The Forrest City times., 1888-06-30
ABOUT ARKANSAS.'

The state Wheel meets in Little Rock 9n Wednesday, July 9. 1 Some rich ore are being taken from the mines tt Antimony City.
 wool-carding machirsry has been at- tached to the Mcclure mill at Bates vile.
 The work of construction has begun in earnest on the Helena street railway.
 Pine Bluffs getting ready to celebrate the ever Glorious Fourth in flaming style.
 Thorou.h investigations are being made in Washington county by pros pectors for oil.
 Batesville has a population of 2725, being an increase of over 70 per cent since 1880.
 The colored State Teachers associa- ton is in session at Helena, with fair attendance.
 The construction of the colored col lege building at Batesville will soon begin.
 Five miles of iron have been laid on the Paragould and Buffalo Island rail road.
 There have been moIc deaths in Johnson county within the last two weeks, says the Herald-)ournal, than ever known before in the same length of time.
 Missouri capitalists were prospecting at Clarksville last week with view to establishing a bank.
 There is talk of organizing military I company at Malvern.
 MT. A. II. Dell of Washington county has maidstone" for which he recently refused s1,000. When applied to the flesh it creates a slight electric shock.
 The little village of Avoca, Benton county, shipped 2l ,420 gallons of straw berries last month, which netted the producers sS,7l0.S0, being about $50 an acre.
 The four mines near Huntington, Sebastian county, when worked with full forces, yield 100 cars of coal day, and orders are now in for more coal than the company can get out.
 A slick thief had the audacity to steal the constable's horse in broad daylight while hitched in front of the postofiice in Fort Smith Saturday And he was also shrewd enough to escape.
 A white crow was captured Satur day in 1zard county.
 MT. A. NJ. Cleaver of Sevier county has been offered Sl2,C00 for his patent on an animal trap. ' With the enterprise now being fin ished Hot Springs will have two com, plete works within two weeks and be completed by January l.
 A. Phillips county constable led a prisoner to Helena the other day with a chain around his neck to insure safe delivery.
 Some excitement prevails in Marion ! county over the discovery of what is believed to be gold A thorough h. vestigaton is being made.
 A little child of Mr D. McC0wn of Seviel county was bitten by mad dog a few d. ago. he dog died within a few n S afterwards.
 Mir. V. Somers of Pine Bluff, aged 75 made last year 200 bushels of corn and four bales of cotton on a total extra labor expense of Sl.50.
 The capacity of the Emma oil mills i at Pine Bluff is to be increased from forty-hve to 100 tons a day and the i'm. provements will cost about s35, GOO.
 Officers headquarters are at once tc i be added to the army and navy hos pital at Hot Springs, and the grounds are being beautifully improved.
 The canning factory at Prairie Grove. Washington county, put up 1c0o cans | of peas last Friday, its first days run. 1 Certainly this was food start.
 Capt. c. E. Dixon of Texarkana has 1 patented some valuable medicines and l will soon go on the road with an ele- 1 gant outfit, band wagon, etc, to sell | them.
 The new bank at Bentonville was i oT ened last week with S50,000 capital.
 An additional car is required at Fort Smith for the shipment of fruit. i The western district press associa- 1 ton will meet at Clarksville Thursday, Rev Harry May, the revivalist, is preaching to good congregations at Alma.
 The mines of Boone county are being worked with most nattering results.
 Preparations for laying the street railway track at Fayetteville are in progress.
 Quite a large number of Masonic picnics will be held throughout the state on the 2Sd. | Alma wants Crawford county divided into two districts and courthouse To- oated there.
 c. A. c. Barnhill, who killed John Love at Eureka Springs on June 9th, ] 1887, has just been captured and re- turned from Colorado.
 But four or five jugs of liquor have bcen shipped 10 Warren in the last five weeks. Prohibition prohibits there.
 Mir. J. F. James has become sole pro prietor of the Little River Pilot, pub. lished at Richmond. Mir. Evans Ietir. ing.
 A gentleman proposes to establish a wagon factory at Conway if the citiz. ems will furnish onehalf the capital.
 The foundation for vinegar factory is being lad at Bentonville.
 The Presbyterian colored mission school at Fort Smith opened last Sep tember with twenty-five pupils, and has just closed with over 200.
 The telephone company at Harrison raised the monthly rental from s2 to s,