Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-09
ARKANSAS

shortening the distance three hours.
Nearly all the counties have settled
with the auditor. The time ofCarroll
county has been extended till the first
Of October.
Mr.. Will Inman, formerly mail
agent on the Fort Smith road. has
been transferred to the Memphis and
Little Rock.
Mr.. james B. Harris is now the
ticket agent of the Memphis aud Little
Rock railroad, Mr.. w. b. Cotton hay
ing resigned.
Senator Garland was made the
recipient last week of the degree of
LID, from the st. Louis University.
one Of the most prominent institutions
OF learning in the country II Wash
ington Post.
Osceola Times: Among the many
aspirants for public patronage, in the
newpaperial line, that have lately
made their bow, and to which our
attention has been called, are The Log
Cabin, The Arkansas Weekly Home,
The Madison County Record, aud The
Gainesville Press.
Colonel Robert Smith died at
Springfield, Mo, June 18th, in his
eighty-second year. lie was a native of
Maryland; emigrated to Arkansas in
her territorial days was a member of
the Constitutional convention in 1886,
and lived. many years at Batcsville an
honored and influential citizen. Of
late years he resided with a daughter
at Springfield, Mo.
Little Rock Gazette, 4th Colonel
Zeb Ward says that the verdict in the
Ouita coal company case was SGT aside
because no invited one 0 fthe lurymen
out to drink. He also states that
when he wants a mar to drink with
him he extends an invitation, regard
less of %juries, not stopping to ask a
man If he is a juryman any more than
he would any other question.
Des Arc Citizen BY suitable work
at the shOalest places White river can
be made the banner stream of the
Southwest. Boats carrying 1900 and
1900 bales of cotton, drawing three
and a half and four feet of water,
could run easily at all seasons of the
year from Batesville to the mouth.
thereby giving a uniform rate of trans
pOrtation-nO low or high water rates.
The Mariana Index states that
Phillips county brought suit against
Lee county for 100000 or $50, as
Lee eounty's proportion of the Phil
ljps county debt. Judge Cypert's
decision was in favor of Lee county,
upon a demurrer but the Supreme
Court has reversed It. The Index
says that iftbe case finally goes against
Lee county, its debt will be increased
ten-fold.
Des Arc Citizen At this time the
town of Qes Arc is in a better oondi-
ton than at any time since the war.
There has been a steady increase of
trade, and every year has added a few
hundred bales of cotton to the re-
ceipts and shipments. Our merchants
stand as fair in the North and East as
those of any place in the State. In
stead of any cf them leaving others
are coming in instead Of c%urtailing
their stocks, all are increasing the
amount, end hardly a day passes but
that one or more commercial solicit
tors are on the streets. The surround
ing country IL fast settling up with the
best kind of farmers. Our mechanics
are enlarging their shops, and some
are building new ones.
Little Rock Gazette, 9Th The
works, franchises, ete,, Of the Little
hoek uas Company, were sold yester-
day, by the United States marshal, to
satisfy a judgment in favor Of Brown
x Jones, coal dealers of Memphis.
The judgment against the Gas Cam-
pany amouted "a $a,Gtd.S5. This sum
WAC lid by Judge Mcclure, as attor-
ney for Brown & Jones. Mr.. HOster,
the secretary of the company, then
bid S3,777.S5, and the works, etc, OF
the company were knocked down 70
him as the b9ss NddeE Before the
ssIG qam meneed Sheriff MoCabe an
nounoed that taxes, amounting to
$l6l5, for 1878, were still unpaid, and
were a lien upon the property.
Messrs. Harrison and Howard Of 81.
Louis, prominent stecLholders NJ Che
eomnaDV. Wero pfeseht At the sale.
A man ninety four years old was
J divorced from his third wife at Fair.
bury, Ill. lie married her in 1850,
when he was sixty-6vo and she six.
teen. Their youngest child is but six
years old. The court gave the divorced
wife 400 acres Of land of her husband
estate.
The wife of General Grant is said
to have seat an invitation Ia the Pgia'
cess Louise TO visit her IL Washington
next winter.
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