The Forrest City times., 1892-01-29
STATE NEW s.

The Hot Springs Medical Journal is among the latest newspaper ventures.
 Jones' mill, near Arkana, on the Cotton Belt, was burned oD Monday night.
 l Over 100 lumbermen attended tho Arkansas Lumbermen's convention at Camden.
 | Alexander Hamilton, an old and highly respected citizen of Harrisburg, is dead
 Pine Bluff has raised Sss2 of the quota of Jeffergon county for the
 Worlds Fair.
 4 little child of James T. Hargraves was burned to death last week at Pit. tons station.
 United States officers are making it warm for "blind tiger" keepers at Pigot, Clay county.
 The Guard is the only paper at Batesville now, and Editor Giyens is covering ths entire field
 Tax collecting was suspended last week in Craighead county on account of the severity of the weather. J. c. Duke, of the Pine Bluff Echo, was elected president of the Colored Press association at Memphis. Pine Bluff was on Sunday morning visited by another disastrous conila- grafton, involving loss of $250,000.
 Judge J. W. Vaughan, an old land mark of Pulaski county, good citizen and staunch democrat, died last week.
 Elder J. W. Lipsey, the well known Baptist minister at Fayetteville, has received Il call to the pastorate at Jonesboro.
 Twenty-5ix oi the twenty-eight Lin wood riotors were sentenced to the penitentiary for terms ranging from one to twenty-one years.
 McCauley & Son, Searcy firm of forty years standing, sold out to cred itors last week. Poor collections and low price of cotton the causes. Mother Teresa, known in the world as Miss Mary Farrell, founder of the Order of Nercy in this state, died iI Fort Smith lSst Saturday, aged T6 years.
 John Benwell, alias Overton, was arrested at Cotton Plant and taken to Desha county, where he is charged with having murdered woman at dance last July.
 Oil in paying quantities has been found on the farm of w. N. Johnson, three miles northwest of Washington, Hampstead county. A joint-stock com .>any has been organized. With gold in Yell county, silver in Franklin. nickel in Garland and coal and iron in Pope we can well afford to feel proud of this section. Hurrah for Arkansas. as.-Russellville Democrat. On Tuesday of last week the resi- dence of Mrs. Martha Statham, near Hartford, in Sebastian county, was totally destroyed by fire, and her five months-old babe perished in the flames.
 James Campbell. who escaped from the Fulton county jail two or three years ago, charged with grand larceny and went to Idaho, returned not long since and was arrested in Melbourne.
 The Searcy city council has passed an ordinance prohibiting the sale of sweet cider in that town after Febru- ary l. A fine of s200 will be assessed against anyone violating this ordi- nance. A new village, Centerville, Cleburne county, was established January '. 1892, and now has two business houses, blacksmith shop, woodwork shop, cot ton gin and grist mill, sheep and cattle ranche.
 A permanent association for the re- relief of the worthy poor has been or gsnixed at Newport. At the initial meeting on Monday night of last week, collections to the amount of S62.95 were reported.
 The Camden Courier, neat four page six column weekly, is the latest venture in Arkansas journalism. 1t is published by The Courier Publishing Company, with w. II. Williams, edi- tor; D. c. Gatlin, assistant editor. and $. r. Thompson, business n manager. The alliance leaders hope to get their paper started early in February. They will not start, however, until they can put $500 in bank to back it. They have a part of this sum sub scribed, but are not certain they will get the whole amount paid up.- Batesville Guard.
 It is said that the meanest man in the world lives in Newport. He is ac cused of taking pair of blankets that were placed over his sick wife by charitable hands and selling them for | g 50. As the case is being investigated we refrain from calling names.-New- port Herald.
 We hear that several parties camped near Hagarville one night this week, and in order to keep warm set fire to a hollow stump. In little while there was a peculiar breaking sound, and they discovered that they had set fire to a "blind tigers" den and destroyed about twenty bottles of whiskey.- Clarksville Herald-J ournal.
 One day last week, when Judge Uedman of Hampton, Calhoun county, performed the sacred rites of matri- mony for Lonnie Douglass and Miss Matthews, he closed the ceremony thus: By the authority vested in me as judge in the state of Arkansas; by the golden fields of corn and cotton that wave to and fro in the gentle breeze; by the great droves of mast-fed hogs and stall-fed cattle that are continuous | Iy finding their way to different mar kets of the world; by the monotonous songs of the ducks and guinea chickens On the backyard fence; by the long gonfd vine whose clingiDg tendrils shade the entrance to the summer kitchen; by the whole earth, sea, sky and all that in them is, pronounce you man and wife, and may the Lord have mercy on your souls.' l