Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1885-07-22
HELENA, ARK.
"Eug NE Closer, Darling''LThe Relia.
bflify OF stephen W. Dorsey's
Friends.
The Contest for Congress I'm the Third
District-The Occupation Tax
Imp1rtaBt Libel Salts.
SPECIAL T ooRxxsrosprscs OF tn. APPEAL


are indignant at Vice-President Hen
bricks presumption in recommending
an Indiana man for appointment as su-
perinteudent of the Hot Springs reserva-
ton. Mr.. Hendriek' protege is an In
dianapolis lawyer named Byfelds, and it
is not out of place for US to say that we
would have to Byfelds after fields before
we could reconcile the average Arkan-
sawyer to the fact that he was any more
worthy or competent 10 fill the position
than score of eminent Arkansawyers
who have for the last generation con-
tributed toward the success of Demo
cracy.
The jurIhad been sworn to answer the
questions as to their qualifications, etc.
After several had been passed upon and
accepted, counsel for defense arose and
said: Swear that juror, please, your
honor" He has already been sworn,
sir, replied the Court. II know, sir;
but that man boasts of his over intimacy
with Stephen W. Dorsey, and it will take
two caths for. him to tell the truth. |
know whereof [ speak, yotir honor, for |
was once acquainted with him myself in
timately" And now, as the aforesaid
attorney for the defense packs arouLd
pair of abnormally large black eyes, he
wonders at the incongruities of life.
Crime among the colored people in this
section continues to increase at an alarm
ing rate. There is hardly week that
passes without some horrible crime being
committed among them. The woman
Peny Hord, in whose house the negro
Jones was murdered last Wednesday
evening, has made a confession, implicat-
ing drayman here iu town. Their pre-
liminary trial comes off tomorrow; before
Justice S. W. Tappan.
The contest for Congress over in the
Third District wakes warm. Indications
point to the Hon. T. G. McRae as the
probable wilmer in the, race for the Dem
ocratic noHination, although there are
so many DEMOCRATS fighting for it that
there is no certainty about it.
A man named Murphy, living at Pine
City, near Helena, in attempting to dis
cover perpetual motion, lost his reason.
Some scientific galoot with propensity
to figure bas found out that a man is
2,714, 900 times heavier than flea. This
valuable information enables the con-
sistept Democrat To ses the "muchness
of the whichness" in the appointments to
Federal positions,
There are three vacant Peabody schol
arships in the quota of Arkansas in the
Vanderbilt University normal depart
ment. These scholarships are worth
striving for, and are obtained by COM
petitive examinations. Applicants can
obtain full instructions by ad dressing w.
e. Thompson, State Superintendent, OF
Public Instructions; before the first day
of August. ,
Our postmaster, Dir. G. 2. Jaquess,
informed us the other day that he had
an infallible remedy to prevent trees from
is worth the tr Ell of any one possessing
fru;t or shade trees: Get about fouI
dozen rusty nails and drive them in the
body of the tree. 1t never fails to STOP
them from dying, and makes them grow
with much thicker and richer foliage
a curiosity, a similar one never hay
ing been before seen by any one here, is
on exhibition at the store of Mr. G. r
| Coolidge, 10 Helena. 1t is twin stslk
of corn. About one and ialt feet from
| the root the stalk begins to branch, anC
| Just where the division occurs there ar,
two well-developed ears of corn, eacf
branch of the stalk continuing on VI
and having tassels.
1 An old colored man we'll versed il
crop signs eays it is an omen of bountliu
| crops, aud that this is the first one tba
| there has been since the stars fell. y
| course this last information is given es
pecislly for those who believe In signs
| etc.
Geo. W. Bell and the editor of tn
Little Rock San, both colored, are goip
to be sued for libel by Calvin Clark, su
perintendent and trustee of S0uthlan
College, colored institution of learnin
and asylum, situated about twelve mile
northwest of Helena. The charges orig
inally prepared by Geo w. Bell were q
the most uncompromising character an
caused quite a sensation among the col
ored people in this section The genera
opinion among the leading colored peopl
is that Bell is giving vent TO his splice
for his discharge as teacher from tn
Institution some time ago. Mr.. Clark
a mem er Of the order of Quakers, an
has the prefound respect of all who al
acquainted with him. He came to th
county quite number of years ago, an
eventually he and his wife took charp
of the institution, developing and builC
ing it up to its present standard, one {
the finest colored schools in the South.
The occupation tax of cities of th
first class in Arkansas is being bitterl
fought by some in all the cities affecte
by it. A body of Little Rock citizeI
are the first ones to try its constitution
, ality, having commenced action to detel
mine that point.
No changes of a Federal charact,
have been made in our immediate vicin
; ty Our postmaster DIR. G. ID. Jaques
commission expires March, 1886, and
is generally admitted that he will not
bothered until his time expires. WI
will be his successor is not yet by al
means settled, the friends of each cand
l date claiming that his man has speci
influence that will be brought to bear {
his claims. The petition OF Col. ALE
J. Polk, however. contains by far Il
, larger list of prominent Democrats, su
: his friends, who are legion, are very sal
&, guine a'of his appointment. This Is,
I, course, all surmised, and no one know
4 who will be appointed.
NaDdale, Cross county, Ark, has, att'
a continued and persistent tight for Il
last two years, been successful in havir
! the county site removed from Wittsbul
to that place. Vandsle is on the Ire
Mountain and Southern railroad, Witt
. burg on the st. Francis river.
. Some time ago a friend sent US Il
song, Hug Me Closer, Darling" al
your humble servant extended a gener
invitation to the ladies of Helena
come and try it with us. Failing to elit
a response among our ladies, we now G
tend the same courtesy to the beautlt
!. ladies of Memphis. Of course We me
the song. AS to cur personal appearan
we refer by special permission to our {
: teemed friend the Hon. Jacob Frolic
r ex-Secretary of State for Arkansas,
II Many of Col. Kestings friends in A
9 kansas, who have known him for yes
t through the APPEAL, are very much
n appointed over his failure to secure t
II postmastership at Memphis. They thi
e that if, after one takes into considerati
n what Col. Keating and Col. Gallaw
have done for Democracy In the Sou
IS it is to go unrewarded when an {
h portunity presents itself, that you
h Democrats will fight shy of burdens Il
+. the party has to carry if it continues W
'r the success it now has.
20 We don't know how you fellows m;
~ age things over in Tennessee, but if
~ had Senator Harris in Arkansas
E. would have first class political fuBe
ry out { him before he knew it. Of cou
is no o, can or would say one word der
t. atory Of that excellent gentleman, !
Oh Fowlkes, but it appears to us over b
that his work for the success of Dem
racy is, in comparison with that of [
- Keating's, ABOUT like the flea abb
N mentioned to the man.
st An Unknown Family Drowned.
to TRINIDAD, July 21.-During he
n rain storm this afternoon wagon c
es tanning a man, woman and child capsi
Il ls