The Russellville Democrat., 1877-11-08
VOL. III.


 the Colliery explosion near Glasgow.
 The "Clipper" says good douring mill is badly needed at Prescott
 MT. Sam. J. Crabtree of White county contemplates establishing a paper at Beebe'
 The President proclaims Nov. 29th thanksgiving day. Begin to fatten your turkey.
 -The "Times" says the interest in the Sabbath School at Brinkley is increasing. Good for Brinkley.
 The largest sweet potato that we have heard of has been received by the Newport News. It weighed st pounds.
 The Brinkley Times and White Go. Record both are on a spree this week. One side of both papers is printed wrong side up.
 Gen. Bedford Forest, the great cavalry officer of the Confederate army died at Memphis last Monday evening.
 Dispatches from Indianapolis, of the 29th inst, say Senator Nor tons condition grows more hopeless every hour.
 ;. The Lawrence County Journal says the robber who recently way laid the mail-rlder near Smithville has been apprehended, and is now in the safe custody of the law.
 The "Democrat" says the sub- ject of gas works and gas lights for Texarkana is being agitated with some prospect of getting the enter prise accomplished.
 The island of Curacuo was re- gently swept by hurricane which |. caused great loss of life and proper ty. The loss of property reaches $2,0oO,OOO.
 Many persons think their kid neys are permanently affected, whereas, the fact is on account of the liver being inactive, they are only sympathetically so, to prove which use Home Stomach Bitters.
 The sRecord' says the wheat crop of White county is this year the largest that has ever.been grown ein the county. We'll wager and wafer that prosperity will follow the policy of making less cotton and more grain, and White county has done wisely.
 The Coming Struggle is the name of beautifully gotten up and ably edited paper published at New York City and devoted to the true interests of American labor. We judge by the number before us that r-the paper will attain eminence among newspapers of it's class. It is good paper for the times.
 Read this, all you who are in- quiring for good country. If the labor of one man on small patch of land can be made to produce as much in any other country in Amer ica we wish to know where it is. MT. R. homesteaded place two years ago, four miles from town. This year he cultivated 6 acres of it in cotton and acres Tn corn. Three acres of the piece in cotton had been cultivated for years and was codsid- cred worn out. The other three acres in cotton was it's second crop. The eight acres ill corn was all new ground. Mir. Rorax has produced from his acres of cotton five 500 pound bales of cotton. From his s acres of corn he will gather over " 200 bushels of corn. Thls land, be 1t remembered is only our common poor upland. Can you beat this? If so tell us where.
 -Peterson's Magazine for Decem Der is on our table, ahead of all oth- CTS, very miracle of beauty and cheapness It has two splendid steel plates, one of them, "Among the Roses," as beautiful as poem; the other, an exquisite title page; a mammoth colored fashion plate; superb colored pattren for a chair stripe, alone worth the price of the number; and nearly fifty wood-cuts of fashions and patterns. The sto- Ties are by the very best authors, all powerfully written, For 1878 great Improvements will be made. Among these will be monthly Supplement, containing Full.Sized Paper Pat