The Mena weekly star., 1898-02-09
STATE EXCHANGES.


 aeber Jachsonian.
 Uncle Joe Mullins killed two hogs that weighed 275 and $50 pounds re- spectively. How's this for common Arkansas Magnolia Journal.
 The money sharks will not let con- press recognize Cuban beligerency. The safety of few millions of bonds are no doubt in the way. -Mena Dem ocrat
 Any man who is opposed to public Improvements is against the best in terests of the city, and should be sat down upon, hard. -Siloam Springs Re publican.
 The Arkansas supreme court has handad down an important opinion in which it IS held that 'mere moral or emotional insanity is not defense to crime. "-Magnolia Journal.
 
 900 pounds of honey and 24 ,Ooo pounds of wax. And the product of the busy bee is worth more per pound than that of the toiling cotton planter - Little Rock Gazette.
 Governor Tanner, of Illinois, is so- journing at Hot Springs and enjoying himself. He participated in a live bird shoot yesterday and served as judge at a colored cake walk last night. Pine Bluff Graphic.
 The South has relied mainly on the cotton crop so long that the market is now flooded with the staple and out of all proportion to the worlds de- mand. It is time for the Southern planter to get out of the rut that is bringing him to ruin.-Little Rock Gazette
 company of capatilists of Peora, H., are Investigating Horatio and her resources with view of establishing a bank. Horatio is greatly in need of bank and our enterprising business men will do all they can to encourage such an enterprise to our city. -Hora- tio Appeal.
 The Missouri Kansas & Texas Trust Company, of Kansas City, will plant big apple orchard at Mena and also at Jansen, on the Kansas City, Pittsburg dG Gulf road. 1t is believed that this section of Arkansas is as we'll adapted to apple raising as the Ozark region.- Pine Bluff Graphic.
 While the people of the Northern states have been reveling in snow storms and blizzards, the sunny South has been enjoying a mild winter so far. Eight degrees above zero is the coldest weather that has struck this county during the present winter ,- Siloam Springs Democrat.
  Van Buren is trying to enforce the stock law within the corporate limits, and the Argus suggests that the coun- cil send committee over here to see how hogs and cattle are kept off the strees under the same state law. | The thing IS done to turn here, gen. tlemen Fort Smith Times Sun.
 Moonshining is not confined to the mountains of the South. A few days | ago two illicit distilllng establish ments were raided in New York and their proprietors arrested. They were situated in the east side tenement dis | trict, and one of them contained still l of the most approved style, capable of turning out seventy gallons of whisky a day. Little Rock Gazette.
 
 During his first official year Gov | Jones granted 297 pardons. The ex- tent to which he has exescised the pardoning power has subjected him to sharp criticism by many state papers, but with our intimate personal knowl- edge of the man we can not believe he has granted a single one except for reasons which to him seemed ample. | Hot Springs News.
 
 The Arkansas Agricultural Experi- ment Station has issued bulletin on the subject of strawberries, by Prof.