The Russellville Democrat., 1884-11-06

Mayor Grace Of Morrilton 10 dead.
Gin accidents frightfuIly numer-
Gus.
Mineral nrospectors in Boone
county.
Robins have appeared in Marion
county.
There is WEDDING in PerryvilIe
every day.
Duck shooting IS INDUCED IN b.
Faulkner sports.
Prairie chickens abound on the
prairies near Lonoke.
The new railroad bridge at Little
Rock will be completed next month.
Ouachita county vii. send speci-
mems Of building stone to the Worlds
Fair.
The newly elected county officers
are duly installed throughout the
state.
Three circuses have passed
through southeast Arkansas this
season.
Boone county farmers report
large percentage Of rotten corn in
their crops.
Since prohibition has been en-
forced many Lonokites have lost
their occupation.
0. G. Ludwig Of the Morrilton
Headlight will accept position in
the office OF Secretary of State.
Hon. f. w. Linn, assistant door
keeper of the lower house Of con
gress died at Newport last week.
Iowa prospectors are looking at
lands along the TT. Smith railway
with view to permanent settlement.
Through trains from Kansas City
to New Orleans via Van Buren, and
the Valley Route are mooted in rail-
road circles.
j. Howell Bradley, Hot Springs
Journalist, was married the other day
to neice Of ex Gov. A. III. Stevens,
deceased, Of Ga.
VIM. Goodrnm, Jr. and Miss Bet
tie Reynolds both o. Lonokc ran
away to Poplar Bluff, Mo-, last week
and were married.
Mrs. Frank Waddcll Of Sewer
county was brutally murdered by a
negro ficnd on the 10Th. The muir
derer is at large.
Dr. Scarborough Of Morrllton has
a strange freak of nature in his pos
session. 1t is pigs head with ele-
plants ears and trunk.
Rev. w. L. Howard of Arkadel
phia was made Moderator of the
Arkansas Presbyterian Synod at
Little Rock last week.
Sheriff Williams of Sebastian coun-
ty was so badly injured by fall
that he was unable to assume the
duties of his office on the Both.
DIR. L. H. Cook, city cotton weigh
err of Morrilton, accidentally shot
himself last week. The wound is
serious, but not necessarily fatal.
| A high school under the auspices
of the colored Baptist church of Ar
kansas has been opened at Little
Rock. Prof. DAVIS is principal.
At recent stock show in Boone
county three five months old calves
weighed respectively 420, 500 and
$50 pounds; three six-months old
turned the beam at 565, 500 and 625
pounds.
Paul Prenshoff of Conway county
secured a license last week to marry
Lizzie Holdaman. When he reach
ed her house she was corpse, hav-
ing suddenly died.
Lucy Willis, IA year old orphan,
was lured from her home at Ft.
Smith last Sunday by c. G. King of
Eureka Springs. 1t is not known
whether they are married or not.
Mrs. c. T. Walker of Little Rock
and Mrs. Isabella Bowen Of Drew
county, bave been added to the
Board of Commissioners of the New
Orleans Exposition, by Gov. Berry.
The Ozark Sun printing office is
now owned by JOINT stock compa-
ny. Mr.. M. Stroup remains editor
and its politics will continue to be
democratic. The Echo OF the same
town has been suspended.
The Synod of Arkansas met at
Little Rock last week. This body
was composed of all the Presbyterian
ministers in the State and in the
Choctaw and Greek tribes of the In.
dian nation, and elders from all the
Presbyterian churches in the State.
The Little Rock Gazette "hogs"
news Items from the DEMOCRAT and
other Arkansas papers and puts
them under the head of estate
News" without even limiting at the
source from which they are taken
and then belabors exchanges for re-
producing without giving the Ga
zette credit. The biblical ipjunc-
ton "cast the beam from thine own
eye" etc, applies here, as well as
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