The Osceola times., 1885-10-24
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.

into the hall Of the House of Representa-
lives. The new hall will be eighty five
feet deep.
Joseph Whitmore, In a stabbing affcay
at Huntsyille,s lizard County, the other
night, cut Lafayette Tweedy four times,
,ne stab going in his left side and coming
out at the navel. Twsedy's con iition is
very serious. Tim Craig and II. l.. Cobb
attempted to arrest Whitmore aud Craig
received stab, while Cobb got
Ave ugly cuts, and he is thought to be ia.
ally injured. Whiimore was finally ar.
rested and is now in the Madison County
Jail.
Jasper Owens and Charles Wright, while
picking cotton in Clark County, few days
ago, got into a dispnte which ended by
Owens attacking Wright with knife, cut
ting him in several places. Wright like.
wise drew knife and the young men
clinched, giving and returning thrusts
with dreadful rapidity. Wright at length
drove his knife into Owens side, inficting
4 fatal wound.
Quite a number of Arkansans visited St.
Louis during carnival week, and all speak
enthusiastically of the Fair, Exposition,
the grand illumination and night pa.
geants.
VIM. A. Smith, promi nent citizen Of
Logan County, was thrown from his wag-
on few days ago and 50 seriously in.
jured that his chances for recovery are
doubtful.
The bagging and tie trade has been
larger in Little Rock this year than ever
| before.
In fight between horse thieves and the
owners Of the stock, on Sycamore Creek, .
few days ago, two of the thieves were
killed and three escaped.
VIM. Carmichael. a conductor on the
st. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Rail.
'oad, died of blood d-poisonng in Little
Rock few days ago. He had been mar.
;ied about month.
The receips of cotton to date in Little
Rock have gone beyond those of last year
by large majority.
A few days since James B. Weller, a
brakeman ON the Iron Mountain Railroad,
fell through a cattle guard near Little
Rock and broke his lefG leg. The limb was
amputated aud he died from the shock.
All the Arkansas members Of Congress
are said to be in favor of the Blair educa.
tional bill
James Hicks, a boy sixteen years Of age,
was sent to the Pententiary recently for
two years from Conway, Crawford
Coun y, for forging lady's name to an
order with which he obtained suit of
clothes.
A laborer, named John Adams, met with
fatal accident at Little Rock few days
ago. He was employed on the Deaf AMI
Dumh ,tta Ia;
erected. Stepping upon loose plank he
Tell sixty feet to the basement da hing
ut his brains and mutilating his body be.
yond recognition.
Charles Shrider, rooming over DR..
Davis drug store in Little Rock, attempt.
ed suicide a few days ago with an overdose
Of chloroform. Little hopes were enter.
tanned of his recovery. He had been
drinking heavily for a week, and is sup
posed to have been temporarily insane.
religious revival of intense intere is
prevailing in Little Rock under the man.
agement of Evangelists Williams and
| shelton. Never before in the history Of
the city has Little Rock been so thorough.
ly worked up on the question of religion.
Hundreds of converts are reported.
Governor Hughes has pardoned Phoebe
Brown. who was convicted o. bigamy at
the late fall term of Hampstead County
Circuit Court. The ground for pardon
was that although she married her second
husband knowing her first to be living, she
did so through ignorance aud had no in-
tention of violating the law The petition
for pardon was signed by the Judge and
Prosecuting Attorney of the cir cult.
The President of the Little Rock Cotton
and Produce Exchange has informed Su.
perintendent Newton of the We stern
Union Telegraph Company tha, the Ex.
change would terminate its contract with
that organization after the expiration Of
the same for furnishing quotations to
the Exchange. All their business will be
transmitted over the Arkansas Telegraph
Line, which association is rapidly grow.
ing in public favor, a ,ids from the fact of
the reduction of telegraph rates.
The residence and store of Mrs. Mary
Hartley, in Little Rock, caught fire few
evenings since and was totally destroyed.
The building and stock were worth prob.
ably about $4,000: Insurance, g. 800. The
tire was caused by the upsettng of coal
oil lamp and the fainting of the woman.
Several other houses adjoining were
scorched, but none were destroyed.
Shortly before this fire the roof Of the
Hall Cotton Gin Factory was discovered
to be on fire, but it was extinguished
without serious loss
September 10Th last j. X. Harveson, of
Montgomery County, was convicted of
arson and sentenced to two years in the
Penitentiary Before the Judgment of the
court was executed Harveson's attorney
petitioned Governor Hughes for a respite
until October 10th, so that the ma ter could
be laid before the Supreme Curt, none of
the Judges being in the State at the time.
The respite was granted, and the Supre mo
Court refused to grant the appeal. An
order was conse quently issued to the Sher.
IN Of Montgomery County direc, ing him
10 turn the prisoner over to the keepers of
the Penitentary.
Special Timber Agents Warren aud
Thorpe, appointed by ex-Presilent Ar
shur and assigned 10 look after timber
iepredations In the Lit 10 Rock Uni ed
States Land District. have been removed,
and their places wi be filed by Demo-
Gratis.
Richard Fletcher, n Little Rock cotton
merchant, to whom the office of Inspector
of Grain was rendered by Attorney Gen.
eral Garland, has declined. The head
quarters of the office are at Caldwell, kas.,
and the pay ten dollars a day while on
actual duty.
The cotton fields are looking bare
Advices from Morrillton say that the