The Mena star., 1899-06-29
ARKANSAS NEWS NOTES.

The Van Buren Grand Army post and ex Confederate camp are arrang- ing to hold their annual reunion early in August.
 Mir O. r. Wilcox, of Mena, will open stock of drugs next week in the building recently vacated by K. w. Johnson & Co., Hatfield Herald.
 An eleven month-old baby of Mir. and Mrs. Biff Allstatt residing at Greenwood fell on the point of pair of scissors and sustained wound which produced death almost instantly.
 In the vicinity of Van Buren there are at least 200 acres of tomatoes that are being grown for the Eastern mar ket. The prospects fer good crop are very tiattering. .-Ft. Smith Times.
 Jesse Goldsmith. man of color, was given a s4o fine to pay, but failed and charge against him was petty larceny. It was alleged and proven that he stcle pair of shoes from az East End residence. Pine Bluff Graphic
 The little son of John Jordan, living near Montreal. Sebastian county, man. ufactured eun which he loaded and started out hunting. The first game he found was lizard and he attempt- ed toshoot it. Hls gun exploded, infiict- ing wounds on the youthful gunmaker winch came near ending his life.
 Thirty car loads of potatoes were shipped from Sebastian county one day last week. Each car contained about 600 bushels, and the average price was 45 cents per bushel. Figure on this and see if that one days shipment did not bring into Sebastian county about $5, 100 This is far ahead of four cent cotton, and Yell county farmers should make a note of the fact and not forget 10 refer to it early next spring. Bell vile Headlight.
 Uncle George Bull a worthy, truth ful old colored farmer living west of town, was in to-day and says that his wife took hen with seventeen young chicks off her nest and put them in coop. Op the morning following the hen had but four chicks, lnvestiga- tion proved rats had carried them off into the smoke. house near by. After killing few rats in the smoke house, they removed some cypress bolts and dug down over foot to the rats den "a large cavity filled with cotton, etc. they were astomshed to find twelve of the missing young chicks alive and snugly quartered in the rats den. They had killed but one of the little chicks, and the others are now with the hen and as pert as though the rats had never taken them of. - Perryville News.
 The Piggot Banner says: Arch Gribble wanted to marry. He wanted to marry a girl He had never asked her about it, but he felt sure she was more than willing to be his owny- own In this he erred. Or else he was mistaken. He came to Piggot and pro- cured licence to commit matrimony, but the giil, with that perverseness pc culiar to so large portion of humanity refused to be party to the proceedings. Then Arch resolved to drown himself in water. In this he erred again. He should have brought an action for mandamus. After giving away his money and other property y he sought place to end his troubles. as aforesaid ne Wducu JuTOuSH ScNSTdl pOuuo duu sloughs, looking for good place but the water was all to shallow. Besides, it was muddy. Then he bethought him of Black river, where the cold, deep, liquid water yearns for victims. For centuries it has waited for them. In it's leafy shade no sirens dwell to lure to destruction and make des- truction please. There are some frogs, however. But this murmuring stream offers unsurpassed advantages to those who desire to take the water route. It wooed Arch to rush into it's fond embrace and make his nuptial couch in the dark alluvial ooze at it's bottom. But he did not rush. He did not know where he would land. It might be a tributary to the Styx. He went home. Tn time, he will, no doubt, forget his love, but he will be in great danger of hydrophobia at the sight of water for the rest of his life.
 was seriously afflicted with cough