The Russellville Democrat., 1891-01-15
ARKANsAs AFFAIRS.

ARKANSAS AFFAIRS.
 Little Rocks electric cars will be running by May l.
 During the past year 137 miles O railway were built In thls State.
 State Treasurer Morrow will ente upon the discharge of his duties to day.
 The finishing touches are being given to the railroad bridge at For Smith.
 There are 49S inmates of the asy lum for the insane and room is need ed for more.
 Among the sra convicts confined in the penitentisry only 3l deathi occurred last year.
 The value of the apple crop o Northwest Arkansas for 1890 is es timated at g 100000 and the busi ness is yet in it's infancy.
 The State Medical Society is pub fishing . very crsditable monthl, called the Medical Journal. It ia ably edited and . perfect gem typo graphically.
 The supreme court has handed down . decision affirming the righ of county court to dissolve schoo district. The case went up from Faulkner county.
 Judge Elmors Mitchell of the ninth judicial district will shortly re sign and remove to the Indian ter ritory. There will be several aspir ants for hls place.
 Deaths reaper has Qarnered in an other of the States trusst and best James $. Holmes, editor of the Cam den Beacon. He was a noble mar in every sense of the term.
 The editors of the college ant schoo Journals, some five or six il number, will meet in Little Rock tn, latter part of this month to form | press association of their own.
 Rev. J. R. G. W. N. Adams, O Yell county, an earnest and faithfu minister of the Baptist church, hs, accepted call to the pastorate of , church In Witchita Falls, Texas.
 Ex- Congressman T. M. Guntel of Washington county is mentioned as a probable candidate for governor in 1892. Stop it. It Is entirely tot early to be talking about such things
 National President Polk has called . meeting of the Arkansas State In dustral Union and Farmers Allianc, to meet in Little Rock February l: for the purpose of agreeing upon . plan of consolidation.
 The Bstssvills Guard has closed its fourteenth volume. There ls nc better paper in the State, nor q more accomplished gentleman and all round newspaper man than Its abl' editor, Mir. Ed L. Givens
 Gov. Eagle has issued $ proclams tion for special election Jaauary 26 to elect . supreme judge to fl the vacancy caused by the death ot Justice Sandels. Several justices o the peace will be elected on the sam, day.
 Benton county enjoys the distinc tion of having furnished one govern or, one United States senator, two members of congress, four circul judges, three prosecuting attorneys and one commissioner of Indian af fairs.
 Benton county has pork packsry with l50.000 pounds of meat ssltec down and more on the way. It is said to be very profitable busi ness. One or more similar enter prises ought to be established in each county In this State.
 State Geologist Brannsr reports that he has discovered in the coun. ties of Pulaski and Sshne deposits of Bauxite ore, from which alumin- um, the metal of the future is made. With the single exception of a small bed in Georgia, the Bauxlts beds in Arkansas are the only known depos. it's in the United States. Prof. Bran nor and others knowing the value Of the ore are elated over the discovery.
 The Searcy Citizen has been dc tected in tue practic of disreputabls tactics in conducting voting con. test to determine the most popular young lady in Searcy. The fair friend Of relative of the editor eas fly distanced all competitors on the homestretch through tho connivsnce of the office force who voted early and often for the young lady who appears to have been foreordains ed to come of winner from the begin