Mountain Echo Newspaper

April 2, 1886 (Vol 1-No 5) 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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"Saturday Night" IMMENSELY POPULAR! The Leading Family Paper in the United States

The hold which this beautifully illustrated weekly retains upon the people's confidence seems astonishing, but it is due entirely to the real worth of its varied contents. The value of its stories is not measured by the enormous sum of money they cost, but by the eagerness of the people to read them. It takes

Ten tons of Paper Every Week To Print it.

That is over 20,000 pounds. And ten times twenty thousand persons anxiously wait its weekly coming.

The advance agent of one of the best patronized traveling shows in America speaking of the wide-spread popularity of this family paper said that "wherever he found three trees growing, there he found "Saturday Night."

He meant to say that all the people all over the land, in every town and every village, love their favorite paper and that their liking for it was deep-rooted and permanent, not superficial and temporary, changing as the seasons change and dying with the year.

WHEREVER IT COMES, IT COMES TO STAY: Every weekly issue of "Saturday Night" contains a quality and quantity of literary material satisfying to every member of the family, young and old.

Its stories are of standard excellence. The most gifted authors seek "Saturday Night" as the channel by which they may gain attention.

Its pictures are gems of beauty, produced by the best artists.

A NEW STORY EVERY SECOND WEEK: Every paper has six Continued Stories, from six to twelve complete short stories, as many poems, Items of Interest and information, the Latest Fashions, answers to correspondents, and a variety of humorous and entertaining articles.

Specimen Copies Sent Free! In all the cities and large towns of the United States, "Saturday Night" is for sale regularly every week by news dealers and booksellers. Many persons, however, find it inconvenient to buy the paper from dealers. To any such, it will be sent by mail, postage paid, at the following

Subscription Rates:
For 1 month 4 numbers - .25
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Subscriptions can begin with any number. Back numbers supplied at the same rates, or single for six cents each. We pay all postage.

If you wish to get up a club for "Saturday Night," send us your name, and we will forward you, free of charge, a number of specimen copies of the paper, so that, with them, you can give your neighhood a good canvassing.

For $5 we will send two copies for one year to any address, or each copy to a separate address.

The party who sends us $20 for a club of eight copies (all sent at one time) will be entitled to a copy for one year FREE.

Getters up of clubs of eight copies can afterward add single copies at $2.50 each.

Money should be sent to us either by Post Office Order or Registered Letter, so as to provide as far as possible against its loss by mail.

All communications, business or otherwise, must be addressed to: James Elverson, Publisher "Saturday Night", Philadelphia, PA

<same notice about US Naval Academy test in last week's issue>

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A CALL: The County Democratic Central Executive Committee is hereby called to meet at the court house, in the town of Yellville, on Saturday, April 10th, 1886 to set a time for holding a convention to elect delegates to the State convention. Also to attend to any matters concerning the best interests of the party. Every member of the committee is urged to be present. R J Pierce, Ch'm'n; A W Wickersham, Sec'y

Gov. Hughes has issued a proclamation of the Iron Mountain railroad, directing it to proceed at once to running its trains regularly.

The Newspapers and their outfits in the United States are valued at $9,300,600. The editors and their outfits are not valued so high by a few dollars.

Just as we go to press we learn that the great railroad strike on the Iron Mountain railroad has at last ended, and freight traffic has again been resumed.

The Missouri Pacific railroad employes 14,190 men. Of these 3,717 are concerned in the strike, and most of the others are thrown out of employment thereby

There are fourteen ex-Union officers in the Senate and seventy-nine representatives in the House. There are nineteen ex-Confederate officers now in the Senate and forty-two in the House.

Beware of the whisperings of political enemies. They will tell you politics should be left out of county affairs. That will do for the party in the minority to preach, but it will not do for Democrats to practice or heed such doctrines. Turn a deaf ear to all disorganizers.

 Rev Thomas R Welch, United States Consul at Hamilton, Canada, died suddenly at that place on the 28th ult. Dr. Welch was for many years a resident of Little Rock and pastor of the First Presbyterian church of that city. He was well known throughout the State as a pure and upright man. His remains were buried at Little Rock.

Secretary Manning met with a painful accident on the 23d ult. - being seized with vertigo at the tresury, falling and spraining his ankle. He was taken home in his carriage and attended by his physician, who does not anticipate any serious results. The Secretary has been overworked recently, and some of his friends think that his condition is graver than his physician acknowledges.

The sheriff of Miller county telegraphed to Gov. Huges on last Friday for assistance to quell a mob of 400 lawless men, who were in possession of the Iron Mountain railroad yards at Texarkana, offering and doing violence to the railroad property, and resisting the sheriff and his posse. The Governor authorized the sheriff to call on the Gate City Guards, of Texarkana, to render such assistance as was necessary to execute the law.

There are twenty-two States with Democratic Governors. They are Alabama, Arkansas, California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia. Five are in States where the Republicans control the Legislature - New York, Pennsylvania, California, New Jersey and Nevada.