The Osceola times., 1888-08-04
Miscellaneous Items.

treasurer. Two colored men, VINO were
recently made eligible to membership in
the order. we're elected sentinels.
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Miscellaneous Items.
r. P. Wright, ex-city editor Of the Lit
| tie Rock Democrat, recently convicted OF
bigamy and sentenced to five years i'm
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 5sersd a
| reward OF 800 each for the arrest and de-
livery to the sheriff of Montgomery Coun-
| ty of John Barnett, Lafayette Cogburn,
franklin Cogburn, Noah Owensby and
Charles 3ohnscn alias Walter Peter,
charged with numbering Deputy tnited
States Marshal John g. Trammel while
engaged in raid in that country June 20.
Fhe United States Government having
offered reward Ct $40 for the capture of
each, the Governors reward is Withdrawn
| except the 500 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 banishmept Of eighteen
negroes by an armed organization OF
white citizens. The sending of the Inys-
terious mites 20 the leading white men,
| giving them FIVE days in which to leave
the State, has been cleared up, Plot and
| counter-plot have been unraveled. The
result is the return Of nearly forty lndict-
ments.
| VIM. Berry and Charles Soafs went to
the house of George Webster in Little
Rock, few evenings since. There be-
ing no one at home aud spying what they
thought half barrel of wine under the
house, they knocked the locked spig 1t
out and drank heartily. During the night
they betan.s tety sick, apd an iuvestiga-
.'on OF the case showed that they had
taAen fy poison. l. turned out that the
barrel from which they had drank the
supposed wine contained a mixture OF
arsenic, soap, concentrated lye and sour
wine for killing flies. Scars is dead, but
Berry, at last accounts, was still alive.
All the parties are white.
| Grant e0unty has eight candidates for
Re preventative.
Drew County is afflicted with the kiss
the baby kind Of candidates
| Mr.. Wagner, of Cleveland County, has
i '"'h'y you oiu' iiN iVNN
it through the war.
Ii is reported that two men named John
son and Barnett implicated in the killing
of Marshal Trammell, have been captured
| in Montgomery County.
| The sheriffs and collectors throughout
the state have all made their final set.
tleinen,s With the State treasurer, except
Sheriff Worthen, OF Ptilaski county, and
| will ha 81 ~
early date.
The Governor has remitted the fine of
300 assessed against Thos. Owens, in
| Franklin County, tor carrying pistol
and making an assault A large number
of responsible citizens asked the remis-
sion for reasons apparent 10 justice.
Frank Silverman, the big sheriff of JET
| frrscn County, recently consigned L. A..
| Brown and ". A. Daniels to the peniten-
| tiary, to serve terms therein .ot tire et ime
| of murder in the second degree, the
| former for ten and the latter for seven
| tcarsi
In Tennessee there Is an exemption
| from taxation of personal property In the
sum Il, 900 for every head of 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.
non. Hosea ]. Mcclure, oldest and one
of the most prominent members of the
last Legislature, died at Fayetteville, rs =
| Gently. He was more than seventy years
Of age.
In the United States Court at Little
Rock the case Of John Brown vs.. the
| Thomas Direct Steam Cotton Press
W orks was dismissed, few days since,
| ht the reiuest Of the complainant This
action was brought by NJ. Brown, of Ten.
nessee, against the works for the alleged
| infringement OF the Brown patent, issued
In 1881. The Thomas patent was issued
| in 1884, and on examination it was ascer
tanned that there was no infringement,
hence the dismissal OF the case.
The Derdanelle Weekly Herald says
"Mrs. NJ. II. Hastings sent us a cucumber
by Mr. II. which beats the record for size
| 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 ~ to
its truthtulness. But what we are going
| to tell you is so, and we are willing TO
swear to II. Said cucumber was exactly
thirty-five inches long and about two
| inches In diameter at the largest part.
Mr.. Hastings informed us that he had
raised them this year as much as forty
| inches long"
Fruit shipments are heavy.
The residence of Hiram Cross, with its
! contents two miles south of Goodwin, st.
| Francis County, were consumed by hre, a
| 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 OF
the flames and barely escaped with her
life, the little one being bruised by fall
ing timbers, but not fatally.
Mrs. I. 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 good ship
| ping business this season.
A strange disease, somewhat like diph-
theria, is epidemic among the negroes
around Crawfordsville, Crittenden
County. The patients throat swells, con.
tracting the air passages until death en-.
sues from strangulation. SO far not one
of those attacked has recovered. The
scourago is confined to the negroes.
An election has been ordered TO deter.
mine whether the county-seas of CLAY
County shall be located at Rector, Green
way on Piggott.
Mr.. Joseph Knot farmer living five