Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-21
ARKANSAS NEWS.

There is only one whisky chop in Frank
| lin county.
Dardanelle now boasts of handsomely
uniformed brass band.
A Jewish rabbi lectured in the Methodist
church at DesArc last week.
The ladies at Fayetteville have organized
q Christian Temperance Union.
The town of Murfreesboro, by ordinance,
,, has fixed the liquor license at $1,000 per
annum.
Oil has been struck at the depth of forty
one feet near Baxter Springs, Washington
county.
Golden Hill has changed its name to Vio-
let Golden to Wanting, modest Violet is
appropriate.
A bad sanitary condition, it is believed, is
the cause of the recent cases of typhoid fever
at Fayetteville.
Searcy claims to own the Searcy and West
Point railroad, and the Town Council at its
last meeting employed counsel and ordered
an investigation.
The colored people of DesArc warmly
thank-in the columns OF the Appeal OF that
place--the School Board for the advance
their children have made under the instruc-
tions provided for them.
A shooting affray occurred just inside the
Cross county line on Monday, between Mr..
Robert Dooley and colored man. The ne
gro received four or five buckshot in the
breast. The trouble arose about some sup
plies which Mr.. Dooley had furnished the
negro.
VanBuren Press: "On Monday night the
demoniacal wind made deep scoop near the
residence of Mr.. Campton, blowing away his
house. All the family were in the building
at the time, and, we are pleased to know, es-
capped serious injury. The farmers in the
neighborhood will aid him in the erection of
a new dwelling"
Little Rock Gqzche: "a Little Rock store
advertises a dozen lemons and glass of ice
water fer twelve and half cents. Good
news for the thirsty ......... The loss at the
Pocahontas fire footed up $4,000; the in
surance $24, 900. Three prisoners-one
charged with murder, two with burglary
escaped from Perry county Jail last week by
outside assistance"
- The time for selecting delegates has come.
The Forrest City Times says: ''Phillips
county sent seven delegates to the peniten-
tiary.. Our city dads have the name of
being stiDgy. At least they we're too close
to fix the cistern on this side of town. They
should now be too close TO allow the water in
the town cistern TO be used TO water stock,
wash wagons, buggies, ETC."
1t is now a settled fact that the Gould Iron
Mountain road will be completed to Forrest
City just as fast as possible. The contract
by which Forrest City is TO give the right of
way and twenty-five acres of ground in town
to the road, and the company is to complete
The road to that point oy the let of October,
was formally signed by all parties last Fri
day. This will give Forrest City three rail-
roads, and, it is thought, insure the building
of the Augusta and White River road.
Augusta Vjdette- "Apples and peaches sell
at sevenfy-fi cents bushel in our streets;
blsckberries are abundant and fine. Our
colored friends have helped the treasury Of
the city this week; they INDUCED in profsne
language. We do not know Whist the laws
of Arkansas are in regard to such matters,
but we understand that some of the convicis
have been treated in brutal manner, and if
all We heard be true, some Of the managers
deserve a worse punishment than any of the
conyictsn