The Russellville Democrat., 1886-12-22
ARKANSAS NEWS.
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 the State.
A Resume Of ftc happenings of the Past Week.

A Resume Of tssc Happenings of the Past Week.
 A Grand Army of the Republic post has been organized at Van Buren.
 The Manufacturers Aid association has been organized at Little Rock.
 A man named Powell was killed in a gin near Magazine, one day last week
 A prohibition and temperance paper is to be started in Dardanelle after Jan- uary l.
 Ten planters of Oil Trough Bottom, near Elmo, shipped 2,lS0 bales of cot ton this season.
 The receipts of cotton at Alma arc 5,347 bales, which is largely in excess oi any previous season.
 Linsey Hale, a farmer, was danger ously shot and robbed of over Sl00, near Pine Bluff, on the night of the 10th i inst.
 i A reward of S200 has been offered by the governor for the arrest of Joe Stal- lings, who killed John Miles in Cross county.
 The residence of MT. l.. Hitchcock, three miles from Eureka Springs was burned one day last week with all it's contents.
 i The Texarkana and Northern rail- road has reached the south bank of Red river, twelve or fourteen miles below Richmond.
 Judge J. NJ. McCaskell has bought out the interest of G. A. J. May in the Toledo Sitting, and has moved the same to Lewisville, Ark.
 The gin of Fred Hanger, near the oil mill, in Little Rock, burned on the l6th inst. Loss estimated on gin, $l0,000; contents $500; insurance, $3,350. Little Rock collected Sl590 for fines last month, 5000 of which was paid by gambling houses. $40 for misdemean- ors and $50 by houses of ill fame.
 A bill has passed increasing the pen sion of Gen. .Benj. F. Kelley of West Virginia, recently superintendent of the Hot Springs reservation, to Sl0O 8 month.
 Judge John M. Bradley of Warren, has been confined to his bed for no days with strange cutaneous skin disease, and is so prostrated that his recovery is doubtful.
 Johnson Chapman of Chicot county has failed to qualify as collector of the county and it now devolyes upon the governor to appoint some one to the vacancy.
 George II. Lyman of Sebastian, K. T. Williamson of Conway county, Joseph W. Pound of Yell and k. II. Mitchell of Nevada were commissioned notar- ies public.
 The Little Rock. Mississippi River and Texas railway was sold on the 10th inst. to John M. Rose, who purchased it in the interest of Jay Gould, in the sum of $50,000.
 The Wheelers of Sevier county have contracted with Taylor Vaughan of Lockesburg, for S50,000 worth of goods next year at credit prices 35 per cent above cost and freight.
 The congressional subcommittee on the Memphis bridge bill reported an amendment to that measure contem- plating the regulation of rates to be charged railroads crossing the bridge.
 The cash drawer of the depot agent at Newark was robbed on the night of the 10th inst. and the building fired, but it was discovered in time to put out the flames before much damage was done.
 A company from Chicago, under the style of ssCamden Brick, Machine and Manufacturing Company" has been or ganized at Camden, with Col. Drake as president and Maj. Brewster as vice president.
 It has been discovered chat there is a I G n1ax n d valuable earth from which fire proof brick are made, oyerlaying the strata of coal of the Ouachita mines near Camden.
 Abe Chambers, the negro who killed Jonas Williams (also negro), was sen fenced by the Jackson county circuit court to be hanged January 2l, 1887. His attorney will take it up to the su- preme court.
 On Thursday night last the large steam saw and grist mill at Hillsboro was burned. The flames consumed thirty-five bales of cotton and about 400 bushels of corn, and completely ruined the machinery and boiler.
 Hot Springs will surely get road in the near future, as there are now three companies prospecting to build there, namely: The Diamond Joe extension, New Orleans. NatcheZ and Fort Scott, and the Little Rock and Hot Springs.
 The Berryville Progress says Col. J. $. O'Neal of Oak Grove, one of the com mittee appointed to procure the rail- road right of way through the county says with few objections all the far mers are anxious to give the desired right.
 Six prisoners were brought to Little Rock last week from Texarkana and placed Tn the penitentiary. Three Of them were women neither one of whom had shoe or stocking on her feet. They were immediately provided with these comforts upon their arrival at the penitentiary.
 F. Myres of Popular Bluff lost his gin house by fire on the morning of the llth with seventy bales of cotton in it. The fire broke out at eight o'clock and i'll five minutes the whole building was enveloped in flames. No insurance loss about 5000.
 The Secretary of State has received the returns of the special election held in Saline county on the 10th inst. for representative to the legislature. The candidates were James H. Shoppach, democrat, aud F. P. Steed, wheeler. Shoppach received 622 votes and Steed 540