The Russellville Democrat., 1875-04-01
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
N. rnLirs in Rnssnllville.

Several hard showers of rain have fallen since last Friday.
 Our farmers pick the wet days to come to town now. A good sign.
 -Make up a club for the DEM ocRAr-six copies for seven dol lars and fifty cents.
 The special session of the filth Congress adjourned on the 2lth ut. at 5.45 p. Ill.
 We are pleased to hear flat tering reports from the select school of Miss Williamson.
 CANE SEED-For sale by NJ. B. Roys at the stove and tin shop, two choice varieties. S-lm
 Pope county, if no disaster happens to the crop, will make more wheat this year than she has made for many seasons.
 The people of Pope county are making J grand effort to get out of debt, and very few are now buying goods on time.
 There is no town in Arkansas that can give better account of the manner in which thanksgiving day was observed, than Russell vile.
 No more convict labor at the Ouita Coal Mines. The company have found this class of labor un profitable. and unsatisfactory.
 Send along your jobwork. The DEMOCRAT office is prepared to do any work at the very lowest rates offered by any office in the state.
 County court,-Judge Frank Thatch, at Dover on next Monday. Probate court on the Sd Monday in this month.
 The school of Prof. Paddock will be opened again next Monday morning at the Institute building. His terms are reasonable and his abilities as a teacher are question ed by none.
 MT. J. II. Robinson of the commission house of Kirtland. Humphrey & Mitchell. St. Louis, Mo, came up on the train Mon day. No better house in St. Louis than this.
 We had the pleasure of meet ing our young friend Dr. Jno. H. Potts the other day. Dr. Potts has just returned from Medical . College where he graduated with distinction, and delivered the valedictory address.
 A patent editorial stove, which only burns a basket full of poems a day, is out.-Exchange.
 Send us half a dozen of the oar lings at once, and draw on us at sight.
 Look out for the professional card of Messrs. Davis & Bayliss next week. They are old and able representatives of the legal pro fession, and we are proud to have them represented in our advertis- ing columns.
 Nothing reflects the intelli- gence and enterprise of the peo- pie ofa country so well and truly as the local newspaper. Remcm- Der this, and send in your sub scriptions thick and fast, that we may be able and encouraged to further improve, beautify and util- i1o fbo Dr.socu
 The services at the Cumber- land Presbyterian Church by Rev. II. Smith, were well attended last Sabbath, both iii the morning and evening; and the discourses which were brief, but pointed and well connected, were listened to by an attentive and intelligent congre- gation.
 Subscribe for the DEMOCRAT. Itis only one dollar and fifty cents. Times are hard. it is true; but Q well sustained newspaper will do as much, or more, to infuse new life and vigor, and to bring addi- tional population, wealth and pros pcrity to your county, than any thing else. Remember this, and don't stint the growth and blight the prospects of our county, by being too penurious to subscribe for our paper.
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