Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-19
ARKANSAS NEWS.
20 smallpox at Fort Smith.

No smallpox at Fort Smith.
Fort Smith and Jefferson both have Jail
poet
Vaccination is proceeding lively al OAR
danelle.
Night schools in Pine Bluff for young men
are projected.
Fine veins of marble have been discovered
in Union county
One of the Fort Smith stores has intro
duced the spot cash system"
There is talk of building a new public
school house at Gum Spring.
The prohibition petitions gotten up in
Atkins, Pope county, were defeated.
Nashville Banner: Real estate disappear
ing; water privileges superintendent"
The pink-eye has broken out among the
stock in several portions of the State.
The Pine Bluff Press says there is fatal
sickness among the children of Des Arc.
Little Rock fire companies threaten to dis
band unless water can be supplied for at fires
The Eureka Springs water is not mineral;
it cures by lis purity Board, in winter 81 30 ID 81
a week.
The ladies of Newport and Jacksonport
ira fiic in those towns.
The United States fish commission is dis
various parts of the State
The Fort Smith Herald reaches us printed
bright blue paper. which puts in mind of
the p1pers of the war times
Pine Bluff Press: "The County Court
granted petition forbidding the sale OF liquor;
the license men have appealed"
There has been ghost showing here and
there in Pine Bluff since Christmas A fine magic
lantern reached that city at the holidays.
A vein of coal has been discovered near
Dardanelle, only four feet under ground, which
averages twenty-seven inches in thickness
Pine Bluff is ahead of Memphis; it will
celebrate Marii Ciras, aud it has a town clock and
they have City Council that is immense at COW
discussions,
1.-THE New Sensation Is now laying st the
foot OF Porter street. writes the local of Arkan
daily paper; when the eggs are Matched will
the product be skiffs?
The County Court of Knox county has
passed quarantine measure. and will strictly guard
The infected houses in the county and use ali pre-
caution to prevent the spread of the dread conta-
gion.
DR.. R. G. Jennings, the physician attend
ing the smallpox case at the fremont House
Little Rock reports that his patient has died end
that there several more suspicious in the
same vicinity
The Judsonia Adraace gives the names of
several immigrants from Maine, Illinois. Michi-
gan. Canada and England. and says: 'Immigra-
ton is pouring into our part of the country There
never has been time when so much property has
changed hands as this winter
Paul Boyton in his rubbers, floating down
the Arkansas stopped at Ozark in Kissing to light
his pipe A iittle lower down he came silently up
TO a skif containing three negroes. They get up a
yell when they saw the paraphernRlia, padded
rapidly shore, and then made hurriedly into the
woods.
Pine Bluff Press: "The jury in the case of
Whit Brown. charged with the murder of Robert
Yonley at Red Bluff last July, retired from the
court room this morning and returned in fifteen
minutes and rendered verdict of guilty of murder
in the first degree. He was convicted upon the
evidence OF one Of his secompliees"
The Batesville Clronicle's Bald Knob cor
respondent writes: I" Times kard. money scarce,
quarry shut down, perhaps viii open up IN the
spring. with q few hGnds-...--..The farmers are
making no effort preparatory for planting. They
should be engaged IN ploughing for oats corn and