Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-07-20
ARKANSAS NEWS.

Fort Smith boasts that at the recent bar,
becue two bears We're eaten, seven sheep, JOG
chickens, and more pies than there are oats
in a field.
Jonesboro Times. 18th: "a town has been
laid off at Nettleton, the crossing of the
Crowlsy's Ridge branch and Springfield and
Memphis roads,"
Camden Beacon, 11th: "We will shortly
havs reliable telegraph line to Camden
The Western Union Company is erecting a
line from Gurdon to this point"
At Little Book, on Sunday, a dispatch was
received by Governor Churchill from DR.
Stayton, of Newport, Jackson county, stating
that smallpox was raging twenty miles from
there, and asking that six army tents be i'm
mediately forwarded.
Saline County Repiew, 18th: "A difficulty
occurred last week at the woodward two or
three miles from Benton, between a young
man named Spurlock and negro, in which
the former was struck on the head and badly
wounded. The negro made his escape"
Van Buren, Pess, 18th: Frank Wright
and Pete Mars had knife and pistol con
hict, in which Wright fred two shots at M ars,
neither of which took effect, the latter re-
turning the formers compliment by a gash
in his abdomen. Severe, but not dangerous
Van Buren, claims fourteen new dwelling
houses built there last yesr. Fort Smith
claims, during the same time. ninet We
dwelling g-houses, twenty-six stores, steam
flour mill, S100,0 900 compress, an opera
house begun, and $4,000 subscribed toward
building cotton factory.
Near Monticello some wretches piled a
quantity of poles and chupks across the
railroad track in the Manus field, and but
for the timely attention and skill of the
engineer would have resulted disastrously to
the train, which had on board Colonel
George w. Hughes, chief of engineers, and
several other prominent citizens.
Although healthy on the whole, there is a
good deal of bilious and malarial fever in
Little Rock. The city is in no danger Of
an epidemic OF any character, bat decayiug
garbage and filth of every description are
deadly sources of disease when left rottiue
and purifying in the public highways, y ards
and alleys. So says the Gazette.
In Sebastian county there are seventy-fve
stores, excluding those of Fort Smith.
Nearly every farmer there is growing his
own tobacco and good deal OF sorghum.
Cole county has eight scboolhouses, seven
cotton gins and four steam mills. The farm
ers are preparing to can fruit, put up pickles
and to make sauer-kraut TO an extent greater
than ever before.
The longest line of fence IN the world will
be the wire fence extending from the Indian
Territory west across the Indian Territory
and thirty-fve miles into New Mexico.
Eighty-fve miles of this fence is under con-
tract. Its course will be in the line of the
Canadian river, and its purpose TO stop the
drift of the Northern cattle. The fence will
be over 200 miles long.
Tuesdays Little Rock Gaseae says: "a
young gentleman employed as a clerk in a
Mal afr farda
tempted a bloody deed on his own person, but
fortunately failed 10 do himself any harm
The pistol was responsive To his
touch, bat his arm was very unsteady.
He fred twice at himself bat
neither bullet took effect At his native
place in 'Switzerland be belonged to a very
respectable family, who sent him to this
country out of the way Of = young lady they
wished him not TO marry. A few DAYS ago