The Russellville Democrat., 1876-08-03

--FIRE ISsURANcE.--Now is the time for property owners to begin to think about insurance on their houses. Pick out your company now and next month take out your insurance, before you need fire. Wherever there is fire used there is danger of loosing life times labor in few sifort hours.
 We direct our readers to Capt. Jim 1arkey for any and all infor- nation on this subject. He has the agency for No. l Company and if you should insure with him. he would have no delay iE getting you the money if you should sustain a a loss under policy in his company. Don't delay this matter. Call on Capt. IIarkey ond let him talk this matter to you.
 The Philadelphia Standard of the 29th ult., records a frightful ac- cident whereby young man nam ed McNutt met q most violent death. He had mounted mule with the gearing on and got thrown. His foot becoming cntangled in the gear ing he was dragged aoout until life was extenet and the mule stopped from sheer exhaustion. It is q dan gerous practice to ride Il wild animal with gearing on.
 SATISFACTION AT IAsT.-Therc has always been felt q pressing want for q first class fashionable boot and shoe maker in Russellville. Hundreds of dollars have been sent to Louisville and Little Rock because good work put up in first class style could not be obtained at home. We are glad to be able to say that this want has been fully supplied by the location here of Mr. T. C. York. MT. Gork's advertisement can be found in to-day's paper and from q personal knowledge of his work we can recommend him to the public. Mir. York's shop is next door to Capt. Bob Wilson's store: go around and leave your measure for a good fai..a .1uip nf Ian+r
 The Texarkana Democrat says a game of baseball will be played ill that town Sunday, the winning club will be prese9ted with basket of champagne. The Russellyille Democrat calls it . disreputable bus mess, and admonishes the Texarka- na Democrat that the Sabbath is d holy day. Next week we will ex- pect Wootten to lay the blame of the article on the devil and exelaim ill the language of Pope:
 'The things that know are neither rich nor
 rare,
 But wonder how the devil they got thcrc,"- State Grange.
 And sure enough Grange "the devil" did do it. But it was a busi- ness notice made on the request of the club. But responding more particularly to the article of the Russellville Democrat, to which the Grange makes reference, we state on our own authority, that the young men of Texarkana, as d rule are Sabbath observers, going every Sabbath evening to Sunday school. We think we have never known anywhere, in any community, a more dccorous and moral observing class of young men than in this town.---Iexarkana Democrat.
 Glad to know it, Bro. Wootten, We did not intend to reflect upon the generality of Texarkana's young gents, for We didn't suppose any considerable number engaged in dcsecrating the Sabbath by playing baseball for champagne on that day. -lIEAvY SToRM.-This section was visited on last Saturday evening by one of the heaviest storms that has
 
 been seen here for many years.
 There was but short admonition of its approach and when it came it swoopcd down all at once wi.h ter rife force. The cloud from which it proceeded lay directly north of us and the wind was to the south. The territory over which the storm extended seems to have reached from q short distance this side of Dover to the Ark. river. Corn, cot ton and millet is badly ilattened and tangled. A great deal of timber has been felled ard many roads almost blOckadcd. Here in town the dam age WAS not confined to corn patch es. The new house of Mr. Lyons which was just ready for covering was ilattened to the grrund, q com pletc wreck. A large section of the tin roof on Shinn's new store house was turned back and the pIastcring badly damaged by the rain which poured in in sluices. Sign boards were swept through the street, fences leyeled, and shade trees torn up. We hear of no damage to build- ings in the country.
 
 Suicide.
 From the Gazette of the 1st