Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-12-22
NIiscelhneous Items.

William Jones, colored roustabout on
the steamer Woodson, fell between the
boat and the levee at Little Rock a few
days ago and was drowned,
G. A. Gainridge, of s6t. Louis. COM
merc!al traveller tor SchoOlfield & Hanauer,
of Memphis, was severely horsewhipped in
the office of the Capitol Hotel, Little Rock,
a few evenings since. His assailant was
Angelo Marie, a sporting man of the city.
Marie claimed that Cambridge insulted his
wife by making ungentlemanly remarks
about her while leaving the Opera house.
Gainridge denies this, and says that he
knows neither Marie nor his wife, and
never Intentionally insulted any lady. The
afray created considerable excitement,
and Cambridge would have been badly
used up had not bystanderS interfered,
Marie had turned the whip to strike him
with the loaded end.
Post-office Inspector Lucy, of this di-
vision, arrested few days ago in Texar-
kama, a young colored girl, Victoria Ten
nal, for calling for and receiving a letter
addressed to her lover, whom she suspected
of clandestinely corresponding with other
women. She got white woman to de-
cipher the contents, which were evidently
distasteful to her, she burned the paper up
shortly afterward. She subsequently
Romeo and her own statements led to her
capture. She was taken before a United
States Commissioner, and was committed
to Jail in default of &, 800 bond to await the
action of the United States Court at Little
Rock in April next.
A few days since word was received
at Eureka Springs that DR.. j. z. Walden
had been killed at Gaskins' Station a few
miles distant. The particulars are as fol-
lows: Wiley Ethridge, hard character,
was living with cyprian named Indian
Jennie without marriage. The people
of Gaskins and vicinity had the matter
brought to the officers of the law, and DR..
Walden as Deputy Sheriff took posse and
went to the house of Ethridge at night and
went in and called to Ethridge that he was
under arrest. Ethridge Immediately fired
his pistol, the first shot striking the Doctor
in the head, and as he turned second ball
went crashing through his brain and he fell
dead. The murderer escaped for the time
from the posse and fled, but was captured
the next morning, and the neighbors guard
ed him until Sheriff Dick Pullian took him
in custody. Ethridge seems utterly uncon-
cerned about the killing.
Special Commissioner Ross at Arkan-
sas City recently sold about $4,000 acres of
land under the overdue tax law. The Men,
phis Land and Timber Company were the
principal purchasers. This closes out all
the land in Desha County on which taxes
were due up to 1882.
The residence of Jas. A. Tappan, of
Helena, caught fire few mornings since,
and assistance asked by telephone brought
to the rescue enough citizens to put out
the flames before the fire engine could get
at work.
The claim by H. M. Hudgins, of Hot
Springs, that his store was robbed of $4,000
recently caused attachments for over $780,
900 to be served upon his stock by various
creditors.
The 'possum crop is excellent.
Deputy United States Marshal Wiegel
of Faulkner County recently took Geo. w.
Matthews to Little Rock, charged with
obtaining money fraudulently upon pen.
sions.
United States Marshal Russell of Lit
tie Rock recently went to Detroit, Mich,
with three prisoners for the House OF Cor
rection. James Evans and Julius Houser,
the murderers of Granville warden, each
sentenced to six years. Imprisonment at
bard labor, and Dempsey, the illicit dis
tiller from Pope County, who will serve
two years. sentence.
Pine Bluff had a $4,000 fire few
days since.
Wall street, New York, is laughing at
a stock broker who cashed worthless
81 ,OO0 check for a man be fell i'll with at Hot
Springs, Ark.
A meeting of the combined directors
of ti,e Little Rock g. Ft Smith and l.. R.,
NJ, R, & T. Railroads was held recently
and resolutions were passed to construct
bridge across the Arkansas River at Little
Rock. company was organized under
the name of the Little Rock Junction Rail-
way, capital stock S4oo, LOO, with F. G. De1-
ter, of Boston, President. The structure
will be completed in October, 1884.
Christmas will soon he here.