The Monticellonian., 1894-11-30
STATE PiCK-UpS.

Saloons are closed at Pine Bluff on Sunday
 Junction City has 3 new Presbyterian organization.
 And now Harrison is to be lighted with electricity
 Rogers came forward with a chrys- anthemum show.
 Nashville is to have brick building, the first in its history.
 Little Rock people recently enjoyed a chrysanthemum show.
 The grand jury of Jefferson county returned 247 indictments.
 Green Forrest people declare they will have fair next year.
 A company has been organized to build a new hotel at Gillett.
 The police made | raid on crap games at Pine Bluff and burned tables
 Immigrants from Kansas and Ne braska are still coming to Arkansas.
 The foot ball team at the Arkansas Industrial university will play team at Austin, Tex.
 Somebody is talking about building an electric road from Hot Springs to Mountain Valley.
 Hampstead county eonviets have been let by contract for costs and l213 cents I day for each man.
 A Boone county farmer raised pumpkin vine which bore nineteen pumpkins, aggregating 400 pounds.
 The Jefferson county commissioners report decrease in revenue and an increase in expense, and recommend retrenehment,
 Charles Wallace was sentenced in the federal court at Little Rock to thirty days in the county jail at Arlladelphia and to pay a fine of Si0o for selling whisky.
 The Fort Smith News-Rccord wants congress to make Il new state out of the Indian territory and a portion Of western Arkansas, and nominates Fort Smith as the capital of the new state.
 Unless the price of cotton advances very considerably during the winter months, which is not likely, there Will be m immense falling off in the acre, age planted next spring Rock l Democrat
 \ COW died of black leg near Viola recently, and few days later 2-yeaf' old child of farmer, near whose house the carcass had been permitted to re, main. was stricken with q similar dis ease and died.
 Miss Laura Glenn, well-known young lady of Pine Bluff, was almost burned to death. Her clothing caught fire from a stove and she jumped in tub of water and quenehed the fire, barely saving her life.
 Constable Chas. C. Roberts of East man township, Pulaski county, lost his barn by fire. It contained 2,5o0 bushels of corn and large amount of hay and fodder. Everything was lost. The fire occurred at a late hour. and was of in- cendiary origin.
 The Fayetteville Water Co. has filed articles of incorporation with tine sec rctarv of the state. The corporators are Vim. E. Rees and Chas. A. Rees, of Joplin, Mo, and Chas. w. Trott, of Fayetteville The capital stock is S50,- 900. all of which has been subscribed.
 Mayor Hall of Little Rock is re- ceiving numerous replies to his call for a mayors convention, and all in- dorse the movement. Among those who have signitied their intention of attending are Hoffman, of Fort Smith: | Norman, of Brinkley; Edwards, of Texarkana; Bell, of Pine Bluff, and Crane, of Sloan Springs.
 Says the Little Rock Democrat Why are we filling the air with lamenta- tions on account of hve-cent cotton? Cleared of all the rubbish that envelops the subject is not five-ceut cotton just as good as ten-cent cotton was ten years ago? Did not ten-cent cotton, with credit and mortgage accompani= ments break the farmers and ruin the merchants? Did not ten-cent cotton and eight-cent cotton lead to the de struetion of wholesale credit and the all-cotton system of agriculture? Why should we complain?
 Miss Cora May Purdum, of Little Rock, and Mir. ". ]. D. McCarter of 1 Hot Springs, were married at the resi- dcnce of the brides mother few days ago The ceremony was performed by Rev. R. D. Smart, of the Eighth Street l Methodist church, in the presence of the immediate friends and relatives of the family. The bride is one of Little Rocks fairest daughters, possessing all the attributes of true womanhood. The groom is boolkeeper for the Arkansas national bank at Hot Springs, and he enjoys a deserved popularity in com mercial and social circles.
 Der Answanderer, of New York, pub fishes a list of sixteen states and their products, and says: Tt will be no- | ticed that in Arkansas corn per acre has a higher value than in any state mentioned, and for wheat but six of the sixteen states named have a higher value, and some of them are noted wheat-growing states. of oats but two states excel in price. of cotton, the commercial crop of the south, but one state commands more per acre than Arkansas, and that only a few cents. Arkansas cotton ranks high in the market of the world. For the last twenty years that grown on the Ar kansas river lands has been sought for by thread manufacturers.
 That was a sad death of Mrs. Mary A. Schaer, of 1919 Center street Little Rock. Her son was ill, and doctor was summoned to attend him. When the doctor arrived he ministered to the comfort of the young man, and while there he was called upon 70 exercise Gl-i11 in aTtpVia irarr Ina