Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-06-26
ARKANSAS,
lee County, lis Big Planters and OIL
cers-IS there Another Can
Match II! =
The Peters's and Other PlaceS-Mur.
rell's Lookout HiII-A Hand
some Situation.
The Railroad Meeting at Mariana
Sheriff FurbiSh and the Rest
Of Them.
- an oeeasional oorrespondent.l

From an Occasional Correspondent
LEE COUNTY, ARK, June 2l.-Hav
ing promised you to let you know
when all the officers were ap
pointed in our county, l will try 10 s.
do and at the same time give you ;
sample Of photography, first of LIE,
county and then of the officers.
might give you these pictures in higl
eolCrs and with good detail, but my
chemicals ale working bad, "bothn on
af order and, of course, hard to ge
good pictures. / saw, sometime ago,
correspondence in your valuable pape
from Occasional" would like to di
gress a little and, right here, say some
thing in regard 10 facts stated by "Occa
SioHaI" that were not altogether such
Writing from Forest Home, be gave
good description of the same and also o
tire place of Mrs. Robert Scott, and WHY
he left of st these minor places leave.
me to conjecture. The APPEAL Ger
taiuly would have given him room il
its columnC TO have spoken of some o
those large farms in Bledsoe. The AP
PEAL certeinly would have given spac,
.nr DIR. Peters's place of over two thou
sand acres of .saleable land, owe
one thousand acres under cultivation
Mr.. Arthur Peters hasa large place ad
i1iniug bis fathers, of many acres, un,
der good state of cultivation. The
ClavtOns, ana the RodgeTses, have much
larger places than the Forest Home, anC
many more acres under fence; the
Bateman-place, Of near two Thousand
acres, over seven hundred under cultiva'
151u: the Falls place has, il l mistake
not. near fifueen hundred acres, neal
the same number under cultivation that
The Bateman place has; the Brown
uIace, over two thousand acres, over one
thousand under a good state of cul-
livation; the Pillow place, nearly az
large, q lsO. These places are all on the
east side Of the beautiful st. Francis
river. AMI much larger than Forest
Home. On the west and across the
IIAnguiUe, we have much larger
places than nave spoken OF. shOHlo
not fail TO mention AlbeTtUs NlikIDs, NJ
Phillips Bayou, who has fine place OF
snme sixteen hundred acres, and place
of more romance than any place IN Lee
county. 1t Is upon his place that the
notorious MuTrel had his lookout, from
thet0D Of a beautiful hill, located back
Of the town OF Phillips Bayou. He has
many beautiful springs and streams,
one, in fact, the finest stream OF
water in Arkansas. Its temperature
Is siXty-JwO degl ees through the
whole summer, discharging two thou
sanL' gallons per minute. 1t Is upon
this Stream that the only distllIeTy I'D
Ark a lsas lregisteTed) is located. Will
So MI or
then call your attention to something
else C.0ionel Wood, who Is well known
I'm Mem yllis, has one of the best places
sg Arkansas, and to-day, with all the
~7iu and had weather, il is as clean as a
Uarn-do0r. He has near fifteen hundred
4cras under q high state of cultivation,
-ome Twelve hundred under one fence
within a stones throw of our county
site. How did Occasional happen to
miss this pI.ee? Mr.. Hampton Jones
I.s. his tb5usa DDS ,>faeres-One thousand
gud-~ cultivation. as stated by himself
Tlisr lace adioins Colonel Woods place.
Mr. Freeman has also tine place be
longing to the same belt II rich soil.
Colonel Gist mas a place that is second
best 90 that Of Colonel Wood. / could
mention in connection with those al
ready spoken Of DR.. J. J. Woods, and
many other fine places in that part OF
the territory, taken from st. Francis
county to form the county of Lee, but
time viii not permit. Occasional says
-here is only one small town yet in Lee
s-suuty iMariannal. Let me inform
OCCASIONAL that Phillips Bayou, JEFF
fer OHville, Lagrange and Moro are, la
fine county of Lee. Now the sequel:
- O.cs 'sioual ," is working in the interest
% ne Iron Mountain railroad, and
KNOWS no thing of Lee. He wants sub
g.-irtirn f, one hundred thousand dol
lars which h q viii never get Although
he has gDoI,ep IL such glowing terms OF
Senator White. the black mailer, White
win never get his sc ven hundred dollars
locarrv su6scription. IShe will not carry.
At glance, MeslsTs. Editors, you
can see It was put up, gooi
that that large and enthuslastlc
meeting that was held at Aarlanna
was not held at Marlannai II
was tN-o and a half miles in the coun-
try. and after some two or three weeks
drumming, White, the senator, got To-
gether about eight colored and four
whites 10 heaT his pOw-wOw " railroad.
White made them promise TO support
him for congress, where he VIII never
yet. This Is the sum total OF "Oeca-
siOuaI." Mariana is ia the center OF the
county. not one half mile from II, ana
is the countryside, and the head OF naVl-
CATION on the L'Anguille. The steamer
St Francis, Captain Bowman, COM
mander, arrives twice a week. The 81.
Francis river traverses the whole Wldth
ol the county, and is navigable to Jelter-
eouviLe the whole year around Nine
teuths Of the land can be cultivated.
The Memphis and Little Rock railroad
runs through one corner Of Lee. Pales-
zine Is only seventeen miles from Ma
riauua. and a splendid road. We may
have 10 change the name Of our county
seat. and call IL StOneWall. There Is
some talk Of so doing with the super
-vi-ors So. II you hear Of a StOnewall
aa Arkansas, be sure il is in Lee
,.sIUtv. The officers are as follows:
". il. Furbish, sheriff All seem
~, - satisfied with him so far. So, in
s,,-f, OF art. IN spite OF skill, Farbish is
~. -aIue Farbish still. NJ. II. Wing is
80 county clerk. Mr.. Wing has so far
[-oven himself 10 be the right man in
-5,s ri,yht place. He is young in years,
iii weigh about two hundred and
;e-y pc. uuds, and looks like a county
-, al, over from Crittenden county,.
n ~ nave the cholera, and il gets him
"a yg;II tart a sOsp-factOry. ID. b.
a I.r,r1s T. & ircuit clerk. All seem to be
In ,,Iassef with "Abie" ''Abien is 8
,,o1d nov. pr, t.ty cute; kinder looks un-
- fbn Corner of his eye ct fellow.
ST- Abrams ~ about twenty-eight
,...ars ~ age. tall and slender, welI-built,
..,,d makes a mum Ger one circuit clerk.
ET- Da0qeft is fresE from "down east
snd Is deputy clerk aud deputy post
1[astar. aDaggy" iS low III stat
-Ira has about a Sen-lnch f0ot,
s.,5 loves rum and mslarses."'g Mr.
D,,gett Is quite young, ana understands
Ils business. The treasurer, ~ Is. b.
Ngnnally, is an old resldenter, having
baeu mere these many years Dr. Nun
roiiy Is much liked by all that kho"
Iim. and will make a number one
treasurer. Assessor, MIR. George I1arIi-
son: Henry Washington stewart, lhe
lich representative, so said. He /; some
times called, by the Helena World,
AIDhabetical Stewart. He is pretty; no
mistake. He is regular gourd seed.
rfe1rge lives in Helena, ana assesses
7,roperty in Lee county. George says DC
~. "a do anything else. be came out
.,,,a dfg. and his master, Whltet Inade
nm deputs. and went home George
lever was TIA, far away from Helena
since he was Imported by J. Y. ~Rite
rom Indiana. Har. ison came here lit-
lie over two years ago. Washington g0t
his five dollars every day, work or
plav, legislature or no legislature, ana
". : made assessor in 1871, for me oenenl
Of master J. Z. and himself, Shd mas
..-.D school-tescher right along anS as
..ssor tos. We would like for Henly
to come and live with US, but 1 reckon