The Springdale news., 1889-06-28
Miscellaneous Items.


 Miscellaneous Items.
 The Mccarthy Guards of Little Rock won the third prize in the inter State drill at Galveston. This was not only the youngest company eentesting in the age of it's members, but in the age of it's or ganization.
 Recent advices from Batesyille report more excitement on account of White Cap threats. few days since Rufus Smith, a laborer for ". T. Speed, was brutally whipped and the attendant excitement had about died out when three more white men, Turner, Steel and Rogers, state they have been notified to leave or take the consequences. Steel is unmar- ried. All stand well in the community, and the officers of the county do not pro- pose to let the desperad0es run the mat ter any further.
 Near Texarkana, few days ago, Will- jam Leonard, i'll personal difficulty, shot and killed James Wells. a young mill man. They had been engaged i'll previous differences and the affair was result of old scores. Leonard k a man of good standing and widely known character. Leonard's statement that the first shot was fired by Wells is contradicted by boy the only witness to the killing. Five SloiS NtIe IlIe0, iOuI 9I tIleIl bS i%coAul Ni two of which took effect near the head of the deceased. Leonard surrendered.
 The Walsh Zouaves of St. Louis gave an exhibition drill in Pine Bluff recently, on their way home from Galveston. The company is one of the finest in the United States.
 The premium list rules and regulations of the fifteenth annual fair of the Agri- cultural and Mechanical Fair Association of Southeast Arkansas, to be held at Monticello. have been issued The fair begins on Wednesday, October g, and continues three days.
 J. A. Woodson, assistant general pas senger agent of the Little Rock & Fort Smith railway, has received official notifi- cation that the Georgia Pacific railroad will be completed and ready to connect with the Valley Route at Arkansas City, Ark, by July 15. The completion of this road gives Little Rock almost a direct air line to Charleston. S. (.
 The Western Arkansas Hedge and Wire Fence Company of Dardanelle, Yell County, capital $50 900, has been organ ized.
 The survivors of the battle of Oak Hill met at Little Rock, recently, and arranged for reunion August TO-
 Sam Jones. who was convicted at the last term of the Benton County Circuit Court of murder i'll the first degree, and sentenced to be hanged July K, 1889, has been granted an appeal by Judge Hughes,
 The Saline river is said 10 be almost depopHlated of fish by persons who uu lawfully use dynamite and poison for the wholesale destruction of the fish.
 Every ex-Confederate soldier that can do so is urged 10 attend the meeting to be held in Little Rock July f. It will be an important meeting as it is hoped that it will inaugurate steps for the relief of all indgnent Southern soldiers in Arkansas.
 The twenty y-seeond annual session of the Arkansas State Teachers Associa- tion was held in Pine Bluff last week with about l, 900 teachers iH attendance.
 The Governor refused to pardon David Duvall, convicted i'll Carroll Circuit Court in lss5 of murder. and sentenced to six years in the penitentiary; also G. w. Curtis, who was convicted in the Johnson Circuit Court in 1880 of murder in the first degree, sentenced to be hanged and aft erward eommuted to life imprisonment, and Oscar Rucker, sent up from Missis- sippi County for term of four years for manslaughter.
 Dr. W. NJ. Richardson, prominent i physician and planter, living near Latour, | Phillips County, barely escaped being poisoned a few days ago. The doctor was about to begin drinking his cup of coffee at breakfast, when, noticing some thing peculiar in the looks and smell of the coffee, lie proceeded to investigate the cause. He called in l Dr. J. H. Vineyard. a ueighbor, and, on l an analysis, the two decided the coffee had been poisoned. Maggie Brown, the colored cook. was arrested at once, and confessed that, at the instigation of one Abe Johnson, her lover, whose frequent visits had been forbidden by the doctor, she poisoned the coffee by distilllng jim : son weed roots and other deadly herbs. The two have been jailed.
 J. E. England, a well-known real estate operator, living in Little Rock, made a horrible discovery few days since. He discharged colored domestic by the name of Mary Rose. Her month was up. she was paid off, and the family supposed she had left the premises. During the day, in searching for an article of kitchen ! furniture, Mir. England went to the serv- ! ants, room and was mortified to find the woman lying dead on the floor. She was doubled up as if she had died while sit ting in chair. and then fallen to the floor. She was about twenty years old and unmarried. It is believed to have been a case of suicide.
 Jerry Weleh, living near Poplar Grove, | Phillips County, was dangerously kicked by a vicious mule few evenings sitce. His jaw-bone was broken by the kick. A part of the bone was taken out by the at- tending physician. Nr. Welch's condi ton was critical.
 The Little Rock Gazette has passed into control of stock company composed of leading Democrats of the State, who elected Jacob Ffolich formerly Secre . tary of State, and late of Washington, business manager, and D. A. Brown, cd itor.
 J. R. Green, Texas X Pacific brake man, was run over by switch engine and fatally injured at Texarkana, a few days age