The Forrest City times., 1888-08-11
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The busy little bee persists in doing business in Fort Smith, to the annoy ance of almost everything and every body else. An effort is being made to force their removal out of town
 Helena is Jnbilant over the appropri- ation of s75.ooo for the improvement of her Mississippi harbor.
 Dr. W. R. Davis of Bentonville has grown an apple twig eighteen inches long on which there are sixty-four well-forned apples
 The dead body of one of two strangers recently seen travelling through the Bayou Meto country has been found at Little Rock riddled with bullets. and man has been arrested on suspicion
 In Plum Bayou Township Thursday night W. L. McGaughey shot and kill edG. W. Brundidge.
 Daniel Thompson, charged with com psicity in the murder of Deputy United States Marshall John Phillips, at Eufala, I. T., has been arrested at It smith,
 The travelling men of the state should remember the meeting of the Arkansas division in the Board of Trade rooms of Little Rock Saturday at 2 p. m.
 The construction of a telephone line between Waldron and Dallas is said to be a certainty soon to be accom- plished-
 The wheat crop of Northwest Ark ansas is coming into market, and it's cash receipts are making business much more active
 Two Harrison girls fought over a common sweetheart the other day, and one knocked the other down with stick of stoyewood.
 A hog attacked child on the streets of Kingsland Saturday and inflicted fatal injuries-
 The Southwest Arkansas fair, to be held at Hope this fall, will distribute 5000 in premiums
 Washington county is practically out of debt and has several thousand dollars in the treasury.
 Forty-seven jugs of whisky and . kegof beer were shipped to Batesville. a prohibition town, last week.
 Panthers have been disturbing the people in the vicinity of speilerviIle for several weeks. An organized party is hunting for them.
 The hotels of Fayetteville are crowd cd with visitor, large numbers of whom are docking to the mountain city from the south to spend the summer.
 A boy named Buckler shot and killed achild of Jack Tomas in Benton county, Saturday. The weapon used was a didn't-know-it-was-loaded' gun, always warranted to kill.
 Quarantine has been established at Texarkana by Health Officer Ruther- fordof Texas against yellow fever from Florida, but trains are not stopped nor passengers examined outside of our city.
 A. Field of Benton county has sey- enty-five acres of blacklerries grow ing in an old pasture and he has a large number os hands picking for him. He constantly sells at home and ships some almost every day.
 The citizens of Carroll county are making an effort to wipe out the county debt by making donations of scrip held by them. R. J. Gray of Eureka Springs starts the list with 5000 and Judge Bradley Bunch follows with slO0. A runaway engine was thrown from the track and wrecked at Cluster, on the Frisco road, in Crawford county, Thursday. It had taken one section of . freight train across the mountain and was going back after the other. when both cylinder heads blew out and left il unmanageable. It passed Porter sta ton at terrific speed. The fireman was badly hurt, while the engineer made a safe escape.
 A serious stabbing affray occurred at Southwest City, Benton county, one day last week. II. Dustin was stabbed by cattle dealer whose name is Grif- filth. 1t seems that Griffith had en- gagged in quarrel with one of Dustin $ clerks when Dustin entered the store and took the part of the clerk, where upon Griffith drew a large knife and stabbed Dustin. The physicians say that the wound will prove fatal. Grif. fifth was promptly arrested and is awaiting trial.