The Russellville Democrat., 1876-10-26
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

" WANrED.-A No. 1 blacksmith
 hop at T. C. smiths shop.
 .--Col. Wadlington has assumed
 harge ofthe Post Office.
 For good pictures, at low prices,
 ,o to .JNo. HARrLEY's Gallery at
 Dardauellc.
 Tine wet weather the latter part bf last week stopped cotton picking, |wo or three days.
 We are glad to notice decided
 Improvement in the mechanical
 make ,tp of the Bonneville Enter
 prise. The new head is nice.
 w. W. Coles Great Show comes bv rail, using thirty-six railroad rars. no more, no less. Remember he date. Wednesday, November lst.
 ---ELECTIoN TICKETS. We trust bur County Central Committee will see to it that there is an abundant knpply of Tickets at each precinct on the 7th of November.
 We thank you most kindly, Brother Lyles, for the compliment you do us the honor to bcstow upon bur paper. Coming from the kprightly Clipper we feel proud Of Eour favorable notice.
 The family of Capt. W. J. Pat Ion. of Little Rock, arrived at our town last Thursday. They will re-
 main some time visiting friends and
 relatives. We wish them a pleasant ktay in our town.
 FAKE NoriCE.-A meeting of the members of the Russellville Printing Association is called for to-morrow (Friday) night, and every member is expected to be present,
 .s important business is to be trans acted.
 Monster Sca-Lions, weighing l4 ,0o0 pounds to be seen every day, with W. W. Coles New York Circus and Menagerie, Wednesday Nov. 1st.
 There was very heavy rain and quite wind storm last Thurs day night. We learn that c'nsider- able damage was done two or three miles eaat of here in the way of fen |ces and cotton pens being blown away: and also cotton blown away and destroyed in the patch.
 SOME POTATo.- now on this day comes Mir. James Henry and says his farm is some on the produc- tion of potatoes, too, and in attesta- tion of this assertion he places on our sample table a sweet potato twenty inches long---a perfect whale. This beats you, Judge Davis, you will have to come again.
 We see from the las. issue of / the Clarksville Clipper that MT. H. Bernard has stepped down and out, leaving our sprightly friend, Lyles, editor and proprietor of that excel lent paper. We hope to see the Clipper grow and prosper and be our neighbor for long years.
 W. W. Coles Great New York and New Orleans Circus and Men agerie, tho largest of the season, will exhibit here on Wednesday November lst, one day only. The White County Record clos ed it's 10th volume last Saturday. | May your next volume, Brother Frolich, be your best and most prof. aable to you, and when it draws to a close may you still ind yourself surrounded by the same happy un- broken family circle which now cheers you on.
 Clark township, too, through one of her best farmers, Mir. K. II. Smith, puts in her claim as n brag potato growing district, and judging from the three sweet yams presented by Mir. Smith the three weighing 10 pounds-we would say that the rest of the county will have to look to their laurels or Clark will beat them all.
 President Converse, wife and daughter, Land Commissioner Slack, {,
 and Superintendent Hartman and lvdy. of tlIe Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad came up yesterday. They went on over to Dardanelle and will, we understand, come to some definite determination about the building of the branch road to Dardanelle.
 -DoN'T DO rr.-We do hope our 
 merchants will not be so indifferent dead to their own'interests and des- titute of enterprise as to allow the ferry enterprise to drop through We know of no step which our mer- chants could take at SO small an out lay which would be of so great ben eft to our town. Don't let this matter go by the board. Attend tt it at once. Snow that you invite tbf trade of the people oyer the river. Mir. k. NJ. Donald, the spicy local editor of the Herald left, for !; season, last Thursday, for his hom, in Michigan. He was summoned