Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1880-11-04
EUREKA SPRINGS, ARK.

II EUREKA SPRINGS, ARK.
: A Letter from Mr. J. D. Tolley, De
: scriptive of the CelebratedEe Eealth
giving Springs.
[Lyhchburg Sentinell
1 DEAR SIR:-I have concluded
this morning to undertake to ful.
I'LL my promise of giving you my
impressions of this celebrated
resort. / have been here just
twelve days, and have been al
industrious student, trying tc
Iget information that would lead
Ito correct conclusions. 1t is,
perhaps, necessary to say that
this place is located in Carroll
county,in the White RiverMoun-
tains at the very head of q small
creek called Leatherwood, and
that the place is as wild and
picturesque as any part of the
Alleghanies or the East Tennes-
see mountains, and there is not
a level spot in the whole place,
and that a great many three sto-
lry houses can be entered from
| the ground into the third story.
$50 your readers can form some
Idea of the wildness and rough
ness of the place. There are
said to be seven or eight thousand
houses here; if that is so, at least
six thousand of them are hotels
and boarding houses. The por-
fulation is now estimated at a.
bout 10000 or %, 900 people and
still they come. AS to the cur
alive properties of these springs
it is in two springs, the Eure-
ka and the Hardin-both have
performed miraculous cures. /
will commence with the diseas-
es that are most commonly seen
here, viz: Cancers, scrofula, old
sores, catarrh of the head, diabe-
It's, kidney diseases, prolapsus
uteri, hedomaltretis, rheumatism
and some consumption. Now
as to cancers; quite a number
of cases of from six to twelve
years standing have been here
and stayed from six to twelve
months, and have gone away un-I
der the impression that they
were well. A great many others
are now here with hideous can
GERS seemingly getting well, at
all events they are gradually
healing over and seem to be in
a healthy condition, while there
are also a large number who
have not been here long enough
to determine how it will be with |
them. A great many cases of
scroflla of long standing have
been here and gone away well.
The same may be said Of many
cases of sores, catarrh, asthma,
rheumatism, diabetis and other
kidney diseases. 1t is a specific |
for all manner of sore eyes. It'll
is said that no one with sore
eyes has ever failed to be cured
that gave the Eureka a fair
showing. |
Entering into the miraculous
field of cures, we will mention
the cure of six or eight cases of
total blindness of several years,
standing, the cure of fiYe or six
cases of Bright disease, the res
of hearing in a few cas-
es, the restoration of three or
four cases of partial paralysis,
lie. part of the body. The I
most noticeable case of this kind
was a girl of fiftetn years, whose
legs and bowels had been para
Iized for two years. She can
now walk across the room.
There are several cases nearly /
is bad as hers. The most re-
markable case of blindness is an
other girl, who has been totally I
blind for seven years. She is
proprietress Of the largest ladies' |
bath house in the place, and she |
can be seen and talked with any /
lay. 1t is said to be a specific
for dyspepsia. Ihave seen quite
a number here who claim that
they are perfectly we'll Of dys-
pepsia. And so ] might say Of
nearly every disease except con-
SUMPTION AL or nearly all /
can hear of that come here with
consumption go home in cofiins.
The cures bhat have given
these springs SO much celebrity, !
are old cancers. Bright's dis
ease, paralysis, blindness and
deafness. These border on the
miraculous All strangers here
agree that this is the most won-
derful place they have ever seem
or even heard OF. Now, if these
springs are humbug, the peO-
pie are doing it themselves. For
the town is built ON the govern
ment land, and the water is free,
and there is no one TO specially /
advertise Che fame Of this place
but the, people themselves, who (
come here sick, get well and
then induce their sick friends at
home 10 come. Nearly all the
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