The Russellville Democrat., 1883-01-18
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
 The total value of buildings erect ed i'd Fort Smith, last year, is estl- mated at $5O0,000.
 BatesviIle had small blaze on the night of the 2nd. The stock of goods in one store was badlyssdamaged, and the building damaged to the extent of 5000.
 ssWhat is heavens best gift to man?" she asked, sweetiv smiling on him, @Dr. Bulls Cough Syrup" he replied, with prudence. He had just been cured by il of q bad cold.
 As Jack Gazell. engineer on the Crowley's Ridge branch of the St. L., I. M. & $. railway, was coming out of the opera house at Helena, last Thursday night, he was stabbed by an unknown person. The wound is not necessarily fatal.
 Those unhappy persons who suf. fer from nervousness and dyspepsia should use Carter's Little Nerve Pills, which are made expressly for sleepless, nervous, dyspeptic suffer CTS. Price 25 cents, sold by Harkey.
 Van Buren Graphic: w. T. Eng land, Esq, raised fifty 500 pound bales of cotton and 260 pounds of lint cotton additional on thirty-eight acres of land on his farm twelve miles southeast of Van Buren. The average price received for this cot ton was 9 22-100 cents per pound. Why don't you try Carter's Little Liver Pills? They are positive cure for sick headache, and all the ills produced by disordcred Liver. Only one pill dose. Sold by Har- key.
 Fort Smith Herald: We learn that Mir. Oscar Taylor, of Webb City, has in his possession one of the fifty cent pieces (only fonr of which were coined made by the Confederate Government in 1861 It has on one side the shleld and two cotton stalks surrounded ny stars representing the Confcderated States, and on the oth- CT side the Goddess of Liberty. It is said that Mr. Taylor has refused $700 for this relic of the "Storm. era dled Nation, which fell"
 If there ever was a specific for any one complaint then Carter's Little Liver Pills are specific for Sick Headache, and every woman should know this. They are not only pos tive cure, but sure preventive if taken when the approach is felt. Car ter's Little Liver Pills act directly on the liver and bile, and thus re- move the cause of disease without first making you sick by weaken ing purge. If you try them you will not be disappointed. Sold by liar key.
 The Little Rock Democrat of last Friday says: The case of the Credit (llmlted) Company vs. Arkansas Central Railway company is now be- fore the court on final hearing. The attornevs on each side will be heard and decision reached today if pos- sible. The Arkansas Central Rail- way company was sold under mort gage in 1877, and purchased by par ties who afterward organized it into the Arkansas Midland Railroad com pany. The plaintiff being bond holder in the old company, seeks to have the mortgage set aside on the ground of fraud.
 R. M. Mosby, of Fort Smith, was killed last Monday evening, In the blaming mill of Echols, Johnson x Mosby. The unfortunate man was in the act of stepping over rapidly revolving shalt, when his long over coat was caught and wound round it, and Mir. Mosby battered to death against the ground before the en. zine could be stopped. The Herald says: "The right foot was horribly mangled, and that leg almost sever ed from his body, while his left arm |
 was in the same condition and his neck broken.''
 MT. Sherman Alexander, of West Fork township, Washington county, was killed on the night of the 25th ult., as he was returning from a Christmas tree, and the circumstance es of his sad death are reported as follows by the Fayetteville Sentinel l: "lt seems that the young man had ridden some distance in front of the party he was escorting home, and had gotten down from his mule for some cause or other and had one end of rope tied round his wrist, while the other end was around the ami maPs neck. The mule became fright ened at something and ran away dragging the young man nearly a half mile over a very rocky road, and finally ran across a ledge of rock against which the young mans head was dashed, horribly crushing his skull and mangling his body, caus- Ing instant death."