The Russellville Democrat., 1875-04-15

t<> i'tt fStiat' 5l Vttt tffisl Fl \ ttlt}si 1ii Twill be q sufficient lesson. r The above from the Batesyills Republican is so true and spplies with So much force to our farmers all over the state, that we com. mand the suggestion to our plan. ters for serious thought. If such . a change could be secured in our
 system of farming we would have 10 more such times as we are nov
 experiencing.
 There was q greater number of
 acres of wheat sown in this coun- Ety last fall than at any one year
 since the war. If the fly or rust
 don't interfere, we'll have more l wheat than we will know what to
 do with. Fayetteville Democrat. l We know of an old gentleman
 pedestrian, Uncle Billy Mooney,
 who lays completely in the shade all the feats of the great Weston.
 Mir. M. is seventy-three years of
 age, and walked nearly fifty miles
 to pay his taxes-twenty- three to
 this place, and the same distance
 to return home. How is that for
 an old man?-[ Van Buren Press.
 On Wednesday morning last a hurricane visited this section, and
 made some little stir in town, but
 done no damage. About Elk
 Horn, however, we learn consider
 able damage was done, fences
 blown down, and a fire from some
 campers getting start did con
 siderable injury also.- Benton
 vile Advance.
 Contrary to expectation, the re-
 cent frosts have not killed our
 peaches. The prospects now are
 that we will have about half
 crop.-Ib.
 The grand jury has so far found
 A indictments, principally for gambling ard Sunday card play ing. Our prosecuting attorney evidently means business.-Ib.
 On Sunday morning last, cou- pie of negroes, Bob Joselyn and Brown Porter, escaped from our jail. They cut one of the logs, and the smaller one got out through the hole, and then broke the lock and let out the other one -Ib.
 We learn of some robberies in the southwest corner of the county that for method and cheek have few exquals. On Friday night the farm of Dr. Taliaferro was visited and a valuable farm horse taken therefrom. On the same night a wagon was taken from the yard of farmer named Hartley, and on the next night set of harness and a load of oats from Mir. Macy living near MT. Hartley. It would | seem the party or parties had come into the county on horse back, and capturing horse, wag- on, harness and load of oats, had left for some secluded retreat, prepared to live until the search for the stolen property had ceas- ed-Ib.
 An effort is being made by some of our enterprising men of business to procure subscrip- tion of money to be used in piling the river bank for about twenty seven hundred feet, beginning about Watkins street and ending at German. The cypress timber for the piles can be procured and driven down at the edge of the bank to the necessary depth. If this is done (and it should be it will at once prevent the caving of our treacherous bank and will materially add to the city in other We hope the gentle men who are projecting the above scheme may be successful.
 The storm of Thursday after noon was quite heavy at this point. Between Bayou Metoe and Little Rock there was a regu- lar hurricane, which played havoc with the timber, throwing trees across the railroad track and tele- graph wires. The track of the tor nado was only about half mile wide.-Several trees had to be re- moved from the track by the train going east White River Journal. II
 We learn that a corn stealer was shot and supposed to have been badly wounded, in the up per part of this county one night last week, by boy stationed in the crib to watch for theives. We have no particulars ftlrther than { the above, and that the wounded : thief was tracked some distance { by the blood.-Sou. Standard.
 Farmers are working with a rush. Operations have been greatly retarded by the unfavor- able weather, but many have a part of their corn crop planted, md considerable cotton land bed led up. Everything is ready for he nlnM. and with fair wnnthar