Year: 1875

from our exchanges:

 White County:

 The Court House grounds are being sowed in grass. Hope they'll not prove Jamestown weeds, as they did once before. At least that was all that ever appeared after the sowing of the grass eed.-[Searcy Record.

 Fruit hasn't suffered a particle from the recent cold snaps. From present indications we will have one of the best fruit years we eyer had. The peach trees are heavily laden, ard apples and pears are not far behind.- ID.

 Franklin County:

 Railroad is finished to the end of the twenty miles, and the cars run out that far, in six miles of our town. When it will be finish ed is still uncertain. We hope it and the telegraph line will be pushed through at once as we need them badly Ozark Banner.

 There is a great deal of ditch ing and Improvements of farms going on through our county. It all pays in the long run and such work will last.- fb.

 Independence County:

 Cool weather for some days and an occasional frosty night, but the fruit in this section is yet unin- jured.- Batesville Republican. Prairie County:

 CRoP PRosPECTs.-Last week was more favorable for the farm CTS, and they took advantage of the pretty weather to put their seed corn in the gronnd as rapidly as "all hands could do it. Sev- eral got through planting their corn, and will be putting in their cotton seed this week if the weath- es will admit. Everybody is at work in good spirits. We notice one thing that will be consider able drawback with some farmers; their blow stock is not in good condition. This is owing to the great scarcity of corn during the winter. Many are now feeding on corn that was raised on the prairies of Illinois, Des Are Citizen.

 The Little Rock Gazette very justly gives the Russellville DEM ocRAT the praise of being the best printed paper in the state.- ID. Hampstead County:

 Hope still continues to improve notwithstanding the scarcity of money. Should the coming crop be encouraging our little town will grow faster next fall than it ever has done. Our corporation will then be in working order, and the future development of Hope will smack of city style. The improvement of roads in time for the reception of the next crop will also be much forwarded, and the trade will be immense for a new town. Oh for a good crop. T Star of Hope.

 The U. s. grand jury, for this district, will convene Monday. Several of our citizens have been summoned as jurors ID.

 The Russellville DEMOCRAT comes to us enlarged and improv. ed. and is one of our neatest and best exchanges. Pope county must be improving after it's many hard trials and tribulations.-I ID. Benton County:

 Mir. c. A. Laster of Pea Ridge, informs us that he and his broth CT have just completed a tobacco barn so that the first three barns of Pea Ridge are built by readers of the Advance. Is county pal per laboring for the best interests of the county any advantage?--

 Bentonville Advance.

 The grand jury adjourned Wednesday, after having found sixty-eight indictments ID.

 We are glad to receive the Rus sellville DEMOCRAT enlarged to an eight column paper. It is neat and tastefully gotten up and ably edited.-- ID.

 Sevier County:

 On Wednesday night week a terrible crime, attended with fear