Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-02-16
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.

! RO0lnSOn (ruSO0, ROCu Olu cOlOrcu
man, who works for Colonel Cal. Pember.
| ton, on his plantation below Little Rock,
| met with serious accident a few days ago..
| He riding 10 town on wagon, when
| it struck a root, throwing him out. The
wheels ran over him, and his right ankle
was broken. He received the best of atten.
tion, and was doing well as could be ex.
| pected.
| A few mornings since the alarm was
| given that Mays s. Fawbush's grocery
| store at Texarkana was being burglarized.
| Officer McCauley at once summoned assist.
ance, repaired to the scene and captured
| three men, who gave their namos Jim
| Burnes, VIM. W:.itcSides AMI - Reilly,
| in the act of cracking the safe, contain
| ing about 500 in cash. About ten minutes
| more would have sufIiced for the compile
| ton of the job, they had already drilled
| through the safe when surprised by the
| presence of the officers. They had a COM
| plete kit of burglars tools. Jim Burnes is
| said to be Il brick contractor, and to have a
| contract to build Jail at Clarksville, Tex,
| for $4,000. Reilly and Whitesides had been
| i'll the city for some time, claiming to be in
| the employ of the railroad.
The Little Rock Shorts baseball
| club, which beat the Lonoke Reds last sea
| son, will soon reOrganize.
A recapitulation of the January NOR
| tuary report OF Little Rock gives the fol-
| lowing. Total deaths, 81; white, 30; col
| ored, IL; Oakland cemetery, ~; Mount
Holly ); Calvary, 4; transfer permits, D..
OF the deaths 10 We're from pneumonia, ,
from diphtheria, ! from consumption and )
from meningitis. In January, 1883, there
were 81 intermen:s, and deaths from
pneumonia.
j. T. Pcrryman & Co., merchants at
Paris, Logan County, have failed; liabili-
ties. S2l.np: assets, 5000.
Sheriff Eankston of DcslIa County,
who disappeared recently, has returned tC
his home. He denies having married Mis-
souri, bradford in Memphis. and talks of
suits for libel against those papers which
said he did.
Isaac Johnson, a colorcd man, who
shot himself and cut his own throat recent.
Iy, at Helena, died of his wounds. The case
is considered remarkable, as suicides
am ,n. the colorcd race are almost I'M
Known.
W. b. Haskins, Sheriff of Mississippi
County, took Two c"nvicts to the fenlten-
tary few days ago-+John Smith and Har-
ry Gaines. grand larceny, six years inn
prisonm"nt each.
Twelve thousand acres of land in
Dorsey and Lincoln Counties were recently
purchased nv Michigan parties.
Commissions have been issued to the
following postmasters Elizabeth j. Cook,
Arsalclphia; w. W. Brashear, ussell-
willie; W. w. Shaw, TcXarkana; f. +. III IL
~, Center Point: r. f. SEWER, Conway;
c. c. Calhoun, Hatton; Mercster JcsSup,
Darianeilc.
New post-ofliccs have been cstab-
lisll. Il at Collins Bluff, Miller County, Lo-
reno ID. Walker postmaster; ldel. Logan
County, Marshall :. Cobbs postmaster;
Pctti,rew Mills, Benton County, BENZ. F.
Watkins postmaster. The following post
otli .e~ have been discontinued: Adler, john
SON County; Brakeville, Lincoln County;
Fo ter, jackson County; Wylie, Prairie
County; Fisher, Benton County: Greens
boro, Craighead County; Hailside, Lee
County.
Articles Of association of the Farm
cr's Supply Company, of Russellvilie, Pope
County, were recently filed with the Secre-
tary of State. The company consists of ID.
l.. Bourland. J. NJ. Gordon and y. Gordon,
and the capital stock is 5000. The com
pany proposes to do a general merchandise
business.
Benz lam n Faddcn, colorcd, of Brink
ley, Monroe County, was recently arraing'
ed before Commissioned Goodrich nt Little
IL" !, the charge OF selling lqu"r with
+ out license. He waived cNanhuat ion r.n'i
was admitted to hail in this sum OF 500.
The Uniform Rank, Knights OfPythias.
and ths order ali over the State viii join i'll
the New Orleans excursion at Mardi GraS.
w. {. Echols, of White County, has
been commissioned as Justice OF the ieace; ;
also \. c. Car,nan and a. Brown. of Point
1.
In the State Land Office sales were
made recently of 90 acres Pulaski,
- County to =. II. Brown, Al acres in Little
River County to q. b. Milford, and 40
acres in Woodruff County to John W. Beck.
All at fifty cents an acre.
The Governor has extended the time
for penalty attachment i'll Little EocA
County on account of the vacancy in tIe
utli e. of collector.
The Lafland murder trial at Danyile,
Yell County, is ended at last. AT the arg
ment speeches were limited to thre" hours,
owing to IA death in the family of one OF
the Jurors. The jury returned a verdict of
not guilty in less than an hour after going
ont
Tie Governor has received the two
bronze medals Tor prizes awarded the
State at the Louisville Exposition. They
are very handsome, about two and half
inches in diame-er. The inscriptions, "For
Display of Minerals" and ''The Best Dis
play of Field, Garden and Orchard Pro-
Ducts" aiorn one side OF each medal. On
the reverse side of the medallion the center
is taken up with Il raised representation of
the exposition building. A laurel wreath
is around the rim, above the exposition
building is an eagle with outspread wings
and below painters palette, implements
of industry, machinery. The medals lie in
handsome morocco cases, and will be treas
,3red as reminders of the triumph that our
Stat. won at Louisville.
The Governor recently pardoned Mat.
Raw, sen: from Clark County for larceny,
and sentenced to one year in the Peniten-
tiary. His time would have been out in
few days, and he was pardoned to save his
citizenship. He bore a good character
during his Imprisonment.
River men are busy again.
Robert w. Jack on, of South Bend,
Lincoln County; Byron Price, of Arkansas
County; J. F. Eberle, of Fort Smith, and
John Il. Carley, of Prairie County, have
been appointed Notaries Pubic.
The monthly report of the Ladies
Benevolent Association Hospital a. Little
Rock for january gives the number of pa
tients present January 1, 1884, IS: admitted
during the month, 81; total, 81. Discharged
during the month, IL. Died: white. males
>, female 1; colored, male l female, .;
total, O. Remaining in hospital February
| l, 1884, 40.
Mrs. ID. ID. Mytinger, of Little Rock
| died sudden v few days ago of apoplexy.