VOLUME II. NEWPORT. ARKANSAS, TUESDAY JUNE 3, 1902. NUMBER 37
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articles that can be purchased here for five and ten cents,
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ASSESSOR’S NOTICE.
NOTICE is hereby given that the under
signed, as assessor of Jackson county,
Arkansas, will meet the people of the
different townships at the following times and
places, for the purpose [of listing the Personal
Property and Per Capita ! ax for the
year 1902:
Barren township, McDougal’s residence. Mon
day and Tuesday, June 2, and 3.
Glaize township, Grand Glaize, Wednesday
and Thursday June 4 and 5.
Breckinridge township, Auvergne, Friday
June 6.
pt, Breckinridge township, Weldon, Saturday
June 7.
Breckinridge township, Tupelo, Monday
June 9.
Cow Take township, Nance’s Store Tuesday
and Wednesday, June 10 and 11.
Richwoods township, Martin’s Old Residence,
Thursday and Friday, June 12 and 13.
Cache township, Burton’s Store, Saturday
June 14.
Cache^ownship, Martin’s School House, M on
day and Tuesday June 16, and 17.
Grubbs township, Robinson’s Chapel, Wednes
4ay and Thursday June 18 and 19.
Village township, Barnes’ Mill, Friday
June 20.
Jefferson township, Jacksonport, Monday and
Tuesday, June 23 and 24.
Bird township, Elgin, Wednesday June 25.
Bini township, Centerville, Thursday, June 26.
Bird township, Tuckerman, Friday and Sat
urday, June 27 and 28.
Glass township, Swifon, Monday June 30
Tuesday and Wednesday, July 1 and 2.
Union township, Court House, Newport, from
July 7 to August 20.
Please bring along your deeds or last tax
receipts.
Given under my hand this 6th day of
May 1902.
B. F. SIMMONS
Assessor of Jackson County.
First published May 6 Daily Independent 6t.
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SERMON ON BAPTISM
BY REV. L. H. RICHARDSON.
Reviewed by Rev. C. C. Cline.
(CONTINUED FROM JUNE 2.)
Recurring to the all-sufficiency ol
the word of God as the final court oi
appeal, he says; “Let us take the
word of God and see what it sayf
about the mode of baptism. There
are two different general modes
that are practiced by Christians the
world over, and throughout all time.”
This statement contains two serious
blunders, I would call them falsehoods
if I thought Mr. R. knew any better
He evidently means to affirm that-1 the
word of God says something aboul
“modes of baptism,” and thal
two modes of baptism have been prac
ticed by Christians in all times. Botl
of these are untrue. The bible says
nothing about “modes of baptism.’
On the contrary it plainly says
“There is one Lord, one faith and one
baptism.”—Eph. 4:5. Since the sub
stitution of sprinkling and pouring foi
the “one baptism,” there has ariser
the necessity with those interested ii
the substitutes to coin the expressioi:
“modes of baptism.” The though
thus expressed is not found anywhere
within the lids of the bible. Nor cai
it be shown that the Lord ever com
manded anything whatever that coule
be obeyed in more than one “mode’
or manner. His commands are spe
eific. Later on in this review we wil
show Avhere “sprinkling” and “pour
ing” were introduced, and the reph
to his second assumption.
In his next paragraph he diseusse;
the “essentiality of baptism” anc
calls “baptism a sacrament.” When
in the word of God is the question o
the essentiality of baptism discussed'
Where does it call baptism a “sacra
ment,” a “seal,” a “badge?” Doe!
Jesus or any one of the sacred writer!
discuss the essentiality of any of hii
commands? On this subject I com
mend their silence fs a worthy ex
ample for all suoh mirr.&ters as Mr. A
“Baptism is not essential to salvation’
but it is essential to get into our littl«
communions bounded by humai
creeds and branded by denomination
al names.
He introduces the discussion of “tin
correct mode of baptism” by statins
what Presbyterians claim is the cor
rect mode. 1 shall therefore reply t<
the remainder of his sermon, by giv
ing
I. What Presbyterian scholars saj
on the subject.
II. What Episcopalians and othe
Pedobaptist scholars say.
III. What the bible says oi
“sprinkling and “dipping.”
IV. The history of “sprinkling.”
WHAT PRESBYTERIAN SCHOLARS SAY
A—JOHN’S BAPTISM OF JESUS.
In 1899 Dr. Mclaren in his S. S
Lesson Comments, in the S. S. Time
said that Jesus was immersed. A
nnno a nnmhar i/mitlomon urrnti
protests to Dr. Trumbull, the editor
to which he replied as follows in tin
issue of August 6:
1. Most Christian scholars of even
denomination are agreed in finding
the primitive meaning of the won
baptize to be, ‘to dip,’ to immerse
The sweep of scholarship in and ou
of the Baptist church is in favor o
immersion as the principal meaning
of the word baptize. A very larg<
portion of the scholars of the work
agree with Dr. Maclaren that immer
sion was the mode of John’s baptism.’
2. Dr. Jno. Diodati, of the Synoc
of Dort, says on John’s baptism
“Plunged in the water for a sacret
sign and seal of the expiation and re
mission of sins.”
3. Philip Sohaff, D. D. LL. D.
Professor of Church History in tin
Union Theological Seminary, N. Y.
says: “The baptism of Christ in tb<
river of Jordan, and the illustration:
of baptism used in the New Testa
ment are all in favor of immersioi
rather than sprinkling, as is freeh
admitted by the best exegetes
Catholic and Protestant, English an<
German. Nothing can be gained b;
unnatural exegesis.” Teachings pp
55, 56.
Without placing Mr. R. amon]
exegetes of any class may I not hop
that hd will see that nothing can bi
. gained by such unnatural twisting o
God’s word as he has done in order to
get “sprinkling” into the several texts
under consideration.
4. Holtzman said, “What led him
to the Jordan was his business as a
baptizer. This action consisting in
complete immersion, represents the
symbolical sign-language, indispensi
ble to an oriental, which accompanies
the inner experience of repentance.”
RigcJ^nbach says, “John extends
ablution to complete immersion, that
is really baptism, dipping in deep. In
John’s baptism the people were to
confess their sins, and by this speak
ing sign, express the doctrine that the
impure man must entirely disappear,
and emerge again purified.”
If a minister in the church of Christ
had used such language, it would be
pronounced, “baptismal regenera
tion,” “water salvation,” but coming
as it does from a learned Presbyterian
1 commentator, it will be more pal
! atably received.
' (TO BE CONTINUED.)
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RECENT DEPARTURE
IN RAIDING TIGERS.
L
Sheriff R. W. Bandy, assisted by
' Deputy Lockhard Bandy, raided the
> office of the Pacific Express Company
i Monday afternoon about 3 o’clock and
seized for confiscation fourteen full
I cases of bottled beer.
’ The beer was shipped from Mem
phis and consigned to S. Field, subject
l to his orders. Sheriff Bandy believes
the name to be a fictitious one and
r that the prohibited wet goods were
intended for the Temperance Saloon,
i formerly run by Robt. Simmons,
which has again been reopened.
) The barn and other houses about
t the home of Robt. Simmons’ were
’ also searched but without success so
• far as finding any “spiritus frumenti”
i is concerned.
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i STATE NEWS NOTES.
It is announced that the Searchlight
Publishing Company, publishers of
the Searchlight, the organ of the
Anti-Saloon League of Arkansas and
Texas, has been dissolved by E. A.
Tabor, W. J. Moore and Frank Bar
rett, and that E. A. Tabor will con
tinue the business and assume all li
’ abilities.
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Two children of Dud Cooper were
killed by a blast on the White River
r railroad last week. Being warned by
the Greeks, whose language they did
r not understand, to run out of the way
of danger, they ran into the blast,
i when it exploded, killing one of the
children instantly and fatally wound
ing the other.—-Melbourne Register.
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At the meeting in the opera house
Monday night the town of Black Rock
decided to accept the proposition of
' the button company, and appointed a
3 committee to raise the $500 additional
bonus. For this the company agrees
J f Axlnitfvn t K n i nlen! f
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’ sixty-eight saws and thirty-five fin
! ishing machines, thus employing
about one hundred operators. They
have now about forty. The new
’ plant will be located next to the
1 Myers, McLeod & Fisher mill, and the
' two $1,200 buildings will, when they
' have served their purpose, become
‘ the property of those who contributed
’ the necessary bonus. Messrs. C. T.
! Burns, J. H Townsend and Jake
^ Krone wer appointed a committee to
\ draft the contract.
1 RAILROAD RUMBLINGS.
I
Chief Engineer Lee, who will have
charge of the extension of the St. L. &
N. A. R. R. from Harrison, until all
, construction work has been com
pleted, is preparing to handle freight
, trains from Harrison to the new town
j of Everton within the next ten days.
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1 Congressman Brundidge has intro
r duced a bill (H. R. 14780) authorizing
) the Newport Bridge & Terminal Rail
1 way Company to construct a bridge
r across the White river in Arkansas,
• and the same has been referred to the
committee on interstate and foreign
» commerce.
3 Huffman can bake cakes for the
f most fastidious. d-tf
SUFFERED SERIOUS FIRE.
H Mm
Town Of Newark Visited By Twenty
five Thousand Dollar F.re Supposed
To Have Been Started By
Incendiaries.
Newark, the prosperous little town,
14 nxiles above here on the White
River branch of the Iron Mountain
Railroad has again been visited by an
other destructive lire, which this time
carried away three of the newly con
structed brick store buildings.
The total loss will probably aggre
gate about $25,000, but this is partially
covered by nearly $15,000 insurance.
The Are is supposed to have had an
incendiary origin, though there is no
proof of this belief, which is held to
generally among the residents of
Newark.
The Independent was acquainted
with the facts, so far as they afe
known, by telephonic communication
with Dr. J. I. Sturdivant.
The fire was observed about four
o’clock Tuesday morning, just about
daylight, and the whole town was
soon on the scene. It was first no
ticed in the front part of the store of
J. M. Martin & Company and spread
rapidly. The store of J. M. Martin &
Company faces south and to the west
was the store building of Griffith and
Morrow, while on the east was the sa
loon of W. T. Magness & Son, both
separated however from the Martin
building by an intervening distance.
This did not save them however as
the heat of the flames fired them both
and destroyed the interiors, leaving
the brick walls standing. The store
of S. C. Bean lies still further to the
east and this was only saved after he
roic work by the citizens, who formed
a bucket brigade, as the town has no
regular fire company.
Newark’s last big fire was of incen
diary origin, Hubbard Head having
been arrested and tried for the offense,
but was not convicted. Indications
tend to show that the city’s growth
has again been set back bv the brand _
of the lire bug, but no arrests have
been made, nor is it probable that
there will be, unless new evidence is
brought to light.
LOSSES AND INSURANCE.
The three brick buildings were
owned by W. T. MagnessaudW. A.
Edwards, each owning one and had a
half interest in the third. Each car
ried $2000 insurance and their losses
will not be heavy upon the buildings.
Griffith & Morrow had an $8,000
stock, loss total, with $4,600 insur
ance.
J. M. Martin & Company had a
$4,600 stock, nothing being saved, ■
insurance $2,500.
W. T. Magness lost entire stock,
valued at $3,000 to $4,000; insurance
thought to be $3,000.
S. C. Beane had to remove his en
tire stock, which was damaged about
$1,000, also store building, both of
which losses were fully covered by
insurance.
Active work has begun on the
Louisiana and Arkansas railroad from
Hope to Stamps, known as the Buch
anan road. It will connect with the
southern extension at Stamps, on the
Cotton Belt, a distance of twenty -
three miles.
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