Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-08-25
SPRINGS.
Effect or Their Waters on ovalids-Th
Rarrow-gauge RailrOBd-A Piend-
1sh Murder.

Special Correspondence of the Appeal
LoNoKE, ARK, August 23.-I have just
returned from the far-famed Armstrong;
Springs, of White COUNTY. The effect of the
medical properties If these waters ia being
. more appreciated each Succeeding year.
While in that neighborhood wss invited by
4 Mr.. n. b. Pettey, the former sheriff of that
county, 10 visit a spring on his place at the
little village OF Center Hi, shou: two and
! one-half miles from Arm rong's. Tne lat
ter spring gurgles forth from a beautiful
grove nearly in the exact center of Ssarcy
] valley, which region is known all over Ar
kansas So characters ically healthy. The
! spring, or "Rebecca's Well" as il is called by
many VINO visit it, POSSESSES the identical
properties Of the Armstrong spring, which
has been clearly demonstrated by sever
al fair tests. The water OF Center
Hill is cooler than that OF Armstrong
and therefore more paiaiable for
those who have drank of the former greatly
prefer il. The only reason that it has not
the reputation of the Armstrong, or Griffin
Springs, 70 that it is on the premises of a gen.
tlemau who for several years has been en-
gagged in mercantile business at the pros
porous little village hard by, but now he has
shut up shop, and proposes to pay attention
TO the ~springs, which, if properly managed,
will be one of the most reputable watering
places in the Southwest. This water is a
never-failing cure for Bright's disease, among
a score OF others, and those who have greatly
suffs red from psralytic strokes from Jeffer-
son, Lee and Phillips counties have gone
home, if not entirely cured, much improved.
Center Hill is eight miles due west OF the lit
tie city of Searcy, which is connected with
The ST. Louis, Iron Mountain aud Southern
railrond by a n~arrow-gauge road running
from West Point, on Little Red river, 10
SeaIcy, crossing the st. Louis and Iron Noun
tain at Kenselt.
A movement is on fcoL to have this nsr-
row-gauge extended on beyond SsaTCy out
through the valley, just by Center Hill to
the foot of Ozark mountains, and, nearly
certain, before another summer comes the eI-
tension will have been made. Parties then
who wish to visit the Center Hill Springs
can take the St. Louis and Iron Mountain
road to Kensett, and there tie arrow-gsuge
to Center Hill, len miles away. This Is GER
tainly the most pleasant place to forget care,
business and lie generally, and pariake of
the cool, refreshing breezes which like happy
whispers come floating to you from the tow
ering old Or 4rks, which l have sen in A.
kansas, and l advise those who would epsnd
a pleasant summer ts go 10 the Center Hill
Springs, in White county. Fail particulars
eau be had Of the manner OF accommodation,
efficiency OF the water etc, be addrt sJlng
the Rev. George A. Doneiley, presiding
elder White River Conference, Szaroy ARR.
Lonoke county is about to ltss her good
name for peace and sobriety. Within the
past ten days A negro killed 8 negro at Car
Isle, on our eastern edge, q brother commit
mi.ted frstricide upon another in the porth-
ern part, a man by the name of Bioodworth
was Yesterday committed to Jail for mGrder
Of one q Gorge Bullion.
From what your correspondent could
gather, Bullion, who had been a hlreling OF
Bloodworlh, was accused by his employer Of
| being too intimate with his (employer's)
wife. Last week some men were hunting,
and attracted by The fierce barking of dogs,
discovered the body of a man in a deaden-
ing, known as the ThompsOu place, the face
of the unfortunate having bsen 30 mutilated
by "varmipIs" as 10 prevent recognition. The
remains were inferred, but Sheriff Fletcher
and Coroner Cannon hearing eff the circum-
stance snd not being satisfied exactly, had The
body exhumed and a post mortem with in
quest held.
The murderer was a hellish, heartless man,
even going so far as 10 muiilste his victim
in a most horrible manner. From the clothes
and other marks of deceased, the body was
| identified as that Of Bullion, and the verdict Of
the Jury was b at he came TO his death BY
| gurshot and other wounds Inflicted by VIM.
BloodUorth. Bloodworth wss raised in this
| country. Alth ough he has been addicted 10
drink all his lie at times, he had many
friends in his neighborhood, and some we're
| vsrsioth to believe that he could be guilty Of
! such a dreadful crime.
! Our school opens soon under brighter
/ auspices than ever.