Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-08-11

iuS"hC do iuul, Oh when num- F!
be: the ma ajorlty is composed of
women. The institution has a |
capacity for but $50, and can now
receive but two more women and
twenty-three more men. |
Rural Home and Ambrosia
Lodges G q o ofO F have leased
the hall on Main street from Mr..
M Kirst, for a term of seven years.
The boys will soon be in their
own house. p G Nj council, No
46, meets Saturday night the l1th
inst, in Richmond Lodge hall.
The Great Truth of St Louis,
has at last reached our sanctum.
1t Is a good looking newsy six
column journal and numbered 81
of the first volume. although the
Contributor came first, we hope
Truth will ever live to tell the
truth to the world. g
The mayor pro tenn, NJ Kirst.
has made two Or three calls for
meetings of the city council, but
it appears that the aldermen have
lost all interest in the affairs o.
the city, or have some mcrcina>
ry reason for absenting them
selves We think those men
elected should either meet and
attend to the busir ess of the city
or give way to somebody that
will. We have three colored men
on the board. if they will be
prompt and attend with three
white aldermen and the mayor,
they would make quorum.
A grand moonlight excursion
to this city, Aug. 25th, to attend
the Colored Baptist Convention,
which will convene in the Mis-
sionary Baptist church on the
Dist inst. The proceeds to apply
to the publication Of the Arkan-
sas Times. Round trip. from
Warren. Bradley county, So, and
at proportionate rate to Little
Rock. Returning will leave Lit
tie Rock Sunday evening at 4 p.
m. Good order will be observed.
Refreshments on the train going
and coming. X L Williams, Il G
Crute, Elder w B Gibson, mana
gers.
At Carlisle. Lonoke county,
July 81, j II Curry, a white man,
was killed by Tom Pettus, color
ed. The parties were engaged in
making brick, and Curry COM
planned that Pettus did not haul
wood as fast as the man employed
the day before. Pettus said that
the man who said that told what
was not so, when Oury threw a
brickbat at him. Pettus then ad-
vanced and Oury retreated some
thirty or forty feet, and when
Curry stopped to pick up brick,
struck him blow with stick of
wood, which fractured his skull
and produced death Pettus was
pursued and shot at several times,
but finally escaped. We hope
that Lonoke county will not
deem it necessary to meet this
case by a mob or a "war' but by
the law.
Mr.. Sam Spight returned home
last Saturday from ArSadelphia,
where he had been for about ten
days, prosecuting the four train
robbers that was captured about
the 9th of last March They have
been tried and convicted as fol-
lows: JAS Swan, five years in the
pen. Geo Hill four. Charles
Nickles and Jim Clark plead
guilty and threw themselves on
the mercy Of the court, and was
onl y sentenced to one year each
to the state penitentiary. The
people in Clark county were very
clever and treated Mr.. Spight
with AL the courtesies that could
be asked from either white or
colored:
The Brothers Of Friendship of
Pine Bluff, attracted much atten-
ton, Thursday, on the parade,
ny tHciI Hue appearance. He 81
ciety embraces in it's membership
some of the best colored men of
Pine Bluff who own several tho
usand dollars worth of real estate.
Among the prominent members
are B Waterhouse of the legisla-
ture; Ferd Iavis, circuit clerk;
A S Moon, asst post master; Wi
ley Arrant, draymen; E Bellamy,
saleenist; NJ f Cox, teacher; 10
seph Nicely, Isaac Shields and
Thomas Henderson, carpenters;
d A Robinson, Elgin Carpenter,
farmers, and VIM Ii Thomas,
justice of the peace.
The first number of the first
volume of weekly journal edit
ed and published by company
of colered youths in st Louis,
called the Juvenile Contributor,
and by the Contributor publishing
co. is before us. There ia no dis