Mountain Echo Newspaper

April 9, 1886 (Vol 1-No 6) Page 1 continued

Abstracted / Transcribed & Copyrighted by Linda Haas Davenport

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The "sweet singer of Benton" will again be in the field to represent Benton county in the next session of the Legislature.

Judge John Baxter of Tennessee, who died recently in Hot Springs, was a brother of ex-Gov. Elisha Baxter, of Batesville.

According to actual county, says a correspondent of the Charleston Vindicator, there are twenty-seven widows within the corporate limits of Ozark.

The river and harbor bill, as completed by the committee, appropriates $75,000 for the improvement of Arkansas river; $18,000 for White; $5,000 for Black and $6,000 for St Francis.

R. P. Pulliam, postmaster at Eureka Springs, was discovered short $600 in his accounts. He afterwards made the sum good, but was suspended and the office placed in the hands of William A. Broad, representing the sureties.

On the 31st ult. The Little Rock Cooperage company's factory was almost totally destroyed by fire, throwing nearly 100 men out of employment. The loss about $20,000, insurance $5,750. The factory will be rebuilt as quickly as possible.

The Carthage and Batesville railroad surveyors say that Mountain View is situated on an elevation 150 feet higher than the county two miles distant east or west, but that the town will have a railroad all the same. So says the Expositor.

Last week a tornado swept the town of Helena, unroofing the court house, tearing the coal barges and flat-boats from their moorings along the river and sending them adrift, and doing other serious damage to the property of the citizens of the place.

The Graphic says the census of the city of Van Buren was taken last week, and shows a very flattering increase over the population in 1880. At that time it was only 1370, and the present census shows 2150 people of which 1477 are white and 673 are colored.

It is said that the farm hands in Pettis and Saline counties have organized a Union. They have, it is said, a grievance demanding redress or they will break every bull tongue and double shovel on the plantation. The proprietor must divide, or a strike will be ordered all along the line - Randolph Hearld.

An exchange says Fordyce has a colored man who has been turning white since 1847. His name is Lemanual Hawley, and he is 63 years old. His face and neck are spotted and his body is almost entirely white. He says when he was brought to Arkansas from South Carolina in 1811 he was as black as the ace of spades.

Says the Rural and Workman, of Little Rock: "Encouraging reports are coming to us from the wheat growing portions of our State. The area sown last year is somewhat greater than formerly, and as a rule, it has wintered well and is coming out splendidly. The oats crop were are also assured, has been given more attention than formerly this season, and is coming forward nicely."

WHEEL NOTES Grand Wheel Appointments: As there was no executive committee elected at the last session of the Grand Wheel, I hereby, by authority vested in me appoint the following named gentlemen to act on that committee until the next annual session: R B Carl Lee, Devails Bluff; E T Flippin, Flippinsville; John P Jones, Little Rock; J T Anderson, Heber; W J Blakwell, Clarendon. Isaac McCracken G.P.A.W.

CONDEMNING A "WHEEL" ORGAN: Feeling that it is proper for the members of the Agricultural Wheel to make an expression concerning said action -- Resolved, that the Economist as an organ of the Wheel should be condemned, all support withheld, and that no member of the Wheel can consistently support P R McKennon for any office.

Resolved, that this be published in the State Wheel Enterprise and Little Rock Gazette.

Other papers will please copy.

JH Stevens; JH Eubanks; JH Swinell; committee; County Wheel, Yell County, Ark. March 20, 1886.