The Forrest City times., 1888-02-11
ABOUT ARKANSAo'


 A te,snhone line connecting Centre Point and Lockesburg is 70 pc 0"iA pleted by February 20.
 srbe return of mild weather nn b,onoht great activity iu the ouiioihs in Eureka springs
 Riyer-bottom cotton-planters in zen. erson county will this year need aDou1 150. 900 bushels of corn more than 'ne' raised the past season.
 The cotton factory is now an sssurea fact for Philadelphia. $. k' McNu'r I q. Saunders, J. L. Bierne, W. ., Rowe KY. Huic, J. W. Garrison anu R. T. Cook have been elected Ooaru oA directors.
 Fort smith has passed an ordinance prohibiting the smoking of clS upon the streets by minors. Init " long stride in the right direction sn~ should be supplemented by another preyeuting the chewing of gum by per sons of any age, under penalty of ar immediate '.jawihg' by the city re- corder.
 Saturday F. T. Yonley filed suit against the Little Rock. Mississippi River & Texas Railroad Company TOT sl. POO damages. Yonley runs saw mill at woodson and sparks from an engine set fire to bridge on the plain tih's land.
 A meeting or the Democratic State Central Committee has been called to meet at Little Rock March IA. The time and place of holding the State Convention will be fixed and arrange ments made for selecting delegates to the National Democratic Convention.
 The growth of Fort Smith during the past year was not only phenomenal but was substantial in every respect, and was of q more permanent character than ever before known in it's history. The present year opens up with pros poets. which. if realized, will mark one of the most wonderful epochs in the history of any city in the Southwest,
 Rachel Sanders and Annie Williams, mulatto girls, were shot and fatally in- iured at a late hour Saturday night by Samuel Patton. The affray took place at the corner of Spring and Fifth streets Little Rock The Sanders woman Is shot through the hips, and her compan- ion in the right breast. The murderer has not yet been captured.
 Jim Burrows, brought to Texarkana charged as one of the parties who held up the nOrth-bound passenger and ex- press train on the St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas Railway on the night of December Q, at Genoa, Ark, will be taken before Justice John Flynn to- morrow for examination. A number of witnesses have been summoned and are here.
 |. The trial of Dr. John Driver,.a we'll known citizen of Pulaski county, com meneed in the Faulkner circuit court al Conway, Monday, is attracting more than ordinary attention. The best legal talent in the state is conducting the defense and prosecution. Driver ii indicted as accessory to the murder o | Squire John C. Flake.
 The farmers. who raise vegetables fol the cannery at Springdsle realize from l $40 to $50 per acre for tomatoes, car | be raised and saved with the samt labor requir d for an acre of corn Land that will produce twenty-five bushels of corn per acre will pay th' producer 22 per acre, whereas, if thii
 corn was allowed to ripen and market ed at 30 cents per bushel, it would bring only S7.50 per acre. Peas vii average from S20 to $35 per acre. United States Marshal Fletcher re ceived Thursday morning from Presi dent Cleveland pardon for W. J
 sherrill, recently Postmaster at Rus
 sellyille. Sherrfll was triel and con
 victed Of embedding Government fund
 and sentenced 10 Imprisonment. Con | gressmRn Breckenridge interested him
 self in his favor, and Judge Sam W Williams took an active part. Post
 master-Ge aersl Villas opposed th,
 granting Of the pardon; but was downet
 by MT. Breckenridge. Sherrill was
 leading citizen of Russellville, an,
 nearly every resident signed the peti
 ton for his release.
 The most sensational murder tris
 fin the Southwest, has just ended in tn | Circuit Cou t here, the jury returnini
 verdict of guilty against Andrew Hudgspcth. charged with the murde
 of George Watkins. The case consum
 ed over two weeks time, there beinI | nearly one hundred witnesses. Tn defense relied largely on the fact tha l che body of Watkins had not bee
 found to secure acquittal. Watkin | lived near Gellville, He employee Hudgspeth. Mrs. Watkins became in
 fatuated with the latter, and laid pla
 to kill her husband. Watkins wa
 slain and his body concealed. His dis
 appearance caused the arrest of bot
 his wife and Hudgspeth. The wifi confessed the crime and V as used as
 witness against the accused. The evi dence disclosed moral turpitude be yond parallel. Hudgspeth will be hun | at Harrison. Tine date of the execu | ton has not been fixed.
 A fatal fight occurred near Red Alec
 Post-ofice Wednesday night. An
 thony Fletcher and Miss Sue Beck wer
 to be married and a large number ha
 assembled at the brides house to vii
 ness the ceremony. When the preache
 was beginning the ceremony a ma named Degafreed, whom Miss Beck re
 gently rejected, fired at the groom
 wounding him slightly. Cumming
 the groomsman. attempted to seiz
 Degafreed, when brother of the latte
 shot him through the wrist. The con | many fled in all directions. many oscar