The Russellville Democrat., 1884-10-30
srArE NEWs.
Compiled from Exchanges for
 .The Democrat'' Readers.

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 Bentony.lle has n new "opera hall"
 searcy county scrip is worth 50 cents.
 Morrilton has 257 children in school
 Few vacancies in the state insane asylum.
 The Paris literary society is boom ing.
 Cleburne county grasss!!ss about bad roads. ;.
 Fort Smith IS building new coun- ty jail.
 Chismville "hellos" over the tele- phone now.
 Perryville mills nearly oyerrun with business.
 The Ozark Sun urges farmers to diversity crops.
 Mineral Springs Home Journal goes to Nashville.
 Democratic club in every township in Hampstead county. Three silver mines in operation in Marion county,
 The Waldron Reporter has start ed on it's sixth volume.
 Carroll county will hire it's prison CTS out under contract.
 The Ft. Smith daily News has suspended.
 A general frost prevailed on the night of the 23d.
 c. w. Mathews will build new hotel at Beebe.
 The newly elected officers of Frank lin county qualified last week.
 Paris, Roseville, Altus and Ozark arc talking mp telephone connection.
 In St. Francis county there are 3483 persons of school age.
 Freeman's Express of Harrisburg will enlarge tosix columns.
 The Mammoth Springs Herald says 'possums are getting ripe.
 State Superintendent Thompson wants the school law amended.
 Droves of young cattle are being sold says the Washington Press.
 The editor of the Fayetteville Sen tinel says sweet potatoes do bloom.
 There is talk of new daily at Ft. Smith with q prominent Little Rock journalist at the helm.
 The grand jury found 122 indlct- meats in the anti- prohibition county of Crawford.
 A freight car and 20 bales Of cot ton were consumed by fire at Cabin Creek last week.
 Hon. L. o. Breeden, an old and honored citizen of Conway county, died last Friday,
 A. w. Wolf of Knoxville had his arm crushed by gin head failing upon it. Amputation was necessary.
 The Clarksville College, hand some and commodious building, will be completed Tn few weeks. Mrs. Rogers of Clarksville fell into her flower pit and dlslocated her shoulder.
 At the Batesville fair man named Davls was thrown from horse and killed.
 l.. A. Byrne of Miller county is the democratic nominee for circuit judge of the ninth district.
 Higdon Whitley of White county lost his right hand by gin saws las; week.
 Eighty wild Texas ponies furnish ed amusement for Searcyites last week. D. G. Lowell has bought farm ol 394 acres near West Point and will convert it into 8 stock farm.
 Col, k. c. Boudinot is in the Ma tion lecturing on the Indian ques- tion.
 George Barnes, Evening Shade, had his arms mangled in a gin last week.
 The ladies of Forrest City mako jelly and present it to Eye locaP' ol the News.
 Prof. W. H. Quayle and Miss A. J. Philips, of Hope, were married last week.
 A. F. Beaver broke J. Cooper s arm with base ball bat, at Ju dsonia lass Saturday.
 Leroy Lichel, 12 years old, picked 300 pounds of cotton near Bingen, one day last week.
 Many snags are being removed from White river, between Jackson port and Batesvillc.
 A child of Mr. Taylor Hodges, Marshall, fell into fire last week and was badly burned.
 Cross county petit jury brought in verdict of guilty in nearly every case brought before it. Movement is on foot to build q railroad from Dardanelle to Green wood and Fort Smith. AI....4 lo..lsfo tL A n,,1,ot ef onf