The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-03
THE SOUTHERN STATES.
ARKANSAS.

They are sinking an aretsian well,
now 500 feet deep, in Hope.
Five hundred and sixty convicts are
in the Arkansas pEnitentiary.
Mrs. Sudduth hiss Opened a cooking
school at Little RQesrz three lessons Iof
a dollar.
Fort Smith is making arrangements
for the Introduction of .thS electrlc
light there.
In Sharp county, A. a. lda&one
wounded S. HOsterfeld with & k4li1e
daring a fight.
at Fort Smith last week.200 acres
of unimproved prairie were. sold, and
bpoUght $1,000.
DR. NJ. StrayOn, stranger from
Virginia, fell downstairs and died at
the California House, Fort Smith.
The store of D. G. Burford, at Tyra,
was robbed and then set on fife, burn
ing that store and 2. JOnes's, next
door.
During the past fiscal year 473,OOO
acres of public lands in Arkansas have
been disposed Of by the United States
GOWeRnment-
Fhe:Little Rock Gazette: For the
| best bale of upland cotton az our State
4 fair, Mr.. NJ. B. Garrison, of Bradley
county, took first premium.
! A Fort Smith correspondent writes !:
| SEThe demand for town property and
! good farming lands is unprecedenteg-
! Messer. Carol & Co., one of our larns
| est real estate agents, say that doze d.
of applicants are turned away daily"
Mountain Home Citizen: A good
| deal of interest is being created in
! Newton county by rich fields of silver
in the Beech Woods neighborhood, on
one of the forks of Buffalo. New
claims are being staked ont daily
At Kensett turnips are very scarce
retailing at abeut ten cents a dozen on
the streets. Milk is in demand and
! sells readily at (sweet milk forty cents
per gallon. Buttermilk twenty cents,
and scarce and hard to get at that.
They have a boom at Fort Smith.
4, Every room at the hotels is occupied,
q very house in town is full sometimes
j two and three families reside in one
lhsue, merit, and all th9 bOardinghOuses
ape fn H.. Yet every day there are new
aaaIgals.
The Elttle Rock Gazette says that
atthe .fagE til ere a lady asked another
! IadvetO held er baby few minutes
| Ihe first lRdy n,%Vef came Dack sne
| was seen. togo away in a hack. The
Pair Association to ok charge of the
lfEtle one. .Sg,hlfqjh they decorated Wlfi'
\ blue ribbon.
Washington fg2g7,ss, 10Th: "Sherif
williams, lSolig7g6ng the directions
| eiEen him bv 1he t@a;n rob bers, found
| yesterday, the drafts and bank checks
winch they got of the train, and, no
l,edHg able, to use them, had puIlec
tleeaII under a Log ia q thicket in Plum
| Greek bottom, I.'ear Columbus"
1t Springdale' H. .G.y Hun & CO.
SAFE was blown Q, pen by thieves, Wh'
used too much po WIDER and materially
damaged the store front. The rascal
got off without an Y plumber and tn
| same night some dollars &ere stole
n from Ware s. HensOn's s tii54 ana
vain search for mo. uey was NIade
the post-Office.
a sad accident took place last lf1gi'
at EdmOndson, on til G Memphis an
Little Rock Railroad. a passenger y
the name of Brown, icketed TO For
Smith, while passing from one car L
another, fell to the ground and had M
!. head crushed by the whs .els. The re
mains were left at that place in charg
: of the deceased's son, who was travel
ing with him.