The Russellville Democrat., 1882-11-30
STATE NEWS.

| SIAIE NEWS.
 Des Arc has six immense cotton warehouses.
 Some fine tobacco has been grown in Prairie county.
 Snow an inch deep at Hartford, Ark, on the 18th.
 A new paper, The Farmer, will soon be published at Alma.
 Fayetteville had a jail delivery last week, nine prisoners escaping.
 The body of the late Gen. Upham was buried in Little Rock last Sun day.
 There are ninety five prisoners in the United Sates jail at Fort Smith.
 One firm in Fayetteville has ship ped 100000 pounds of dried fruit this season.
 A Lonoke county farmer gathered fourteen well developed ears of corn from one stalk.
 Col. L. L. Wittlch, a prominent lawyer of, Ozark, will move to Car thage, Mo-, this winter.
 The next session of the Arkansas Conference, M. k. Church (Soutn) ], will be held in Clarksville. 
 It Is estimated that the cotton re- ceipts of Little Rock will not be less than 60,000 bales this season.
 Twenty seven bales of cotton on Q railroad car at Newport were badly damaged by fire, the other day.
 The St. Louis mail for Van Buren and Fort Smith will be received over the Frisco road on and after Decem- Der 1.
 Not long since, MT. Lee Stewart, of White county, picked 62S pounds of cotton in one day between dawn and dusk.
 The Guard says "it is thought trains will be running from Newport to Batesville by the first of January, 1885,"
 Mrs. Fannie Foreman, daughter of ex- Governor Rector, and Col c. c. Mitchell, of Dallas, Texas, were mar ried in Little Rock last Thursday.
 Lonoke Democrat: Elder Forbes from Arkadelphia, it is reported, thinks of starting an extensive stock ranch on our prairies.
 A little boy in Lonoke county fired his gun at bird, not long since, and few of the shot hit his mother, who was near by, infiicting slight wounds.
 Morrillton Headlight: Morrillton Marriage Benefit Association, of this place, has paid back to it's policy holders all money received from them and disbanded.
 Four gentlemen from Buenos Aryes, South America, have purchas- ed two hundred and forty acres of land ID Prairie county, on which they will establish sheep ranch.
 The state penitentiary has been leased to Fitzpatrick & Townsend for term of ten years, they having been adjudged the best bidders by the commissioners.
 Little Rock Democrat: A telegram from New York announces that Jay Gould has purchased the Helena ana Iron Mountain railroad Tn this state for $350,000. This will be used in connection with the Knobel branch of the Iron Mountain road giving a d. rect line to Helena.
 Little Rock Democrat: W. B. Bat tie, J. B. Tallow, S. R. Chew, J. T. Bryan and john Canatser, who were sureties in the sum of $700 for the appearance of one J. c. Johnson in the Franklin circuit court at tue January term, 1882, were made lia- ble for the same by the non-appear- ance of defendant. Gov. Churchill has remitted the bond.
 Newport Spectator, 24th: Henry Eastley met with an accident last Monday while feeding cotton gin at Lindley Dodds, which caused him the loss of his left arm. The gin be- came choked, and in trying to re- lieve it his hand was caught and drawn Tn and literally torn to pieces. It had to be amputated just below the elbow.