Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-12-08
Miscellaneous Items.
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rioters one hundred and forty -four jurors
were summoned-befOret the panel was COM
pleted. There were forty-three negroes on
trial. Ten were acquitted, ten sentenced
to the Penitentiary for five years, nine for
ten years, ten for fifteen years, one for
eighteen years and three will hang-Capt.
Henry Carr, Lieut.. Charles Wright and
Lige Thompson. The last named fred the
shot which killed Wyatt and after his
death mutilated his body,
Archbishop Fitzgerald, of Little Rock,
had a conference with the Pope at Rome a
few days ago.
An election for Justice of the Peace
has been ordered for Cane Creek Township,
Lincoln County, to take place December IL.
j. Zciglcr, of Liberty Township.
Saline County, met with the very sad mis-
fortune to lose his wife recently. She died
in about three hours after giving birth to
three good-sized and well-developed chill
dren-two girls and one boy, weighing re-
spectively five, six and a half and eight
pounds. The children were all doing well
at last accounts The loss of the wife and
the care of the three infant children is a
sad affiiction, in which the husband and
father has the sincere sympathy of the COM
munity.
Logan COunty's Textbooks were lost
few days ago while the Sheriff was ford
ing the Petit jean.
At the recent session of the Grand
Lodg, F. and A. NJ. of Arkansas at Little
Rock the following officers were elected:
Grand Master, John j. Sumpter, Hot
Springs; Deputy Grand Master, w. II. Fl.
layton, Fort Smith, Graud Lecturer,
G George \. Dannelly, Argenta; Grand Ora
tor, Sam w. Williams, Little Rock: Senior
Grand Warden, T. c. Humphry, Paris;
Junior Grand Warden, w. H. Howes, For
rest City; Grand Secretary, Fay Hemp
stea' Little Rock; Grand Treasurer,
George H. Meade, Little Rock.
In the Miller Circuit Court the eight
ca Sos o the docket since 1850, of the State
VS.. Rob ,rt Thompson for embez lemen5 OF
tr 'unds of The St. Louis, Iron Mountain
& Southern Railway Company recently
cam. up. Paul Jones appeared for the de-
:onGant and filed demurrer which was sus-
taiped. Two cases were dismissed, the other
TX referred back to the next Grand Jury
and the defendant released on 81 ,000 bail
Green Nj. Cumby, OF Cumbyvillc, was
nssassinated a few days ago by two broth
named Bissell. Cumby was riding
a his farm looking after his stock,
when two men stole upon him, shot him
dead and escaped in a dug-out down the
Arkansas River. Cumby wealthy
and we'll know n planter and leaves large
family.
After quarrel a few days ago Frank
Williams, of Warner, Lincoln County, blew
his wife's brains out by firing both barrels
of shotgun. He escaped. large crowd
went in pursuit.
Conway, Faulkner County enjoyed
social sensation recently in the marriage
of Miss Sarah Van Rankle, daughter of
"Governor" Van Rankle, of that place, and
Mr.. Sol. Salmonson, of Newport, Rabbi
Benson, of Little Rock, officiating. The
pair went North to spend the honeym moon.
The following donations and sales
Ii I'VE been made in the Stat Land Com,Ilis-
'oner's office: 40 acres, donated to F.. NJ.
Davis; 14O acres, donated to George w.
Cornelius, lizard County; 160 acres, donat-
ed to r. b. Erwin, Lonoke County; 80
acres, donated to James B. WhitIaw White
County; 800 30-100 acres, sold at 30 cents
p acre to Silas F. Field, 50 acres, sold at
10 cents per acre, to T. G. Leake, Pulaski
County; 40 acres, sold at 30 cents per acre
to C. G.. Herring, Sewer County; 100 acres,
sold at 80 cents per acre to John Il. Carlley,
Prairie County. so acres, sold at % cents
per acre to John 1. Hall, 232 S2-10O acres
sold at 80 cents per acre to Logan II. Roots,
Lincoln County; 200 acres, sold at 30 cents
per acre to Logan II. Roots, Drew County;
$50 acres, donated to Jane Furlaw, Nevada
County. 1G0 acres, donated to Jane Birch,
IGD acres, donated to William Lewis, 16o
acres, donated to Green Austin; 16) acres,
donated to Thomas w. Birch, 135 acres,
donated to Henry Williams, Desha County.
The recent cyclones in lizard and
johnson counties were terribly devastating
i'll their effects and many of the victims
have been left in condition bordering on
utter desttution. Relief measures have
been inaugurated in Little Rock and at
other points and clothing and supplies were
being forw arded as fast as collected
At recent me eting in Little Rock of
the stockholders of the State Fair Associa-
ton it was decided to sell the grounds and
property of the Association. Steps were
taken to form a new organization
The floods have done much damage.
Thomas Helbon was shot and killed
recently at Rocky Branch Church, Wash
ington County, by G. r. Shaddox. The
Springdale leUo,c .Jacket closes its ac-
count of the event with the naive remark:
''The affair has cast gloom all over the
neighhorhood, and all wish it had not oc-
Cured"
State Land Commissioner Campbell
has appointed Mr. James A. Martin deputy
Timber INSPECTOR, and he has started on
trip through Clay, Craighead, Greene
Poinsett and Crittenden counties to look
into the fraudulent donations.
Life insurance to the amount OF
800 900 was recently taken in Texarkana
The atlanta (Ga.) papers IN their re-
ports of the musical festival go into rap
lures over the singing of Miss Bessie
Pierce, of Little Rock, pronounclng her one
of the best in the United States, and refer
ring to her as the "Arkansas nightingale"
| The Journal publishes the following among
| it's editorial brevities 1.-The rapturous
manner in which Georgia in0orsed the
| notes of Missouri and Arkansas last night
was beautiful to behold"
An election for Justice OF be Peace
has been ordered for Batson township,
| johnson County, for December oth.
Too much wind and water.