Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-11-10
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS
Endowment of a Free Hospital

| and must be used to erect q free hospital,
| under the management of the Sisters OF
| Mercy. The following is quoted from his
| will, giving his reason for desiring to estab-
| lish the hospital: ''In the year 1878, when
| the yellow fever scourge was laying waste
| and devastating the City of Memphis and
| other towns, and seemed about to reach the
| City of Little Rock, I then registered
| solemn vow to Almighty God that if he
would spare the city and the people of Lit
tie Rock from the ravages of the pestilence
aforesaid, 1 would show my gratitude by
leaving all my property to found and sup
port a hospital. As above indicated,
| therefore bespeak the Divine favor and
blessing upon said enterprise, and upon the
human agencies selected by me to carry out
| and perfect the same"
| Miscellaneous Items.
Information is wanted by the Chief of
Police of Little Rock of Virginia Whitney,
| who was last heard of in Little Rock about
| FIVE years ago. He has important intellt-
gence for her.
| The Executive Committee on the Tex
arkana land claim, think they will require
IO,OO0 to defend the suit, and have made
their first assessment of one-fourtfrof one
per cent.
The young people of Fort Smith have
| the roller-skating craze.
| Isaac Harrison, who murdered Tho1n-
| as Crouch, in Saline County, few weeks
| nee, has surrendered himself to the au-
| thorities.
| Forty-four bales of cotton were burned
at Helena a few days ago.
! In Columbia County, near the Louisi-
ana border, a few nights ago, Ephraim
| Bandy called VIM. Scott out of the latter's
| house and shot him dead. 1t was the result
| of an old grudge. Both were white men
! and farmers.
| Unknown assassins fired volley of
| bullets into a circus tent at New Edinburg,
| Dorsey County, few nights ago. killing
| contortionist in the ring.
At Little Rock, the jury in the case of
Louis Chapman, late chief clerk in the
General Freight Office of the st. Louis and
Iron Mountain Road, indicted for embezzle-
mcnt, returned a verdict of not guilty. An
other indictment is pending.
| Wilson Shannon was arrested a few
days ago at Pine Bluff, charged with the
murder Of James Thayer last April, at
Greenville, Miss.
| Mrs. Isabella Neil, from Hampstead
| County, who has been in the Insane
| Asylum at Little Rock for several months,
| restored. Her mental arrangement was
caused by a severe attack of sickness.
Fremont Thomas has been commits
| stoned Postmaster at Pine City, Monroe
County.
A new Post t-office has been established
| in Cross County, called Notion, Abram S.
| Desha, postmaster.
A Dardanellc, (Yell County, cores
| pondent says: Politics do notefrouble the
| people of Yell County just now, the prob
| lem they are trying to solve being how to
| make money and save it. The county Is
modest, and has no candidate to offer for
| Governor or other State office, United
| States Senator, etc.
The Sons of Liberty, an organization
| of farmers, is assuming large proportions
i'll Yell County, lodges having been organ
| lied in almost every school district.
A Yell County correspondent says no
| frost of killing nature has yet made its
appearance in that section, and if it keeps
| off few weeks longer every full-formed
boil of cotton would mature and open. The
season for cotton picking, with the excep-
| tion of two weeks recently has
been very propitious. and, if the crop In
| this section is not entirely gathered, it will
be the fault Of negligent farmers.
A most shocking tragedy occurred
| few days ago, seven miles west of Boston,
| Madison County. Miss Essie Kinney,
| young lady sixteen years of age, killed her-
| self at her fathers residence. The other
| members of the family were in the field,
| and Miss Kinney had been left at home to
| prepare dinner. When the family return
| ed to the house they were shocked and hor-
rified to find Miss Kinney lying on the bed
| dead. A single barIeled shot gun was
| found standing up against the bed neal
her, and a pool of blood on the bed, under
meath and beside her. The shoe had been
| removed from her right foot, and it is sup
posed that she used her toe in pulling the
| trigger. A load of squirrel shot entered
| her left side, ranging upward toward the
heart, producing death. The family heard
| the report of the gun, but thought nothing
| strange of it. No cause is known for the
| act.
A new Post-office has been established
| in Columbia County, called Buckner, A. r.
| Johnson Postmaster.
Anew Post-office has been established
at Garland, Miller County, with Henry Nc
Cants as Postmaster.
Texarkana, Miller County, is said to
be showing evidence of more rapid growth
than any city in the State. 1t is predicted
that ''it will be the Chicago of the South.
west"
Blocker and Underwood, the prison
ers who escaped from the Jail at Darda-
nellie, Yell County, were still at large.
A Dorsey County planter recently ex-
hibited stalk of sugar cane raised by him
self that had six feet of matured joints.
George Meek was killed in johnson
County recently by David and Lem Mite,
whose mules he had stolen.
Eoorpo Prirrc killed rapanf1v w
being caught by the shafting of a saw-mill
near Texarkana.
White River is still booming.
Reports continue to come in stating
that as picking progresses the outcome of
cotton is much better than was hoped for a
month ago. Rain and general bad weather
for two or three days have somewhat inter-
fered with gathering the crop. A heavy
frost, which is nightly expected, will cause
all matured bolls to open, and a short piece
of good weather will the entire yield
safe in the gin houses and on its way to
market.
Fat hogs were selling in Madison