Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-02-09
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.


A fifty cent Fort Smith dog recently
jumped through and broke a $50 plate
glass window.
New Post-offices have been es;ab-
lished at Desha, Independence County,
with Elvin A. Young, Postmaster, aud at
Hardy, Sharp County, w. J. Wilson, Post
master. John r. Seward has been COM
missioned Postmaster at Payne, Columbia
County. The $500 bond of John o. Shaw,
as Postmaster ut Victor, independence
County, has been accepted. O'Kane, Ran
dolph County, has been discontinued and
mail goes to Walnut Ridge. Dora {. Lof-
land has been commissioned Postmistress
at Buffton. j. NJ. Cavaness has been com
missioned Postmaster at Montongo, Drew
County.
Prof w. NJ. Davis has established
goose ranch on his stock farm White
River, and is making it a success.
The gypsum mines near Nashville
have orders ahead for 10000 tons.
branch road will soon be built from the
mines to point five miles east of Nash
vile, on the Arkansas & Louisiana Rail
way.
Proctor and Doll, the young men who
were taken to Helena from St. Francis
County, upon a change of venue, to be
tried for the murder~of Patrick Diamond, n
track walker of the Memphis & Little Rock
Railroad, and who were tried and found
guilty at the November term, 1889, escaped
from Jail few days ago, by cutting a pas
sage through the old and dilapidated walls
from the cell in which they We're confined.
Ell iensaa ICED at at the NAV 'r'm 'Eero to be
Agents of New York firm are scour
ing the woods of this State tor black walnut
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logs being shipped to New Orleans.
Gold nuggets are said to have been
found in the mountains near Marshall,
Ssarcy County.
The stock of j. j. Dale, the Paris
Nogan County, merchant who disappeared
recently, has been attached by st. Louis
credit prs.
state Trea surer Woodruff recently
no: due until March.
NJ j. Bunzel, of Little Rock, was re-
ported in danger OF death from the effects
of morphine, sold him by mistake for qui-
uine.
Mrs. Mary Google, of Buck Creek
Township, recently became the mother of
triplcts, a boy and two girls. The boy
lived sixteen DAYS, the girls but three days.
ternbcr /, 1881, to January 81, 1884, were
30 IA bales, against 81, 100 bales the same
time last year. Thus it will be seen that
Helena is -.1,h5 bales behind las year.
BY a recent lire at Hop loss was
sustained that will probably reach $4,000,
with only about $4,000 insurance. The
damn weather and the heroic exertions of
the citizens saved Front and Main streets.
john W. Brady, charged with burg
larry and attempted satc-.lowinS III Mont
gomery County, tried at Arkadelphia on
change of Venue last October, and on whose
case the jury failed to agree, was convict
cd OF the charge in the Circuit Court a few
days ago and given three years in the PEN
itentiary.
The Governor has appointed Mr..
Alexander Cunningham. OF Fulton, as a
delegate to the Cotton Centennial at New
Orleans, from the Fifth Congress ional Dis
irict, in place of Dr.. ID. e. Hart, of Baxter
County, declined. He has also appointed
ColopeI V. p. Izard, of Forrest City, st.
Francois County, as a delegate to the Mis-
sssippi River Improvement Convention,
at Washington, in place of W. ii. Howes,
declined.
County Treasurer, Mr.. j. w. Pozzcll,
of Mississippi County, having died, tie
Governor has appointed Mr.. G. +. Stone
Treasurer, and ordered an election for
the vacancy for the rest of the une1 pred
term.
Harry Fairly, baggage checker for
w. 5. Davis Il Son, Little Rock, met with
Il serious accident few days ago. He was
standing on the platform of car on the
south bound Iron Mountain train, and
it rounded curve two miles north of the
city, lost his balance and fell off the train.
II was stopped and he was picked up I'M
conscious. He was finally brought to, and
was, at last reports, living in quite crit
ical condition ut his home. 1t was feared
that lie had sustained internal injuries. He
is IL young man who has many friends and
they hope for his speedy recovery.
j. Nj. Kaiser. of Hempsl cad County,
c. :. Beach of Lawrence County, and r. +.
Chunn, of Woodruff County, have been ap-
pointed notaries public.
J. w. Clark and \. j. Rowell, OF
jackson County, and III. w. Martin, Of Jack
son Township, Union County, have been
commissioned Justices of the Peace.
Thieves entered the residence of p.
L. Hightower, a merchant OF Fort Smith
few nights ago and stole the keys to his
store and safe from his pants pocket. They
then proceeded to the store, opened the safe
and took what cash there was in it, about
500 They entered his residence through
a window, and the tracks showed there
were two of them. No clew.
The State Convention of the CHRISTIAN
Temperance Union held a series of sessions
III Little Rock recently. There was u large
attendance of delegates from various poT
tions of the State. Among the business
= inf of
mittee to provide newspaper organ for
the temperance cause.
Land Commissioned Campbcll is push
ing the investigation into the alleged abuses
in the donation of State lands and has al
ready succeeded in unearthing a large num-
Der of fraudulent cases of the kind in Clay
tainlv follow.
Winter is losing its hard grip.
The citizens of Howard County hanged
in effigy two Judges OF the Supreme Court
for granting an appeal in the cases of three
negroes sentenced to hang on account of
the late riots.
The State Board of Railroad Commits
s:oners has sent out the assessment lists OF
the Memphis & Little Rock Railroad to as
SCISSORS in the different counties through
" hch the road runs. The value assessed
is as follows: Track, S33i 80 80: side
tracks, $11, 1920; buildings and improve
ments, $o5,246.-n; rolling stock, >l3l $50;
total. sos, 4l3..I-
Quinn Bros. dry goods dealers at!Little
Rock, have failed.
Judge Thomas Il. White, of Warren,
committed suicide few days ago by cut
ting his throat and then jumping in well.