The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-01-06
GRIPPING WAVES" LETTER.
Interesting Epistle from Our Cores
pondent In Arkansas.

AhItFesiluS from our CORES
pondent In Arkansas.
LUXoRA, ARK, Dec. 30, 1898.
Dear old HerdJd:-Days have become
weeks and weeks have grown into
months since l last wrote you, and vet
you have been as faithful and as
punctual in your weekly visits as you
were in the beginning of the year, with
your pages as bright and cherry with
the happenings of our much beloved
land as one could wish to see, which,
while reading, causes us to forget for a
while the great distance that separates
us and feel as If in sweet converse with
the dear friends there.
One more day and this year will have
been numbered with the dead, but
about it will linger many pleasant
memories as well as sad "reminiscences
Of events within its calendar.
Christmas week was an ideal one,
each day being full of sunshine up It'll
to-day, when the clouds appeared, and
to night the bowling winds and snowy
mist give us a hint of what is coming
Everybody seemed joyous and glad and
full of good cheer, and we have not
heard Of any rowdyism more than usual
here. But, oh my what is in store for
our little burg makes us shudder
There are soon to be five saloons opened
in this little place of about five hundred
inhabitants, two of which are to be run
by negroes. There have been several
"blind tigers" here for some time and the
courts have dealt rather roughly with
them in the way Of true bills, which
they would pay off and continue the
business, but in the last election the
whole county went dry but this town
ship, much to the regret of the good
class here. The "blind tigers" were on
street well known for badness of many
| kinds, where those who respected them
selves Stunned, but now, we are told
the open saloons are to be on the lower
floor of the opera building, right in the
| heart Of the town, where ladies and
children will be compelled to some
times pass when trading. Be it said tC
| her credit, tho, LuXOra has a curfeW law
The cOtton-seed oil mill situated neal
Osceola, is rapidly nearing completion
and will soon be in operation, giving
employment to about ,thirty-tiye men
Work is being pushed on the railroad
from Memphis to OsCeola, and they in
tend to take an excursion over her thu
4th of next July. We hear there is alsC
trunk line to be built through to st
Louis some time next year, which will
be great advantage to the farmers anC
merchants here.
Cotton picking is almost over in thi
vicinity, but the gins are still kept busy
Although the crop was short, some o
the troopers on this farm made bali
to the acre, while others only mad
three quarters.
The potato crop was splendid, thu
yield being about ninety bushels to tb
acre. The potato houses are built o
heavy double walls, with foot spae
between, which is packed in sawdust,an
the potatoes within know nothing o
the cold without. Mr.. A. j. Baber ha
the largest and most convenient one w
have heard of, it having double ceile
walls within, which are papered, an
stalls line each side, with hall.wa
through the building, which is Fl tv-si
feet long and thirty wide. Many of tn
stalls have been rented by the neigh
severely cold weather Mr.. b. keeps
fire in heater in the center of the hall
Much work has been done towar
cleaning up preparatory to planting
another crop.
There will not be so much cotto
planted as in the past.
Much work is being done on the leve
now, too.
Mr.. Boyd Mitchell, who came here i
November to take charge of dru
tore, for Mr.. r. r. Davis, seems to be q
home, and is well pleased.
One of the Lee line steamers, "City c
Osceola," sank at Pleasant Point, Nc
last Sunday morning, and two live
were lost.
And now, good old news distributor
| bid you fond farewell, wishing yO
! a prosperous New Year and your col
respondents and readers all happ
journey on the wheels of time.
RIPPLING WAVES.