Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-04-11
ARKANSAS.

iOul new residences are being con-
structed at Augusta.
Mr.. c. 4. Hinton has been elected
mayor of Forrest City.
Chicot county was recently visited
by destructive tornado.
The Batesville Pilot is out in favor
OF the nomination of Tilden.
Two fatal cases of scarlet fever oc.
CURED at Batesville last week.
Pneumonia, of a very fatal type. is
prevailing in st. Francis county.
Robert NJ. Leigh, late of Humboldt,
Tennessee, is editor of the Batesville
Pilot.
According to the Arkansaw Traveller
there are l44l justices Of the peace in
the State.
The Harrison Times thinks that
people should pay their taxes, and
warns them.
Fifteen thousand acres of land have
been purchased by German settlers in
NAOAAOS bOuuAg.
A man named Fike was killed last
week, near Holly Grove, Monroe coun-
ty, while resisting arrest.
The proposition to issue bonds in
Logan county to build a new iail, was
defeated by vote of 610 to 2lO.
Albert Burk, of Jackson township
Monroe county, was badly injured one
day last week by a limb falling from a
tree.
James eagle has been elected MAYOR
of Atkins. His opponent received AZ
votes, one less than the successful
candidate.
Deputy United States Marshal Joe
WilkersOn recently brought into Fort
Smith thirteen prisoners captured in
the Nation.
The cotton factory at Little Rock is
IN process of construction. The
building will be 140 feet long and 40
feet broad.
The Arkansaw Traveller says that
the recent election shows an increase
OF 3OO inhabitants in Conway during
the past year.
There are thirty voters in the town
OF Paris, Logan county, and at the
recent municipal election one third
were candidates.
The press of Arkansas is almost
unanimous in demanding an enforce
ment of the law against carrying con-
cealed weapons.
The Hot Springs people propose to
hold an indignation meeting and burn
Governor Miller in effegy for vetoing
the insane asylum bill.
The County Court of Pulaski de-
cided that under an act of the legisla-
ture justices of the peace and con-
stables are required to hand in a report
OF all fees collected by them.
Two men named Thompson, father
and son, living in Hampstead county,
while working a cotton press a few
days since, the sides burst, killing the
father and dangerously iniuring the
son.
The bonded debt of Helena amounts
to 100000. The World favors a com.
promise with the city's creditors, and
believes such a settlement will find
favor with all the best citizens of the
place.
Colonel John N. Harbin. superin-
tendent of the Memphis and Arkansas
River Packet Line, has written a let.
ter signifying his intention of passing
free, over his line, the press gang next
June.
The Fort Smith Herald is of the
opinion that the late session of the
general assembly of Arkansas made
standing far in advance of the position
accorded it by several of the brethren
of the press.
Ten years from to-day, if the coun.
try keeps at peace, the upper Arkan
sas valley will be one Of the richest
and most pOpulous districts in the
United States. There is no section
Of the country that has improved
more rapidly within the past few years.
There are, says the Prescott Dis
patch, in Arkansas | l,S5982l acres of
improved lands, 3,9l0,325 acres of
woodland and ,S27, $50 acres of other
unlmprOved lands. In addition To the
above there are 33,406,72 acres of
United States public lands, all of
which have been surveyed
Governor Miller refused to sanction
the Fishback resolution for a consti.
tutlonal amendment regarding the
Holford railroad aid and levee bonds
and the act to abolish Clark county,
but as he did not place his veto upon
them within the time allowed him to
exercise that prerogative, the said
acts are now in force and effect.
A friend suggests that the act regu-
lating the sale of delinquent lands, re-
Gently passed by our general assembly,
ought to be entitled an act to assist
sharpers in acquiring lands at nom
inal expense, and for making the
country publisher drink his coffee
without sugar. columbia County
Banner.
Helena World Mr.. Louis P. Mey
ers, well known to old Helena people,
for some time connected with the
Louisville Courier Journal as travel,
ing correspondent, is at present loca-
ted in Dallas, Texas as one of the
editors Of the Commercial of that
place. 1t gives us pleasure to state
both in wealth and reputation.
Postmaster Biggs, of Goodwin Sta
tion, on the Memphis and Little Rock
railroad, was arrested on the Sth. on
the charge Of stealing registered let.