The Forrest City times., 1892-11-04
STATE NEWS.

| fair.
 Two houses were blown down at | Magnolia Tuesday. The new factory at Nashville is ! nearing completion. The uniforms have been received for | the Rodgers academy.
 Boil worms are playing havoc with cotton in Lonoke county.
 Prairie Grove has graded school with an enrolment of 200.
 Killing frosts have occurred in va rous portions of the state.
 More than 20O0 acres in Yell county have already been sosgn in wheat. Ira J. Bunch died at his home at Oak Forrest, Lee county, on October IS. Miss Sallie Robinson now has con. trol of the Cleveland County Herald
 Brinkley will have saloons the next two years, and they will pay city tax of 5000
 The Baptist state convention met at Fort smith Tuesday, with q large attend ancc.
 The city council of Van Buren closed contract last Friday for a system of water works.
 Tlie Peoples Savings Bank of Brink
 ley will be open for business by the list of January.
 The A. |. U. band boys have received their new instruments There are twenty seven pieces.
 A religious wave has struck Hot Springs. Three or four revivais are going on at the same time,
 The Prairie Grove Banner reports the sale of little shaot' in that town that weighed eos pounds
 Eleven saloon keepers at Hot Springs were arrested last week for keeping their re- sorts open on Sunday. A sweet potato weighing five and one-half pounds has been rcoei ved at the Brinkjey Argus office.
 T. E. St. Johns of Warren was thrown fromsa mule Monday and died in few hours from the injuries receiveds-
 There will be eighfyseight democrats seven populites and five republicans in the lower house of the next legislature. The survey of the railroad from Nashville to Centre Point has been competed and work will commence at an early day. Bentonville wants waterworks and If they cannot get them the Democrat wants cistevn at each corner of ihe public square Ben Pearce, a colored boy of 13, was shot near Greenwood on the 3rd inst. by his brother. aged I3. They were scufting oyer a pistol.
 Colonel Cal Pemberton of Little Rock. has been appointed warden of the Ar kansas penitentiary, vice John H. Dye. re- signed.
 Another killing occurred at Argenta Tuesday, the victim being negro named Tobe Smith and the murderer one John Poin- dexter.
 The city council of Little Rock has advertised for bids for the burial of it's un- claimed dead. The city undertaken Is ne- cessity.
 At Brinkley, the residence of George Shoecraft was destroyed by fire Wednesday night of last week. Everything Lost. No in- surance.
 The Pine Bluff Commercial says the cotton crop of Jefferson county was never so short as this year, being only about half of an average crop.
 AlOnZo McKennOn, wellknown young man of Newport, was killed at Bates vile on tho 22nd inst while trying to board a moving train.
 A fatal duel with knives was fougbt near Eureka Springs Tuesday between two farmers named Agent Pyatt and Bruce Offer Pyatt was killed.
 Sanders, the suspended chief of DO lice Of Little Rock was reinststed Saturday and immediately rendered his regisnati0n to take effect December l. The Hot Springs Valley Bank, of Hot Springs Ark, assigned very unexpectedly last week. Assets are said to be about sl00, ,000 and liabilities Ss9.0lf.97. Dr, II. w. Rector, president of the defunct Valley bank of Hot Spsings makes the announcement that be has assets enough to pay of all indebtedness of the bank Sixteen varieties of oak are found within the state limits, besides seven varie- ties of ash, and every shade Of hickry which grows on the continent of North America. One day last week E. NJ. Warren, of Fort Smith rode ninety miles over the rough roads through the Indian Territory on a bi- cycle. The trip was made in a little less than twelve hours. Arkansas oak appears to be in de- mand at the North for cabinet work and in- terior finish. A St. Louis lumber dealer has given one of our mills au order for l,eO0,O00 feet of red oak The farmer who has raised plenty of corn. hogs and potatoes this year. is the one who can well hold up his head when he comes to town and not be afraid of meeting q credi- tor.--Jonesboro Times. Every week brings renewed proof of the shortness of the cotton crop. Thirty-three per cent will not cover the shortage in thss county, and many good farmers estimate it at 50 per cent.-Augusta Vidette. So many eloping couples from Ten nessee come over to Helena to get married that the authorities are debating the question of a tariff on matrimonial knots-a revenue | tariff simply, not a prohibtory one. Judge John Hallum of Texarkana is out in a law brief against the Southern Build I ing and Loan association for usnry. We pre- | dict the judge will be most ingloriously re- | lieved of his suspicious when the court "sets | his case"
 Thomas Claiborne of Camden was arrested at Pine Bluff Tuesday on the charge | of forging a check. He claims that he got the
 check from a man named Bill Jones, but 1t is generally discredited and Claiborne seems to | be in { bad fix. The Treasurer of Arkansas has filed his biennial report with the Governor. The | total indebtedness of the state fs given as A,- l 9O9 4g2 Of that amount tue govoFnment holds | ,.aga< a<S,f raaf hauLg Lnpds f. ing to S53S 900; 252 bonds. of 1870 issue. of the same denomination, and B per cent State | bank bonds, amounting to s3O0O0. | The postmaster at LaRue recently | had occasion to go into his store after night | On lighting lamp he discovered q window | open and pistol on the counter. search revealed two boys hiding under thescounter i One of the boys was years old and the other | was l7. The elder was held for indictment, | while the younger was turned loose. | s. A. Beck of Mont Pisgah planted
 last spring a iittle.over one quarter of an acre | from that small space of ground 136 buskeI, that would be s6s from this part of au acre. | If planted in cotton he would have realized | exactIp 4s 9 instead of SO. Comments are
 unnecessary.--White County Citizen, | HoW's ThisI We offer one Hundred Dollars reward
 for any case of CataSrh that cannot be
 cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
 +. J. CHENEY & Co.,, Toledo, o.
 We, the undersigned, have known F. J ! Cheney for the last l5 years. and believe