The Osceola times., 1886-02-20
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MIsnelluuenus Itcna.

Company.
A malignant type Of throat affection has
recently been showing itself in the State
Institution for the Blind.
Fifteen inches of snow fell recently at
Morrilton and vicinity.
The severe weather of the present winter
has developed much des.itution in Little
Rock. The police headquarters have been
nightly crowded for some time with home-
less and penniless wanderers.
Fire in Little Rock few nights ago de-
stroyed the restaurant of Mrs. K. Spears
and the Office Of Justice Adds. They were
wooden structures aud the loss was small.
In the United States Circuit Court at Lit
tie Rock few days ago, Judge David
Brewer decided the first of the famous Ho.
Springs land cases in favor Of the plaintiff,
Governor II. NJ. Rector. This is one Of
about sixty cases involving great amount
of property in Hot Springs.
A mortgage on the Arkansas Union
Printing and Publishing Company of Lit
tie Rock, held by the st. Louis Type
Foundry, was foreclosed few days ago,
and the property of the company will be
sold at public sale February %. The mort
gage is for $1,000 divided into fifteen notes
of 5000 each, payable monthly from octo-
Der 20, 1881, and there is now due on the
notes more than S2,400. The property Of
the company will more than pay the first
mortgage indebtedness, but the concern
will wind up its affairs and go out OF bust.
ness.
Ben Holmes, well ll-to-do colored man
living near Cartins farm, in Eagle town
ship, Pulaski County, was shot and killed
few days ago by another colored man
known as Cesar" Thompson. The men
quarreled abouta mulatto girl, and after
hard words Thompson went to the house,
got his gun and shot Holmes down like a
dog. He is now under arrest.
The Dude minstrels, a combination of
Little Rock talent, with one or two excep-
tions, who recently started on tour up
the Fort Smith road, went to pieces at
Russellville for want of Patronage. The
foreign members split up, one party going
to Kansas City, while another kept ON to
Fort Smith. The troupe contained some
very meritorious talent, and deserved q
better fate.
Governor Hughes has appointed Judges
J. j. Horner, of Helena, and ii. G.. Bum, OF
Camden, as special Supreme Judges in the
case of the State Of Arkansas VS.. ex-State
Treasurer Thos. J. Churchill, Chief Justice
Cockrill and Associate Justice b. B. Battle
being disqualified by reason of paticipat-
ing in "A former trial of this famous case
The 21th of the present month has been set
for the day of trial.
Deputy United States Marshal Z. N.
Wiegel recently arrested two men sus-
pected of showing the "queer" in Little
Rock. They were examined and coin
similar to a half dollar passed on street
car driver was found in one OF their trunks.
This fifty cents is a counterfeit of good
mould, and it is believed a portion OF a
regular Arkansas gang of counterfeiters
has been captured, aud that startling de
velopments will be forced from the men
now in the clutches of the law.
The little three year-old daughter Of
Mr.. Fred Martin was horribly burned .
few days ago at his residence in Little
Rock. The child was in the sitting room
with her nurse, and on the nurse leaving
the room for glass of water, the little
one got into the open CRATE and sustained
injuries that may prove fatal.
Lightning struck the house of VIM.
eagle, a carpenter in the southern part Of
Little Ro X few days ago, wrecking the
building. eagle and family escaped with
slight injuries.
John Hall, an insane man living in Nc
Milin Township, Pope County, attacked
and beat his mother so severely with a
broom handle and fire shovel few days
ago that her life is despaired of. His
father undertook to stop him, when he
turned on the old gentleman, knocking him
down and beating him in q terrible man
ner. His brother then appeared on the
scene, and by knocking him down and
taking the shovel away from him put a
stop to his bloody work. Hall has always
been considered as harmless, but this at
tack on his mother demonstrated that it
was unsafe to allow him longer to run at
large, aud he was secured and has been
sent to the asylum in Little Rock.
Hunters have been happy OF late.
Auent the recent cold weather we recall
that in 1875 the Arkansas river at Lewis.
burg was frozen solid for six weeks, and
wagons and teams were crossed regularly
VIM. l.. Overton and Joe Carson, Of
Cleveland County, have been pardoned by
! Governor Hughes 10 restore their citizen,
ship. They were convicted OF stealing
watermelons, and were fined and sen.
fenced to three months in Jail. They served
their time nearly out, and the Governors
clemency restores them to full rights as
they had before the unfortunate water
melon episode.
The steam heating apparatus in the
| State house now works like a charm.
| Fou r miles east of Charleston in Frank.
lin County mill collapsed recently from
the weight OF the snow, killing Louis
Weaver, aged fourteen years. William J.
Bradbury was fatally injured by the fail.
ing timbcrs.
On train which arrived in Little Rock
recently from Texas over the Iron Noun.
tain railroad, both death and birth oc-
Cured. F. l.. Leayill, en- route from Fort
Worth to Atlanta, Ca, was found dead in
his seat by enc OF the car cleaners A
woman named Elzn Connors, going TO
Sorth Ca olina, gave birth to male ci lid
after the train left Malvern.
Land and buildings have been pu, isssd
IN Little Rock for a tree hospital.