The Osceola times., 1886-10-30
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.


There are more spinner buyers out this
season than usual and a good deal of cot.
ton being marketed is sold to them.
James Robinson, a machinist in the EN- .
ploy of the Iron Mountain Railroad Com.
pany. was seriously injured at the Little
Rock shops few days ago. locomo.
tive driving wheel fell upon him.
Much excitement was caused in Little
Rock few days ago by rabid dog which
bit four children before he could be killed.
The dog was pet in the family and had
shown no signs of madness previous to
this. The baby, creeping on The floor,
was the first victim, and three older chill.
dren, while trying to save the baby, were
also bitten. One OF the spaller children
was bitten through the hand, hole being
torn large enough TO pass pencil
through. Medical aid was procured inn
mediately, but much alarm is felt by the
parents.
DR.. Peter Brugman returned TO Little
Rock recently from a two weeks trip
through the counties of Saline, Garland,
Hot Springs, Clark, Pike, Polk and Mont
goinery and reports the people all happy,
with overlooking cribs, abundant mast
and myraids of growing porkers too fat
aud too busy TO squeal. He says the
woods are full of game and that any
lay hunters have their choice
Of bear, deer or turkey. The
squirrels are In countless numbers and a
mess may be obtained from the door step
with Winchester rife any half-hour Of
the day, while the nights resouud with
/ ,ry Of the wolf and the "too-hoot" of the
owl. Fat cattle roam upon a thousand
/ ail!s, the doctor says, and amid all the
| exubernnt cheerfulness and plenty the
miner tramps his weary way with pick
and shovel, ever dreaming of the e.
dorado that lures him onward like the
1 ignis faluus.
| The annual session of the Grand Lodge,
| !. o. o. F., of Arkansas, will be held in
the city of Hot Springs, beginning on
Tuesday, the 26th inst.
The Colored Press Association meetings
at Little Rock were we'll attended.
] The State Land Commissioner recently
sold forty acres of land in Randolph
County 10 J. w. Sanders for Si1, and 12)
acres in Clay County to the Ozark Land
| Company for sol.
| One-half of the cotton marketed at Lit.
! tie Rock belongs to colored farmers.
When IL comes TO cotton raising in Ar
| kansas, labor gets value received for all 1t
| does, aud in some cases gets a little the
best of il.
Hon. Poindexter Dunn, candidate for
recollection 10 Congress from the First dis.
trict of this State, is confined to his bed
at Balesville with an attack of malarial
fev-r. His appointments to speak during
the canvass have been Cancelled.
There are twenty counties in the State
that have not been heard from on the Ii.
cense question. as follows: Carroll. Cross,
Little River, Miller, Mississippi, Newton,
Perry, Pike, Poinsett, Polk, Prairie, Ran
iolph, Saline, Scott. Senrcy, Sewer, Sharp,
st. Francis, Van Buren and Washington.
The Secretary Of State requests that the
clerks of these counties send their votes in
as soon a possible.
Little Rock is attracting great deal of
attention in baseball circles abroad. The
magnificent victories gained by its club
over the Peach Pies have set the st. Louis
boys 10 thinking They are going to send
the Prickly Ash team, the champion ANA
teur club Of that city, down there to see II
they can get away with the Little Rocks.
John Cursor, marshall of Newport, re-
Gently arrested one 7. C.. Pratt in the low
er end of this county on a charge o. show
ing the queer" Pratt was provided with
a complete outfit for counterieiting silver
half dollars. He has leen identified as
the party who pas. ed lot of bogus silver
on Batesvillc merchants some time ago.
He was lodged in jail to await investiga-
iion of his case. He came 10 this county
from Texrs.
Mr.. Solomon Block, one of the oldest
merchants in Camden, having been in
business nearly thirty years, died few
evenings since of heart disease. Mr..
Block was one of Camden's most highly
respected and public spirited citizens, and
a friend of popular education. He had in
process Of erection one of the largest
business blocks in the city, the second
story being intended for public hall.
a case f considerable Importance was
decided in the Circuit Court at Jonesboro
"A few days ago, that OF the State against
NJ. H. McGuire. Some time last year, Nc
CURE, who lives On the Knobel Branch Of
| the Iron Mountcin lroad, was annoyed
| by stock getting d, his fields through
the stock gaps lutit by the railroad
where it crosses his farm, and the old man
| became so enraged that he thought to take
revenge out Of the company by piling an
| obstr uction across the road. Fortunately
| the obstruction was discovered in time TO
prevent IA wreck, and M accident oc-
Cured; Tut at the last fell term Of tht
Grand iuiy Mcclure was indicted, and hi
case came on for hearing last week.
| The argument W S completed and the case
given TO the jury. and IL $ on brought In
n verdict OF five years in the penitentiary.
It is generally supposed that Tut for th'
| fact that the irosts OF sixty-six winter
| had whiiened the old ans locks b.
| woull have eceived n sentence much more
severe. He has heret ofore borne a good
| reputation, having been a respected cii-
| zen tor many years. Much sympathy j.
express el for him, and il is believed he
viii pardoned by the Governor.
The colored Industrial Fair held las
week at Pine Bluff was pronounced sue
| cess, ref citing credit on its promoters ana
| all concerned in its management. The
| grounds were i'm excellent condition, the
| displays in the various departments ex-
| pensive and noteworthy, and every thing
| connected with the enterprise tended TO
| emphasize more forcibly than words pos
| sibly could the rapid strides being made
| hv our coored fellow-citizens in the pur-
| suits which characterize nineteenth cen.
tuy civilization.
The "Swamp Angel" is dead.