Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-28
ARKANSAS NEWS.

Surveyors are laying out line between
Batesviile and Newport.
Des Arc Appeal, "a h: "Prairie county is out
of debt and about $4,000 in the treasury"
Some vile incendiary fred and burned
down the Baptist church at New Providence
| last week.
Helena World: "There is trouble in the
low bottoms from the second overflow, with
| poor prospect of raising any crop"
The Arkansas City Journal says: at .is the
Memphis and Charleston road that has been
SO generous toward the Arkansas Press Asso.
CATION"
Two townships in Desha county, acting
under the three-mile prohibition act, say il
is success, and both white and black are
solid against the social glass.
The Little Rock Gazette's ''local" ackaowl-
edged on Saturday the present of "a wooden
pipe and bowl of sour SOUP" Sour soup is
an odd material out of which TO make wooden
pipes and bowls.
Jacksonport is "wrathy." Newport wants
TO take the county seat from it and turn the
statehouse into a normal institute, and there
is nothing in the United States tariff thai
protects" against such an attempt.
Little Rock Gazette: "On Saturday the
signal service reported the heat at Walnut
Ridge, 1929; at Brinkley, 1929; at Month
cello, 1p0o; at three towns, 990; the mean
maximum was 99o."
The country papers were eloquent last
winter about the excellence OF cottou-seed
oil and its superiority to lard. We observe
that they have all become silent Do the
editors wives differ from the editors on the
subject?
Swan Lake is supposed to be in a civil
ized country, but the Little Rock Gazette's
correspondent at that place writes that i've
mad ARRAY at the landing one day last
week, in which @ D. Nicks, jr.. frailed the
back most off a negro, named Dick, with q
board"
Kansas people are buying cattle in Arkan-
sas, which they drive INTO Kansas. The
Little Rock Gazette wants to know whether
II would not be as we'll for the Arkansas
farmers to fatten their stock and get the
money for it, as to allow that profit to go to
The Kansas people?
A correspondent of the Batesville Pilot
denounces the exemption laws as a curse,
especially to those for whom they were en-
acted. The farmers are crushed down with
mortgages. The system "breeds dishonesty,
lszinese, fraud and Incidence" That sort
OF projection" for the debtor does him bit
Ter injury.
Arkansas City Journal, 24th: "The Para
more railroad is giving employment to hands
lands because they under water We
ship and handle 5000 TO 10000 cotton bales
every season, and a cotton compress is
wanted and would pay ........ We want levees
and walerworks....... More work and less
resolutions is what this town needs"
At Baiesville white woman, recently from
Lonoke, took her child into the woods seven
miles away and LETT the infant, girl, under
a Tree. On her return she said the infant had
died. The author disbelieved her story,
and eight days later found the child. Strange
to say, it was still alive, although nearly
famished. On Saturday the little one was
doing well and bids fair to recover. The
mother has been jailed.
Little Rock Democrat, oath: ga crazy boy,
apparently harmless, and about eighteen
years of age, is wandering about our streets.
He says he came from Memphis. Things
are assuming new and interesting phase
when we see cur city shipping her products
to Memphis as is now the case. During the
past ten days the Eisenmayer four-mills
have shipped 500 barrels of -four to that
city, and the Knesal Cooperage Company has
sent our friends on the bluff five carloads Of
barrels" Good for Little Rock, but why
cannot Memphis grind -four and make bar
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