Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-12-08
ARKANSAS.
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From an Occasional corre.pOndent.I

From an Occasional Correspondent
Goss HOUSE, DEvALLs BLUFF, ARK,
December 2, IS75.-Left Little Rock
this afternoon. Planters in that vicin-
iiy very busy getting out the cotton
crop; people in the hits, west Of the
city, docking to the Arkansas bottom,
below the city, to pick cotton at an In
ducemeDt OF one dollar ana fifty cents
per hundred pounds in the seed. There
mas been some cases Of malarial fever,
but most all are able for work now. The
people ought to make their houses bet
ter than Iug-csbins, half chinked in, II
they want 10 escape sickness in any
country. There was more truth than
poetry in the descriL ton given OF the
Arkansas house by the "AIkal sis Trav-
eler." His name was Faulkner. They
named county after lin. He died
year or go ago. The name of the State
should be pronounced Atk ansaw, not
Arkansas. As had occasion to make
some remarks 10 the members OF the
legislature on the occasion Of the Hot
Springs excursion few days ago, and
Inquired of them whether il should be
ATRansaw or Arkansas, one replied
AIkausaW, and no one objected. The
legislature ought TO be authoritative, on
the principle that the fish that wears
mis- skin with the scales out ought to
know which is the proper side. North
sern people objected to my pronunciation,
and ran to Webster for authority, but
they could not answer the argument
ABOUT the fish. There is tide OF immi-
grafton pouring into the great prairies
of Prairie and Arkansas counties. A
great many are settling in the vicinity
of Carlisle, on the Memphis aud Little
Rock railroad, and tide of them are
fiJCdiUg Arkansas county, especially the
central and northern portion. Where
only two or three years ago not house
could be seen, now busy plows are turn
ing up the virgin soil, and houses
can be counted by a dozen
or more at single glance,
stock raisers turn their attention to
these couuties on account Of an almost
unlimited range of prairie and wood
land yet open, and the fact that cattle
can get through winter without feeding.
The great hue and cry about sickness
deteTs many from these blooming
prairies Of the south, but l have not yet
found in ali my journeys, in almost
every continent, that spot where sick
ness never comes. Only in our cline
Que disease prevails, and in another a
different one. Minnesotians flee to
Florida to escape tie severity OF winter
az we seek 10 escape the heat of summer.
Your Tennessee people know nothing of
prairie farming, and the average Ar.
kansiap, with his one-horse pillow, can
not make them produce, and it remains
for men OF the great northern pratries to
bring them into use, which they
are doing rapidly. T. B. Mills brought
down a dozen men to the vicinity OF
Carlisle to look at lands few days ago,
as am informed. The Memphis and
Little Rock railroad is running crowded
cars st present, and doing much to de-
velOp the resources of the State and of
Texas by carrying in the muscle and
money necessary. Well has the poet
said:
Westward the star of empire wends its way.
Those great trestle bridges that have
terrified so many are giving place to
solid entertainments. Five hundred men
are at work in the Cache bottom, just
east OF this making embellishments, etc
Six miles Of the great swamp some thir-
ty miles west Of your city sre under con-
tract to be filed up, and the old bridges
of trestlewOrk removed, and this will
leave but four miles of the old bridging
remaining on the entire road according
to the estimate of one who knows. r.
K. Dow is making god his promise
that this road should be such high
way IS is needed. Davalls Bluff is
the same place OF muddy streets it al
ways was, bat is an active place OF busi- |
ness, and when the prairies to the west |
are settled up will doubtless be a much |
greater place Rates low.
PAUL BAGLEY.