The Russellville Democrat., 1876-08-17

Ing anu alWays ready. oee adVef- tisement.
 Read the letters of acceptance of your next President and Yicc-Pres- ident, MeSsrs. 1ilden sS Hendricks.
 -Read every part of the DEMOCRAT carefully-adyertiscments and all. That is the way to get the full bene- iit ef your home press.
 Andrew Henry sends to our of fee very large irish potato just ta- ken from his crop, which weighed two pounds,
 Our friend Hanks, of the de seryetliy popular house of Brooks, Necly & Co.,, of Memphis, Tenn, was in town Saturday. Cad. says groceries are cheap. Try this house.
 --Our esteemed young friend, Robert McMurray, Esq, is now holding forth at the drug establish- ment of Dr. Harry Winn, of Atkins. Much success to you, Robert, in your new position!
 Wheat is selling at 30, 55, and GO cents, according to grade. Most of our farmers are holding their wheat back on account of low prices. i Our merchants are paying all they can get back for it.
 Editor Coffin, of tine Gazette, made flying trip up the It. Smith road and back again the latter part of last week. Sorry we didn't get to see him. Take more time and stop of a day or two with us when you come again, Bro. Coffin.
 Tho St. Louis Price Current and l Trade Journal gives the receipts of wheat l50,0O0 bushels below the previous week, and in consequence gave an advance in quotations of from to l0c. higher. No. } Red was quoted $1.l5; No. 3 Red $l .02 ; No. Winter 70; Rejected 50 to G9.
 We have received the proceed ings ofth Judicial convention which met at Ozark last week, but owing 10 the press of other matter, we are forced to defer publishing until next week. Hon. J. P. Bycrs was nomi- mated for Prosecuting Attorney by q unanimous vote.
 We have received the fifth num- Der of the Harrison Times, J. A. Spradling, editor, and A. B. Cory, publisher. The Times is neatly gotten up and well edited paper, and if the people of Boone county will accord fair patronage to it, we doubt not Messrs. Spradling & Cory will keep it up to its present stard- ard. We shall be glad to receive the Times as an exchange.
 There was q portion of last weeks local page of the Democrat, the proofs of which we missed read ing; consequently the mistake in several articles-notably in those articles headed "Littlc Rock as Market" and "Thc East Sice," (and we may say incidentally that the brilliant town council has not yet shown any signs of striking q sin gle lick for the East Side. Let the taxpayers and voters of the East Side remember these gentlemen at the next election.)
 Tine Little Rock Evening Star has undergone a change in proprie- tor and editor. Col. ban O'Sullivan rctires IS editor in chief and as- sumes the duties of local editor. Judge John Mcclure will hence forth be editor and proprietor. The Star will be an out-and-oUt radical republican paper. Whatever else may be said of that paper, the well known shrewdness and ability of its new editor inSures it a prominent place among the newspapers of Ar kansas.
 The September number of ''Pe- terson's Magazine" is already on our table, greeting us, as we open it, with "Jack ill the Box, q steel engraving, that makes us cry out involuntarily, ''how cunning" The fashion-plates, for the month, arc unusually numerous, and the colored steel -platcis especially beau tiful. Good as the stories have al- ways been in "Petcrson," they seem to Us, this year, to be better than ever. The premiums given for clubs, including an extra copy, are valuable and numerous. Send for specimen. Address CHARLES J. PETERSON, BOG Chestnut street, Phil adelphia.
 ANNUAL SCHOOL MEETINGS. Al though the Sherin' has failed 10 make proclamation of the election of school Directors for the various districts in the county, this failure on his part will not in any manner effect the validity of the business transacted at the annual school meetings. Next Saturday will be the day for holding these meetings and the voters ol each district should turn out and hold their meetings