HENRY G. SMITH, E. J. SHIELDS,

 J. J. FINLEY,

 SETH WHEATLEY, E. W. M. KING, J. FOWLKES,

 LEWIS SHANkS, o.,oa.1 TNt. |t-,t

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OBITUARY.

 DIED, at his residence in Newton county Mis- souri, after an illness of several months, on the 26th February, 1915, Col. JAMES WILSON, in the Ash year of his age.

 Col. Wilson was native ofsKentuc1v and emi- grated to Arkansas in ISl7 He was appointed by Gov. Izard the first Sheriff of Crawford county af- ter Its organization and continued to hold the office Tor about ten years by repeated reelectons by the people. He afterwards removed to Newton county Mo, and was several times elected to the Legsla- ture of that State, of which times to the State Senate. Col. Wilson was emphaticaly good man, and always united in himself the strongest friend ship of his fellow citizens and neighbors. He was a generous and liberal neighbor-a kind and affee- tionate husband and parent He was for several years before his death pious and exemplary mem Der of the Methodist church, and died with an un- doubted faith in the christian religion, and hope of of happy eternity n the bosom of his father and He left wife and several children to mourn his loss.

 He was brother of the Hon. Thomas Wilson, representative in the last Legislature of this State from Washington county, and son of John Wi- son Esq, of that county.

 [CoMMUNIeATED.

 Communicated 10 the Runner Departad this life, on the 22nd of September, in the Town of Salem, Fulton County, Arlls. atfhe re- sidence of her father, ELIZABETH MINERVA KING, daughter of Isaac and Roena King, aged four years, seven months, and P days.

 In recording the death of this amable child, it is well to say that she died of Bilious fever, after an illness of only IS hours.

 The rosy cheek that looked so gay,

 Hath wither'd like the blasted rose;

 Those little limbs so 1.-the in play

 Lowly in the tomb repose.

 DIED-At his residence in Fulton, Hempstead county, on the 22d ult., ROBERT F. FINN, aged 3s years. The deceased was native of Baltimore

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