The Russellville Democrat., 1882-04-20
NO. 13
STATE NEWS.

| Forty thousand dollars were dls- bursed last Saturday te the employees of the Paramore road at Pine Bluff.
 The Stevens House at Hope was destoyed by fire at an early hour last Saturday morning.
 Through trains were resumed last Sunday over the Memphis and Little Rock railway, the first since Janu- ary 30.
 The Horseshoe is the latest jour nalistic venture at Hot Springs, with the genial Col. Allard as editor. Good luck to the Horseshod. 1 Mir. R. J. Matthews, of Louisville Ky, and Miss Laura B. Skipwith, of Little Rock, were married in the last named city on the 18th.
 J. $. Cate, of Cabot in this state, shipped five crates of strawberries to St. Louis on the 1lth inst, which was five dayssarlier than ever before.
 The population of the state capital is to be recounted, the Little Rock CTS not being satisfied with the re- cent federal census, which only ac- cords that city 16,000 inhabitants.
 A carpenter named Mason fell from the new Concordia building in Little Rock, last Friday, and had an arm broken and his head badly brusied.
 Gazette; Capt. Ernest Jennings, l, is, a, { l,.a tain Co Antonio, Texas, is not improving in health. His return to this city is ex- perted at all early day.
 Hon., ". Jasper Blackburn, his tonan of the press association, is writing history of the press of Ar kansas and desires data concerning every paper in the State.
 Attorney General Moore has rul cd that 24 blanks, the size of asses sor's notices, constitute a quire. The ruling was made in reply to an inquiry made by Auditor Crawford.
 Van Buren Graphic, 14th: Miss Maggie c. Satterfield, daughter of L. RI, Satterfeld, living in Richland township, died last Saturday of ty- l,hoid fever.
 A Poplar Grove correspondent of the Little Rock Democrat very for cIbly urges the claims of Hon. ". ". Smith, of Helena, for associate justice of the supreme court.
 = A Cabot correspondent of the Little Rock Democrat says 'the prospect for bountiful harvest of both fruit and grain were never more fattering at this season of the year than now"
 Seven convicts, en route from Lit tie Rock to work on Fourche, at tempted to escape last Monday, and in the pursnlt one, Kirk from Wood ruff county, was killed by the pursu- ing guard, two were captured and four escaped.
 Caroline Kelly. an Amazonian ne- gross of Hot Springs, demolished a cottage near that city, belonging to the Byrne state, on the night of the 18th. The loss will exceed $500. The woman IS under arrest.
 Ed. Fulsom, convicted by the U. $. Court at Fort Smith at the Febru- ary term, for the murder of Massin- gill and Stewart, last August, was sentenced on the 18th inst, to be hung on the 30th day of June next.
 Little Rock sDemocrat' 18th: Col W. D. Slack. land commissioner of the Little Rock and Fort Smith road, yesterday sold 10000 acres of land near Dover. Pope county, for Lu. theran colony. The settlers are to come from Dresden, Saxony.
 Concerning the crop prospect in that section. the Van Buren Graphic says: The wheat crop all over this county looks fine, and harvest will be at least two weeks earlier, which will bring it some time in next month. Crawford county will raise comparatively large wheat crop this year.
 A Gazette correspondent writing from Magnolia, Columbia county, says: This county was never before blest with such promising prospects in regard to crops. Providence has certainly spread itself. And if noth. ing happens to retard its progress, this county will bring forth a weld of corn and cotton unprecedented in the annals of agricultural history.