The Forrest City times., 1888-01-21
ABOUT ARKANSAS.

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 Several horses and mules have died of fgianders at Fl Dorado. The disease don't seen to be spreading much. A broken rail on the Arkansas Mid land Railroad, at helena, derailed the train, injuring three passengers.
 The recent severe weather Is quite q drawback to Benton farmers. many of whom had commenced blowing.
 1 The iron mines eas< of Benton will be worked, and machinery will soon be placed on the ground.
 Evins Leslie, of Leslie, the young man who shot himself a few days before Christmas, is thought to be improving, although the doctors think he is not yet out of danger.
 William Walker is charged with tn murder of Calvin Church, near Durant, c. N., last month. When first ar- rested he claimed he had been hired to do it. but now says he don't know any thing about it, and never killed any body.
 Tom Thompson, the killer of Dr. Hines, has been captured by Mute i Elover, of Fl Dorado. He submitted | willingly on condition that he would not be mobbed. He says he don't fear the law. The feeling is not near so bitter against him.
 There is an effort being made to es- tablish wool factory at Monticello. i Several of the prominent citizens have i subscribed liberally and the projectors of the enterprise are very sanguine of occurring the amount, 2l0,ooo, needed to ] put it in operation.
 Corn is selling at ffty-cents in Clark County, with thousands of bushels for sale. Country pork is selling at five cents with plenty for sale to do the country fo, the present year and sev- eral home grown mules are selling at fancy prices.
 Advices from Berryville say that other arrests will be made in the Car Follton stage robbery case. Proof against Tibbetts, who charged that R. Q. Jones of Berryville was the robber, hnd who was himself arrested and troned after Jones's acquittal, multi- plies. It is alleged that five persons i hre implicated.
 The iron, tie and grading contracts Tor two miles of the track Of the Little Rock City Electric Railway Company 1 was awarded Saturday. It is reported that one mile is to bc constructed with 1 in the next thirty days, and that two miles will be in operation within sixty Hays. The company has not yet de- 1 tided as to its rolling stock further than outside of the city limits. The regula- ton dummy engines will be used.
 Tho greatest blizzard of the age struck Pine Bluff Sunday night. when the change was from sprlng-like show CTS to terrific thunder, vivid flashes of lightning, then sleet, snow and all the l symptoms of genuine blizzard. The temperature dropped at the rate of 20 to 20 degrees per hour, until hard ice was formed. Much suffering exists among the poor. as in many cases fuel | Is almost out of their reach.
 The usual quiet of Buckvllle was changed for considerable excitement last Sunday morning, when ten or i twelve big negro men, heavily armed, came marching down the main street. | It was soon learned that one of the number was under arrest for one of the most henious crimes with which man can be charged, that of having accom- 1 plished the ruin of his daughter. The crime was committed near Thornton's mill.
 A report reached Warren Friday morning of the killing Of two negroes the night before. It seems the trouble grew out of a settlement between a ] negro and a white man by the name of 1 German. At the settlement tho negro 1 was indebted to German and there were some hard words. The negro, accompanied by several others, visited 1 Gorman's house twice, when rumor says a squad went to the negro's house and in the difficulty that fol lowed one negro was killed and an other mortally wounded, and one re. port says a white man dangerously cut with knife.
 Coroner Galloway, of Philadelphia, was summoned Saturday to Smithton, to hold an inquest on the body of s. D. Martin. who had been shot and killed by Nathan Woods. There was bad ] h1fx ha fUn hananaa Martin thought his pretty wife was very much attached to Woods. The two men met in boarding house Sat urday morning. Woods secured rifle and shot Martin dead while he was eating breakfast. The murderer es- capped to the woods, and has not yet been captured, although the Sherifl and big posse are searching for him. There is strong talk of lynching.
 I Adolph Parker and Mamie Mallory were married in Little Rock Friday, by Justice Addls. The bridegroom sev. eral years since, when a mere lad, was . member of gang of train robbers and was an active participant in the robbery of the passenger train on the Little Rock, Mississippi and Texas R. R., near Little Rock. He had no re- volver at the time, and simply pointed small piece If wood at the passen' gers, commanding them to hold up their hands. He was captured with the other members of the gang. served several years In the Penitentiary, and was pardoned finally because of his youth. He is now a quiet, hard-work- ing citizen, and doing we'll
 Mir Logan J. Hunt, a prominent druggist of Hot Springs, is confined to his room In the Hotel Hay. raying maniac. He went to Camden, this State,