Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-06-30
Miscellaneous Items.

der the law, is applicable to the cOnStruc-
ton of levees, The committee advised this
money be SO applied.
Miscellaneous Items.
A car with 500, ,OOO young shad, sent
by Prof. Baird, of the United States Fish
Commission, for distribution in Louisiana
waters, arrived at New Orleans a few days
ago.
w. w. Harney has been arrested at
Morgan City, La, for using the mails
fraudulently.
Huntington, Tenn, was visited by
the most disastrous fire the other day ever
known in the town, ten business houses and
three residences being destroyed. The fire
was discovered at three O'Clock in the morn
ing and was supposed to be incendlary
Total loss, between $40, 900 and $40 900; III
Surance light.
The Garden City Fireworks, at Dal-
las, Tex, owned by Sweat & Co., blew up
the other afternoon with loud explosion,
setting fire to the building. The building,
being concrete structure, was saved, but
the fireworks, machinery for their manu-
facture and quantity of materials were a
total loss. The same establishment blew
up about six months ago, destroying the
building and every thing in it.
The jury in the case of the State
against r. f. Cowart, for the killing Of
Judge J. NJ. Thurmond III the Courthouse
at Dallas, Tex, year ago, has returned
verdict of acquittal.
d. T. Rainwatcr & Co. shipped from
Hutchins' Station, Dallas County, Tex, the
first car of new wheat of the present crop
a few days ago. They paid ninety-fivc
cents per bushel for it and consigned it to
! rlf,s
very fine, and it will be hard to grade as
good as No. 3 on the st. Louis market This
is about a month later than the first ship
ment last year.
Three men, Stinson, Briefly and Ham
ilton, from Montgomery County, We're be-
fore a United States Commissioner at Gal
weston, Tex, the other morning, charged
with entering, June >, the house of Charles
Shannon (colored, dragging him a mile
from his dwelling and attempting to cut
his throat. Shannon at the time was a wit
ness before the United States Court in
county election cases. Complainant fail
ing to appear, the prisoners We're dis
charged. Il was thought charge of per-
jury would he entered against Shannon.
The death of H M. Ogden, aged
forty-three, occurred at New Orleans a few
days ago. He was Attorney-Gencral under
the Nichols administration, and figured
prominently in the politics of Louisiana
in 1874 and 1879.
Emma Key. eldest daughter of ex-
Postmaster General Key, was married the
OF er night at her fathers home in Chatta
nooga, Tenn, to NJ. B. Thompson, Superin-
tendcnt of the Mail Service of the United
States.
Rev u. G. Hartshorn, of Providence,
r. L., has offered to erect a building to cost
$,O,O0O at Richmond, Va, to be given the
BaptiSts for a school for the education of
colored girls.
f. V. Logan, of Mitchellsburg, Ky.
fell off Il train near Lebanon while drunk
the other morning, and was frightfully
mangled.
At the meeting of the Executive Com
lnttee of the Sanitary Council of the Mis-
sissippi Valley, at Memphis, Tenn, the
other night, it was decided that when the
National Board of Health closed on the 3oth
Of June, to maintain the inspection service
by river and rail now enforced. Its
rules for that service would be adopted
and maintained intact by the Sanitary
Council of the Mississippi Valley. 1t en-
braces inspections at Memphis, and also
on the river between Wick ksburg and the
Louisiana State line and at New Orleans.
The President has recognized James
Hunter Nlce-COnSl of Portugal at Mo-
bile, Ala.
Judge John E. Carver, of Springfield,
Tenn, was indicted few days ago for
attempt to commit perjury and conspiracy
in connection with the trial of Burch Hop
kins and John and Henry Hooper for muir
der. 1t was alleged he used money ard in
fluence to obtain testimony favorable to his
clients. Judge Carver says the charge is
infamously false in all its length and
BREADTH and that his vindicaton will be
emphatic, thorough and complete.
The fifty members Of the Texas Legis-
lature indicted some time ago for poker
playing have about all settled their cases
without trial by payment of fines and,
costs.
Miss Colista Hopewood, the sixteen
year-old daughter of a prosninent Balti-
has married William Obendorfer,
n wealthy young Hebrew of Norfolk, Va,
against the consent of her family.
Crops promise well in Eastern Texas.
In 1861 Boyle County, KY, issued
bonds to the amount of s150,0O0 to aid the
of the Lexington & Danville
Railroad, which was never built. The last
bond will be paid January l, 1884.
At Versailles. Ky, Ollie and Press
Brown shot and killed the town marshal,
George Freeman, the other night, while he
was attempting to arrest them. The cause
of the killing was said to be an old feud,
the Browns alleging that Freeman had
killed their brother, Sandy, about year
ago. The Browns were placed in Jail at
Cleveland.
The President has appointed E. N
Ayers Postmaster at Waxahachie, Tex.
Commencement exercises at the Tex,
as State Institute for the Blind took place
at Austin the other night. There are over
$50 pupils in the institution. Seventeen
pupils graduated.
The Texas State Land Office Com
says peddiers of Texas land scrip
are selling large amounts to purchasers in
the Northern States at very good prices.
This is said to be simply swindling, as the
prices in Texas are down to nominal rates
and there is no public. land on which to
Iocate one in a thousand of these certif-
Gates.