturing COTJSHATTA. Special to the Times. Coushatta, Dec.

22. Hon. D. Wilkinson fcas just returned Naw Orleans, where he h.ts been universal a feeling as that which pervades the great west cannot be all wrong. You cannot dispose of a con- ilfcjir rights by the general government John: from This quarantine measure is of that cn viction held by millions of intelligent which is Declared a Fact Significant of Japan's Vigilance.

London Dec. 22. The Vienna correspondent of the Standard has ascertained that the first newist $fwthe occupation of oPrt Arthur emanated from Tokio, a fact significant of Japanese vigilance. iDscussing Japan's position the correspondent says: "She cannot declare war against either China or Russia, because if she did. the ten large ironclads that are being built for her In Europe and America anid are nearly fin-Ished, would be shut up till the war was over.

She will, therefore, risk nothing by herself." daaracter and should be strenuously prcfiasionial business. people, by calling it a craze and some opposed. Circuit court convened here yestar- day you may find it worth your while day. Judges E. W.

Sutherlin and J. C. to look for the truth where 1t is usual iv Cure that cough with Shiloh's Cure. The best cough cure. Relieves cough promptly.

One million bottles used last hidden, somewhere between extremes President McKlnley's message con year; forty doses tor 2o cento, bold by "Now It is really recognized in the tlnues to loom up as a remarkable C. A. ALSTON, Cotton Factor, AND GENERAL STORAGE WAREHOUSE BUMS Liberal Cash Discounts on consign menti. office and Warehouse Comer Crockett Coring Street. L.

M. Carter. west that ability to recognize a western railroad, and swell its stock and stcurl CORNER STONE LAID. document. Its recommendations direct are few.

He has conveniently orfcted any mention cf public abuses ties several millions every time it Is foreclosed, necessairily indicates an equal ability to detemine the wisest Pugh presiding. The most important case on the docket W3S that of MajOT Jackson vs. 'T. J. Fletcher for damages for personal injuries inflicted by the defendant upon the plaintiff.

This case was taken under advisement Dr. P. H. MerrelU Mr. D.

C. Brown, accompanied by Mrs. P. and Misss Ethel Brown returned home on last S'autrday from Open lake, near, Camipte, here they spent several days shooting ducks. They man All the (Money Necessary Provided by the Masonic Fraternity.

or advice as to some remedy. He has Ashevllle, N. Dec. 22. The corner economic policy for the farmer who steered clear of trusts and monopolies, lives along the of way.

And men stone of a monument to be erected to the memory of the late Senator Zebuion who would no more dream of entrusting and particularly the Wholesale robbery embraced in the pension This Balrd Vance, was held to-day on the HnwARn PRfsnnrr their banker with the duty of formulat public square with Masonic ceremonies. The oration was delivered by Rev. R. ing their financial views than they JUSTICE KILLS A CONSTABLE. The Shooting a Result of Unpleasant Feeling in the Court.

alias. Dec. 22 A special to the News from Terrell, says: This afternoon a. few inutes before 3 o'clock W. H.

Clarke, Justice of the peace for this precinct shot and killed Dave James, Its constable. The shooting is the result of an unpleasant feeling ber tween the parties for the last three yearn. Both of them have familif and the tragedy Is deeply deplored here. Clarke's Justification Is that Constable James had a number of times made threats of a viohmt nature against him md that several times to-day hot words had passed between them. national imposition that would of entrusting the man of whom draining the national treasury yearly Swope, rector of All Souls church.

Baltimore. Owing to the inclement weather part of the ceremony was held 'in the they bought a shotgun with the com 3s eliciting widespread discussion and aged to kill a and one duck, nevertheless they report a pleasant trip. Miss Alice Co.w thorn, of Bayou Pierre, spent 5vera1 days in town week, the charming gmcst of Mrs. J. A.

17:11. Mr. J. B. Lee, our efficient district at- courthouse.

The monument will be of granite, 75 feet Irish with a single word. "Vance" art increasing clamor" for Its most searching investigation. Well says the Natchtz Democrat on this subject: INSURANCE Office with Judge L. E. No.

520 Spring Street, Shrevaport, L. at the base. Prominent Masons -were present from all parts of the state. All nand of the armies of their country, are naturally inclined to fear that In this oart of the world there is a tendency to assume that the possession of great wealth means necessarily the possession of great wisdom. "It is only a few years ago that New England Was "uncommon proud" oi that west which her sons had so large 'rncy, was in town yestrd.iy attending the money necessary to the erection of t1" slttlnff of the circuit court.

the monument has been subscribed. DEED OF TRUST Mr. F. B. Williams left this rooming Which Foreshadows the Near Building for Shreveport, where he goes to ao-vpt a position, with the Sh(rev(-poirt and Red Riv.r Valley Railroad.

Risks on all Insurable property solicited. Representing strong and reliable companies. A share of the publlo patronage will be appreciated. of a Railroad. Little Rock, Dec.

22. A special to the Gazette from Hamburg. Mr. Chis. Cawthorn.

of Lake End, MAGICALLY EFFECTIVE TREATMENT FOR WEAK mil free I TO ALLS ly peopled and her resources 1 a vis hi ventured had done so much to develop Perhaps they are only supersensitive westerners who fancy that they see Ir. certain quarters a subtle change, nnc soys: There wa recorded In the clerk's was a pleasant visitor our town Sunday last. Mr. Jas. Harper, who is tie inspector For office here to-day a deed of trust given by the Mlsslfldlppl River, Hamburg and Western Railway Company to the Colonial Tru-Ht Company of New York City, which foreshadows the early construction of the railroad named.

The deed for valley railroad, sipent last Sunday in town with his OF ALL AGES Mr. Keete returned yestcr- "Tlve failure of President McKinley in this regard should stimulate ths dem- 2tatic minority of congreas to take up he question of pension reform, and jwsh it for all It is worth, just as this P9xt has uged time and again. The recollections of the late war are growing dim and shadowy with the mas-es jf the who were non-combatants -and they are beginning to tire of the fcurdens unjust and outrageous that are bein imposed upon them, and they want They cannot expoct this from ih' dominant repubUcan. side of the national huse, and naturally "thiijkWill turn to the demiH-racy for an of their condition. If the -democratic party comes into power It can soon make Viw Pnon roil one of now by giving this bounty to those oniy who are ving- of it, and the frym M-insfuid, with three pristtners charged with murdr.

wm given, to secure the payment of bonds which will be used in the building of the eastern division of the road. These bond run twenty years and bar 5 per cent Interest payable In BuHMess with cut merchants has dert'ut -ul mJemlfic rem-eden a.i' ea to any rtKcbio mau. A repetition buck of thisoCrr. Fiver hiT'py worried lifo I lop'-Scnt pnl -tvn t-cw- p' tbobocy. VVvni'.

uo barrier. bwn absolutely dead for th3 Inst few Fireworks ais, owing to the inclemency of the weather. goia. owrk of construction from a point at or near Gaines Landing on the Mississippi river in hikot county to inclination to criticise, an ability find much to commend and a tendency to look still further to the eastward for methods and ideals fit to follow. 1 hope it is all a mistake.

Contentment cannot come to this land by section? and it can never come except under conditions which bear equally on th whole people. Only the other day a cabin! officer over here to enlighten on of your great commercial bodbs nnd with a gifted Chicago imagination quoted Walt Whitman, told ym how our fathers when George the Third wa king," dashed the cup from their a precedent I am glad to has 'not been followed at this dinner, and talkie" about "obstruction," at Washington The river at this place rose inch f'l LO. U. Y. I I I'M Hatm)urg will bejrin in a short time.

es last ntghit. It Is t.hougiht thnt this is ere'y a local due to the incefM- EDWARD PETZSCI1 Teacher pf the REPLY TO SLASHES. Fall River, Dec. 22. The cotton man Ant rain since Friday.

Mr. F. M. Britain has returned from Jackson, where he has been to convey to hj insane asylum George Huck-elby and his mother. ufacturers have replied to the slashers r-nWM that no exceptions can be made Piano, Violin, Flute, BOTTOM PKICES.

'rv th- reduction on the point raised by hem that an agreement on previous masses of the ptl knowing this will be rcdy to Hevate that party to power iKfs rnnde in 1893 should hold against AND OTHER INSTRUMENTS. Harmony and voice culture a specialty. Orchestra, Band and Piano Music ar-anged to Residence .717 McNeil 'he present cut down. The reply says It it rowans an bu of the matter "In view of the fact that all employes wto be reduced we do not see how we MANSFIELD. Special to the Times.

Mansfield. Dec. 22. Dr. John Scales, who haa been livlnpr In Nashville.

returned yesterday to this Place to spend the holidays with relatives. Dr. Scales will make his home with us In the future. having reference to the ren-at. It le rather a new of the term to oJi a man who does not vote as you wanl him to an obstructionist, and In th bwit hundred years, the balance ati4 i hcV upon hasty legislation which lh delib Ptrt Mrti.

lyase has turned up again as a nr--mak sny exception" In your rase M1 lit il vuullu it this time." for cjngres from Kansas in o-jirxiition to Jerry Simpson. Jerry will FUxTetary "Jacksort fwultf to-day the "figr rncnt under which they have been Mr. Charles Pegues returned yester erations of the donate have furnisher I tiave to shorten up his roust-r extrenu working was entered Into to prevent a J. W. HOLBERT.

ATTORNEY A TLAW Office Ramdall Buildlhg, No. 510 Market Street. Will practice In the courts of North Louisiana. F. A.

Hllley, Collector and Adjuster of Claim. In the office. ties and show that he has not yet ben ttrlke, but now that It operated against 1 pariisn' 'nere he na5 have been of infinite advantage to th been employed on a sugar plantation. countrv The local body of Knight of Pythias elected officers to serve durlne the he century now, ebbing has lin tb manufacturers. Lt was not accepta abb to suppfjr'a pair x.k for is to them.

His men are bitter In their coming- year, at meeting the other! fuU growth and glory. It how. wt V4al extremiti. 200 TEXAS STREET nignt. me lodge here Is strong in point' nessed the republic rise from Inslgnifl- atk of strike..