To The Editor of the Herald.

   The incessant rains for the past two weeks, have put our crops in
bad condition.
   Messrs. E. R. Arnold and Welch attended the silver meeting
last Friday night.
   Mr. Tom Griffin, of Dobyville, was visiting old friends around
Bradshaw last Sunday and Monday.
   Mrs. T. A. Ross, who has been very sick for the past two weeks,
is now reigning queen over her domain.

*The following from the book:  "Clark County, Arkansas, Arkadelphia & Environs A
Journal By James A. Fortson Recorded 1875 - 1897 - Transcribed and Edited by Linda
Shaddock Rogers" p. 37

"November 30, 1887 - Dick Austin and Katy Ross married...."

   At a meeting of the Ladies Aid Society of the Baptist Church, held July 22, 1889,
the following resolutions were unanimously adopted:
   RESOLVED, That we, the members of the said society, bow in humble submission
to the will of our Father, who has seen fit to remove from our midst our beloved
sister and friend, Mrs. Coy E. Marbury, whom we have been intimately
associated with for years.  Whom to know, was to love and esteem.
   RESOLVED, That with bowed heads and hearts full of sorrow, we resign our much
loved sister, to the will of our Father whose judgment never errs.
   RESOLVED, That as a member of our society we have sustained a great loss,
both socially and religiously.  She was been our first President, one of the
constituent members, was our President from June 1872 until April 1874.  For some
years she resided in the country, but we always received word of encouragement and
love.  When she moved back she then united with us to labor for the church and the
good of our cause, as one of the last acts of her noble, exemplary life.
   RESOLVED, That while she is missed from our church and society, she has gone
to the beautiful and peaceful abode.

   On Wednesday evening of last week, Nov. 20th; at 8:30 o'clock, Mr. John A.
Husbands and Miss Laura M. Thomas, both of this city, were united in
marriage.  Proper notice should have been made last Thursday, but owing to the
absence of the writer from town, the duty was neglected.  The wedding took place
at the residence of Mr. R. B. Thomas, a brother of the bride, and the compact
was solemnized in appropriate form by Rev. C. C. Godden, pastor of the
Methodist church, in the presence of quite a number of select friends of the bride
and groom.  After the ceremony and the earnest congratulations of well-wishing
friends, the party partook of an elegant and sumptious wedding supper.
   The Herald sincerely congratulates Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Husbands, and wishes
for them that large measure of happiness and prosperity which we know they will
deserve.  Mr. Husbands is a sturdy, faithful, upright man, and the bride whom he
has taken into his life is a young lady of many charming graces and a happy,
winsome disposition.  There ought to be happiness in store for them - and there is.

Following is a list of wedding gifts, with the names of the givers:

Miss Mary Hamilton - Silver Tea Strainer.
R. M. Patterson - Silver Toothpick Stand.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Crawford - China Cake Plate and Doily.
Miss Hattie Rudisill - Silver Tomato Spoon.
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Wilson - Silver Berry Spoon.
Charlie Johnson - China Cracker Jar.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Brown - Silver Salt and Pepper Set.
Miss Irene Carder - Tea Set.
Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Murry - China Tea Set.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Wilson - Silver Bon Bon Box.
W. L. Kingsbury and J. R. McDonald - Silver Tea Set.
Miss Fannie Gaulding - Silver Sugar Bowl and Teaspoon Holder combined.
Prof. and Mrs. J. W. Conger - Silver Syrup Stand.
Dr. and Mrs. Sharp, of St. Louis - China Cream Pitcher.
Mrs. Annie Doyle, of Texarkana - Set Linen Towels.
E. W. Foster, of New Orleans - Silver Bon Bon Box.
Dr. and Mrs. W. T. Rowland - Gilt Mirror.
Mrs. J. T. Lee - Glass Water Set and Tray Cloth.
Miss Hattie Belle A?ledge of Texas - Pair Cut Glass Salt Cellars and Gold Bowl Ladles.
C. H. Richards, Parkerburgh, of W. Va. - Set Silver Teaspoons and Butter Knife.
Miss Alda Johnson, of Searcy - Set Hand-Embroidered Doily s and Tray Cloth.
Mrs. Kingsbury - Handsome Boquet of Roses and White Silk Doily.
Mrs. Lillie M les Bal_ - Vase.
Joe Husbands - Smyrna Rug.
Mrs. E. W. Thomas - Onyx Center Table.
Abraham, Wilson and McMillan - Smyrna Rug.
Alva Greene and Neil Sloan - "Two-story" Lamp.
Miss Nannie Miller - Smyrna Rug.
T. F. Callaway and W. E. Barkman - Banquet Lamp.
Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Beadel, of Moody, Tex - Silver Ice Pitcher.
Dr. and Mrs. J. R. Dale - Flower Vase.
Mrs. S. R. McNutt - Berry Set and Doilies.
Miss Ella Miller - Oil Painting.
Mrs. G. C. Jones - Oil Painting.
Mrs. J. R. Boddie - Lace Collarette.
Mrs. J. D. Williamson - Silver sugar spoon.
Miss Lottie Weber - Silver Soup Ladle.
Miss Mamie Hunt - China Oyster Dish.
Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Young - China Salad Bowl.
Mrs. C. L. Thomas - Silk Chair Scarf.
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Henderson - Vase and Card Receiver.
Dr. and Mrs. Williamson - Picture, "Magdalen."
Mr. and Mrs. A. C. McAdams - Picture, "Crossing the Ferry."
C. L. Brown - China Tea Set.
Mr. and Mrs. Gibney - Brussells Carpet.
Mr. and Mrs. Patterson - Carpet and Hall Hatrack.
Joe, Charles and Ed Thomas - Set Parlor Furniture.
Mr. and Mrs. Weber - Set Table Linen and Towels.
Miss Etta Thomas - Willow Rocker.
R. _ Thomas - Set China.

   Mrs. Sallie Marbury, daughter of Mrs. Dr. Meader, was born
Sept. 1st, 1866 married December 23d 1883, died Feb. 2nd, 1894.  She
bore her illness patiently, and said she was willing an prepared to meet
death, only she regretted to leave her two months' old babe behind.
She caller her friends to her bedside and bade them goodbye.  She
leaves a husband and five children to mourn her loss.

A precious one from you has gone;
  A voice you loved is stilled.
A place is vacant in your home
  Which never, never can be filled.

Weep not dear husband,
  Know that your darling's at rest.
We know 'tis hard to part with her,
  She's resting on her Savior's breast.

'Tis hard! so hard to part for life
  From one so precious and dear,
Who has ever proved a faithful wife,
  She has gone to rest from sorrow and care.

Now dearest weep no more,
  She has left you here alone,
And has crossed to another shore,
  You  must do the best you can, alone.

How happy we should be to know
  That she left us happy and bright;
Saying she was going to a peaceful shore,
  And that God knew what's right.

Dear children 'tis hard for you
  To say farewell to dear Mother.
Don't forget the last words of adieu;
  In all the world you'll not find another.

There is no love like Mother's love;
  If ever so kind and true.
Your best friend has flown above,
  None other can fill her place with you.

Now dear ones know that she's at rest
  And has gone to the eternal home,
Where she will be forever blessed,
  Where sickness and sorrow is unknown.

Dear mother do not weep for your loved one;
  She has left you and gone before.
Just a short time we'll all be gone
  We must try to meet her on the other shore.

Dear sisters and brothers all of you
  Must try to meet her in that happy land,
Where there'll be no bidding adieu,
  And then you'll be a happy band.

Yet, we must lay her
  In the peaceful grave's embrace;
Her sweet memory will be cherished
  Till again we see her loving face.

Yet again we must hope to meet her,
  Where our days of life have fled;
Glad in Heaven with joy to greet her
  Where no farewell tears are shed.
                     Annie West 

   We very much regret to note the recent death of Mrs. T. H. Marbury, at her
home at her home near Oakland in this county.  Death is a sad event under all sorts
of circumstances and at all times, but in cases like this, where the victim is a young
mother and a number of little children are left to the cares of the cold, cold world,
the stroke falls on every christian and sympathetic heart with double force.
   The writer was personally well acquaited with the subject of this sketch, having
spent a number of years in our childhood under the same roof and in the same yard,
and being thus familiarwith her many redeeming traits of character, we can with a
full knowledge of speaking the simple truth, say that in her death, her husband loses
a truly devoted companion, her children a loving godly mother, her neighborhood a
truly good neighbor and the world a noble christian woman.  Such thoughts fill the
hearts of loving ones with unutterable sadness and grief, yet is is but one the
certainties in the career of all that is human, and having a full knowledge of the heart
of man, the great God of the universe in His unlimited wisdom provided a sweet
consolation for all thus bereaved in His great plan of redemption and eternal future
happiness.
   With full confidence that Mrs. Marbury, (Sallie, as we use to call her around the old home
fire-side) has only been transplanted to the garden of the Redeemer, we with a heart filled to
overflowing with sympathy, would say to the heart-broken mother whose brow wears the
imprint of more than sixty winters, and to the bereaved husband, and heart sore brothers
and sisters; weep not for her, she has only gone up higher, to stand on the battlements of
heaven, and there sing with the angels as a beacon light to guide your footsteps in the
pathway of righteousness in this life, and to greet you with a welcome at the last day, to an
eternal home with and for the blessed.

The following from the book:  "Clark County, Arkansas, Arkadelphia & Environs A Journal by James A.
Fortson Recorded 1875 - 1897 - Transcribed and Edited by Linda Shaddock Rogers" p. 4

"February 2, 1894 - Mrs. Marbery, wife of Tom, died Mill Creek."

The following from the book:  "Clark County, Arkansas, Arkadelphia & Environs A
Journal By James A. Fortson Recorded 1875 - 1897 - Transcribed and Edited by Linda
Shaddock Rogers" p. 15

"May 8, 1889 - Hick McNeil died relaps of measils, confined 6 week sickness."

   At Augusta, Ark., Feb 21st, 1894, of pneumonia, J. K. Richardson, son of
Mrs. and stepson of Dr. L. Thompson of Dalark, Ark., age 21 years, 3 months
and 10 days.  He had gone to Augusta on a visit to his sister, Mr. Calhoun.
Soon after reaching there he was taken sick, his mother knew nothing of his
illness until the fatal message came "Keelie is dead."  Oh what anguish to a
mother's heart, "Oh God where is thy promise?"  "I temper the wind to the
shorn Lamb."  We know thow art too just to err, and too merciful to be unkind.
Some day we will see things we cannot now, we will then know why that so kind
and warm heart was Keelie's, so full of inborn riches of love to all living things,
should be so suddenly stilled, that we may never feel its warm pulsation again.
   Ah, how well we knew him, how his heart flowed out in sympathy over
universal nature and in her bleakest provinces discerned beauty and meaning.
Closed ____ those lips, and cold that generous heart, with its large bounty
where retchedness found solacement.  Thou art gone to the grave, but we will
not deplore thee.  Though sorrow and darkness encompass the tomb, thy
Savior has passed through the portals before you, and the lamp of his love is
thy guide through the gloom.
                                                                         A FRIEND

Eva Dickinson, (nee Lamb) was born in Pike county, Arkansas, April 29,
1874.   Joined the Christian church, September 4, 1889, under the preaching of
Bro. Granville Jones.  Was married to Joe Dickinson Jr. March 16 1890, and
died March 6, 1895.  She is gone.  Those dear lips have bidnen us adieu for
the last time.  Alas! her smiles are with us no more.  But, we do not mourn as
those who have no hope, but simply in response to the sweet ties of nature as
given us by our dear heavenly father, knowing that our loss is heavens gain.
And we have the sweet assurance that we shall meet again if we are only
faithful.
   In her dying whisper she said, "meet me in heaven."  Yes, her last and
dying words were, "meet me in heaven, I am happy to make the change, I am
willing to go."  Oh! what a comfort to her saited mother, to her devoted loving
sister, to hear such words of divine love and submission to the great will of
God in her last words on earth.  This was certainly a sweet boon, to her
mother and sister who had spent so many sleepless nights and watchful hours
around her bedside during her suffering.
   Indeed, it was beautiful to see the love and devotion that existed between
those sisters.  They had spent so many happy childhood hours together, that it
seems as though life to them was but a peaceful ocean of happiness and
meriment.  But, some two years ago, that dread disease, consumption, laid its
thin bony hand of death upon the sweet life of dear Eva, ne'er relinquished its
savage grasp; until like the nocturnal vampire it had rent in twain the last
sinew of her dear sweet life.
   Eva, was a merry happy child, a noble lighthearted woman, a loving and an
affectionate mother.  She leaves a husband and two dear little boys, Tom and
Claud.  Her only grief was leaving her husband and children whom she loved
so well.  To all the loved ones we commend them to God Who has promised to
the faithful that He will "wipe away all the tears from their eyes and there shall
be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there shall there be
any more pain for the former things have passed away, For the Lamb that is in
the midst of the throne shall feed them and shall lead them unto living fountains
of water."
How sweet t'will be in that beautiful land,
  Where free from all sorrow and pain,
With songs on our lips, and harps in our hands;
  To meet one another again.
                                                                Katie Hardin.