Marion Co AR Newspaper Abstract Marion County, Arkansas - Mountain Echo Newspaper January 7, 1887 through February 18, 1887 Submitted by: Gladys Horn Brown Email: fernbrown@Prodigy.net ------------------------------------------------------------- USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free Information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. ---------------------------------------------------------- Mtn. Echo, January 7, 1887 BRIEF MENTION A Massachusetts school mistress allows her white pupils to kiss her on one cheek and the colored pupils on the other. This is drawing the color lines with a vengeance. The duty on broadcloth is 41 per cent, ad valorem. The duty on jeans is 89 per cent. Who said that our great and glorious tariff system was not in the interest of the laboring man. "Jim Cummings," the daring express robber, has been captured. His real name is Fred Whittrock. Four accomplices were also captured, and considerable money was recovered. Hiram P. Revels, the first colored man elected to the United States Senate, is now a well-to-do farmer in Mississippi. There have been two negro Senators and thirteen Representatives. The Baxter County Citizen has been enlarged from a six-column to an eight-column folio. We are pleased to note this sign of prosperity, and the enterprise of our neighbors we hope will be duly appreciated by the Citizens of Baxter. AN HONOR WORTHILY BESTOWED We find the following in the Benton County Journal, of the 30th ult. "The Hon. Hugh A. Dinsmore has been given the appointment by President Cleveland, of Minister to the Kingdom of Corea(sic), so we learn. The president has made no more appropriate appointment than this since he has been in office. Mr. Dinsmore is a young man of talent and culture, and would serve the government faithfully in any capacity. A good man, a moral man, a cultured gentleman - such do not often get into office these days. Mr. Dinsmore, being a native of this county and State, makes us particularly proud of this appointment. Our old shoe is after you Hugh, with the hope that you will return to us with health and vigor, for Northwest Arkansas needs all such men as you." STATE NEWS The Arkansas Locomotive is the name of a paper published at Springdale, Washington county. A receiver has been appointed for the S. B. Kirby Sewing Machine Company, of Little Rock. The receiver was appointed at the instance(sic) of foreign creditors. Jay Gould is investing heavily in Arkansas railroads. In an interview with Hon. Logan H. Roots, of Little Rock, Mr. Gould spoke in glowing terms of the future of Arkansas. Adjutant-General Drum has issued an order declaring that the army and navy general hospital at Hot Springs will be opened for the reception of patients January 17. J. P. Leake, of Sebastian county, assistant clerk of the House of Representatives in 1885, and a prominent candidate for clerk of the next house, died recently at his home in Greenwood. LOCAL ECHOINGS A. H. McVey is now a merchant prince. Tom Noe is doing some real nice paper-hanging at the City Hotel. Next Sunday is Rev. Mr. Barker's regular day to preach at the M. E. Church. A. H. McVey has bought out K. J. Hudson's stock of drugs and other goods. Rev. O. H. Tucker's regular appointment to preach at this place is the fourth Sunday in each month. Judge Perew, of Harrison, was in town on Monday attending to some legal business before the county court. Maj. A. H. Joblin, the St. Louis and Memphis commercial pilgrim representing Hill, Fontaine & Co., was in town this week. His firm gets the bulk of the cotton raised in this section. Our esteemed neighbor has done gone and done it. He has "discontinued all courtesies," and The Echo no longer adorns his X list. The Echo is still echoing all the same, at the same old stand. County court convened on last Monday, His Honor Judge Horn presiding. There was nothing more than the routine business before the court, which was dispatched and court adjourned on Thursday. Dr. Lindley on Monday evening dropped a heavy stick of wood on the big toe of his little right foot, and since then he has been going over the frozen snow in a kind of skip, hop and a jump gait. Dr. Bryan was present when the accident occurred, and while a grim smile lit up his face he assured Dr. L. that his toe would feel a great deal better when it quit hurting. Deputy Sheriff Lawson, who just returned from the Tomahawk copper mines, reports everything booming over there. He left a specimen of the ore with us, and it is the riches we ever saw. The last party of the holiday season was given by Miss Una Jobe at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. W. Q. Seawel, on last Friday night -- the last night of the year 1886. An elegant supper was served, and that it was an enjoyable affair goes without saying. Messrs. Jesse M. Bartlett and J. L. W. Grover, of Batesville, who have been looking after their mining interests down on Rush creek, were in town last Sunday and Monday. After making arrangements for building a house on his claim, Mr. Bartlett left on Tuesday for Batesville, leaving a superintendent in charge of his affairs at the mines. Mr. Grover was delayed several days on account of litigation concerning one of his claims, which had been "jumped" by another party. ----- On Wednesday morning of last week the dead body of John W. Ayres was found lying at the front door of the court house at Harrison. His skull was crushed, either by falling from the second story of the court house or by a heavy stroke made by a club or rock. The coroner's investigation did not throw any light upon the killing. The Boone Banner says of Ayres. "Deceased was a native of England and had no relatives here. He was an inoffensive old man, but much given to habits of drunkenness, in which condition he was often the sport of the mischievous boys about town, who would blacken his face and play other tricks upon him. He was last seen at a late hour Tuesday night in a drunken condition and with his face blackened." THE TELEPHONE Great is the Telephone! It obliterates distance. The city of Eureka pipes and Harrison dances, and vice versa. Eureka played the fiddle for us - Christmas morning, and in the evening our Cornet Band went to the office at the Bank and played several tones for the Springs people. All the city was put in communication, and the music was distinctly heard by an audience fifty miles away. What do you suppose old Pharaoh, whom they have lately resurrected, thinks of such an age as ours? Boone Banner. ODDS AND ENDS Fifty colored men hold clerkships in the departments at Washington at salaries ranging from $1000 to $1600 a year. Women are employed on the staff of over 200 newspapers in the United States. Some of the leading papers and periodicals in this country are edited entirely by women. Bishop Herrick, of the Mormon Church, has renounced polygamy and moved to California with his legal wife, having previously provided for the families of the three other women upon whom he had turned his converted back. L. Matlock, at Desoto, keeps a fine line of cigars, smoking and chewing tobacco, ammunition, the best of sugar and coffee, salmon, oysters, crackers, pure candies, patent medicines, leather and shoe findings, &c. Be sure and give him a call when wanting anything in his line. Mtn. Echo, January 14, 1887 We have received the thirteenth biennial report of the board of trustees of the Arkansas School for the Blind. There were 63 pupils enrolled last year -- 33 males and 30 females. Marion county furnished two pupils. "As we go to press," says the Boone Banner of the 13th, "the telephone informs Mr. Baker that Barker, of Drew county, has been elected President of the Senate, and Hewitt, of Lee, has been nominated for Speaker by the Democratic caucus, which is equivalent to he election. LOCAL ECHOINGS J. N. Griffin, of Oakland, was in town this week. Len Weast has sold his interest in the Water Creek distillery to John McCuiston. W. Q. Seawel wants 500 bushels of wheat, for which, he will pay 75 cents in cash per bushel. J. C. Floyd, Esq., returned last Monday from Searcy county where he had been on legal business. There are now three distilleries in Marion county -- one in Water Creek township and two in North Fork. Postmaster Russell, of Mountain Home, will please accept our thanks for favors this week. He is a clever, accommodating gentleman. Deputy Sheriff Lawson will accept our thanks for some nice specimens of ore from the Rush Creek Zinc and Silver Mines. Mr. J. D. Goodwin, the accommodating mail carrier between Yellville and Mountain Home, has our thanks for favors this week. Len Weast and A. S. Layton have filled their ice houses with ice from the creek, and there will be no lack of ice cream and lemonade next summer. Drs. James Small, of North Fork township, R. J. Pierce, of Blythe, and J. S. Lindley, of Union, were appointed at the recent term of the county court as board of medical examiners. Mrs. O. H. Tucker announces in this issue of The Echo that she will begin teaching music on next Monday. Read her notice in another column. A new arrival at Deputy Clerk James Estes -- a ten pound girl - and the Deputy now looks nearly as tall as he is wide out. Dick Tatum also rejoices over the arrival of an heir. Mr. W. J. Taff, of Blythe township, made us a pleasant call on Wednesday. He believes in keeping up with the times, and besides taking The Echo he subscribed for the Weekly Gazette. Our Oakland correspondent furnishes the readers of The Echo with the facts of the accidental killing of Miss Sarah Alexander, near that place on the 6th inst. It was a very sad affair, and should be a warning against carelessness with fire-arms. Charlie Burlison, son of Mr. Jos. Burlison, of Blythe township, met with an accident on last Saturday evening that came near resulting seriously. He was carrying a large stick of wood and slipped on the ice and fell, the stick falling on his head and neck. He was considerably bruised and was senseless for awhile. D. F. Jenkins and his son, W. S. Jenkins, were tried on Thursday before W. H. Slagle, J.P., of Tomahawk township, for hog stealing. The justice bound them over in a bond of $500 each, in default of which they were ordered to jail. As Marion county has no jail, Deputy Sheriff Lawson and J. C. Berry started for Harrison this morning with the prisoners. Jenkins and his son have been in the county only about six months. NORTH FORK An Estimable Young Lady Killed by the Carelessness of a Worthless Young Man. Special Correspondent to The Echo. Oakland, Ark. Jan. 10, 1887. On the 6th inst., John Brown, a worthless young man living on H. J. Noe's farm, near here, borrowed a Winchester rifle to take a hunt, but instead, spent the day going through the neighborhood making himself conspicuous by his carelessness in handling the gun. He was repeatedly cautioned to be more careful with the gun, or he would kill some one, -- a prophesy which proved too true. In the evening he went to the house of Mr. Alexander, and after staying there a short time he picked up the gun, placed it on his shoulder, and took an old fiddle under his other arm and started out, the muzzle of the gun pointing back into the house. As he stepped out at the door his foot slipped and in his struggle to prevent falling the gun was discharged, the ball passing near enough to Miss Eda Alexander's head to singe her hair and striking her sister Sarah over the region of the heart. The blood spurted three or four feet each way from the wounds in her breast and back. "Dear me," she feeble said, sank to the floor and was dead in less than a half minute. Miss Sarah was one of nature's noble women, loved and respected by all who knew her, and her sad death has cast a gloom over the entire community. --- B. FROM JAMES CREEK Uncle Wiley Osborn has concluded to remain in his old home until spring opens as work on his new house is progressing rather slowly. Our energetic neighbor, Robert Long, abandoned the idea of having a double set of teeth put in after having one of his old ones extracted. He bled freely. F. M. Bain purchased of Fred Hargraves the "Cave Bottom," on White river, a few days ago, consideration, $1800. The bottom, when rightly improved, will be one of the finest bottoms on the river. Fulbright & McCracken take the cake when it comes to raising corn. They have gathered ninety-two wagon loads up to date, and have about fifteen acres yet to gather. M. D. Matthews is safely and pleasantly ensconced within his new domicile, and makes very much like he is at home. J. N. McCracken is all smiles, and it is nothing but a boy. Nighthawk NOTICE On next Monday, January 17th, I will begin a term of five months Instrumental Music. Those wishing to avail themselves of an opportunity to begin, or continue the study of music, will please let me know at once. My hours for lessons will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Days - Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. Will be glad to receive visitors on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Mrs. O. H. Tucker HOMICIDE IN BOONE. On the night of the 24th December last there was a dancing party at the residence of R. H. Higgs, in Sugar Loaf township in this county. About 10 o'clock, Samuel J. Ingram and several others came into the yard, acting in a drunken and disorderly manner, and demanded admittance. Higgs told Ingram to go away, that he would not admit drunken men. Ingram then broke open the south door of the house and threw missiles into the room at the same time telling Higgs to come out and he would cut his d---d heart out. He then went to the north door and broke that open, and putting his head in, cursed and abused Higgs and his family and swore he would come in or die. While he was in this position, Higgs got his pistol and going out of the south door, went around and shot Ingram, inflicting a wound from which he died the next day. After his death, W. H. Raby(?) a justice of the peace, acting as ...... summoned a jury's inquest of twelve men, and after hearing the evidence of half a dozen witnesses, as to the same effect, the jury found that Ingram came to his death as above stated, and that Higgs was fully justified in killing him. Boone Banner. Mtn. Echo, January 21, 1887 James Lamb, Albert O'Dell and John Echols, white, and John T. Stevens, an Indian negro, all convicted of murder, were hanged at Fort Smith on last Friday, the 14th instant. A special to the Gazette says this makes fifty-four men who have been hung at Fort Smith in the last thirteen years, while at least as many more have been commuted to life imprisonment. Senator Jones, of Florida, says a Detroit special, while engaged in conversation with some newspaper men, said: "I feel well and am resting preparatory to going back to my place at Washington. I feel very comfortable after my dinner. People say I'm crazy. There was Senator Sharon, who served six months only at Washington, went back west and never returned. He got enough of it quicker than most of us. He drew his salary right along just the same. The newspapers didn't say he was crazy. There was Cameron too. He did the same thing. He drove through England with a coach and four and was gone for months. They didn't call him insane. The Pennsylvania papers didn't say he was crazy. But I am. Nobody's crazy but me. I'm going back in a few days. I suppose they'll call me crazy if I go back." LOCAL ECHOINGS A "Protracted" prayer meeting is in progress at the M. E. Church. ]Miss Una Jobe is visiting relatives at Eros and Valley Springs this week. Mrs. J. H. Berry returned on yesterday from Oakland, where she has been visiting the past week. Next Sunday is Rev. O. H. Tucker's regular day at the M. E. Church, South. Go out and hear him. Baxter county will build a fireproof vault for the safe-keeping of the county records. Marion should do likewise. Capt. J. Dobbs, of George's Creek, was in town yesterday and paid his respects to The Echo in a substantial way. Last Sunday was a spring-like day and a number of the young ladies were out horse-back riding in the afternoon. Elder Wright, Baptist, preached at the M. E. Church, South, on last Sunday forenoon. His regular day here is the third Sunday. Mr. Wm. Fielding, of the Boone Banner, and his family have been visiting relatives near town this week. Mr. F. honored The Echo with a call on Monday. Mr. J. L. W. Grover, of Batesville, who has been looking after his mining interests on Rush Creek for the past few weeks, started for his home one day this week. "Should the wife go to church with her husband, or the husband with the wife?" is the subject of Dr. Talmage's discourse, to be found on the second page of this paper. Mr. Isaac N. Shelby, an old-time friend of the editor, was in town this week. He now represents a St. Louis furniture establishment, and is meeting with success as a salesman. Miss Minnie Crump, of Harrison, who has been visiting the Misses Berry for some three or four weeks past, returned home on Tuesday. Miss Minnie is a bright, intelligent and charming young lady, and we hope she may visit our town again. ROAD OVERSEERS At the late term of County Court the following were appointed road overseers for the next two years: District No. 1. Price Richardson No. 2. William King No. 3. Richard Adams No. 4. Thomas Smith No. 5. Newt Watts No. 6. Jack Ames No. 7. John Norman No. 8. Andrew Cox No. 9. Del. Yocham No. 10. John Jones No. 11. Dolph Poynter No. 12. Thomas Mitchell No. 13. S. E. Orcutt No. 14. William Parish [there was no No. 15. shown] No. 16. James Foster No. 17. L. B. Brooksher No. 18. Taylor Blankenship No. 19. J. Q. Adams No. 20. J. F. Toliver No. 21. R. D. Keeter No. 22. R. J. Hurst No. 23. Francis Burch No. 24. A. H. McVey No. 25. Andy Petit Mtn. Echo, January 28, 1887 Abe Chambers, colored, was hung at Jacksonport on last Friday for the murder of another negro at Newport last fall. The trial of Dan. C. Fotheringham, the express messenger accused of complicity in the 'Frisco robbery, has been set of January 31st at St. Louis. Frank James is in St. Louis attempting to get work in a boot and shoe store. This information will be surprising to those who believed that Frank would think of nothing less than opening a bank. LOCAL ECHOINGS Mrs. Fanny Young's baby is quite sick. Lee Nanny is now a deputy sheriff. Mr. John Cheek, one of our solid farmer friends, was in town Tuesday. We understand that Noe & Griffin, of Oakland, have dissolved partnership. Rev. Mr. Brumbelow and J. R. Sheppard made us a pleasant call yesterday. Another regular boarder registered at the City Hotel Tuesday morning. It's a boy, and Dr. Wilson is all smiles. Rube Carson had a load of cotton burned as he was taking it to the gin one day last week. It caught from a pipe. J. C. Berry has several head of young cows that he will trade for steers, coming fours or fives. Nice trim cattle are wanted. Several parties have expressed themselves favorable to the organization of a "Chautauqua Circle." Why not organize at once? Mr. Joe Burlison and his son, of Blythe, paid their respects to The Echo on Wednesday. Master Charlie subscribed for our paper. Charlie Kemmerer, who was in town yesterday, informs us that he has closed out his cigar factory at Harrison and will go to St. Louis. Mr. A. B. Davis, of Clear Creek, was in to see us Monday and left an order for some job work for the enterprising firm of Milum & Davis, of that place. Messrs. E. T. Record and H. J. Noe, of Oakland, were in town on Monday and Tuesday on business. They report everything quiet in North Fork. Our anticipated improvements in the makeup of The Echo will have to be postponed for the present, owing to circumstances over which we have no control. Col. J. Frank Wilson and his little daughter, Don(sic), of Harrison, were in town Monday and Tuesday. The Colonel appears to be enjoying his usual good health. Uncle Jack Noe's barn caved in on last Sunday morning, spilling his corn and other feed stuff. His stock and two horses belong- ing to Dick Tatum very narrowly escaped. A boy in North Fork township claims that he has not slept a wink in seventeen days. He says his brother-in-law is a wizard and if he goes to sleep he will take his breath away by witch-craft. Mr. Frank A. Horn, formerly of this county, and now a citizen of Marion, was over the latter part of last week. He has bought a farm seven miles west of Yellville and is permanently located. We wish him success. -- Baxter County Citizen O. P. Goodwin, Jr., living near this place, has purchased a place in Independence county, near his father's home, and will move thither in the near future. The Batesville Pilot says "he will be gladly welcomed by his old friends and acquaintances." George Layton went over to Oakland Wednesday. He is thinking of going into business over there with J. N. Griffin. E. T. Record will probably associate himself with Charlie Noe at the same place. Thus the dissolution of Noe & Griffin will give Oakland two good business houses instead of one. We have added several names to our subscription list this week, among the number are the following: J. H. Cowdrey, J. N. Stubbs, Dan Stockton, H. L. Nanny and C. R. Burlison. Mrs. Ann Noe, wife of Dr. Wm. Noe, died on yesterday (Thursday) at 11 o'clock, after a lingering illness of several years. Her remains will be buried at the grave yard near this place this afternoon. On Tuesday night, Miss Dora Lawson, daughter of Deputy Sheriff Lawson, eloped with Wm. Baughman, a young man who has been working for Mr. Lawson for some time. They went to Taney county, Mo., and were married. Mr. Lawson was out in the country on official business when the elopement occurred. His daughter is about 15 years of age. The Boone Banner publishes by the request of one interested, a notice to respectable widowers everywhere, who are willing to be persuaded to marry again, that Harrison is the place for them to find their Mary Ann. The Banner says there are more good looking widows there, able to take care of a husband, than any other town of its size in the United States. Our friend Ben Weast will please take note of this. GRAPEVINE TELEGRAPH From Blythe Editor Echo: [abstract] The matrimonial fever has been very prevalent here this winter. There have been six weddings in a radius of three miles from Clear Creek post office within the last sixty days. The malady has somewhat abated at present, though from sundry ....[Too faded. No names given.] Clear Creek, Ark. Jan. 22, 1887 Mtn. Echo, February 4, 1887 MATRIMONIAL MARKET The clerk has issued marriage licenses during the month of January, 1887, to the following persons: NAMES AGE John E. Cambell 46 Mrs. Myra Shanks 43 G. W. Hamlet 21 Miss M. K. McCarty 18 D. N. Radford 17 Miss Hattie Hampton 17 Dr. G. W. Bell 28 Miss Sarah Ann Hogan 18 Horton Jones 20 Miss. D. I. Cobbs 18 L. A. K. Dashields 19 Miss Sarah Dodson 19 A. F. Hampton 21 Miss M. J. Lee 18 James R. Taylor 23 Miss B. M. Goodall 17 J. S. Bowers 25 Miss Mary I. Johnson 33 J. A. Clem 17 Miss E...? Taber? ?? [this name is all but cut off at the bottom of the page] LOCAL ECHOINGS Mr. Martin, the tombstone agent, is in town. Our railroad prospects at the present are very good. W. B. Wood killed a fine doe on last Monday, the last day for killing deer this season. We understand that Messrs. Chas. Noe and E. T. Record will not engage in mercantile business at Oakland. Mr. James A. Young returned on Wednesday from Thayer, Mo. where he has been running a skating rink. Eva, daughter of Mr. James Pierce, of this place, died late yesterday evening. She was about 10 or 12 years of age. Mr. George Layton, and his charming niece, Miss Edna, entertained a number of friends at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Layton on last Tuesday night. Messrs. K. J. Hudson, A. S. Wood and John Alford left for Fort Smith on Monday. Mr. Hudson was summoned as a U. S. grand juror, and Messrs. Wood and Alford as petit jurors. Mr. Felix Huddleston having completed his engagement with J. H. Berry & Son, has moved back to his farm on Buffalo. Felix we regret to lose you, but wish you good luck and a fine "crap." The firm of Lewis Bros., general freight and forwarding agents, West Plains, Mo., are now ready for business, and will look after all freight consigned to their care. Their advertisement will be found elsewhere in this paper. Mr. J. B. Thompson, collector for the S. B. Kirby Sewing Machine Co., of Little Rock, is in town today, setting up the business of the company, which has recently gone into the hands of the receiver. He is a clever, genial gentleman. Last week we were shown a letter from W. R. Brooksher, Jr. who is attending medical college at St. Louis. He expects to start home about the 19th inst. He will receive a hearty welcome from his numerous friends here and in Blythe. Mr. George Layton left on yesterday for Oakland, where he will engage in business with J. N. Griffin. Mr. Layton will be sadly missed by his friends here, for there is not a more jovial, genial gentleman in the universe. The Echo wishes him abundant prosperity. Mr. W. T. Davenport, of Desota(sic), made us a pleasant call on Monday. He lives near the Tomahawk copper mines and gave a glowing description of those "diggings" and the work going on there. From him we learned that Mr. Guthrie had sold one eight of his interest (one fourth) in the mines to New York capitalists for $3,000. It is thought the work will be operated on a big scale soon. At the late term of the county court, the following apportioning justices were appointed: W. T. Gooch, Prairie township; W. H. Slagle, Tomahawk; T. D. Stone, Water Creek; L. Matlock, Desoto; A. B. Johnson, Bearden; N. B. Bearden, Buffalo; T. R. Poynter, White River; E. H. McCracken, James Creek; W. I. Due, North Fork; H. H. Perkins, Franklin; J. D. McGregor, Sugar Loaf; J. P. Brady, Blythe; J. W. Coker, Hampton; A. J. Noe, Union. ARRESTED ON SUSPICION On or about the 8th of December, Andy Hudspeth and George Watkins, both of Blythe township, came to town together in a wagon, bringing three bales of cotton. The wagon and team and two bales of the cotton belonged to Watkins. Watkins sold his cotton for the cash, and after making some purchases, the two men started for home about dark. Hudspeth drove to Watkins' place and reported that Watkins left him about six miles west of town, and said he was going off to work on the railroad. The last seen or heard of Watkins he was with Hudspeth going in the direction of home on the evening above mentioned. There are many suspicious incidents connected with the sudden disappearance of Watkins that indicate foul play. Deputy Sheriff Lawson arrested Hudspeth upon those suspicions, and brought him to town Tuesday evening, where he is now under guard. Search is being made for the body of Watkins but up to time of going to press no discoveries have been made. Soon after the disappearance of Watkins, his wife went to Fayetteville to join him she said. She has since written to her father, who lives in Boone county, that her husband was killed on the railroad. This story is not credited; and Deputy Sheriff Lawson started on yesterday for Fayetteville, and will bring the woman back here, when a thorough investigation of the case will be made. Watkins was said to have been a hard working inoffensive man, and there was no occasion for his leaving in the night, when within a few miles of home. The ......said he left his overcoat and gloves with Andy and started on such a journey on foot and in the night, looks very suspicious. Hudspeth is as dumb as an oyster on the subject. OBITUARY Sister Ann Noe, by her pious walk and Godly ways, ever adorned her profession. All through life she was a Christian, faithful in all the relations of life. She was affectionate as a mother, and true as a neighbor. To know her was to lover her. Her last words were encouraging. We hope the husband, motherless children and friends will profit by her long and tried experience and Christian patience, exhibited in her protracted affliction, and the Lord grant that we may all be housed in the House not made with hands eternal to the heavens. JURY LIST Grand Jury - J. P. Brady, W. E. Brumbelow, P. D. Blankenship, J. T. Dosher, T. J. White, John B. Ott, W. T. Dowell, James Covington, Tom Musick, John A. Harris, Ward McBee, W. H. Perry, John Cowdrey, R. J. Hurst, E. C. Ticer, Dan Baily. Alternates - J. R. Cotton, William Williams, H. C. Keeter, F. L. Ball, John M. Smith, W. L. Dosher. Petit Jury - Andy Ventrice, W. H. Wilbanks, Wm. Cunningham, George Young, Jasper Burlison, J. F. Davis, James Rose, John T. Gilley, R. B. Garrett, Wm. Slagle, John P. Sims, John C. Bryant, John Morrow, Milton Trimble, James H. McBee, J. S. Owens, T. H. Flippin, J. E. Wickersham, A. W. Wickersham, J. ?. Drake, Newt Baker, Henry Cowdrey, N. Estes, E. G. Huddleston. Alternatives - Wayne Hensley, A. P. Keeter, Harrison Poynter, E. F. Hand, J. N. Matthews, Isaac Cantrell. Mtn. Echo, February 11, 1887 HUDSPETH-WATKINS CASE. The Evidence Adduced at the Examining Trial. Hudspeth Held for Murder in the First Degree. The Echo of last week gave the particulars of the sudden disappearance of George Watkins, of Blythe township, and the arrest of Andy Hudspeth, of the same locality, suspected of the murder of the former. The suspicions on which Hudspeth was arrested now appear to be well founded, and the testimony of the wife of Watkins and his twelve-year old son, is evidence that will be hard to overcome. Deputy Sheriff Lawson returned on Tuesday evening from Fayetteville with Mrs. Rebecca Watkins, who left her home and went to Fayetteville soon after the disappearance of her husband, and on Wednesday an examining trial of Andy Hudspeth, charged with the murder of George Watkins, was held before A. J. Noe, J.P.. The examination of the witnesses consumed most of the day. Below we publish the testimony in substance of the witnesses examined: REBECCA WATKINS being called as a witness on behalf of the State, after being duly sworn, said she was about 38 years of age, and that she was acquainted with George Watkins, now reported dead. I have know defendant Andy Hudspeth, since about April, 1886. The last time I saw Watkins was about the second week in December, 1886; the last I saw of him he started to Yellville, being about 8 miles distant, to sell a bale of cotton. Andy Hudspeth started off with him to come to Yellville in George Watkins' wagon. I never saw him (Watkins) afterward. He was my husband. Hudspeth returned with the wagon and team that same evening after dark. He said that Watkins had gone to the railroad to work and he said he might come back, and again, he might never come back. He said Watkins came part of the way back and gave him up the wagon and team. I examined the wagon next morning and found a great deal of blood on the bed and the right fore wheel, and on the axle also. The blood is on the wagon yet, though it has been out in all the weather since that time. I saw Hudspeth about the wagon about the time the blood was scraped off. When defendant came home with wagon and team without Watkins, I thought he, defend- ant, had killed him. That night defendant came to my bed and whispered to me and said if any of his folks missed him to tell them he had gone to see about some stock in the field. I think he was gone about 1-1/2 or 2 hours. From the sound of his footsteps I think he went in the direction of Dr. Pierce's house, on the creek, and came back the same way. I believe he took an axe with him. The next morning I wiped off the axe with my fingers what I thought to be blood. Two days afterwards I asked him if he had everything hid so it would never be found. He said he had. I do not know where the dead body of George Watkins is. Defendant brought me back some coffee, and said that George had bought it for me that day in town. He also gave me $35; said he got it out of George Watkins' pocket. I told him George had more money than that. He said that was all he found in his pockets. He (Watkins) usually carried a hatchet in the fore end gate of his wagon. I have never seen that hatchet since defendant came back with the wagon and team. Defendant brought Watkins overcoat home with him that night he came with wagon and team. Next day I examined the overcoat and found blood on the right sleeve, and the lining where it joins in the back was ripped two or three inches, up about the collar. I told him (Hudspeth) that was a bad job bringing that coat home I told him I would have left I on him. He said he never thought of it, or he would not have brought it. A few days afterwards he took the overcoat off over on Greasy Creek and said he sold it to a mover. I am well satisfied that defendant killed Watkins that night he came home with the wagon from Yellville. One or two weeks afterwards I asked Hudspeth if I had not better go to my father's, in Boone county, to keep down suspicion. He said I expect you had, and I went. He came up to my father's to see me when I was going to leave. He met me first night after I left my father's on my way to Fayetteville and stayed all night with me and my little boy. We all slept in the wagon together, on the same bed and under the same cover. My little boy and I went on from there.....[bottom cut off].... main two or three weeks, and he was to meet me there and we were to live together as husband and wife." She testified that she and Hudspeth had been criminally intimate previous to the disappearance of her husband. She said "this intimacy grew between us about fodder pulling time, 1886." PLANNING She told of a private interview between herself and Hudspeth, had in the kitchen a few nights before the disappearance of Watkins. She said, "I told him how well I loved him, and if it were not for George Watkins, my husband, we could keep my little boy with us and have all of George's property, but if George was about and the little boy got made at Andy, the defendant, he (the boy) would go to George, his father, and I could never see him again. Hudspeth said he could do anything. I told him if he did undertake to do anything, not to do it here, but to do it while on our way to Kansas, or in the cornfield while George was plowing. Watkins had been talking about going to Kansas. Hudspeth and he could do it here as well as anywhere, for instance - when Watkins goes to sell his cotton. I understood from this conversation between myself and Hudspeth that defendant was to kill Watkins." On cross examination she said: "Andy Hudspeth wanted to leave his wife and go with me and my husband to live, and Watkins would not agree to it, and Hudspeth said then for me not to have anything more to do with Watkins, and d---n him, let him go to h---. THE LITTLE BOY ON THE STAND Isaiah Watkins was placed on the stand, and after being sworn, said he would be 12 years old this spring, and made about the same statement as his mother as to his father's and Hudspeth's departure from home for Yellville with cotton and the return of Hudspeth with the wagon. He said, further: "I saw the wagon next morning, saw blood on the bed on the side my father always sat on, also found some bones off the wagon where the blood was. My father had his hatchet with him the morning they left home; have not seen it since. When I saw the blood on the wagon, I cried, because I thought it was my father's blood. Hudspeth told me the blood on the wagon got there by hauling some hogs for a man about two miles this side of Yellville."" The statements made by the boy agree with those of the mother as to the direction Hudspeth went that night when he left the house, also as to his staying all night with them on the road to Fayetteville. W. T. Dobbs, being sworn stated that he was acquainted with Andy Hudspeth and knew George Watkins when he saw him. l He said "I went to the house of Watkins and Hudspeth, both families residing in the same house at that time, to do some collecting for James Hudson. I asked Mrs. Watkins where Watkins was. She did not answer at once, but sewed on hurriedly for awhile, then looking over her shoulder said Watkins said he was going to Harrison to work on the railroad. I asked her if Watkins had gone to work on the railroad, why did he not take his team, to which she made no reply."" Hudspeth came in and in reply to similar questions asked by Mr. Dobbs, said that Watkins had gone to work on the railroad. This was in December last. Hudspeth did not take the stand. After hearing the testimony, the justice ordered that the prisoner be held for murder in the first degree to await the action of the grand jury, and Rebecca Watkins was bound over to appear as a witness. Hudspeth is now in jail, and the woman, failing to give bond for her appearance, is in the custody of Deputy Sheriff Lawson, at his residence. SEARCHING FOR THE DEAD BODY Diligent search has been and is still being made for the body of Watkins. Over a hundred men have scoured the country in the locality where the crime is supposed to have been committed, and every nook and corner has been searched, but up to date no discovery has been made. The accused refuses to talk on the subject, and there is no clew(sic) to lead to the place of concealment. We are not lawyer enough to say what turn the case will take if the body is not found. The woman, by her own testimony, is as guilty as the man, but if she is allowed to turn State's evidence, she will go free. If the body is not found, circumstantial evidence is thought to be strong enough to convict both. .........[bottom line cut off].....be no doubt, and without further comment we dismiss the subject for this time, believing in the old adage that ""murder will out," and trusting in the wisdom of the law to mete out justice to the guilty. LOCAL ECHOINGS Mr. Henry Young's baby is quite sick. "Uncle" Mike Wolf, the worthy county treasurer, made us a pleasant visit Wednesday. Dr. James Small of Oakland, and Dr. R. J. Pierce, of Blythe, attended the meeting of the County Board of Medical Examiners held here on last Monday. Get you pick, shovel, hoe or other implement ready, for Abe McVey will have you at work on the streets next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. The barber and shoe shop has been moved into the rear of The Echo office, where Mr. Cantrell will be pleased to have his old customers call when wanting work done in his line. R. T. Patterson and R. J. Shephard, of Prairie township, dropped in to see us Wednesday. Mr. Shephard is an old subscriber and friend of The Echo, while Mr. Patterson commences with this issue. Two solid friends of The Echo, Messrs. J. H. Stonecipher and A. F. Keeter, of Blythe township, paid their respects to this office on last Monday. We are always glad to see our friends from the country. CHURCH NEWS Prayer meeting on Sunday night at the M. E. Church, South. Rev. J. C. Barker is attending the annual Conference of the M. E. Church, which is in session at Judsonia. Rev. O. H. Tucker will begin a protracted meeting at Pleasant Ridge four miles south of town, on next Sunday, consequently he will not fill his appointment here on Sunday night. The plan of the new church to be built by the M. E. Church, South, at Dry Hill, four miles southeast of town, was shown us the other day. It will be a handsome structure. The bill for the lumber has been made out, and work will be commenced at an early date. A new house will also be built in the near future at Hursts Chapel. The lumber for the same has been contracted for. Success to every enterprise that points heavenward. Mtn. Echo, February 18, 1887 BRIEF MENTION The wife of a Little Rock butcher has given birth to two pairs of twins within eleven months. LOCAL ECHOINGS No new developments in the Hudspeth-Watkins case. The next issue of The Echo will complete it's first volume. J. C. Floyd, Esq., attended court at Marshall a few days this week. Dr. W. T. Bryan is visiting relatives in Searcy county this week. J. C. Berry went down the river on the steamer Home last Wednesday. James Haskett was lodged in jail on Wednesday to await the sitting of circuit court as a witness. The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Young died late Saturday evening and was buried Sunday afternoon. Mr. George Layton, of the firm of A. S. Layton & Co., of Oakland, spent Sunday and Monday with his friends in town. He is well pleased with the outlook in his locality. Elopements are quite numerous of late. Mrs. Fletcher, aged about 54 summers and as many winters, deserted her aged husband and five children, all of tender age, the other evening and "skipped by the light of the moon" with the gay and festive Don Hampton. One or two other parties are conspicuously absent. On Saturday Deputy Sheriff Lawson and several citizens of town went out in the locality where Watkins is supposed to have been murdered, taking Hudspeth with them, and a thorough search was made for the body of Watkins. The creek was dragged and every considerable nook was searched, but all to no purpose. Jim Moore attracted quite a crowd of men and boys around the old hulk, called a jail, on Sunday by playing on his old banjo and singing some choice (?) selections. [There is a verse after this which is too blacked out to read.] On Monday evening, in company of Mr. J. C. Berry, we visited McBee's Landing. Monday night we enjoyed the hospitality of Mr. W. C. McBee and his good wife. Mr. McBee has a pleasant, comfortable home, an interesting family, and enjoys a good business. Tuesday morning early, the steamer Home was heard down the river, and after chartering a light skiff, Mr. McBee, Mr. Jones, Cam and the writer started out on the raging waters to meet the boat. Four miles below McBee's we found the good steamer unloading goods for Cox & Denton. Our party was given a hearty welcome on board by Capt. Tom Stallings, and we enjoyed a pleasant ride back to the landing. The Home is an excellent little craft, specially adapted to the upper river, is fleet as the wind and has a carrying capacity of over 500 bales of cotton, and her officers are as clever as clever can be. James Moore, a new comer to Marion county, rented land from Frank Hudspeth, in Blythe township, to make a crop. Taking a wagon and team that belonged to his wife, he left her and her children to "pitch the crap" while he meandered westward with the said wagon and team and his good banjo, but as she had been married before, Mrs. Moore concluded that a bridal tour with the bride left out was not the proper thing and she accordingly went before a justice and swore out a warrant for the arrest of her truant hubby, charging him with larceny. The warrant was put in the hands of Constable Tom Hudspeth, who overtook and arrested Moore in Madison county. Moore was brought back to this county, and after an examination before Justice Brady, was brought to town Saturday evening and lodged in jail, where he remained till Wednesday, when he was released on a writ of habeas corpus. Moore is about 23 or 24 years of age, and his wife was a widow with several children and some property when he married her, while his possessions included a banjo. He claims to be an "artist." WARNING ORDER In Justice's Court, Bear Creek Township, Searcy county, Arkansas. - Before J. A. Dodson, J. P. for said township. Castleberry, Redwine & Co., Plaintiffs vs. Warning Order W. A. Evans, Defendant. The defendant, W. A. Evans, is warned to appear in this court within thirty days to answer the complaint of the plaintiff. Given under my hand this 9th day of February, 1887. J. A. Dodson, J.P.