Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-10-20
Miscellaneous Items.

miscellaneous Items.
The cases of Charles Ford, of Baxter
County, for retailing liquor without IL
cense, and Henry Bryant, Of the same
county, for unlawfully cutting Government
timber, were dismissed. ..
The following is a statement of the
State Lunatic Asylum since its institution
q wear ago: Patients died, white males, q;
white females, s. Total, 8. Patients dis
charged: White males, 4; white fenlales,';
colored males, l; colored females, l. Total,
13. Patients in institution October 4th:
White males, 1O4; white females, no; COLI
ored males, IL; colored females, p. Total,
247.
The following new Post-of1ices are es-
tablished: AT Wilcockson, Newton County;
ut Walnut ("Fort Falley'O, Newton
County; at Sedgwick, Lawrence County;
at Britton c"Cross Lanes"C, Crawford
County; at DinsmOre, Newton County; at
Noah, Newton County; at Haliie ("Nettlc-
tony, Lawrence County. The name of the
Office at Ravenden has been changed to
Ravenden Springs, and the office now called
"Hallie," on the Kansas City Railroad, Is
named Ravenden.
During the quarter ending October
scrip were paid out to counties in the State
on account of the School Fund. Several
counties have not yet drawn their share.
The Governor has appointed Thomas
Williams Probate Judge of Sewer County,
to sit in csrtain cases i'll which the re2uhar
Judge is disqualified.
A recent blizzard caused Il general
searching for overcoats, but it didn't last
and fans again became fashionable.
The Little Rock, Mississippi River
and Texas and St. Louis and Texas Mar
row-gauge combination, which cut cotton
freights from Little Rock east fifteen cents
per hundred, recently, has restored former
rates.
Several parties have recently visited
the State Auditors office looking up lands
forfeited ten or twelve years ago for non
payment of taxes, and which they wish
now to redeem. One man wanted to pay
back taxes on 1000 acres. Old Arkansas is
on boom, and outsiders as well as citizens
have faith in her future.
A CORES spondent writing from White
Bluff, Jefferson County, says: at may
not be unnteresting to you to let you know
what is going at the White Bluff. We
commenced work on the 9TH of this month
and cut a tunnel across the vein, about sew
enty feet from the top of the bluff. Inc
vein here is twenty-five feet thick from
wall to wall Both walls are regular and
well defined. In two places in the tunnel
we found native silver. Nearly all of the
vein matter looks to be very rich, and from
ASSAYS previously made runs from 10 to 1So
ounces in silver to the ton, beside carrying
some gold. We sacked up about one ton of
the average quartz, which has been ship
ped to Newark, N. j., to make mill run.
We are now preparing to sink shaft on
the vein to below water level, which will
be about thirty or forty feet. Ii this White
Bluff does not prove to be verltable bo-
nanza to the owners l am very much mis-
taken. a Colorado miner visited our works
Yesterday and says he never saw anything
in the West to equal it,"
The Circuit Court of Dcsha County
has recently been engaged on the case OF
the State VS.. Joseph H. Cavaness, Jr., on
change of venue from Lincoln County.
Cavaness was charged with the killing OF
Thomas p. Morony in November, lSSo, at
Connersville, Lincoln County, III Lincoln
County, in a drunken brawl. CaVaness
was the Deputy Sheriff of the county at the
time of the killing, and was brother OF
the Sheriff. From the evidence given by
witnesses summoned from Lincoln the jury
returned verdict of not guilty. The rela-
tiyes of the dead man were very much IN
censed at the verdict and threats were
made by them to take the life of Cavaness,
whilst he was leaving the courtroom.
j. Frost paid a flying visit recently.
Jim Ere dericks and Bob Witherspoon,
of Pine Bluff, were recently engaged in the
harmless occupation of playing with
loaded pistol 1t was Fredericks' time to
shoot. and in his eagerness to empty one of
the barrels he accidentally discharged its
contents into the bowels Of his companion,
from the effects of which wound he died III
a few hours.
The Governor has ordered an election
for Justice of the Peace in New tennessee
Township, Perry County, October I'D, TO
fill vacancy caused by one of the last
elected Justices failing to qualify.
Postal service has been established
between Texarkana and Jonesboro.
The Governor has appointed r. H.
Dedman special Probate Judge of Dallas
County. in place of Thomas Peterson, dis
qualified.
On the first day of Obtober twenty
three wholesale liquor dealers in Arkansas
held the following stock of liquors, given
in gallons: Bourbon whisky, 22,959; rye,
l.O16; alcohol, 219; New England rum, 80;
domestic gin, 3,a13; Holland gin, 20; grape
brandy, 1,s1s; peach brandy, 2,25o; apple
brandy, 1907; cognac brandy, 532; corn
whisky, 6,12s; wheat whisky, 'o3; black
berry cordial, 504.
Entries for the State Fair indicate
largely increased exhibits.