General Harrison's nephew of 15 years had a terrible encounter with a couple of cats at Poinsett county, Ark, recently.  The boy found the mousers asleep in the loft of the barn, and struck them with a bundle of fodder.  They sprung upon him with the fury of tigers, and the boy, after tumbling round a little while, climbed up a ladder leaning against the rafters.  But the cats followed, clawing and biting frightfully, and he jumped down again, and fortunately discovered a monkey-wrench, with which he beat out the furious animals brains.  The boy was ragged and bleeding when he marched into the house, dragging the cats by the tails, and the doctors think his recovery doubtful.  
--Argus and Patriot, Oct 29, 1879.

Harrisburg, Arkansas, Nov. 1 (1909)--The death sentence was passed at 7:30 Saturday night by Judge Frank Smith upon C. M. Miller, who had been convicted of the terrible crime of killing A. Flood on Hatchie Coon Lake last May, cutting up Mr. Flood into pieces and scattering him through the woods, in the water, and burning parts of the deceased in a stove in the house.
When portions of the body and some of the bones of the deceased were exhibited on the witness stand Miller showed no signs of emotion.
When the jury handed in the verdict and while the clerk of the court read it, Mr. Miller was cool and when Judge Smith passed sentence upon him he stood like a statue not moving a muscle of his body and showed no signs of giving down.
Miller was sentenced to be hanged on December 17, which will be on Friday.  Sheriff Bradsher had taken the convicted man to Jonesboro and lodged him in jail.  His attorney, Hon. I. C. Going, has made a motion for a new trial, and if that is overruled, he will appeal the case to the supreme court.  Circuit court convened at Wynne today.  (Source:  November 2, 1909, The Daily Soliphone, Paragould, AR; contributed by Tina Easley.)