Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-08-26
Arkansns Notes.

The City Council Of Little Rock has
passed law to "regisier dogs. The
tax on each dog is 81.
Large quantities of Timothy and Hun
garian hay have been raised and saved
in Sebastian county this year
There is cooperative building asso-
citation in Little Rock. A similar body
might be of some service in Memphis.
The Prairie County Agricultural and
Mechanical Fair will be held at Des Arc
on the 9th, 18th and 29.h Of October
| next.
Major Elias Rector, who has been
sojourning some time at the Hot Springs,
has left for his home OF Fort Smith in
good health.
Mr.. James Roy, of st. Francis county,
died last week at the advanced age Of GO
years. He was one of the Oldest resi-
dents Of Eastern Arkansas, having set.
tied there with his family in 1927.
The Jacksonport Herald says the
railroad between that place and Helena
can be built in three years, and that the
means are already in hand to build it.
Good.
About twenty thousand acres of land
were purchased last week in Dewitt
county by parties living in Illinois, and a
large immigration of families from that
State is expected soon. Old Dewitt is
looking up" A -3f1
A correspondent writing from Fulton
county says: "Our taxes are terribly
high. 1t takes almost the last dollar that
can be raked up to satisfy the collector.
The assessor, in most cases, did not de-
duct the amount exempted by law from
taxation" Too bad for poor Fulton.
Parties are already at work on the
Little Rock and Fort Smith railroad.
The first twenty miles of the road are to
be finished during the present year, and
all the remaining portion is to be COM
pleted within the year 1870. This, in
deed, looks like enterprise.
A negro named James Warner was
legally executed outside the penitentiary
on Thursday last. He suffered the full
penalty Of the law for the murder of o
Mrs. STANCE, about one year ago. He
was hung on the same scaHold used for
the execution of Tatum, few months
since.
The Pine Bluff Press says: "If the
African will not work, we must employ
those who will; and as certain as the
sun shines the Coolie will be employed
on American plantations. The voice Of
tie nation Is in favor of it. Progress
demandsit it," We presume the voice Of
the nation and progress will have it.
An Arkansas poet contributed the fol-
lowing ode, dedicated to Governor Billy
Bowles's laureate, to the Fayetteville
Washington county, Democrat
| "The turkey buzzard's fragrant bird
An SOS the poodle dorg;
| The killiloo he sings SO sweet,
| An so does ole bull frog.
Frog, oh frogee. frog
An SO does bench-legged dorg."
The Little Rock Gazette says: "Our
people are going to trade at home here
after-Memphis merchants have charged
them unreasonable prices long enough"
The Gazette is mistaken. Oar mer-
chants are the most liberal aud reason-
able men in the world to deal with. The
people of Arkansas will find it more to
their advantage to deal in Memphis than
in St. Louis. lA
Major Montgomery, Acknowledgement
| of Arkansas, has isssed, It is said, at the
instance of King Clayton, writ of qao
warranto against Lieutenant-Governor
johnson, who is ordered to appear in
the Circuit Court of Pulaski county, on
the 22d day of November next, and " to
show by what authority or warrant he
claims to have, use and exercise the
| authority, powers, liberties, privileges,
franchise, end oMce of hieptenant-G Gov
ernor of the State of Arkapsap.'' BLEW
King Clayton Us "going it y strong.