The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1884-02-07
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.

ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.
The loss by the late Hope fire it is
believed will reach $4,000.
A $4,000 lumber and planning mill
will soon be erected near Pine Bluff.
The Crawford county bank has
changed hands, Robt. S. Hyns and G.
H. Gregory being the purchasers.
1t turns out that Isaac Bankston,
the absconding republican sheriff of
Desha county, is about $3, 900 behind
| in his accounts.
| Col. w. M. Fishback will open the
ball by delivering an address at Sa-
lem, Sebastian county, Feb. 10th, on
the state debt question.
IT. Perriman h Co., general mer-
chants of Paris, Logan county, have
assigned. Improbable cotton spec
ulation caused the collapse
The Arkansas Conference of the
Nj. +. church, will be held at Little
Rock on the goth Of February. Bishop
Wiley, of Cincinnati, is expected to
preside.
The remarks Of Hon. G. r. Brock
inrldge, upon the Mississippi river
improvement bill, are favorably COM
mented upon by many Of our state
exchanges.
M. f. Fleeman, who recently mys
teriously disappeared from his home
at Ozark, has been heard of in Sac
ramento, CAL, and friends have gone
to bring him back.
Col. VIM. Barry, a prominent citi-
zen of Fayetteville. suicided at Pierce
City, Mo, last week. Financial
trouble is supposed to have been the
cause of the rash act
The electric light at Little Rock is
a success. Forty lights are now run
ming, and a new machine will be put
in operation this week with capac-
ity for twenty more lights.
Two young girls, daughters of Mr..
+. Shaddox, aged nine and fourteen
years, lost their lives while skating
on White river, near jennings Ford,
by the breaking Of the ice.
Judge II. G. Caldwell, Of Little
Rock, in an interview says he would
respectfully decline the appointment
as successor to Circuit Judge Nc
Creary, of Iowa, if rendered to him.
The Frisco roads intends building
a branch line from Springfield, NO.,
through Harrison, Boone county, to
Little Rock. Surveyors are said to
be now going over the proposed line.
The Frisco, Iron Mountain and
Fort Smith railways have made an
amicable adjustment of. traffic differ
ences and hereafter there will be no
clashing of interests between these
lines.
In accordance with the decisio of
the supreme court, which DEGREES that
the property of the Memphis and
Little Rock railroad shall be taxed,
the railroad commissioners have sent
out the pro rata of assessment to
each county along the line.
Judges English and Eakin, says
special to the Gazette from Hope,
were hung in effigy by some parties
at Mineral Springs, to express their
Indignation at the recent decision in
the case OF the Howard county ne
groes who were to have been hung.
Hon. Thos. ii. Simms, of Hemp
stead county, who was appointed
Master in Chancery IN the case of the
State VS.. Thos. j. Churchill and sure
ties, has declined to serve, stating as
a reason his business interests at
home demand his entire attention.
The annual report of the Auditor
o. the Little Rock and Fort Smith
railroad shows that during the year
1883 mileage Of passengers carried
was 4,S4S, 223. The through freight
during the year was 1906 tons and
local freight was 50,959 tons. The
gross earning was 1857 1892 Op-
,rations expense amounted TO 1882
5f2.57, leaving net earning OF 1925
276.72
X. Frnyne, of Conway, had two Of
his nephews working with him learn
ing the saddlers trade. Last week
he heat the boys SO unmereifulIy that
their cries alarmed the town. A crowd |
gathered at his door and found him
beating one OF the boys over the head
with cane. The mob kicked and
slapped him severely. He was sent
to Jail charged with an assault with
intent to kill.