The Russellville Democrat., 1877-10-11
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

l --lne DEhOChAI lfUiu uoW uutAi Jan. l 1879, for $1.50 in cash.
 Mayor Erwin joined the excur- sionists yesterday and is now in the frontier city.
 ---The Ft. Smith Excursion train passed up yesterday with a good load of human freight aboard.
 Mir. D. L. Bourland, of the old re- liable firm of Gilkeson & Sloss was here last Tuesday.
 Twenty Dollars and costs is the expense assessed by Esq. Burney for disturbing religious worship. Dried fruit has declined very ma terially in price. Peaches-halves-- are now selling at SIPS to $1.40.
 The fall fights opened out right lively last Saturday afternoon. Fifteen dollars for the school fund was the consequence.
 | Hon, J. E. Cravens passed through town last Tuesday, on his way to Washington, to be on hand at the meet ing of Congress.
 l We want to make contract with some one for twenty cords of good straight cordwood. Apply at once to the editor of this paper.
 Circuit Court is now going on for the third week, two weeks time not having proved sufficient to get through with the businesf on the docket.
 A petition is being numerously signed by our citizens to have the next annual Conference of the M. E. Church South, held at this place next year.
 A new post office has been estab- lished in our county, 10 miles esst of Dover, called Cagle's Mills, with MT. Jno. D. Rushing as post master. FOR SALE.-A fine, thoroughbred Berkshire pig, of the renowned Lee herd from the breeding farm of Messrs. Pryor & Son, Paris, Kentucky. App ply at this office.
 MT. T. J. Russell has handed us a splendid ear of corn F inches long grown on the poorest part of his farm and planted late in May. Come to Arkansas for good farming lands.
 --The Grand Jury at the present term has, we understand, done d large amount of business, some sixty-four true bills having been found. Pope county is poor place for evil doers.
 With all the pushing that our ac- tive young friends Mr. Billie Reynolds and Ebb Howell, can do it is hard york for them to keep the cotton bales from blockading all the platform room at the station.
 A couple of Russellville's lawyers indulged in the small pleasantly of rough-and-tumble knoek-down at Do yer last Monday. Business is business and it takes money to run the courts, you know.
 1 --Our streets and business houses now present an active and business like appearance from morning until night. Now is the best business DOT 1 ton of the year. Let business men now spread their business before the public by liberal advertising. -To THE PUBLIc.-Mr. Chas. Ash ford, practical watchmaker of Darda- nelle, has opened branch shop at this place, and any work in his line left at the postoffice will receive prompt and personal attention. MT. Ashford will be in attendance at his office ill Rus sellville every ether week. Moore, of the Fayetteville Demo- crat, and Moore, of the Bonneville En- terprise passed down the road the other day to be on hand at the meeting of the Masonic bodies at Little Rock. We regret that we did not get to see them. They both make good papers and are true to the people.
 Our good friends Mir. and Mrs. Cummings have our thanks for the use of late papers last Saturday when we missed getting our Little Rock Dailies. May their business grow and prosper so fast that they may soon make for tune large enough to enable them to swing round the circle la Grante.
 Several of our townsmen took their departure for trips away from home by last Mondays train, among the number, Dr. Hill and Ira l.. Boswell for Louis vile, Ky, Capt. R. J. Wilson, for St. Louis, Capt. J. NJ. Harkey for Little Rock, and MT. Thos. J. Russell for Galla Creek.
 MT. John w. Petray boasts that he has the finest wheat grown in the county this year. He will exhibit Il bushel of it at the County Fair. Send along bushel to the State Fair also, John, and take the premium there too. Messrs. Greer Oates & Co. will send flour from this wheat to the State Fair.
 FINE ToBACCo.---Mr.J J. B. Stafford who lives three miles from here, near the mouth of the Illinois Bayou, thinks he has the finest topacco in Arkansas, and talks of sending some to the State Fair. By all means do so, friend Staff ford, for it would be quite a recommen- | I.t;oo ;F nld popa aould uat tho hlun