The Forrest City times., 1888-08-25
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.

The federal court at Fort Smith paid out so00o to 200 witnesses last week.
 Fort Smith is receiving material for . new electric light plant
 The Clarendon save factory will be finished and ready for operation about September ls.
 The telephone line between Fort Smith and Hackett has been com pleted.
 Hot politics is developing quite . number of pugilistic encounters at Hot Springs
 Harrison Times: Horse-racing till you can't rest. The town seems to be fun of sports.
 The Huntington Hummer, Sebastian county, has suspended and the office material is for sale.
 The score of negroes living about Harrison celebrated their emancipa- ton last week in grand style. County Treasurer Gitson of Harri- con was stricken with apoplexy few days since, but is improving. ? The oil drill at BIansett, Scott county, is making about thirty feet day with good prospects of finding oil. A small boy attempted to burn the eesidence of Mrs. Sinclair at Waldron Monday afternoon, but the fire went cut.
 A bull snake nearly nine feet long is sa exhibition at Harrison. It is a harmless snake and the deadly enemy of tho vcnomous sort
 A coiored boy by the name of Link. a2 years of age, was drowned in well It Poplar Grove, Phillips county, Sat urdsy night
 Joe Phelps of Fl Paso lost his little i0-year-old daughter last Thursday morning through misiak of dose of morphine instead of quinine.
 Jonesboro Times: Several fine milch cows have died recently in the town some say from Texas fever, while others think it blocdy murrain.
 WAdYon Reporter: The te'ephone liDe to Dallas from this place is a cer- tatnty. Contracts nave been let and material purchased.
 Sam Williams and his 7-year-old girl were killed by falling tree in Wash lngton county Sunday while walking along the road with other members O. tho family.
 J. A. Porter, the man arrested keDe and taken to Missouri on charge of bigamy," says the Harrison Times, committed suicide in jail last Sunday by taking arsenic.r
 4rs. L. Davenport of Georges Creek, Marion county, p:eced a quilt of thirty stars of twenty-nine pieces each in four days, besides attending to her household work.
 Fred. Conway of Faulkner county, in the attempt to arrest whom two depu- ties sheriff were seriou ly wounded not sbng since, has been adjudgei Insane and sent to the asylum.
 Hon. Samuel l.. Black of Monroe county, recently a candidate for the democratic nomination for secretary of state, was married to Mrs. Fannie Hargis at Indian Bay last week. Norrillton Headlight: Tom Silvers, . eolored Joy about F years old, be cafne 2 raving maniac few days since and is now confined in the county jail. He is so violent that he tears his clothing of himself and destroyse thing possible. Both his parents are In the asylum.
 About thirty teachers attended the District Normal Institute at Batesville last week.
 Camden Beacon: The branch rail- road of the Qua .hita Coal company, from Lester on the Gurdon branch to the coal mines, is moving right along and will soon be completed.
 The Fort Smith Journal says the federal grand jury had returned fifty Indictments last week and they are only one-fourth through. In these fifty cases there are seventy-three de- fendants.
 Some of the philanthropic citizens of Caribll county have proffered S20,000 in county warrants as gift in order that the county debt may be liqui dated.
 John W. Doughty, clerk of the steamer Rob Roy, was run over and killsd in Memphis. Tenn, Monday by . transfer | ain on the Kansas City track. He lived in Lonoke, Ark. >The Levee Commissioners and the County Court at Hannibal have been requested to make special assessment of s100, coo for the repair of the Shy Levee.