Arkansas Post

a village in Arkansas county, Ark.; on the Arkansas River; 117 miles S. B. of Little Rock. Its elevated location gave it considerable military importance during the Civil War. The Confederates established strong works here, which were reduced by a combined a ault of a portion. of the United States army, under General McClernand; and a naval command under Admiral Porter, on Jan, 11, 1863, Arkansas, University of, 2 cosducational institution organized in 1872, with academic and technical departments in Fayetteville, law and medical departments in Little Rock, and normal school for colored students in Pine Bluff, Ark wright, Sir Richard, an English inventor, born at Preston, in a, in 1732. The youngest of children, he was bred to the trade of a barber. When about 35 years of = he gave himself up exclusively to e subject of inventions for spinning cotton. His. invention introduced the system of spinning by rollers, the carding, or roving, as it is technically termed (that is, the.soft, loose strip of cotton), pa ing through one pair of rollers, and being received by a second pair, Which are made to reyolve with (as the case may be) three, four, or five times the velocity of the first pair.- By this contrivance the roving is drawn out into a thread of the desired degree of tenuity and hardne . Having made several additional discoveries and improvements in the proce es of carding, roving, and spinning, he took out a fresh patent for the whole in 1775. He was knighted by George III. in 1786, and died in 1792.