Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1878 — Duvall's Bluff, Arkansas. [ARTICLE]

Duvall's Bluff, Arkansas.

Editor Uniob; We arrived here on the’ 29th of July, and both my wife and 1 have enjoyed better health than usual; this is especially true of Mrs. Jaekson. But I ant sorry to say that Mr. GretnfieM’s Capt. Payne and Press. Abbett have nearly all been sick with btllious attacks. Mr. Abbett is still sick, with so perceptible chills or fever but n general depression of the vital powers. This town is located on the western swhf of White river, on a crescent made by a bend of the river. On the convex edge of this crescent a series of ridges or hillo approach the river like the ribs of a fan, with ravines between the hills that carry otf the drainage of the. country to the rear. These ravines converge at or near the town, as if fearful that if they did not combine their small forces the mighty river in iu capricwuseurves migid escape them altegethar. These hills at and near their eon vergenconf the river are somewhat abrupt, and gave name originally to the town, or landing as it was first called. As these, hills recede they widen at their tops and form a series of plateaus, at first undulating, until they reach a fine rolling prairie about a "toile west, which is a portion of Prairie Grand, the largest nralric in Arkansas. The second Sabbath after snr arrival I had the pleasure of attending a union Sabbath school, over which our friend the Kev. Capt. Payno presided with bis usual inaiiter in modo as well as fortiter to I*. His • preliminary remarks exhorted the teachers that whatever they found for their hands to do, they do with alt their might. I was much edified by the bible class of adults, who were led by our old jolly friend Jesse Greenfield. The class very inUlligcnUy answered quusGuUs touching the locations in the geography of the of the Hebrews, as also the lands of the Moabites and the other surrounding peoples of bible bis Mg. Now for the weather! I have found several persons who claim the appellation of the "oldest inhabitant,” and they individually and collectively aver that this is tlw longest and strongest heated term they have ever experienced in this state, though I see in the Northern dalies that iftoheat has attained a higher altitude there to tire thermometers than it has here. 28. Uwivrg to basiness WBHEte‘= which could not be neglected, I fiwled Io I mail this letter at the time it was written. , and 1 am now happy to inform the many friends of the Greenfields, Abbett and Payne that they ure mil much better iu health. 1). L JacksoX.