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The Russellville Democrat., 1876-11-23

The chemical analysis of ram water is held of high importance, becanse it has been said that, as 1t is the washings of the atmos- phcre, it ought to give us inform ation upon the deleterious sub stances that are mixed with the air we breathe. And, curiously enough, examinations have prov ed that drops that fall over the sea are much purer than those that fall in the Deighborhood of great cities or extensiue manufac- turies; for while the former con tains only little harmless salt, the latter are strongly impregna- ted with poisonous acids genera
 ted by coal combustion. At Manchester seven grains of vitrol have been collected from a gallon of rain water, proportion fatal to vegetation, and likely to have ef- feet upon the public health, be- cause the acid must exist in the air before it can get into the cloud-droppings, and while in the atmosphere it is taken into the lungs. Rain however comes from the higher airs; we breath the lower streta. In view of this fact some Italian chemists have con sidered that, instead of testing the iain to learn what adulterates the atmosphere, we ought to ana lyze the dew, because that is formed in the region which man tenants, and ought to contain on ly those organic or inorganic cor. pusclcs which are likely to affect him. So dew drops may rise into importance such as has not attac- he'd to them since the alchemists of old, (who thought they fell from the stars and that the stars were Jumps of gold, used to col lect them in hopes of extracting precious metal therefrom.
The Russellville Democrat., 1876-11-23
Our Town.

In order to answer many inquir- ies, which we are receiving almost every day in regard to our town, at one time, we will give few notes m regard to the place.
 RUssELLvILLE is town of about 0 inhabitants. Our county is OPE (not Polk, as some of our il- lirers have it.) This town is not le county seat--Dover smaller town, ten miles north of this place, Hjoying that distinction. Our }wn is located immediately upon 'le line of the l.. k. & F. $. Ry., 0l is three miles from the Arkan- 'as River. The country surround a Is of Il good average farming lAality and is well timbered. Pop 'la;ion of the county about 10000. here is no difficulty in all new tners securing good cheap homes l.~n lots are sold aC from $l0 tC
 A Lumber is worth $l2.50 pel
 ousand, brick $S, shingles $5 te have stone coal all around us
 . it Is supplied ut S3.50 to $4 pel 1n. Wood is sold at sl 50 per cord Wotcr is good--wells about 20 to 3l eer deep. Health as good as anl country. We have three churche Presbyterian, Methodist Soutl md Methodist North. Baptists vii
The Russellville Democrat., 1876-11-23

The wheat buyers of Black Riv- CT Falls, Wisconsin, have formed a miniature board of trade.
 A tie in the vote for justice of the peace at Council Bluffs, Iowa, is to be decided by drawing lots.
 The soil of some portions of Kaufman, Texas, has been liberal ly fertllized by dead grasshoppers.
 The New England torch-light parades made the kerosene mar ket lively. They burnt about four hundred barrels of petroleum a day.
 Norfolk, Va, claims to be sec ond cotton market in Che United States, according New Orleans the first place and Charleston the third.
 A petrified honeycomb is the latest Sacramento novelty. The combs are full of honey-and wax and honey are turned into solid stone.
 One hundred and fifty-one car loads of freight were shipped from Minneapolis on Friday, including 2,500 barrels of flour, 60,000 feet of lumber, and 168 tons of bran.
 Dr. C. D. Farlin, well known in Michigan as a lecturer on Spirit ualism, repudiates his former be- lief, saying that he can see no good effect on the morals or in tellectual culture of the age by the disseminatlons of it's doc- trines.
 The colored postmaster of the South has learned and initiates the way of his white brother of ficeholder. He of Brookhaven, Miss, when removed last week, showed a deficiency in his ac- counts of several hundred dollars.
 Vermont will take the dicker- ing palm from Connecticut. A Mendon man visited Rutland, a few days ago, and traded horses nine times during the day, and at night had the same horse with which he started in the morning, $45 in money, a watch worth 1925, a double-ba barreled shotgun, and four bushels of potatoes.
The Russellville Democrat., 1876-11-23

ing to his feet, ''you've been to the centennial? And you've got back. Give us your hand, l am delighted to see yon. Spear let me introduce you to John Smith. John has been to the Centennial. :"
 Spear shook hands very warm ly with Mir. smith, then ran to the aperture communicating with the reporters room and shouted, Oh, Shaunnessy, come in here, quick, here's man that's been to the Centennial"
 Then Shaunnessy bounced in, followed by his assistants, all of whom embraced the bewildered Smith warmly, and expressed the qualification it afforded them to meet man who had been to the great National Exhibition. Word got down stairs sone how, and Joe McDowel, Bill Small, and Un- cle Joe Shadenger came up stairs at tearing gait to gaze upon the individual who had been to the Eyp0Sition If waS tho rnuch for the modest man to bear, and mur- muring something about making an item of his return if they wan ted to, he hurried out just in time to meet on the stairs the foreman and thirty two compositors, all eager to get q glimpse of the man who had been to the Centennial. Cincinnati Saturday Night.
The Russellville Democrat., 1876-11-23
Cure for the Bite of a Dog.

l. Tie a string tightly between the bitten part and the body. This can always be done when it is leg or an arm, as is usually the case. It is to prevent the poison from being absorbed into the system.
 ?. Wash the wound thoroughly pouring an abundance ot water on it from a night, or hold it under a full stream from pump or hy- drant.
 Rinse the mouth and suck the wound as hard as possible, and for fifteen or twenty minutes, splitting out the blood, &c., which flows.
 4. The wound should be finally be cauterized or burned. Carbol- ic acid and nitrate of silver, or lunar caustic, are the best for the purpose. But nitlic or sulphuric acid will answer, or red hot po- ker or live coals. It is no time to be timid about the means.
 
 When these are done, put a light poultice on the wound, keep quiet until the stuff comes off and then dismiss the matter from your mind, for all danger is past.
The Russellville Democrat., 1876-11-23
He had been to the Centennial

A bashful appearing man step ped into the Enquirer editorial rooms the other day. and edging up to the table of the managing editor, hat in hand said, in a hes itating voice:
 "You like little itemes for your paper, l suppose"
 Certainly, newspaper, like life, is made up of small items. What have you to offer?''
 "Well, my name is Smith, John Smith and have just got homer'
 "Glad to see you back, Mir. smith, been gone loDg?"
 Eve been to the Centennial said MT. Smith, with a tremor oi pride ir his voice, "and if you want to make a little notice" What" cried Cockcril, spring
The Russellville Democrat., 1876-11-23

Coop HUMoR.-Good humor is the clear blue sky of the soul, on which every star of talent will shine more clearly, and the sun of genius encounters no vapors in his passage. It is the most ex- quisite beauty of a fine face, re- deeming grace in homely one. It is like the green in the land scape, harmonizing with every color, mellowing the glories of the bright and softening the hue of the dark; like a flute in a full chorus of instruments, a sound, not at first discovered by the ear, yet filing up the breaks in the concord with it's deep melody.
The Russellville Democrat., 1876-11-23
NO MORE RASCALITY.
It Won't win this Time.
Warning to Chamberlain,
 Packard and Kellogg.
You are Known, You Villains.
 and you had better go slow.

The true status of affairs in the South is known in the North and the thinking men there are begin
 ming to see that a rebuke must be given the rascally carpet bag pol iticians of the South. The New York Herald says:
 No kukluxing the election. One of the parties in Florida sends us report that the other party has wrecked a train and kukluxed the election returns. The report is probably untrue, but the phrase we'll used. It re- minds us to tell the politicians of both parties that the people will stand no kukluxing of returns this time; they mean to have pc: ce and fair play. If demo- crats have carried Louisiana the people wi not allow Gov. Ker logg and Mir. Packard, with too convenient returning board, to kuklux the vote. They were al lowed to do it in 1872, so far as the result had only local i'm portance, but the senate refused to admit the senator elected by their fraud. They did it again in 1874, but public opinion forced a republican congress to condemn the fraud in the most positive and conspicuous manner by un- seating some members of the leg islature who were kukluxed in by the returning board. We beg the New Orleans republican man. agers to remember that their pre- vious frauds are we'll known here in the north, and that as men al ready detected and exposed in kukluxing election returns, they need to be conspicuously fair and upright. This time all their acts aud proceeding will be watched with most jealous eyes by honor able men oi both parties in the north, and they should remember the presumption lies fairly against them because they have already been detected in the same trick of which they are now suspected. So, too, in South Carolina, we warn the adherents of Gov. Chamberlain against attempting to kuklux election returns. They cannot hope to succeed, for they will be exposed, and their own party in the north will dls- own them. It is very we'll under. stood here that the South Caro- lima election machinery has been constituted suspiciously unfair
 and in a partisan manner. Judge : Mackay, of the supreme court of the state, himself a Hayes repub- lican, but opposed to corruption, has exposed the manner in which Gov Chamberlain arranged for q count of the votes. There is q
 board of state canvasseYs, the
 majority of whose members are candidates for election on the
 same ticket with Chamberlain , and are thus by monstrous per :. version of fair dealIng allowed te
 canvass and decide upon votes o the state, and declare whether , they themselves are elected ol not. Not only this, but of tn, ' ninety-siX commissioners of cleo U tion in the counties, seventy ar, y Chamberlain's declared partisani IS and forty are ofliceholders wh. h hold their places by his appoint Il ment. We do not desire to brin,
The Russellville Democrat., 1876-11-23
A Wifc's Hard Lot.

Dunbar's wife listened to long political discussion while riding down town yesterday morning, and at dinner she remarked to her husband:
 "Well, a few days more will de eide this election"
 ''In a measure" was his guard ed reply.
 "Tm awful glad," she continu ed. You commenced going out nights about the first of March, and, you've kept it up ever since. I'll be one happy woman about the Sth of November. We'll have cheerful fires, games, comfort, and"
 Charlotte" solemnly interrupt ed the husband, ''can't you un- derstand this thing? The cleo tion will occur on the Eth prox., of course. After that date Imust help count up the returns, verify them, put our clubs in training for the uext campaign, examine the line of the opposition, and so forth, and 1t may be next April before get through. You must have patience, for everything is working right"
 What could she do but burst into tears?- NJ. Quad.
The Russellville Democrat., 1876-11-23
HOMES FOR THE HOMELESS! GOOD LAND, CHEAP LAND And Plenty of it for sale on easy terms! 100, 900 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., K. & +. $. RY., NOW OFFERS FOR SALE ANY AND ALL THE RAIL- ROAD LANDS LYING IN POPE COUNTY.
 These iaads embrace rery fas f,acfs. including sicer 5oftom. prairie aud upiaads. and on edsy opportunity is hers odsred o} securiag q cheap ,farD ON easy tsrms
 Correspondence solicited from those seek ing homes in mild, healthy climate. and in new country which is rapidly develop ing and offers many advantages.
 To those who have improvements on railroad lande 1 would say that no time should be lost in coming Forward and en- tering into contract for the same. My in structions are to sell aaY aud aH ia,,ds, and delay in making application may entail loss upon you.
 am prepared to give fuli information in regard to any Of these lands in Pope county. Come Early ana Examine my Plats and lists of prices, and secure a cheap farm.
 JAMES POTTS, Agt.
 RusscIiyiiie Ark
The Russellville Democrat., 1876-11-23

Cidar plays a great part in a norman wedding. A young girl is seated upon full cask and sle must drink both the first and last glass it contained in order to be married within the year. It is fortunate for the girl that she is not compelled also to drink all the cider in the cask between the first and last glasses. Before the job was half completed she would be apt to indulge in such wild hilari- ty that her chances of getting a husband would be damaged forev- er.--- --Norristown Herald.
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The Russellville Democrat., 1876-11-23
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The Russellville Democrat., 1876-11-23
TERMS.
Are You Doing Your Duty?

AS the season of the year is now at hand when our people will all have money on hands, we must re- mind them that there is small in- yestment which we advise every man in the county to make at once and that is to subscribe for the Rus sellville DEMOCRAT. We give this advice and urge our citizens to ac- cept it and act upon it, not simply because we are interested in the success of this paper, but because we believe it is the very best invest ment that can be made with that small sum of money. The benefits you will derive will be both direct and indirect. You will be almost certain to lose more than the paper costs if you do not read it, for there are notices and warnings and orders iu almost every number of the paper which involve many dollars and cents to somebody. If you have a family of boys and girls the paper will be of great benefit to them, for they will read it when they will not read books and they will ob- tain knowledge and information from it which they can obtain from no book.
 The indirect good that the paper is doirg you is far greater than you can estimate. There is no other power or influence in your county which is doing so much for the country. Our paper is attracting more attention to Pope county than all things else combined. There is not mail arrives at our office, scarcely, but what brings letters and postal cards enquiring for spec imen copies of the DEMOCRAT. These inquiries come from farmers, mechanics, laboring men and capit- alists in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and Nebraska, who wish to come to milder eli mate. They have their eye on Ar kansas, and in order to judge of the country, the people and the pros poets, they send for the newspaper yyhi ,h they always regard as good index. We always mail papers to these parties, and we believe thro' this means many industrious, ener- getic citizens will be induced to seek homes in Pope county. Now if you want your county to grow in intelligence, in population and in wealth you can do nothing to secure this end so effectually and rapidly as to sustain and send out from your county a creditable paper. We try to make the DEMOCRAT such, and from the replies which we le- ceive from parties to whom we send the paper, many expressing not only qualification, but even agreed ble surprise, that such creditable paper should come from the rural districts of Arkansas, we are flatter- ed to believe that some degree oi success is crowning our efforts, and that good will follow. We there. fore submit it to you if you should not give our paper your generous support. Every man should talk, at least one copy for his own family and there are many who are able t, do so, who should subscribe for { number of copies to send abi oad If you will pay the subscription wt will send them where they will dc good. Send in your subscriptions gentlemen. Come up squarely t, your duty.
The Russellville Democrat., 1876-11-23
Proclamation by the GOvern'
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STATE OF ARKANSAS, ] E EYnnntiN.a nanari nnant

STATE OF ARKANSAS,
 Executive Department.
 In conformity with time honor ored custom, and believing that the people of the state have many and great causes for devout thank fitness to God; l, A. H. Garland, Governor of the state of Arkansas do hereby designate and appoint Thursday, Nov. 30th, as a day of public Thanksgiving and urge npon the people of the entire State it's hearty observance.
 In testimony whereof, I have herennto set my hand and caused the seal of the state to be affixed at Little Rock, on this Sth day of November, A. D. 1876.
 By the Governor.
 A. H. GARLAND. By R. B. BEAVERS, Secretary of State.
The Russellville Democrat., 1876-11-23
Election Oddities.

uoSouoo pb iuteiSoe.
 There is q good deal of Kel- logg rolling in Louisiana.
 Both political roosters had a chance to crow this time.
 The returns from the pool boxes are distressingly slow.
 Till the thing is settled, let's hurrah for Peter Cooper.
 Gov. Kellogg thinks it advisa ble to keep his carpct-bag packed
 Gov. Kellogg will throw out those parishes, or parish in the attempt.
 Peter Cooper doesn't give it up and says there is several states to hear from.
 The carpet-bag governors vii not be allowed to bag that Tilden vote.
 "This suspense is --." He expired without finishing the re- mark.
 Moody says the returns are not all in; there are several souls to to hear from.
 A delegation of matters are on their way to New Orleans to hur- " up the count.
 How many hopes and fears are centered in the ballot box-and also in the pool box.
 It isn't New Year but Mir. Til. den's friends are wishing him many "happy returns"
 Uncle Richards nephew wasn't Presidt nt for more than 15 mn utes during last week.
 Charles Francis Adams is go- ing to Louisiana, but he must not try to count himself in.
 Farmer Grant remarks that the best time to plant carpet. .baggers is just before election.
 There will be a distressing stringency in the market until the pool boxes are opened.
 North Carolina ard South Car. olina have gone for Tiluen. One good return deserves another.
 As the Florida alligator swallows a bundle of TiIden votes he anx. iously asks, Are the returns all in?"
 A good many republicans arc hurrying South, but it is believed the polls down there have been closed.
 If you have been selling pool: on the election, don't, as you val ue your life, be seen entering : trunk store.
 There's a hole in his hat ano torn is the brim, but what care: he for thatS it vexeth not hin and he says with a smile, My bel it will win, and I'll have a new tile when the votes are all in."
 The iron clad navy of the Uni ted States is forty eight vessels with 12l guns. Great Britain France, Russia, Spain, Itally, Tur ky and Austria have each navy of iron clad vessels exceeding that of our country. And Tildel is cleo ted.
 In the mud and mire of a Flor ida stream an alligator playful, widowed, ard he smacked his lip with evident glee, and as over hi good luck he gloated, he observed Its really surprising to me, hoy many Tilden ballots were voted.
The Russellville Democrat., 1876-11-23
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The Russellville Democrat., 1876-11-23
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On and after Monday Oct. lsA 1876, trains on this road will run s,. cry day Sundays excepted,