[Fayetteville, Ark.] The Arkansian, June 30, 1860
Our city is still steadily improving, every business house and dwelling occupied, and new buildings going up every day.
The Telegraph will be completed to, and an office opened in this city during the coming week.
We have also another newspaper, which unheralded, as the sudden flash of a meteor, made its appearance among us and immediately became one of the permanent fixtures of the city.
Again, our enterprising your men have purchased the necessary instruments and organized a “brass band.” As soon as they get a little instruction there will not be a “savage breast” hereabouts but will be moved by a concord of sweet sounds.
With a telegraph office, two newspapers and a brass band, we will be able to hear all the news, print it, and blow it all over the country. One gentlemen, more enterprising than all the others, has made the necessary arrangements for the purchase of an owl which he will press into the service and with the invention genius of a live Yankee make it an useful bird.
Candidates are coming out every day, not because they want office, but because of numerous solicitations and a willingness to serve the people in any capacity to which they may called. None of them can be elected unless they announce in the papers.