The Russellville Democrat., 1883-02-01
STATE NEWS.

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 Fort Smith has telephone ex change.
 There are over 900 blind persons in the state.
 The small pox scare at Little Rock has subsided.
 The government land in Dorsey county is estimated to be worth $240,000
 A large majority of the press of the state IS opposed to the repeal of the three-mile law.
 The Frisco road is to be extended from Van Buren to Paris. Tex, a distance of 163 miles.
 Matrimonial associations are daily being declared fraudulent by the post office department.
 oeligman had destructive fire last week. Nearly every house in town was destroyed.
 The streets of Hot Springs are to be lighted with electric light. F. R. Place has the contract.
 John Allen killed man named Holcombe at Brinkley last week. Both men were strangers in the town.
 A fire at Washington, Hampstead county last week destroyed property estimated at $50,O00. The Press was destroyed.
 Deputy sheriff Battsford and W. $. Curran, an attorney, engaged in hand to-hand fight on the streets of Little Rock last week.
 L. W. Reardon, of Little Rock, has just published map of the State, giving the democratic, republican and greenback vote of each county
 Hattie Gaylord Smith and party jumped their board bill at the Capi- tai Hotel, Little Rock, last week. The Gazette justly calls them dead beats.
 Wash Flack, we'll known conduct or on the NJ. & l.. R. R., was found dead in his bed in Memphis hotel last week. Alcoholism is the alleged cause of his death. Safe blowers successfully cracked the safe of w. E. McRae & Co.,, at Mt. Holley, Union county, the 18th inst. Some money and $4,350 in U. honda uaYo otnlap
 The four bulldozers who created so much trouble near Pinnacle Springs have been arrested by U. S. Marshals. They undertook to drive homesteader of his clam.
 We learn that it is the practice of many from Boston mountaineers to come to the Arkansas bottom, pick a crop of cotton, then rent for the next year, get advances on chattel- mort gage and then skip.--Dardanclle Ar kansian.
 Alex Roth, of Morrllton, we'll known in Russellville, has become a defaulter in the sum of f$l500, and has run away taking a diamond ring be- longing to his betrothed. He was engaged to a lady at Morrillton and another at Little Rock.
 The attention of the legislature has been called to the pressing ne- cessity for speedy legislation to check the depredations of timber thieves and persons who are destroy- ing by wholesale our game and fish. The legislature should frame law meeting the case.
 There IS bus very little whisky sold in our town now-much less than at any time within the last ten years, and those who deal in It feel that they stand not one whit above the other criminals that infest our otherwise unexceptional section. So much for the three mile law.--Harri- son Times.
 We are informed by an eminent ex.iudge who spent good while in Benton county this fall that not one chattle-mortgage on the growing crop was filed in the clerks office of that county. The people are out of debt and pay cash for merchandise and have plenty of meat and bread.-- The merchant solicits customers in- stead of customers begging mer. chants and being allowanced by them.--Dardsnelle Arkansian.
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