Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-16
ARKANSAS.
TeIIiUg Statistics for PFOhibitiOnists-
Reduce Drunkenness and You Re-
duce Crime-A Great Movement.
a waif from The Cyclone all Broken Up
The New keIigiOnists-A Woman
In the Austin Costume.

There Is talk OF starting a cotton factory
at Pine Bluff.
The city hall property of Little Rock is
f, offered for sale.
Communication by rail is now open from
Pine Bluff to Dorsey.
Texarkana has had its second FIRE within
She month. Losses, $4,000.
The Pine Bluff correspondent of the Little
Rock Gazttie writes that the Paramore rail-
way is laying a mile and quarter day in
the direction of the Sabine river.
A Hebrew saloon keeper, at Little Rock,
| closed his place of business Saturday in
| order to observe the Sabbath of his God.
/ He was open and ain full blast" Sunday.
Can he be punished and fined?
A lady excited attention at Little Rock
last week because she wore not the bloomer
! (pants gathered at the bottom), but the
American costume, adopted and worn by
DR.. Harriet N. Austin, of Danville, n. Y.
The Little Rock City Council has APP
pointed a committee to act in connection
with a committee from the Citizens Cotton
Exchange and State Fair Association, for
the purpose of arranging to provide for the
delegates to the Cotton Planters Association,
TO be held in that city next October.
Dallas Pioneer: After the cyclone in the
southwestern part of the county, child
about three years old, with both legs and one
arm broken, was found near lowry Springs,
about twenty miles south OF this place, and
will doubtless get we'll. No one in that sec
ton knows the little waif, or from whence
it came. 1t is supposed to have been brought
a great distance in the cyclone"
Cincinnati manufacturer pottery, but has
not one of the Ingredients near the city, not
even the coal that burns the kiln. Little
Rock has all the principal ingredients nee
essary at hand or within easy distance. 1t
has feldspar, kaolin, quartz, and what the
potters call ball clay, and these are the prin-
cipal ingredients used in the manufacture of
all classes of pottery ware from the common
Jug to the Parian marble vase.
Those peculiar reigionsts of Little Rock
who have two houses-one at Main and
Eleventh and the other at Eleventh and
Scott-but only one 'tSavior's Home" are
not Cobbites, nor Mormons, nor Oneidaites.
They are good-natured, industrious, hard
working and not unintelligent Texans. The
creed they preach and say they live up 10 is
too strict, heroic and self-sacrifciug for ordi-
nary modern christians. They cut and sell
wood for a living, and say they give honest
measure.
Little Rock Gazette: ga big excitement
was created near Beebe Monday evening.
colored man and his dog made an attack
upon a white man. The latter was so badly
hurt that surgical aid was called. The end
is not yet.........I In a suit against the Pine
Bluff railroad, John Overton the other day
received in the United States Court verdict
for 5000, for injuries received while working
on the river front railway. The court re-
fused to grant a new trial ...-...-.J. NJ. Moore
attempted TO swindle Mr.. Clok out of some
jewelry, and has since swindled lady out OF
a weeks board. The county is now supply
ing him with delicscies. He is also charged
with forging, under the name of Mathey, a
l.
Bank. He is also known as Chapman and as
Miller"
The Arkansas people have, in many parts
of the State, voted to put down the sale of
liquor, but there, it appears, as elsewhere,
they take no steps to enforce the laws they
have insisted on being made operative. This
want of practical enforcement, and the
failure to put up coffee houses as fast az
liquor saloons are put down, are the principal
causes of the failures Of the temperance cause.
In the columns OF the Little Rock GGzetls
Iverson A. Jones, in a we'll written COMMUNE
cation, gives the following inform alton:
Magnolia, in Columbia county, has license
law; the Criminal Court sat last week; there
was not a criminal in Jail, and had not been
for year; there was one saloon and one store
selling by the quart; county scrip worth
ninety-fve cents. Prescott is in Nevada
county, which joins that OF Columbia; the
town and the entire county voted
against license, yet at Prescott last term
man was fined for appearing before
the grand jury drunk and several true bills
were found against iquor-sellers. / saw
seven places where liquor was sold, and was
told there were thirteen. County scrip worth
sixty-fve cents on the 81. went to Forrest
City, where prohibition is in force. Four
men had been indicted for selling liquor.
There were fifty indictments for all crimes at
the April term, 1851. During the term just
closed, which was under prohibition, indIet-
ments we're nine-tWo. County scrip was cell
ing for twenty-five cents sn the 81. Col
lected for sale of liquor in the county last
year, town included, $500. Some citizens
thought there was more drinking than be-
fore; some thought lesz.''