Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-03-29
Miscellaneous items.


Miscellaneous items.
w. II. Cate, of Jonesboro, has been
appointed to fill vacancy Judge of the
Second Judicial Circuit.
In the State and Office the Memphis
Land and Timber Company recently
deemed 2,4I3.11 acres and B. Cremer $40
acres. The redemption amounted to
S>s'2.69. c. Z. BUssell bought eighty acres
in Arkansas County at one dollar per acre.
The Go ernor has pardoned Alexan-
der Pruitt and Mary Iinsey, of Green
County. They were first cousins, and not
knowing that Sta.e law which makes
marriage between first cou sins incest, were
un ted in matrimony near GAINESVILLE about
eighteen months ago. They were arrested
tri and convicted in the Green County
Circuit Court Ia week, the wife appear
ing in the court room wi h her little baby.
The sentence three years each, tie
minimum punishment. The Judge, Prose-
cut ing Attorney, jury and many citizens
united in the petition for pardon.
Governor Bcrry's reward of $500 each
for the apprehension OF the murderers OF
Tony Pease, who was robbed and killed on
the night of February ., has led to the ar
rest of three white men named Tom Scott,
Chas. Britt and Hamp. Ables. The latter
has made confession disclosing the de-
tails of the crime. The men went to Pease's
house disguised and robbed and killed him.
They secured only SO. Before this the
gang robbed Captain Nix and Thomas
Cook, obtaining valuable papers and n
large sum of money. They have been jailed
at Rocky Comfort and will be tried soon.
Threats of lynching have been made and
the Jail is closely guarded.
Collector c. w. Greene, of the Reve-
-
shall Jones, recently made a successful raid
on the moonshners in Madison County.
They captured and destroyed moonshiner
distillery run by Henry House. House,
Hammons and Samuels were captured and
taken to Fayetteville for examination be-
fore Commissioner Harrison. House is
said to be an old offender, and was run out
of Kentucky for carrying on a2crooked dis
tillery.
A company of solid citizens of Little
Rock have petitioned the Council for the
right of way to build new street railway
on which they propose to charge only a
nickel fare. They are getting tired of the
ten cent fare now charged by the "grasp-
ing monopoly" that holds the franchise.
The re- idence of Wm. Mullican, two
miles east OF Magnolia, Columbia County,
was burned lately.
The infant daughter of Doc Hanson,
| Of Magnolia, fell out OF the cradle into the
fire few days ago and was burned to
| death.
VIM NJ. johnson, proprietor of
| Johnson's mill, near Lamartine. Columbia
| County, was severely cut last week by a
| man named Garrett.
Tony Sadlcr who killed Dick John
| son in PraIr.e County last Spring. pleaded
,l,~ Ia. IN fho dncr1 pt
| Des Arc, few days ago. and was sent to
the Penitentiary for twenty-one years.
T.. NJ. Goodwin, of Warren, Bradley
| County had his pocket picked of S20J while
leaving a train at L tile Rock few days
| ago. The thief escaped.
Arkadelphia has measles.
j. G. Patton and A. j. Snowdon, in
dicted at Little Rock for the murder of
| VIM. George, have been released on $500
| bail each.
An old colored man during the recent
floods had by grand coup secured ''pos-
| sum' and determined to serve the animal
| in the best style. that is to ''first par-boil
| i'm den bake 'im brown" He cleaned the
| opossum, placed it in pot to boil, when a
| crash was heard and a calf that tied
| on the roof came through with rush, and
| landing in the pot, converted that possum
into calves-foot jelly in a trice.
Oats was the only crop that yielded
| more in G. ant County last year thanIn ISS-.
Camden was the scene of a dispute
| and fatal atfray few nights ago. The par
| ticipants, w. D. Criner and L. H. Cobb,
| stood well in the community and were men
| of unuuestioned bravery. Criner a
farmer living fifteen miles west of Cam
den. He received two bullets, one in the
left arm and the other in the abdomen.
| Cobb was uninjured.
| One of the mercantile houses of Arka-
delphia bought, during the past season,
| over $50 bales of cotton and another over
| 2,OOO When the value of this commodity
| is considered it indicates thriving bust.
| ness.
Prohibition prohibits in Arkadelphia.
A few DAYS since Horace Greeley and
| Mack Tier, negroes, were on the river a.
| Helena in a canoe when the boat struck an
obstruction. precipitating the occupants
into the water. A party of men soon after
visited the scene and endeavored to re-
cover the bodies, without success.
The fabricator of garden sass.
with the festive mule plow, spade, rake,
hoe and other paraphernalia of his horti
cultural office. is tearing up the green
sward.
A number of negroes from the low
lands now under water are settling on the
highlands of Crowley's Ridge, in Greene
County.