The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1874-09-30
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FROM BRLNKLEY TO TIE CITY-
LITTLE ROCK-HAY And CAT
TLE-CORN AND COTTON-THE
DESTTTU7TON OF THE PEOPLE
LITTLE ROCK-THE CONSTTTU-
TTONAL CONVENTT0N-ON THE
sta GE-THE List ROBBERY
THE HOT SPRINGS AND IT'S At
T,ENDANT AN INTERESTING
GOSSLPPY ACCOUNT or MAT
TIERS AND THINGS IN GENERAL.
HoT SPRINGS, Arkansas.
Hale House, Sept. 10, 1874.
To the Editor OF the Morristown Gazette:
1 believe we left you at tile breakfast
house, 20 miles from Little Rock on the
Memphis & Little Rock Railroad, after
a splendid breakfast, the best since we
have been in the State From Brinkley
to Little Rock the country is generally
level, and much better than that passed
thr0ughTpa particularly, in the section
known as Surrounded Hills and Rich
Woods, and Honeoake.= 1t would make
an East Tenhessean restless to look upon
such lands, and then be told they can be
bought at So 90 to $8, 90 per acre. Upon
the prarie / saw hundreds of cattle
grazing at will, and dozens of hay studs,
large enough for two or three barns,
filled to overflowing with green fresh
hay, cut from the wild prairie, with only
the expense of cutting and housing.
Cattle are worth, at 3 to 3year old, $5 90
to so 90, and year olds to 3, sch from
$40 90 to $14 90 per head; / saw a good
lot of 8 to 5yeaT olds offered at $14 90,
and no sale made Horses are worth
from $50 90 to $125 90, and well broke.
ponies, $50 90 to $40 90. lI ,l3.a ~ l,.i4
1.-THE corn and cotton crops are still
very poor, and the farmers and Business
men generally. put the. crop down at
.one-fohrth Of a crop, and say that in
many, very many sections of the coun-
try the people will have to leave the
country or starve, or have assistance
from other sections or from the United
States Government How much better
it would be in the government TO apply
the funds to the relief Of the destitute
and poor Of this country rather than
squandering their means IN political
broi1s and in transporting and marshall
ing troops IN different sections of the
South 70 further degrade and oppress
the Southern people, - ''<..'a'e 7'l
We arrived at Little Rock at five
O'Clock This place is growing to be
quite a, city, and will, ere long, be the
great commercial center of the State,
from the fact il has from five to eight
railroads passing and centering here as
soon as two or three of them are com
pleted, also the Arkansas river which is
navigable- both ways, above and below,
the year round, and upon which are
some of the finest lands in the world,
which can be bought at So 90 to $40 90
per acre Though yet at some seasons Of
the year the inhabitants are subject and
do have the shakes and yallersD pretty
bad. The Constitutional Convention was
in session, which is an able and very in
teIligent body for country compare.
lively new, and the result of their Iabors
was the manufacture of one Of the best
State Constitutions in the United States.
which win be adopted by the people.
Candidates were also nominated this
week by a Convention of the Conserva-
tive Democratic party, and majority Of
forty thousand is already conceded
which will in addition TO the New Con
change the situation materially
and make this ere long one of the best
States for emmigratlon and Industry
and enterprise.
Two hours ride placed US aboard the
stage or hack line at Malvern, at seven
o'clock in the evening, for a:.S mile ride
over rough road to the Hot Springs,
where we arrived at twelve O'Clock, D.
D The hacks are the best that can be
made, but such rough and dangerous
road makes it unpleasant to the invalid
D. traveller. Last night the hacks 1--we
IN number) and some fifteen or twenty
passengers were robbed Of all their
money and vals1sbles, consisting ofsoue