The Russellville Democrat., 1891-08-06

from day to day until the work k completed. The total rail- dd as sessment for 1890 was $l5,f92, 276 and tue amount of taxes paid by the roads was over per cent of the total collected throughout the State
 For several years there has been carried on at Magnolia U systematic SC ies of butglaries and shrewd lie tectives have been baiiied in their at- tempt to ferret out the robbcr. Sat urday Henry c. Carson was nppre hended in the back yard of a private residence in his stocking feet, armed with a murderous looking weapon. Carson has been a merchant but re tired from business about a year ago. He was respected and unsus- pected, but the evidence hourly ac- cumulating makes hls chance bad one.
 The grand jury of Desha County has indicted J. Pcnnover Jones, county and probate judge. for non- feasance in the office in failing to re- quire Warfield, the defaulting sher- ii to make his settlements at the January and April terms of the coun- ty court as the law requires. Cir cult Judge Elliott has suspended Jones from office and he will stand suspended until trial can be had. Jones is negro politician Of the most offensive and obnoxious type. He is serving his second term as judge.
 With crash another strip sixty feet in length and extending twenty five feet toward Barraqne street, a slice of Pine Bluffs most valuable real estate, was precipitated into the Arkansas River and the waters are now almost undermining tue walls of the hotel Truloek As it has been feared for severa. years Barraque street, the prominent business thoroughfare of the city, threatens to vanish from the earth in the near future unless tho next Congress takes prompt action to pro tect $l,000,000 worth of property that is in danger of being sweptaway by the swift current.
 The first case under the new law prohibiting the employment of doc tors drummers was tried by the State medical board at Little Rock Friday. Dr. J. A. Blade of Hot Springs, charged with the employ ment of drummers and steerers to help swell hls list of patients. being tue defendant. The medical Board of Garland County tried the case some few days ago and removed Dr. Blades license. He appealed to the State Medical Board and Blade was defended by Attorney Thomas B. Martin of Little Rock and Geo. w. Murphy of Hot Springs. The board sustained the decision of the Gar. land county board, which ievokes the doctors Incense to practice med icine.
 In the Crawford circuit court in the case Of the State vs. Sheriff Steward charged with failure to pay over to tue Treasurer the public re- venue in kind collected. the jury af ter being out all night returned q verdict of not guilty. The indict ment against Hollis, county treasur- CT, for depositing public funds in q bank, was quashed, as was also the indictment against Cashier Hynes charged with using the pubic funds deposited by the Treasurer in the Crawford County Bank. The motion to quash these indictments was wig orously resisted by the Prosecuting Attorney, who excepted to the rul ing of the court and prayed an ap peal to the supreme court which was granted, where the constitutionality of the oct of the legislature will be tested.
 The Arkansas State Weather Ser vice, in co operation with the United States Weather Bureau of the De partment of Agriculture, issued the following crop bulletin for tue week ending Saturday last: The temper ature has averaged about 4 degrees per day below the normal and has been bensiicial to all crops. The pre- cipition for the week has been very excessive. It rained almost continu ally from the 27th to the SIS clus iAe. The average for the weekwe S3 inches, which is 4.l3 inches abs c the normal. The heaviest rainfall reported was 9.02 inches at Pine Bluff. Jefferson county. Cotton on low lands has suffered much by the excessive and continuous rains. Cor, respondents in some localities esti mate the damage from 10 to 20 per cent. The upland cotton is doing well. Rains have caused rust to ap pear to some extent but no serious damage is anticipated from this source. Corn is doing exceedingly well in the uplands, but on low lands 1t has been damaged by the heavy rains, and in some localities by high winds. II is peihaps to early to make accurate estimates oi the inju " done hy the heavy rains of the past week Most of the reports re- ceived were mailed Friday morning and as heavy rains occurred on that day and night, more injury may have been done than is indicated by re- ports received.
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