Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-07-12
ARKANSAS.
Orrest City ard Madison The Cotton and
Corn CrOps-GOOd Effects Of the
Little Rock Railroad, Etc.
Special correspondence Of APPEAL ]

| Special correspondence Of APPEAL
MADISON, ARK, July IL, 1S71.-I
have just walked over here from For
rest City in the sunshine this morn
ing. The walk was not the greatest
luxury a man of my temperament
could enjoy, but it had its advantages
in the way of getting up an appetite
for a dyspeptic, and of enabling a city
man to get an idea of country life. I
ought to have remained at Forrest
City. That place accOrds more with
my ideas of progress than this quiet,
humpty-dumpty town. Forrest City,
at the present moment, gives better
proof OF genuine and solid prosperity
than any town have seen since the
war. One can see that it is but very
short time ago when this place was
Veritable forest, and not many months
since the giants of the woods fell be-
meath the sturdy stroke of the wood
mans ak and we're heWn into timbers
for habitable dwellings. Now the city
Is laid out and sufficiently built up to
present to the pleased eye Of the traV-
eler the elegant and promising out
lines of rising city. Like the Ven
ables of Charles Dickens, the peO-
pie of Forrest City are "bran new"
and, like the Barnacles, they'll stick
here. The country around, far as
the eye can reach, has been
subjected to the tyrranous necessities
of man. Nothing in view but vast
stretches of corn and cotton, and then
cotton again, and then more corn,
and after that more cotton, for miles
and miles. 1t is upon these that
Forrest City bases her progress. Solid
fOundatiOn The stores that l found
going up there, and already up, are
ambitious, and indicate the faith that
is in the people. l heard no COM
plants, nor sinister prophecies, ex-
eept from the drug stones. The sea-
son has been unusually healthy and
the medicine people experienced
corresponding dullness, which had
the effect Of producing slight bilious
ness.
THE CORN CROP
this year will be at least twenty per
cent. heavier than last. hear the
same favorable reports from ali parts
Of the State. The aggregate yield of
this cereal will certainly be twelve or
fifteen per cent. superior TO that of any
previous year in Arkansas. The in
creased eXertiOns of all hands en-
ployed in agriculture In Arkansas Is |
particularly noticeable abOnt Forrest
City. / mounted the ridges as came
along this morning to obtain Occular |
confirmation of what had been auri- |
cularly convinced OF before. The |
view from those ridges was extreme |
ly hopeful. The corn looked Vigor- |
Gus, as did also the mules and tur- |
baned Africans that moved here and /
there through it. The planters around |
here propose to become independent. |
They viii raise their own pork, The |
show for good stock of cattle Is fine. |
All manner of orchard and garden |
produce is receiving the attention
that it merits. pheFe il nothing |
which the people may require thew |
will not have themselves, except
some drugs, some more clothes and /
morning the papers,
MADISON
derives some advantage from being
on the river bank In point of rich |
surroundings she is on perfect
equality with Forrest City. This
ridge is destined to be the garden spot
OF Arkansas. The land is naturally |
rich enough to live on its own faI for
fifty years to come. The railroad from
your city ON one side, and from Little
Rock on the other, is helping along
this WhGle ridge nightly, and will
ultimately have the effect of leaving
a dense population here, Things are
getting along very smoothly since the
militia has been Withdrawn. The
government of the various coun-
ties is marked by a primitive
simplicity and rudepess, To
state it in one brief and oOmpre.
hensive phrase; all hands are ap-
pointed by the Governor. The Judge
of the County Court Is also Probate
Judge, and he, with any two magis.
trates, constitute quorum for the