The Forrest City times., 1888-02-25
ABOUT ARKANSAS.

The contract has been let for the necessary buildings for the Cane Hill, " ashington county, canning factory
 Farmers are predicting a good crop year on account of the length of time the frozen ground has been covered with snow.
 NIT. Charles withers of Tennessee, aged G6, and Mrs. Ann Leister oi Arkansas, aged 72, brother and sister, met al Bingen the other day for the first time in sixty-one years. Each thought the other dead.
 The farmers who raise vegetab les fc the cannery at springdale realize from f40 to $50 per acre for tomatoes, can be raised and saved with the same abor required for an acre of corn. Land that will produce twenty-five bushels of corn per acre will pay the producer 29 rer acre, whereas, if this corn was allowed to ripen and market ed at 8 cents per bushel, it would bring only S7.50 per acre. Peas will average from SEQ to s35 per acre.
 Batesville stone quarrles are on a boom. The work is plentiful and fair prospect ofan increase as soon as spring opens. Mr. Frank Jobin has quite force of hands at work getting out curbing for the city of Little Rock, and Messrs. Hall and Bartlett each have large forces quarrying stone for their respective buildings. A large amount of this sort Of work is predicted in the near future.
 Rows at the colord Methodist church at Camden are becoming quite frequent ofiate, in fact too frequent. The last was a personal encounter between w.. L. Sanders and Hannibal Arlington, both prominent among the colored people there The matter was brought into Justice Morgan's court last week, and Mir. Sanders was fined $50 for carrying pistol and S5 and costs for making an assault on Mir. Arlington
 The assassination or s. I. Echols, q
 
 near Hamburg, a few days ago, caused uch general investigation among the citizens in the neighborhood as to bring to light Wednesday the guilty parties. They are said to be Jno. Mall Joy, Jim Copeland and Robt. Coney. Copeland gave the whole thing away, and the other two afterwards confessed to the commission of the deed. Their object was to kill one Ed Duckworth, an obnoxious character, and as Echols approached the ambush where they were concealed they mIstook him for Duckworth and fired with Winehes- ter and doubled barrelle shotgun. kill ing him instantly. Copeland has turned state's evidence and says he did not shoot. A special term of court Is be- ing summoned to try the parties. imme- diately.
 Bentonvllle and Benton County are already beginning to feel the effects of the late State Immigration Convention. Newcomers from Iowa. Illinois and Kansas are arriving a.nost daily in search offutnre homes, and all go away well pleased with what they sec and helr. Many will return and become permanent settlers. Kansas parties on Wednesday elening made a proposi- tion to the City Council for franchise to erect water works there. They want the city to take thirty-tive hydrants al an annual rental Of S3,0O0, the fran chise 10 run fifty years. Every tax payer in the city is in favor oJ the pro- feet provided it can be brought W thin 1 the city's means. But 1t is feared the company is asking too mueh-more than i he ability of the city will warranti The State Constitution limits the total tax levy for all purposes to mills, an d it is this which, more than anything else. retards the growth and progress 1 of Arkansas cities. It does not so dl- rectlv affect the rural communities, ex- but every cty in the State feels the weight of the incubus. II is for this reason that the country politicians are opposing the framing Of new eonstiu- ton, while those in the cities and towns are favorable to it. Arkansas has again won in the fruit contest at Riverside, Cal. The fruit which wins all of tn ese premiums comes almost entirely from this section. It cannot be surpassed anywhere.