The Russellville Democrat., 1891-10-15
STATE NEWS.
Items Cleaned Fresh and Bright From the
 Columns of Our Exchanges.
Newsy Happenings in Various Sections o'
 the State Boiled Down.


 The Texarkans fair opens next week.
 The opera house st Newport is nearing completion.
 A state encsmpment of the Arkan- sss militia will be held next spring.
 A considerable quantity oi counter teit money is in circulation st Fort Smith.
 Steamboats are unable to navigate upper White river, owing to the low stage of water.
 The Jefferson Guards, of Pine Bluff, drilled with guns for the first time Monday night.
 Senator Berry win address the Confederate veterans at the Camden fair on the 29th inst.
 The cotton crop in some parts of Northwest Arkansss will fall below 30 per cent. shortage.
 The Mulberry Times is advertised for sale. The whole outfit is offered for tue low price of s250.
 Capt. J. c. HHe died at Newport "Wednesday night. He wss one of Newport's oldest eitizeas.
 Mr. Jas. Cleveland and E A. Cleveland, of Gsinsboroug1 towD- ship, Independence county, gre re- spectiyely first and second cousins Of the ex president.
 The location for the government building to be built as Camden mas been changed from the Agee prop erty to the Woodland property, on Washington street, the site where the livery stable Is situated.
 Joan White and Deputy Sheriff Hamilton, oi Pope county, captured 8 negro Monday night st Plummer yille, charged with murder. They returned Tue=dsy 10 RusseIlyiile where they placed him in jail unEii
 K court.
 The morning south bound Cotton Belt passenger train coiliced with 8 freiget train snort distance above aingsiand. 4 fireman and engineer were killed and another frsmsn mor,aIlY injured. No passengers were injured.
 The Grand Exposition Of Southern Products, now in progress st Raleigh, N. C., is proving s great success. Thousands of visitors gre in attend ance and the displays are said to be very handsome. October Is, Is and i7, will be Arkansas Dsys.'
 A ssd accident occurred at the gin mill of William Evans, in Conway county. last Thursday. Zors Evans, Mv. Egsns' If yesr-old son, was cleaning out the feeder while in motion, and his hand was caught and torn so that smpufstion WAS necessary
 One evening las. week while Mir. J. H. Holt was returning from Nash vile, he discovered something burn- ing in h.s wagon, and upon exsmin- stion found some cloth he hsd pur- chased on fire. He had the cloth in q new tin pan snd the reflection of the sun from the pan set the cloth on fire.
 The steamer Chieksssv, of the Memphis and Arkansas River Packet Company, struck s hidden snsg and sank st f o'clock Tuesday morning, the Huh inst, si Cats Island cross- ing, sixteen miles below Memphis. All hands were saved. She had 5sO osles of cotton on board snd vss on her way to Memphis.
 The fall session of Arksrs4s Pres bytery met st Walnut R ge Fridsy but, on account of railroad acci dent, number of the oel, 2 .tes did not arrive until Ssfuruay. Ten churches were represented and Sll the ministers of the Presbytery were present, except Ds. Long. Of Bates yile, who was detained by illness A sad accident oecurrse. near PraI rie Grove last Sunday. Taree young lsdles. daus htegs of Mir. Trrps uiug and two young msn were ID 8 Escs going to preschD 2. Ire team toek fright, snd running sway, threw them out of the hack Co tbe grouad. Tee young men escaped wlt4out iujary Two oi the young ladies were sl'ga'Ig huri, while one of them sustsine8 what is thought 10 ee fatal iEjsries The Miss T peniug. who is uol ex- pecied Ca recover, is sboat ls yesEs oi sge.