The Russellville Democrat., 1882-06-01
STATE NEWS.

BeeDe votes HNe-mlll tax lOl building school house.
 Nearly every district of Grant county voted for the five mill school tax.
 Sheridan, Grant county, favors public schools by voting in favor of the five mill school tax.
 The town of Dewitt, Arkansas county, voted in favor of the school tax.
 Eighty per cent. of the taxes lev jed for 1881 in Lonokc county have been collected
 The Batesville board of school di- rectors have decided to build new public schoolhouse.
 Most of the wheat in Howard county has been cut and shocked, and better crop was never before raised there.
 A man named Brooks. living on Petit Jean, Yell county, was killed on Wednesday of last week by one McGee. No particulars.
 The editor of the Prescott Dis patch has received an Arkansas peach that measured eight and three quarters inches in circumference.
 Dardanele Post, May 25: The old lady Monehan who lived on the Potts place in Cardon's Bottom died last Tuesday morning. She leaves two sons.
 Lonoke Democrat: The wheat and oat crops are good, the corn crop is doing very well, and the cotton crop is very backward and the stands poor.
 Mir. J. II. Daniels lawyer at Pres cotJ had the misfortune to have $500 stolen from the desk drawer of his office, one night last week, during his absence from town.
 Col. D. NJ. Wisdom, editor of the Fort Smith Herald, has secured the contract for daily mail service be- tween Fort Smith and Muskogee in the territory. Service will begin on the first day of July.
 Beebe Times: A new market for fruit has been found for our ship pers. Several of them have been shipping peaches and strawberries tn Denver, Col, and have received good prices. Mr. J. W. Pearcy sent four crates of berries which netted him $35.
 Lonoke Democrat: Capt. J. NJ. King is demonstrating what lntelli. gent farming on our prairie will do He has wheat that will make twenty bushels to the acre, and oats that will make fifty bushels to the acre growing on his farm adjoining our town.
 A correspondent of the Conway Log Cabin writes: The flood inun dated quite number of corn and cotton fields along the Cadron and Bayou. It also swept the two bridg- es, spanning the Bayou on the Quit man and Little Rock and Mt. Yer non and Conway roads from their | foundation.
 Little Rock Democrat, May 25: In circuit court to- day the attorneys tor Gen. Newton and the bondsmen filed an amendment answer, setting forth that the legislature had passed no resolution, requiring the bringing of the suit, and the case should be thrown out of court.
 Fort. Smith New Era, May 25: Charles Baum, oldest son of Mir. Phillip Baum, met with severe ac- cident last Friday, while driving cat tie on Cedar prairie, eight miles south of here. His horse, Tn full gallop, fell and rolled on him, break ing his collar bone and otherwise se- riously bruising him.
 Little Rock Gazette, May 2S: Rev. Mr. Dye, of Scarcy, wasin town yes terday, on his way home from the general conference held at Nashville. It has been deemed advisable to postpone the excursion from Tennes- see to Arkansas, in.which Mir. Dye was interesting himself, until some tune in June.
 Beebe Times, May 27 Last Sun day afternoon, George Davie, son of our worthy citizen Dr. J. NJ. Dayie, while on his way home from Sunday school, was waylaid by a couple oi hoodlums, named Skaggs and Cur ley'' Hasselback. IL seems that they had been teasing him and applying vile and opprobrious epithets to him at different times during the day winch he but feebly resented. No satisfied, they met him q short dis tance from town and beat hlm in , shocking manner with their fists an( clubs. Skaggs was arrested and ; revolver taken from his person While trying to get some one to g, on his bond, he made his escape llasselback is also missing.