The Osceola times., 1885-10-10
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.

Baxter County, Greenwood Township.
At Fulton Post -offics Inspector McGee
Williams arrested George w. Davis, one
Of the sureties on the bond Of ex Post.
master II. w. Ferguson, for psrjury.
Ferguson is an alleged defaulter, and the
charge Is that he made straw bond for
S12, 900, and the suit is brought as a test
case.
Tom Frazier, OF Conway County, who
lives near Morrillton, has a wife, with
whom, according to reports, he does not
live. Nevertheless, he courted and won
Miss Mary, the fourteen year daugh-
.er OF the widow Bartlett, his neighbor.
He could not get married at home, and
so, a few days ago with the girl, mounted
mule and rode TO the railway station,
where he bought tickets for Texas Be-
fore the train arrived Constable put
In his appearance, and Frazier was taken
home on a warrant charging him with
abduction.
large Atlas steam engine owned and
operated by the Ferguson Lamber Com
pany at Little Rock exploded Its boiler o
few mornings since, completely covering
Robert Davis, the colored fireman, who
was standing near, with ashes and debris,
and cutting a severe cash In his right
cheek just below the eye. 1t was sixty.
horsepower boiler, and had been used
constantly, day and night, during the
past two years. The man Davis was a
new employe OF the company, and failed
10 keep water in the boiler.
Dr. Luximon Roy, an eccentric 'charac-
ter, died suddenly in Little Rock a few
lays since.
Only one prisoner was In the Desha
County Jail at las. accounts.
The recent heavy rains have damaged
Desha County cotton.
The new jail for Madison County, cost.
ing S4,05o. has been finished
Mrs. Eddy, an old lady near Mountain
burg who was so badly burned by falling
into the fire recently, died two days af.
terward.
Mrs. George Swarts, Of Little Rock
while looking through trunk that b.
onged to her grandmothar, Mrs. Demp-
sey, deceased, found IN original copy OF
the Ulster County IN. Y. Gazette, giving
an account of the death OF Washington, q
sale Of slaves in Now York, and other cu-
rious and Interesting things.
few days ago pi an for an escape Of
several convic's at the Insane Asylum
brick-yard at l. tile Rock was nipped IN
the bud by the guards. Five convic,s had
talked up a plan to slip away, IL they
could, but the placing Of the guards In a
different position frustrated their plans,
and the attempt was not made.
John Havner, suspected Of numbering
Charlie Briggs. in Johns IN County, has
been arrested. He confessed, but says
that Briggs was threateningly advancing
upon him with an open knife, and that
he, being a cripple with only one leg,
could not escape, therefore he shot him.
Most Of the Ksntuckians, OF whom there
were quite q number Of families, that set
tied on Buff alo Island two or three years
ago, but were scared off by the big over
f)ws, are coming back again this fall
and winter.
Many Of the farmers who have be.
gun gathering their crops, say they find
the shortage not so great in cotton az
they had expected, but still very consid.
ernble. Corn AM all other kinds o pro.
duce see ms TO be giving real good
yield.
Quite sensational marriage occurred
in Toledo, Dorsey County. recently. Mrs.
Ellen Groves obtained divorce from her
| husband, but she was destined not long
| to be free from the bonds of matrimony,
| for Mr.. j. Parker was on hand and paid
all the C st of the suit and he then watt
ed upon Judge Bradley, and ex-Mrs.
| Groves became Mrs. Parker.
After long and bitter fight, in which
| every inch was contested, the Baltimore
& Ohio Telegraph Company have at last
succeeded in extending their Hines to Lit
tie Rock, whore they have opened for
| business
Martin Mitchell, the "Swamp Angell,"
aud three other United States prisoners
! detained In the Stale Penitentiary at Lit
| tie r ,ck, undertook to escape few days
| ago by climbing the wall with the aid OF
a long section of gas-pipe and a rope
| manufactured by Mitchell; bat the War;
len haviug become apprlsed OF their in
.ention was on the lookout for them, and
surprised them Just as they W re on the
point of putting their plan into opera
| tion.
The dead body of William Sale, sus.
pected o, numbering Deputy Sheriff Geo
Johnson in Craw ford County, was found
| In a creek, near the residence of the mur-
dered mans brother few DAYS ago. His
hat and shoes had been sunk in the creek,
his throat cut and one eye gouged out.
Articles of Ass ociation have been filed
| In the Secretary OF States office of the
Tennessee g. Arkansas Bridge Company.
Tue object of the company is to build
bridge, span or suspension, across the
sissippi at or near Memphis and Hope.
field. The charter is to be ooi for ninety.
nine years, and tho capital stock is ST.
coo, 900, OF which 81, 000, 900 is paid in. The
directors and stockholders are William G.
Ford, of Westward, Ark, and associates
OF New York SECS 900; Rees b Ell
monson, OF Crittenden County, $1,000;
James c. Saunders, of Fort Smith, 49,.
c0); W. q. Ford. Jr., Of L,e County, S25,-
600; Robert A. Burton, Of Little Rock,
sl,e50
Since the report Of last month the pros
pect OF the cotton crop Is not So cheering.
The yield will not exceed last year more
than ten per cent There is, however, an
increase of acreage Of ten per cent. which,
with the excess OF ten per cent. yield, will
bring more cotton into market than for
several years Picking is progressing
rapidly, and the weather is favorable foI
II. The corn crop is larger than It has
been for ten years.
Tramps are abroad again in force.
Commissioner IHempstead ut Little
Rock, examined James Hamilton, OF
O'Kane, Randolph County, charged with