The Russellville Democrat., 1877-02-22
Only 13 more days of Grant.

l Anyway we can sit under oul blue glass and make faces at the tribunal.
 One of Elizabeth Cady Stantons daughters has begun the study ol
 medicine in New York.
 Christian states men are begin ming to tske interest in affairs again. Even Colfax IS said to smile.
 The tribunal, according to the Chicago Times, is a steal trap into which the Democratic party has put it's foot.
 The following notice is posted conspicuously in a Scotch office : .'Shut the door, and when you have done talking on business serve your mouth the same way"
 The longest sentence on record was pronounced by an Ohio Judge. He sentenced murder CT to Imprisonment for life, and afterward added two more years to the sentence because the pris oner called him mo gentlemen" If Hayes, having been elected by fraudulent returning boards, should be reelected by partisan votes in the tribunal, the people would be forced to inquire wheth CT two wrongs can make a right. In the Louisiana case the law and the facts will be presented to the electoral tribunal so plainly that wayfaring man, though a fool, need not err therein" Whether the tribunal will consid- CT the facts or be guided by the law is quite another matter. A pupil in a Boston school car ried her teacher a beautiful bou- quet of flowers the other day, but they had lost their fragrance, when the cousin of the donor an nounced that they had been taken from the coffin of a child who had died of scarlet fever.
 The little daughter of a poli- tician, who likes to travel on his war record, the other day unwit- ingly furnished the opposition with good joke on her papa. A one armed soldier came to the house begging assistance, and the little girl in condoling with him said: My father was a sol dier but he did not get hurt. He was a prudent soldier"
 A Mayor of one of the communes in France lately make the follow ing entry upon his register: q, Mayor of found yesterday in the forest man by the name of Rolin, committing an act against the laws. commanded him to sur render, whcreupon he set upon me and heaped upon me insult and contumely, calling me ragamuf- in, an ass, precious old dolt, an awful and contemptible scarecrow, all of which 1 hereby certify to be strictly true."
 Mir. Purman, Republican repre- sentative from Florida, rises in his place in Congress to declare that the Tilden electors were le- gally chosen in Florida, and that the action of the canvassing board was unscrupulous and fraudulent. Mir. Dunnell, Republican repre- sentative from Minnesota, who signed the majority report of the Investigating committee, substan- tially endorses this declaration. Yet the electoral tribunal says that Florida must be counted for Hayes.
 Artemus Ward had an aduen- ture in Boston once, which result ed as follows. Il returned in the horse cars part way. A pretty girl in spectacles sat near me tel ling young man how much he reminded her of a young man she used to know in Waltham. Very soon this young man got out, and smiling Tn a seductive manner, I said to the girl in spectacles, ''Don't remind you of some one you used to knowr Yes, said she yon do remind me of man, but he was sent to the penitentiary for stealing barrel of mackcral ; he died there, so l conclude you