The Forrest City times., 1894-01-12
THE STATE IN BRIEF.

ter county.
 Jonesboro's new opera house will soon be opened.
 Low water retards naviga jon on the upper White river.
 Independence county is advancing in public school work.
 Workmen struck coal while digging . we'll at Clarksville.
 Newport merchants handled 2o.ooo bales of cotton last year.
 Helena is to have box factory. Cap ital of the company, *io,oOo.
 There are several eases of scarlet fever reported at Fl Dorado.
 Quite a number of colored people have died from grip at Brinkley.
 The Springdale post office has been made presidential; salary, s1,ooo
 Three men have been killed by runaway teams at Springdale recently.
 The residence of Mrs N. H. Moore. of Hot Springs, was destroyed by fire.
 A coal-oil war rages in Little Rock. Oil has been selling for 5 cents per gal lon.
 J. A. Hinxle. retired merchant. has been appointed postmaster of Bates vile.
 Judge Brown and family have re- moved from Fayetteville to Little Rock
 All convicts at the Palarm camp hero have been returned to the peniten- tiary.
 Hon. E. T. Mcconnell has assumed the duties of superintendent of the penitentiary.
 There was over s100. 900 paid over the counter of the Boone county bank last year for stock.
 Capt Michael Van Buren Shaver died at Newport He was confeder- ate veteran
 Arthur Mullins, proprietor of Pine Bluff saloon. recently confessed judg- meut for 8, 3,0O0
 Col R. W. Worthen, late superin- tendent of the penitentiary, will en- gage in farming.
 The general merchandise stock of Stett & Billingsley, of Okolona, was attached recently.
 R. +. < E. C. Johnson, extensive deal- CTS in general merchandise at New port, have assigned.
 The Hot Springs street railway will extend it's track down Valley street di- rect to the race track.
 It cost colored man $45 to carry pistol at Pine Bluff and setting up the claim that he was a consta ble.
 Prof. Shinn says the recent state teachers meeting at Fayetteville was the best ever held in the state.
 Articles of incorporation of the Ben- tonville X Northwestern railway have been filed; capital stock, sl50,Ooo
 W. P. McDill X Co, doing business at Garretson's Landing. 20 miles below Pine Bluff, were recently attached.
 Crawford county fruit-growers ex. pect big crop this year, and are lay. ing in a supply of boxing material.
 The Bentonville Peoples bank has withdrawn the reward offered for the men who robbed the bank last summer.
 The Helena Womans Columbia club has wound up it's business and had ninety cents left in the treasury.
 Col. E. W. Rector will remove from Hot Springs to Little Rock and form a law partnership with Mir. c. S. Collins.
 Squire Ross, of Poplar Grove, recent ly had sixteen violators of the law be- fore him for gaming. They got off for costs
 The handsome residence of Maj. W. E ,SE |. Al merest accident saved from fire the other evening.
 There is much rejoicing at Hot Springs over the refusal of County Judge Z. w. Lakeman to grant liquor license to the Dirty Six"
 Gen. E. J. Brooks, formerly of Little Rock. but now of Denver, Col, was in Little Rock the other day. He is a son of ex-Gov. Joe Brooks
 E. Richardson was awarded @. 900 damages by jury at Little Rock in his suit for s20, 900 against the St. Louis, Iron Mountain < Southern Railroad Go
 R. R. Carlisle has secured judgment 5py ss*s.7o in Little Rock against Col. Geb Ward for wages due him as fore man on Col. Wards Conway county plantation.
 An effort will be made to raise the steamer John Graves, recently sunk in the Ouachita near Fl Dorado. Most of the cargo can be saved with smaller damages than expected.
 The Ewing seminary, one of the old est educational landmarks of north- west Arkansas, was destroyed by fire the other day. The school was located