Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-02-23
Arkansas.

AittlC DOlhs
The Little Rock Turn Vereiu promise
a handsome diplay on Mardi-G ras,
Old man Daugherty, of Randolph
county, so cruelty whipped a short time
ago in Cherokee Bay by outlaws and
driven from his home, died a few days
thereafter, as did his daughter, whs was
lying speeches. in the house when the
iendish crime was committed.
Mr.. Frank NJ. Munford, Of New Lon
don, vas killed in Moro Greek, at Lam
bert Ford, 10 Bradley county, on the
10Th inst. 1t seems that the unfortunate
man was telling trees, when a dead sap.
ling, struck by a falling cypress, few
back and struck the young man on the
head, as he sat in a boat, killing him in
stantly. Munford was about twenty
years old.
Colonel J.. W, Gaulding, editor of the
Southern Standard, is dangerously i'll
and is only expected TO survive q few
days. Colonel Gaulding is well known
in the State, and was clerk Of the house
Of representatives four years ago. he
was the editor Of the Mobile Register
thirty years ago, and should his present
sickness prove fatal, the Arkansas press
will lose one Of its most valued mem
bers.
The johnson County Farmer says that
on Tuesday night Of last week q party Of
three negroes got with Judge Withers,
aud relieved him Of about sixty dollars.
The judge says they gave him some kind
of a drug that destroyed his senses. On
Wednesday morning Jim Atkinson, a
notorious dsrkey, and two others, his as.
sociatsS, we're arrested, and twelve dol
lars Of the money was found in the waist.
band OF his pants. and ten dollars was in
possession Of No. 2, but No. 3 tarned
States evidence, which bound the other
two over to await the action Of the Cir.
cult Court and. falling to give the re-
CURED bond, they we're sent to Jail at
Ozark.
Little Rock Gazette, 22d: The steamer
Msumelle, we are told, brought from St.
Louis a few days ago. four small pieces
Of castings, weighing in the aggregate
40 pounds and costing $751; 10 laid down
in Little Rock. This entire work could
have been done here by either Of our
foundries at an expense Of only Sc 80,
and why parties should make such a wide
discrimination between domestic and
foreign manufacturer is q little singular,
unless they have other motives, Of which
we know nothing.
The Arkansas Traveller says that a
somewhat remarkable divorce case will be
tried at The next term of the Circuit
Court of Faulkner county. The follow
ing are the facts:
Some time in 1875 q man named James
McAnna married a woman living near
GAINESVILLE, this State; and in July Of
last year married again-a
named Mary Ezell, living near Conway,
being the victim As a natural conse-
quence things didn't glide along very
smoothly after the introduction Of the
second cogwbeel into the McAnns matri-
monial machinery, which caused the first
wife to institute q suit for divorce on the
grounds OF adultery, not being, it seems,
apprised Of her husbands actual MARI.
age to another woman, while the second
wife, hearing Of the former marriage, in
stituted suit on the plea Of bigamy, at
about the sam time, employing the same
attorney, Colonel G. W. Bruce. Both
women having legal grounds will gain
divorces, while poor Mr.. McAnna will be
deprived Of his ineipient Mormon king.
dom.
In Little Rock, on the 22d inst, the
State association Of the Mexican war
veterans met to-day, aud was largely at
tended from all portions of the State.
General Morrow Colman, Of the United
States troops at this post, aud who served
in Mexico, delivered an address 10 behalf
Of the association, re%counting the deeds
Of the Americans during that struggle.
He was followed by General Powell Clay
ton, ext aitsd States senator and ex.
governor and as a representative of the
Federal arms during the late war. Cen
eral R. G. Newton, representing the Con-
iederates, spoke next. The hall Of the
house Of Representatives was crowded
during the delivery Of these addresses.
A belt worn by Colonel Yell, of Arkar-
sas, who was killed at the battle Of
Busns Vista, and which was taken from
his body by Captain Beard, Of Kentucky,
after the battle, was presented to the
association, to be presented to the State
Of Arkansas through the next legislature.
STATE DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE.