The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1888-10-25
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.

ant Is sixty years old, and is unable to
pay the fine. He has served In jail since
March, 1885, and the remission was recon- :
mended by the prosecuting attorney and
many other good citizens.
Considerable excitement is expresse
in Poinsett County over the indictment
recently found by the grand jury against
Joseph Greenwood charging him with
the murder of john Bell. The ARRAY took
place December 20, 1886, when John Bell,
a timberman, got into n fight near He'd
rick in Cross County. with Greenwood.
Greenwood at the time claimed to have
shot Bell in self defense, and at the ex-
amining trial was released. Naturally,
under the circumstances, the case attracts
unusual interest.
j. N. Cline, who was sentenced TO the
penitentiary for five years last August in
the Carroll County Circuit Court was re-
Gently liberated by full and free pardon
from the Governor, which was asked by
the jury that tried him, the prosecuting
attorney, the sheriff, ex-sheriff clerk and
Judge of the County Court of Carroll
County, and n large number of citi-
zens. The crime for which the pris-
oner was convicted and sentenced
was murder. The Governor in recit-
ing the cause of his sentence. says;
"About seventeen years ago, in Carroll
County, J. y. Cline being greatly pro-
voked by insults offered, and indecent
proposals made to his wife, with whom
the deceased had attempted to take undue
liberties. shot and killed one Clinken-
brand, who at the time he was shot had
his pistol in his hand and would have
killed the husband of the woman he had
attempted to injure, had he not fallen
firstp
In the ruins of the recent Little Rock
fire there were found, afew days since,
the remains of w. IL. Jones, who had
mys, ,teriously disappeared at the time of
the fire. ~
Thea Governor has pardoned Stewart
Dixon, conyic ted at the last term of the
Dallas Circuit Court OF grand larceny
and-sentenced to ona. yearsa imprison-
ment -
The Governor has ordsrsa special
election to be held in Boone to~aship,
Columbia County, November g. for one
justice OF the peace, in consequences of
the death of w. d. Baily, justice-elect.
The University foot ball team chal :
lenge any team in the State, whose mem
bers are under the age of twenty one, to
game or series of games of foot ball, to
be played at Little Rock, with a Rugby
ball, and under Intercollegiate Associa-
ton rules. g ~
In the election contest for sheriff of
Pulaski County q judgment was rendered
for j. 7. O'Hair, Republican, but the
Democratic sheriff -elect Anderson Mills,
has taken an appeal, filed a .supersedeas
bond and secured his commission and
will qualify on the 30th instant
Two accidental shootings are reported
from Izard County, both by pistols, that
'swere not loaded" Lee Jeffrey was shot
in the chin by Albert Jeffrey, and Mrs.
Leander Hearn shot her fourteen year.
old cousin, George Greer in the neck, in
ficting a. dangerous wound.
A vary sad accident occurred near
Fayetteville, few nights ago. Mrs.
Charles b. Paddock was returning homo
in carriage from visit to Prairie
Grove, west of the city, when the carriage
struck a stone in the road, the woman and
her one-year- old baby girl being thrown
out and the carriage wheels running over
the baby's head, killing it Instantly. The
mother was quite severely injured,
although no bones we're broken.
The lumber and saw mill men of the
State are almost unanimous in reporting
a greater shortage OF cars for the trans
portation of their products than ever be-
fore since they have been in the business.
The recent complaint does not seem to
have availed them, and special NEE ting
of the Arkansas State Lumbermen's As
sociation was called to discuss the mat
ter.
There has not been for years such an
revival held in Fayetteville,
or one evoking such enthusiasm, as the
one in progress at the Baptist Church In
that city. 1t has been going on for over
four weeks and, instead of decreasing, is
increasing in interest with each
succeeding meeting. Services are held
twice each day, both afternoon end even
ing, and the church can not hold the peo-
pie. While but SHALL number have as
yet been added to the church, the profess
sions of faith have been quite large.
Major S. H. Nowlin, State Statistioian
of the United States Agricultural Depart
ment at Washington for Arkansas, has
instructions to collect full line
of cereals and grasses, habitat Of the
State, for exhibition at the Paris (France)
worlds exhibition, 1889. Fair presidents,
secretaries and pers ons interested will
forward the welfare of the State by send
ing in choice samples to the Majors ad-
dress, Little Rock. This is matter of
deep concern to every WELL wisher Of the
States prosperity, and 1t Is hoped 1t will
be acted on promptly. The attention OF
local immigration boards is earnestly
called to this matter.
Several months ago the penitentiary
lessees took contract to build a cut o fl
to the town branch running through Lit
tie Rock to the Arkansas river for s., 600,
The cut of measures four squares in
length and six feet in diameter. and was
built with State convict labor. The work
was completed some time ago but before
its acceptance by the city, the city engi-
neer was instructed to make re-
port on the work, which he
did, and 1t was recently sub
mitted to the Board OF Public Affairs.
The report is an exposition OF the inferior
work In the construction of the sewer,
and the engineer recommends its rejeo-
ton by the city. 1t was a big undertak-
ing, and in the beginning Captain ]. H.
Miller, one OF the penitentiary lessees,
offered large sum TO any contractor who
would take the contract on his hands. He
could not get taker at any price, and
the work was commenced, the convicts
doing all the excayating. brick laying,
etc., and now it transpires that the work
will not be accepted in its present shape.
Little Rock wants a clearing house.
The general impression is that G. c.
Dean, Major John ID. Adams private sec
retary, who left Little Rock recently sew
sral hundred dollars short in his sc-
had been on a protracted spree,
and that his mind was affected
George w. Hall, convicted of man
in the Saline Circuit Court last
March and sentenced 10 a term of years,
has been pardoned by the Governor upon
Of the prison physician.
The fairs held throughout the State this
year were never equaled in the history of
the commonwealth either in variety or
excellence Of their exhibits. This Is q
good indication Of agricultural growth.