Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-07
ARKANSAS NEWS.

Carlisle has shipped 700 sheep to Texas.
They hook 'em now at DssArc when they
| find them carrying concealed tons.
Conway is making its first shipment OF
| peaches. 1t seeks market at St. Louis.
Thirty persons from Michigan and Illinois
have been seeking homes about Carlisle the
| last two weeks.
As Mrs: Title Ray was wedding her gar
gen near Corning, a rattlesnake bit her in the
| hand, but she is recovering.
At Dardanelle two neighbors, Polk Nc
Chez and Lazarus Brooks, q1arreled, when
the former killed the latter.
Near Paris, Boy Rogers and Mace Marks
quarreled, when Marks stabbed the other
with his pocket-knife and killed him.
The upper Arkansas and its tributaries
are on boom. There are indications that
the annual rise from plains and mountains
has set in.
Price Bros, of Mount Adams, bought
some 900 head OF cattle during the late over
flow for about 81 per head, and now aak Sl3
a head for the same.
At Grsvely, J. r. Honeycutt the deacon
of the Baptist church, eloped with Miss
Laura Porter Elder Zimmerman married
them, so that's all right.
Barney Brown, a brakeman, was shot
passing along near Fishertown. A Creek
Indian was arrested, charged with the crime.
Arkansas City is discussing the subject of
cotton compress, and expects a new bank
to be organized there in the fall. The erec-
ton of bridges across Cypress creek and over
Stroud's ditch, and Improvement to the
roads, are talked of.
proposition is under consideration at
Hot Springs to establish driving park ard
race.course on what is known as the Ward
place, convenient and excellently adapted
piece of ground on the Arkadelphia road,
and about two miles distant from the Airing
ton Hotel.
United States Deputy Marshal Thomas L.
Lacey came into Fort Smith from the Terri
tory last Friday with ten prisoners; one for
murder, one for firing into railroad train,
three for deadly assault, one for larceny,
and four for bringing whisky into the Terri
tory; three being Cherokee Indians, two
Creeks, one Seminole, three negroes, one
white man.
The Columbia Banner says: "Mr. E. S.
Hanson brought into our Office an Irish po-
tato bush which contained about thirty po-
tatoes, all up among the limbs like apples,
and none attached to the roots. He says his
family eat them, and they are fine. He has
about dozen of the trees growing in his
garden" What does the Chattanooga Times
think of that?
The prisoners in the Dardanelle jail lately
broke from confinement. One of the escaped
prisoners is Jackson, who was held on a
charge of murder committed in Conway
county. Carpenter was in for attempted
rape, and Burdett for failure to furnish bail
on indictment for misdemeanors. The pris-
oners escaped by means Of saw and augur
clandestinely furnished by Mrs. Carpenter,
wife of one of the number
Fort Smith Herald, 4th: marshal Kemp
met Henry Hood, Cherokee Indian of des-
perate character, and ordered him to give
up a pistol he was carrying. The Indian
put spurs to his horse and rode off, The
marshal fired, and the second shot struck
the horse. Another officer, mounted, came
up and pursued and fired three shots. Hood
leaped from the famed horse, took his stand
at ditch and dared an arrest, pistol in
hand. Others now came up; gun was lev
eled at the Cherokee, who was compelled to
surrender. He was put in Jail, and it is said
the Cherokee authorities want him on a
charge of murder"