The Russellville Democrat., 1893-08-24
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Clarendon needs more houses to rent
 4 city cotton yard win be established at Batesyille.
 Some new bottom corn in Jefferson county will make sixty bushels to the acre.
 Camden's base bail club had very little trouble defeating the Clarendons last week.
 If the Cotton worm does not strip the leaves during the next twenty days there will be full crop.
 Eli Murphy had his hand caught in hay press on his farm near Greenwood. The injury WAS very painful.
 The coroner's jury decided that the kill iDg of John Lowry by Emory Sullivan at Hot Springs was unjustifable.
 Census takers have counted I50O ehil. dren and 5000 dogs in Pine Bluff. This is good showing for q town of the popu- Iation of Pine Bluff.
 Bob Monroe, of Piggott, got bitten on the foot by small snake Sunday evening, which caused very painful swelling, and for time threatened to prove fatal, but he is recovering now,
 Thos. Gilligan, visitor from Dallas, Tex, dropped dead Friday at Hot Springs. Gilligan was subject to brain affiction and died of paralysis of the brain. The city took charge of the remains.
 Information has reached Batesville that 8 scope of country at Hickory Valley has not had rain for eight weeks. The drouth is almost as b,d as that of 1874. This is the only locality in Independence county that has materially suffered for rain.
 The r4xarkana Furniture factory is busily engaged just now "a filling an or der for seats to be used in Bryant's Inter state College. The seats are to be of the latest and most approved psttern and will prove quite an ornament as well as a con venience to the college.
 About four weeks ago Selma Johnson, a colored woman. robbed guest of the Quinn House at Hot Springs of consfderab ever hundred dollars and" made good her escape from the city. Every effort was made to secure her capture and Friday she was taken in at Morrilton.
 c. c. Hemingway was assaulted by J. Brysn at lumber camp near Arkansas City last week. Hemingway was badly in jured. The trouble grew out of discrep- ancy between the two men relative to the
 
 due Hemingway by Bryan for rent.
 The Desha Lumber Company's mill at Arkansas City was necessarily forced to discontinue saving this week on account of low stage of the river and the impor. tance of building tram railway out be yond the waters edge so that logs may be much more conveniently conveyed to the saw.
 
 Shiloh has no school this summer. There was not funds enough in the treasury for free school, and from some cause they failed to have subscription school, so the small boys have nothing to do but to visit watermelon patches and go swimming in the river, with collie and chills as an ac- compartment.
 On Monday a negro by the narae of Henry Shelby was arraigned before Esq. Earnheart at Batesville on a charge of as- sault with intent to kill one Rev. E. D. Williams, colored, at Tallow Hill a few weeks ago. Shelby was bound over to await the action of the grand jury on a bond of $500, and failing to make it, now languishes in jail
 A farmer by the name of Gatewood, who resided one and a half or two miles from Rector, was killed last week on his way home from Rector. He had just purchased a nice new hack for family use and was returning home with the hack, his youngest son with him, when the team became frightened and ran away, throwing Mir. Gatewood against fence, fracturing his skull. He was taken up by friends and carried to a neighbor's house, but only lived an hour after. His little son jumped from the hack when the horse first became frightened and was not injured.
 Monday evening, while driving up horses in Capt. Evans pasture, negro found the remainder of the mail which was stolen from the Cotton Belt depot at Clarendon on the night of the 7th inst. There was quite lot of papers and letters, all of which had been rified. Among the letters were found two checks on the Mer- chants and Planters Bank drawn by County Treasurer Johnson, one to J. T. Box for s25, and one to W. S. Brown for SIP. They had been paid by the Monroe County Bank at Brinkley and were being returned for collection. So far as known the robbers got nothing of value. Senator Berry has seen the secretary of agriculture again with reference to the quarantine line now existing between Mis-
 
 formed the senator that the present line would be extended further south about September |, but declined to say just how far, pTeferring to wait for the report of the special inspector, who is now in the north west part of the state examining the cattle and climate with reference to the extension of the quarantine. Gen Neill and Mir Dins- more have been earnestly endaavoring, in conjunctio with Senator Berry, to relieve their constituents of the unjust discrimi- nations which the present regulations en- tail upon them.
 One night last week masked men went to the home of Alfred Allen, well to-do farmer living about eight miles west of Piggott, and compelled him to give up what money he had in the house, amount ing to about $l00. The robbers left their horses about half mile distant from the house, aud while one was left as guard on the outsids two others, with feet muffied, entered the sleeping apartment. Mir. Allen was awakened by the light of the lantern which the burglars carried and at tempted to get up, but the robbers beat him about the face with their revolvers and threatened that if he did not hand out his money quick they would kill him, which 80 frightened his wife that she got up and gave them the money. After se- curing this they warned the family not to look ont'of the door until they were gone. Deputy Sheriff Napier, accompanied by four fearless men, among whom was Will