Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-08-11
miscellaneous Items.


A horse became fastened between the
ties of the railroad bridge near Murfrees-
boro, Tenn, recently, delaying the train sew
eral hours. He had undertaken to run
across the bridge.
Swallows took possession of the root
of the Central Hotel at Charlotte, S. c., in
such numbers that it was necessary to send
q man on the roof with whip to dislodge
them.
New Orleans policemen are provided
with poisoned sausages, and have eNtcr-
minated so many ours that the streets are
now poisoned with the odor of decayinS
carcasses.
Simon Furgerson, an illiteratc negro
coal-miner, residing near Charleston, w.
Va, claiming the power to cast out devils,
called at the house of sick woman re-
Gently, and declared that she was in the
hands of Satan. He won her confidence,
and prescribed fer her quart bottle of
poke-root, angle-worms, grasshoppcrs and
crubs, well stepped in hot water, Il Wine
glassful to be taken every four hours. The
patient took the medicine until her alarm
ing condition caused physician to be
called.
Theslign alias Ernest Mayer, hailing
tured in Shreveport, La, Il few days ago. 1t
was charged that he obtained money in
Texas by falsely representing himself as
the agent of W. j. Lcmp, of st. Louis, and
other business men.
Ben Hardy and two other men,
whose names were not known. Govern,
ment pile-driverS. fell overheard and were
drowned at MaysvIlle, KY, the other day,
near where five men were drowned by the
capsizing of skiffs few days before.
A New Orleans physician assures the
citizens who dreading the approach of
the cholera that the safest place in the
world against the disease is the piny
woods.
A Chattanooga (Tcnn.) cow commit
ted suicide the other day by holding her
head unlcr water and standing until she
fell over drowned.
The Government tea farm at SUM
merville, S. c., has been restocked, and Il
new effort to get funds to run it will be
made at the next session of Congress.
a rattlesnake seven feet long was re-
Gently killed at Gulf Hammock, Fla. 1t
had nine ratlcs, showing it to be miro
years Old.
a number of people in the town of
Union, 5. (, w"re poisoned recently by
eating ice-crcam Favored with almond ex-
tract.
Sidney Gardner, twenty-five years
old, was run over and killed by train on
tn. c., .. & S. W. Z. r., at Paducah, Ky,
a few days ago.
At Bondurant'S Landing, Miss, the
other day George " atsoni iand Clinton Hines
h.cane involved i'll Il difficulty over game
of cards. Hines stabbed Watson several
times with Il dagger, causing instant death
Tilt. murderer escaped.
in tearing down an old house near
Warm Springs, n. c., recently the skeleton
Of a mril-carrier was found, with leather
mailbag containing over thirty letters
dated 1877, some containing old bank bills.
stephen Green, of COllctOn, 5. e.,
the o her day administered sulphate of
morphine to his wife and two children
mistal,ing it for sulphate of qunine. Soon
aftcr,vard one of the children died, and
Will. Green was attending the funeral the
other child expired. His wife was not
expo g to recover.
The Georgia Legislature is consider
ing il bill to prohibit Sunday excursions
Fred Weisser, an old citizen OF Pop
lar Grove, Ky, drew 500 pension money
the other day and went to drinking with a
u
on the roadway near his home, having been
beaten nearly to death and robbed of his
treasure.
Half pound peaches are advertised in
Mobile. Ala.
At Langley, Crockett County, Tex,
a few DAYS ago, Solomon Norris, who had
recently been appointed Deputy Sheriff,
was given a warrant for the arrest of a.
Il, fl,n 4r,aft rf
cattle. Norris attempted to arrest Lamb,
wien the latter pulled his six-shooter and
attempted to use it, whereupon the Deputy
Sheriff fired and killed him. The CoroncI's
jurv rendered verdict that Lamb was
killed while resisting arrest.
Fire the other afternoon DESTROYED the
pavilion at the foot of Center street i'll Gal
weston, Tex, and several other buildings.
Robert Sprauger, snare drummer of the
Pavilion Band, lost hisIlife in the confiagra-
ton. The fire was believed to be the work
of an incendiarv. The total loss So
600: partially insured.
Kentucky has but 2,059 paupers.
A few DAYS ago an insane convict in
the Virginia Pcnitentiary attempted to
burn the buildings, in which seven hundred
persons were confined, but his efforts were
defeated by steward.
In Atlanta. Ga, the other evening,
Hawk Scarborough, u policeman, while in
a drunken frenzy, fred into a crowd of col
ored people, wounding woman and a boy,
it was thought fatally. He was locked up.
He had been sent to arrest Rev. Richard
Fambo, the colored preacher, who was ac-
cused by his daughter of having murdered
her mother.
Memphis, Tenn, is said to contain
haunted court house.
A meeting of Israelites in Baltimore,
Md, the other evening decided to make fur
ther efforts to assist the Russian colony in
Middlesex County, Virginia.
The immense bridges built by the
Texas & Pacific Railroad over Brazos
River and the canyons of the Palo Pinto
Mountains were set on fire the other night
by train-robbers, who were seen to ride
away into the hills as soon as they caught
glimpse of detachments of regulars and of
Texas Rangers aboard a train. An engi-
neer extinguished the flames, and the dam
age was soon repaired.
Mobile, Ala, sportsmen can shoot al
Ggators from the wharves.