Sharp County record., 1897-01-29
5 t ate N G " S,

In Baxter county wheat is worth 50
husnel.
J. P. Clarke has opened up law offic
in Little Rock.
The Paragonli Press and Dcmocra
have consolidated.
Cholera is playing havoc with hogs ii
Crsighesd county.
TX ATTY Gen. Garland thinks we had
better go SLOW on the Cuban question.
Many # the leading papers of the
state are advocating reform school fol
boys.
Citizens of B ebe want q new county
esta6nshrd. with Beebe as the c,uptY
seat.
Speaker Of the House Tappan was a
memb of the legislature forty eight
years ago.
The Elevator at Fort Smith is in favor
of having oil bills prepared in the legiS-
luture printed.
W. s. Holt, young business man in
Little Ronk will sssucceed Mitchell as
postmaster OF that city.
During the year 1896, the sum Of ,232,
$50 0S was expended for public teachers
salarv and houHe repair
The Batesville Guard says that town
is in need of curfew law, to keep her
boys,of the streets at night.
The harrow plant at Conway after
being closed for few days on account
of the..timbsr. supply has resumed opera
tiUns.
There are 1876 saw,mills on the Cotton
Belt road in Arkansas, and these mills
have daily capacity of over two mill
ion feet,
Sixteen state senators first saw light on
Arkansas soil In the house thirty-six
members are to the manner born.--
Guard.
In Chcot county, during revival
u free .f,r-all fight eDsued, which re.
suited in one man being killed and sew
eral badly hurt.
At the beginning Of the year 1897.
the various county treasurers held as an
unused surplus, for the common school
fund, 443,O05 05,
In September 1886, Arkansas first
general assembly met in the present
state house and have been meeting in it
regularly ever since.
Humans are entirely too prone to find
the mote in brothers eye. 1t is anus.
ing to hear thief bemean liar. and
equally amusing to hear liar bemean O
thief --Jonesboro Enterprise.
A negro at Paragould was arrested on
the chrage of hog stealing and plead
guilty to stealing go, and implicated
Jacob Gates very prominent citizen of
that place, who has been arrested.
Hon. Wv. Smith, who wac Lieut..
Governor under Gov. Baxter was placed
in the Insane Asylum lately. He thinks
he can solve the financial problem, If al
lowed u twenty. speech in cong
ress.
The growth of the cigarette habit has
decreased the consumption OF whlskey,
but as between the two evilsit requires
a highly discriminating mind to deter
mine which is the lesser,--WAite County
News,
The probability is that the Oldest in
habitant of Jackson county lives right
here in Newport, in the person of Aunt
Mary Page, colored, who passed her
hundredth birthday yesterday News
port Herald.
Supt. Jordan makes the following
statements There is no question of the
injury inflicted upon the youthful con.
sttitution by tobacco smoking. Having
discovered that the youth of the city are
acquiring and indulging the appetite,
the question to settle is how to stop the
growing evil,
Those who imagine they can secure
happiness by dong that which their
conscience condemns are. Of all people
the most idiotio. To violate ones con-
science is an open invitation to misery,
and no one never did so who did not
reap the inevitable reward OF their
folly-sorrow,
Auditor G. B. Mills, in concluding his
report, alludes to the fact "that the sum
OF S59, 0S9 10 hos been accumulated, and
10 lying In the state treasury rs an inter-
nal Improvement fund, which can only
be applied to the following objects OF in-
ternal Improvements, Roads, railways,
bridges, canals and improvement oil
water courses and draining Of swamps;
that the sum Of $43'7G9, so HAS beea 40
cumulated as u swamp land fund, which
can be applied to retaining swamp
lands by means Of leveos and drains
lilo suggests that these funds can DO now
used 10 q better advantage, in oil proba
b,lity than at any time in tho past,
MI, Mills is correct, These funds can
H.. ioanaA IN N atato hoard To BIO created