The Forrest City times., 1888-02-18
ABOUT ARKANSAS.

ne streets ID nOt oPIAnSs alS lighted by electricity.
 The population Of Antimony City l growing at a rapid pace. Ozark is trying 10 start a Cumber berland Presby terlan female seminary An OK team and log wagon sold unfer execution in Baekner tue othe' day for sIl.50.
 S. T. Echols, a scwing-machint agent, was killed near Monticello, by some unknown person.
 R. P. Wright Of Little Rock, was ar rested at Nashville, Tenn, Wednesday for having too many wives. The Fort Smith oil mill has made e25,0OO gallors Of oil and 5000 tons of meal since September l.
 The Hon. ". NJ. Fishback is said to have an eye upon the nomination for governor.
 A telephone line connecting Centre ] Point and Lockesburg is to be com. pleted by February 9.
 The return of mild weather ha' brought great activity iu the building industries in Eureka Springs. River bottom -eot ton planters in Jeff er.on county will this year need about l50,0e0 bushels of corr more tLan they raised the past season.
 The city of Fort Smith claims thai it's schools are more liberally provided for than those Of any other school dis. trict In the South.
 The Electric Light company at Fay 1 ette.viiie, organized with S3jG, ,a0l cap i ital stock. want to contract with the city council 10 hght the streets foi ninety-nine years.
 Geo. C. Leman, the wealthy pension agent in Washington, has purchased 8 | half interest in the Big Iron bath house at Hot Spr ngs andis negotiating for an 1 interest in the Old Hole.
 i As an evidence that the farmers have i begun work in earnest TOT the new ! crop. the hardware merchants are sell i ing quite a number Of implements with which to till the fertile Arkansas soil.
 The fruit crop Of al kinds is pro l nounced safe so far by those who have i been observing. An abundant yield | apples and peaches is much to be de sired by all in Carroll County thii i year.
 The man or company of men wht will take hold of and vitalize the idle machinery Of the Quapaw cotton Il i'll | will do title Rock a service. the like | Of which she much needs. The citf wants industrial enterprise. an surely there is no better site for them nor more propitious time for their estab lishment.
 Dr. K. P. Wright, of Little Roe formerly city editor Of the Democrat. was brought tnere and placed in jail Thursday to answer charges of big amy. Two rewards had been oferea for his arrest. Albert Mabry wa. Thursday srnten ced to five years in the penitentiary for the killing Of Thomas Middleton. at A spelling match in D church at Newton, Faulkner County.
 The farmers who raise vegetables fo the cannrry at Springdale realize from S4) to $50 per acre for tomatoes, can be raised and saved with the sane labor requir q for an acre of com. Land that will produce twenty-five bushels of corn per acre will T. ay the producer 22 I CT acre, whereas, if this | corn was allowed to ripen and n arket- ed at 31 cents per bushel, 1t would bring only S7.50 per acre Peas will average from S20 to $35 per acre.
 Detectives arrived Tuesday morning from Pine Buf 10 confer with the au- thorities at Little Rock regarding a thousand dol ar bill reeentl' stolen b. a negro from woman Of the town, who came here from Alabama. 1t ap- pears the negro eave the bill to white
 man, who instigated the woman to offer a reward of $500, which he claimed and received. Several promi- nent persons are imp icared. Tn mat ter will probably find it's way into the 1 courts.
 Real estate is at least 25 per cent higher at Eureka right now than It was last year during the Springs best and most prosperous season. Besides 1 there are at least fifty new houses complete in course of construction, some of tn m quite costly, and al good, substantial buildings and m in- mum rable number of buildings being repaired and made the same as new. There is but little property really o1 1 the market, and what is, is held at rate that's constantly advancing.
 It is said there are four old people ir Montgomery county, living in space Of three miles, ranging in age as fol- l lows; One is 7S, the second is 02. tn | third 06, and the fourth l0i Three Of | this number are men and the fourtl one is lady. They have been Twin, in that neighborhood for over ff'' years, and are still in robust healuh. appar ently. It is said also that ther, are ten more living within less than tel miles of each other. wno are over 1t years of age, all ot whom are enjoying | good health.
 Seven Indian Territory murderers were sentenced by Judge Parker. it the United states Court Thursday. [, be hanged on Frid,y, April 27. Owrr p. Hill, negro, for the murder of his wife in July, 1887; Jacks Crow, negru. or the murder Of Charles B. Wil.on, ] Choctaw, in the Choctaw Nation in 1885; George Mos. negro. for the mur. der Of George Taft in Red Riyer County, Choctsw Nation, in september, ls>7 Jefferson Hildebrand. Cherokee, for tine