The Russellville Democrat., 1875-06-10
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

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 We desire to thank Rev. MT. Dodson for a club of subscribers handed in on Monday.
 We acknowledge ourself in debtod to Rev. Enoch Jones for q copy of Shakspeare's complete works.
 Crops have come out of the kinks wonderfully during the past week and our farmers are all cheerful and happy.
 Fish in the bayous and lakes are biting finely and some of our angling friends have been bring ing in fine strings.
 If you want to try your mus cle, smoky row is the place for you to find your man. That s their amusement round there.
 The scythe and cradle swings from morn until night now, and the golden grain yields it's rich reward to the sturdy tiller of the soil.
 We call attention this morn ing to the card of ". C. Ford, attorney at law Col. Ford has located among us and we can rec ommend him worthy of the conf dence and patronage of the public.
 Granite ironware, fer beauty, durability and the ease with which it is kept clean and handsome, no securing ever being necessary, will readily win the favor of the ladies. A full assortment at M. B. Roys'.
 We direct attention to the card of our young friends, Messrs. Lincoln & Caldwell of Conway, Ark. They are both young men of unexceptionable character and will no doubt prove-an ornament to their profession.
 We have reported to Mir. Frank lobe, our efficient foreman and business manager, the many compliments we received for the DEMOCRAT during our visit to the Press Association, and he joins his thanks to ours for all those kind expressions.
 The Monticellonian reports an onion received weighing one pound and seven ounces, and measuring 161 inches in circum- ference. Also two beets, one b inches around and the other 10 inches around and II inches long. Pretty good.
 The Russellville DEMOCRAT startles it's readers with the fol lowing: "Thc business manager of this paper took a jaunt over to White county last week. Pine Bluff Press,
 Will friend Charles pardon our stupidity, and please proceed to point out the point2
 Our friend, MT. Isham Al bright who lives about mile and half from this place sends us . bunch of wheat, all sprouted from one grain which numbers l04 stalks 5 feet high, and each head averages 40 good sized grains. This makes 4l60 grains from one seed planted. How will that do?
 We have a communication from Inauditus which is worthy of notice, but as it was handed in during our ab1ence and our at tention was not called to it until we were nearly ready to go to press, it will lie over until next week. Then we will give it to our readers, and also our opinion of the subject on which it is written.
 1 Several of our farmer friends from Atkins have sent in their names and asked us to place their names on our subscription books, provided we will take wheat at the 
 market price to be delivered at the depot here as soon as it is threshed
 in payment for the paper. W( have entered your names gentle mcc, and we have no objection tC ; receiving a hundred more names on the same conditions. A most beautiful article O iron ware for cooking purposes : has just been invented and is call
 ed Granite Ironware. It is ai
 smooth and polished as queens ]. ware, and will no doubt come in