Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-03-10
ARKANSAS.

graph and a telephone.
Major John G. Peay has withdrawn
from the race for treasurer of state.
County scrip scarce, and eggs cheap
and plentiful at Waldron, Scott
county.
The Methodist church at Prescott
has been furnished with a magnificent
new organ.
There was not a case Of sickness in
Wittsburg last week, and but few in
the county.
Pine Bluff has granted a charter to
Samuel Franklin for the erection OF
city waterworks.
Hon. A. II. Ferguson, of Arkansas
county, is candidate for reelection
to the state senate.
The new court house in Lincoln
county was finished and the keys
turned over last week.
The county court of 0uachita coun-
ty has made an order for the rebuild
rug VI tuC COuIb uOuoO.
The colored Methodists of Prescott
are raising money for the purpose CT.
erecting a new church.
The Hamburg Times says that
horse racing is the amusement of the
day in aud around Hamburg.
Some Of the colored people Of How
ard county are preparingto "exodust"
Kansas-ward 10 q short time.
Captain John Matthews is organic
ing an association with the view of
building a cotton factory in Osceola.
The Independent says that they
have Ia Fort Smith A frst-class artist
in the person of Miss s. B. Bryant.
A little o of Judge Huckleberry,
of Van Bureau, was thrown from a
horse and seriously hurt, a short time
ago.
Pine Bluff city scrip is selling at
forty cents on the dollar. Jefferson
county scrip at thirty.fye cents on the
dollar.
Colonel Fishback's little son had
one Of his eyes nearly put out by a
bean shooter in the hands of another
little boy.
The Fourche Valley Times says
Perry county is in need of school
teachers, many schools in hat county
being vacant.
The Chronicle says trains are run
ming daily on the Helena and Iron
Mountain railroad, between Helena
and Mariana.
Nineteen thousand nine hundred and
fifty dollars worth Of improvements
were made n Beebe during the past
t gelve months.
The Wittsburg Chronicle pays Mai
John G. Peay a deserved compliment,
aud regrets his withdrawal tiom the
race for state treasurer.
A contract has been entered into for
building a block, consisting of five
two-story brick buildings, on the
burned district at Batcsyille.
The Ashley Times speaks of the
Hamburg high school, under the
supervision of Prof. d. c. B. Conner
", in the most Aattering terms.
Col. A. Curtis little girl and Mr..
Harrison's little boy came near dying
from the effects of eating some polk
root, a few days ago, at Malvern.
0sceola has a literary and dramatic
association. The Hon. John o.
Blackwood, a member of the l%ogisla-
ture, is a member OF the association.
Van Buren, Argus Everybody is at
work, and never in the history Of
northwestern Arkansas have the signs
been better for a grand improvement.
Messrs. w. H. Rogers and W. D.
Price, two blind men living in Center
township, about ten miles from Des
Are, have ree6htly started a broom
factory.
As there are two pOstofices named
Eureka" in this state, parties writing
ID Eureka Springs should address
their letters in full to Eureka, Carroll
county, Arkansas.
In order to give u congressman an
equal chance, the Mariana Index
thinks the democratic congressional
convention should not be called until
after the adjournment of congress.
The Lafayette Sentinel says that
about four thousand lots have been
sold off in Eureka city by Messrs.
Armstrong d German, on all Of which
houses are to be erected Immediately.
The valley Of the Arkansas river,
from Fort Smith to the Mississippi,
possesses more natural advantages than
any strip of territory Of like dimen-
sions in the United STATESMAN Blu
rem Argus.
The Searcy Record says: The next
new county our legislature creates
should be named DeTonty, and
thereby perpetuate the name of the
first settler of our glorious state,
"Arkansaw."
White County Beacon Nj. II. w.
Crist returned a few days ago from a
visit to his birthplace in Virginia
His father and mother are living, the
former eighty six and the latter eighty
two years Of age, and both arc hale
and hearty, and ride on horseback all
about the country.
The citizens of Perryyille organ
lied a joint stock company on Monday
for the purpose Of building a steam
boat to run between this place and
Little Rock. The capital stock was
fixed at 5000, and the boat is 10 be
eighteen feet in width by ninety-six
in length. Nearly all the stock is
subscribed and the work will be
commenced Immediately .-FourchC
Valley Times.
The Harrison Times speaks as fol.
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