The Russellville Democrat., 1882-11-30

at Van Buren will be let on the frs
 day of December.
 Mir. James Stephens, who lives
 near Alma, had his leg broken, ont
 night last week, hST falling from : wagon and the wheels of the loaded
 vehicle passing over him.
 Fayetteville Sentinel: Scarlet fe
 yer IS reported to be in town anC
 many persons have stopped theil children from school. Our citizens cannot be too careful.
 A Mill Creek township correspon dent of the Ozark Democrat writes "We have gathered over 14,00C pounds of cotton from 29 l-2 acres and yet many stalks are bent to the ground"
 Charleston Vindicator: Caleb Gib. son, of thls township, aged 82 years walked two and half miles on cleo tion day to get to vote for Rogers and Breckinridge. This is what we would call fair sample of Demo cratic devotion.
 Dardanelle Arkanslan: From Mir, Alex Hughes, who is just Tn, we hear that another scrape occurred at Wal. dron on Friday last, in which young man named Crutchfield was killed by another young man named Walk or No nortintlorc
 Last Thursday evening, Miss Hattie Chrisman, of Little Rock, took dose of strychnine by mistake for quinlne and died in an hour after the most intense suffering. The de ceased was young lady of great worth and beloved by all.
 Fort Smith Elevator: Mir. I. w. Foster brought to our office corn stalk that has put out roots at every joint, similar to those which usually grown at the surface, for distance of & feet up the stalk, and the top of the stalk is larger than the bottom.
 Fayetteville Sentinel: Messrs. Dunn & Cobb, through their agent, MT. Middleton, have shipped from our market during the season over 25,000 bushels of green apples for which they paid $75,000, and when the expense of barreling and hauling is counted, it will swell the amount to double the sum, or $l50,000.
 
 Pine Bluff Commercial: It IS es- timated that $200,000 will be saved to Jefferson county farmers and plan ters, by the unusually good corn and grass crops, besides many of our large river bottom planters have planted less cotton by from fifty to 150 acres, and planted this acreage in grains and grasses. This will more than furnish their barn SUD- plies.
 A man named Charles Greenwood was killed on the transfer at Van Bu- ren, one day last week. The Argus says: "1t is supposed that he got under one of tue coaches upon the truck with the intention of stealing ride through, and that being consid. erably under the influence of liquor, the jar of the car in getting on the boat threw him from hls perch upon the track, and one, and perhaps two wheels passing over his neck"
 The Little Rock Gazette of the 26th inst, has the folio wing item con- corning a new railroad: Articles of association were yesterday filed in the secretary of state's office, ,incorpo- rating the Kansas City and New Or. leans railroad. The road enters the state in Boone county, crosses Car roll, Pope, where it crosses the Fort Smith railway, and thence to Cam den in the direction of Union county. The company guarantees subscrip- tion of 5000, for every mile of road.
 Van Buren Argus: It is stated on good authority that the Arkansas Division of the Frisco road will at an early day be pushed westward from Van Buren. on the north slde of the Arkansas river to point on the Canadian, where the main line crosses that stream. This will be built under the franchise granted in the charter of 1866 to the Atlantic and Pacific for line from Van Bu. ren to the point above named. We understand that the survey for the a hnrn Ii na will he comm on cod at nnca