The Russellville Democrat., 1876-03-23
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

See notice of petition for new road.
 Monday night was the coldest of the season.
 If you want your communica- tions published, send name.
 It did not look much like making garden, or planting corn, or going fishing, last Monday morning.
 New warning order from John son county in our advertising col umns. Interested parties will take notice.
 All hands subject to roadwork duty have been warned to meet at Fuckers corner, Friday morning, for two days work. Our streets need it.
 MT. l.. D. Finley, who was taken to Little Rock last week for ''crook- ed' dealing in tobacco, got back home Friday, having been released under bond of $l00.
 THANks.-We have to thank a cor respondent from Franklin county for very cheering, and withal very flatteling compliments paid the DEMOCRAT. Modesty prohibits us from publishing his friendly letter.
 If our officers would keep their eyes open there would be a good many fines paid for violation of the law against the sale of whiskey within three miles of the schools at this place. Do they close their eyes purposely!
 The first number of the Spirit of Arkansas under the management of it's new edito., Mir. W. A. Web Der, came to us last Thursday, and we say without hesitation that it is the most complete paper in Arkrn- sas. It is q large eight-pagc paper, published every Thursday, and is only s2.00 per year.
 The weather clerk forgot that Rrst Sunday was the 10th day of March, and sent Us a regular winter day-one which would have done credit to December. It showed steadily and briskly from ten o'clock 4. NJ. until ten F. M., and when it let up the snow was fully inches deep.
 We invite attention to the new advert 'senicnt of Mir. W. R. kean, proprietor of the marble works at Dardanellc. He is fully prepared to fill all orders for work in his line. We think he ought to sell q great many tombstones in our county, for our graveyards are too much neg lectcd. Every gravo should be marked by a neat slab, which, al- though inexpensive, would be valu- able in preserving the location and idle ntity of each departed friend.
 Too many drunk men in town the latter part of last week. What about the law prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors within three miles of the schools here: Whose duty is it 10 enforce it! What do we have justices of the peace and constables for? Come, gentlemen, enforce the law as you are sworn to do. You can make no excuse that you know of no. violatiOn,. for you sec drunk men nearly every day, and you know where they get their whiskcy.
 -Mr. II. Clabe Howell, of Dover, the chairman of the County EXecu- tive Committee, called on us SatIir- day, and informs us that he will give timely notice of the calling of a county convention for choosing dele gates to the State convention. He thinks along in May will be time enough, and we fully agree with him. The basis of representation for the townships will be fixed by the Central Committee, and made known in the call. Mr. II. expres- ses himself as dcsirous of hearing any suggestions in regard to the in tcrcstS of the cause from it's friends such as what basis of representation should be adopted, etc. Mr. II. vii perhaps give his views of the proper course to he pursued, in a week o two.
 Capt. Joe Evins was in towi last Friday. Mcssrs Evins & Shinl ] have now one of the best steam ferr, boats plying between Dardanell and Norristown, that there is in tn , Arkansas river. Their pluck am : enterprise Is unsurpassed, and the should have the patronage, support and encouragement of the publi, Thcis boat has capacity to accommc date all the public travel with safet
 and dispach. We understand the
 have not made expenses for a ion
 time (haying sustained the loss (
 one boat, last fall, by the explosio of boiler, hut we hope an 'lppr,
 ciatiyc pnblic will give them the D;
 tronagc at their crossing, SO that a 1 enterprise SC dcscrNing may m