The Forrest City times., 1888-02-04
ABOUT ARKANSAS.

ware compelled to stop work at hot Springs recently owing to the freezing weather.
 John H. Ellis, of Arkansas, was on Saturday last appointed clerA ih class one in the second auditors once in Washington, D. c.
 NJ. Helvey, living at Beaver AIk'' was seriously injured by stone uer- rick falling on him and crushing nun to the ground. Ills recovery IS nope less.
 Hot Springs permanent population is not less than l0,0O0. Her post office handles the mall severgl months in the year for 25,OOO people, yet she has no post office building.
 Tba Little Rock Gazette Of Satur- day last makes these quotations on prices for cotton: Little Rock, S-l ; Memphis, 9 I3-l6; st. Louis, 1-S ; anu New Orleans 7-s.
 The Little Rock Gazette is publish ing letters from people who complain about the extortionate charges ot the hackmen of that city. A Springfield Illinois, lady was charged s for riding six blocks, and a gentleman rom To- peka. Kansas, stated the charges were outrageous.
 A libel suit for Sl0,000 has been insti- tuted against the editor and proprietor Of the Hot Springs Daily Sentinel, by one Danholf, tailor in that city. The suit arose from an article appearing in the Sentinel in which the tailor was &C., cused of having a blind tiger in the rear of his place of business.
 Friday night at 10 o'clock at Texar- kama, J. ". Draper. brakeman on the 1exas & Pacinc railway, while sdler- ing from tho effects ofdeliriuM tremens jumped from three-story window to the brick pavement, distance Of sew enty-flve feet below, receiving no further injuries than a few bruises on the feet.
 James Benson, white, q well-known stockman, was shot Friday night by Henry Somers, colored. Benson visit ed house where a colored dance wal in progress, searching for party with whom he had trade. He was refused admittance and tried to pass into the room when shot. The wound is in hlt head and dangerous.
 The trial of George Edmundson and George Anderson, the Yell county safe robbers, has been postponed until Feb. 23, when special term ofcourt will be held at Danvilie for that purpose. The court has met since the foregoing was put In type, and the robbers have secured a change Of venue 10 the Darianelle district court which meets the second Monday in February. The sheriff took them back to the penitentiary for safe keeping.
 United States Marshal Fletcher re. dent Cleveland pardon for w. J. Sherrill, recently Postmaster at Rus. sellville. Shelrlll was tried and con victed Of fembezzling Government funds and sentenced to imprisonment. Con. gressman Br ckcnridge interested him. self in his fayo-, and Judge sam w. Williams tcoA an a tiyc part. Post master-Gencral Villas opposed the granting Of the pardon; but vas downed by Mr. Breckenridge. merrill was g leading citizen of Russellvlle, and nearly every resident signed the reti' tion for his release
 George ". ChapTel of Fort Smith was lodged in the United states Jail Sunday afternoon on a charge ofbigamy. He was arre.ted near Briarwood, Cher. okee Nation, Friday. by Deputy John Phillips on a writ sworn out by Wm Wilson. The witness (Wilson) repre-. sents that Chappei induced his (Wll- son's) lG-year-old daughter 10 run away with and marry him; that he pursued and took the girl home, and tha Chap pei was lying around his field trying.te kill him; also that Chapel has foui wives besides the eirl mentioned ab0ve-thrco in the states and one in the Territory.
 Officer Burns. of Pinkerton's de. tcctive agency ayrltei at Texarkans from Montgomery, Ala, having in charge James RurrJwsf one of the al. legged train-robbeTs of the southern Ex- press Company near TexarAana about . month ago. The officer was accom- anied by the Chief Of the Montgomery Police Department The man Slater. alias Bowman, and now going by the name of W. |. l. ock. and who wal two CT three week5 ago apprehended in Erath County. Tex, near Waco. and about whom q bogus confession wal wired all over the conntry, is still in custody there, but til refuses to talk. The sheriff has warrants for the men. nd will probably lodge them in iail. At present they arc being guarded b, inc Pinkerton men at the Huckin, Hotel
 The news comes from parties inter- fsleu m western and Northwestern Arkansas that there is much uneaslness among the people in reg arl to the pos. sible action Of the Interior department touching the mineral iands of that sec. tion. At their solicitation Mir. Lamar withdrew these lands from entry under the ordinary conditions governing the lre-emption Of the public domain, and designated them as mineral lands. This was done to protect them from entry in large bodies by speeulators. Since Mir. Villas has been placed at the head of the department of the Interior. an agent Of northwestern syndicate of land buyers has been spying out the country, and the inhabitants fear there iz