The Russellville Democrat., 1888-08-02
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.
The AgricuIturaI Wheel.

All tHOft tO utd0 tuC " hOCl AhtO politics and have 1t indorse the State | Union Labor ticket was voted down, but A resolution by Hon. Isaac McCraken, president of the Nationul Wheel, was adopted thanking the Union Labor party for indorsing their demands and the nor.!nation of men of their vocation on their ticket. s Another resolution was adopted pro- viding for the consolidation of the Ma tional Wheel with the National Farmers' Alliance and all other political agri- | cultural organizations. An effort was made to have it simply labor organiza- tions, but it was promptly voted down by | vote of ? to 1.
 The election of officers resulted as fol- lows: President. l.. P. Featherstone; vice. president Geo. Martin; secretary R. H. Morehead--all reelected. w. H. 1 Quaile, of Hampstead County, was elected treasurer. Two colored men, who were recently made eligible to membership in | the order, were elected sentinels. ----- Miscellaneous Items. | R. P. Wright, ex-city editor of the Lit | tie Rock Democrdt, recently convicted Of 1 bigamy and sentenced to five years inn 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 a reward of S2o0 each for the arrest and de- livery to the sheriff of Montgomery Coun- 1 ty of John Barnett, Lafayette Cogburn, Franklin Cogburn, Noah Owensby and | Charles Johnson alias Walter Peter, charged with numbering Deputy United I States Marshal John c. Trammel while | J Inn The United States Government having offered reward of $500 for the capture of each, the Governors reward is withdrawn except the 500 for Owensby, which has been paid.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 banishment of eighteen | negroes by an armed organization of white citizens. The sending of the mys- l terious notes to 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.
 Wm. Berry and Charles Scars went to l the house of George Webster, in Little | Rock, few evenings since. There be- | ing no one at home, and spying what they l thought half barrel of wine under the house, they knocked the locked spigot | out and drank heartily. During the night they became very sick, and an investiga- tion of the case 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. All the parties are white.
 Grant County has eight candidates for Re presentative.
 Drew County is afflicted with the kiss the baby kind of candidates.
 Mir Wagner, of Cleveland County, has n mule twenty years old. He rode it through the war.
 1t 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 dement's with the State treasurer, except Sheriff Worthen, of Pulaski County, and his settlement will be completed at an early date
 The Governor has remitted the fine of
 
 Franklin County, tor carrying pistol and making an assault A large number of responsible citizens asked the remis- sion for reasons apparent to justice.
 Frank Silverman, the big sheriff of Jef- ferson County, recently consigned E. A. Brown and W. A Daniels to the peniten- tiary to serve terms therein for the crime 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 S1, 900 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 gath-er.
 Hon. Hosea J. McGuire 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
 nessee, against the works for the alleged
 infringement of the Brown patent, issued
 in 1881. Tee Thomas patent was issued
 in 1884, and on examination 1t was ascer-
 tained that there was no infringement,
 hence the dismissal of the case.
 The Derdanelle Weekly Herald says:
 stMrs. M. II. Hastings sent us cucumber
 by MT. 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 as so its truthfulness. But what we are going to tell you is so, and we are willing to swear to it. 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 it' 5 contents two miles south of Goodwin, St l Francis County, were consumed by hre, [ } few nights ago. The family with the ex. ception of Mrs. Cross aud little child, 5 were away at the time The lady had re- tired and was awakened by the roaring oi the flames and barely escaped with hei life, the little one being bruised by fall t ing timbers, but not fatally. Mrs. T. ". Chance, of Portia, com 1 mitted suicide recently by shooting her self through the heart The lady was O. . good standing in the community anC l there was no known cause for the rasi
 act
 Truck gardeners are doing good ship
 ping business this season.
 strange disease, somewhat like diph therla, is epidemic among the negroe ! around Charlottesville, Crittendel i County. The patients throat swells ron tracing the air passages until death en