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The Russellville Democrat., 1875-04-01
Bound to Sing.

Brother Glover was a pretty big man.in certain old Connects cut village. He would swear a little sometimes, but when he subscribed five hundred dollars toward rebuilding and reftting the old church, that special act Of charity covered multitude of sins.
 Brother Glover had a big voice. There was no time, tone or tune in it, but he beloved as he pleas ed in church singing. When the new church was finish it had to be dedicated, and a choir was carefully trained to do the sing ing. Brother Glover was not one of the choir, and the intention was to rule him out of the vocal exercises.
 The choir had carefully re- hearsed a new dedicatory hymn, and everything was ready for the interesting ceremonies. The church was crowded, and Brother Glover was in his place in front pew, as large as life. The new piece was struck up, and Brother Glover's voice rose loud above the organ. There was. pause. The organ and choir were mute and the latter mad. The minister looking at fly on the ceiling, ex- plais.ea the+ 1t --evs- nor pieces which the choir alone had prac- ticeG, and requested the congre- gation not to join in the singing.
 The piece was recommenced,s and again Brother Glover's big voice broke 1t up. The preacher then fixed his eyes on Brother Glover and requesed him to keep silent during the performance of the new piece, which he did not understand, and Brother Glover, looking at his beloved pastor with his big round eyes, replied sin q big voice.
 Look a. here, Mir. Barnhart, l paid five hundred dollars towards. repairing this darned old gospel box and by thunder l will sing" The preacher gave up, and so did the choir.
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-04-01
skilled by Kindness" "

This is phrase which has just been painfully illustrated by sta tistics in England. Who would have believed, save upon the au- thority of Dr. Lankaster, the Lon don coroner, that not fewer than three thousand tender infants are annually smothered to death by their mothers, who fall asleep in bed while nursing their pledges?
 Unfortunately, mothers invol- untarily kill their children in a great many other ways-by ab- surd indulgences in diet, by fool ish exposure in dressing, and through utter ignorance of the laws of the human system. The only wonder is that the race, or at least the civilized portion of it, was not long ago utterly extermi- hated. Babies are called tender; it strikes us they are remarkably tough.
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-04-01
GRANTS DIPLOMACY.
Complaints of American Git
 izcns Abroad.
Ashamed of our Official Repre-
 sentatives.

I have lived abroad under many regimes, and often had cause to blush for the official rep |.resentative of my country for drunkenness, meanness, profiga- cy, ignorance, incapacity, venali- ty; but until I lived under the protecting presence Of Gen. Schenck have never had to de- precate, as an American, Q con nection with swindling.
 I doubt if there is another civ ilized Government, the meanest under the sun, that would dare so to outrage the self-respect of it's respectable citizens as to compel them, year after year, to endure the humiliation of seeing their representative protected by his official capacity from criminal suit, and hearing the head of their Gov ernment commonly and plausibly accused of participating in the swindle-of hearing his country identified in it's highest personali- ties with Q mean and fragrant fraud.
 Every honest American in Eng land runs the risk every time that he dimes with party of English men of being made to blush by an allusion to the Emma Mine or Gen. Schenck, and he must blush in silence, for there is not one word that can be said in mitiga- tion of the disgrace: whenever he takes up a morning paper he may see that some beggared victim of Grant and Schenck has instituted a criminal action against the American Minister for complicity in a swindle, which but for his name might never have been q swindle at all, and would certain ly not have been a successful one; that he cannot go to his Ministers reception with self-respect, or, if he went, meet there an English man who has any.
 That's the way we stand, and I wish that, since Gen. Grant and his official advisers are lost to all sense of diplomatic propriety, every honest editor in the United States would hear our complaint, and repeat it till the whole coun- try felt the shame.
 w. J. STILLMAN. LONDON, Feb. p.
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-04-01
A Sold Insurance Man.

Printers are naturally in for a joke. They are proverbially fond of fun; but to look at them you wouldn't think it. Here is a good joke a "printer man" played on his fellow-lodger in Pottsville. A certain insurance man in town, who boards at the same hotel with one of the night compositors of the Journal, in order to save the subscription price to q newspaper, entered into an arrangement with the printer to get the news as soon as he got up. The printer was to write out brief sketch of all the news and stick the paper under the insurance mans door. A few mornings since the latter got up and dressed himself, ex- cepting one boot and stocking and his coat, when he espied the paper under his door. He picked it up and read as follows: 'sGrant assasslnated. Country in an up roar. Mrs. Sartoris and Mrs. Grant carried off by masked kid nappers while insensible. A mem Der of the cabinet supposed to be the assassin. $l00,00O reward of tered by Congress-" Without completing his toilet, he rushed out of the room and wakened up several boarders, told them of the great news, and scared them out of their wits. We leave our read CTS to conjecture, if they can, the 1,1 \ si 1ii,ssSnet8i the whole party when they found how hey naa been sold. The insurance man
 sworn to subscribe to a daily paper.
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-04-01

Easter day is always the first Sunday after the first Monday which happens upon or after the 2lst of March. This year the moon fulls on the 2lst of March, which also happens to be Sunday. Therefore, Easter falls on the fol lowing Sunday, the 2Sth of March. This is within six days oftbe earli- est period on which it can occur. The earliest possible date upon which Easter occurs is the 18th ol March, and the latest the 25th oi April. These extreme limits, however, are very seldom reached Tn 1861 and ISIS Easter fell on the 22d of March, but this will not happen again, either in this oi the following century. In 1913 it will fall on the 22d of March The latest Easters in this century or the following will occur in lSSt and l943, on the 25th of April.
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-04-01
Plain Explanations of Obscure
 Proverbs.

"The more the merrier." y
 Multitudinous assemblages are the most provocative of cachinna- tory hilarity.
 Birds of a feather flock to- gether."
 Habitants of ether, similarly plumed, gregariously assemble.
 "Out of the frying pan into the fire"
 Emergence from the culinary utinsil into the deyouring element.
 "Too many cooks spoil the yy-s~s'@ss.'-a-aA-=--s AOlu.
 A supernuity of artists deterior- ates the mock-turtle.
 "A stitch in time saves nine"
 A connecting cotton link, prop erly established, is ninefoldly economical.
 Ut is a long lane that has no turning"
 That rustic pathway is indubit- ably longitudinal that has no cirpunlocutiOn.
 "Love me, love my dog"
 Evince an amatory disposition toward myself; let your deport- ment toward my canine be also afectionate.
 Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones." Dwollers in crystal palaces should refrain from the propulsion of iregular-shaped porticles oi granite formation.
 "'Tis an i'll wind that blows no- bouy good.
 The blast of Eolus is, indeed malevolent that bencGteth not homeopathically, some portion oI humanity.
 "A bird in the hand is wortl 1 two in the bush
 A natural production of tho feathcrod tribe, properly secured is more than equivalent to a great CT number in a comparative stat' of freedom.
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-04-01
RUSSELLVILLE ARK. THURSDAY, APRIL 1875

helpless and dependent condition. The Civil Rights bill has not altered the colored mans rights at all frora ~nat they were before under the common law applicable to nearly every state in the Union. It has only given him greater power to enforce that right to meet the exigency of combined efforts to deprive colored citizens of 1t; and all idea that the Civil Rights bill allows him to force himself into any mans shop or in to any mans private house or in- to any eating house, boarding house or establishment other than those have named, is simply an exhibition of ignorance, as well as in some cases, ofinsuferable prej- udice or malignity. And while l would sustain any colored man in firmly and properly insisting up- on his rights under the Civil Rights bill, which were his at common law, as they were the right of every citizen, yet l should oppose to the umost of my power any attempt on the part of the colored men to use the civil rights bill as a pretense to interfere with the private business of private parties. It's beneath the dignity of any colored man so to do, and all acts, such as shutting him out from drinking saloons, may be we'll left to the ignorant and gen erally vicious men who keep them as q badge of their superiority to the colored race. I Ihave the hon or to be, &c., B. F. BUTLER,
 R. Harlan, Esq, Cincinnati, o.
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-04-01
NO. 1Q.

love more and more fervidly, un- til with him the game becomes downright earnest. He proposes and is rejected, and goes round everywhere swearing that that girl is the most comsummate flirt that ever existed. But does he speak the truth? Is she not right to be careful to look before she leaps? Good people, do not iudge her too harshly because she is hard to please.
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-04-01
A Plea For Flirts.

In a certain sense all attractive females are flirts. Remembering that filtration is playing at being in love, I shall assert, without fear of contradiction, that every wo- man whose attractions will per init her to choose her husband, rsr,51Xlo is not compelled to snap
 of tbo f;rst ,>apce, like hungry
 a1 Ihe hrSe ,,la, a+ dog at bone, begins cc ''O this game from her earliest years. In what other manner, pray, is a female to acquire any knowledge of the men who are seeking to en- gage her affections? She under stands perfectly well that mar riage is the end and aim of femi- nine existence, that cighty-two per cent. of her sisters become wives and mothers, and that of the eighteen per cent. who remain single almost all are unhappy at their lot. Hence, even before . girl begins to attract the atten- tion of gentlemen, her dreams of the future have all turned in this direction. She has thought for years of the delight of having q beau, long before that beau comes. When he does arrive, if she is a sensible young person she will endeaYor to learn something of his disposition, temper, and char acter. And how can she do this
 save by hirtation2 She may have been favorably impressed at first, but as, under the influence of the game, the man shows himself as he really is, as his minute grain appears under the yarnish of man ner and society politeness, she may have jnat cause to think less kindly of him. But he, having . measurcless selfestcem, make
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-04-01
RATEs OE ADVERTISING.
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special notices double the above rates Editorial notices twenty-five cents q line for the first and fifteen cents for each addi- .iau insertion. All transient advertisements crsh in advance. Marriage and obituary roti,es not to exceed four lines, free; over .orr ,wonty Ccntt per line.
 cards or communications of q personal character, if aGmis.ible at all, double the r-u1l rates. and strictly in advance.
 Communications for the Agricultural de- iartncut should be handed in by F m. Fri day. Those intended for the Editorial or ia-al departments by Wednesday noon' Advertisements by Wednesday morning.
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-04-01

found Carruth lying on the floor. Landis, who was standing over him, pistol in hand, said as the doctor entered: i've killed him. I've killed him; I was obliged to do it. I killed him in the cause of God and humanity. l am sor- " for it, hope he won't die.' Dr. Bidwell sent for Deputy Sher- Tiff Cortis, who arrested Landis, The pistol selxcn from Landis is what is known and stamped as British Bulldog" and is one of the most terrible weapons ever invented. It carries an ounce bali. The bali entered the lower part of the back of Carruth's head and lodged in his brain. He was conscious when found, but could give no coherent account of the tragedy. Threats of fviolence were uttered against Landis. Deputy Sheriff Cortis hastily took Landis before Justice Laughlin, who com mitted the prisoner to the Bridge town jail. Landis's wife accom- panied him to the jail. There Landis telegraphed to two promi- nent physicians, requesting them to attend to Carruth.
 THE HISTORY OF THE MEN.
 Carruth was 49 years of age. He had a wife and five children. He was a graduate of Hamilton College, and early in life went to Berlin, Wis, where he established the Green Lake Spectator. In 1868 he purchased the Vineland Independent. He was notorious as a vindictive and very aggres- sive person.
 Landis is widely known both in this country and in Europe. He is forty-one years of age. He studied law with B. H. Brewster of Philadelphia, and was admitted to the bar before he was of age. With Mir. Burns he started the town of Hammonton, N. J., now q thriving place. In 1861 he sold out his interest there and pur- chased the Vineland tract of 90, 900 acres, then almost a wilderness, but which to-day has a population of 12,00O, gathered together through the efforts of this one man. It is said that he has ex- pended $1,000,000 in advertising alone. In 1868 he was married to a daughter of Commodore Meade, brother of Gen. Meade. The event created considerable excitement at the time, as the brides father bitterly opposed the match, but it was favored by the other relatives. Previous to the marriage the father was placed in a lunatic asylum.
 In 1874, Landis travelled through Europe and received much attcn- tion from public men. He has been actively engaged in real es- tate transactions, and in the mill ing business. He is member of the Masonic fraternity, and also ot the State Agricultural Society, be fore which organization he has annually read valuable papers.
 At a late irour this this evening, Carruth was still alive, but the physicians said that he could not live until morning.
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-04-01

Michael Mccormick fell from a bucket in a shaft of the Delaware and Lackawanna Tunnel, at Der gen Hill, recently, and was killed,
 A landlady, in Jersey City, late ly bought piano at auction for four dollars and sixty cents. "It is for the benefit of my boarlcrs, she remarked,
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-04-01

The Detroit Free Press has just discovered that bald headed man never raises his hat to a lady.
 yon Arnim has no traditional ground for loving the Napoleon family. Five of his fathers eley- en brothers fell at Waterloo.
 Some of the. students at eastern colleges can board themselves for five cents per week, but they don't feel like tearing around much.
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-04-01
TERHS

The DEMOCRAT is she best advertising sheet in ilte state. It's extensive circulation in inc southwest. among the planters, mer- ,.hants and business men, renders it espe- cially desirable to those who wish to reach .he general and substancial publie by ad- yartising their respective business and in iarests.
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-04-01

An American girl won the gold| medal at the recent eXaminatioiN of the College of Brazil, at Rio de1 Janeiro.
 It is reported that the lake ice at I.aporte, Ind, is twenty inches thick, and so clear that print can be read through 1t.
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-04-01

Some eatcqnising tradesmen in Macon have introduced pen pics and t4elr customers get lulI change.
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-04-01

Noman-s name put On our new suDscrip ton book, without the money paid down. Doa's ask us to send the DEMOCRAT without the money, for you will positively Dc re- fused, -one and all.
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-04-01
THE coLERED MANS RIGHTS.

From time immemorial all men
 have had equal rights at the common law in places of public amusement, in public con- veyances and in inns or licenced
 tavcrns, because all such business was for the public under special privileges under the government.
 The theatre and like public amusements were licenced by the public authorities and protected by the police. The public con veyances used the Kings high way. The public inn had the spe- cial privilege of a lien or claim up on the baggage or other property of any traveller using it for his keep; and if any man was refused while behaving himself well and paying his fare, a seat in any place of public amusement, or carriage by public conveyance, or shelter in public inn, he had at common law q right of action against the party so refusing. The Civil Rights bill only confirms these rights of all citizens to the col ored man in consideration of the prejudice against him and an at
 tempt in certain parts of thS country to cnterfere with the ex
 ercise of those common law rights and has enacted q penalty as , means of enforcing the right 1T his behalf in consideration of his
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-04-01
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STATE orFlcEns.

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The Russellville Democrat., 1875-04-01
TuE DEMOCRAT

l. las tae largest circulation Of any paper in the State, outside Of Little Rock, and is not surpassed by any other paper in the south vest being circulated in nearly every town aul city in the south and west, and read by an intelligent, enterprising people,
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-04-01
CIVIL RIGHTS.
Hutler on the Rights of the Colored Man under the
 Civil Rights Bill.
Not so much of a Good Thing
 After All.

jF w WASHINGTON, Marcn lo, lSfO. Sir: I have the pleasure to ac- Knowledge receipt of yours If the 14th, containing Expressions of appre- Citation of my efforts in behalf of the Civil rights Bill, for which ac- |cept my thanks. You further ask: |"Will you be kind enough to in- form me if colorcd men are cnti- tied to the priyiledges of saloons and barber-shops under it's pro- visions?"
 AN UNENvIED PRIVILEGE.
 To this I answer:-I understand by saloons" you mean drinking saloons, and am happy to say that the Civil Rights bill does not |give any right to colored man to go into a drinking saloon without bhe leave ofthe proprietor, and am IFery glad that it does not. l am willing to concede, as friend to
 he cplored man, that the white hce may have at least this one superior privilege to the colored man, that they can drink in bar rooms and saloons, and l never shall do anything to interfere with the exercise of that high and dis tinctive privilege. l would not advocate bill which should give that right to the colored man. Ii I were to vote for any bill on this subject at all, it would be one to keen the colored man ont of the drinking saloons; and hope no bar-keeper will let colored man have glass of liquor at any bar open for drinking. Indeed, l should be glad, whenever a col ored-man should go into a drink ing saloon for the purpose ofdrink- ing at the bar, if somebody would at once take him and put him out, doing him as little injury as pos sible. He could do the colored man no greater kindness.
 PRIVACY OF A BARBER SHOP.
 As to the other branch of your question in reference to barber shops, let me say that the trade of a barber is like any other trade, to be carried on by the man who is engaged in it at his own will and pleasure, and the Civil Rights bill has nothing to do, and was in tended to have nothing to do with its exercise. A barber has a right to shave whom he pleases as much as a jeweler has right to repair a watch for whom he pleases, or a blacksmith tc shoe such colored horses as he pleases. In other words these arc not public cm- ployments, but private business, l in rfr .wxhich the law dosa. t.si4telz fer'.
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-04-01
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The Russellville Democrat., 1875-04-01
MAIL SCHEDULE.

EAST: ARRIVES @'So '. Ill DEPARTS s:l5 .. m
 WEST: ARRIVES s:l5 a. m DEPARTS 2:55 D. m
 NORTH: tRnJyEs. Mon.. We'd, and Fri., 11:00 a. m DEPARTS 's .00 ?. m
 SOUTH: hnYfyTs 800 q. m DEPARTS 3:l5 D. m The Eastern, Western and southern mails arrive and depart daily, Sundays excepted.
 J. ARTHUR ERWIN, r. M.
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-04-01

All bills with our advertisers are to be settled at the end of every month without fail, and advertisements not settled for at that time will be discontinued, without no tice. unless special arrangements are made.
 1lff local notices must be paid fss at the rate Of ten cents per line, for each Insertion. This rule is imperative and must be ad- iiered to.
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-04-01
PeriIs of Precocity.

Ballet mentions one hundred and sixty-three children endowed with extraordinary talents, among whom few arrived at an advanced age. The two sons of Quintillian so vaunted by their father did not reach their tenth year. Hes mogenes, who at the age of fifteen taught rhetoric to Marcus Aurcl- jus, who triumphed over the most celebrated rhetoricians of Greece, did not die at an carly age, but at twenty-four lost his faculties and forgot all he had previously lscouired. Pico di Mirandola died at thirty-five, having at the age OF fifteen composed admirable Greek and Latin verses and become pro foundly vcrsed in jurisprudence and letters. Pascal, whose geni us developed itself when ten years old, did not attain the third of . century.
 In l78l, child was born at Lubeek, named Henri Heinneked, whose precocity was miraculous. At ten months of age he spoke distinctly, at twelve learned the pentateuch by rotc, and at four- teen months was perfectly acy quaintod with the Old and New Testament. At two years he was as familiar with geography and ancient history as the most cru dite authors of antiquity. In the ancient and modern language he was proficient. This wonderful child was unfortunately carried. oifin his fourth year.
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-04-01
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