The Russellville Democrat., 1886-06-30
ARKANSAS AFFAIRS.


 Pocahontas to Hoxie is now consid cred q certainty.
 Charbone in an epidemic form has appeared among horses aild ss,ssii5s7s 2: 2 along the Mississippi rlver, and hun Idreds are dead and dying from it.
 Col. W. T. Barry, of Fayetteville, has been appointed stamp deputy under internal revenue collector Simms, and will enter upon his du- ties July 1st.
 The Dry River Lumber Company has purchased about 5000 acres of timber land in Cleveland county and will put in operation large lumber mill.
 Hon. ". F. Campbell, of Woodruff county, has been appointed clerk of the supreme court to fill the vacancy cansed by the death of Luke E. Bar Der. There were quite number of applications for the position.
 Newport is making an effort to secure branch of the Memphis, Kansas and Western railroad, with good prospects of success. But $l0,- 900 are required to consummate the object, s7,o00 of which has been secured.
 The colored people of Pine Bluff are making great preparations for their State Fair to be held this com ing fall. They offer good, liberal list of premiums, and will make ar. engagements for half fare rates on all railroads.
 A Boston syndicate are preparing to put up an extensive lumber yard and wharf at Arkansas City. In their construction sight hundred post oak and cypress piIing will be used, and it will take S00,000 brick to lay the foundation of their build ling. This, together with the flatter- ing crop prospects of the surround ing country has started quite boom down there.
  Work on the grade of the Frisco extension between Ft. Smith and the tunnell is rapidly progressing. Some very heavy cuts and fills have been made along the Poteau. The tunnel work is being pushed day and night, there being three sets of hands who work eight hours each out of the twenty four.
 There are now 300 patients in the State Insane Asylum. Since the asylum was opened, three years ago, 562 patients have been treated, ol which number LIS have been cured and S4 have died. Of the present inmates 122 are white males. LOS white females, g colored males and 31 colored females.
 A mammoth excursion to Arkan sas is being arranged by the rail roads east of the Mississippi in Ken lucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Ala bama, Georgia, North and South Carolina. It will be to all points in Arkansas and Texas, and promises to be an exceedingly large excur' sion. The rates for tickets are very low and are good for thirty days
 It IS reported that Messrs. Blaine and Steve Elklns furnished the mon. ey to bnild the magnificent stone hotel at Eureka Springs, and that Ex Gov. Powell Clayton is only man ager. We prefer the money of these gentlemen in Arkansas, than theiI management of our political affairs Mir. Blaine has heretofore been lucky in his investments in Arkansas, and we hope the same success may attend this last one, but under more honest circumstance. = Nashville News.
 The following named young ladies graduated in the Arkansas school foI the blind this year: Miss Jennie Mcclure, of Baxter county, Miss Kate Church, of Saline county and Miss Sarah K. Dunlap, of Calhoun county. The Gazette gives the fol lowing reminisccnce ofthe last named I young lady:
 l Miss Sarah E. Dunlap, valedicto' rian of the graduating class, is sur vivor of the horrible Mountain Mead ows massacre. She was an infant in her mothers arms when an Indian ! bullet pierced her tiny wrist, shatter- 1 ing tt so badly she now bears as 2 consequence a withered arm and bad lly crippled hand. The bullet tnal