The Forrest City times., 1894-02-16
THE STATE IN BRIEF.

Judge Lea has been holding court s' Perryville.
 The lumber business in Hot springs is reported good.
 Little Rock paid her city officers Ssoo for January salaries.
 There were forty-fve deaths in Little Rock during January.
 Malvern wants slave factory and railroad to Wyandotte.
 The art levee at Galloway college, Searcy, was a grand success
 A county emigration society has been suggested in Craighead county.
 A Higginson saw-mill recently ship ped 100, 900 feet of railroad timber.
 Miss Belle Blum. IS years old, daugh- ter of A. Blum, died at Pine Bluff of consumption.
 The Little Rock police force cost s1,9o7 during January; the fire depart ment, s1.3s0.
 Wm. Reed, colored. is in trouble with the federal authorities for running blind tiger at Conway.
 The Fort Smith chamber of commerce is figuring on an illustrated write uP in the Chicago Record.
 Little Rock plumbers went on strike because the bosses were giving toe much work to apprentices.
 Antioch, near Hot Springs. is report ed to be flourishing. It has two saw mills running on full time.
 Burglars attempted to rob the smoke house at the confederate home, Little away.
 The criminal docket was light at the recent term of the Hot Spring county circuit court, but the civil docket was heavy.
 A young man named Kennedy fell from the belfry of the new Centennial school building, Little Rock, and broke his leg.
 The war on coal oil at Pine Bluff still grows warmer. It has been retailed at 71s cents per gallon, and in bulk at 6 cents
 Two negroes entered Walters gro cery, 1115 East Twelfth street, Little Rock, and compeled the proprietor to hand over s3l.
 Hon. Jas E. Dent. we'll known citi- zen of Augusta. has been appointed commissary on the staff of Brig. Gen. Geo. P. Taylor.
 In Little Rock the other night a burglar rified the pockets of Mir. c. E. McCauley's trousers, securing s2S and some small change.
 Will Fellows. hotel clerk in Little Rock. shot himself through the knee, while fooling with an old revolver he supposed to be unloaded.
 Gov. Fishback and Commissioner Vincenheller request real estate men to send the commissioner statistics of their respec tive counties.
 The Bank of Eastern Arkansas at Forrest City has offered S250 reward each for the arrest and conviction of the three burglars who blew up the bank.
 At Fl Dorado pistol discharged by accident went through two walls and about two inches into the right shoul. der of a little boy in an adjoining room, infiicting severe wound In the federal court at Little Rock, in the case of Charles A. Coffin and the Thompson-Houston Electric Co. vs. Horace c. Allis and wife, decree of sas3, ,oO0 was found for the plaintiffs
 Two prominent citizens of Grant county have passed away-W. V. Brat ton, of Cherry Grove, and William Morton, of Belfast. The former died of pneumonia and the latter of consump- ton.
 Capt. William Farrell and J. N. Wooley, of Cabot. have furnished three carloads of wood free to the United Charities association of Little Rock, the Iron Mountain furnishing free transportation.
 Geo. Burdell, white. addicted to petty thieving, was fined $25 and costs in Little Rock. and sentenced to thirty days in the county jail, for stealing jug from a countryman. He lid not care for the jug. but had . great longing for it's contents
 The assassination of an old woman and her son near Forrest City, empha- sizes the demand for diligent inquiry into the lawless acts recently com. mitted in that county. The officers should do their duty fearlessly and bring every law-breaker to justice. Little Rock Democrat
 Bishop Bowman. the senior bishop of the Methodist church. delivered two sermons in Little Rock recently. The services were largely attended by Christians of other denominations The venerable bishop has an easy method of delivery and talks rather than x<, l,,