Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-03-24
ARKANSAS.

Ozark is still growing.
Opium dens at Hot Springs.
Magnolia has a debating club.
Snow fell at Van Buren, last week.
Hot Springs has had a wood famine.
Sharp county horses dying of blind
staggers.
Fruit in Arkansas county was killed
by frost.
But one mail to lizard county in
two weeks.
DR.. VIM. DuYall, of Sebastian
county, is dead.
Gum & Blacks loss by the Brink
ley fire is $4,000.
Madison county has lost its jail. 1t
was burned by a prisoner.
Sheriff ReiDhardt, of Prairiccounty
is q candidate for reelection.
GAINESVILLE will probably have a
wooden mill in a short time.
The river is on a high and dug
outs are in demand at Jacksonport.
Ashley county has this season pro-
duced one million dollars worth OF
cotton.
A colored burglar named Henry
DeHart, has been captured at Della
PLANE.
Jacksonport objects to receiving
such of Newports citizens as are run
out of town.
Will D. Hearn and Miss Diana
Heslop were married last week az
Pine Bluff.
Fort Smith is to have o fair thi
year. Two thousand dollars have
already been subscribed.
DR.. Lawrence Of Hot Springs, sent
the pope a crystal, and has received
in return a silver medal.
Back bone Ridge" White county.
is said to be the best sheep raising
tract of land in the state.
DR.. G. Wall and wife, of GAINESVILLE,
celebrated the twentieth anniversary
Of their wedding last week.
DR.. Williams, postmaster at Madi-
son, shot a man last week and escaped.
He was endeavoring to settle an ac-
count.
Bill Meek, one of the prisoners who
recently escaped from the Union
county Jail, has returned and given
himself up.
A mover named Elijah Bowenton.
en- route from Missouri to Green
county, in this state, died last week at
Oak Bluff, Craighead county.
One of the Iron Mountain railroad
employees at Arkadelphia has a veloci-
pede which he uses in riding up and
down the track. The wheels fit the
rail.
Cove City is situated twenty miles
north of Van Buren,. 1t contains
three stores, several factories. and a
school house is to be erected immedi-
ately.
Mrs. Elizabeth j. Crowley. wife Of
Hon. b. II. Crowley, ofGreene county.
who died a short time since, Was
nearly forty two years OF age. She
was a native of Greene county, Mis-
souri,.
Recently an attempt was made to
assassinate Frank Weaver, of Lick
Mountain township, Conway county
by unknown parties. His crib was
set on fire, aud when he made his an
pearance was fired upon by some IN.
known party, who wounded him and
a man named Ben Howard. Several
parties have been arrested implicated
in the shooting. -[Perryville Times.
Little Rock Democrat, %: The
New York Graphic, in its issue of the
18th inst, presents three views in this
city, viz. St. Johns college, the post.
office and the Union depot building
The paper says: THE people of the
north will be surprised to see such
evidences of wealth and prosperity.
True, mi Of the buildings was erected
by the government, but it would NOT
have been had there not appeared to
be a necessity for it: that the business
Of the state demanded it. More mi
mute details Of the business indus.
tries and advantages of Little Rock
will be published hereafter. Arkansas
is one Of the richest and most pro.
ductiyo states in the union"