Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-03-24
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ton,
There are atty doctors at EurckI
Springs.
Eureka Springs has an ihvalids' as
ISOLATION.
Craighead county scrip Is WORT
ninety cents.
Austin has had seventy cases o
measles to date.
Henry Duerson is to be hanged al
Des Arc April 10Th.
A Logan county woman recent.
gave birth to three boys, and adj are II
fine health.
A heather Chinee" and coloret
girl were married a day or two since
at Arkansaw City.
The Robinson gin, six miles from
Van Buren,, was destroyed by ire las
week aud with it thirty bales Of cot
ton.
Work has commenced on the tun
mel through the Boston mountain, fit
teen or twenty miles south Of Fayett
vile.
The legislature having adjourned
and gone home the Little Rock Ga.
zette publishes a large number of i'm
portqnt bills by title that did not pass
Oae of Cross & Divers coaches
running between Eureka Springs and
Seligmsn, was stopped last week b
road agents, and the passengers rob
bed.
The through freight dumped a car
load Of fifty tramps at Newport last
Wednesday night. The officers got
after them and they took to the woods
like rats.
Mariana Index: Colonel A. H.
Johnston, owner Of the Arkansas Cen
trail railroad, speaks of beginning work
soon on said road, to complete it to
Little Rock.
Judge SpofFord, of Washington, d.
c., formerly law partner of the late
Caleb Cushing, is at Hot Springs, and
is receiving treatment at tho hands
of his old friend DR.. G. w. Lawrence.
He is afflicted with rheumatic trouble
Van Buren, Press, 10Th. The United
States snagboat Reese was at the
levee Wednesday. After extracting
several dangerous snags in front of
this place she passed on up, and will
go to Fort Gibson if the water per-
mits.
Census bulletin No. 73 shows the
population Of the United States to be
so, 1852. sec. Distribution by sex in
Arkansas: Males, 4l6,383; females,
1856, 18l. During the decade tho pro-
portion Of females in this state has
decreased.
Dewitt Democrat: The loss Of cat
tie in Arkansas county during the
winteI just past. is unprecedented in
the history Of this section. ThOus-
ands have died from the cold weather
aud other causes, and the loss of our
stock %raisers can hardly BIZ less than
$1,000. .
Eureka Springs Echo, II: Eureka
Springs is a busy town at this time.
The hotels are full, storekeepeIs are
doing a large business, and there is
plenty of work for everybody. The
stages continue to come in daily, and
are filled to the guard with health.
seekers.
Little Rock Gazette. The o-gani-
cation Of the Eureka oil cOmplny, of
Arkansaw City, has been completed.
The capital stock is $lO0, 900. and the
board of directors consists Of Il. Urqu-
of Little Rock; John Peters, j..
Cochran. j. r. Miller add n. VI.
Of Memphis.
Little Rock Democrat, %: A man
by the name of Mitchell, enVineer in
Sam Smiths saw-mill at Mabelyale.
near this city, while laboring under
the influence Of whisky oQN Sunday
made his bed on yhe Iron
Mountain railroad track. An extra
came tearing along in the night
and tore him into a thousand pieces.
The deceased is spoken Of as an ex-
cellent man, strong drink being his
only failing.
Judsonia Advance White county,:
Near $4,000 have been subscribed
already, and a stock company for fruit
canning purposes in Judsonia. will
soon be fully organized and equipped.
While cotton factories and fruit can
ming establishments engross the atten-
o. the public mind here, let US
not forget hat there is an abundance
Of salt in close proximity here and
that it might be we'll to turn our at
tention toward It's development.
Fort Smith Elevator. A man named
Thomas was found iuthe woods about
four miles of the Bo0gy depot road.
in the Choctaw nation, afflicted with
terrible disease resembling small.
pox. He was almost blind, the dis
ease having got into his eyes. He was
care Of for several days by par
ties in the neighborhood, and placed
in a hack and started to this place,
but died between here aud S~eullyville,
on Tuesday. and vas buried By the
citizens. He stated that be wa from
Hardin county, Tenn.
Helena Yoeman. In the case ofthe
United States vs.. steamer Bob Lee,
judgment was rendered against Ii
belize and a fine Of $500 imposed. 1t
having been suggested that the score
tary Of the treasury might remit the
fine, the district attorney stated the