Pine Bluff Weekly News, Arkansas Co, AR *********************************************************** Submitted by: Mary L Brown Date: 8 Mar 2004 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************************** Excerpts from the PINE BLUFF WEEKLY PRESS Volume 1, No. 5 Thursday, February 18, 1869 Devoted to Politics, Agriculture, Literature and News Wyatt C. Thomas, Editor NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS MAGISTRATE'S COURT I will hold my regular Court at my office the second Monday in each month. Eugene Nordmann Our friend, Col. D. A Bradshaw met with quite a mishap a few days since, a heavy post at the corner of a Street falling accidently upon him. We are glad to see him out again and giving his usual attention to business. He will do "to ** (Bradshaw, not the post). **unreadable DIED In Pine Bluff, Ark., on the 11th inst., Melanie Mary Carroll, wife of Col. David W. Carroll, aged 47 years. (Obituary next week). LYDELL FEMALE INSTITUTE Relf's Bluff, Drew Co., Ark. This school, named in honor of the genius of Sir Charles Lyell, is 30 miles south of PINE BLUFF, in a locality selected exclusively on account of health, and will be reopened on the 1st day of March, under the direction of Mrs. Kersh and Miss Moore, with competent assistants. It is designed to develop here an intellectual excellence unsurpassed in any far away country. TERMS Primary department, per month $2.00 Geography, Grammar Arithmetic, et... " 2.50 Astronomy, Botany, Rhetoric, Natural Philosopht, et... " 3.00 Algebra and Classics " 4.00 Music on Guitar (extra) " 4.00 " Piano or Melodeon " 5.00 Boarding and Washing Cash in advance " 10.00 Persons having 2d-handed pianos to dispose of are at liberty to deposit them here for sale, without cost. Address, Mrs. J. S. Kersh, Relfs Bluff, Drew Co., Ark.