The Russellville Democrat., 1885-06-11
STATE NEWS.

A publsc park will De laid out a1 Morrilton.
 A glass factory Is to be establish ed at Texarkana.
 Grass s-hoppers arc damaging crops in Columbia county.
 A lodge of Good Templars will be organized at Ozark. A railway project from Paris to Coal Hill is on foot
 Tue Wheat crop Of Green county is almost a failure.
 Cut worms are damaging the cot ton in lizard county.
 The crops of Independence county suffered for rain last week.
 Tue rains have put farmers some what behind in Nevada county. There are three blind men in Ark adelphia, all of whom make good living.
 Mrs. High, better known as Belle Boyd" the famous Confederate spy, is seriously ill in Little Rock. J. D. Johnson of Pike county, fell from his wagon, the wheel ran over him and broke one of his legs. Miss Emma Hicks, near BrinkIey, committed suicide last week by talk ing an overdose of morphine. The Greene County Events nov ed from Gainesville to Paragould. Now 1t has moved back to Gaines yillc.
 A meeting vas held at Texarkana last week to provide for the imme- date survey of the Fort Smith and Texarkapa railroad. Over one hundred dwellings and business houses have been erected at Nashville, Howard county, during the past fifteen months. Helena will soon be blessed with a complete net work of telephone wires. The .shellor business pros pers wherever introduced. There are about a dozen appli- cants for the position of Snperin tendent of the Hot Springs reserva tion, which pays $2.500 per annum.
 Miss Lura F. Brown has establIsh- ed a press agency at Little Rock, with view to furnishing bright newsy letters to the country press. There has not been prisoner in the Union county jail since July Is, of last year. The three-mile law is sald to be the cause. A large Texas horned frog was found hopping about at Walnut Ridge last week. He was immedi ately captured and caged for exhibi- l ticn.
 An important railroad meeting was held in Texarkana Saturday night, to provide for an immediate survey of the line of the Fort Smith, Texar. kama and Sabine Pass railroad. At Little Rock. the city council elected Col. Logan H. Roots presi dent of the Merchants National bank, and Col. W. P. Homan of the Exchange National bank, members of the board of public works.
 
 Will Kernan, the fiery untamed ex editor of the Oklahoma States has tried to buy cut the Clipper of flee at Arkakelpnia, but up to the present time little encouragement has been given him by the citizens of Philadelphia to locate ia this State.
 A young lawyer of Prescott wenl to church with fair damsel of that town and when services were ovel he hugged hymn book under hi: Tarm, leaving his hat on the bench He discovered his mistake after he got out into the moonlight--captur ed by beauty.
 The fruit growers of the State lately assembled in convection a Beebe, set apart the 18th of May O each year as Strawberry Day." or which the inmates of the Insane Asylum, School for the Blind, Dea Mute Institute and State Penitenti ary will be given all the berries they can eat
 Fort Smith will soon have educa tional advantages not excelled b, any city in the South. Of the 120t lots in the reservation, donated tt tue city for school purposes, aboui 300 have been sold, netting upward. of $I25,000. Nearly all the lots re maining unsold will be held fol higher prices.
 Gov. Hughes received telegram from Gen. Dandridge McRea, secre tary of the Arkansas board of com mIssIoners for the New Orleans Cot ton Centennial, stating that it ha. been determined to hold the Expo sitiou open another season. All tn, imperishable Arkansas exhibit ha, been boxed and will be left at tn, Exposition buildings until next fall
 The largest cotton planter in Ark ansas is c. NJ. Necl, of Pine Bluff He has just purchased three more