The Osceola times., 1885-03-28
Miscellaneous Items.

The resignation of Rev. Thos. II. Welch
as member of the Board of Trustees OF
the State Lunatic Asylum was received by
the Governor a few days ago, and Rev. 7.
c. Upper appointed in his stead.
Several hundred dollars stolen recently
from Ellis Hamm md at Little Rock have
been recovered. The thief proved to be his
grandson, who sent the money, packed ia
cotton, to sister in Georgia to be rel urned
to him. He then announced that he ex-
pected money, and by the time it arrived
detectives had worked up the case and he
is now in jail.
A movement has been on foot for some
time looking to meeting of representa-
tives of the cotton compress companies in
the Southwest, and, as q result, after
free interchange Of views it has been ar
ranged to ho,d the meeting in Little Rock
on the 9th day of April.
Deputy Sheriff Doughty, Of Little Rock,
recently Returned from trip to Water
Valley, Miss, bringing with him Mas
Benson, who murdered Silas Williams in
Argenta in 1889. The case caused great
excitement at the time, the body of Will
liams being found on the bank Of the river
opposite the Little Rock Water Works
partially denuded aud robbed of all val
uables. Several parties were arrested,
but all proved their innocence Benson
fed the country before the warrant could
be served On him, and was only found a
few days ago, when the officer was sent
after him.
Much excitement has been caused in
Little Rock by the arrest of little col
ored girl, who is charged with attempting
to poison her uncle and aunt. She is but
nine years old, and admits that she has
been putting strychnine in their food and
pounding up spiders and scorpions and
squeezing them in their drinking water.
She SAYS she came last Christmas from
Mississippi, where she lived with an old
woman in the woods near Chesterville.
She and the old woman used to poison the
people, and once they killed three women
near Coldwater.
The Legislature will soon adjourn.
Governor Hughes has issued a pardon
for II. F. Robinson, sentenced to the Pen
itentiary for two years for manslau ghter,
committed in Pulaski County. His time
would have been out next August He has
a wife and FIVE children in a destitute con-
dition, and his pardon was recommended
by Judge Vaughan.
The Governor has signed and approved
Senate bill No. 1s9, TO establish two sep
arate judicial d stricts in the County of
Franklin, introduced by Senator Petit
grew. This is the bill against which Rep
resentative McLane of Franklin County
made such a hard fight in the House.
Garland County Prohibitionists propose
to carry the license question into court.
Justices of the Peace have been com.
missioned as follows: I. 4. Livingston
and w. A. Mckee, OF Hampstead County,
and Reginald Archillion, of Mississippi
County.
Three Prairie County convicts were re.
Gently lodged in the Penitentiary. JEFF
Archibald, sentenced to five years; John
Carter, five years, and Tom Ellis, three
years, all for felony.
Representative Tobey's bill "to abolish
official bonds, and make embezzlement a
felony" bas been amended by the Com
mittee on Retrenchment, and its passage
recommended.
The Senatorial fight continues to grow
Interesting.