The Forrest City times., 1888-05-19
ABOUT ARKANSAS

@ln HAaa-4~ ~aFAA @- - - sp~nr Sunisy in Pine BuG Tn. eornerztooe Of new Netho5tst church has been lad al Dallas
 One Evans sks0. a man zt Pis-cs Greek FSUIxnsr eoznfy. saturday.
 The seockrnen and the rznx--z e. Boone oO1nty are having truuble-
 The Rogers Repzblsezn is a new sd- sItson to Benton c0unty 5gzrnzlisz1-
 Dr. NJ Mcclure wiu soon coustTuc- fire roIler-procsss fOar1nz nil al BstesyiIle.
 Two carloads of mining nn3chinery have z-rised a; Nsns6eld, Mo1tzorn- sTy county.
 An effort is being made to establish telephone line between Dallas and Wzidron-
 Mr. J. NJ Wharton hzs retired from she editorial management of the To ied0 Imni grant
 4 rich discovery os ooal has been made in Polk county and the mine is to be developed at once
 Song service a. Wooster. Faulkner county, sunday brought 5s0 people and fourteen candidates together.
 Rev. Dr. Graves, the celebrated Bap- tist divine, began series of sermons at Dsrdaneile on the lIth-
 An eiSht-inch snake w4s removed from the stomach of visitor from Louisiana at Hot Sprinzs the other day.
 A Jackson county farmer E holding ffty-ssyen tales of cotton for better prices. He does not wear z mortgage.
 Mfr. W. \. Butler has retired from the Prairie Grove. Washington county Banner. leaving Mr. H. M. Butler in sole charge.
 The Harrison Times has closed its twelfth volume. It is a prosperous paper and has won popularity because If deserves if.
 Conductor NJ. l. Dyer of the Cotton Belt was taken violently i'll with bilious colic on the north bound train Sunday and was put of al BFinkIey. where he died Monday. The remains were sent to Cairo
 In suit brought at RusseIlviIle the circuit court has ordered the return te the treasury Of the money appTopri- sted by the council to aid the eonstrSIe- ton of the new courthouse.
 Some s50. coo of Jefferson county script was absorbed in the recent tax-paying Jefferson will soon reach a curTency financial basis
 The meeting of the association al Texarksna last week was attended by I0e members of the state press, includ- ing twenty-one ladies'
 4 negro named Garfield of Rison punished his son 30 severely few days ago for failing to perform required amount of labor that the boy never re covered and lived only about two days.
 The negro at Buckner who had his head crushed in al GoOeh's mill last Tuesday is still living. IL is said the brains have been oozing through the gashes-
 The Sheriff came in Thursday witL Benjamin Partridge, who killed Frank Price with an ax on Tuesday afternoon at CIarkyille. Price had been unduIy attentive to Mrs Partridge and hei husband ordered him from the ho1se He refused to go, and wanted to fight bis way in
 At the second trial of Burrah Oden- wood at Fort Smith, for the murder of bis brother-in-law, the jury brought in B verdict of not guilty. He was re manded to jail, however, 10 answer another charge of murder near Lebanon, Chickasaw Nation.
 Perry Galloway. of Little Rock, who slew his half-brother, George Harris, Wednesday, was captured Wednesday night and jailed. He is claimed to be insane.
 Frank Platt, painter, at Helena fell from the caves of house Monday morning, distance of twenty-five feet and miraculously escaped without serious injury. He fell on his face, crushing it terribly, but is now able to continue his work.
 John Burke shot and fatally wounded a man named Cecil or Bayou Mason. Burke is one-armed man. He gave himself up, claiming self-defense. IL appears that the shooting was the out growth of a feud dating back some years
 Thursday, in Spring Township, lief ferson county, Pink Caldwell, an H. year-old boy, was out hunting with R. J. Jarrett, and they were promiscuous- ly shooting at flying squirrels from either side of tree. The boy, in the confusion of firing, epeatedly fell over log. and the contents of his gun passed through the body of Jarrett, killing him instantly. Jarrett leaves a widow and several children.
 Adyices from CIarksvile Saturday night in regard 10 the investigation of th Coal Hill c0nyitt outrages at Little Rock, are that Judge Cunningham, in instructing the Grand Jury, stated that  if half the reports about Coal Hill out rages prove true, somebody ought 10 be hung, but before an indictment can he found against any man, there must be evidence corroboratiye of that given by an accomplice. As to the stolen testi. mony, it was found not to cut much of figure, as one of the attorneys had copy of it, and it was all before the Grand Jury.
 A mob Thursday tried to lynch George Crisp, at Clarkville who was brought there for trial on a charge of eriminally assaulting the little daughter of W. P. Huddleston near Coal IIill. He was removed to Ozark on night train