Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-03-15
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.

ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.
Among the recent transactions in the
State Land Office were redemptions of 220
acres in Chcot County by s. II. Whit
horne: 3S4 acres in Chicot by r. NJ. Gaines,
and I6) acres in the same county by j. B.
Daniels. There were sold $50 acres in
Ashley County to r. Kemp; twenty acres
in Madison County to Isaac Anderson;
eighty acres in Sewer County to Louis c.
Nall, and forty acres in johnson County to
Abe Stlwell.
A versatile agent waited upon the cit
izens OF Little Rock last Fall and took sLb-
scriptions for pictorial map of the city,
receiving a portion of the money in ad-
vance. The maps fail to mater.alize; like
wise the agent.
Lavater Wear, an old and highly re-
spected citizen OF Paris, Logan County, was
arrested recently, charged with the crime
of murder, alleged to have been committed
in Blount County, Tenn. in December, 1870.
The details of the tragedy are as follows:
Wear employed a carpenter named Will
liam Murphy to build him house. During
the progress of the work the men had sew
eral disputes. In one of these quarrels
Wear is charged with striking Murphy on
the head with a piece of timber, from the
effects of which he died the following day.
Wear made his escape and his whereabouts
have been unknown until recently. He
states in substance that about fourteen
years ago, while a esident of Tennessee,
man afflicted with palsy died at his house
under peculiar circumstances; that fearing
he would be charged with murder he fled,
and has since lived in Arkansas. Wear is
well-known here, having taught school in
this county. He has some property, and
will, it is understood, make strong fight
for his life. He has been taken to the scene
of his crime for trial.
1t cost 50, ,537 to run the State Insane
Asylum at Little Rock for the month of
February.
The City Council of TT. Smith has ac-
ceptcd the proposition for the construction
of water works, the work to begin immedi
ately.
Sam Riggs, merchant Of Clear
Springs, Clark County, was arrested a
few days ago for presenting n forged
check at the German Bank. Little Rock.
Harvey BOzza, money clerk of the
Pacific Express Company, at Little Rock,
arrested few days since, charged
with embezzlng the funds of the company
to the amount of 500. He freely admitted
his guilt.
At Helena recently Squire Spire
united a couple in marriage at his Office.
The names of the happy pair are John
Sing, n Chinaman, age ffty-six, AMI Ell
mira Baker, colored, age thirty-tive.
j. II. Hammock, Sheriff of Drew
County, escorted trio of grand larceny
candidates to the Penitentiary recently
Isaac Jackson, one year; Ned Jackson,
one yea, and Henry Thomas, two years.
A railrOr I'd wOrk-t-ain on the Iron
Mountain Railroad was wrecked a few days
ago near White River, killing John 7. 1rum
and Thos. White, and injuring Pat Wees
enturth, Peter Harrison and VIM. Durham.
The wounded We're taken to st. Louis.
The steamer Rene McCready, while
trying to pass through the span OF the rail-
road BRIDGE at Madison a few days ago,
met with an accident. The strong current
threw her broadside against tho piers Of
the bridge, crushing her port side and
driving one cylinder across her deck and
otherwise seriously crippling her. She
was anchored in an old corn-field on the
bank of the river. The bridge was also
damaged.
Chas Mandel, the butcher at Hot
Springs who was gored by OK few
days ago, died of his injuries. He was
formerly "A resident of Little Rock.
In Maumclle Township, Pulaski
County, IA iunatic has been abroa ad lately
making attacks on women and children.
He proved to lie man named c. i'i
..~...so->. county, who escape
from the lunatic asylum some time since.
Arrangements We're made to return him to
the asylum.
George Dockery, colored, who killed
negro rouster on the steamer James Lee.
about four months ago at Polk's Landing,
has been arrestc ed and jailed.
Governor Berry has offered reward
of 500 for the arrest and conviction of the
murderer of Venus Blakely, who was SHOT
on the 4th of last December, in Drew Coun-
ty, by Isom Pickett, colored man, nine
teen years old, five feet four inches tall,
whose distinguishing peculiarity was star
ing "pop-eyes."
The cotton receipts of Helena for the
past seas on have been 32,n0J bales, against
$1,000 last year. Many bales of cotton con-
tinue to he marketed from the bottoms by
skiffs, it being impossible to ship by steam
boat. In this way the cotton receipts of
the city are kept up very materially, as
were it not for the overflow these bales
would be shipped by steamboat to other
places.
The case of Isaac Bankston, eX-Sher-
Ill OF DeSna county, VINO my SCerlUuSly ulS-
appeared in December last in company
with Missouri Bradford, a colored girl, has
been the subject of much newspaper coin
ment. On his return recently to his home
he emphatically denied the current report
that he had been married to Missouri Brad
ford, but the following special telegram to
the Little Rock Gazette seems to call Mr..
Bankston's veracity in question: .
MEMPHIS, Tenn, March 3.
j. +. Roberts, the minister of the African
Methodist Episcopal Church, who Stated in
interview, published in the Gdzette
some weeks ago, that he had united in mar
riage l. a &c Bankston, then Sheriff of Desha
County, Ark, and Missouri Bradford col
ored, has made the following affidavit:
81 certify that after solemnizing the rite
of marriage between Isaac Bankston and
Missouri Bradford, of Memphis, County of
Shelby, State of Tennessee, on the 10th day
writing on the marriage certificate and de-
lvered the same to Isaac Bankston, who
said he would return the same to the clerk
of the County Court of Shelby County for
record"
Emigrants are coming in fast.
Since the exposure of the fraudulent
land donations the State Land Commits
sioner has been in receipt of numerous let
ters from interested parties containing re-
quests for permission to buy the lands. In
some cases this has been granted, while in
others the requests have been met with a
peremptory refusal, particularly in in
stances where there is presumption of for.
gerry having been committed.
Nathan King, formerly of Bald Knob,
was killed few days ago by train No. IS,
at Delaplane. lie was buried by the Odd