The Osceola times., 1885-05-30
MiscellaueOus Items,

Miscellaneous Items.
II. Stroup, of Logan County, J. 7.
Champion, Of Arkansas County, j. F.
Fespernian and w. A. Novel;, Of Craw-
ford County, have been commissioned
Justices of the Peace.
The Board of Visitors to the Arkansas
Industrial University has been appointed
by Governor Hughes, as follows: Hon. l..
l.. Thompson, Little Rock; J. II. Moore,
Arkansas Post; Prof. w. Z. Rande, Sui
phur Rock; Hon. B. 7. DuVal, Fort Smith; |;
Hon. G., p Smoote, Prescott, and J. Z.
Riddick, Gainesville They will visit the
university on June Sd.
1t is said that spring has been back
ward, but there was frost last cath Of May,
and on the oath of April the year preced-
ing that.
Broken legs, dislocated arms, sprained
wrists, mashed noses, cracked craniums,
1isfigured countenances and bruised car
casses are everywhere manifest to show
the manifold ills to which the roller skater
is heir But still the glorious art of roller
skating moves on. Nothing less than q
broken neck can check the enthusiasm Of
the votary OF the god Of rollers.
Goodwin Jackson, colored, was hanged
at Clarendon on the 22d.
The plan for the new building for the
Arkansas School for the Blind by Benja- =
min J. Bartlett, OF DesMoines, Ia, were
accepted. He was also elected Superin-
tendent for the erection OF the new build
ing. He has just completed very fine
public building at Columbus, Miss.
Mr.. c. w. Clark, the contractor for the
buildings at the State Lunatic Asylum,
has given his bond and started to work
putting up buildings for his workmen, and
arranging to make his own brick.
The gambling houses of Little Rock
have opened up in full blast again, except
the game Of ''craps," played principally
by negroes. The custom OF weekly fines,
assessed against owners OF houses, will, it
is said, be reinstated and things 90 on as
usual hereafter.
The State Board of Railroad Commits.
soners, cons sting of Governor Hughes,
State Auditor Files and Secretary OF Stats
Moore, have completed the assessment of
all taxable railroad property in the State
Main line, side tracks aud buildings in each
county in the State have been. assessed in
accordance with the value OF other prop
erty in the county, and the assessment Of
the Board is several million dollars more
than the figures at which the railroad
companies turned in their property.
In the State Laud Office tly several
tracts of land were sold as follows: One
hundred and sixty acres, Nevada County,
TO j. n. Fortune, for ssl; eighty acres,
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eighty acres, Pulaski County, to John @.
Starbuck for S4l; eighty acres, Pulaski
County, TO Z. Z. Blake for SAL; forty
acres, Pulaski County to Joe Baron for
sll; eighty acres in Pulaski County were
donated by Madison Wright
The association of ex- Confederate sol.
diers and Mcpherson aud Ord Posts Of the
Grand Army of the Republic will join
forces in the decoration of soldiers graves,
the latter having rendered an invitation
which was cordially accepted.
The case OF T. c. Moore against r. H.
Lawson, both of Little Rock, for $4,000
damages, for the seduction Of PLAINTIFF 3
vile, was abruptly terminated. Lawson,
who was recently prominent business
man in the city, decamped with Moore's
wife. Their whereabouts is unknown.
The case went by default, and the jury
gave Moore s. 900 damages.
The State Eclectic Medical Society, in
annual session in Little Rock elected the
following officers for the ensuing year
DR.. J. W. Pruitt, President; DR.. j. W.
Warren, first Vice. President; De. h. l..
browning, third Vice. Presideny; Dr.. L II.
Stevenson, Recording Secretary; DR.. J.
NJ. Parks, Corresponding Secretary; DR..
X. II. Gardener Treasurer; censors, Drs.
j. N. Ferguson, Jacob Go de and G. F.
Foster. The next annual session will b.
held in Little Rock the third Wednesday
In MAY, 1886 The society had good at =
tendance, and the Eclectics are gradually
spreading over the entire State.
The peach crop promises abundantly.
The depository for the United States
Government funds in this State has been
changed by the Secretary OF the Treasury
from the Merchants National to the Ger
man National Bank. The former, OF
which Hon. Logan II. Roots, ex-member
Of Congress, is President, has been the de-
pository ever since the war.
The outlook for busy spring and sum-
mer for builders, mills and contractors
and carpenters, and brickmasons in Little
Rock is very bright Contracts for sew
eral new State buildings are being let and
require great deal Of labor and mate
rial.
The Nimrods seem determined to ex-
terminate the race of squirrels
Governor Hughes refused to interfere in
the case OF Goodwin jackson, sentenced to
be hanged at Clarendon.
c. A. Guthrie, OF Searcy County, ex.
hlbited a nugget of copper ore weighing
$40 pounds in Little Rock few days ago.
He has, he thinks, found a large lead on
his land, twelve miles north of Marshall,
Searcy County, and has gone to New Or
leans to submit the ore to analysis. He
had also other ore beside the nugget
weighing, altogether, about 1000 pounds,
and says there is plenty more in the
ground from which his specimens were
taken.
Fred Kramer was 70. elected Mnyor Of
Little Rock