The Forrest City times., 1892-10-28
STATE NEWS.

Sprugdale is getting to be great apple market.
 A roller flouring mill is to be erected at Fort Smith.
 Pearls have been found in the bed of tho Saline river.
 Sage grass nine feet long grows in Carroll county.
 The Ouachita Valley fair opened at Camden Tuesday.
 Brick business houses continue to go up at springdale.
 There was in the state treasury $350,- c14.52 on the lst inst.
 Pool selling on horse racing has been licensed at Hot Springs.
 An epidemic of slow fever prevails at Salem, Fulton county.
 The Masons of Lonoke contemplate the erection of s new hall.
 Evangelist Inge is conducting re- vival meeting at Marisnna.
 The shortage of l.. E. Sides, city col lector of Little Rock, is sisoo
 IT. N Smiths residence at Waldron was destroyed by Are last week.
 The Little Rock law school has twenty students in attendance.
 From every section of the state come reports of vcry short cotton crops.
 A drove of 800 Angora goats were recently taken to Sloan Springs.
 A mercantile company with $50 ,000 capital has been formed Ht Searcy. A mad stone at Argeuta clung for 106 hours to the bite of a mad dog. Pontoon is the name of postofiice recently established in Yell county. Nearly every town in the state eel ebrated Columbus day appropriately. J. E. Hayes of Columbia county raised 12O gallons Of sorghum per acre. The populites of Nevada county have boycotted Prescott in favor Of Rosston. The New Lewsv,lle and Hope rail- road will be completed in a few months. The Baptist female college building at Conway will be completed next month. Brinkley has a new enterprise in the shape of a savings bank. with s25.000 capital. J. Nj. Peel of Springdale has pear tree which bore second crop of fruit this | season.
 Fayetteville is working for & water | works plant and an electric street railway | system.
 brated Columbus day with big barbecue and | speaking.
 The judge of Lee county decided in favor of sheriff Derrick in the contested elsc- tlon case.
 The Arkansas conference of the M F. Church, South, will meet at Bentonyille November 50.
 The circuit court will find unusually heavy criminal and civil dockets awaiting 1t in Phillips county.
 The Woman Christian Temperance union is operating d coffee house and lunch stand in Fort Smith. Philadelphia is arranging to send her cotton to New Orleans and St. Louis at tI % per bale instead of f2."5. Batesvile will take a census of it's population with view of promoting itself to a city of the second class. The Methodist church at Russellville was burned by an incendiary Saturday night. Loss, Ssoo0; no insurance. Zack Washington, colored. was killed at Texarkana while trying to steal ride on a Texas and Pacific train. A petition has been filed in the Yell county court, asking for all order for tho tn- corporation of Mount Nebo. In the Camden contested city mar | shaiship. tried last week, the republican can didate was declared elected. Eight horses perished in the flames of livery stable confiagration at Sulphur Rock Monday night of last week. Some poor hungry scalawag broke into Bearden's butcher shop at Siloam Springs last week and stole a lot of bologna. Twenty thousand dollars of the &25,- 900 fund necessary to secure the railroad car shops at Pine Blun has been secured. Up to last Friday only thirty bales of cotton had been received at Melbourne against l50 at the came date last year. w. D. Chase has recently purchased and put in running order at Viola, Fulton county, frst-class roller Touring mill. Deputy Sheriff Dollarhide of Sevier county, while asleep, WAS murdered by moon- sinners near Chapel Hill on the night of the 18th inst. Rev. w. A. Freeman has been hold ing a three-weeks revival at Benton. Asout i50 conversions are reported as the result of said meeting. J. W. Pettey of Des Arc has bought the Guidop of that place. He is an excellent gentleman and will doubtless make 1t a first class newspaper. The Black Rock mills, Lawrence county. turn out about forty cars of lumber week The plants include furniture factory and blaming mill. A young man from Rich Mountain shipped forty pounds of ginseng from Hunt ington, for which he expects to get the snug little sum of el0S
 The Planters Oil Mill company of Helena is in the field against the trust and has raised the price of oottonseed to el2 per ton. It may go higher. Fifteen white-cappers were arrested and jailed in Calhoun county last week. All are white men and some quite prominent in business and social affairs Oil and gas in large quantities have been discovered near Magazine, Logan coun- ty. Capitalists are docking in and property is rapidly advancing in price. The spoke, hub and singletree fac tory at Walnut Ridge is running full time. and the company is making arrangements for increasing tho capacity of the plant. The populltes contested for the sheriff's office in Crawford county. No evi- dence appeared upon which to sustain the charge of fraud, so the circuit judge dismissed the case.
 At horse race near Waldron last Saturday. one of the horses flew the track and I. M. Hon was struck by the horse and knock cd senseless. Monroe Pullum was found murdered in an alley at Paragould Monday night. His neck was broken by blow from an axhandle found near by. A coored cyprian has been arrested, charged with the killing.
 Governor Eagle has offered reward of el50 for tho arrest and conviction of the un- known person or persons who on or about October lB shot and murdered J. c. Dollarhide. near Chapel Hill. in Seyicr county. Prescott's city council has passed an ordinance providing that persons who fall or refuse to pay nnes assessed in the mayors court shali be decorated with a bali-and-c chain and forced to work out the amounts on the streets.
 The board of missions for the Oar. danelle Baptist association met at Belleville was to devise means of disseminating the gos- pei to "heathens nearer home. Correct, cor rect correcti-Dardanelie Post.