The Forrest City times., 1891-10-02
STATE NEW $.

Wai1ron is said to be the most tenn perate town in the state. Every man except one at Mountain | Home is church member. | An0ther cotton seed oil mill is to be built either at Pine Bluff or Stuttgart.
 The Monroe county grand jury found l forty indictments iu ure week.
 Fort Smith vagrauts must either work for a living or go to the rock sile.
 A saf.. robbery and county scat ] war are the sensations iu Jackson county.
 Considerable valuable ore is being taken out of the zine mines in Newton | county.
 The Camden Beacon is getting up a trade edition. It is certain to be a good one.
 Forty-four divorce suits have been ] filed at the present tenn of the Gariand | circuit court.
 Tho tlree-span iron bridge over Spring river. at Hardy, will be com pleted October l5. l There is one sorghum mill in Ben ton county that turns out 900 gallons ti IuUldSSCS Il uiS Sterling Holt has been indicted by the Benton county grand jury for mur- 1 der in the first degree. The Jefferson Guards, at pinc Bluff, have received fifty guns from tie armory Ut Little Rock. l Citizens of Nashville have fermetl an organization for the purpose of es- tahlshiug city library. Blacks Military Band threatens to | tiisband unless tho citizens Of Benton 1 vile contribute something towards it's support.
 The Young People Society of Chris | tiau Endeayor closed very successful 1 and interesting meeting at Camden ! last week.
 Monroe county farmers arc happy. 1 It is estimated that every twelve acres planted in cotton will yield ten bales 1 of the staple.
 The ages Of the ex-confederate who 1 attended the reunion at Alma, aud there wero 3Gi of them, ranged from 1 10 to - years.
 Senator James K Jones has erected | q beautiful monument over the grave of his son, Nat, in the Was shington, Ark, cemetery. Students continue to arrive at lien aris College, Gapldo. The enrullmont IS considerably over loo, more thau at any other opening. The pastors of the several churches at Clarendon have decided to hold 8 union meeting, beginning the third sunday i'll October, ln two months tho canning factory at Prairie Grove put up l9.209 cans of corn. i6 900 cans of peaches and l65,- Std cans of tomatoes, The Knights cf Pythias building committee has advertised for bids on the foundation and brick work ot their castle hall at Camden,
 A cypress log six feet long. foar feet through and weighing l4t00 pounds was recently cut near torliyce. It showed its age to he SS. years.
 The local board of underwriters of tlle city Of Pct Springs oilers d reward ot SloD for the conviction of any per .eu guilty of arson in that city.
 Citizens of Eureka Spring, have or gsniZed for the purpose et advertising thoroughly throughout the coan try the virtues of the famous resort.
 The contest for the removal of tho county seat of Jackson county from Jacksouport to Newport WAS decided on the 2Gth in favor of Newport.
 J. F, Spears, who murdered Henry Hunt at Guess mill, near Camden, has been held without bail to await the ac- ton of tho Ouachlta county grand jury.
 Oliver Simmons, baggageman at the Cotton Belt depot at. Pine Elun, WAS arrested for robbery. He gave up :oS.75 which he had stolen from q trunk.
 Clarence Warner and Lulu Mayer, charged with the shooting of Barney Davis, in Indian Territory, have been arrested and are now in the Uniled States jail at Fort Smith,
 Helena enjoys the proud distinction of having been visited by an earth quake. The visitor did not tarry long, and it's presence was barely percepti- ble, but 1t was nevertheless felt Helena World.
 Spri, gdale has the best and most successful fruit canning plant in the state, a woolen factory, fruit evapo- tdttiS Piditt pitiliHS HiiiiS duu ilOSt excellent roller mills, all running to their full capacity.
 A Business Mems Association has been organized by twenty-five mer- chants in Fort Smith. The object of the association is to aid each other in the collection of debts and for mutual protection against losses.
 Frank Perry, alias Tom Godbold, forged the name of John Burriss to an order on Armstrong X Bro, for tl450, a few days since at Fl Dorado, got the amount In goods and money aud skipped for pastures green.
 w. B. Folsom, a talented and cul- tured young gentleman, educated at the University at Oxford, Miss, and son of Col. Folsom, of the Augusta Vidette, has purchased the Brinkley Argus, and will edit IL hereafter.
 A Monroe county correspondent of the Arkansas Democrat says. This county has lots of democrats who want to help make Fishback governor. The slver-tongued Bob Crockett doubtless has the longest congressional pole
 Last Saturday, while little son of Mrs. Davis, who resides northwest of Stuttgart, was putting a cap on his gun 1t went of, the contents striking a little eight-year- sister. The child that was wounded is not expected to survive.
 A section of the leyee 2lo feet in length, at Helena, suddenly gave way on the 2Sd, and sunk to a depth of k....