The Forrest City times., 1893-12-01
THE STATE IN BRIEF.

tity of cotton.
 Sales of zinc lands are reported in Marion county.
 Chicken-pie suppers are attractions at Little Rock churches.
 Washington county produced large crop of potatoes this year.
 The portion of Portland recently de- stroyed by fire will be rebuilt.
 The electric street railway mileage of Hot Springs will be extended.
 The Gulf route is pushing work be- tween Sulphur and Siloam Springs.
 The Little Rock Democrat wants the state game laws enforced on outside hunters.
 The Springfield & Great Eastern rail- way will be sold at public sale at Fay etteville January a7.
 The attendance at the Fayetteville university is expected to increase dur ing the ensuing term.
 There are fully 100 more inmates in the state asylum for the insane than at the same time last year.
 fire damaged the stock of J. w. Stuart X Son, dealers in general mer- chandise. at Texarkana.
 1t is believed that change of venue will be asked in the case of the State vs. Jake Laser. at Little Rock.
 The attendance for October at the Little Rock city schools was 4,055. The enrolment in November was 4,214.
 Members of the city council of Cam dor, hau haa,, Lu of licensing houses for bad purposes.
 Dr. Benjamin Hubbard, aged 50, a well-known citizen of Jefferson county, died at his home, Swan Lake, of con- sumption.
 Sheriff Anderson Mills bond as ex- officio collector was filed in Circuit Clerk Ramsey's office, in Little Rock, the other morning. The bond is for s450, ,000.
 The Howard county alliance has adopted resolutions denouncing the charge that it's members had consti- tuted themselves white caps as ma licious falsehood.
 T. R. MclIenry, ex-sheriff of Hot Spring county, and now a prominent candidate for county clerk, while hunt ing in the Saline bottoms. 40 miles south of Malvern, accide ntally shot himself.
 The secretary of state is sending out blanks to the railroads of the state which are to be filled and returned be- fore January 20. The blanks, when filled out, will show the operation etc, of the various roads
 Mrs. John W. Howell, of Little Rock, lost her pocket-bo ok containing $40, Mir. Howell advertised for it. The finder, Dr. Aliens son, read the ad- sertisement and returned the money to its rightful owner.
 The receipts of the state peniten- tiary for the six months ended October 31, were s53, 757 36, of which S23, 45l. 19 was from the state. The expenditures were s51, ,776.27, leaving a balance in the state treasury of sl,9Sl.09
 The state militia authorities have re- ;eived the enlistment rolls of two mili tia companies, one at Marion and the other at Hot Springs. They number thirty-four and thirty-three men each respectively, and expect to increase the aumber very soon.
 United States Deputy Marshal White arrived in Little Rock the other morn ing from Newport, with two alleged counterfeiters. The prisoners are Jonathan and Ben Thomson, father and son, the latter about 2l. They were arrested in Jackson county. Pend ing examination they were lodged in the penitentiary.
 Arkansas has 100, 900 farms, which produce 600, 900 bales of cotton, 900. 900 bushels of sweet potatoes, 100000 pounds of tobacco, 42, 1000, 900 bushels of corn and 2,OOO, 900 bushels of wheat From the Arkansas forests are cut $20.- 200, 900 of lumber every year.-St Louis Globe Democrat.
 Commissioner w. G. Vincenheller is fairly buried beneath a daily increas- ing mass of correspondence from par ties in every part of the United States who, having seen the Arkansas exhibit at the Worlds fair, want further in- formation about the resources of the state. He is mailing great deal of literature on the subject, and it is ex- pected much good will be realized therefrom.
 At Greenbrier Ambrose Benton killed Prof. w. M. Smith. The parties had had trouble over a settlement. Benton went to the store of Moore x Sons, in which Smith was employed as book keeper. A quarrel ensued. smith knocked Benton down and started to strike him again upon his rising, when Benton drew his knife and cut Smiths throat, the latter dying in short time' John Harrington is implicated in the difficulty. Benton is under arrest. Smith was a Royal Arch Mason and a