The Forrest City times., 1892-01-15
STATE NEW s.

Fordyce had mad-dog scare last week.
 4 broom factory is talked of at Camden.
 Hardy was visited by sl5 GOO fire q few days ago.
 Tue Joncshoro Sun has a new Prouty printing press.
 piae Bluffs new jail will aecommo- date 100 prisoners,
 Pembina is the name of new post office in Baxter county. Paris has silver cornet band and q hook and ladder company.
 A regular passenger train now rms from Fort Smith to Greenwood.
 Hampton, Calhoun county, has a paper called The Western Boomerang.
 The Fordyce Lumber company have sold out to the Eagle mills of the same place.
 The next state convention of the Y :. M. c. A. will be held in Conway in April.
 A great deal of cotton still remains in the fields ill the neighborhood of Cabot.
 Work is progressing on the exten- sion of the Stuttgart and Arkansas River railroad.
 X negro named Henry Walker was l found dead in vacant house in Little 1 Rock last week. The Baptist church at Rogers was 1 blown down and totally destroyed by a storm last week.
 Brakeman Biford. of the Little Rock and Fort Smith road, wts killed 1 by train last week.
 Tine county paupers of Izagd county, nine in number, were bid off last week at Si.65 per head.
 The grand lodge of the Independent i Order of Good Templars convened in Little Rock last Friday. | A. F. Brady, merchandise and lum- Der, Little Rock, has assigned. Assets and liabilities about $6000.
 Citizens of Rogers have organized Jaw and order league" to suppress gambling, blind tigers, etc.
 After three months of married fife Wiley Brigham eloped from Stephens with his brides young sister.
 An "unloadedn pistol caused the probable fatal shooting of one negro by another at Pine Bluff Friday.
 Dan Mckinney of Redfeld, aged v years, was run over by an express wagon at Pine Bluff and badly hurt.
 Officers destroyed distillery and captured two moonshiners near frask wood, Saline county, few days ago.
 By the parting of rope q 7OJ0 pound safe fell at Pine Stuff, killing enc man and seriously injuring two others.
 There is movement on foot to re- move the county seat of Grittenden couaty from Marion to West Mem phis.
 The name of the Dewitt Gazette has been changed to the New Era. W. Theo. Smith has taken charge of the paper.
 Price Campbell, a farmer of Lafferty township, lzard county, ughtered d "sub-treasury" hog that weighed 520 pounds.
 The fourth annual banquet of the 1 o!j Hickory club of Little Rock was given Friday night and was magnIi- cent affair.
 R. r. Kellam, one of the brightest young newspaper men of the state, has retired from the elitorshlp Of the Camden Beacon.
 aA boy named Oscar Ross jumped from the train near Mansfield and was badly injured, his leg being broken and his hip badly bruised.
 Two prominent citizens living near Springne.d, Conway county, says the Pilot, went to New York to invest in "greens goods and lost about S5o00.
 Uncle Bob Gibson, an old citizen of 1 Washington county and a Mexican war veteran, died at Pennington last week. He was over 80 years of age.
 Judge Harvey has issned an order forbidding the sale of wine within three miles of the Paris academy. The question will be carried to the supreme l court.
 Whiskey and craps caused shooting scrape at Charlottesville. in which liar " Carr, an Iron Mountain section foreman, was killed by John Trexior, a young man of the neighborhood.
 The body of J. F. Hackman, the peddler murdered m Pulaski county on the 28th ult., has been exhumed and shipped to his home at Jacksonville, H., for reinterment.
 Frank BasSett, an engineer on the Little Rock and Fort smith railroad, was killed last week by the accidental oyerturning of his engine near Barring Cross. He leavs a wife and three small children.
 The murderer of the peddler, Hack man, Tn Pulaski county, turns out to be a white man. He was arrested in the Indian country and is in jail at Little Rock. He claims the killing was done in self-defense. l Five moonshiners and an illicit dis tillery were captured by deputy mar shals Friday in the mountains north of Clarksville. Friends of the prison CTS attempted rescue, but were pre- vented by the officers.
 J. II. Adair of Boone county raised 670 bushels of corn, S75 pounds seed cotton, 75 bushels sweet potatoes, 70 bushels Irish potatoes, 35 bushels peanuts, bushels pop corn, and 105 gallons molasses from fourteen acres of land. Value of products, S2S0.
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