The log cabin Democrat., 1907-03-28
Attorney General Kirby recently

cenSe nay De lsSueu oA Duhuoy without violating the law and whether a marriage consummated on the same day under the license would be valid. In answering the question Mir. Kirby said: "It might be a violation of law for a clerk to issue a marriage license on Sunday, but the license itself so issued would not be void, nor would a marriage consummated on Sunday under such a license be void. It is true that the statute says Marriage is considered in law a civil contract, to which the consent of the parties capable in law of contracting is necessary (Kir- by's Digest, section 5171) also that ordinary contracts entered into on Sunday are void. This is not true as to the marriage contract, how ever, because it is also a social and domestic relation as declared by the Supreme Court in Dodson vs. State" The entire opinion as given by MT. Kirby is a lengthy one and enters into the exact differences between the marriage and other con- tracts.
 Two negro women were shot at Meyers Hill, three and a half miles from McKamie, by unknown par ties, while under the guard of a constable. The young negresses, one 90 years of age and the other 15, were being guarded in the school house, there being no jail in the vi- cinity, when some one slipped up to the window and fired two shots, one of which blew the top of the elder negress' head off, and the other of which went through the lungs of the younger negroes. The shooting of the negresses was the sequel of an assault with knife made by them on the proceeding afternoon on Mrs. Jack Rhoton and her married daughter, Mrs. Nora Oglesby. The assault on Mrs. Rhoton and her daughter was unprovoked and mur- derous, and Mrs. Rhoton's life was saved only by the fact that the negress who welded the knife failed to strike where she intended.
 R. A. Stockton, one of the oldest residents of Franklin county, and who has lived on farm, three miles east of Ozark, continually during the past thirty-eight years, has a record that but few men can equal. He is now S1 years old This year will be the first he has missed blow ing in the field since he was 10 years of age, a period covering seventy years at tne plow. He says his first blowing was done in rough, new ground in the state of Tennessee During the thirty-eight years MT. Stockton has lived on the farm he now occupies, the same land has pro- duced a crop each recurring season and the land produced a better crop of corn last year than ever before.
 A horse belonging to W. B. De Yampert, of Wilmot, and driven by Mrs. De Yampert and Mrs. Harper, became frightened and bolted Mrs. Norman and two children were also in the carriage. The ladies were thrown from the vehicle and a few moments later the horse ran over Mrs. Norman, inflicting injuries which will probably result in her death. The other occupants of the carriage were more or less seriously hurt.
 Wylie B. Miller, of Little Rock, "on the State championship medal in the live bird shooting contest at Pine Bluff There were eleven con- testants. MT. Miller killed 45 out of 50 birds. The medal was former ly held by W. B. Powell, of English, who voluntarily surrendered it after holding and defending it for several years.
 Wallace Wright, a young Iron Mountain brakeman, was killed on the Greenwood branch at Van Buren while switching cars at one of the coal mines. He attempted to step lpon the footboard of an engine as it approached him, missed the board ,pJ ,roz ;n-+op+lx. l~.11a1 IT, l.