Mountain Echo Newspaper

March 12, 1886 (Vol 1-No 2) Page 1

Abstracted / Transcribed & Copyrighted by Linda Haas Davenport

When the print is so faded that it cannot be read <.....> will be used . All transcription will be as found in the paper, misspellings and all

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<This first column is the Echo Directory - I will transcribe it here and until it changes I won't transcribe it again>

State Officers:

Governor - Simon P Hughes; Secretary of State - E B Moore; Treasurer - W E Woodruff; Auditor - A W Files; Attorney-General - Dan W Jones; Land Commissioner - Paul M Cobbs; Supt Public Instruction - W E Thompson; Chancellor - D W Carrol; Chancery Clerk - W W Calloway; Chief Justice - S R Cockrell; Associated Justices - B B Battle & W W Smith

Circuit Court:

Judge - J M Pitman, Fayettville; Pros. Aty'y - J Frank Wilson, Harrison; Circuit court convenes at Yellville on the 3rd Monday in Feb and September

County Officials:

Representative - T H Flippin; County and Probate Judge - Wm Horn; County Clerk - Neal Dodd; Sheiff - J J Keeter; Treasure - M H Wolf; Assessor - A G Cravens; Surveyor - William Black; County Examine - J C Floyd; corner - <no name listed>

UNION TOWNSHIP

J.P.s - SL Wiggins and John Allen; Constable - J F Wood

CHURCH DIRECTORY

M E Church South, Rev. O.H. Tucker, pastor. Preaching first and third Sundays at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Prayer meeting Wednesday at 7 p.m. Class meeting, fourth Sunday at 11 a.m. L.C. Wilson Class leader

Sunday School every Sunday morning at 9:30. James B Wilson, Superintendent; Neal Dodd, Secretary; L Seawell Treas. Woman's Missionary society meets on the first Friday in each moth at 3:00 p.m.

MASONIC

Yellville Lodge No. 117, A.F.&A.M., meets Saturday on or before full moon of each moth. WH Wolf, WM, Neal Dodd Secretary.

Jefferson Lodge, No 284, A.F.&A.M., meets on Saturday at 2:00 p.m. before the third Sunday in each month. JN Joury, WM, WT Gooch, Secretary.

Advertisments:

J.F. Wilson, Harrison ARK, DeRoos Bailey, Yellville Ark. .... Wilson & Bailey ... Attorneys at Law ... and Partners in Civil Practice .. Offices at ... Yellville and Harrison, Ark .... DeRoos Bailey also practice in the Criminal courts

J.C. Floyd, Yellville, W.S. Floyd, Bentonville .... Floyd & Floyd Atty's At Law ... And Solicitors in Chancery .. Prompt attention will be given to all ...be given to all business entrusted to their care

J.S. Lindley MD ... Physician & Surgeon ... Yellville, Ark ... Keeps constantly on hand a supply of pure drugs. Physicians' prescriptions carefully compounded at all hours of the day or night.

L Matlock's Barber Shop ... (Northwest corner of Court Square) ...Is the place to have your saving, hair cutting and shampooing done. .. Work first-class and charges moderate. Satisfaction guaranteed.

-- Go To -- ... Thompson & Covington's ... Blacksmith and Wagon Shop! ... South side Public Square ... Yellville, Arkansas ... Where they are prepared to do most any kind of work in wood or iron on short notice ... Produce taken in exchange for work. ... We make horse shoeing and tire work a specialty.

B Lowenstein & Bros ... Importers and Jobbers of ... Dry Goods ... Hosiery ... Gent's Furnishing Goods ... 242, 244 & 246 Main St .... Memphis, Tennessee .... Wm M Cross, Drummer

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Our thanks are due and are hereby tendered Senator Berry for valuable public documents.

The Blair Educational bill passed the Senate by a vote of 36 to 11. Senators Berry and Jones voted for the bill.

In case the Blair bill passes, the Boston Advertiser wants Massachusetts to give her share of the appropriation to educate Indian children.

The Democratic State Central Committee has been called to meet at Little Rock on Wednesday, March 31st, to fix a time and place for the State Convention.

The House has determined to investigate Attorney-General Garland's connection with the Pan-electric telephone matter. An investigation of the matter can do no harm, and will prove Mr. Garland's innocence of improper conduct.

Mr. FR McKennon, candidate for Congress in the Fourth District, does not deny that he contracted for influence and support of the Economist, the Wheel organ. He claims that the contract was legitimate. Me. McKennon has simply "cooked his own goose," and so has the Economic!

<...> Jones, of Florida, is neglecting his duties at Washington and is at Detroit Mich., besieging the heart of a maiden of thirty summers with matrimonial intent. The young lady does not give the Senator much encouragement, but he is none the less devoted and determined and may yet come off winner. Many a girl marries a fellow "just to get rid of him" - so they say.

From present indications our best prospect for a railroad is from the Gould system - the Carthage and Batesville road; now being surveyed. It is stated now that the survey will be made to Bald Knob, in White county, instead of Batesville. Bald Knob is on the Iron Mountain road. A road is to be built from that point to Memphis, Tenn., and the contract for building the same has been let. This certainly is a most practicable route, and we think the road will be speedily pushed to completion. This line as surveyed will run within a half mile of Yellville.

Mr A C Hull of Harrison, in a letter to the Baxter County Citizen, gives the following interesting statistics relative to lands in his district: "This land district embraces twelve counties and a small franction each of two other counties, and there is in the above mentioned territory 2,124,400 acres of vacant land, and the same is distributed in the various counties as follows: Baxter, 186,800' Benton, 76,400; Boone, 117,000; Carroll, 145,800; Fulton 82,000; Izard, 55,000; Madison 211,900; Marion 181,600; Newton, 375,000; Searcy, 270,000; S<.... hole torn in paper> 290,000; Washington 86,500, at <....> the township of Independence 5,6<....> and two townships in Van Buren county 40,000, all of which makes up the grand total mentioned above. Now, to show you how rapidly this territory is being taken, <.....> will say, there has been 59,700 acres of government land in the district taken up during the last six months, a monthly average of 9,950 acres, which is an indication of what we all may expect in the future twelve moths in the way of settlement on our public domain."

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The East Tennessee temperance people will try to elect representatives of their movement to the next legislature.

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The President has nominated Brig. Gen. AH Terry for Major General vice Hancock, deceased.

The Eilz John Porter relief bill has passed the Lower House of Congress and will probably pass the Senate.

The President has approved the <....> removing the disabilities of Alexander Stuart, of Mississippi, Edward GW Butler, of Missouri and Thos L Rossor, of Virginia.

The committee of the Hose on the 2d agreed to an adverse report upon the Senate bill providing for an increase of salaries of judges of the United States district courts to $500 per annum.

The following nominations were made on the 2d: To be consuls - Hobert Johnson of the district of Columbia at Venice; MA Turner of Arkansas at St. Thomas. Commodore William T Truxton to be rear admiral in the navy.

The House committee on claim have agreed to report favorably the bill granting compensation for over time to government employees who work more than eight hours after the passage and before enforcement of the eight-hour law.

Senator Gorman introduced a bill in the Senate authorizing the President to invite the Presidents of the sixteen American republics to meet at Washington the 10th of March, 1889, in honor of the hundreth anniversary of the constitution of the parent republic of the United States.

Evarts and Logan are proposed as a Republican ticket for 1888.

Our total interest-bearing debt is now $1,261,222,5063

The hydrophobia scare has caused the slaughter of 10,000 dogs in London.

Democrats talk of running Carter Harrison for Congress in the Third Illinois district.

A world's exposition to celebrate the discovery of America is being agitated in Washington.

Philadelphia proposes to erect monuments to the memory of Gens. Hancock and McClellan.

The pastor of a church at Uniontown PA has been compelled to resign because he road a bicycle.

Reports from all parts of the country show that the condition of winter wheat is uniformly good.

The owners of New York street railways are organizing to combat future possible strickes of employes.

A bill is before the Ontario legislature making it a misdemeanor for any person to enter a bar-room on Sunday.

IT is reported that Gen. George Maney, of Nashville, will be the Republican candidate for Governor of Tennessee.

Five thousand new physicians will be graduated from 101 incorporated medical colleges in the United States this year.

Senator Plumb wants Congress to prohibit legislators or their families from applying for free railroad passes under penalty of fine and imprisonment.

The Connecticut House of Representatives has passed a bill requiring instruction in the public schools as to the injurious effects of alcoholic drinks.

The Texas Pacific railroad shopmen at Marshall, Tex., quit work in a body because an employe was discharged for attending a Knights of Labor meeting.

Astronomers promise that a bright comet will be visible just before sunrise during the latter part of May. It is the comet "1886" discovered lately by Prof Barnard.

A newspaper of Beloit, Kansas says that in Clark county during a recent snowstorm a large flock of sheep crowed close together, and the snow, melting for a while and then freezing fastened the entire flock together.

The change of the guage of all the principle roads in the south, which is announced to take on May 31st, will be the largest piece of work of the kind that was ever executed in a day. There are 12,000 miles of rail to be changed and the work will commence at 5 a.m. on the 31st of May and will be finsihed at 4 p.m. of the same day. Four men will be <paper torn....> to each mile. The cost <.......> is estimated at $750,000 <......>

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ARKANSAS NEWS

Mountain Home has a live Temperance Society.

It is proposed to build another hotel at Harrison.

A.P. Grant has been appointed postmaster at Helena.

The Boone county Bank will be ready for business soon.

The Citizen says there is not a vacant house in Mountain Home.

Hot Springs is making an<.....> for the State convention to be held there

There is a rumor that a Republican daily will soon be started at Ft. Smith

H.M. Jackoway has been appointed Receiver of public moneys at Dardanelle.

J.B. Smith, assistant postmaster at Nashville, Howard county, has been arrested on the charge of embezzlement.

The Little Rock Gazette says it proposes to make a good Christian out of Brother Winfield "if it takes all summer."

Sixteen new doctors graduated at the medical department of the State Industrial University, Little Rock, on the 4th inst.

Arkansas Democrat: There are twenty distilleries in the State of Arkansas; fourteen cigar factories and eight tobacco manufactories.

The contract for building a railroad from Batesville to the <....> mines, a distance of 12 miles, has been let for the sum of $108,000.

The grand jury of Conway county indicted Sheriff Spears for criminal negligence in allowing a prisoner, charged with murder, to escape. He was deposed and Harry Coblentz was appointed sheriff.

Baxter County Citizen; There is enough surplus cattle in Baxter county to furnish the people with an abundance of money through the summer, if our farmers could dispose of them at anything like reasonable figures.

Baxter Citizen: Wheat crops are looking exceedingly well for this season of the year. There is a good crop reported from all parts of the county and prospects are very favorable at present for the most bountiful harvest for several years.

The Pine Bluff correspondent of the Gazette says; "There is a negro child two month old who was born at Rob Roy who has fourteen well developed fingers and the same number of toes. He will be able to feel his way and when he becomes a politician to kick when a caucus nomination does not suit him."

Articles of incorporation of the Little Rock and St. Louis railroad have been filed in the office of the Secretary of State. The capital stock is $500,000. The road will be built from Little Rock through the counties of Pulaski, Lonoke, Prarie and Arkansas to a point on the Texas and St. Louis, and be owned by Little Rock people.

Clarksville Economist: It is stated by some who pretend to know that the peach crop has been killed by the excessive cold of the past winter. This is the same old song that is repeated as often as we have a severe winter. Such a thing while the bud is in the dormant state never has and never will occur and indeed is impossible, except in cases where the cold is so sever as to frostbite the entire twig.

Gunpowder was known and cannon used in China early 8,000 years ago. The Moors and Turks first used them, in European war and the Turks also originated many of the most approved features of modern fortifications and seige <....>prosches.