The Osceola times., 1873-08-09
STATE NEWS.

The stockholders in the now
Cotton Mill Co., Of Little Rock
held n meeting on Tuesday last,
and instructed the secretary to ad=
ver,ise for bids for the erection of
their factory buildings.
"A correspondent from Pope
County, writing to the Gazette
says: One year ago no mans life
in this bedevilcd county, now all is
changed there are "none to molcst
or make us afraid" Confidence is
restored, How has this been
brought about? Gov. Baxter has,
by lis acts, convinced everybody
that hc intends to do exact justice
to all.
Mr.. J. III. Johnson (col.) }, late
member Of the legislature from
Woodruff, publishes a card stating
that ho is not opposed to GOV. Bax-
ter, as some evil disposed persons
had intlma.cd.
On tho morning Of the 2Sth
ult, at Rocky Comfort, Llttle
River county, Mr., Daniel Simpson,
clerk of the county, was doing
something about his well and fell
in and before it was known what
| had becon: of him, was drowned.
There were sojc~al feet of water in
the well, but he is supposed to have
been stunned by the fall when be
WIS discovered life was extinct.
The Pine Bluff Republican re-
latos the following: "On the 2Sth
/. ult., Lincoln county was the scene
of Il very Interesting affair in the
shape Of pure and unadultcrated
duel between two sons of very
noble families of China. 1t appears
that for several centuries a rivalry
has existed between the houses OF
LAX zud Qui Canm and All Jou
Flulec Yung, gentlemen residents
, of Canton up to 1869, Many fatal
: difficulties were the result Of this
: cnmity, and the ranks of each fam
/ lily became scnsibly reduced al
, time elapsed. Finally the houl
arrived for tho Yung hatred to be
come satiated. A revolution threw
) it in power, and its rival was found
{ among the defeated rebels. AZ 2
consequence, Camm was imprison
, cd and tortured, and his family
: banished. But he made his escape
and in disguise sought his enemy
1 whom he found rioting in luxury
5 and surrounded by a courtly
o throng, and there slew him. After
: reaping his revenge, he destroyed
himself by harikari, suicide prac
n tised by the mobiles of that country
4 Thc banished Camms' all died but
$ LAX Zud Qui, who driIted about
, until he landed in Arkansas ant
settled in Lincoln county. BY the
:. same train of events All Jon Flule,
Yung, the only survivor of hi
Z illustrious house, wandered to tn,
\ locality where lived hiG c0mmor
. enemy. They dwclt together foi
some time in total ignorance o
:. each others identity. But th,
. dcnoucment came at last, during ;
conversation about their afav OF
home, and all the hatred of thci
nature was stirred up anew. Th,
3 rest is soon told. They concluded
that this world could not contain
!. them both, alive, and silently an'
, sadly, unknown to any one, pre-
pared for the bloody sacrifice
5 They chose the deadly Colt witt
!, which to perfect their purpose, ant
i after embracing, and promisln!
. that no harm should attach to tn
$ survivor, they took their places
a gave their own signal, and fired
3 Camm fell dead, and the too con
tiding Yung now languishes in tn
hotel dc Doby-whither he wa
n escorted yesterday evening b,
,f deputy sheriff Capt. Chas. Lyman
G and wonders why the law shoul
Q interfere with the private affairs Q
v foreign gcntlemen-not citizens q
1.-The United States.