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The Russellville Democrat., 1875-07-29
THE RUssELLvILLE DEMOCRAT THURSDAY, JULY 29, ls7

-J. A. Hearne is happy. It is a spanking girl and arrived by the } 2:15 q. In. train Wednesday. Little Rock has Boating Club, called the Rose City Boating Club, No. l.
 Rev. Father O'Kean died at Little Rock yesterday at 124 o'clock, a. m.
 With the dirt from tie exca- vation for the foundation of MT. J. l.. Shinn's new block, that gen tleman is having some of the low places on Main street filled up and the sidewalk from the corner of Main and River to Russelfs store raised about eight inches. If the town council will now sec ond the efforts of MT. Shinn and have some additional work done on Main street the looks of that part of town will be greatly i'm proved.
 -OUR PUBLIC ScHooLs.--It is to be greatly regretted that our school board find it utterly impos sible to do anything at present toward starting the public school. The fault lies in the school law. The tax which we are allowed to assess for school purposes is bare ly enough to sustain the schools if it was in currency, but when it comes in state scrip, it leaves a sad deficit. It is to be earnestly hoped that the next legislature will give the school law close con sideration and see if it cannot be so amended as to make our public school system of more benefit than it is at present.
 As baseball is just coming into vogue here and some of the boys may be desirous of becoming acquainted with the definition of the various technical terms used we commend a perusal of the fol- lowing definitions:
 Field-The COW pasture where the leather hunting is performed.
 Base-Salt bags scattered around in the grass for the play CTS to jump on.
 Nine-The number of roosters in knee brooches that constitute a base ball deck.
 Umpire-The chief baller-he bawls out strike" His other duty is to sit on top of the bat and smell the ball as it goes by.
 Judgment-The umpire's opin- ion after taking such a smell.
 One ball--W hat the umpire says when the smell proves unsat- isfactory.
 Strike--A miscue by the batter.
 Put out--The fellow who tries to get in without paying fifty cents.
 Dead ball--One which comes to life again after being buried in the hands of the pitcher.
 Foul-A ball which bounds just the way one is positive it will not.
 Fair foul--A little one for cent.
 Balk-"A breach of promise" indulged in by the pitcher.
 Stealing a base-Stufling a bag in the ear and walking off to the next, when the catcher isn't look ing.
 Beauty-A ball so hot that the second baseman lies on his stom, ach to avoid it.
 Eot ball-One that singes the short stops head as it goes by.
 Fly--A ball which scorns the earth, and, like the gentle horse fly, buzzes around in the elevated atmosphere.
 Wild throw--Slinging at the third baseman, and killing q small
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Atkins Happenings.
THAT JOKE.

THAT JOKE.
 E. D. T. Hello. Aylctt what have you got there2"
 AYLErr. Eggs T. "How many?D A. "Threc." T. "What are you gong to do with them?"
 4. "Sell 'em to Ashley, if he'll give more than three cents doz- en-
 T. Ashley won't give more than three cents.o
 A. "All right! I'll carry 'em back. Less than three won't pay for the wear and tear of my old hens" Exit, Aylett, shistling. l
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Golden Tongue Parlor Organ advertised in another column is an instrument that is winning for itself q good reputation far and wide. Sec advertisement in another column in this weeks issue.
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N OTTO Fl!

Notice is hereby given that the following transfers of stock in the Russellyille Printing and Publish ing Association have been made, to- wit: D. II. Harkey, I share, sold to J. M. Harkey & Bro; Battenfield & Fowler, share, sold to NJ. II. Baird :; Battenfield X Fowler, l share, sold to J. T. Fowler; J. W. Fruit, share, sold to N. D. Shinn.
 GEO. E. HOWELL,
 Secretary R. P' 6 F. A. Russellville, July 27, 1875.
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LOCAL AFFAIRS.

bank at Norristown last week.
 MT. Ben Jones from North Fork township reports crops good.
 --Boonville, Sarber county, has ancwspaper called the Enterprise.
 MT. J. r. McCarthur is home from the Hot Springs on short visit.
 Our Atkins friends were ia vorcd with a fine shower last Sat urday.
 The Boone County Record of the 3d inst. reached us on the 22nd. This is a slow go,
 The Printing Association will meet at this office tomorrow night pursuant to adjournment.
 If you want good saddle built or q set of harness put up, Robert Bonds knows how to do it..
 Col. Gibson, Capt. Jos. Evins and Maj. Hence Jacoway, of Oar danelle, were in town last Thurs day.
 Last Sunday was cloudy and pleasant in the morning, and in the evening we had q refreshing rain.
 Subscribe for the DEMOCRAT and read it and you will know whats what and what isn' t~Only $l.5oper year.
 Maj. Humphrey, of the firm or Kirtland, Humphrey & Mitch ell, St. Louis, was in town the lat ter part of last week.
 w atermelons, ard fine ones
 
 too at that, have commenced to arrive in our market. They open cd at from 10 to 50cts. each.
 The weather during the latter part of last week was cloudy ana moist-very favorable for the crops and good weather for work. MT. T. J. Reynolds of Atkins assured us the other day, that he had fifteen acres of corn which will produce 75 bushels to the acre. The finishing stroke was made on Mr. Tobe Baird's new house last week. Suppose he will soon be house sleeping. Good luck, Tobe.
 The Little Rock Republican has "gone where the woodbine twineth." While We differed with it in politics we are sorry for Its demise.
 The weather during the past week has been pleasant, compared to what it was the week before. The range has been from 7S to 90 degrees.
 The Russellville Hotel, under the management of that most agreeable of all landlords-Capt. T. l.. Durrum-is the place for you to put up.
 Capt. Joe Howard, from above Dover was in town Monday. He says he "dont know of a sick man in his "beat' and plenty of roasting ears at hand"
 The family of Capt. Patton, of Little Rock, came up on the Ft. Smith road last Saturday, and will be in town . few weeks rusti- eating,
 A great many young mocking birds have been caught and caged for songsters by the little boys of town. Most everybody has one or more of them.
 Ladies wishing to subscribe for any of the popular magazines should remember that we can supply them in connection with the DEMOCRAT at d saving to sub scribers.
 Judge l.. ". Davis left for Tennessee on Wednesday to at tend to some land matters for some of his clients. He will visit his old home in Kentucky before he returns.
 Judge Creekmorc puts on our table, from his fields, a bunch of wheat heads, measuring ' inches, and also 8 bunch of timothy heads, measuring s inches. This is as good as any country can produce, we think. If any one can better 1t, we should like to hear from them.-Van Buren Press.
 We are your man, Brother Dun ham, You will have to come again, we can beat you just q lit
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$500 REWARD, PROCLAMATION BY THE GOVERNOR


 UJHEREAS, TT HAS COME ITO w the knowledge of the evecu- tive, that Evans Moore, murdered G. w. Preston in Pope county, Ar kansat, on the Sd day of February, 1872, and that said Evans Moore be- ing still at large.
 Now, therefore, I, A. II. Garland, Governor of the State of Arkansas, by virtue of the authority as vested in me by the constitution and laws of said State, do hereby offer a re- ward of THREE HUEDRED DOL LARS, for the arrest of the said Evans Moore, and his delivery to the sheriff of Pope county. In testimony whereof, have here- unto setmy hand and caused
 the seal of the State to be L. s.l affixed at Littse Rock on
 this 9th day of July, A. D.
 1875.
 A. II. GARLAND. By the Governor:
 B. B. BEAVERS, Sec'y of State. By Geo. w. St. Clair, Dep'ty.
 DESCRIPTION. Said Evans Moore is about 2l or }, years old, about feet inches hiyh and weighs lS5 or l40 pounds, dark complexion, black hair and eyes.
 25-3t.
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\ IF YOU
 Want a cook,
 Want clerk,
 Want partner,
 Want situation,
 Want salesman, Want a servantgirl, Want to buy farm, Want to sell piano, Want to sell a carriage, Want boarding place, Want to borrow money, Want to sell city property Want sell groceries, drugs, Want sell dry goods, carpets, Want to sell lot of furniture, Want find buyers for anything, ADVERTISE IT IN THE DEMOCRAT Advertising secures customers, Advertising will always pay, Advertising assures success, Advertising exhibits energy, Advertising shows pluck, Advertising means "biz," Advertise early and late, Advertise or suspend, Advertise immensely, Advertise or 'bust," Advertise long,
 Advertise well,
 Advertise now,
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A. "Sell 'em to Ashley, if he'l give more than three cents . dog en-"
 T. Ashley won't give more than three cents"
 A. "All right! I'll carry 'em back. Less than three won't pay for the wear and tear of my olo hens." Exit, Aylett, yhistling. Back Cannon is now the pop ular game. Col. k. wore the bel till Jerry Fisher came.
 Misses Ora and Fannie John; son, our popular school "marms' left last Friday morning for their home in Iuka, Miss. G. Etter H. and J. B. w. followed. being, as your correspondent supposes, led by the "silken chord of =" they know what. May flowers bloom along their (the young ladies' pathway; and may crops prove good--herein hangs tale. (That Miss Ora may return and get her Arkansas Bachelor.
 Crops are exceedingly fine. There is cotton, and much of 1t too, in the "bottom" four to five feet in height, and well filed. Almost any of our farmers will say, "I think my corn will average from fifty to seventy bushels per acre" Mir. Vim. Reynolds, of whom it used to be said on Gumlog, ''he is the best hand with a blow on the creek" has german millet on his place six feet in height. He paid $6:50 per bushel for the seed in St Louis and does not regret it.
 He also has a pecan tree in his field which is eighteen inches in diameter, forty feet high, with 8 top about forty or fifty feet in di ameter. This tree on an average will yield eight to ten bushels of the finest variety of oceans. Two years ago this same tree bore more than $75 worth of fruit.
 Bythe-way Col. Tobey will re- alize handsomely off his pecan or chard in a year or two. This most excellent nut grows sponta- neously on lands in the Arkansas river bottom where it is now too wet to cultivate. They serve, or would Improperly fed, an admira- ble purpose for fattening hogs.
 Capt. Harry Winn has just re- turned from south Missouri, where he has been on visit to his rela- tlves. Capt. W. says that fifty or more families would leave Windsor and its immediate neigh borhood, this fall and come to At kins, if they could get away. They'd better "give away" and come, than take the risk of another grasshopper plague. "It is a fact worthy of note," says Capt. w., "that the grasshopper did not wis it the timbered districts" We have no prairies here to invite them. So come along ye afflicted ones; we will receive you,-those of you who are good, honest, hard working folks-with open arms and hearty cheers we will greet you. PHGNIx.
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made Ys,rperatavely useful Hundreds Of millions OF
invested funds VIII prsoticsly cease to exist ne nnxs
Ore Thus he means Of living have been enormously
a. Than nsed TO need IL With this fact on side, we
apd act over against II tho other fact tha OF tne
multitude who had adjusted their industry TO the cond
Hons Of war only part needed under the condons
Of peace Tens fwsnes fties to DO counted ont Of
the mills, the factories, the Shops ana sent
ieness into some cther eid OF lnuMSy o'"''
Tho cisies and centers which nave grown ~ rspMy
win naturally to The larger cities VIII grow
Wealth. but the men Of enterprise will not crowd mo
places where there Is no work or reward ior ueni Inc
have done and hundreds OF thousands OF men anu
women who ha ve left the farm and ne isrnnosS mus,
rrturn To them It is pleasant to reflect tlat hVu can
be won from tho ground, and that agriculture MONS
ccrtain cure for all our troubles Mr. Greeicys old advice
$50 West, young man." was based upon pi:iosoepny
whose soudness the peops OF TINS tune ehho and
The tendency in his time TO Overd0 business, anu
that tendency went on TO the distressing results Vi "
ali Of us are the witnesses and the victims an, =. d,
II Il ptful to and women lying die. ~ 10
pitiiu TO see them in great thrown out or en
plyrneut. We wish they c0uld be made 10 understu
how hopeless the situation is Tor &c casi nan VI in
agricultural pursuits I'm lives o! INDUSTRY atfUu 70 ~.
present circumstances OF the country-in anything ANU
any place except that which proved TO De nsucis.
for their needs This change must come. and the quicker
1t comes better for them and tho better for tpe
try Let us leave nothing 20 ass BY sy
ing us an honest financial system Even THIS canhot
work the miracle Of making people consume more tnan
they want, aud OF supplying WORK wncre ~ hps
The American people are not lacking IN tn
patience aaptfveness, and industry, and the good une
will come, though 1t is likely TO be long delayed
Other readable papers IN this number are Hecolec-
fiona Of Iiszt and Won Blow," Some Vegeao'e Eece
trc,tics P,rrot, warrior and Statesman" and there
arc oct,co contributions Of very unequal merit from T.
K. H. e. r. w. O. and other distinguished letters OF inc
nlnhabct.
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JnsirnrtioM.

5nsirnftioM.
For Bows and Young Hen-City.
A CLASS FOR YOUNG GENTLEMEN and
IA Private Instruction. Circulars sent app cation.
THOMAS H. ASH. II East l6th-st.
A Collins School for Boys, 1,267 Broadway,
~ reopens Sept 20. Liberal course In English, classs
languages, sciences.
HOLLADAY COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE,
III l2S6 BROADWAY, N. Y.
Boys and gentlemen carefully trained for collage and
Han d. D., REV.: VIM; a. Taylor. D. D. Rev. William
HEWITT end othcrA BaAd for circular
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The Eclectic Magazine for this month con-
tains as usual some Of the most interesting papers In
the British periodicals. including "A Month In japan
csc Farm House." from "Templo Oar" Modern skep
ticism and its Fruit" from " Blachwood," German
Home Ldfe,v from Frazer" and Narcotics" from
"Chambersr The number embeIIisl,cd with portrait
of Professor W. d. whitney, Yale College.
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NHARLIER INSTITUTE,
" CENTRAL PARK and SrxTH-ATE.
TWENfYFIRYr YEAR.
Lessons resumed TUESDAY. Sept IA. from 10 And
on Sept. 20 from o TO 3.
BOlKDTNG aud DAY SCHOOL for BOYS sud YOUNG
MES Of 10 90 College, Business, Wet Point hrn3pos,
Scentinc schools French, German Spanish taught and
spoken. Twenty teachers. -, .
hndng for location ventilation nteor
arr,r eemens gyrnuasfun fire proof stsirs &C.
Prospectus sent on application - ..x...<.~.-,
frof. CIiARLIER, DIRECTOR
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CHANCERY SALE

VIM. Galloway VS.. James NJ. Payne, ct al .
In pursuance of an order in the above en-
titled cause, rendered by the Chancery
Court at Columbia, Tenn, at its April
term, 1873, will expose to public sale, at
the courthouse door in Columbia, on Mon
day, September 9th, 1875 at Il o'clock M,
the following described tract Of land, to-
wit: FOrty-SiX acres of land from the south
ern portion of a tract of one hundred and
triCt of Maury county, Tenn, said land hav.
ing been conveyed by said Galloway to said
j Payne, and is bounded as follows: Be
ginning at an elm in the turn of the road,
the southeast corner of said tract; thence
north To- east with the road 76 poles and 4
links to a stake in Davis corner, in west
side of the road; thence north A. ~,
west 30 poles Ii links to stake, Davis cor
ner; thence north 81 poles II links, to a
stake east of Davis spring branch: thence
north poles to McKissick's line; thence a
n westerly direction with the lines, as now
run to BendeTman'S northeast corner of the
tract purchased of David Scott; thence south
with his line to a stake in Matthew's line;
thence an easterly direction with the fence,
and was as now run to the beginning. A
plot of same can be seen at Clerk and Mas
teT's Office. Said land will be sold a credit
of six, twelve and eighteen months, notes
with good security, bearing interest from
day of sale, lien retained, and sold free
from redemption. ,
Aug. &, 1875. ID, Is. COOPER, Z. q NJ.
By virtue ola decree of the Chancery
Court at Columbia, rendered at its April
term, 1875, in the cause of the cases of G 7
Sullivan VS.. Robert NJ Hughes. 1T al, and
w Dale use of Nathan N.,rl { VS.. Robert
NJ Hughes, ct al, Will sell =, public cutlery
to the highest and best bidder at the court
house door in the town OF Columbia, on
Monday, the 9th day of September, 1875, the
following described tracts or parcels of
lands, IO-wit: The first lying and being on
Snow creek, in Maury county. Tennessee,
and bOu ded ON the north by the lands OF
ohm and william Woody; west Ey the
lands of Samuel Woody; south by the lands
of Elizabeth NeStal; SOuth-wt 81 hN the lands
of ] Ncstal; east 10y the land OF Edwin
Church, containing about SeNenty-SeTen
acres The second Iract-IimbCrtd lands -
is bounded on the south by the lands of
a bner Brooks; east by the lands of VIM
Sowell, Foster and Ncstal; north by the
lands of John Watson; west by the lands OF
Samuel Woody and Jerry Miller, contain
ing about twenty-six acres Said land will
be sold on a credit of six and twelve months,
notes with good and approved personal Sc
curity will be required of the purchaser or
purchasers, and a lien retained for the pay
ment OF the purchase money. Sold free
from the right of redemption.
Aug. +, 1870, ID. b. COOPER, {. & NJ.
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'EhcOIOSicalDcba

IT., Edtor uftbc HcraH and Mail
Ia my rambleS, it was my good fortune
to he present at McMinnville during a
theological discussion of divers PropO-
sitionS embracing the differences in doc
triucS between the orthodox churShes in
general and the followers of Alexander
Campbell, sclEStylcd and so called chris
HaHS conducted on the one part by that
great scholar and eminent divine DR..
Ditzlcr of the Methodist Church South,
and Elder I. l.. Breuts of the latter per-
suaSiOn.
The debate, as am informed, came
to pass on this wise The aforesaid DIR.
Ditzler had been preaching a series of
sermons. in which he dealt death and
destruction Hcologicdily to Campbell
isru, when the aforesaid Christians ask
cd the privilege of answering him by
Mr. Brcuts, which request was cordially
granted. They debated 8 days giving
two days respectively to the two modes
of Baptism, to wit: immersion and
spriukiug the design, and proper sub
iects of Baptism. Upon each of which
propositions it was generally conceded
that DIR. Ditzler came off more than tri-
umphaut. But this was not in the least
TO be wondered ut, since he is known
to be one of the most profound schol-
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The states Default.
TFrom the Woodbury. Press. |

From the Woodbury. Press.
The State has failed to meet the inter-
est on her bonded debt that fell due on
the lst of July. A good many papers
have made comments on this, and the
last Legislature has come in for full
share of abuse. Every General Assem>
bly,, just after the election is over, is COM
posed of the aOlest body of men ever
elected before the State; every newspa-
per is filled with the mighty changes to
be wrought by the incoming statesmen;
and when their labors are over, the same
papers abuse them for being the most in
competent body of men that ever dis
graced the State Capitol. This has be-
come an old song, and everybody expects
to hear the old familiar strains. Now,
brethren of the quill, is not such a course
calculated to bring newspapers into dis
repute? Ought we not to be less extraYa-
giant in our praises in the beginning, or
more careful in our denunciations at the
close? In this instance we say that the
Legislature is not to blame for the failure
to meet the July interest. Why? The
last General Assembly was composed al
most entirely of Democrats, and they
were all elected in the platform adopted
by the Democracy of the State when Gov.
Porter was nominated. Every member
was pledged to his constituents to be gov
erned by that platform, the fourth section
Of which emphatically opposed an in
crease of taxation. The tax being at that
time 40 cents on the hundred, what could
a Democratic Legislature do but leave the
rate of taxation where they found it?
Could they raise it without proving re-
creant to their party and constituents?
Had there been any public demOnstra-
tiOns before the adjournment OF the Cen
party of the people preferred q higher
rate2 And was not the press of the en-
tire State filled with the desperate straits
able them to make a crop? And were
not many predicting that there would be
starvation in the land before
wheat could be harvested? And was it not
generally believed that the July interest
would be met? If all these questions are
candidly and Faithfully answered, then
tell us upon what ground the Legislature
is blamed. No one can consistently do
so who supported the Democratic plat
form. The people may abuse the plat
form and the convention who adopted
it, but they certainly have no grounds for
abusing their agents who carried out their
printed instructions. If the matter was
thoroughly sifted, much of the abuse that
has been heaped on that body would be
found to be baseless. We do not intend
to defend anything we believe to be
wrong, nor do we intend to join in abuse
and denunciation of anything till we are
satisfied it is our duty to do so. This was
the course of the Press when in ADLER
hands than ours, and we see no reason for
making change.
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ars, and perhaps the best posted man
on these topics, on this continent.
The third proposition read thus: "BGp-
tisDt is tor the remission Of past sins"
Elder Brents affirmed and DIR. Ditzler de-
MED. The discussion of this PROPOSE
ton developed to me something ne,C
under the sun, which / will mention after
first stating that l do not belong to Ell
Their of the churches, represented by the
debaters, and hence am not writing in the
interest of either, but for the sake of
truth.
In the discussion DIR. Ditzler stated
substantially that a man in order to be
saved must repent and betteUe on the
Lord Jesus Christ, believe in the sense
of trusting and relying upon him for
salvation, after which he ought to be
baptized and work the works of righteous
ness: but in case he should not be bGp-
tiled through no fault of has (believ-
err he could be saved. Elder Brents,
in reply said substantially and in senti>
ment precisely the same.
They both agreed that, if the believ-
ing man stubbornly refused TO be bdp-
tiSed he would be lost, not for oCGnt Of
BAPTISM but for his stubborn diSObedi-
ence.
This confess was new to me in the
followers of Alexander Campbell. If
Campbell and his followers teach this doc
trine where is their basis for a separate
church in doctrine from that of Wesley
! and Calvin Surely they have made a
distinction without a difference. Then
why all this uproar about water baptism
for the remission of sins2 1t will not do
to say that Brents is not good author
ity, for he to day is the leader Of his church
in Tennessee and although opposed to
creeds he has written "The (his) Gospel
Plan of salvation" since Matthew,
Mark, Luke and John failed (O to write
the plan. HEARER.