The Forrest City times., 1893-11-10
THE STATE IN BRIEF.

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 The public schools of Atkins are said to be prosperous.
 Fl Dorado is receiving twice as much cotton as last year.
 Work on the new courthouse at De Witt is progressing finely.
 Camden has organized a board of trade with twenty members.
 Arch Berry, colored, lost his right arm in gin near Greenwood.
 The residence of J. F. Joplin, Hot Springs, was destroyed by fire.
 Whitecaps have posted gins in the southern part of Howard county.
 The Eagle Rangers of Lonoke have received another shipment of arms.
 l.. w. Barker, an old citizen of Do Witt, died, after protracted illness
 James Harris, miles south of Bates vile, committed suicide by hanging.
 Deruty-Collector F. J. Carpenter cap tured six illicit stills in Pike county.
 Union county received about q 900 as fines during the recent term of court
 The Jefferson guards of Pine Bluff gave their first annual ball the other night.
 The cornerstone of the new college for colored people was laid at Little Rock.
 Hon. J. C. South is talking of organ izing cavalry company in Baxter county.
 Irl, son of J. F. Darr, of Atkins, was run over by lumber wagon and leg crushed.
 Evangelist John P. Lowry, of Little Rock, is conducting a revival at Hot Springs
 The crusade against the abuses of the drumming system is still on at Hot Springs.
 The Little Rock daily press is not satisfied with the result of the Wood. ruff case.
 Ex-Treasurer Woodruff will be tried again at the next term of the Pulaski circuit court.
 The record made by Arkansas at the Worlds fair should be gratifying to the people of the state.
 A. C. Jones died in Van Buren. He was struck on the head by John Jenny. Jenny was captured.
 The Jefferson Guards of Pine Bluff have recently received a shipment of arms and ammunition.
 No one was allowed to serve on the federal jury at Little Rock whose poll tax had not been paid.
 Tho co, of uor q W Yancy, ex-member of the legislature, died in Phillips county.
 Mattix Bros, saw-mill men at Smith dale, Cross county, have assigned. Lia- bilities, B, 200; assets, s4,500.
 Street Car Conductor McLard. of Lit tie Rock, was seriously injured by be- ing caught between the cars.
 Mrs. Margaret Keene, nearly 70 years of age, was struck and severely injured by motor car in Little Rock.
 The number of witnesses before the federal court at Little Rock during the present term is unusually large.
 The cotton crop in the neighborhood of Poplar Grove, Phillips county. is short about one bale to five acres
 A large number of witnesses before the federal grand jury, from different parts of the state, are now at Little Rock
 The Little Rock Democrat warns tho farmers not to sell all their cotton seed. There will be time to plant by and by.
 The cost of feeding the jury in tho late Woodruff trial at Little Rock was s273. The trial cost Pulaski county over sl.5Oo.
 An effort is being made to make Lit tie Rock an insurance city of the first class. It would save property owners about s15, 900 year.
 Joe Solomonson, the 6-year-old son of Sol Solomonson. a Little Rock mer- chant was probably fatally injured by q kick from horse.
 The barn of Dr. X. D. Wren, miles south of Prescott, was destroyed by fire, together with 500 bushels of corn and 5,0o0 bundles of fodder.
 Tom Younger, a Texas desperado, was arrested in Camden the other day. He IS wanted in Wood county, Kas., to answer for numerous crimes.
 A stone tablet will be placed in the colorcd college at Little Rock to the memory of the white people who took part in the furtherance of the work.
 The alleged whitecaps who had posted warning notices on Hampstead county gins have recently posted no- tices counterinanding their first orders.
 Col. Alexander NJ. Shannon, lately appointed postmaster of Galveston, Tex, is native of Washington coun- ty, Ark, and left Arkansas just before La