Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-01-12


ing five days and nights. Their
session being secret, we cannot
give any of the proceedings. but
we learn that they adjourned to !
meot the 1st Tuesday in April. .
Judge Newsom. of Chicot coun- /
ty, brought his deceased daugh- /.
ter to this city and had her buried I.
in the family lot, Oakland GENE
terry. The very sad funeral took
place from bis sisters residence,
1901 Rock street, Sunday after
noon.
Mr. Jesse Patton says. one elc-
phant named Jumbo, wa,ked a
mile in five seconds. In the con-
versation Jesse johnson said one
man walked a mile in one minute
on his way from Helena to Mari
anna, Ark, a distance of forty
nine miles. which would not re-
quire one hour to go the whole
journey. Who can beat that.
Thos. 1Iarleston, q colored cit
izen of Cotton Plant, was brought
in Tuesday by Deputy Mar
shall Faulkinbury, charged with
Illicit whisky traffic. lie had
been examined by Commissioner
Mccullough at Brinklev and held
over. Harleston plead guilty be-
fore the court.
Bryan White, of Washington,
Ark, committed suicide at Tex
arkana last Wednesday, by shoot
ing himself through the left
breast with a 44>caIibre pistol.
Whiskey and domestic troubles
was the supposed cause of the rash
act.
Articles of association OF the
Fort Smith Printing Company.
were filed in the office of Secreta-
ry of state Thursday. The object
is to print a weekly and daily
newspaper and do job printing
and binding. The capital stock
is placed at $4,000 and the paid
up stock at $3.50. &c Johnson
is president, and J f Weaver,
vice-prcsident and Geo TILES,
secretary.
The Little Rock Democrat be-
fore and during the holidays, was
enlarged to nine column tollo to
meet the requirements of the
times. They had advertisements
to kill, but as judicious bust
ness men should do-since the
holidays, the advertisements hav-
inS been discontinued, reverted
to their regular eight column,
but some how or other it seems
to us to be more newsy than ever
since the holidays. The Demo.
crat is taking the leading posi>
ton in the state in journalism, tol
which we are pleased to congrat-
ulate them.
A mass meeting of the colored
citizens of Phillips county was
held at the old court house on
Wednesday, Jan. Sd, for the pur
pose of adopting resolutions of
sympathy and raising funds for
the relief Of their distressed col
ored brethren now held in cons
tinement in Howard county, and
under sentence Of death. The
convention was called to order
by Rev f G Morris, who stated
the object of the meeting. On
motion Rev. Seth Neal WAS cho.
sen chairman and Mr. Jas w
Dawson, secretary. BY motion OF
Mr. Il L Morris, finance com
mittee was appointed consisting
OF Rev. ) Hutchinson, Abram
Crawford, DIR j w Q Marques,
J w Dawson and + G. Morris to
solicit means to assist in EN- .ploy
ing counsel in their behalf
Golden Epoch.
Col Bob Newton has been EN-
plOyed ty the committee to assist
Judges Jones and Conway OF
Washington, Hampstead county,
: in the Howard county riot cases.
Col Newton was the man that tie
governor sent there to settle the
matter. On his return at the time
the Colonel said the whites were
az much to blame as the blacks.
but OF course there was no way to
enforce the law against white
men in that county in favor Of
blacks, as justice was all on one
side. 1t is positively asserted
that parties to the riot vas on the
jury, therefore the defendants at
torney's advised them to plead
guilty to murder in the second
degree. AS it was evident that
the jury would put them in for
the first. To prove this, all the ,ju-
rymen that was not members of
the riot will all sign the petition
for a pardon. The attorneys will
doubtless get a reprievc for the
three prisoners to be hung on the
25th inst if not a new hearing.
DR. Porter held his first quar-.
terly conference at Bethel a NJ E
church, on Saturday last. Every
thing went off very pleasant y
and called for:h q resolution of
thanks from DR. Phillips for the
disinterested impartial and very
digniied manner in which he dis,
patched the business of the con
ference. Also assuring him Of
their most undivided support
l; bic tarm Suni,y y-as a