Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-03-08
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.
Hunting for Higher Ground.


corn or other food for stock in that section,
and the owners of cattle will probably re-
move their stock to the hills shortly. Very
few people are now leaving the Mississippi
bottoms of Tunica County. Those who yet
remain seem determined to stick 1T out. A
large number of cattle have been brought
from Coahoma and Tunica Counties, in the
above State, to Helena, where they have
either been sold or carried to the high lands
back of the city, where they can be cared
for until the water falls. Numbers of skiffs
containing colored families with their
household plunder, such as beds, chickens,
guns, cooking utensils and invariably adog
or two, and in some three or four,
are to be seen landing at the levee in front
of Helena. These parties, general
thing, are people who have only lived in
the bottoms for short time, and are there
fore frightened at the prospect of high
water. There is another class of white and
colOred people who live in the bottoms,
however, who never seem to think that an
overflow will damage them, even after ex-
periencing several, losing property andlive
stock, and i'll some cases a child or two.
This class invariably stay at their homes
until the highest water has come, and with
every prospect of fall in the river soCn
they light out with what they can pile in
old skiF dugout, leaving much of
their property behind. 1t is the last-men-
toned class who suffer most during the
floods. But no amount of suffering seems
to have the right effect on them to make
them fly rom the food before it is too late.
Methodist Appoint ntments
Tho following appointments were
made by Bishop Wiley at the recent Con-
ference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
at Little Rock:
LITTLE ROCK DISTRICT.
Duke<Slavens, Presiding Elder; Ada, ].
W. Sketon; Amity, = W. Gamble; Ar
genta, to be supplied; Carlisl" and DuA
wallis Bluff, Joseph Hart; Center Valley,
\. 3. Brashear; Conway and Green Brier,
Little Rock, w. II. w. Rses: Little Rock
Circuit, to be supplied; Rondo, j. NJ. Wal
burn;, Rus~cllviIle, j. I. Hendrickson;
be supplied; G. W. Gray, d. D.. President
of Little Rock University, member Of Lit
tie Rock Quarterly Conference, Leroy
Bates, L. IL. ID. Principal of Texarkana In
stitutr, member TeXarkana Quarterly Con-
ference.
FORT SMITH DISTRICT.
w. j. Simmons, Presiding Elder;
Charleston, J. S. Harris; Chickelah, T.
Dayton, l.. c. Oharr; Ellsworth, j. $. E l.
wards; Fort Smith, ~ 7. Brown; Hack
ct Ciy,, w. e Evans; Hartville, to be
Magazine, &. II. sGideon; Waldron and
Danvilc, b. d. Jones, and one to be sup
piled; South Hot Springs, II. J. Newell.
EUREKA SPRINGS DISTRICT.
ID. II. Upchurch, Presiding Elder; Ce
darvilie. }. c. Blanton; Dixon, to he sup
piled; Eureka Springs, G. +. Cunningham;
ireen Forest, to be supplied; Huntsville,
". IL. Nickols: Prairie Grove, G. ID. Fry;
i>o-ers, o. r. Bryant; Rogers, II. n.
Hughes; Siloam Springs, T. b. Ford; Si-
loam Springs Circuit, W. II. Lewis; Van
Buren,, h. w. Hammett; Wheeler, H. II.
Skaggs.
HARRISON DISTRICT.
Il. c. Moter, Presiding Elder; Buffalo,
to be supplied: Clear Creek. f. X. Fnlker-
son: Curja, to be supplied; Evening Shade,
Lewis Kelley; Harrison, James Lokey;
Jasper. Ruben Bowen; Mountain Home,
W. Il. 3. Mercer; Newberg, J. p. Lowery;
Polk Bayou, f. S. Gilbert: Ravenden
sprinss, Thos Ross; wild Cherry. A. w.
Smith, j. c. Barker, A. NJ, principal of
Arkansas Conference Seminary, member
| of Harrison Quarterly Conference.
miscellaneous items.
Arkansas City was very badly flooded,
| nearly every house being under water. y
| great deal of damage was done by back
water after the river began to fall. The
gauge showed forty-five feet six inches, and
t had not stopped rising.
The First Baptist Church of Darla-
| nellie Yell County, mas secured the services
of Rev. DR.. j. b. Searcy, one of the editors
| Of Eh,. Arkansas Eranaci pastor.
Rev. David f. McDonald d. D.,
| graduate of Edinburs, College, Scotland,
ard one of the most profound scholars in
! the Southwest, is Instructor of ancient end
modern languages in the Dardanelle graded
school.
| Rob rt IandcrS, 4 notorious Texas
| horse-thicf, Tor whom large rewards had
| been offered, was arrested Il few days ago
at Fort Smith.
| l.. $. Kirby, of Monroe County. and
| l.. 5. Wiley, OF Benton County, have been
! commissioned Justices of the Peace.
Simon Silvcrman, of Indian Bay,
| Monroe County, wEo two years ago drew
! $l5.0O) in the Louisiana State Lottery
! drawing, was drowned few days ago i'll
| the Mississippi River, near Chcot, by the
| capsizing o! Il si,if, which contained him
| and two companions. The others
| cecded i'll clingins to the sl1ff and were
| rescued.
Fire destroyed Kings drug store at
| FL Paso, White County, lew days age;
| an adjoining dry-goods store was also
| burned.
James Mitchell, of Cleburnc County;
Loais i. Walthers, OF Little Rock; W. 1.
| II. Howard of Independence County, and
| o. V. Wager, of Benton County, have been
| appointed notaries putilic.
Helena has compromised her debt at
| fifty-one cents on tine, oIlar.
| Calvin Forest, aged nineteen. the only
| support of a widowed mother, muir
! ~dered by Robert Harris i'll Nevada County
4 n few days ago. Alter Forest had been
| shot down negro and white man helped
| the murderer to secrete the body, which
| WAS not found until the murderer had made
| his ercape. Governor Berry has offered
60, I, Dg.
Albert G. Deshon, proprietor of the
| Capitol Hotel at Little Rock, died n few
days ago. He a man we'll known and
generally respected.
White River has been pretty high.
The town of Clarendon, forty-eight
| miles from Helena, upon White River, and
| the terminus of the Arkansas Midland
| Railway, was placed in a deplorable condi-
| ton by the flood, the overflow was
| higher than ever known before, and not a
single dry spot of the place was left. The
! trains of the Midland Road only run to the
| Slayton plantation, three miles east of
Clarendon, as the water was too deep be
| yond there.
The Little Rock NJ. f. Conference
| elected Rev. I. b. Ford as delegate to the
General Conference.
1t was thought the worst of the floods
| was past.
Alfred Werner, found guilty o. man.
slaughter in the jefferson Circuit Court
and sentenced to twenty -one years impris-
onment, has been lodged in the Peniten-
| tiary. Werner was overseer of a convict
| farm and was indicted, with others, for