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The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-04-13


test the legality Of these bonds and under
the direction Of special committee desig-
mated by you. 1ts present status will un-
doubtedly be made known to yoa by said
committee. Since said sum was added to
the revenue fund quite an amount has been
collected, and there is now $3.50 .66 in the
treasury of the litigated r. R. bond inter-
est fund. OF the right-of.way bend inter-
est We have on hand SS64.43, which is
more than sufficient to pay interest about
to become due.
I commend to the special attention Of
your Committee upon Streets the condition
Of the side and cross-walks, particularly
the latter, the intersection of Washing
ton avenue with St. German street. These
should be raised few inches, sufficiently
At least 70 render them Of service when
most needed. The sidewalks should be
promptly repaired and there is on hand,
received from sidewalk tax. $l02.42. A
few dollars Of this could be iudiciously used
in slight repairs, while the balance should
be Transferred to the road and bridge fund,
which is new to our treasury aud il the re-
suit Of very excellent law passed by the
late Legislature. Heretofore = county
road and bridge revenue has been paid in
to the county treasury and disbursed under
the direction of the Commissioner in all
parts ofthecounty, upon roads and bridges.
Not one dollar Of the amount, about $500,
annually paid BY property: owners within the
city limits, has ever been expended there.
in until last summer, when the Commits.
sioners made to Us an appropriation Of $500
Under this new law the amount 20 collected
il paid into the city treasury by the County
Treasurer, who informs me that about $40C
thereof may be expected in June. By the
Treasures statement you will zee thu,
S169.96 has already passed into hi.
hands. The levy j. 95;1oo Of 4 milll and
on tho valuation Of ls75will create $685.:
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-04-13
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The Russellville Democrat., 1876-11-09
THE RUssELLvILLE DEMOCRAT THURSDAY, 1876.

is that on the 1st of January, it is necessary to hold eight months supply of seed cotton, this re quires capital, but pays a large interest on 1t, for the seed cotton lying in bulk 6 or i2 months, greatly improves, by the absorp- tion of oil from the seed by the filaments, rendering them more alternating or workable, giving them q rich, cream color, saving waste from fyings in working, and enhancing the value of the staple fully l. cents per pound, whilst baled cotton deteriorates nearly as much in the same time, these are facts which some have long known, and protited by as planters.
 The South has many and i'm portant natural advantages over the North, East and England, in manufacturing cotton, such as short, mild winters, more reliable water power, cheaper land, build ing materials, fuel, food and labor, exemption from strikes, and direct reclamation. It would furnish pleasant remunerative employment to her ildigent wom en and children, unwilling to en- ter the field in competition with the negro, and assembling them in villages around factories, would afford much greater facilities for physical, mental and moral train ing of children, creating a mar ket for edibles, and are incentive to farmers around to diversity their products.
 The right to use one attach men IS S150. One attachment with the necessary machinery to convert seed cotton into yarns, put up in bales, will require 10I or l2 II F to drive, and from 6 to s operatives, mostly boys and girls, to attend it, and will work up from l to 1 pound of seed cot per minute, or 200 to 20 lbs. of yarns per day, and will cost with $4,500; two will cost S7,- 300, and three about $10,000. This is exclusive of the shafting, pulleys, hangers, cans and belts.
 Cotton machinery has lately fallen near 20 per cent, and good second hand machinery can be had from 90 to D per cent less than the above named price, and is said to be very abundant at the North.
 r. E. WHITFIELD, Sen.
The Russellville Democrat., 1876-11-09
ITEMS OF NEWS.

Two husbands of one woman lie in the same graveyard in Warren, Pa., both having committed sui eide.
 The University of Virginia has received . donation of $5,000 for the benefit of its library, from Mir Wm. ". Carcoran.
 John D. Lee, the convicted Mountain Meadow fiend, sobs and threatens by turns, and it is tho't will probably make confession.
 Dr. Barclay, of Muscatine, Iowa was detected by his wife with adulterous intercourse with Mrs. Russell, and has fled to escape the consequences.
 Latest from the Great Powers: England is afraid; Russia daren't; Turkey don't want to; Austria wouldn't for the world; and Ger many couldn't think of it,
 A wonderful story comes from Darlington, Wis, to the effect that an old miser, with carpet sack full of grcenbacks, two re- volvers in his belt, dressed in rags, and with long, unkept beard, wanders in the woods. He runs away on approach.
 The bell-punch maker may as we'll throw up the sponge and retire. Notwithstanding the in cessant punching that has been going on Tn the presence of the passengairs, the Brooklyn lines have been steadily victimized at the rate of about $60 per day.
 At Kellogg, Iowa, on Thursday, a young man named Sheldo and an engineer were handling a re- volver when it was accidentally discharged, the ball passing thro' the engineers finger and striking sheldo in the front part of the throat, 'inflicting a dangerous wound.
The Russellville Democrat., 1876-11-09

CoRINrH, Mss, Sept. 18th '76.
 By the new process of convert ing seed cotton into yarns, only four machines are used, viz: the card, drawing frame, speeder, and spinning frame, (such as are now in common use) the card only is changed and that Lightly, by substituting an attachment for the Lickerin, at a cost of about $500.
 The attachment receives the seed cotton gently removes tue seed, combs out the dust, trash, notes, &c., and delivers the fila. ments untangled and parallel to card. Thus superseding the gin, press and compress, which are only used to render cotton trans portable) the willower, lapper, double lapper, breakers and four iilths of the cards, which are only intended to try to remedy the in jary done by the gin, press and compress. IL also saves or super
The Russellville Democrat., 1876-11-09
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The Most Complete, Thorough and Practical Institution in the
 Country.
Little Rock, Ark.

THIS Institution offers superior
 1 facilities for preparing young and middle aged men and women for the counting room, and for the management Of business and tinan- cial affairs.
 The full Commercial course as presented in the PREPARATORY. Ing oRY, ACTUAL BUSINESS and BANKING DEPARTMENTS of the College, em- braces critical instruction to those who may require it, in Reading. Spelling and Arithmetic, Book-kcep- ing, by Single and Double entry. as applied to business pursuits of every description. Business Pen manship, Commercial Calculations. Mercantile Correspondence, Detec- ton or Counterfeit Money, Lectures on the Science of Accounts. Busi. ness Activities, Organizations, Eeon- ohies, Business Customs and Eti- quette, Commercial Law, Finance and General Laws of Trade.
The Russellville Democrat., 1876-11-09
COTTON FACTORIES.

COTTON FACTORIES.
 In another column in to -day's S paper we re produce from the Southern Home an article on the manufacturing of cotton goods. Our object in placing this article before our readers is to get our people, if possible to think about this matter of establishing facto- ries here at home. We ask a careful reading of Mr. Whitfield s article, and we think that it will be readily seen that it is not such a big undertaking after all to put Tn operation a factory for the manufacturing of cotton yarns and cotton goods. We see no reason why we might not have a factory here in Pope county. All it requires will be a little energy and enterprise on the part of the people. The very low price of cotton makes the production of the raw staple very unremunera- tive to our planters. They scarce ly get pay for the labor of grow
 ing and gathing it. Still our far mers grow it, and always will, for our climate and soil is adapted to it, and onr people seem to love to work at it. If there is any profit in it anywhere it is to those who manufacture it. Our people raise the raw staple without any profit and if there Is anything to be made in manufacturing it up into yarns and cloths it seems it would be we'll for us to try and manufacture it here at home. We use the goods after it is manufac
 turcd, and why pay freight on the raw material to transport it to Eastern factories and then pay freight again on the goods to get them back again. If there is profit to those Northern manufac- turers it seems there would be more margin to us here in the South. Northern cities are built up and northern workmen fur nished employment making up cotton goods for our consumption. Why had we not as we'll have our factories at home, build up our own towns and furnish employ ment to workmen here at home. We could manufacture as cheaplv, and produce as perfect goods even better, for the raw material taken right from the fields, with out having been ginned, baled, pressed, compressed and the lint doubled, broken and knotted up, would be in much better confi- ton, and produce better thread. ! We ought to have a cotton factory here in Pope county and we can have one if we only will. There are substantial men enough in our county to go into this busi- ness and make grand success of it.
 We wish simply In this article to ask this class of men to give the matter some thought. Look !. at it in all it's lights and sec ifI if our own self interest does nofI point to home manufactories as the surest road to success and | prosperity. We may in future articles have further suggestions to make on this subject.
The Russellville Democrat., 1876-11-09

tears: You are comfortably settled here; if you break up and cmi- glatc to Texas, this is what you may expect:
 l. Grasshoppers by tlie duode- cillion. They are there. I saw them 4 inches thlck on the ground. On Sunday Oct. 1st, they rose up in numbers sufficient to partially obscure the shining of the sun mind, 1 saw them!
 ?. Unless you have money left, after paying for your land, enough to buy lumber ton the frontier at $50 per thousand, on the line of some railroad, less to build a house, fence your land, &c., pro cure firewood, farming imple- ments and the many necessary things about farm.
 My advice is stay where ,.Ju arc. You will, as thousands nave done and will do, come back to Arkansas, sadder, poorer, but a wiser man.
 3. You cannot rent land in Texas, as here, to be paid when your crop is gathered; it must in most cases be paid in advance.
 f. As recent writer in Wes- tern Texas has said: "If the gov ernment carries out the plan of removing Sitting Bull and his hostile Sioux from the Black Hills and places them ir the Indian Territory, that country will be in unenviable proximity to them"
 One word more: If you are a poor man, stay away from Texas!
 want to speak of the
 PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS
 before l have done. Instance the town of Waxhachie, in Ellis conn ty. Here is a list of these i'm proyements:
 Court house, stone, $45,000.
 Marvin College, brick, $30,000.
 Masonic and Odd Fellows Hall, stone, 10000. Total, 95,000.
 All of which is in town of l. 200 inhabitants, and besides these these, their churches, of which there are two, are worth $I0, ,000 swelling the aggregate to more than $100,00o. May not Atkins with her unequalled contiguous country, blush with shame when it is said, she has not finished church, and-well, they talk of a box school house to cost two or three hundred dollars. We need 1 more public spirit in our country, and we must have it before we will | be able to offer inducements to | immigration that Texas does.
 l coald write of many things, | such as the inferiority of our rail road compared with Texas roads pin here. Our road is a pigmy in it's line. Will it not improve soon? Hope so. Also, improved farming implements. Gentlemen, give to Arkansas the necessary class uf immigrants, let i her present citizens become what ! they ought to be, men of enter prise, and I, for one would not ex- change States with any one.
 Yours truly,
 THos. J. REYNOLDS.
 Atkins, Oct. 3l, 1876.
The Russellville Democrat., 1876-11-09

Business having called me to Texas, 1 boarded the Little Rock train and after run of five hours We, brother and others, brought up at the
 METROPOLITAN HOTEL, in the City of Roses. For urban lity and good attention to guests commend the clerks and propri- etor; for good eating" go to Gleason's Restaurant, adjoining this hotel.
 At ? o'clock we hear 'all aboard for Union Depot!" What crowds! Train in; hundreds hurrylng to and fro; children crying; mamas worn out and scolding; men, they drink and swear, and act the part of the crazed. Why will men do so in defiance of the laws of good breeding, to say nothing of it's moral turpitude? Gentlemen, there are cars, other than ladles' upon which swearing does not fall pleasantly! And, moreover, the judgement of some pronounce very unfavorably upon the practice.
 At three o'clock a strong wind is blowing from the north, the lights are eXtinguished and all the offices and sitting rooms clos. ed and the train does not move; indeed, the doors of the coaches are locked; women and children are squatted along the wall of the station house, shivering. After long, painful suspense the doors are opened. Room must be made for more than a hundred addition al passengers; tue coaches are crammed (that is the word) with people. Your correspondent makes room on his seat for lady, two children, one of which, a six year old, he carries in his lap six ty miles, and her travelling pera- phanalia, and, pray, what does not enter into the makeup of woman's travelling equipage? And the more so, if she be, as my lady was, of the upper caste! "Ali aboardw OR we go! "Clang, chatter, hurry, scurry," as w. IT, wing has it.
 The country to Texarkana is low; pine and scrub oaks are the principal growth. Upon the whole, Mir. Editor, we may well be proud ofour part of Arkansas. Russehville and Atkins are out stripping. many of the railroad towns in South Arkansas. Il speak advisedly, and from what I know, the Iron Mountain Ky. is grand success; but, oh me, whal country it passes over. The only good account it can ever be turned to is the facilities for mak.
The Russellville Democrat., 1876-11-09
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LITTLE slss $ T. sN!fa RAILWAY,
Time Chan ged!

On and after Monday Oct. 18th, 1876, trains on this road will run ey- cry day Sundays excepted,
The Russellville Democrat., 1876-11-09
HOMES FOR THE H0MELE LESS!
GOOD DLAND, CHEAPLAND
And Plenty of it for sale
 on easy terms!
100000 ACRES OF LAND FOR SALE AT LOW FIGURES AND
 ON LONG TIME!

THE UNDERSIGNED. AGENT FOR THE FINE GRANT OF LANDS MADE TO THE l.. R. & F. $. Rl., NOW OFFERS FOR SALE ANY AND ALL THE RAIL- ROAD LANDS LYING IN POPE COUNTY.
 Ihese lands rmirGce some rerg 6Re tyacfs, sactadsAg rjrer bottom, prairie trltf gIis,lsls aud 0a easg opporfansfy is Aege ofered oT securing e eheaP gdrni os easy fegms.
 Correspondence solicited from those seek Ing homes in mild, healthy climate, ani in new country which Is rapidly develop- ing and offers many advantages.
 To those who have improvements on railroad lantie l would say that no time should he lost in coming forward and en- tefinginto contract for the same. Mv in sirucuons arc to sell aag aistl ,ili ldaeis, and delay in making application may entail loss upon you
 am prepared to give fan information in regard to any Of these lands in Pope county. Come Early and Examine my Plats and lists of prices, and secure n cheap farm.
 JAMES POTTS. Agt.
 EusseilNille. Ark.
The Russellville Democrat., 1876-11-09
Freight and Passenger.
GOING WEST.
GOING EAST.
Local Freight.
TRi-WEEKLY.)

CONC WEST: Leave Argenta, O0 a. m.; arrive at Russellville, l 20 p. m.; arrive at Ozark, 6:l5, p. m.
 CONC EAST: Leave Ozark. 5:lj. a. m-; arrive at Ru sellville, l0:l5, a. nl.; arrive Argenta, 5:30, p. m. Close connections made at RUSSELL VILE with daily line of stages for Da"daLelle and Danville, aud at Alma with stages for Fayetteville. Time from Fort Smith to St. Louis
 T II RTY HOURS,
The Russellville Democrat., 1876-11-09

SPECIAL DISCOUNTS will be made to Clubs and Deserving Parties.
 Usual time required to complete the Full Commercial Course, from 10 to l5 weeks
 Students can enter the Collgee at any time, as there are no vacations Re sure to visit or address this. College before going elsewhere.
 AARON BALES, Prlncip9I. i5-l2nl
The Russellville Democrat., 1876-11-09

Cards or communications Of a personal character, if admissible at all. double the usual rates, and strictly in advance.
 Communications for the Agricultural de- pariment should he handed in by r m. Fri day. Those intended for the Editorial or local departments by Wednesday noon. Advertisements by "Wednesday morning.
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The Russellville Democrat., 1876-11-09
AND TO MEMPHIS
SIX TEEN HOURS.

Connection made at Argenta with the Memphis < Little Rock Railway, and at the crossing of the St. l.. I. N. X S. railroad with trains North.
 Through Bills of Lading given for Cotton from Fit Smith, Van Buren, Ozark, Clarksville, Russellyille and all points on the road to New York, Boston, Providence, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Memphis, New Orleans, &c. Rates low, and transportation rapid. TIiEO. HARTMAN.
 Superintendent. J. w. GAY, General Ticket Agent.
The Russellville Democrat., 1876-11-09
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The Russellville Democrat., 1876-11-09
A TRIP TO TEXAS.

To the editor of the DEMOCRAT:
 Business having called me to Texas, boarded the Little Rock train and after run of five hours We, brother and others, brought m at the
The Russellville Democrat., 1876-11-09
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The Morning herald., 1876-07-13
How Boston IL Made uD,

The Boston "Herald" gives some inter-
esting statistics from the report of the Au
ditOr of that city. It shows that the total
population Of the city in 1875 was 34l ,919,
of whom 179,657 were women and 49,, 1853
men. Boston has drawn much more than
is generally supposed upon other towns for
the increase Of its population. Only about
thirty-three per cent. of the inhabitants
were born in the city, the number being
ia, 164; born elsewhere in Massachusetts,
Sc, 4l3; born in other States. 5s,760; born
out Of the United States, 117, ,005; place OF
birth unknown, 1,577. thus it viii be seen
that the foreign born Inhabitants Of Boston
outnumber the natives by 2,s41. The census
shows that The negroes of the city number
3,12G, the mulattoes 1, ,S43, the Chinese 4b,
Japanese 81 and Indians 81. Since the GEN.
sus was taken the Chinese population has
somewhat increased.
The Morning herald., 1876-07-13
Chicago Slang.

Chicago slang explained by the "Courier''
"Stake a fellow, won't you, mister! If
somebody doesn't I've got to carry the ban
ner tonight" The speaker was a shabby
young man, wearing what had been a pea
jacket and a pair Of very thin pants. The
general air of shiftlessness about him his
run over shoes and greasy hat, his crum pied
and soiled shirt-front, all denoted the street
vagrant, termed by the police "imptlers''
The reporter stopped and asked, cor you
will have to carry what ?" "The banner,
sur. That's what they calls It when cove
amt got nowhere to 20. He has to tramp
around like as he was carrying a banner,
don't you see?'