The Monticellonian., 1894-09-21
GLANCE THROUGH ARKANSAS
Items About People and Events That Will
 Prove of Interest to Arkansans.

A'''9S''C79 i9 lpphlHp up dI '7cdfCN.
 Dennis McGann, of Little Rock. died of paralysis.
 Congressman Terry is enjoying cv- celcnt health.
 Harrison wants telephone line to Eureka Springs.
 Senator Jones hopes that n short rest wall restore his health.
 W. $. Johnson. of Henderson, Kv., and Mrs. Sarah Bedford, were married T Helena. a..
 The new military post at Little Rock will accommodate four companies. 1t VII. cost the government about S2o0,- 00U.
 Mir. s, II. Power has been ap- pointed treasurer of Columbia county, Treasurer Smith, it is alleged having 6foved defaulter.
 E. I, Smith, q prominent druggist of Fayetteville, died recently. He leaves hls famiiy-widow, son and daughter well provided for.
 Dr. J. R. Dale, of Philadelphia, has accepted the chair of professor of opera tion surgery of the Beaumont Hospital Medical college of St. Louis.
 Miss Martha Mayes. eldest daughter of the late Rev, John Mayes, died sud. denly of heart disease at her home in Fayetteville early the other morning. She was apparently well at bedtime.
 Col. John R. Penn, one of Woodruff county's most cnterprising and influen- tial citizens. died recently. Dr. Dye. of Searey. preached the funeral sermon. The doctor and the colonel were inti- mate friends.
 The funeral of w " Field one of the hest-known men in Little Rock, oc- cured the other day. Mr Field was born in llempstead county forty-one years ago. He passed away peacefully, with his mother and q sister at the bed side.
 At Noble Lake, 10 miles south of Pne Bluff, Willie James brained Al Robin son with a wagon standard. Both ne- groes. Several arrests have been made of parties said to have been implicated in the affair 1t is said tlat politics lead to the deed.
 The governor has offered reward of S200 for the arrest and conviction of the unknown parties who on sunday night before the election and on Tues day and Wednesday nights following fired into the houses of certain negroes and shot one of them near Emmett
 Commissioner Nincenhellcr has been requested by the directors of the Inde- pendence county fair to be present 0c- tober If, but as the State Horticultural society will be in session that day he can not accept the invitation, but he will be represented by his deputy, F. NJ. Goar.
 There is much interest among the friends of the Searcv female institute over the arrival of Fraulein Elsbeth 1 Meyer. the new musical director, who is said to have achieved a fine reputa- ton as a concert player, both in Ger many and Sweden. She is. a graduate of the Berlin observatory.
 The statement that the secretary of state would not issue commissions for notaries public until October 1, put in circulation by Little Rock daily, proves misleading. Such commissions are issued at any time. The commis- sions for justice of the peace and other elective officers will not be issued before th..t time.
 Sneak thieves entered the residence of James Elam, an old citizen of Ben tonyille, the other night, and robbed him of cOnsidera ble money. The rob- bers used ehleroform, and even took the ring off Mrs. Elams hand. She was conscious that the ring was being fremoved from her finger, but was un- able to make any resistance.
 Mrs. Jennie Campbell, who attempt ed to take her life at Hot Springs by swallowing laudanum, was formerly of Little Rock. Doctors LeFevre and Williams, after some hard work, saved her life. 1t is stated that the woman was formerly a keeper of d boarding house in Little Rock, where she be- came infatuated. with man who went to Hot Springs and engaged in busi- ness. She became insanely jealous, so the story goes, and in a paroxysm of this feeling attempted to end her exist enee.
 Says the Little Rock Democrat: There is q difference of opinion as to the cot ton crop of Arkansas. Estimates vary from SOC, GOO to 1 1000, 900 bales. If we shonld produce 500, GOO and get but six and half cents pound for it, it will realize more to the farmers clear money-than eight cents would have brought them under the former con ditions of debt and mortgage With good crop in most sections of the state. and with other necessaries of life in abundance, we are in much bet ter condition than the people of the drought-stricken west. In fact we have no reason to complain. Out of S9, GOO, GOO for rivers and har- bors recently appropriated by congress, | Arkansas received S640, 900, which was little more than that obtained a year ago when the appropriation was l S24 900, GOO. This amount, with that obtained for the military post and the federal building at Little Rock gives Arkansas an ap- propriation somewhere in the neighhorhood of Sl ,000, 900. The Little Rock post now has to it's credit s19i, 757, which includes the $50, GOO appro- priated by the Fifty-seeond congress. | Arkansas, it should be remem bered, has more miles of navigable rivers than any other state in the Union,
 Deputy United States Marshals White and Carpenter, of Little Rock, recently visited Columbia county, where they captured two moonshiners and wild cat still The still, which was de | Jct md ..f If vxbf fah tui iyar