Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-27
ARKANSAS NEWS.

Prohibition is working well in Ashley
county.
Camden is to have cotton-seed oil-mill
......... Camden is shipping sheep to Texas.
At Fort Smith they have had amateur
theatricals for the benefit of the Episcopal
church.
Extensive mining preparations are max
ing withipg a few miles of Hot Springs.
Valuable mineral-water discoveries have
been made on Central avenue, on General
Walsh's property.
Another colony of Lutherans has settled
in johnson county, not far from Cabin Creek.
All the land in four townships has been re-
served for the colonists. The Little Rock
tributes 5000 Tor church and schoolhouse,
twenty acres for the same and $500 per
annum for pastors salary.
At Hot Springs the arrival of visitors Is
unusual. The Montgomery mines are
sending in fine specimens of gold, silver and
copper; load of ore Tor reduction also ar
rived. Parties are now working on a mining
shaft some three miles east of town, with
good surface indications. Others will COM
mence work near the same locality on Mon
day next.
Carroll County InteHigeHcer: "Mr John
Overstreet brought to our office some fine
specimens of silver ore. 1t comes from his
find which he and others are now working
on Lead Hollow Boone county, about
twelve miles north of Hsrrison. The ore
assays $14 silver to the ton, accompanying
minerals being lead and zinc. Two veins
have been struck two feet thick and four feet
wide. He also showed US some beautiful sill
yer nuggets. Mr.. Overstreet says there will
be great mining boom in Boone and Carroll
counties"
The Hamburg people are getting their
eyes opened to the folly of making cotton to
buy meat and bread. Large crops of corn
and oats now delight the eye. The mer-
chants are distributing rations sparingly.
They dictate not only the quantity, but the
quality of food which the people can have,
and under present circumstances there is no
choice for the masses-they must submit.
80. The Hamburg Times speaking of the
restitution in Ashley county, mentions the
case of one Bailey Pitts, who was subsistiDg
on boiled turnips alone.
Hot Springs Sentinel Star, 18th: "One day
last week we saw a piece of rock in the
hands of G., neral Bingham, which he had
obtained from the east side of the Hot
Springs mountain, literally full of native
gold. There seemed to be fully as much
gold as rock. We we're shown this
morning, by Colonel Bob Alexander, who
has room at the Hotel French, about one
galsna- ere which he struck on last Satur-
day He had no idea of the vein being
there, but in striking with a pick he acct
dentally uncovered a two-!oot vein of rich
ORE"
lard County Register, 18th: "The Spring
field and Memphis railroad will, it is thought,
be in operation before the last of the present
year. A large portion OF the products of this
county will be shipped over that road.
Bob Farris shot Frank Batterton's dog; the
two men fought and Farris stabbed Batter
ton four times, endsngering his life. Farris
got away -. Persons from Boston town.
ship report large number of new settlers
in that mountainous region opening up new
farms; mining prospectors are setting out
for Boone county -. Mr.. White, an old
gentleman living near the Robbins &
Cravens steam-mill, had been blind for come
fifteen years; recently his sight was suddenly
restored SO that he could ssc to read and
write. Some of his children he looked upon
for the first time in life-s!range faces to
him. His wife, he said, looked famiIisr,
though considerably older than she was
when he used to know her"