The Russellville Democrat., 1877-06-21
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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

ed from Fayetteville last Saturday.
 A bran new White Sewing Ma chine for sale at a sacrifice. Call at this office.
 Yell Circuit Court, for the Oar dinclle District, adjourned last Tues dav, and Judge Mansfield passed up home.
 We have not received Fayette- vile Democrat since the Press Con vention. Whats the matter Bro. Moore?
 The thermometer marked 8S de crccs last Tuesday at noon in Mr. J. L. sbinn's counting room-the cool est place in town.
 -Our young friend Mir. Lawrence Russell, who has been attending the 4. I. |. at Fayetteville, got back home last Saturday.
 A little son of Mir. Sid Bradley was badly bitten in the calf of the leg last Friday by ferocious dog at the Railroad Eating House.
 The Gazette estimates the dam. age from the overflow, to planters, within q few miles of Little Rock, at not less than $l50,000.
 We must thank our pro tenn. Mir. R. B. Wilson, who so ably filled the editorial chair for us last week, for his valuable services. Bob! may your shadow never grow less.
 We doff our hat and mako our best bow to Brother Warner for the compliment paid us in his review of the personnel of the Arkansas Press Association.
 MT. Perry Renfrow has brought in two. stalks of his cotton which we don't think any of the river bottoms can beat. They are over 24 inches high.
 Two more new subscribers from "A NJ. M." our excellent Atkins cor respondent. Would that we had such correspondent in every town ship. Thanks, sir, many thanks!
 Maj. J. P. Byers, the polite and efficient Prosecuting Attorney for this Circuit, spent q pleasant half hour in our sanctum last Saturday. He was one of the Hot Springs ex- cursionists.
 Attention ladies. We have q few very handsome ladies' hats on hand which we will now close out al cost. Call at once as they will soon be gone. J. L. SHlNN.
 Any young man wishing to at tpHd st III SJ NistSo SOiuIiSiNldi 1cCuOul, at Little Rock or St. Louis, should call at this office; we can furnish a life scholarship on extra-desirable terms.
 A difficulty which occurred a few miles below Atkins last Tuesday, wherein two Germans were the be- ligerants, resulted in the instantane- ous killing of one of them. We have no particulars further than will be found in our Atkins letter.
 MT J. B. Featherston has plac- cd before us specimen of his new wheat, threshed out and ready for the mill. The wheat is bright and plump, weighed GA pounds to the bushel, and turned out 39 pounds first class flour.
 Returning from the Springs last Saturday, we had the pleasure of making the trip from Little Rock to this place in company with several good friends, among whom were Bro. Cummings and lady, of the Ozark Banner. Fnend Warner, of the Ar kansaw Traveller, looking calm, se- rene and happy as a summer morn Ing, also came up as far as Lewis burg with us.
 While in Little Rock last week, we could not help but notice that all the people from up the Fort Smith road, (and there were quite a number Of them,) patronized those houses whose advertisements had been kept Tn the papers ofthis section. Gleas son s Restaurant and Mrs. B. Cans Emporium of Fashion, were crowded with customers from up the road. So much for advertising.
 A very skillful and grave surgi- cal operation was performed in our town last Tuesday by Dg. A. Davis, or PIummerville, assisted by Drs. G. W itaTl0V and M X,nna., of