The Russellville Democrat., 1881-05-26
STATE MEMS.

Prescott ts building s3000 pub lie school building.
 --The northern portion of Madi- son county IS principally government land.
 The total amount of premiums offered bv the state fair association is $7500.
 Ut is estimated that there will be 4000 houses built at Eureka Springs this year.
 --sI5000 have been subscribed for an insurance and banking company at Searcy.
 Ut is predicted that this years growth of timber will be destroyed by the locusts.
 Ozark citizens will make an sf- fort to built handsome new public school building.
 The graves of the Federal dead at Fayetteville, will be decorated, Monday, May 30.
 The people of Quitman have subscribed s1200 for the purpose of enlarging their college.
 Farming operations have been greatly retarded in many counties by too much wet weather.
 -R. B. Malone, son of Senator Malone, Of Va, is at Hot Springs fnr ~f hfo haa1th
 Elixir Springs, sixteen miles northeast of Harrison, Tn Boone Co, is becoming quite resort.
 Samuel J. Tilden, the sage of Grammarcy Park, will be g visitor at Eureka Springs this summer.
 Mir. J. H. Frazier assumes edi- torial control of the Clinton Banner, vice E. c. Johnson, resigned. --Ninty-five bills of indictment were returned by the Johnson county grand jury, most of which were for carrying pistols.
 --Ex- Gov. Miller's father Is nine- ty four years old, sound as dollar, and has used neither whisky or to- baccs fer 10 years.
 The land departments of both the Iron Mountain and Fort Smith railroads have wide awake immigra- tion agents at Chicago.
 Goal has been discovered in large quantities, seven miles north of Conway, and mining operations will be commenced soon.
 Lawyer Wilson, of Clarksville, was convisted last week of collecting money under false pretences, and sentenced to the penitentiary.
 --Horsehezd Creek station on the Fort Smith road will hereafter be called Hartman, to conform with the name of the pcstoffico at that point.
 Henry J. Ward has been elected Sheriff of Crittenden O.. to succeed ". F. Beattie, who was murdered by Hays White. Mir. Ward is a demo crat.
 Curtis, the one-legged negro murderer, who was to have been hung at Clarksville last Friday, re ceived a communication of sentence to imprisonment for life.
 A cotton planter has been in- vented by Phillips county man, that will plant cotton crop in such a manner as to dispense with the use of a hoe altogether.
 The contract for tunnelling the Boston mountain between Fayette- vile and Ft. Smith, on the St. L. & s. F. By, has been let and will be completed by Dec. 31st.
 --Gev. Churchill has appointed Edward Lumly, of 183 Broadway, son-inlaw of Col. Boggy Johnson, immigration agent for the State of Arkansas in New York city.
 IN. H. Bullock, of Texsrkana, was robbed recently while snroute to picnic, of gold watch and sloO and afterward attempted to commit suicide by taking laudanum.
 The owners of about fifty saw mills met at Prescott last week and organized the Arkansas Lumber mans Association. They intend to protect themselves against fictitious fluctuations.
 Two new papers are on the tap is at Little Rock. One, the True Democrat, will be edited by E. c. Johnson, and will be the organ of the amendment advocates. The oth- CT, will be Sunday journal, and ed tied by John Rose.
 At Fayetteville, Doctor Woods hitched his fine horse to a post in front of the postoffice, when an un- known theft mounted the animal and boldly rode out of town. An officer and posse immediately started in pursuit, but up to last accounts had not captured the man. This hap pened in broad day light.