The Osceola times., 1885-04-18
Miscellaneous Items.

Miscellaneous Items.
An important suit has been filed in the
State Supreme Court, being an appeal
from Columbia. 1t involves the validity
of warrants issued for general purposes
by the State during the war. Recently
Hon. A. A. Tufts, of Camden, rendered
the Sheriff of Ouachita County a number
of these warrants in payment of taxes
The Sheriff refused to receive them and
mandamus was ordered by Judge Askew,
whereupon the case went to the Supreme
Court
A man by the name of Trammel, en-
ployed In an Argenta saloon, across the
river from Little Rock, while digging in
his garden recently, turned over what he
first thought to be an old coffee pot. Its
weight attracted his attention, and on in
vestigat ION he found it lined with moldy
leather and wrapped up in the inside 900
in gold and $50 in silver. The money Is
supposed to have been buried in the field
during the war.
Among the recent appointments for new
Post-offices were the following for Ar
kansas; Thomas B. Alread, Alread, Van
Buren, County; William Quinn, Dump,
Washington County; James II. Scott,
| Julious, Crit enden County.
Lawrence Caldwell, the Bradley County
wife murderer who received a life sem
tence, has been lodged in the Penitentiary.
Caldwell is a very large, powerful fellow,
while his wife was a frail, delicate mu-
latto, and the crime was one of the most
brutal ON record.
The Secretary of State has forwarded to
| the County Clerks the commissions Of
the different county boards of equalization.
The Commissioners of the Stite Peniten-
tiary met in Little Rock few days ago
md decided to at once erect an addition to
the prison at cost Of $4,000 Plans are
to be submit ed with as little delay as pos
sible.
! Angelo Marie, a member of the Little
Rock City Council, was recently fined 500
in the Pulaski Circuit Court for keeping a
gambli ing house and SIS for selling liquor
on Sunday. Several other saloon keepers
were also fined for selling liquor on Sun
day.
workmen eng ged in removing the floor
ia the east wing of the State-house at Lit
tie Rock have discovered that the floor
was originally laid on brick, which in
turn reposed peacefully upon sand, thus
onstitutng queer foundation in the
eyes OF modern architects.
Jack Duncan, a detective recently ar
rested a man named Ralph Sanderson at
the crossing of the Fl. Smith & Iron
Mountain Railroad, in Argenta. He is
wanted at Athens, Ala, where he is
charged with the murder of man known
as Hill. Sanderson was captured in tn.
act of stepping on board the passenger
about the matter.
The New Orleans States publishes q
long and valuable interview in regard tc
Arkansas with DIR. c. M. Taylor, United
States Commissioner from Arkansas,
which sets forth the grand resources OF
the State In a plain and forcible IN lnneI
that will attract attention of home seek
ers.
A very important meeting Of the South
western cotton compress managers was
held in Little Rock last week. 1t is un.
derstood that during the past season the
cotton tie nufacturers furnished q very
inferior article OF tie, and that in conse.
quence the compress men and handlers
| io'o
The meeting considered this matter, and
determined to make arrangements to Sc
cure better quality of material The
question Of railroad transportation tand
cooperation am ng themselves was also
under consideration.
Dardanele Posts april Fool" story:
Out at the bayou last Thursday one Of the
colored fishermen caught a thing which
as vet, remains unnamed. Some called I
an eel, VIII lie others believed IL to be
"water dog" while still others were sat
isfed it was neither. 1t was two fee
long, larger round than a big corn cob inc
head something like snake, yet some
thing like young puppy, an intellectual
forehead, so to speak. A distinctive mari
was four dew claw legs about an inch in
length, and with three toe-like append
ages each. water dogs" are said to b
not larger than a lizard. We would lik,
for some of our readers to name it.
River men are all fairly busy.
II. L. Storm, negro who for a yeariha:
been chief guard Of the chain gang at Lit
tie Re. TX, after practicing law aud leading
the colored Republicans, has been showr
to be an escaped convict from the Peniten.
tiary Of Texas, and will 60 back to com
plet, his term of ten years, three of which
he has served.
The first game for the State champion
ship, between the Collins and Bernay,
bowling teams at Little Rock, resulted in
a victory for the latter in three straight
frames. The winning scores were 12l, II,
and 1876. The victors made seven strikes
thirty two spares and three breaks.
The promise of goods crops of small
fruit is promising.
Andy Miller one of the most desperate
characters in the Pententiary, sent from
Perry County for murder. with a scntenc,
of twenty-four years, has been sent t
work In the Ouita coal mines.
Harvey johnson, the desperate who
last November burned his residence in
Little Rock and cut his wife's throat, was
convicted Of arson and assault to kill The
jury LEFT the fixing of the penalty to
Judge Vaughan. johnson is negro and
his wife bright mulatto. She refused to
support him in ideness, and be attempt.
ell to kill her in return. The prisoner was
recently captured at De Soto, Mo.
Garden truck raisers ane putting y
steady time now.