The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1896-02-28
SOUTHERN GlEANiNGS.
A Busy Woman.

MIS-. IL. EZerndck. VINO mas gained
considerable notoriety as writer under
che nom de plume of 'Dollie Rover"
resides at Natchitoches, La. She has
not pursued her literary work for the
past few years. as all of her time is
talSen up personally experimenting
The management of her immense cotton
plantation, located ten miles outside
The town of Natchitoches.
You know that last year." she said
81 had no overseer at all, as / attended
40 that work myself, and when wo-
man gets out on horseback at o'clock
Ia the morning to move around during
che entire day experimenting 600 farm
hands she has very little time or incli
nation left in the evening to devote to
literary work. However, / am pas
sionatelv fond of it. and intend to de-
sote more time to it in the future
For Confederate Memorial Hall.
The Confederate Veterans camp of
New York city, Col. A. G. Dickinson,
commander, has issued an appeal to the
people of metropolitan district in the
hope of raising 100000, which is the
condition for securing the contribution
of like amount deposited by Charles
Broadway Rouss, of that city. The
object of the $1,000 is to found a
grand memorial hall or battle abbey,
for the display of confederate relics
and documents. These relics and rec
oris will, it is claimed. form the basis
Of an unprejudiced, and as yet, unwrit-
Ten history of the civil war.
President st. John of the Mercan-
kile National bank has agreed to re-
ceiye contributions
Large Alabama Cotton Factory.
The great Dwight cotton factory, To-
Gated in Gadsden, and the largest in
the south, is now in operation: SO, 900
spindles are in full operation. and the
weaving of cloth goes merrily on. Five
hundred neat dwellings have been COM
pleted, and are now occupied. The
neighbcrhood now has a population of
1000, and is hustling and thriving
place Eight hundred persons will be
given employment The company has
5000 bales of cotton stored in its ware
houses, enough to run the factory
nearly year. Gadsden industries are
all in full blast. with a weekly payroll
of $4,000.
Tried to Steal "a bag of Silver.
j. W. Strong, claiming Tennessee as
mis- home, was sentenced in the Grim
NAL court. at Birmingham, Ala, to ten
years in the penitentiary, and has been
saken to Pratt mines. Strong was con-
victed on charge of grand larceny,
having attempted to steal bag of sill
yer, containing 81, O00 which the South
ern Express Co. was handling at the
depot in Birmingham. While being
taken from the county jail to the court
house he made his escape, but was re-
captured some miles from the city,
asleep in ditch. He is over so years
of age, and served in the confederate
army.
Want Better Mall Facilities.
Says the New Orleans Picayune: The
south has received but very little con-
sideration from the post office depart
ment in the way of special fast mail
facilities, and New Orleans in particu-
lar has been sufferer from neglect
of that sort. Communities of half the
size in the north and west have en-
joyed facilities in the way of special
fast mails infinitely superior to the
service vouchsafed New Orleans
Jersey Cattle Cremated.
Fire, believed to be of incendiary
origin, destroyed three barns and their
contents on the farm of l.. p. White,
near Pulaski, Tenn. Fifty-four head
of Jersey cattle, valued at 5000, per-
ished in the flames. The barns were
hNed with machinery valued at 81, 900,
and feedstuff and grain valued at sew
eral thousand dollars. The barns were
worth $1,000. Insurance, 81. 500.
Normal Institute Burned.
The Grand View normal institute at
brand View. Rhea county, Tenn, a
three-story frame building, was burned
10 the ground the other day. Loss,
5000: insurance. s. 600 The building
was owned by the Presbyterian Mis-
sionary society of New York, and was
ina fourishing condition, with 200 stu
dents
Burned to Death.
Inc slX-year-old daughter OF Claud
Barksdale, prominent citizen, who
lives near Batesville, Albemarle coun-
tyr Va, was burned to death. The
mother left the child and its younger
SISTER in room, and upon her return
IN few minutes found the clothing of
she oldest child ablaze.
Found Guilty of Accepting a Bride.
Newton Ford, magistrate and a
leader among the NEGROES of Shelhr