Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-12-15

Twelfth District-Pope. Johnson, Newton
and sEarSy; j. NJ Harkey' District Deputy
Thirteenth misunderstanding, Scott. Yell
Fort ifio smith, Sebastian County:
Fourteenth Dstrict,Franklin: Crawford;
Deputy. Charleston Franklin County.
Fifteenth Ristrlc0MashinE,on a ana tenaon;
Vile. Washington County.
sixteenth District. arroll' i.i Madison Boone Boone
anI snrnus Carroll p%oe "omnv sre' deputy
Seventeenth District-Baxter, lard, Fulton,
Stone and sharp; A. F. Kerr, District Deputy.
Eighteenth District Randolph. Lawrence
Woodruff. Independcnce and jackson; F. NJ
Tucker. District Deputy, Glover Bend, LAW
renee County.
miscellaneous Items.
A Telephone Exchange has been
| organized at Pine Bluff.
There were sixty-thrce deaths in Lit
| tie Rock during the month of November.
| Eight were from diphtheria, two from
pneumonia, seven from dysentery, eight
from entcrtis, four from consumption
| and three from paralysis.
An armed robbcr recently stopped
| the mail carrier near Danville, Yell Coun-
| ty, and carried off the letter pouch.
| A few days ago about four miles from
| Arkansas City, on the railroad, negro at
tackled couple of Germans, knocking one
| down and severely, if not mOrtally, wound
| ing him. The negro then compelled the
| other to rob his wounded comrade and de-
| liver the proceeds to the freebooter. Off
GERS were notified and went to the scene of
| the robbery, but could find no clew as to the
perpetrator of the outrage.
| II. S. Redfield was drowned few
| days ago in Village Creek, two miles from
Newport. He had been to Jacksonport and
l Iin,r
was to have taken place in a day two.
The rems ins were recovered.
Good crops in Monroe County have
| resulted in placing that region in Il better
| condition financially than it has been in for
years past.
! The Methodist Conference which re-
| Gently closed at Malvern, appointed Little
| Rock rs the place for the next Conference.
| DIR. z. r. Winfield retains charge of the
| Spring Street Church, Rev. H. Jewell, of
the Eighth Street Church and Rev. c. G.
| Golden, Presiding Elder of the Little Rock
| District.
Advices from Ravendcn Springs state
| that the greatest excitement prevailed re-
Gently in that vicinity on account of a Sc
veIp shock of earthquake. First, about
| 9:55 in the morning, terribly loud, rum
| bling noise was heard and Immediately s1f-
| terward a violent jar of the earth was felt,
| the vibrations lasting forty seconds and
| proceeding from a northwesterly to south
| easterIy direction. The shock in Raven
den sufficient to SKATER glassware in
| the stores. On the Kansas City. Spring
| field & Memphis Railroad, near there,
| large rocks in cuts were loosened and fell.
Proctor and Doll, on trial for the kill
| ing of Patrick Diamond, at Helena, have
| both been found guilty of murder in the
| first degree.
John f. Reardon, one of the pioneers
| OF Little Rock, died recently, aged about
| seventy years.
| Ben Tavlor, a white man, a convict
| sent to the Penitentary from Clark County
| in 1873, and who escaped March 20, 1879,
was captured the other day at Hubbard
| CITY, Texas, and will be returned at once
| to the prison.
| Governor Henry has pardOncd j. {.
| Wiseman, sent to the Penitentiary from
Benton County on charge of assault with
| intent to kill. He had served one year of
three years sentence, and the pardon was
| granted on account of his failing health.
! Pardon was refused to G.. T. Bland, sent
from Phillips County for selling liquor
without license, and James Mack, Il Justice
| of the Peace of Bradley County, sent Tor
| malfeasance in Office.
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| Dardanclle, Yell County, on the 1Uh, for
| murder of r. j. PenderSraSS, on the 31St OF
| August last. 1t was the first legal execu-
| ton in the county and excited extraordna-
| ry interest. Five thousand people were on
the ground, many coming from long dis
i tance. Underwood tainted at the Scatfold
| and it took several minutes to revive him.
| He then submitted quietly. At 2:DJ the trap
was sprung, the body quivered convulsive-
| lv for a few moments, then became still,
| and in twenty minutes physicians pro-
| nounced him dead and the body was cut
down. Death resulted from strangulation.
The crowd was very orderly and the ex-
| ecution passed off without any mishap.
| The prompt Justice meted out to the mur
| 1erer is much commended
| Tramps now infcst the State.
Fannie Mcdonald, living at Terrys
| Ferry, a few miles below Little Rock, was
| Jailed a few DAYS ago on a charge of poison
ing her husband with strychnine. All the
| parties are colored.
A correspondent thus announces the
arrival Of an annual visitor: THAT unsur-
| passed and truly inspired artist, Jack
Frost,' now sojourns with US, and in his
| nocturnal pencilings on windows mere
| (where the light best sets off the picture)
| spares no panes' (pains) in rendering his
delicate though grandly artistic sketches
beautiful by decoration
A. A. Crawford has been elected
County Judge of Saline County.
| Jesse Warren and Columbus Jainer
engaged in fracas at Arkansas City few
days ago. Warren emptied his pop" at
Jainer four times, but missing his mark,
| succeeded in wounding two ISLANDERS,
| one fatally and the other in the thigh.
| An election for a Justice of the Peace
In Washington Township, Independence
County, has been ordered for December
| I5th>
w. P. Weld was recently appointed
Rotary Public IN Lee County, and Il. A.
Wolverton commissioned as Surveyor OF
Conway County.