The Forrest City times., 1892-02-05
STATE NEW s.

Arkansas has sixty-eight nurseries.
 A dummy line is to be built at Rogers.
 The Odd Fellows of Bentonville have built fine hall.
 Grippe appears to be especially fatal in IZard county.
 Paris has band and hook and ladder company.
 Crawford county scrip is selling for ninety-1ve cents.
 Hope has received 25,s52 bales of cotton up to date.
 A republican club has been organ ized in Van Buren.
 The Ozan Lumber company's mills have resumed operations.
 The bridge at Camden will be con- pleted in about thirty days.
 The wheat area of Jackson county will reach 1200 or 1900 acres.
 A great deal of hog stealing is re- ported in the vicinity of PerryviIle.
 The work of rebuilding on the burnt district in Pine Bluff is progressing.
 Hot Springs hotels are filling up and the season promises to be good one.
 Fayetteville has four candidates for city marshal, with several wards to hear from.
 o. R. Main of Sloan Springs has packed 5000 pounds of pork this season.
 Growers of fruits and berries in Crawford county are anticipating a big crop.
 The normal school for the Third con- gressional district opened at Hope on Monday.
 The Clarendon dramatic association have been rehearsing Sheridan's Rivals"
 Melbourne, Izard county. has new paper, the Republican, with Postmas- ter Cooper as editor.
 Several papers m the Third district endorse Judge Joel b. Conway as good congressional material.
 St. Johns Episcopal church at Cam den was consecrated last Sunday, Bishop Pierce officiating.
 W. A. Martin of Reyno, Randolph county, killed q Poland Berkshire pig that weighed 609 pounds.
 Messrs. Morgan & Forgy have again assumed editorial control of the Hlow- ard County Press, Mir. CowliDg retiring.
 Forty thousand railroad ties are being shipped out of Washington county for the Santa Fe Frisco sys- tenn.
 Tho Banner has interviewed the grand jurors of Boone county and finds them almost unanimous for special tax for roaGs.
 The Sun expects to see Jonesboro made city of the second class this year, with electric lights and water works.
 The Rogers Republican, Benton county, Ark, has been bought ont by Mir. Leo K Fesler, formerly city editor of the Fort Scott Daily Monitor.
 The Garland County Democratic Central committee will meet at Hot | Springs on the 20th inst to fill vacan- cies and fix the time for the county | convention. Judgment was entered against the | Piggott courthouse bondsmen in cir cult court at Piggott last week for 1 S2a00, which is $l00 less than half the face of the bond.
 Newport is shipping home-raised corn to New Orleans. Two carloads were shipped this week, ard 5O.OOO bushels are in the celebrated Oil Trough section awaiting shipment.
 Messrs. Lawton and Harvey have bought the Paris, Logan county, Fri bune, and will convert it into an ortho- dox democratic newspaper, the first number of which will be issued this week.
 Here is something which is probably a little too accurate to be true, from i the Sharp County Pecord: On January 2, there were 1875 rabbits shipped from Hardy, weighing 275O pounds, an average of two pounds each. And West Plains shipped 4O65 the same day.
 Willie McKellie, station agent fol the Cotton Belt road at Wabbaseca Jefferson county, was murdered by ar unknown assassin Tuesday night while sitting at table at the window making up his cash account. An ap. preaching train frightened the mur, derer away, but he is being tracked with bloodhounds. The murdered boy was a native of Magnolia, Columbia ] county, and about 20 years old.