The Russellville Democrat., 1889-12-19
Arkansas Affairs.

Northern capitalists are trying to buy the Little Rock street railway. The Arkansa Midland railroad is being pushed through to Little Rock. H. Glitsch, well known attorney of Eureka Springs, has entered the ministry.
 The project for free bridge across the Arkansas river at Little Rock, is rapidly assuming tangible shape. A petition is being circulated in Dardanelle to prophibit the sale of liquor in that place for the next two years.
 Twenty seven white families from North Carolina reached UnIon coun- | ty last week and will make that their future home.
 The State Prohibition Alliance will hold it's fifth annual convention in the state house in Little Rock, on January 29, the session to continue three days.
 The next session of the Arkansas Industrial University will begin March 3, 1890. The students are now at their respective homes, enjoy ling thelr annual vacation. There are nine counties in the northern part of Arkansas, having an aggregate population of about 10000, which are not touched by a single line of railroad. Nashville, Howard county, sui fered heavy loss by fire 18th. Ten buildings were burned and at least $5,000 worth of valuable prop erty destroyed with little or no in surance.
 The city council of Van Buren has closed the contract with the Thomp. son. Houston Electric Light Company for lighting tue streets with arc and lncandescent electric lights for pe- riod of ten years.
 The bar of Fayetteville unanimous ly endorses Hon. l. c. Parker, of Fort Smith for appointment as United States circuit judge, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the eleva- tion of Judge Brewer to the Supreme Bench.
 ARTICLES have been filed with the secretary of state incorporating the Kansas City, BentonvilIe and South ern Railway Co. The directors are: A. w. Dinsmore, T. B. Gilmore, James A. Rice, c. M. Robinson and L. H. McGill. The proposed road is expected to cross the Arkansas river at Clarksville.
 The statistlclal report of the Little Rock Conference. M. E. Church South, which has just closed It's an nual session at Pine Blnff, gives the following figures: The conference district contains 172 preachers and 2475 communicants, with church pro. erty valued at $262,797." The next session of the conference will be held at Monticello.
 The memorial services in honor of the memory of the lamented Jeffer- son Davis at Little Rock were of the most impressive ana solemn charac. ter. The hall of the house of repre- sentatives in the state house was heavily trapped Tn mourning and mag nificently decorated with flowers. Judge U. M. Rose delivered the memorial address.
 Mrs. Mollie Rube, wife of J. A. Rube, the wagon manufacturer of Beebe, charged with aiding her husband in obtaining $4000 from the Bank of Little Rock last week, was tried before justice of the peace in Little Rock and acquitted Tues day. The evidence was not strong enough to bind her over to the grand jury.
 | Little Rock Democrat: There are twenty three newspapers published in Pulaski county--twenty-two In Little Rock and one Tn Argenta. They are: The Arkansas Democrat, Gazette, Press, Register, Call, Bap- tist, Methodist, Christian, Church i man, Vanguard, Stones Educator, Pythian Advocate, Republican, Woman's Chronicle, Sun, Dispatch, Staats Zeitung, Rural and Workman, Deaf Mute Optic, University Stu dent, Our Reporter, The Paper, Ar genta Incident. Who will say that the field IS not occupied9
 The damage suit of s. F. Sweet against a number of the most promi- nent citizens of Forrest City Is now
 
 on trial in the United States district