The Russellville Democrat., 1879-09-11

ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.

Chickens and butter scarce at Searcy.
 Benton and Malvern threaten base ball.
 Scarlet fever is prevailing in Craighead county. The Hirschy block at Clarksville is to have an addition. l The City Council at Hot Springs licenses houses of i'll fame.
 The Pine Bluff Pinafore Club rehearsals are strictly private. A kiln containing 125,OOO bricks has just been burnt at Searcy.
 Frank Johnson, thief from Aus tin, was arrested at Searcy last week.
 Atkins received visit last week from thieying tramp named Wag- goner. ae
 The prettlest thoroughfare in Atkins is West Street, so says the News.
 The Baptists are holding very successful revival at Macedonia, Craighead county. Philip Mehlburger of Little Rock, is putting h machine works at Fort Smith.
 Judge Foster, of White county. lost two hundred dollars worth of logs by recent freshet in Little Red river.
 The wharf at Pine Bluff when completed will be 156 feet front and 230 feet deep.
 Twelve thousand feet of lumber have been hauled from Hope to Magnolia in the past ten days. Protracted meeting at Brinkley, and hundreds of people turning from the error of their ways" Beebe shipped it's first bale of cotton August 24; Des Arc received It's first bale on the 23d. d
 Jonesboro held no school election. Shameful! Find out the reason, Mir. Times, and let us know.
 A file, handsaw and chisel were recently found by Sheriff Thompson in the Union county jail, at Fl Dorado.
 The collection of toll on the bridge across the Caddo, Montgomery coun- ty, has been stopped by a writ of court.
 Miss Mamie, daughter of the landlady of the Hedgepath hotel at Des Arc, was severely bruised last week by falling chimney.
 Frank Wilson, colored, was fined S61 and sentenced to three months imprisonment, at Toledo, last week, for throwing brick at Mrs. Barnett. The Fort Smith Independent says that the Dodson block was wrecked on account of the culpable and reck- less negligence of Mir. McKibben.
 Mir. Ed. Sutton has the contract for building the bridge across the Cypress. near Mariana, Lee county. It will be several hundred feet in length. ~ . n
 Dewitt has modern Sampson In the person of Andrew Black, jr. He can lift 2,400 pounds clear of the ground, and bend iron rods like willow branches.
 William and Eliza Mack, of Clarksville, were married last week in the Nation, near For. Smith. They are first cousins, hence the visit to Gretna Green.
 Lawrence Boone, of Des Are. last week had $l37 stolen from a box in Jessie Quarles' house. He found nearly the whole amount in the resi- dence of Henry Richmond; secured the wealth, but could not prove the theft.
 A negro at Fort smith knocked a white man down with a club last week, and Brizzolari fined the white man five dollars for disorderly con duct and the negro two dollars. And that's justice in horn, but what better could you expect.
 Geo. Washington, a colored con vics recently discharged from the penitentiary, attempted to Kill his wife in Lee county last week. He fired shot gun at her, two of the bullets taking effect. The would be murderer is at large. He swears to kill the woman, because during his incarceration she lived with another man. m a3 I