Mountain Echo Newspaper

March 19, 1886 (Vol 1-No 3) - Page 2

Abstracted / Transcribed & Copyrighted by Linda Haas Davenport

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Gardening is the order of the day.

There is very little sickness in the country, so say the doctors.

Mr. W A Lawson and Mr. Alex Hurst called this week and had their names placed on our list.

Mr. A S Layton and Dr. Sims returned from St. Louis last Sunday. They did not go to Washington.

One hundred and twenty-two tracts of land are published as delinquent. This is rather a large list for Marion county.

Attorneys De Roos Bailey and J C Floyd attended circuit court at Mountain Home this week. They returned home yesterday.

Ella, the little daughter of Mr. H. W. Hudson, Sr., fell from a swing Tuesday evening and was very badly, but not seriously, hurt.

The Marion County Wheel will meet at this place on the first of April. Mr. Ben Weast was chosen delegate by the Yellville Wheel.

Mr. W E Brumbelow, of Prairie township, was a caller at The Echo office last Saturday. We understand he will be a candidate for Representative.

More miners for the Rush Creek mines passed through town yesterday. Let 'em come; the more the better. There is plenty room for all.

E T Record, Marion county's cattle king, came down on a visit the latter part of last week. He is enjoying excellent health. - Newport Herald, 13th inst.

We publish this week an interesting story, entitled "Delinquent Tax Sale." Read it carefully and see if your land is advertised. The sale will take place on the second Monday in April.

Another Cravens was assessing at this place this week. He will be at the precinct in Prairie township March 22nd and 23rd; Hampton 24th and 25th, and Bearden 26th. Be on the hand and list your property.

The mineral of this county is attracting considerable attention. There is an abundance of zinc, manganese and copper in this county, and a railroad is all we need to make bid Marion come out of the kinks. And the railroad we are bound to have.

Mr. Bruce Miller of Columbus, Kansas passed through town Wednesday with a lot of miners enroute for the Rush Creek zinc mines. They were fully equipped for business and seemed to think that the prospect for a "boom" in mining matters in Marion were flattering.

Mr. N Wood, one of Marion's substantial farmers, was a caller at this office last Wednesday. His wife and mother came to town also, the first time the latter in a long time. Mr. W. wants a county paper and believes in supporting it, hence he subscribed to The Echo.

Children who are troubled with worms are pale in the face, blue rings around their eyes, pick the nose, have variable appetites, are fretful by spells, have bad dreams, are restless in sleep. Dr. J H McLean's Liquid or Candy Vermifuge will kill and expell these troublesome parasites. 25 cents a bottle.

The steamer Home, Capt. Stallings' new boat, was at Buffalo City this week. The river is so low she could not get up to MeBee's. The Home is the only boat on the river that can run on the present stage of water in the upper river. She discharged her freight at Buffalo City and went down the river again.

Some time ago the Yellville Bachelors club held a meeting in the parlors of the West End House and agreed that the member who married first should board the rest of the unmated gang. The winter of their discontent has not yet been made glorious summer by the marriage of a brother bachelor, and the chances for another boarding house looks a little uncertain. The poet laureate of England says, "in the spring time the young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love," and who knows but that the gentle springtime will turn the thoughts of some one of these old bachelor's in the same direction?

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The widow of ex-Gov. Horatio Seymour died at the residence of Roscoe Conkling, Utica New York recently.

When nature falters and require help, recruit her enfeebled energies with Dr. J H McLean's Strengthening Cordial and Blood Purifier $1.00 per bottle.

There are 1,142 convicts serving the State of Kentuckey at this time, only 193 of whom can be accomodated in the walls of the penitentiary.

Far better than the harsh treatment of medicines which horribly gripe the patient and destroy the coating of the stomach Dr. J H McLean's chills and Fever Cure, by mild yet effective action will cure. Sold at 50 cents a bottle.

The President has appointed James C Matthews, a colored man as Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia, to succeed Fred Donglass, resigned.

Thousands of people suffer with back ache, not knowing hat in most cases it is a symptom of diseased kidneys and liver, which plasters and lotions cannot heal, the best and safest remedy is Dr. J H McLean's Homopathic Liver and Kidney Balm. $1.00 per bottle.

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION: Land Office at Harrison, Ark, March 17, 1886: Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim and that said proof will be made before the Register and Receiver of the U.S. Land Office at Harrison, Ark., on the 27th of April 1886, viz: William I Dial, Hd. Entry No 5531 for the ne frl qr and nw se qr and sw frl qr Sec 4, tp 21 north, range 17 west. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence up and cultivation of said land, viz: Lewis Chaffin, Steven Chaffin, John Robbins and Edward Cruse, all of Lead Hill, Ark. H C Tippon Register

<Notice of Trustee's Sale for the land of John & Josephine Langston that appeared in the Mar 12th issue>

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