The Forrest City times., 1891-11-13
STATE NEWS.

Prescott is raited by thieves Monticello wants waterwoiks.
 Paragouid wants street lights. Nashville is to have public library
 Batesville is troubled with sneak thieves.
 Hot Springs papers are calling for a new city hall. X water famine in Hempstead county IS threatened.
 Work on the new oil mill at Helena is being pushed.
 Hope complains of lack of cars to move the cotton.
 Morrilton's eclectric light plant is nearing completion.
 Boring of the artesian well at Helena will soon be commenced.
 There is talk in Dardanelle of or ganizing stock company to build.
 The barns and fencing of p. II. Spohn, near Sloan Springs, destroyed by fire.
 ". A. Brown of Clarksville is in jail to answer the charge of having too many wives.
 HC di hSOuiU | iFso odNo Ddt llttiC of the cotton i'll Greene county has been marketed.
 MT. Patrick Noiand of Gainesville was killed by being run over by wagon load of lumber.
 T. Nj. Alfrey of Siloam Springs com mitted suicide by hanging himself with d log chain.
 It took Sheriff c. F. IIudspeth of of Monticello just twenty minutes to make S70,000 bond.
 The cotton compress is doing all it can, but is unable to keep up with business.-Newport Herald.
 H. A. Turner, editor of the Lockes- burg Democrat, has married Miss Callie Brown of the same city.
 Mrs. Montieth, living near Spring town, was. perhaps fatally injured by the overturning of wagon in Flint creek.
 A baby was roasted to death and tie mother fatally burned by an accident at the natural gas well near Mountain Home.
 Deputy Sheriff Williams of Conway county, while attempting to arrest 1piii oaliCo ktOt+I. W oc oAipb t"iSNs p't not dangerously,
 Desha county has appropriated $700 to bridge Bayou Bartholomew, near Walnut Lake, provided Lincoln coun- ty will give as much.
 A car of cotton in the Texas Pacific yards at Texarkana was fired by d spark from passing locomotive and damaged 50 per cent.
 The gin and grist mill of E r. Friend, Marianna, burned Monday of last week. Loss about SG0e0, covered by an insurance of S35O0.
 The electric light plant has been re- moved from the Hope lumber factory and the citizens of that place do not know when they will have them again.
 A half interest in the Waterloo mine, Silver City, has been sold to Hon. John G. Sumpter of Hot Springs and tie work of development will be pushed.
 The Wynne Ripsaw has changed hands, Messrs. Wrenn and Phelps, formerly of Forrest City, recently of the Harrisburg News, assuming con trol, vice Hon. D. J. Burke.
 The biggest pine tree in Arkansas is near Chichester, on the Camden branch of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern railroad. It is said to con tain 23 GOO feet of lumber.-Paragould Press.
 Judge l.. Gregg, highly respected citizen of Fayetteville, and formerly judge of the Pulaski cbancery court, and associate justice of the supreme court, died at his home on Monday. Judge Gregg was one of the few republicans of Arkansas who passed through the reconstruction period and came out with clean hands and an untarnished political record.
 Jonesboro, Arkansas, was visited by fire Saturday night resulting in the destruction of 2l buildings. The loss is very great. This reminds us that Fayetteville is without fire company or any adequate means or equipment for fighting fire. One of these fine mornings we are liable to wake up and find ourselves in the condition of Jonesboro.-Fayetteville Democrat.
 MT. I. R. Ludlow called last Satur- day and informed us that he raised this year 325 bushels of corn from three and half acres of upland. It was the third crop after clover, and averaged ninety-two and six-sevenths bushels per acre. fair crop for upland. This beats MT. Bain's ninety bushels per acre, and now we are ready for the next lucky man.-Prairie Grove Ban ner.
 This neighborhood has been consid- erabiy excited for several days over the action of some wild animal, thought by some to be a mountain lion. This animal has killed several dogs near town. and seems to take delight in attacking them. 1t kills a dog seem ingly with great ease. and at about one stroke. Several parties with dogs were out hunting for it Wednesday, and ex- pected to hunt again Friday. The boys are afraid to go out at night while this animal is roaming around.-Nash- vile News.