Sharp County record., 1880-10-07
Other Counties.
IZARD.

The number of business houses IN Mel
bourne increasing. Some rufian fired
several shots from a pistol and threw
stones against the Baptist church ct Mel
bourne, during church services, one night
recently. D.. The weather being unfavor-
able, there were but few persons out to
hear Col. Abernethy and his opponent
talk politics at Melbourne on the 9th
ult, and they postponed their discussion
there till the 25th inst James L. Smith
and DR.. D. T. Powell are off attending
medical school.
The cotton crop is much lighter than
last season Whooping cough is preva-
lent among the children in and about
Salem Sixteen teams left Salem one
day last week, to convey goods from the
railroad or river, for the merchants at
that place.
BAXTER.
The new court house at Mountain Home
will be in readiness for the November
term Of circuit court Mr.. N. IL. Bigger
has sold the Office of the Quid Nunc, and
will seek fortune in some other business.
His successor is Prof j. S. Howard
The school at Mountain Home is in a
fourishing condition. "A farmers, me-
chanics and stock growers association has
been organize in Baxter.
INDEPENDENCE.
The college at Batesville opened with
60 students, 20 of whom are from abroad.
Rev. |. j. Long and Hon. 7. j. Stubs
are the teachers. Two young men from
Sharp county-R P. Smith and Lee Jack
son-are now with the mercantile house
of w. G. Moore, at Batesville. Work
is being pushed on the new stone business
houses in Batesville, and they will soon
be completed.
.. LAWRENCE.
Felix Martin got his foot mashed by
rooling log on it at the Powhatan saw
mill, last week. Hon. P. Dunn, demo
cratic candidate for congressman in the
I'd district, will address the people at
Powhatan on the 18th inst. The people
of Powhatan recently beheld the unusual
spectacle of one of her citizens in new
suit of clothes and his boots blacked, and
the Times man made a local of it. . . A
correspondent reports the Walnut Ridge
cornet band bursted-blowed out.
JACKSON.
The recent rains have damaged the cot
ton crop badly and the corr crop slightly.
.Jacksonport wants frst-class boot
and shoe maker--one who can "trim Of
soles without cutting the upper all round"
The merchants have been paying
higher prices for cotton in Jacksonport
than they can obtain for it by shipping;
hence they must lose money. This the
result of competition. &. The Jacksonport
Herald urges the people of that place and
Newport to establish cemetery for the
burial of their dead, complains Of the bad
condition of their county roads and bridg-
es, and expresses the opinion that none
but righteous people can put up stovepipe
without swearing.
The Beacon reports several hundred
bales of cotton received last week at
Searcy The owner of the Armstrong
Springs property has been offered $1,000
Tor his interests therein, Dut refused Tne
same. The editor of the Beacon is op-
posed to having dancing hall in the
Searcy town park. Mrs. Robinson, at
Beebe, received $1,000 on the policy of
her husband, who was member of the
Knights of Honor.
CLAY.
The dead body of man who had been
murdered was found about half mile
from Corning, one day last week. 1t
was near the road, covered up with chunks