Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-04-19


Mr.. John c. Knight has been elect
ed superintendent Of the Jonesbor-
ough Sunday school.
Work has commenced on the new
Baptist church at Searey. w. Il.
is the contractor.
The young ladies of Brinkley have
organized a society for the prevention
OF cruelty to insects.
The McGee mansion, lately destroy
ed BY fire in Van Buren,, was built in
at a cost of $4,000.
Sam McLoud, a Fort Smith livery
man, has sent three four-mule teams
to Leadyille as a speculation.
The recent session of the Circuit
at Arkadelphia is the last that
will ever be held in old Clark county.
The old Irwin place, near Bates
vile. recently sold for $500. 1t was
purchased by j. M. Gray, of Stone
county.
The counties in the southwestern
part of the State are taking prepara-
tory steps to the organization of a
District Fair Association.
The Helena World denounces Eli
Perkins as a buzzardly camp-follower
who infested that place after the war.
and threatens to show him up.
AT the recent session of the Yell
County Court $1,000 of scrip was
cancelled and 1851 issued. The ap-
plication of j. B. Howell for ferry
license was rejected.
But $4,000 is needed by the commit
tee upon subscription for the Iron
Mountain and Helena railroad, TO in
sure the laying of the track to Mari
anna, a distance of % miles.
William j, Lewis, on of Mr.. S. d.
and a former resident of Hell
ena, is located in Chicago and con
with the Democrat of that city.
which is owned and edited by Brick
Pomeroy.
Old Judge" Hammond, the half
crazed superintendent of the Kelly
town paupers of Hot Springs, is in a
peck oftrouble. He has been arrested
for carrying concealed weapons and
also for abusing a woman.
The Randolph Scalpel says Mr..
Willis, ~mineralogist, left Pocahontas
last Monday morning with a mining
outfit for his lead mine, located ia this
county, near Elevenpont river, and
but a few miles distant southwes, of
this place"
Fort Smith Herald A. S. Fowler.
Esq, United States internal revenue
collector, captured an illicit distillery
last week sixteen miles from Dallas.
in Polk county, and destroyed every
thing connected with the distillery.
Mr.. Fowler is an active revenue man,
and is always on the lookout for vio-
lators of the revenue law.
The Cincinnati Enquirer says that
the dogs recently chased a deer into
the town of Beebe, Ark, and in the
excitement of the moment, three min
listers who were passing along the
street pulled out seven-shooters and
began firing at it. After the deer was
down a fourth man cut its throat with
a bowie-knife, which he pulled out of
his boot-but he was only a deacon.
Amos Dorsey, colored, was hung at
Augusta last week, Friday, for muir
dering his brother. He was only
eighteen years of age, and at the gal
lows said, For Gods sake keep away
from whisky. That is what got me
into this fix" As the sheriff was adj
justing the moose around his neck, he
remarked, make a sure shot of il"
which we're his last words. Between
$500 and 5000 people were present.
Arkansas is well represented on the
moro important standing committees
in the house of representatives in
congress, as follows Gunter-Private
land claims (c"hairman) and Indian
affairs Craven-Territories and re-
form in civil service Slemons-Elec-
tons and railways and canals Dunn
-Leyees of the Mississippi and state
of the law relating to the electoral
count.
Helena World: 1t would seem as
though the Hon. James X. Jones, of
Hampstead county, is airing himself
for the Democratic nomination for the
gOyernorship next year. We have
seen several evidences that point in
this direction, and as they lie uncon-
t%radicted, it is fair to suppose that
there is something in the wind. Col
onel Jones was president of the senate
in 1875, and candidate for congress in
the Second district in 1876. He is a
gentleman and has ability.
Helena owes a bonded debt, etc, of
about $4,000, all bearing interest at
from eight to ten per cent. The last
assessment, a high one, made the value
of property in this place 81 BOG, 900.
The interest on the debt amounts to
$4,000 per annum, and all the reve-
nue. they can rake and scrape only
amounts to Sl2,500. The mayor is in
a quandary about making up the de-
foit. No trouble about that. Repeal
your charter and start a taxing dis
trict.i
DIR. S. W. Jones, of Pine \Bluf. a
nan Of prominence and ability in his
profession, aged about thirty-fve. and
known to many members of the Sixth
Arkansas regiment, We regret to learn,
committed suicide last Monday. He
had but recently returned from New
Orleans, where he spent most of the
winter in attending lectures at a
medical school, He married daugh-
ter of Judge Crawford, Of Lincoln
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