The Russellville Democrat., 1884-02-21

New independent paper ~ Tam
den.
There is said to be bountiful
supply Of cattle In Boone county.
Three horse thieves were arrested
last week In lizard county.
There are $4,000 acres Of land
beneath the rivers and lakes in this
state.
1913 Chinese, l95 Indians aud 210,-
666 negroes claim citizenship in this
state.
Another fro doing $4,000 worth Of
damage occurred at Conway last
week.
To pave or not to pave-the streets,
is the question Little Rock aldermen
are wrestling with.
Maj. 5. HI. Nowlin has been made
vice sress.:ssiient for Arkansas of the
Mississippi Valley Horticultural So
ciety.
The Searcy county silver mines
are being worked with fattering
prospects, so it is claimed by the
Searcy county New Era.
Returns from the election in Desha
county show the election of Lowman
as sheriff to succeed the unsavory
Bankston, the defaulter.
John d. Adams has rendered Gov.
Berry his resignation as a commits
sioner for Arkansas to the Cotton
Centennial at New Orleans.
Owing to a lapse in the Office Of
collector in Desha county, the gov
ernor has extended the time of tax
collecting without penalty to April 3.
Frank Bondinot, son of +. C. Bou-
dinot, of Fayetteville, is about to
electrify New York society with his
deep, rich bass voice, so says an ex
change.
Soundings for the first pier of the
new railroad bridge at Little Rock
have been made, and active opera
tions will begin as soon as the wealth
er settles.
The Mississippi and Arkansas
River packet lines have been consol-
idated under the name of the Mem
phis, Arkansas City, vicksburg and
Arkansas River Packet Con. pany,
and organized a chartered stock
company under the laws Of Tennes-
see with capital stock of $3.50, 900.
The family Of j. ]. Dale, the miss
ing Paris merchant, have pulled up
stakes and gone to their old home in
Mississippi, where it is thought the
wife will be joined by her truant hus
band. His goods, etc., will be sold
by order of the court for the benefit
of his creditors.
Last Wednesday, two young men
named Ferguson and Clemmons, llv-
ing near Hope, were out shooting at
a mark. Ferguson, thinking the
pistol empty pIayfully pointed it at
Clemmons and pulled the trigger,
when it fired and the ball entered
Clemmons' right side INJECTING prob
ably fatal wound.
Another shooting affray occurred
at Hot Springs last Monday night in
which M. G. Harris was the princi-
pal participant. No one was injured
Harris is recognized as champion
or the Flynn's, and his course, as ed
itor of the Horse Shoe and agent of
the associated press at Hot Springs,
has met the universal condemnation
of the better class of people at the
Springs.
J. B. Mclaughlin is a lawyer at
Little Rock. One day last week
while coroner's inquest was in pro,
gress, lawyer Mclaughlin endeavor-
ed to stop the procedure, when the
coroner ordered the deputy consta.
Bile, who happened to be son of
Mclaughlin, to put his father out of
the room. In trying to obey the or
der the son received a blow over the
head with cane in the hands of his
father. Both father and son were
Immediately arrested.
The second number Of the South
ern Gazetteer, monthly published
at Little Rock in the interest Of inn
migration, railroads, agriculture and
commerce, by Louis L. Parham, is
out, and is a very interesting paper.
It is announced that the town on the
Fit Smith railway will form the sub.
jec. of a special edition of the Ga
zatteer for February. This paper
being widely circulated renders it an
excellent medium for making known
the resources of the country.
State Treasurer Woodruff makes
the following statement in answer to
the question whether the incoming
taxes would be sufficient to run the
state government or would state scrip
be issued. He says: IL believe the
revenue collections of 1888 will be
adequate to the payments of all legal
demands against the state during the
current year. without any resort to
the rulnous policy of issuing state
scrip-but l cannot make a positive
declaration to that effect, because the