Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-31
ARKANSAS.

PSOPAS " Wy NOullg ubnlit
to say that there is no mineral excite
ment in that region.
Colonel II. T. Pitts has a pair of
spectacles that are over one hundred
years old, and the insidious wretch
who says that they are too young for
him will die with the cramps.
Newport is to be sold out in about
sixty days, that is, the land upon
which the town is built, owned by a
stock company, is to be sold out at
auction.
Young Sullivan, who was commit.
ted to Jail at Little Rock a few days
ago on a charge of attempt at rape,
was taken out last week on a writ Of
habeas corpus.
Judge Thomas Fletcher, of Lincoln
county, has been selected by the com
mittee of arrangements to deliver the
address of welcome before the Press
Association, which will meet in Little
Rock Monday next.
Des Arc Citizen There is no such
a thing as an official journal of the
county no law forcing any man to
put a legal advertisement in some
designated paper, and such a state
ment misrepresents facts and is calcu-
lated to deceive those who may have
such work to be done.
Little Rock Gazette, 30: Uncle
Tommy Newman, the veteran pedes-
trian editor of the Harrison Times.
marched into the Gazette Office yes
terday evening, looking as fresh as a
daisy, though rather dusty from his
annual walk of one hundred miles, to
meet his brethren of the quill in CON
vention. He tells us he made the
trip in two days this time. How is
that for a man whose feet are SCARED
with the blisters of fifty summers d?
May he be able to do it for fifty more.
The Des Arc Citizen of the 18th
says: We have good reports from all
parts of Prairie county regarding the
growing crops. One week ago last
night we had a very heavy rain, which
did some little damage, but the wealth
er has been favorable since. At this
writing the weather is warm and sun
shiny, and the farmers are having a
good time to dispose of grass and
weeds. The prospects for fine crops
of cotton and corn were never better
at this season of the year.
The Washington correspondent of
the Cherokee Advocate in speaking of
opponents of the territorial scheme,
refers as follows to Hon. Thomas NJ.
Gunter Among the most prominent
of them is Colonel Thomas NJ. Gunter,
of Arkansas. He holds a high stand
ing among his fellow members, and
the fact that he spoke so loudly against
the steal in an interview published in
the Fayetteville Democrat, has
welded largely in di~scomfting the
land pirates. There will be no Okla
homa Territory made by this Forty
sixth congress-
Little Rock Democrat The stall
wart leadess, says the st. Louis Repub-
lican, have laid out a very easy policy
for the Republican party and it is
simply TO oppose everything and any
thing the Democrats advocate. No
matter what is to be proposed the
Democrats are to be Id if they do
and Id if they don't. If they re.
fuse appropriations in the event Of
Hayes sticking to his veto of the bills
repeating the political legislation, they
are to be denounced as rebels and
traitors; if on the other hand they
pass the appropriation bills without
the political amendments they are to
be sneered at as towards. That is an
easy course to follow, but it ought to
show to the country that the Republi-
can party is fighting for nothing but
the spoils of office.