Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-01-31
ARKANSAS.

shipped i2,lO0 bales of cotton.
-Four thousand acres of Nevada
county land were sold last month.
One hundred and sixty marriages
took place In Drew county last year.
One firm in Helena has handled
over 10000 bales ofcotton this season.
James Howard is soon to be exc
cuted at Ozark for the murder of his
wife.
An effort is being made at Forest
City to establish an immigration So
ciety.
The Fayetteville Knights of Honor
will give a big celebration on the 9th
ofFebruary.
The Arkansas Industrial Univer-
sity, Fayetteville, received II new
students last week.
The Cache river tramway, from
GAINESVILLE to the railroad, is doing an
immense business.
A man named Nesbitt, of Jones'
boro, had a sore foot amputated last
week to ave the leg.
An old inhabitant reports that this
is the warmest winter he has seen in
Arkansas in thirty eight years.
Two drummers were nearly drowned
in Big Creek, Carroll county, last
week while attempting to ford it.
Hon. j. w, House is again in the
field for congressional honors in his
district. His friends are sanguine.
Seven p%enitentiary convicts escaped
from a stockade down below Little
Rock on the new railroad a few nights
ago.
Helena World Elgin. jackson
county, had a $500 fire last week. 1t
caught in a saloon kept by Ed Bur-
CESS.
Little Rock Democrat, %: The
Irish agitation needs more warmth
and spirit than was evidenced at the
meeting last night to make it much of
a success.
Little Rock Democrat Work is
progressing rapidly on the Pine Bluff
road, the right of way being cut out
this morning to a point eight miles
from the city, where 1875 men are at
work. The laborers are scattered
along the line between that place and
Fourche mountain, and every day
counts for the quick completion.
A branch railroad is to be built by
the Iron Mountain company from
Gurdon, Clark county, to Camden, I'll
Dorado, a point on the southern
boundary Of the State, between town
ships IA and ID west of the fifth prin-
cipal meridian, which leads in the
direction of Monroe, on the Vicks.
burg and Shreveport railroad.
The Arkansas Midland railroad
company have all their arrangements
SO complete that they now do all of
their own work, even to the manufac
turing of their cars, at home. This
naturally brings quite a number of
mechanics here to seek service in the
employ Of Colonel johnson, when
they have heretofore been in service
elsewhere,
Russellville Democrat: Good Joke
While Collector Higgins was here col
Letting tax n of our Republican
voters who came in to get Reese's
autograph had to buy some county
scrip which cost him 95c. He gave
the Democrats a sound ''cussing. 2
Why said he, when we Renubli-
cans were running things here Ioould
buy scrip at 10 or 20 cents, and now,
since you id Democrats have got
the management of affairs into your
hands, We have to pay almost dollar
for dollar, d-n you"
Independent Arkansiaa: Fairwarn.
ing, owing to the heavy increase in
the price of printing paper, no country
paper can use first class stock and
keep first class printers and issue a
large weekly, all printed at home
without a daily in connection, and
prepay postage, at the small sum of
$3.50 per year, and make both ends
meet. A change must be made some
where, or heavy loss sustained. Our
plan has ever been to make the best
paper we could, and we do not relish
the idea of using common paper or re-
ducing the size, hence, but one way
out is open, and that is to put our
subscription back 10 81 per annqm.
Little Rock Gazette, 9th: Yester-
day an old man in charge of an officer
passed through the city. His name is
Calvin Walding. He was so
completely covered with log chains
that a close observer would have
thought that he had either stolen a
mule in Texas, or ''contempted' a
court in Arkansas. The old man
face was so worn and haggard that he
attracted attention. He had his old
gray jeans coat buttOned in such a sad
way. There is a great deal of ex-
preston in the way a coat is butt0ned.
A Gazette man approached the officer
who had the old man in charge, and
learned that he had embezgled $1,000
in Dale county, Alabama.