The Russellville Democrat., 1879-08-14
STATE NEWS.

| Tic prisoners in tlie Desire jail made an intellectual break for liberty one nightqast week =G saei 2 bar , FHaMr. c. c. Tdtller, living near Beebe, was badly damaged by d run away mule last week. m z l The general health Of Lee county IS reported to bo better than it has been for years before. sta
 Ida Meek was thrown from q bug gy in Bonneville, Logan county, last week and injured.
 Mr. Frank Tibbetts and a little glrl were injured 7by q runaway In Fort Smith, few day ago.
 Mrs. flockhart,o postmistress at Van Buren, has given notice of re signation, n order to join her hus band in New Mexico.
 Wolf hunting is successful in Lo- noko county. 1'hreo caught a day or two since netted the lucky hunt CTS $5 each for ''scalps." ass- Mrs. Church, of White county, was thrown out of q wagon and kill ed, alast Wednesdav. The te,tm, q yoke of calves, had run away.
 MT. Pylar, of Jackson county, while hunting recently, accidentally discharged the contents of his shot gan into his left breast, to will tpeeover. 2te# st tt@s-Ia
 NJ. J. s. Roberts, living near Pennington, Washington county. was last week thrown from his wagon with such force as to break two of his ribs. .'
 The Jackson county jail narrowly escaped delivery last week. Tie prisoners psed wooden keys and SIS bender buslsies to unlock their shackles and the doors,
 The Greene county strong man" made two dollars and fifty cents by carving Q two hundred and fifty pound grind stone Q distance of one hundred yards.
 MT. E. Sifford, one of tho oldest and best citizens Of Camden, and universally admired as 2 good man, recently fell dead in the streets of that town. Cause, heart disease.
 The Barnetts of Scott county, who were recently carved by one Stewart, are in q fair way to recover The Governor has offered $200 reward for the arrest of Stewart.
 Miss Ella Renfro, of Phillips coun- -ty, while riding to Poplar Grove last week was thrown from the hack Sustaining fracture of the collar bone, and bruised head. ' -
 Horace Melchoir, Ill controversy with two Buchanan brothers, near Augusta, Woodruff county, cut both of them badly with . small pocket knife. Too much whisky.
 Judgc James A. Nantes, now sit ting at Fort Smith as Special Judge of the Circuit Court, has been arrest ed for not working the streets of that city, and his trial. is now impending.
 One day last week Turner tried to bribe Dr. Reinhardt, our deputy jailer, with fifty dollars of the money he stole from the widow and orphans of MT Calhoun, deceased. The Doctor got the money, but Tur ncr's liberty consisted in choking he win long remember.- Prairie County Appeal.
 The following problem was settled by debate at Prescott Friday night. Several cifi2ens with Statewide rep utations took part in the controyer sy: "A pumpkin seed planted on the Garland farm grew to vine, which crossed Garland creek, through the farm out into the town of Prescott, and formed a pumpkin weighing 200 pounds, in the garden ofF. o. Pledgcr. Therefore, resol- we'd that Pledger IS entitled to the pumpkin"
 "Last Thusrday, one week ago, d young woman, named Julia Britt, was found dead near the road lead ing to West Point, the body being so badly decomposed that she was only identified by her clothing. The last seen of her living was on the Monday previous, when she left where she had been staying for neighboring place. An inquest - t ,l,l t,,. ,,, <; q, Po,.,,, n tioy, .ol;c;tnd