Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-05-29
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Eureka Springs, less than a year old,
has a population of 1900.
Work on the Catholic convent has
commenced at Pine Bluff.
Mr.. Daniel Hicks, one of the first
merchants of Texarkana, died on the
18th instant.
The Conway Democrat says that
Faulkner has four candidates for
sheriff-all good men.
Hon. James w. Butler will deliver
the address of Welcome to the press
convention at Batesville on the 9TH
prox.
Mr.. W. W. Wallace, of McMinn-
vile, Tenn, was married to Miss
Edna Grace, daughter OF Colonel w.
7. Grace, at Pine Bluff, on the 18th
inst.
VIM. Frazier, a respectable and
much esteemed man, was crushed to
death in a quarry at Bald knob on the
18th inst. He was a Scotchman and
leaves a family in Glasgow.
The Lincoln County Lance earnest
ly advocates the buildingof a railroad
from some point on the Arkansas
river to connect with the Little Rock,
Mississippi River and Texas railroad
at Star City.
The railroad from Helena up Crow
ley's ridge, to intersect with the Iron
Mountain railroad, together with a
contemplated road direct into the in
terror of the state, will make Helena a
place of very large business.
Robert X. Sale, chairman of the
second congressional district execu.
tive committee, appoints the 18th Of
August as the time, and Prescott as
the place for the meeting ofthe demo-
cratic congressional convention.
Little Rock Democrat We visited
the artesian we'll last night and found
it in charge of two clever gentleman
named Il. w. Nixon and tom" b.
Bowling. both from the oil regions.
The drill is now 485 feet, and working
in a very hard rock. The drill and
iron above it weigh 1900 pounds.
Searcy county has instructed for
Wilson for governor, Churchill Sec
ond choice. for Frolich, Woodruff,
Crawford, Fancher, Pittman for su-
preme judge, Moore for attorney gene
raj. G.. B. Greenshaw was elected
delegate, A. R. Allen alternate. The
county instructed in favor of the ma
jority rule and for Tilden.
Another good crop year and good
prices for our products viii be the
death -knell of greenbackism in Ar
kansas. A bale of cotton to the acre,
and plenty Of grain, will bring more
solid money into the hands of the
farmers and laborers than all the talk
aud buster Of greenback demagogues
will do in twenty years. For, twist it
as you will, something must be pro-
duced before the money will fall into
the laborers' hands.
Little Rock Gazette: This city
needs a cotton exchange. The
amount of cotton shipped from here
annually of itself is a demand for such
an institution. During the cotton
season it is almost impossible to
ascertain the number o fbales bought
daily. While this may not be ofmuch
Importance to a large number of peo-
pie, it is to cotton men abroad. The
cost of a cotton exchange is
not very great, while its benefits are
numerous.
A resident of Fayetteville writes :
81 have been up to Barry county,
Mo-, to see the railroad engineering
corps. They are working a very care
full survey, and are already five miles
south of Washburne and moving south
at the rate of one mile per day. 1t
looks like business. The superin-
tendent of the st. Louis and San
Francisco road has written us that if
he will give them the right of way
from the state line to this place, they
will have the cars running to Fayette-
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