The Russellville Democrat., 1885-02-26
RUssELLvILLE POPE CO. ARK. FEBRUARY 26. 1885.
state News.

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The people Of Monticello began
gardening last week.
A large goat ranch has been es
tablished in Howard county.
The cold weather has not injured
the peach crop of Franklin county
The farmers OF Lawrence county
are preparing for an unusually large
crop.
Work has begun OH the railway
bridge at Van Buren,, across the Ar.
kansas.
Mr.. w. S. Purcell and Miss Ada
Ewell, Of Ssarcy, were married last
week.
The late cold snap caught many OF
the citixens Of Forrest City with
July wood piles.
Cattle are dying in Drew county
with peculiar disease, heretofore
unknown in that county.
The work of clearing away the
rubbish from the burnt district Of
Newport is being rapidly pushed.
The farmers OF Scott county are
preparing larger acreage Of cotton
this season than was ever known for
any previous year.
D. C. Price killed cougar in
Washington county last week, It's
skin was stuffed, and is now on ex
hibition at Fayetteville.
The business of the White river
branch Of the Iron Mountain rail
road has increased two hundred per
cent. during the past year.
A man who promises to pay his
subscription in wood is never ready
to fulfill the promise when the
weather is cold, SO says the country
editor.
Mr.. Richard Sweeney was born in
Randolph county, near his present
home. He is AZ years Of age, never
was sick, and never took a dose of
medicine.
A young lady in Searcy was so in
tent watching certain young man
in company with "another girl that
she stumbled and fell sprawling into
a ditch.
A man named Grove, was thrown
from wild mule in Waldron, and
his foot hung in the stirrup. The
mule ran, dragging him two hundred
yards. He was not seriously injur-
ell.
Mrs. Langtry's first appearance in
public was as reader; she read
"Curing a Cold," by Mark Twain.
In a recent interview she said that
she does not approve OF his way,
but for herself uses DR.. Bull's Cough
Syrup sure cnre every time.
Lacy Raney, boy of Lawrence
county, was riding mule from the
field to the barn when the mule be
came frightened. The boy lost his
balance and fell, his foot became en-
tangled in the harness and he was
dragged to the barn. When friends
reached him he was dead.
A foot race at Fayetteville last
week attracted considerable atten-
tion. A man named Brown was run
by the sports Of the town against
Mr. Prestige, who was backed by
sports of Rogers and Springdale.
Over two Thousand dollars changed
hands. The race was one hundred
yards. Brown won by four ieet.
Time, l ! seconds.
A young man at Jonesboro went
to bed, set burning candle in T.
chair near his bed so that lie could
read awhile. He fell asleep and
when he awoke the candle had
| burned down, set the chair on fire,
which burned and fell upon his
clothes and they carried the flames
to his bed. He seized the burning
bed and threw it out the window in
time to save the house.
A farmer near Springdale grew
cabbage last season with three well
developed heads on one stalk. He
put 1t in the pit with the other cab
bages ana kept it until last week.
The three hard white heads clinging
to one stalk was too much of curl
osity to be smothered in the country
dinner kettle. He carried them to
town and kindly gave them to the
editor of the Yellow Jacket, who at
once notified the world of the re-
markable productiveness of the soil
near Springdale.