The Osceola times., 1888-05-19
ARKANSAS STATE aeWS.


e<Aats ee>l Ana made several needed I'M
psVVesaea,s, sm0ns; them choir gallery
M, rNm Nirlow. aged seventy, and Mrs.
Fannie Atkinson. aged twenty, were mar
rica 81 Magnolia recently.
Mrs. Martha Kyle. Of Columbia, sister
% Hon. r. l. Emerson. dropped dead with
out warning a few days ago.
Mrs. Sarah Langston. colored, recently
gave birth 10 male child at Saratoga.
The baby, which is alive and well, has
two perfectly formed faces, backing each
other. II frequently cries with one face,
while the other is sober or laughing.
Both faces are perfectly formed IN all
their features and functions. there being
two mouths, two noses and four eyes.
The throats appear 10 Join. or run into
one, just below the adams apple" The
freak has only one arm, but three legs,
the extra limb sticking back like kan
garoo's tail. and serving as prop when
the baby is placed on its feet. AT birth
the baby weighed three pounds, and now
weighs eighteen.
J. +. Jones was arrested at Bear Mount
ain few days ago by a deputy United
States marshal for crime committed
three years ago. At that time, II Is
charged, he and two other men, at Sur
rounded Hill, Prairie County, agreed that
one should impersonate disabled soldier
and the other two act as witnesses, and
thus succeed in getting pension. Inc
scheme worked, but was discovered. The
men all escaped, Jones going to Canada.
He returned to Bear Mountain, where
under the assumed name of George Davis,
he was elected justice OF the peace, and
so continued until his identity was dis
covered. He was at the time of his crime
a very prominent business man aud ex-
tensive planter OF Prairie County.
Gilmore, with his monster band and
concert company. will be in Little Rock
on the Goth.
The Governor granted respite OF sixty
DAYS TO W. j. Coates, who was to have
been hung at Fort Smith last Friday.
The present delinquent tax list of Chicof
County Is the smallest ever returned.
viii Mansfield, a young man OF Chicot
County, was drowned in the Mississippi
at Van Cluse a few days ago.
There are thirty-eight liquor dealers in
Jefferson County from whom county
revenue Of $500 is received.
May picnics, strawberry festivals and
fishing excursions are all the rage as u
source of social amusement at this season.
Parker c. Evan, of Clarendon, says that
over fifty families have settled IN that
county since January, and they are still
pouring in.
J.W. Stacey, of Little Rock, for some
time past district operator of the Missouri
Pacific system telegraph lines, has been
promoted TO the position of assistant
superintendent. He has also been APP
pointed superintendent of the Texas &
Pacific railway telegraph lines.
Steve Inman, the guard who so brutally
beat an insane man at the Little Rock jail
some time ago, was captured in Lincoln
County and taken to Little Rock and
lodged in prison.
A Kansas paper recently contained the
following: "There is a strange, very
strange, indeed, disease prevailing in our
locality. The unfortunate victims appear
to have lost their wits and talk about
nothing but Arkansas, il | can sell out
etc. Since they are our best citizens il is
hoped they will recover"
Sheriff 7. S. Stephens Of Jackson County
recently placed the following convicts in
the penitentiary, all for the crime OF
larceny: Henry Young, four years
Thomas Johns, five years; Sam Haney
one year; p. W. Churchill, one year; JOIN
Howard, one year.
The residence VI Mr.. +. A. Caldwell a
Texarkana was burned few evenings
since; loss Il, 700 on building and 500 OF
furniture. The residence was insured FOL
$50.
Reports from the inundated plantations
on Red river estimate the loss OF stocl
and the destruction of farms and growing
crops as one OF the most disastrous food
ever known there. Farm operations il
the oyerfiowed section embracing seyera
thousand acres are entirely suspended.
Hon. n. V. Barnett, ex-member of tn,
Legislature, died at his home in Rison :
few days ago He was good and usefu
man and his death cast gloom over thu
entire county. He was buried with Ma
sonic honors.
About thirty armed men organized a
Coal Hill q few nights ago, to go TO Ozarl
and lynch Crisp. They took possession o.
the switch engine and forced the engineer
into service. The engine was pulled ou
OF the yard and the men were all aboard
ready to start, but disagreement rs tt
leaders and methods, it is said, broke th'
thing up in confusion.
The Arkansas Industrial Company few
DAYS since paid s2i,S07 into the Stat,
Treasury, being the amount due for the
lease of the pelitentiary conyicts for th'
year ended May 4. In addition 10 thi,
sum, IL has cost the lessees about sl1, ,0Ot
10 defrav the expenses of sheriffs ant
deputies conveying the prisoners to th,
penitentiary.
Clint Davenport, deputy internal rev
enue collector of Fayetteville, in company
with o. X. Wheeler, internal revenue
agent, made a raid few days ago on ;
moonshine distillery within mile OF
Kingston, and captured the distillery
which they destroyed, also lot Of whis
XIV, which they poured out. They alsc
captured one Reynolds, as the owner
of the concern The deputy nC
the agent in charge of Reynolds remained
at Kingston during the night. On tn,
next morning they left with their prisoner
and after travelling about one mile from
Kingston they We're confronted by eigh
or ten men behind a fence, hareheaded
and with faces blackened. who, with theii
guns presented, demanded the release OF
the prisoner, which was done without
ceremony.
The enrolment OF students In the Stat,
Industrial University at Fayetteville has
reached l20. The university never had SO
many students before and was never In SO
fourishing condition as now.
The depot building and Dowell's store
at Tuckerman. Jackson County, were
broken open and robbed Thursday night
of a small sum of money.
Little Rock veterans will decorate.
The Saline County Mining Association
has been o1gsnizei by the election of s
II. Whitthorne president, r. W. Bush