The Russellville Democrat., 1882-05-25


 The United State snag boat Wich- ita is pulling snags between Forts Smith and Gibson on Arkansas river.
 Rev. P. c. Mays, late of Washing ton, D. C., IS now pastor of the La fayette street Baptist church in Fort Smith.
 The tax collector of Searcy county has settled with the state treasurer, paying 97t per cent. of the taxes as sessed.
 A little tive-year-old son of J. R, Wren, Fort Smith, was kicked in the face by horse, last Thursday, caus- ing the loss of one eye.
 During the very recent overflow, the Saline river was fonr feet higher than ever before known within the recollection of the ''oldest inhabi- tant."
 The side track at Conway has been heightened several hundred feet to meet the demands of the increas- ed business of the road at that place.
 In the terrible cyclone in Mont, gomery county on the Sth inst. an infant child was torn from its moth er's arms and has not been seen since.
 Among the journalistic ion dits" is one to the effect that Maj. C. G. Newman, of the Pine Bluff Commer- cial, will purchase an interest in the Little Rock Gazette.
 J. $. Matthews, of Mercer county, county, ILL, has purchased four thousand acres of land in Prairie county, this state, on which he pro- poses to establish a stock farm.
 The Pine Bluff Commercial has "every assurance that the line of the Texas & St. Louis railroad from Tex arkana to St. Louis, will be complet- ed by the first of May, 1SS3n
 F. X. Coinson, an old and worthy citizen of Fort Smith, died on the lIth instant. He was born in tue Canton of Berne, Switzerland in 1894 and moved to Fort Smith in 1855.
 Two brothers, George and Jeff Finley, living in the Choctaw Nation ten miles from Fort Smith, had a difficulty one day last week, and the latter was shot and killed by the for mer.
 NJ. s. Ely, postmaster at Green Forest, this state. and two daughters have been arrested on a charge of abstracting registered packages from the mails on the route from that place to Harrison.
 Fort Smith Independent, 17th :: Our Excelsior correspondent men tions that John H. Mcclure. former y sheriff of this county, skipped the country last Friday, leaving twelve indictments and $I200 bond be- hind as remembrancer.
 A little daughter of the proprietor of White Rock mills, on the west fork of Ouachita river, in Montgom- cry county, was caught in the revolv- ing he!ting, several days ago. and dashed with great force against the wheels, meeting with instantaneous death.
 Little Rock Gazette: An officer in the internal revenue office tells us that all the distilleres in the state are closed, and will remain SC until fall, for want of grain. It is expect ed that there will be more fruit dis. tilleries in this state this year than ever before.
 Golden Epoch, Helena, 18th During the thunder storm last We'd nesday night, a house on the H. Clopton place, occupied by John Smith, was struck by lightning. It entered the house and struck the bedstead, but fortunately no one was hurt.
 Morrilton Messenger: They say Sit rained down money" in the bot tom the other day. Some hands on Col. Greens place found in the open field dollar, dollar and nickle. Where did the money come from? Col. Green didn't have any, and Mr. Dooley or hIs bosses hadn't lost any. 1t is supposed that the cyclone, that blew away the gentleman's money reported in the Gazette, dropped it there.
 Pine Bluff Commercial, I7th: Mir Lemons, an old citizen of this coun- ty, brought to our office on Monday. mad stone taken by himself from the nav of a white deer he had killed some time previously. He says this magic stone is found only in the first stomach of WHITE deer. The stone weighs just l I ounces av. -is } inches long and l inch in di. ameter, and las about the bulk of an average guinea egg,
 The Morrilton Messenger puts the liquor question in the following pointed manner: Our town is as quiet and peaceable as ifthere wasn't a pint of liquor in Arkansas And