The Forrest City times., 1894-11-23
ARKANSAS GUEANINGS.

rope county farmers have organized.
 Malvern has no public school this year.
 A new mill is being built at Mar shall.
 Van Buren will build new school house.
 Senator Jones has returned to Wash ington.
 Mammoth Spring will have a board of trade.
 The new hotel at Fl Dorado is now complete.
 Lonoke farmers have shipped hay to Mobile, Ala. thls season.
 The Graphic of Pine Bluff will be a morning paper on and after Decem- Der l.
 The \. NJ. C. A. is growing rapidly In Little Rock, and accomplishing much good
 Van Buren county exempts members of the fire department from work on the streets.
 The social event of the season at Nanndale, Cross county, was the mar rlage of Miss Grace Lewellen to Dr. J. B. Smith
 Batesville claims to be the only cltv In the state that can boast of an orches- tra composed of children under twelve years of age.
 Ex-Treasurer Woodruff has taken a change of venue to Perry county in an- other case which was pending against him in the'Pulaski circuit court Tom Thomas, hack driver, shot and mortally wounded John Darling, a butcher, at Hot Springs. The trouble grew out of alleged intimacy between Darling and Thomas wife The grand jury of Sebastian county has submitted report to Judge Brv- ant, charging the township and city officials of Fort Smith with being in collision with the criminal element.
 The Newport Herald says: "A letter addressed to Uncle Jerry was re- ceived at the postoffce in this city. It was mailed at Little Rock. but the of ficials are at a loss to know who it was intended for"
 Hon. Jerry Simpson, known as the
 Sockless Statesman, member of con- gress from Kansas, is at Hot Springs. He is suffering from an attack of rheu- matisln in the shoulder and will take a course of the hot baths
 Robert C. Polk, young colored at- torney of Pine Bluff. charged with for gery in pension case. was adjudged guilty in the federal court at Little Rock. The punishment will be as- larv ha DAll- 11fA "a himself in the trial.
 The venerable Zacheus Phelps, a re- tired merchant and the father of Capt. James NJ. Phelps, president of the Law renee County bank, and A. c. and F. C. Phelps, merchants, died at Walnut Ridge. He was sl years old and had resided in the county since 1860.
 The dissolution of the receivership of the Capital Street Railway Co.,, Lit tie Rock, is looked for at an early day. The plant is mortgaged in the sum of S6O0,000 Besides this, the Thomson Houston Electric Co. has an attach ment of Sl57, 900 against the plant. The contract for making a survey and typographical map of the sewer district of Texarkana has been let by the sewer commissioners, and by Janu- ary next contract can be let for put ting in the sewers, which will be com pleted in about four months. This will give the city sewers before summer comes again. Attorheys for Tom Watkins. convict ed of the murder of O'Bannon last sum- mer, have filed motion for a new trial in the Pulaski circuit court. They al- lege the discovery of new evidence since the trial tending to prove an alibi, making the grounds of defense not merely technical. An attempt will be made to prove that Watkins was at least 115 miles from the scene of tn, tragedy at the time the murder was committed
 Says dispatch from Malvern to the Little Rock Democrat: NJ. Moscowitz, prominent Hebrew citizen of Hot Springs, and well-known in commer- cial circles, incurred the displeasure of gang of hoodlum hotel drummers here. For revenge they made Mosco- witz the target of number of rough practical jokes which resulted in rem dering him insane. He was returned to Hot Springs, in all proba bility a hopeless maniac.
 The business men of Forrest City are indignant against alleged discrimina- tions in freight rates by the railroads. They met, and it was moved and car ried that a meeting of the merchants and farmers of Arkansas be called to meet at Little Rock in January for the purpose of organizing a merchants and farmers protective association, with view to secnrinr some character of lan-