The Forrest City times., 1892-04-29
STATE W EWS.

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 A public reading room is wanted at Camden.
 "Blind tigers" are being run out oi Clarendon.
 The tannery at Melbourne is doing . good business. Union county has eighteen candi. dates for assessor.
 Several mad dogs have been killed recently at Fort smith.
 The baseball grounds at Morrilton are being put in fine condition. Fighting chickens furnish amuse- ment for the boys at Center Point. Work on the Baptist college building at Conway will commence at once.
 The first annual session of the Stutt- gart normal school will begin May 2.
 The machinery for the cotton oil company at Conway has been contracted for. 4a
 The Cumberland Presbyterians of LOnoke are building house Of wor- ship.
 Tho Frisco depot at Van Buren was destroyed by fire on Wednesday of last week.
 The democratic executive committee of Lee county meet in Marianne to- morrow.
 The Harrisburg Canning company, with a capital of $l0,0OO, has been or ganized.
 A black bass, weighing over six pounds, was caught in the Ouacllita last week.
 Mir. R. C. Chambers of Hot Springs was thrown from a buggy and serious ly injured. a
 Rev. J. II. lIendrick is holding a series of interesting revival meeting at JonesbOro.
 The first strawberries of the season were shipped from Benton last Friday, the 22d inst.
 The Young Mems Christian associa- tion met in annual convention at Con- way last Friday.
 An Eastern syndicate is said to be figuring for 1000 acres of timber land in Poinsett county.
 A large tract of land at Malvern has been donated to 6 furniture factory about to be started there.
 The contract for grading three miles of the Splitlog railroad south of Sul- phur Springs has been let.
 The Philadelphia Lumber company at Daleville expects to ship this month 300 carloads of yellow pine.
 Citizens of White county talk about in length. across Red river.
 Harry Clark, editor of the Mariannx Index, who has been dangerously ill for some time, is recovering.
 The Van Buren base ball teaih has been reorganiZed and ia backed by plenty of money for the season.
 The Siloam Springs Locomotive Herald is of the opinion that the town COW has devoured the spring poet.
 Black . band of Bentonville has been appointed as the First regiment band, Arkansas state guards, by Governor Eagle. 4 af,a sf
 Bentonville has again subscribed $50 ,OOO for the railroad and work will Ut once begin on the route to Sulphur Springs. v
 The second annual convention of the Arkansas Bankers association was held in Little Rock Tuesday and Wednesday,.
 The citizens of Batesville will sub scribe SIG. 900 for the purpose of mak. ing some necessary additions to Ar kansas college.
 Sheriff w. T. Derrick of Lee county and Mrs. Blanche Gray Burke of Hell enx wore married in the latter place on Wednesday.
 The outlook for an apple crop was never better and there will bo plenty of peaches in some localities. .-Fsyette- vile Democrat.
 A colored woman at Bent0nville tried to commit suicide. She drank . cup of water in which she had soaked a handful of matches.
 G0bblers weighing 2l pounds, with boards from ten to thirteen inches in length, are frequently killed by hunters in the vicinity of Des Arc. An Indian woman, whose age was given and accepted at 1l6, was wit ness in the United States court at Fort Smith Tuesday of last week. c. B. Fox of Pike county let fall a loaded pistol. The weapon was dis charged, the ball entering his abdomen. Fox died few hours afterwards. There are now 800 students attend ing the different district normal schools in the state. The state at this rate is paying less than 80 cents per student for each five mOnths' session. We are informed that the storm Tuesday night did considerable dam- age in the bottom below Dardanelle, blowing down two or three houses, de- strOying fencing, etc. c.-Dardanelle Post. Hot Springs is making efforts to get the Presbyterian synOdical college. Col. Ali Wilmington started the doila- tions by giving $l000 to get it. He was followed by Dr. Sanders and Mayor LOughran, who subscribed $500 each. Dr. s. F. Ceilings offered 40 acres of land for a site. When Jailer Williams entered the corridor of the Miller county jail to hand meals to prisoners, he was knocked down by Jake Williams. a negro prisO- ner, with brick, and the negro rushed by and made good his escape. He wss afterward captured by Texas-side of 6cers and handed over to the Arkansaa officers.
 The citizens of Jonesboro. together with a few Northern capitalists, have organized stock company with $l5O,. 600 capital. Thirty thousand acres Ol land will be purchased in St. Francis and Bay bottoms, mills placed upon il and the timber worked up, and then the tract will be converted into an i'm mense farul.
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