The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1886-03-25
ARKANSAS AFFAIRS.

GAINESVILLE wants the next State
Teachers Association held at that
place.
Hon. james p. Eagle. of Lonoke,
will not be candidate for governor
this year.
A strong effort Will be made to in
dnce tue next legislature TO call a
constitutional convention.
Arkansas has some large timber.
A man in Clark county recently
made l,0ll rails from one tree.
Editor Leigh Of Morrilton has
been mentioned IN connection with
the State senatorship Of his district.
A man in ST. Francis county
claims the honor Of inventing per
petual motion and will exhibit his
machine ere long.
On the Sth Of April, next, the
trustees of the State Baptist College
will meet at Little Rock for the pur-
pose of locating the college.
The workshops Of the Arkansas
Industrial University at Fayette-
vile were opened last week and now
the word industrial" may be prop
erly applied to the univel sity.
The agricultural wheel of st.
Francis county offers premiums for
the best products of the farm. This
is practical way to build up the
farmer and his interests.
A disastrous fire at Helena last
Sunday, consumed two blocks of
building, including the bank, opera
house and the finest business houses
in the city, entaiIing loss of 1926,
600; insurance, $4,000.
Hon. L. @. G. Lamar, Secretary of
the Interior, has been invited to de-
liver the annual address at com
mencement at the State Industrial
University, but has not been heard
from. II he cannot accept, it is
probable Hon. Henry Waterson, edi
tor of the Louisville Courier journal,
will be invited.
Last Monday the Iron Mountain
railroad applied to Chancellor Car
roll at Little Rock for an order to re-
strain parties from interfering with
the running of the road. The order
was granted, and any person yiolat
ing it will subject himself to the pen
altles of law provided in such cases,
which are pretty severe.
The contract for tunneling Back
bone mountain on the Frisco extern
sion has been let and work com
menced. The contractor Is the same
man who built the tunnel through
Boston Mountains, and preparations
are being made for the erection OF
buildings on each side of the noun
tain for the accommodation of the
laborers.
A packet company has been or
ganized To put In operation a
line of steamers between Memphis
and Little Rock to be run on SEIZED
ule time the year round. This is to
be accomplished by building two OF
more low water steamers to run be
tween Pine Bluff and Little Rock,
making regular connection with
larger boats. The company will
make it Il point to fight railroad
rates.
In communication to the Gazette
Of the 18th inst. f. r. McKennon
fires his Every last" shot at Bro. Toll
bert and turns more light on the late
bargain and sale. We extract the
following from his article:
Mr.. Tolbert has asked me in his
issue of March 18th the following
questions, which l answer with
pleasure:
Q. /. In assuming that the Econ
omist was bound to your support
do you not know that that claim is
directly contrary to our agreement
and understanding at the time the
contract was made?
Ans. l. No. The contract ex-
pressed our intentions at the time,
and so p. C. Stone, N. f. Harris and
X. c. Reding, with whom the con.
tract was left, will say under oath SO
far as they could judge from all that
was said or done, and you know that
Stone and Harris have frequently
urged you to change the tone Of your
paper.
o.. Do you not know that when
the contract was first presented for
signature that we objected to it on
the ground that 1T bonnd the paper,
and then took it and read 1t, sentence
by sentence, and erased or had you
to erase, in such manner as not to
bind the paper only SO far as TO cor
rect false iumors, etc?
A. 2. No. The contract was never
rewritten nor was single word
erased Have shown it to yonr son
and others this day and they knew
your hand writing and so stated.
Q. 3. Did we not tell you then,
and repeat the same things many
times afterward, that the paper
could 60 that far and no futher?
A. 3 No. You only claimed chat