Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-02-28
ARKANSAS.

IuclC are twenty HNc loOuc III
the Little Rock Jail.
A large tannery is about to be start
ed in Fort Smith.
A new courthouse is to be erected
at Paris, Logan county.
Mr.. +. Curry is a candidate for city
marshal Of Forrest City.
Eureka Springs has been .incorpo-
rated, and is now a town.
The Presbyterian church at Oar
danelle has been handsomely fitted
up.
The White County Beacon favors
an increase Of the salaries Of the cil-
cult judges.
Major c. B. Moore, Little Rock,
will be a candidate for attorney gen.
eral, so we learn.
There was more building done in
Little Rock last season than in any
seaso within the last five years.
James N. Heasbitt, a young man of
twenty, is to be hung at Fort Smith
for the murder of his step-father.
The cotton brought to Little Rock
this season is estimated at $4,000 bales
and the average price, at $50 per bale,
realizing the snug little sum OF $685.
900.
j. e. Bradshaw Is announced in the
Forrest City Courier as a candidate
for the Office of county and probate
judge.
Sebastian county is said to raise as
fine tobacco as the Albermarle country
of Virginia. A factory would be in
order and would pay.
General CD. Royston, Washington,
Ark, was accidentally shot in the
head last Thursday, by agun careless
ly handled by Dan Hart.
The increased value of land in Yell
county, according to assessment over
last year, is $23, l05, and the increase
of personal property 500 1884.
A Dorsey county correspondent of
the Batesville Guard mentions as a
suitable candidate for governor Hon.
NJ. NJ. Dufie, of Dallas county.
Information has been received from
the Detroit Free Press company to
the effect that two fellows B. j. Me
Donald and j. d. Bayles, are travel
ing in Arkansas and Louisiana, rep
resenting themselves to be agents for
The Free Press. The company de-
nounce them as arrant rogues and
swindlers, and warns the people to
have nothing to do with them.
Fayetteville Democrat Tmmi.
grants are pouring into Arkansas
n large numbers, notwithstand-
ing the failure of the last legislature
to appropriate fifty thousand dollars
for immigration purposes. Our rich
and cheap lands, well watered and
timbered country, fine climate, ETC.,
is a sufficient inducement for the class
Of immigrants that develop and aid
in building up a country.
Nashville (Tenn.) Banner, 20; We
regret to hear of the death of Judge
Thomas Fletcher, of Little Rock,
Ark, which sad event occurred this
morning at II o'clock. His brother
Robert Fletcher, Esq received a
telegram stating that his death was
the result of sudden and violent at
tack of pneumonia. The deceased
was the eldest son of the late distin-
guished Judge Thomas Fletcher,
Tennessee's famous criminal lawyer,
in the olden time.
Dardanelle Arkansian. 10Th: We
have a report that Winslow Clifton,
aged nineteen, and his brother John,
aged sixteen, were drowned in
Fourche river, neal Sawyers mill, in
Perry county, on Saturday last. The
river was booming full and current
swift, and they in attempting TO cross
it in a small boat were caught on the
limbs of a tree top concealed beneath
the surface and their boat capsized.
The body Of the oldest boy was re-
covered, but at last accounts the other
had not been found. =
Little Rock Gazette: The convicts
inyoluntarily employed in the con
struction Of the Pine Bluff railroad,
are gradually learning that it is a
pretty hard matter to escape. The
last attempt was discouragingly I'M
successful. One Of the parties who
desired this change of venue was Har-
rison, the man who blew open a safe
in Searcy, and who, after shooting at
Ham Williams, was captured by him
at DeVall's Bluff. Harrison sue
ceeded in getting quite a distance
away before he was missed, The dogs
were put on the trail, and after follow
ing it about six miles, pulled Harrison
from under a log.