The Forrest City times., 1894-11-30
ARKANSAS GLEANiNGS.

A Chlnaman has opened laundry at Hope.
 Hope will have fire department be- fore long.
 Brinkley is using brick for street pavement.
 Extensive ochre beds have been found near Monticello.
 Crawford county may work her con. victs on the roads.
 There are numerous tramps in and around Van Buren.
 There is some talk of free soup house in Fort Smith.
 A woman in Johnson county raised 200 turkeys this year.
 The new SIP, 900 schoolhouse at For est City is now in use.
 The Y. M. c. A. in Little Rock is en- toying rapid growth.
 A great deal of sorghum was made in Union county this year.
 Wide awake citizens of Helena de- mand new Union depot.
 A 14-year-old girl recently married a youth of 20 at Mountain Home.
 The Dardanelle band will give game supper during Christmas week.
 A. w. Poole, of Ozon, raised l3,000 bushels of potatoes on 150 acres.
 John Herbald, of Newport, walked off platform and broke his neck
 More real estate is changing hands in Washington county than for years.
 Work is reported on the Texarkana & Fort Smith extension to Shreveport, La.
 The Little Rock Gazette recommends the reduction of cotton acreage one- half.
 The water-works at Hot Springs have capacity of 2,25O,000 gallons daily.
 An iron fence will be erected around the Greene county courthouse, to cost S942.
 Several beautiful debutantes were welcomed into Little Rock society re- gently.
 Over 200 witnesses were summoned to appear before the federal grand jury at Texarizana
 It is stated that 100 acres will be planted to tomatoes for the early market near Hackett.
 The members of the Christian church at Hope are endeavoring to rebuild their place of worship.
 Rev. D. Smart preached his farewell sermon at the First NJ. E. church, Lit tie Rock, few days ago.
 Owing to the success of the chrysan- themum show at Little Rock, an an- nual flower show is agitated
 W. $. Hinton, of the firm of Hinton X Son, druggists, at Atkins, died few days ago, after weeks illness.
 Sidney Dade was killed by a man named Dunn at Parkdale. Ashley coun- ty. They were brothers-in-law.
 Joe Jessup, of Batesville, has a pipe which he took from the coat-pocl1et of one of the Olyphant train-robbers last fall.
 Little Rock will have six days of racing next spring, opening April l, and most successful meeting is prom. ised.
 The Brinkman stave mill at Para gould has capacity of 1s,00O slaves per day with dry kiln of 150,OOO ca pacity.
 Prof. H. J. Hall, graduate of the Arkansas Industrial university, has been appointed examiner of Scott county.
 There is rumor that the people of Oil Trough bottom. Independence county, want annexation to Jackson county.
 United States Marshal Snowden and Frank Brown were killed at Windom. Brown, with three competitions, at tackled Snowden.
 $. R. Cockrill, receiver of the Little Rock First national bank, has filed suit against Il. c. Allis for alleged shortage amounting to S15o,O0o
 The governor has restored the citi- zenship of W. F. Masters, of Washing ton, who has served his term in the penitentiary for larceny.
 A bone weighing 479 pounds from an extinct bird, the rectangoremus, is ex- hibited at Des Are by Prof. J. L. Buch, who discovered it in Alaska.
 Little Rock school-children were in- vited to take apples, potatoes or any thing in the line of fruit or vegetabl to their teachers, the aggregate to be given to the orphans home and the in- dustrial home.
 T. W. Horsfall of Hazen, has sent to the agricultural bureau the largest Irish potatoes seen in Little Rock this fall. They are of the Bliss Triumph and Early Rose varieties, and the largest weighs ninteen ounces.
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