The Forrest City times., 1894-03-02
THE STATE IN BRIEF.

The Little Rock school board has been in existence twenty-fire years. Ben. H. Crowley, the new receiver of the Little Rock land office, took charge the other day.
 The city council of Little Rock has decided to limit the number of electric street lamps at zoo.
 There will be an adjourned term of court at Pocobantas in May to take up law and equity cases.
 Addison Moore, colored farm hand, fell dead in field on Jacob Woods place, near Little Rock. James Taylor, of Warmer, Lincoln county, was killed in a runaway acci- dent the other morning.
 The Union Land Co of Chicago has located 100 families of Swedes, Ger mans and Bohemians in Prairie county.
 Rev. Edward E. Cowperthwaite. of Chicago has been called to the pastor ate of the Christian church in Little Rock
 The remains of Robert Steel, who died at Cisco, Tex, were inferred at Prescott He was a son of W. T. Steele, or IrSScOIt.
 T. C. Kimber, of Springfield, H., has purchased property in Johnson county, and will engage in the fruit raising business.
 Hon. E. c. Mitchell, of Harrison, who was appointed consul at New South Wales. Australia, has declined the appointment.
 State Supt J. H. Shinn attended a meeting of the national convention of state superintendents of public instruc- tion at Richmond, Va.
 The interstate drill to have been held at Dallas, Tex, in June has been de- clared off. and there is some talk of holding the drill in Little Rock.
 laboring man dropped s10 gold l piece in the contri ribution basket in a Little Rock church by mistake. He "squealed," and tLe preacher returned the ''shiner."
 ;. E. Dowell, a real estate broker of Walnut Ridge. has issued a circular l calling convention of the real estate ] dealers of the stage to meet in Little Rock May p.
 1 Hon. A. w. Dinsmore, father of Con- gressman Hugh i. Dinsmore, died at 1 the home of his daughter in Benton vile after a lingering illness. He had lived in Bentonvilie for forty years. The special tax cases, recently de- eided in favor of the Western Union Telegraph and Pacific Express com- l panies. against the state, have been l appealed to the United States supreme court.
 Billy Bryant, a notorious crook, was arrested in Little Rock by Detectives Cornelia and Spight upon information l from the sheriff of Crittenden county, where he worked a confidence game l for 5000.
 l Says a Monticello correspondent of l Little Rock paper: The usual amount of mortgages for the coming crop are being taken though the supply of home made meat and corn is greater among l farmers than formerly.
 Thos B. Gibbs, accused of cutting timber on government lanti in Ouachi- ta county. was arrested at McGehee, Desha county. He waived examina- tion at Little Rock and was bound over in the sum of $500. in default of which he was committed to the peni- tentiary.
 At Little Rock Jim Brown was fined Sl00 and costs and sentenced to ninety 1 days on the charge of embezzlement 1 He was given a five dollar bill to get change for it. After he secured it he appropriated the cash to his own use and nov will be fed at the expense of | the county.
 Late the other night two negroes with handkerchiefs over their faces entered the grocery store of Allen r. Stilley, in Little Rock. one of them drawing a pistol and leveling it at Mir. | Stilley while the other went through his pockets and money-draw Luck fly Mir. Stillev had concealed all his money but forty-five cents, which is all the robbere secured
 A corres pondent writing the Little 1 Rock Democrat from Pocahontas says: This Randolph) country is wonderful- ly blessed with rich. fertile soil and natural advantages, not equaled by any other county in the state, and we know of no better place in Arkansas for capitalists to invest money, and all good men and citizens are cordially in- vited here to look for themselves and pass judgment on our county. At Pine Bluff. the other evening, in the lecture hall of the Merrill institute, the bust of Albert Pike, which was purchased by the Ladies Columbian society and placed in the Arkansas building at the Worlds fair, was pre- sented to the Merrill institute. The