The Russellville Democrat., 1885-05-07
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been reduced to $6,000.
 An old Indian graveyard has been discovered at Philadelphia.
 There is not licensed lawyer in Nashville, Howard county.
 Pauper farms have been establish ed by several counties in the State
 The two congresses at Little Beck handled S0,000 bales of cotton last season.
 The indications in nearly all parts of the State point to good peach crop this year.
 The outstanding scrip indebted ness of Yell county amounts to about $23, ,000.
 Towns and cities all over the State are calling for the enforcement of the sanitary laws.
 The Forrest City Times opposes the retention in office of U. 5. Mar shall Russell,
 The Sentinel estimates that there are over 2500 visitors at Hot Springs at the present time.
 The Arkansas Democrat has start ed popular subscription to the Bartholdi pedestal fund.
 The railroad bridge being con structed at Van Buren gives em- ployment to over 200 men. Prescott supports four prosperous Sunday schools, with an average at tendance of about seventy each. How are the mighty fallen! The uniforms of the Quapaw Guards are now worn by colored brass band Ivanhoe Lodge No. 27, K. of P. instituted at Van Buren last week has membership of twenty four.
 Seventy five pounds of powder were lately burned by the elated cit izens of Fayetteville, over the pros pect for another railroad. James Gill, of Garland county, k under arrest at Hot Springs, charged with abducting the fourteen year ole daughter ei Farmer Hope.
 The sheriff of White county re ports that his collections for 1SS4 are between $5l, ,000 and $52,000 leaving something over $7,000 de linquent.
 Attorney General Jones has de cided that pupils seeking free schoo privileges can only attend school II the districts in winch they are emu merated.
 Senator John w. Stayton, by vir tue of his office as President of th' State Senate, ofliciated as Governo of Arkansas during the absence o Gov. Hughes at New Orleans. | Ayers Cathartic Pills are the bes medicine that can be employed to cor rect irregularities of the stomach ant bowels. Gentle, yet thorough, in thei action, they cure constipation, stimu late the digestive organs and tn appetite, and cleanse, build up, an, strengthen the system.
 Sult has been filed in the U. $ Court at Little Rock, by the distric attorney, agasnst John T. Chides ter, Logan H. Roots, ct al., to rccov CT sums amounting in the aggregate to $l74,020.4l, alleged to have beer paid Tn excess of amounts due oI Star Route contracts. The case vii be heard next fall, and is only one o a large number that will be brough in various parts of the United States to recover moneys wrongfully ob tained from the Government in con nection with the Star Route mai service. George l.. Douglass, Esq. Of Washington, has been appointed by the Department of Justice to as sst in the prosecution of these cases
 The State Board of Railroad Com missioners have determined to as sess the road beds. trestles,, bridges etc of all railway companies Tn Ark ansas. They claim that the acl passed by the Legislature exempt ing snch property from taxation ii unconstitutional, and are backed b, the opinion of the Attorney General The Consultation expressly states that there shall be no exemption O property from taxation not specified in the Constitution, and that all act. of Legislatures making such exemp tions shall be void. The railroads will of course contest the action O the Commissioners Eagle.