The Russellville Democrat., 1876-11-30
O he Demotrat
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 LOCAL AFFAIRS.

and candy stand in front of Woot- en & Cos.
 The Southern Methodist new church is rapidly approaching completion. 1t is now ready for the inside work.
 -ExQUIsITE. Those late style ladies hats just received at Shinn's s just the nobbiest and prettiest things you ever saw, and Oh! so cheap.
 Mir. Dacus, the proprietor of our meat market, has furnished some beef lately which would have been credit to New Or leans market.
 W. P. Wooten & Go. are con stantly In receipt of new groceries and will sell them at astonishing low figures.
 We had the pleasure of meet ing two of Lewisburg's distin- guished citizens, Col. Whitthorne And Col. Coblentz in our town last week.
 We make our acknowledg- msnts for copy of the Annual address of the Worthy Master, Jno. T. Jones, delivered before the National Grange at Chicago, Nov. 15, 1876.
 The Ozark Banner has com pleted it's second year. We con- graduate the fair editor and pro- prietor and extend our best wish es for prosperous, pleasant year of the new volume.
 -FRoM THE GOLD DIGGINGs. - Messrs. Cochrane & Brown, Gen eral Agents Howe Sewing Ma chines:-The machine continues to work to the satisfaction of the maternal head" Yours, etc., 
 (Signed) c. BARNES.
 Golden City, Col, Jan. Is, '69.
 We make our bow to Mrs. Geo. Reed for 8 beautiful turnip, which measured A inches around and weighed 33 pounds. She said she picked SMALL ONE be- cause she walked to town; and the first time the wagon came in she promises to send us a speci. men of her large ones.
 -HoLLowAY's PILLS AND ONT MEyT.-For scurvy, leprosy, and cutaneous diseases they are un- rivalled. In places where these maladics are prevalent, the cures are marvellous, for the expulsion of pimples, blotehes, &c., they are unparalleled, and as cosmct- ic the Ointment stands unequal ed. p cente per box or pot.
 A USEFUL INvENTioN.-Mr. G. X. Parsons, a young man of our county, who is patentee of q new and very superior cultiva- tor called on us last Thursday, and exhibited the model of his new implement. We make no professions toward understanding the merit of agricultural imple- ments, but we would pronounce the cultivator of Mir. Parsons to be most excellent invention.
 We had the pleasure of re- ceiving call last Friday from Prof James Mitchell, of Fayette- vile. Prof. Mitchell informed us that he would soon mount the tripod and join the editorial rank S as the editor in dhief of one of the leading papers of the State the Little Rock Gazette. We cordially welcome him into our lanks and extend our best wishes for pleasant and useful career in his new position.
 In July last one of our sub scribers in Clark Township asked us in a communication for our opinion as to how the electoral vote would go in the Presidential election. We gave a list of the States and classed them under heads as we thought and believed they would go, and we made 204 votes for the Democracy and 165 for the Republicans. The result shows that we missed 1t but one vote, for Tilden now actually has 203 and Hayes l66.
 -Giris, beware how you sleep On your rights. Leap year is fast slipping away. But few more