The Russellville Democrat., 1888-08-16
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.

| cern was burned up. The Dufiulng Do- l longed to the Little Rock Furniture Conn | pany and was valued at $500, fully in sured. The material and goods burned were worth S12,000 insured for Sf0oo. | The machinery was worth $ 00o; no in- surance. Every thing is a total wreck | A suspicious stranger glutted Lonoke | with counterfeit silver 2 few days ago. l P. N Goetz, of Randolph SSoss::ty, was recently fined S2oG lna sent to jail for thirty days for illegally selling liquor. I A gar fish six feet and two inches long, weighing 15) pounds, was caught at Jud- sonia recently.
 A new cotton compress and an elegant new hotel are being erected at Arkansas City
 In spite of politics Arkansas continues | to improve. The fact is Arkansas can not be kept down.
 Near Little Rock, few days ago, Eli | jah Wayne and c. NJ Duncan, farmers, quarreled about the hogs of one getting | into field belonging to the other. They | fought and both are believed to be fatal- I ly injured.
 | Miss K. Dalton, of Randolph County, a handsome and popular girl, committed suicide recently by taking q dose of ar senic. She left letter behind giving the reason for the act which her family re- l fuses to divulge.
 | The Governor has appointed William l Vance, Jr., circuit clerk of Crittenden | County, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of David Ferguson. | The post-office at Joplin, Montgomery | County, has been discontinued, and mail ordered to Silver City.
 l Arkansas fruits and vegetables bring 1.otf ..rtn fr, T xt,fu atad yO than any other Southern goods. Mrs. Amanda J. Beadler, the divorced wife of Hon. H. NJ. Beadler, ex-mayor of l Texarkana, but now of Battle Creek, | Mich, died at her residence, in Tex arkana, few nights ago, of congestion | of the brain. Aa s
 Remember the exposition at St Louis and uphold the pride of the State. Ar kansas can't be beaten for fruit and grain. 1 Send in that big stalk of corn, that peach, pear, plum, apple, apricot, that sheaf of oats, wheat millet and the various | grasses. a4
 Governor Hughes recently pardoned Norman J. Pruett, Q sixtten-y year old 1 boy, who was sent to the penitentiary 1 from Sebastian County last December for term of two years for perjury. The boy's mother went to Little Rock from her home in Sebastian County, bearing with her strong petitions for her sons | pardon and the boy's conduct, age and all l being taken into consideration, the par don was granted.
 l Sheriff John c. Warfielc of Desha County recently lodged six convicts in i the penitentiary for the following terms ] and offenses James Williams, assault i with intent to kill, one year; Thomas White, grand larceny, one year: Jake 1 Richards, murder, twenty-one years; | William Brazee, blipglary, three years; Monroe Christy, grand larceny, one year; l Bob Stine, grand larceny, one year. l The Board of State Railroad Commis- | sioners held session in Little Rock . 1 few days ago, at which the St. Louis & i San Francisco railroad was returned as 1 being worth S2, 900 per mile. The com- | missioners assessed it $S 800. The St. 1 Louis, Arkansas & Texas road was re- 1 turned at Si, $50 per mile for the main ] line and branches. It was assessed at 1 S7,o00 per mile on the main line and $i, 900 | per mile on the branches.
 Articles of incorporation of the Augusta | & Southwestern railroad have been filed with the Secretary of State. It is to run l from Howell on the Batesville & Brink 1 ley road fo Augusta, a distance of sixteen miles, It is to be built at once by the | Batesville & Brinkley Railroad Company
 in time to handle the present crop, and wlll be operated in connection with that road.
 A terrible accident occurred recently four miles southwest of Ayoca, in Madi- son County. A man named sam F. Will = | jams was waking along the road, accom- panied by his wife and his six-year- old -. Il lie e.,.Al la,t ttr ar,1 l without warning dead tree fell oyer to- | ward him, striking him on the top of the head, crushing his skull and breaking his neck The child was also buried under the fallen tree, and when taken ont was crushed into an almost indistinguishable 1 mass. a
 A disastrous wreck occurred on the Iron Mountain railroad, near Little Rock, 1 few days ago. While a train consist ing of four cars and an engine was back ing, it struck COW, derailing the whole | train and killing Conductor John Keeby, of Little Rock, and seriously if not fatal ly injuring Engineer c. r. Reynolds and Brakeman J. T. Roache. also of Little Rock The fireman saved himself by jumping. Keeby had recently married. Passenger traffic was delayed from eight to ten hours
 John Peters, a barkeeper at the St Louis House, at Little Rock, dropped dead, a few evenings since from apoplexy. He had been living in the city for about five years, was uuma ried and quiet and peaceable citizen. The deceased had not been well for 8 few days and had been taking medicine, but was not i'll
 enough to quit work. Peters, father and
 mother live in Germany and are evidently
 40, ha. Ia ,,t romittances of good sums of money to
 their son.
 Three deaths occurred in Fayetteville, recently, within twenty four. hours. The
 first was that of George, young son of ex-United States Senator J. c. Walker,
 who had been i'll for some months. The
 second was that of Miss Ella Atkins, of
 Hamburg, visiting her married sister in
 Fayetteville, and who had been sick with fever for about three weeks. The third
 was Mr. w. z Mayes, who was suddenly
 prostrated by the heat He lived two
 miles south of the city, on fine farm.
 He moved from Tennessee when a young
 man, and had lived in the county ever since. He was a carpenter by trade, and
 had a contract on the University building.
 Of late years hs has been engaged in
 farming.
 The open bolls are appearing.
 The development of the Fletcher Man
 ganese range near Little Rock has begu1
 in earnest. Work on the erection of fur
 naces to cost S50,000 has been commenced,
 and they are 10 be completed within sixty
 days. This plant is to bo operated by the
 Bessemer Manganese aud Manufacturing
 Company, in which St. Louis Is heavily
 represented
 The Blair Manganese Company of In-
 dependence County has secured good
 property and will begin mining opera
 tions soon.
 Much needed rains have fallen in DOT
 tions of the State recently. genera
 rain is still anxiously desired.
 A coanty singing convention was re-
 gently held in Randolph
 MT. E. T. waltman, fror Lydia, Rec
 River country, says that some men digging
 the foundation for brick-kiln in Shaw. ] .I f..