The Springdale news., 1888-08-03
Miscellaneous Items

Miscellaneous Items.
 K. P. Wright x-city editor of the Lit. tie Rock Democrat, recently convicted of bigamy and sentenced to five years im- prisonment has been lodged in the State prison. He was so weak, physically, that his attendants were required to carry him.
 On July : last the Governor offered reward of S200 each for the arrest and de- livery 10 the sheriff of Montgomery Coun- ty of John Barnett, Lafayette Cogburn, Franklin Cogburn, Noah Owensby and Charles Johnson alias Walter Peter, charged with numbering Deputy United States Marshal John G. Trammel while engaged in raid in that country June 26. The United States Government having offered reward of $jO0 for the capture of each, the Governor s reward is withdrawn except the S200 for Owensby, which has been paid.
 The grand jury of Crittenden County made their report few days ago. For ten days the body was engaged in the in- vestigation of the punishment of eighteen negroes by an armed organization of white citizens. The sending of the mys- terious notes to the leading white men, giving them five days in which 10 leave the State, has been cleared up, Plot and counter plot have been unraveled. The result k the return of nearly forty lndict ments.
 Wm. Berry and Charles Scars went to the house of George Webster, in Little Rock, a few evenings since. There be- ing no one at home, and spying what they thought a half barrel of wine under the house. they knocked the locked ispig ot out and drank heartily. During the night they became very sick and an investiga ton of the ease showed that they had taken fly poison. It turned out that the barrel from which they had drank the supposed wine contained mixture of arsenic, soap concentrated lye and sour wine for killing flies. Scars is dead, but Berry. at last accounts; was still alive
 Il the parties are white.
 Grant County has eight candidates fol Re presentatiye.
 Drew County is afflicted with the kiss. the baby kind of candidates.
 Mir. Wagner, of Cleveland County, has & mule twenty y-nine years old. He rode il through the war.
 Ii is sfeported that two men named John- son and Barnett, implicated in the killing of Marshal Trammell, have been captured in Montgomery County.
 i, The sheriffs and collectors throughout the State have all made their final set dement's with the State treasurer, except Sheriff Worthen, of Pulaski County, and his settlement will be completed at au early date.
 The Governor has femitted the fine of S10O assessed against Thos, Owens, in Franklin County, tor carrying a pistol and making an assault A large number .l.l | sion for reasons apparent to justice.
 Frank SilyeFman, the big sheriff of lief ferson County, recently consigned E. A, Brown and W. A. Daniels to the peniten tiary, to serve terms therein for the CT ime of murder in the second degree, the former for ten and the latter for seven years.
 In Tennessee there is an exemption from taxation of personal property in the sum T, GOO for every head of a family. In Arkansas not dollars worth of prop erty-not even the poor widows stove or sewing machine-is safe from the clutches of the tax gatherer
 Hon. Hosea J. Mcclure, oldest and one of the most prominent members of the last Legislature, died at Fayetteville, re. gently. He was more than seventy years of age.
 In the United States Court at Little Rock the case of John Brown ys. the Thomas Direct Steam Cotton Press W orks was dismissed, few days since, at the request of the complainant. This action was brought by NJ. Brown, of Ten l nessee, against the works for the alleged 1 infringement of the Brown patent, issued i in 1881. The Thomas patent was issued ! in 1sSi, and on examination il was aseer- l tained that there was no infringement, i hence the dism issal of the case.
 The Derdanelle Weekly Herald says: "Mrs. Nj. II. Hastings sent Us a cucumber l by Mir. H. which beats the record for size 1 of any thing we have ever yet heard of. We have long known that Arkan- sas could beat the world on almost any thing she undertook to raise, but, had we not had the evidence of our own eyes, we should have felt con- strained to swallow this story with some considerable degree of doubt as to it's truthfulness. But what we are going to tell you is so, and we are willing tc swear to it. Said cucumber was exactly thirty five inches long and about two inches in diameter at the largest part Mir Hastings informed us that he ha6 raised them this year AS much as fort inches long"
 Fruit shipments are heavy.
 Theresidence of Hiram Cross, with it. contents two miles south of Goodwin, St Francis County, were consumed by hre, { few nights ago. The family, with the ex' ception of Mrs. Cross and little child, were away at the time The lady had re- tired and was awakened by the roaring ot the flames and barely escaped with hel life, the little one being bruised by fall . ing tirnbers, but not fatally. =
 Mrs. T. .W. Chance, of Portia, con- mitted suicide recently by shooting her self through the heart. The lady was of good standing in the community and there was no known cause for the rash act.
 Truck gardeners are doing a good ship. ping business this season.
 A strange disease, somewhat like diph. therla, is epidemic among the negroes around Crawfordsville, CrittendeI County. The patients throat swells, con- tracting the air passages until death en- sues from strsngulation. So far not ont of those attacked has recovered. The scourage is confined to the negroes. An election has been ordered to deter mine whether the county-seat of Clay County shall be located at Rector, Green way or Piggott,
 Mir. Joseph Knot, farmer living hv' miles from Poeahontas, plowed up riel specimen of silver ore in his field a fev days ago.
 The rivers all have a good stage o water for this time of year.