The Russellville Democrat., 1882-05-25
STATE NEWS.

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 STATE NEWS.
 Eureka Springs shipped 60,000 young cedar trees to Kansas last week.
 Watt Orme harvested the first wheat of the crop of 1882 in Craw- ford county.
 Mir. Basil, of Atkins, has a wheat crop that will yield twenty five bush els per acre.
 Property was damaged to the ex- tent of $l00,000 by the recent flood in Randolph county.
 Prof. Roland Doggett, formerly of Russcllville, will have charge of the school at Pinnacle Springs.
 A grand excursion to Palarm is to be given soon under the auspices of the Knights of Honor of Morrillton.
 The Van Buren Press says the wheat crop of Crawford county will be two thirds larger than ever be- fore.
 Mr. w. A. Benham of White coun- ty, has fruit farm seventy acres in extent, and recently refused $13.000 for it.
 Auditor Crawford returned to Lit tie Rock, last Friday, from visit to the northwestern portion of the State.
 The Morrillton Headlight says the mail service on the railroad is in creasing, and too heavy for one route agent to handle.
 Only twenty-eight miles of stage route between Alma and Fayetteville, the remainder Of the distance being made by rail,
 The Batesville and Brinkley rail road company has filed the map ol the location of the road with the sec retary of state.
 J. R. Jackson and L. l.. Westmore- land were badly hurt last week by the breaking of scaffold at new building in Morrillton.
 Fayetteville will celebrate the an niversary of the arrival of the first train over the Frisco road at that place, on the Sth proximo.
 The town of Rogers, Ark, though only year old, contains 1926 in habitants. It IS located on the St. Louis and San Francisco railway.
 Mr. Dewitt, telegl aph operator at Eureka Springs recently sent 1850 words in one hour and twenty five minutes, making only three breaks. Fast work.
 Van Buren Graphic, 18th; Judge E. NJ. .Adair, living near Evansville, Washington county, dled last week of heart disease. He was a promi. nent citizen of the Cherokee Nation.
 The Sheridan (Grant Co., Head light says; There is less profanity here than any place we ever saw. Have not a drop of ardent spirits in the town, and none sold in the tcounty,
 The secretary of war has issued ten thousand rations to the sufferers from the recent overflow in White county; Senator Garland and Repre- tentative Dunn were instrumental in securing the appropriation.
 The democratic central committee of the third congressional district will meet at Little Rock on the l4th day of June, for the purpose of fix ing the time and place for holding the district nominating convention. There is a farmer in Grant county who has not bought bushel of corn or pound of meat, save once, since he moved to the state in 1850, and is now one of the financially strong men of his county.
 The sheriff of Chicot county has settled with the state treasurer pay ing eighty per cent. of the taxes due. Tbis, says the Little Rock Democrat, | is an excellent showing. when it Is remembered that his county suffered | greatly from the overflow.
 Fayetteville Democrat: The army worm has invaded our county at sev- eral points and are devastating wheat fields and meadows. Some | wheat fields and meadows have been | swept clean by these pests, but, so far, corn has escaped. Fortunately | it is only in spots that these worms have appeared.