The Forrest City times., 1895-01-25

A few days before last Christmas VIII Pearson and Bob Hodges lost two rec hounds while hunting in the LAn- guile bottoms. Some deer had been started and shot at, and the pack fol- lowed. At evening they all came back except two. is not known whether the dogs got lost or were disgusted With the poor shooting. Anyhow. Bob would thank any tody for information as to their whereabouts.
 w. E. Allen was here Tuesday. and gave HE IIafE5 pleasant visit. Mir. Allen farms some 300 or 400 acres and mas accumulated what he has since loo6. Up to that time he raised cotton ana bought his living, becoming poorer ana poorer each year. Seeing that he was going down hill. he decided to di- Verslfy hls crop, raise his meat, corn and vegetables, and upon carving this resolution into effect, began to prosper Ills life, now, is that of an jndepen- dent farmer, the happiest and most de- slrable of all avocations. He raises some cotton, and says he lives better now than he did when cotton was worth 10 cents. There is lesson here TOT you poor devils who raise nothing Dnt cotton, and spend the balance of your time growing about hard times. :"
 Nearly everybody has noticed the little bay plug that is driven to the express wogon by Sam Scott, and but few people believed otherwise than that Scott had owned him for ages. Tuesdays train from the south. how ever, brought Jim Houston, of La Grange, who claimed ownership to the plug. A friend of his, passing through Forrest City, had rec ognized the horse, and had informed hlm of his whereabouts. Houston claims to have lost the horse on February P, 1893, andiocott says he bought him from negro for $50 about that time. From the description of the negro, he was recognized as an Inmate of the penitentiary, having been sent there for stealing horse from Maj. Horner. of Helena. It will be a great loss to Scott to give the horse up, as he has been unfortu nate this year.
 Tuesday night about 10 or II o'clock, John l. Jones heard an unusual noise Tn the cell part of the jail. Suspecting something wrong, he called to hlS as- slstance Deputy Wolff and Jailor Hawkins. On entering the cellroom 1t was found that Jack Hardy and Jim Wallace, both colored. had broken their bedstead and were using the iron as alever and had broken the lock and some bars in theIr cell. But for the acute hearing and timely interference of Deputy Jones, in fifteen minutes more tue jail would have been cleared of prisoners. The walls of the cell-room should be lined with steel plates. as in their present condition they offer no obstacle in the way of escape. after the prisoners are out of the rotten cells. llammocks should be substituted for the iron bedSteads. The attention of the grand jury should be called to this oversight.
 c. l.. Camp, editor of the Western Advocate, or Camps Emigrant Guide, and projector of emigrant excursions from the East to Texas, was in town Wednesday. The business men met him at Gen. Taylor's office, where he made business proposition to the peO- pie of Forrest City, whereby St. Fran ciS county would be liberally advertised throughout the land. Little Rock, Lo- noke and Forl est City, have accepted his proposition. For a certain number of subscribers to his paper, he is to give in return each month during the year descriptive letter of our county and its resources A series of excur- sions will be given during the year. starting from Rochester, N. r., and arrangements will be made whereby they will stop two days in Little Rock two days in Lonoke and two days in Forrest City, going, and perhaps stop ping OH their return. It is cheap method of advertising, and we hope may be productive of much good.
 Last Tuesday our city assumed a gala day appearance. It looked like the wind had blown every fake and snlde show in the land to Crowley $ Ridge. The cephalOptero uan,pyr1s with its many and long tentacles rak ed in a few dimes the ventriloquist and little Black Joe held his crowd the great Indian doctor held the outskirts around hlS stand with his eloquent dissertation on the tape worm while the horSe-dealers with their old plugs caught the unweary by Knocking down race horses at Sl0 and S20 per head. Nothing could draw the crowds away from these several attractions. Sachs attempts with his Dutch ventriloquism failed; the son of Italy with his hand organ and monkey tried in vain with the seductive Sweet Marien and mon, key capers; and it was left to buckine broncho, one bought at the sale, to dc the business. The crowd followed the bucker and until he ceased. all busi, ness with the other shows was at d standstill. The coon conquered the broncho in the end.