Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-03
ARKANSAS.

d Mr.. Garland. He is doing good ser
vice.
For the first time in its history For
j. Smith has a cool thousand dollar,
in greenbacks in its treasury. What
l other town of equal population in the
l State can make such a gratifying
: boastY Now let our people cease theil
d%eprecatory mumurs, and rejoice in
t the enviable prosperity of their good
/ old Wheeler's Daily indie
pendent.
} Little Rock Gazette, LIST: Phillip
B Engle, a notorious illicit distiller Of
lizard county, was brought in by Han
Woodland yesterday. Mr.. Woodland
says that he destroyed Engle's still in
1871 and that he only succeeded in
catching the revenue law-breaker sew
eral days ago. During this interval,
Engle only slept at home about six or
seven times.
Helena World 10Th ult. W. H.
Bennett killed A. II. Lindsey at Min
turn a few days ago. Lindsey called
Bennett out to settle an old grudge,
and armed with a double barrelled
shotgun awaited the presence of his
enemy, who also came armed with a
pistol and did his part so quickly that
ina few minutes the other man had
been sent to another sphere.
Little Rock Democrat, Both ult (:
Owing to the unusual high water but
little progress can be made at present
with the new Iron Mountain railroad
bridge at Fulton. During the past
four months workmen have been en-
gagged. on the timbers of the new
structure, which it is hoped to have
up and in use in about three weeks.
A transfer will be used until the
bridge is ready.
The following parties have been
appointed by Governor Miller to at
tend the Vicksburg labor convention.
called by Governor Stone to meet at
Vicksburg on the 9th of May: Colonel
S. r. Cockrell, Pine Bluff; General
Virginius Wilkins, Pine Bluff; Gen
eral I. NJ. Wilmington, Monticello
General w. 7. Wells, Monticello {:
General j. T. W. Tiller, Selma; Hon.
L. A.. Pindall, Arkansas City DIR. C..
NJ. Taylor, Auburn General D. II.
Reynolds, Lake Village; Colonel r.
NJ. Frye, Little Rock.
The biggest and the happiest event
of the season in Arkansas will be the
Press Convention, which meets in
Pine Bluff on Monday, the I'd day of
June. The principal railroad and
steamboat lines have rendered free
transportation to all editors, publish
ers and members Of the press in the
State. Major Charles e. Newman.
president and editor of the Pine Bluff
Free Press, requests all who are enti-
tied to the same to apply to Colonel
w. A. Weber, the secretary, at Ben
ton, Saline county, for passes, which
will be RENTED at once.
Governor VIM. r. Miller has offered
a reward of $3.50 for Alfred Wright,
eolOred, who murdered one Worford,
at Hot Springs last year, under most
unjustifable circumstances. Wright
was at one time porter of the Airing
ton Hotel, and at the time of the com
mission of the crime was engaged in
mercantile pursuits. He has an in.
telligent appearance, perhaps thirty
years of age, about five feet seven
inches high, broad shoulders, stout
built, chest about forty-fye inches.
complexion bright yellow, hair let
black, short and curly. When last
seen wore side whiskers and mustache.
Weight about 165 pounds.
Two negro boys named Frank Free
man and Henry Austin, at work in a
field near Little Rock, the other day.
began quarreling about a piece of to.
bacco. Austin remarked Never
mind, when we go to the house I'll kill
you, and when they went to the house.
Frank Smiths, Austin took up a shot
gun and fred on Freeman, shooting
him behind the ear and killing him
instantly. Freeman fell forward into
the fire and his murderer ran from the
house. Frank Smith, who was in bed
at the time, jumped out, drew the
victim from the fire and caught Aus
tin just as he was passing through the
gate. The murder was cold blooded.
and the murderer, who is now in
charge of an officer, should feel the
force of the law.
Eli Perkins, a great newspaper
scribbler, receives this hatterine bio
graphical notice in a recent number
OF the Helena World: m. ID. Ian
don, the great fraud who is swinging
around the circle under the nom de
plume Of Eli Perkins, making great
pretentions as a acetious cuss, was in
Helena after the close Of the civil war.
in 1865, and when a negro mob sacked
the residence of ex-senator VIM. k.
Sebastian in that year, he endeavored
to steal a trunk filed with plumber
and but for an honorable Federal
Othcer, who had no use for the villain
Gus camp follower, to which class
Landon belonged, who was informed
by Mr.. Arthur Thompson, our present
county clerk, Of the scoundrel's con
duct, he would have made away with
his booty and reaped his usual profit.
The gallant soldier sought the vandal
and made justice reign without the
loss OF a moments time, and the fam.
lily Of Senator Sebastian had the pleas
ure Of thanking the defender of the
right upon many occasions for his
noble and timely interference in their
behalf. Landon shortly after this
disroputahle transaction stole a great
quantity of goods from the wrecked
steamer Linnie Drown, and upon a
flaw in the law barely escaped a son.
tence to the State %penitentiary.
Happy Immigrants.
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