The Forrest City times., 1893-11-24
THE STATE IN BRIEF.

The board of health of Little Rock IS taking steps to abate nuisances
 The Associate Reform Presbyterians will build a church in Little Rock.
 The remains of Mrs. J. F. Little, ot Conway. were inferred at Little Roc k the other day.
 Hon. Nimrod Thurman, prominent lawyer, and mayor of Van Buren. died a few nights ago.
 Aaron Piggee was arrested in Gar land county, charged with cutting tim Der on government land.
 Ex-Gov. Eagle preached revival sermon at the Second Baptist church, Little Rock, the other night.
 The principal portion of the town of Portland, Ashley county, was burned. Loss, $40, 900; insurance, s20,O
 Dr. John Goode, general merchant at Magnolia. has assigned. Liabilities, S7,49477: assets, about the same.
 W. A. Glover's left arm was torn off by the saws at Glover & Bailey's gin at Cabot. Amputation was necessary.
 Owners of large bodies of wild land in Poinsett county want the valuation for taxation reduced from g to Sl.2o per acre.
 Smuggling operations in the Arkansas river will hereafter be confined to the stretch of river between Little Rock and Fort Smith.
 Mrs. Jesse K. Core, of Plum Bayou, Jefferson county died the other morn- ing at the residence of her mother, Mrs. W. P. Montague. in Pine Bluff.
 J. J. Sykes, superintendent of the Consumers Cotton Oil Go. at Little Rock. was arrested the other day. on the charge of grand larceny committed in Texas.
 Capt. John Smoker, of Philadelphia, died the other day, aged 76. He was wealthy, highly esteemed, and was for many years a leading merchant of Philadelphia.
 George W. Winters, prominent dealer in general merchandise at Traskwood, Saline county, has as- signed. John l.. Shoemaker, of Ben ton, is receiver.
 OThe Little Rock Commercial league is taking steps to secure a number of new factories. Among the new enter prises are blow, tobacco, hoop, spoke and hub and buggy factories.
 Vernon A. Henry was found guilty of counterfeiting in the federal court at Little Rock. Judge Williams sem tenced him two years imprisonment sy,t ( ha saI xxfE l.
 Bert Williams, 16 years old, from Pa ducah. Ky, is in jail at Paragould, charged with breaking into the post office and Jacobs jewelry store and stealing twenty watches from the lat. ter place.
 Hon. John R. Fellows, member of congress from the Fourteenth New York district, was in Little Rock re- gently. It was his first visit since 1881, when he made speeches in Arkansas for Bell and Everett.
 Keep Arkansas at the front by adver- Using her resources and presenting the advantages offered for investment The proper effort will surely bring a rich reward to those who make it. Little Rock Democrat
 At Helena Gilbert Baker, a negro de- tective. whose home is in Pine Bluff, and who has operated extensively along the lines of railroad, was convicted of burglary and sentenced to term of five years in the penitentiary.
 Owing to the small appropriation re. maining in the reward fund Gov. Fish back will probably not offer any re- ward for the arrest of the negro lynch CTS. who broke open the jail at Warmer ard shot the negro Nelson to death.
 The commencement exercises of the Arkanas industrial university will be- gin November 24 and conclude Novem- Der 2S. Prof. Junius Jordan. of Pine Bluff, will deliver an address, and Dr. Matthews, of St. Louis, the baccalau- reatc.
 A negro man and woman were found living in an unoccupied room in the Eighth Street M. E. church south, at Little Rock. They had been there some time. They had kept the doors locked securely and in this way avoided dis covery.
 Dock Coleman and Lee Hudspeth pleaded guilty in the federal court at Little Rock to selling liquor without license. They were sentenced to pay a fine of s10O each and costs and thirty days Imprisonment in the Drew coun- ty jail.
 The governor has remitted $50 fine assessed against Mark A. Deputy, of Phillips county, for carrying a pistol, upon the statement of the grand jury that the crime is merely technical, and that of the attorney-general that Dep uty is of unsound mind.
 Max Reber and w. A. Lee have been