The Russellville Democrat., 1893-08-03
STATE NEWS.

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 A horticultural society has been organ ized at Alma.
 The Daily san, published at Jonesboro, has suspended
 Rain has been much needed in the vicin- fly of Wabeseea.
 The canning factory al Forrest City hes put up 5000 cans of tomatoes up te date.
 Hot Springs offers to entertain the Ar kansas State Gusrd in annual encsmpmens.
 4eorge Craft. colored, well-digger was asnby xiated in a well at Hot Springs Fri day.
 Two tenement houses owned by J M. Stout, of Black Rock, were dessroyed y fire Wednesday. Ineendiafy origin.
 Judge Lafayette Kirk, district. judge Q, Brenhani, Tex, was found dead n pea Friday morning at the Bloomi gion House in Het Springs, where he had been guest for some time. He had been apparently in good health and his death was entirely un- looked for.
 Jobn Sheffield. who was recently danger onslv wounded in difficulty with negro named Pete- Berriman, near Manfred, and who hss been under the surveillance Of an officer while confined to his room, skipped our one richt last week and is supposed to have gope fo the Indian Ter ritory
 At Strawberry, Ark, 8 team belonging to ] W. Warnick ran away, doing con siderable damage. They were loadisg nay and when the team started MT keynoias run in front of the team with the intention of stopping them, but they ran over hin' breaking thigh bone and otherwise badly crushing him.
 pr. ]. McLemore was thrown from his bnggy Sunday morning by hia horse run ming away at Mammoth Sp,ing Tne doc for was seriously bruised up, having his leg broken and being otherwise injured. UT McIemere is about 50 years oli. ana nas beeu feeble for some time and for that reason will perhaps not recover.
 Two raftsmen who were stopping at the Madame house last Monday night at Blas Rock are each minus pair of pants and quantity of money. During the night tsief entered their room and extracted their pants from under their hesds, but were discovered as they beat hasty re. treat through window. One IS out $lo3 and the other one $2 90.
 Crop reports from the country are more encouraging this week than they have been heretofore, says The Arkansas City New Enterprise. Old crops are doing well, and also young crops. There mas not been any report of worms as yet that usually play havoc with young crops after au overflow Good rains are reported from nearly all sections the past week.
 GThis is the time of year that pap puts nav and the younguns in the wagin and drives the nags over into the next county and spends two or three weeks visiting his
 r-A -s xub all feast on chicken and dumpliu, watermelons, young squirrels and peach cobblerr, and gets back home to find that his neighbors stock has destroyed his crop. Sharp Coun- ty Record.
 An old colored man, known as Garfield, but whose right pame is Adam Taylor, was arrested this week in Mississippi, opposite Chicot, by parties who claim that he was the man wanted in South Carolina for mur- der committed seven or eight years ago. Garfield was taken to Rosedale, Miss. Car field has been around Arkansas City for the past twelve or fourteen years, consequently there must he some mistake in hs identi- tv. Later reports say Garfield has been re- leased from custody.
 Stock-pea culture is quite extensive through this section this year. Nearly every farmer has field or so of peas com isu.on. Hamp Price has 200 acres in peas. 4Pea field makes fine pasture for both hogs and cattle. "Then,p says Mir. Price, if peas are cut when the pods begin to turn and summed like other hay, horses love pea. hay better than any, hing else." It seems evident that Sharp county farmers are learning to diversity their crops and are mixing stock-raising in with pleasing re- sults.-Sharp County Record.
 E P. Smith had tho misfortune on fishing trip near Fordyce to be twice bitten by a large cotton mouth snake. He, with others, was seining and was barefoo.ed. Having seined in one hole, they were going across drift pile to another. Smith tt. pped on the drift and felt something stick in his foot, but knew not what it was. He raised his foot again, being the left one, and the angry reptile struck him under th- ball Dr. B. H. Gallagher was near by, and he immediately made an in- cision around the wounds and cut out the virus. He then dressed the wounds, and the victim of the vicious snake has been doing welt. His foot is ct badly swollen, bu he gets about.
 Colby Benton, of Perry county, we'll to- do farmer, arrived in Hot Springs We'd nesday morning and, during the day form ula'ed plan 10 see the city by gaslight, which he immediately put into execution after upper After travelling around un- til late hour he went down Valley street to the 'Drty Six" to take view of life in it's lowest fo m He remained hese . ome time treating ths habitues of the saloons and then started to retur1 to the wagon yard near the postoffice block where his yeam was put up. On Grand avenue he was overtaken by couple of negro men who knocked him down and r,bbed him. After getting this the rascals left him on a run and have not since been seen. Benton was not seriously il jured.
 Tuesday morning about o'clock three darkies vera busily engaged in helping them' elves to the contents of Massey 6 Matthews grocery store at Black Rock, when they were run onto by City Marshal Jones. He had been on the watch all night and his attention was attracted thither by one of the negroes strikiny match When Marshal Jones stepped up to the door to loos in big bury negro jumped onto his back and commenced choking him. Jones managed to secure 1 his pistol and as the two ala med darkies | came out of the store he shot one knocking | him down and the other one ran. H. then | turned his attention to the one that had 1 hold oi him and shot him in the face. All i three made their escape in the darkness | A few cigars were missed and several cake boxes bore evidence of rough handling.