The Russellville Democrat., 1890-01-16

WtAa D1 MStA vAAuAtf ~NtA fh ~A~t&@ phis to take steps toward pushing the Memphis < Little Rock road to Hot Springs. thence to Paris, Texas. Memphis, Little Rock. Hot Springs and Texas parties are thoroughly slive to tue project and will use every effort to crown the movement with success,
 Lonoke, Malvern, Clarksville and Conway are erecting bank buildings from plans submitted by o. M. Nil son, who is a director in nearly all of them. MT. Nilsson is 6 Missouri an with two and half years resi- dence in this State. He is an enter. prislng, wide-awake and thorough business man.
 A large majority of the State press agree with commendable un- animity on the mooted proposition te build a new state house and to build it out Of our famous building stone lUnquestionably Arkansas should have public building n keeping with her rapid development and in, creasing prosperity.
 Several live towns are actively contending for tho location of Hen. drix college. If we are correctly Tn. formed, as the matter now stands, Searcy stands the best chance of SC curing the prize. The female school being already located there 1t seems to us thst Sesrcy is the proper loca- tion Of this school also,
 State Superintendent W.E.Thomp, son has completed the regular annu' al school apportionment- The sshool population of the State aggregates 404, 3T9, among whom is apportioned sl03.24s,64 in currency and $6,065, 6s in state scrip. Pope county, with school population of 7,264, is entitled to sl, ,S44.7l in currency and $10S.e6 in state scrip.
 Dr. John c. Branner, state geolo gist, has filed'with Governor Eagle preliminary report on Indepen dence, Stone, Sharp, Izard, Searcy Marion, Boone, Baxter, Benton Madison, Newton and Carol coun ties, in which he reports the exist ence of valuable mineral deposits glass sand, limestone, manganese marble, building stone and zinc 1T quantities sufficiently abundant tt make profitable their development It IS evident from the report that al that section needs is better transpor tation facilities to make it one of th, most prosperous portions of th' State.
 l Gov. Eagle received a communi cation last week from an Alabam. citizen whose name IS withheld fol obvious reasons, asking permission to don the prison garb of J. A. Gaf ford and serve out his sentence il the penetentiary in order that th' convict could return to Montgomery Ala, to live with and comfort hil aged mother who has been incon solable since her sons Imprisonment Gafford, it will be remembered, wat a Coal Hill warden, the exposure O whose cruelty to conyicts st work II mines there two years ago, created & widespread sensation. The gover nor cannot of course, grant the gen tleman's request He could pardon Gafford, however, and we understand he is considering petition to tha effect.
 A correspondent of the Gazette makes suggestion that contain' food for thought He advises th' construction of new State house b, the employment of the entire convic force of the state. The long tern men, he suggests, should be put t' quarrying stone, others to making brick, others to grading and prepsr Ing the grounds. In this way | magnificent building could be erect ed with comparatively little expens' to the state. He further suggests after this is done, the eonvicts be pui to work on the construction Of first class highways all over the state saving the people from this class O york, and from taxation, and at ths sane time securing highways thal could be had ID no other way with oas the appropriation of great lsbol and an immense amount Of money.
 The Little Rock Evening Cal like wIne grows better with age. We wish it continued success.
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