Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-07-10
ARKANSAS

Helena has a street D00t-Diack,
blacker than any boot.
Crops throughout the State are in a
fiOurishing condition.
Trains now run through from
Vicksburg to Monroe, La.
The Republicans of Lafayette held
their convention yesterday.
In the Circuit Court at Camden, a
negro was found guilty Of murder.
The Radicals viii have a grand
pOw-wOW at Camden on the 4th prOX.
Washington county has a man one
hundred years old. He is a Democrat.
Fort Smith is increasing her popu
lation. The Herald man is mainly
responsible.
Albert TramneIl, cOlored, was to
have pulled hemp and stood on moth
ing on the 26th ult.
A movement is on foot to form a
new county out Of Ouachita, COlum-
bia and Hampstead.
The Arkadelphia Standard advO-
vOcates the organization OF county
agricultural association.
The total value of the taxable real
E1LaLt VI L uAtANhA NDAAAAN AA4AAAAA AAoAhN
amounts to 81 ,6Tl, us.
Hon. a. A. c. Rogers is a most pop
ular conservative candidate for Con-
gressiOnal nomination.
The Arkansas Valley Immigration
Society have imported and distributed
a ship load of Chinese.
sJudge E. J. Searle is likely TO re-
ceiVe the Radical nomination for Con-
gress from the Third district.
The Camden Democrat nOminates
Net. l. Jones for the lower house Of
the Legislature. A good suggestion.
One-haIfinteresti in the Hot Springs
Courier is for sale. 1t is not ike
Brick POmerOy's concern, "red hot"
The Helenaites are cOnfOunded Is
to the political complexion of the
Clarion. Its editor is personally all
right.
Two cOlOred gentlemen are contest
ing for the Phillips county assessor
ship. The case goes to the Supreme
Court on appeal.
A Texas paper says that Hot
Springs has been swallowed up by an
earthquake, and many lives lost.
Creighton survived.
The Conservative Conventions of
Drew and Jefferson counties were
held yesterday, and of Ouachita coun-
~ Will be held on the 10Th.
The Pine Bluff Press announces
that Major c. q. Newman has become
connected with and interested in that
paper as one Of its publishers.
Coal mines not far from Little Rock /
furnish the cheapest and best anthra- |
cite in the wOrlL,, and Little Rock, in |
ten years, viii contain 100, 900 people, !
in our opinion.
The Arkansas Chronicle and .Senti- |
gel must have sprung from a printers |
brain who was born of the Augusta /
GA Chronicle and Sentinel. The two 4
papers are identical in appearance.
~ Des Arc has about 500 inhabitants, /
and is one Of the prettiest towns in
the State, and in proportion to the
number Of inhabitants has more clever
men. They are wide awake upOn,the
railroad question, and have great
hopes OF success.
The Radicals of Hot Springs county
held a convention on the 2Sth. The
concern babbled and boiled and smelt !
plOded by sheer force of a moral earth
quake. 1t was Democracy that burst
* into fragments.
Major A. c. Jones, Of Warren, ac-
cidentally shot himself through the
calf OF the leg last week. 1t seems
that the snakes had infested his gar
den, and after shooting some of these
reptiles, he WAS returning to the
house, and accidentally dropped the
pistol.
The Little Rock Gazette says: The
trestle-wOrk through Cache swamp
will be completed by the lst Of Sep
tember, and says there is no doubt
but the entire road between this city
and Memphis will be completed by
the lst Of January next, including the
White river bridge. About 3Os men
are at work on the road, and track
laying is progressing at the rate of
three-quarters Of a mile per day.
\. G. Harris was on his way to Jail
for an attempted murder at Month
cello. He ran, the MORtjceHOnidH
says, and one of the guards fired
dOuble-barreled shotgun at him with
out effect. After running short dis
tance the Deputy Sheriff fired two
shots at him with a navy six: one
ball taking effect in the upper part Of
the thigh, passing entirely through
the testicles, and lodging against the
opposite thingh. Mr.. Harris suffered
extremely during the night and died
about daylight on the 9th. That's
the way TO kill people in Arkansas.
There are different ways of ceIe-
brating the Fourth Of July. The DOys
in a certain school in an Eastern city
celebrated this year on the 29th Of
June, in an original manner. The
teacher is a large man, who has habit
Of getting himself exactly in position
over his chair, and then coming down
on it with the force and precision of a
patent pile driver. Some of the pu-
pills, filed with premature patriotism,
put large-siZed torpedo under each
of the legs Of the chair at recess, and
waited for developments. The teacher
came in, and after calling the school
TO order, sat down with customary
force. About six seconds after
ward he was cahOoting down
stairs with a certain conviction
that the schOOl-hOuse had been
struck by lightning, or that a Guy
Fawkes plot was gradually develop
ing itself in the cellar. There was
certain sadness in his manner when
he came back and ascertained ex-
actly what the matter was. And per
haps he spared the rod and spoiled
the child? Why, there isn't a boy in
that school who hasn't been compelled
10 stand up ever since when he eats
his meals ! The pedagogue says the
Declaration Of Independence was all
well enough in its way, but it can
be celebrated entirely too much with
a very slight effort The boys say
there is not so much fun in the Clio
riOus Fourth as they anticipated.
These dreams Of youth are apt to be
as dissipated as the youths them
selves.
A demand for railroads will always
meet with response from capital.
Capital is quick to see large per cents
of profit, whether ia railroads or ma
tiOnal banks. IL a necessity for great
enterprises exists in this country, the
means to build up and foster those
enterprises follow as a logical cOnse-
quence. This is abundantly proven
in all our past history. There is then
no possible plea of Justice to be as
signed for these wholesale land grants
10 railway corporations. The infer
ence is conclusive and irresistible
that they have been made in the in
terests Of sharpers, and that their di-
rect effect will be, and has already
been, to swell the private gains of a
horde Of public plunderers and