The Forrest City times., 1899-07-21
BRIEF MENTION.

Citizens of Junction City have raised liberal bonus for cotton factory.
 The sensational correspondents are evidently taking . summer vacation.
 W. R. Holland has been elected state evangelist by the Baptist state board |.
 Morrilton has a curfew law that ap. plies to all persons under 21 years of age.
 An average of 9s per cent of the as- sessed taxes in the state has been col. lected.
 Arkansas lumbermen report . good business, with orders ahead of their capacity.
 The Whittville coal mine in Sebastian county has opened up with a force of union men.
 A reunion of veterans of the blue and the gray is to be held at Heber Au. gust 2d and Sd.
 The city of Newport is to try muni cipal ownership of water-works and electric light plant.
 The general offices of the Pittsburg & Gulf are to be removed from Tex arkana to Kansas City.
 A lumber firm of Buffalo, N. Y., recently purchased 10000 acres of tim Der land in this state.
 A young man named brazzle, from Scott county, was drowned in the Qua chita river near Bervyn, 1. T.
 Grant A. White, captain of Company E, First Arkansas, has been appointed a first lieutenant of volunteers.
 The Washington Post says Senator Jones will not resign as chairman of the national democratic committee.
 Jack Houston, an old man living near Greenwood, committed suicide Trou ble with his 1S-year-old wife was the cause.
 J. L. Moyse, smooth individual, was fined s10 and costs in Little Rock justice court for failure to pay . board bill.
 Master Mechanic Cain and Road. master Green, of the Pee Gee, with headquarters at Texarkana, have re. signed.
 On March 18th all the county collec. tors had settled with the state except six, and they were expected to settle within two weeks
 Hugh Neill, son of Railroad Commits sioner Neill, has been appointed sec ond lieutenant in the army. He is now in the Philippines.
 Oliver Jones, aged 60, who lived the life of a hermit, died July 18th at Pine Bluff. He owned property in Louis jana valued at s35, ,OOO. c. l.. Minor, a Jackson county farmer, sowed 20 bushels each of oats and wheat and harvested 800 bushels of wheat and 600 bushels of oats. Near Texarkana Archie Green, a young white boy, was killed by the ac- cidental discharge of pistol in the hands of playmate. James A. Long, of Springdale, cap- tain in Company F. First Arkansas Vol unteers, has been appointed a first lieu tenant in the regular army.
 More money has been invested in mineral lands in northwest Arkansas within the past three months than dur. ing three years previous. The receiver has given notice that the affairs of the First National Bank, of Little Rock, will be wound up within the next three months. A preliminary survey of the St. Louis, Siloam Springs X Southern railroad has been completed from Pomona, Mo-, to Harrison, Boone county. Lafayette Leath, who removed from Alabama to Jefferson county Tn 1883, where he has resided ever since, Gi.d last week at the age of 77. The acts of the last legislature have been printed and are now being dis tributed. The volume contains 4l6 pages, the largest in 20 years.
 The preliminary survey of the Little Rock & Hot Springs Lott) railroad has been completed, and construction work will commence within 60 days. City Marshal McKown, of Hunting ton, charged with contempt in the Federal injunction coal strike trouble, was discharged by Judge Rodgers.
 w. L. Gunthrop, colored school teacher of Faulkner county, was sem fenced to one year in the penitentiary for violating the age of consent law. A carload of supplies contributed by citizens of Texarkanz for the Texas flood sufferers was transported to its destination free of charge by the Texas Pacific.
 At the meeting of the State Sheriffs'