Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-12-02
ARKANSAS.

Searcy is soon to have a big hotel.
A frst-class school is wanted at
Toledo.
Hundreds Of strangers have lately
visited Fort Smith.
Improved farms in Prairie county
are in good demand.
Arkansas City ha lots of good peo-
pie but no churches.
Immigrants from Illinois are loca-
ting in baxter county.
The capital stock ofthe Little Rock
water works company is $780, 00.
Prisoners have no trouble in getting
out Of the Little Rock calabOose.
The Iron Mountain and Helena rail
road will soon reach Forrest City.
The Frontier military company, Of
Fort Smith, has made application for
arms.
A telegraph line will soon connect
Eureka Springs with the rest of the
world.
Not one-half of the cotton in White
county raised this year, has yet been
picked.
Foundations have been laid at Eu-
reka for another hotel and a Baptist
church.
MorFillton has a business boom and
is fast filling up with good thrifty
citizens.
The thermometer w%entdown to zero
in north Arkansas during the recent
cold snap.
immigration to Arkansas from the
southeastern states is heavier than
ever before known.
A company of United States artil-
lery, forty strong, has arrived at Hot
Springs from 4oAas,
Sheriff White, of Greene county.
has resigned, and another election
will be held December 20.
A company has secured a franchise
for a street railway from the city
council Of Eureka Springs.
Harrison now has seven general
stores that carry good stock Of dry
goods and ready made clothing.
The late bad weather has greatly re-
tarded the work of constructing the
Iron Mountain BRANCH from Gardner
to Camden,
Barker, the mar who killed young
Thompson with a billiard cue at Yell
vile, a year or two since, has just
been arrested.
Salem wants q school teacher, and
will furnish building, furniture aud a
lifelong position to a sober, i%ntelli-
gent instructor.
Some splendid specimens Of high
Grade ores Are being found in the San
Domingo shaft, and in other lodes in
Montgomery county,
The following is the November
vote of Arkansas. Greenbackers, 4079,
republicans, 4l,665j democrats, CO..
4S9: Democratic majority for Han
cock, 1888.
The soldiers who have recently tax
en- charge of the barracks at Little
Rock, speak of the lively times they
had in driving away the monotony Of
the frontiers.
The Atkins News says: Immigrants
from every section of the north and
west throng every avenue of travel and
transportation. Long has been or
call, and our response is at last heard.
Eureka Springs Herald: Mr.. H.
Weldon showed US his6wn bald head.
now rieely haired over. and declared
that it is the work of Eureka water. in
which hohas been bathing for the last
four months.
The Pine Bluff railroad Is oomplet-
ed twenty-five miles from Pine bluff.
and trains from Pine Bluff connect
with the stage line every day. There
are several weeks more OF grazing to
be done on the road.
The officers Of the Little Rock
water works company are Col. neb.
Ward, president; Mr., h. Urquhart,
vice-president Col. Logan II. Roots,
vice-president, and Major G.. p. G.
R%umbough. secretary.
Alma Independent. The weather
has been so bad for the past three
weeks that very little cotton has been
picked. 1t is estimated that nearly
one-half Of the cotton crop Of Craw.
ford county is yet in the field.
Little Rock Democrat John Hem
ry, colorei, who murdered his brother
in-law, Abe Mingo, ID years of age,
uear Wlttsburg, last February, has
been captured in the Indian territory.
Capt. Levesque, of Wittsburg, went to
Fort Smith, related the facts to Deputy
United States Marshal Kline, and
that officer went over to Muscogee.
captured the murderer, and the prob,
alb lily is that he will swing as soon A,