The Forrest City times., 1892-06-17
STATE NEWS.

"Street car parties" is the latest fad in Little Rock.
 Baseball and checkers are all the % at Greenwood.
 The military post at Little Rock is now certainty.
 Capt. John Harrod, an old citizen of Conway, died Saturday. The Arkansas Eclectic association
 met in Little Rock Monday.
 There is some talk of organizing { humane society at Hot Springs.
 Ebenezer church, near Center Point, was demolished by storm Friday.
 Phillips county contributed nine con- victs to the penitentiary last weok.
 The sorgham mill at Holly Springs will be run by steam power this season.
 There was marriage at the deaf mute institute in Little Rock last week.
 Batesville cotton shipments will reach 25 .oO0 bales before the season closes.
 A slight fall of snow is reported In Fayetteville on the morning Of the n inet.
 Twelve of the best known young men of Forcyce have organized a brass band
 Mrs. Basic Anderson, a l7-year-Old bride of month died at Rocky Comfort las' week.
 Two little children of MT. and Mrs T. g. Stanley of Haynes died in ono day TO ccuuy.
 The old settlers of Baxter county yin hold a meeting at Mountain Homo or The Fordyce Loan and Savings asso citation has been incorporated, with 6 capita of 8sS0,000.
 Helena had a s'pie" sale Tuesday even iiSrary iha; ny deSs. '"s 
 c. Thompson, for tamperiDg with [ switch on the Valley road in Little Rock les week, was fined esS0. The city of Morrilton has bought thu operate 1t in future. Isaac Erskine, a colored man, wal 1 killed by the cars in tho Fort Smith road yard ct ArKcnta last woek. The contract has been let for . court house at Rison, Cleveland county, to Thoma Smith of Pine BluR for s7o00 In Village township. Jackson county Jim Rector crushed Louis StanOrd's skull witl hoe and escaped. Stafford died. In view of the dull times the mer l chants of Pine Blun have asked of landlord
 . reduction of 2 per cent in rents. Paris, Logan county, will have m free school the coming year, the whole ta, being voted for building purposes.
 While tho family was at church, , eneak.thief entered tho homo of H. M. Archy l laboring man of McCrory, and stole elA0. John Emerson, one of the Littl' Rock gang of boy burglars recently caught b. peuiteDtiary.
 G. W. Stevenson of Fordyce pre- sented the editor of the Enterprise with l strawberry which measured nearly 1vo tnche 1 fin circumference.
 John Lovett and William Greer, negroes, engaged in . fight at Pine Blun Sat urday night and the throat of Williams wa cut from ear to ear. Capt. Bart Turner. once prominent
 citizen and ofbcial of Phillips county, has besI edtutged insane and sent to tho asylum . Little Rock for treatment. The Iron Mountain shops at Argents have closed down on account of dull times | known wheu the shops will reopen. While two negroes were asleep in ar old shanty in East Little Rock one night las week, some miscreant poked Q shotgun in an, fired. One of tho men was seriously injured Willie Irving and Sam Scoggins, two Morrilton boys aged r years, were drownet Sunday afternoon while bathing, one in tn, l Arkansas river and the other in Clancy oreek During the progress of a trial In { Justices court in Little Rock Friday morning onc of tho colored female spectators addet l interest to the occasion by giving birth to Culiu Ou tuc eiueW6th. The w. l.. Douglas Shoe Co. O the drummer who expressed his opinion to' freely at Philadelphia recently regarding tn, virtue of Southern women. J. RI. Bartlett, tho lowest bidder f0 the contract to build the Independence county court house. failing to make tbe necee
 sary bond. tue contract was awarded to Franl Joblin, tho next lowest bidder The decrease in the acreage, the over | flowed districts and the cottcn that has dio, will probably reduce the cotton crop of Izar,
 weather from now on through tho season. We learn that much of the farminj
 element of the bottom townships, having dc ! sp6ired of making a crop there this season are moving away. The condition of the bOt l-Marianna Courier. The storm which swept over Pop, county last week was of 6 general nature bu was particularly severe in different localities
 Trees, fences and out buildines suffered con siderable damage, but furthor than this n, 1 great loss is reported The flremen of Pine Bluff have noti 6ed the city council that they will attend n more fires unless an appropriation of ol5O pe ! month be made to the department. This ie small sum to be divided among so many men and ehouid Dc allowed. Nathan Carter, an accOmpllce in tn 1 murder of Prtnoe Mallory in Phillips count 1 for which Ishsm White vas hanged. has beei captured in St. Louie and will be taken bacl ! to Helena for trial. It is very hkcly Carte win decorate the end of ropc. G. w. Lacy, the colored presidin,
 elder who sued the Iron Mountain for GOO damages for laeeratiou of his feelings by beip .cussed" by white baggagemaster on Val
 Icy Route train. on Monday obtained . verdic for G6 The case occupied the court tw
 days.
 A United States officer arrested an, brought to Little Rock. Lee Harden and Orvi Clayton lsst week The parties are accuse
 dence seems to be very strong against them Bee Rock.
 Col. s. w. Fordyce, president of th
 Hot Springs City railway, has entered sui
 ssins ns S Si 9vsn S@ so Ss. fs' over Valley street. A similar franchiso wa granted another company after Col. FOrdyc had spent large sum of money on tho ne, line.
 Russellville had an elopement sensa ton last week. Jno. H. Bowdeu and Mrl Fianigan. tiring of their partncrs, conclude
 to join fortunes and skipped for Texas. How
 den ,.as,, leaves wife with VI four small children the grocery business, but as coon a his sctio became known his stock of goods was attache | by creditors.
 Mrs. Tom Story, the wife of . we'll
 committed suicide on Wednesday afternoo of lsst week by shooting herself through tn head wifo rife. ehc was about a6 years Oi, cause known for the rash act. Several month ! ago ono of her children, to whom che was yer l much attached, died. and to this, perhaps. her seif-destruction. The fatal bullet entere her forehead about the center and pAseo l through the brain. causing instsue deatl
 against her shoulder, where 1t had fallen. an
 her foot pressed the trigger, chewing how th | gun wac discharged.