The Forrest City times., 1892-12-02
STATE NEWS.

Morrilton has received 3275 bales OF
cotton this season.
The FL Dorado bank will begin bus
iuess in a few days.
Dardanelle is proud of its fine crop
OF Young democrats.
There are two prisoners in the Jail at
Norrilton. Both colorcd.
The Texmkana & Ft. Smith railway
is to be pushed to completion.
The clock on the cupo a of the New
port courthouse is to bc a striker.
Work on the new railroad from Ma
rionville TO Yelville is being pushed.
Marion county farmers are sowing
an unusual amount OF heat this fall.
A catamount WAS killed within mile
of Atkins last week by party OF huntsmen.
McRas was elected TO congress by q
bigger majority this time than evcr before.
Mariana shipped 1900 bales OF
| cotton last season. II will hardly exceed 5oU0
this.
Many business houses throughout the
| state were closed in celebration of ThHnksr
giving.
Pecan trees in large numbers are be-
ing out in the white River bottoms by nut
| hunters.
II. G. Cook a Benton county farmer,
gathered thirty bushels of apples from one
The merchants Of Mammoth Spring
one day last week.
Capt. G. E. Dixon, Of Texarkana is a
candidate for U. s. Marshal for the Eastern
district OF Arkansas,
| 1t is stated that the Little Rock &
Memphis railread company has paid to the
| state s43.170 60 back taxes.
Louis Pheffer, small German mer-
chant OF Hot Springs hung himself with a
| leather string last week.
;. Navra of Little Rock. who has
been engaged in the queensware business
| there for thirty years, died last week.
j. l.. Tulis. Of the Hope Gazette is
an applicant for the position of superinten-
dent of the Hot Springs Reservation.
Nineteen converts were baptized and
| added to the Baptist church at Dewitt las.
week. and three more approved for induction
j. Menkus who has been Justice of
| the peace for manv years in Little Rock was
| recently arrested for impersonating an officer.
| The primary election i'm Lonoke coun.
| ty for the Twelfth senatorial district so far 8
heard from, has gone solidly for Hon. I. q.
| Trimble.
Prof. NJ. A. Stone proprietor of the
| Little Rock Commercial college made as
| sigpment last week on account of domestic
troubles.
made to have the legislature repeal the law
prohibiting the sale OF liquor within ten miles
of Nashville.
The Echo says there are already Il
dozen applicants for the Yellville postofilce.
and the matter VIII be decided Dy a democratic
primary election.
Candidates for the postmastership of
Hot Springs being so numerous a correspond
ent of the Graphic suggest that the matter be
set led by u primary election.
1t is asserted that w. j. Vines, who
was pardoned by the governor. recently on ac-
count of ili-health. was worked and starved 10
death while in the penitentiary.
A jeweler in neighboring town is
offering ine clock to the person who guosses
nearest the number of seed contained in II
pumpkin which he has on exhibition.
On the second Monday in January
| which will be the 9th day of the month, the
electors meet to cast their vote for president
and vicc-president, of the United States.
On January 1st the cotton mill will
'doublo up" and run "a hours per day, thereby
giving employment to twice as many hands
as they now employ.-Mammoth Springs Mon
itor.
In the Sixth district. for congress,
Neilis majority over ALL was IL, i59. The prob
abilities are that Neill will get about 800 ma
jority in Baxter. making his majority some
a. .239.
There are not less than 1000 able
bodied negrocs-men, women and children
i'm Pine Bluff W no have no visible means OF
support. and who wont work. Also number
of whites.
Wildcats are reported as being so
bad up on Rcyburn creek. six miles from
Malvern, that they are killing great many
young pigs, and otherwise making 1t very
disagreeable.
Frank Adams, a section foreman on
| the Iron Mountain railroad at Earle. Critten-
den county, was mysteriousy murdered while
asleep in his house "Wednesday OF last week.
His wife Is suspected.
The newspapers of the state are de-
| voting much space TO postoffice suggestions.
Primary elections have been mentioned in
several places as an equitable means OF de-
termining who shall be recommended
The criminal docket at the Novem-
ber term of the 0uachits Circuit Court has
been heavy. Among the sentences passed by
Judge Smith were the death sentences of two
| negroes, Luke Tatum and Henry Howard,
| both for murder-Tatum for the murder OF
| his wife. and Howard for the murder of an
other negro.
Benton Brooks aged seventeen, and
! a son of John Lee, both colored were in town
| one day last week. and started for the Point
with lot of liquor, On the way they under
took to drink up the poison and drank so much
| that one of them died next day from its ef-
| fects The other was seriously affected, but
recovered.-Augusta Vidette.
| In the next house of representatives
| there are thirty lawyers. seven doctors, forty
seven farmers, four editors. two drummers,
| three preachers. one detective. three teachers
| and three merchants. In the senate there are
| nine lawyers, fQuteen farmers, one merchant
| two doctors. three editors. one druggist. one
| real estate dealer and one teacher.--Arkansas
| Democrat.
More than ten thousand dollars in
cash has been psid to the farmers Of the coun
/ try adjacent to and surrounding Mammoth
| Spring for hogs during the past three weeks
| and during tho same space of time about fifty
| Thousand dollars has been paid for cotton
Chickens are shipped from here BY the carloat
and eggs are no small item; Taken aitogetbeI
| our tow n 10 doing good safe business and tho
| merchants seem TO be correspondiDgly happy
Mammoth Springs Monitor.
CD ANTI OF New Orleans, repre-
senting George Gould and Eastern Capitalists
| was in the city, and today rent out to Brown
town. SEWER county, TO close an option or
| 1860 acres of land near that place. aud abou
| six miles from Wilton, The body of land GOV
| ers the noted white Clin" on Little river
| and it Is claimed the best of cement, equal q
| the Portland cement, can be made from the
white chalky substance abounding therein
A plant costing 100000 will al once be erected
| for the manufacture of cement -Texarkana
| Democrat.
| A cyclone of terrible force and de
! structive power passed just south of Harrison
| on the night OF 10th inst, demollshing every
1 thing in its path. In the Immediate vicinity
of Harrison IL destroyed fifteen dwellings be-
| sides school houses churches, barns and othei
, out buildings, killing three persons outright
and woundng fifty more. some of whom viii
die. Horses, cattle and other farm stock were
killed In considerable numbers. Dead chick
ems and other fowls are scattered along its
path. The width of the storm was about j0s
yards. ds.-Huntsviie Republican,.
Casper Rumple blind negro in 4
neighborng town was shopping a day or 81