The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1898-10-07
GRIPPING WAVES"
An Interesting Letter from the Herald's
COrrespOndent in Arkansas.

An Interesting Letter from the Herald's
Cores pondent in Arkansas.
LUXoRA, ARK, Sept. 30-This has
been a very rainy day, rain having fall
en- without intermis sion since yester-
day evening, with no prospect of abate-
ment at this hour-tive o'clock. The
sickly season seems to have set in here
in earnest. there having been several
deaths about here in the past month,
mostly from congestion. The death
rate has been greater among the colored
population than the white. Here, as
elsewhere, they are not so careful of
their health as they should be, and
their sick do not have the proper medi-
cine and attention they should have.
A colored doctor has settled in LuXora,
and his race is giving him good prac-
tice. The oldest settlers tell us ttat
never in their remembrance has there
been so much sickness here, and they
attribute it to the continued rain
throughout the month of August. This
is true, no doubt, as it seems to lie in a
great many other states that bear the
reputation of being healthy. We have
not heard of case of typhoid fever
here, but there have been several cases
of malarial fever, none of which proved
fatal.
Corn is very fine here, and the price
is quite low. Cotton will fall short fully
one third, owing to so much rain. The
lower bolls have rotted, and many Of
the top ones can not mature. The rain to-
day stopped cotton picRing for this
week. Some of the hands here have
been grabbing" near three hundred
pounds day, and rarely ever begin be-
fore eight o'clock, because of the heavy
dews, hut Mr.. Nicholson has force
that brings out about $500 pounds day
in pretty weather, and his wagons haul
two bales at a load. About eighteen
hundred bales have been shipped from
the three shipping points within the
four miles from EuXora to OsceOla.
If the price were not so distressingly
low, money would indeed be plentiful.
We see in the papers that "some of the
planters farther down the river will on
~ have their crop picked over once
The pickers are clearing more money
off this crop than any one else.
The Irish potato crop is very prOmis-
ing, and it is pity that more were not
planted. Some of the new potatoes ~ G
now as large as mans fist. | hardly
think there will be so much cotton
planted here next year as was this
Some of the farmers are talking of try
| ing few acres of wheat, and if it ma
lures well they will go into it more eX-
| tensively the next year. They want
| the earliest, rust proof and toughest
straw variety they can get, and any in
! formation about this cereal, discussed
! in the HERALD, will be most interest
| ing to the readers here.
The ele ,tion came off here the first
week in September, full Democratic
ticket being elected one man was
! killed in LuXora. The murderer was
! tried before a magistrates court and
acquitted. The affair created great in
dignation among the good people here
who say it is not through with yet
! Whiskey was voted IN again, and crime
will, of course, increase.
Some of the leading cities of Missis
sippi county have formed stock com
pany with a capital of $4,000 to build 8
| cotton seed oil mill, which they expect
to have in operation by December |.
This place is making rapid strides in
prngres sion of late. The woods back 81
us are dotted with saw mills, from
which the lumber is brought out or
train cars, and the Free States Lumber
Company are preparing to build stee
rail track, over which they will run s
dummy. This company has recently
bought over 5000 acres OF heavily tim
bered land, about six miles back from
the river, at s. an acre. When they ge
all the valuable timber off, it will b,
for sale again, at same price, and II viii
be far more valuable for farming land
as it will not be 80 hard to put in cult
vatiOR~after the heavy timber has beef