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The Russellville Democrat., 1877-09-27
PROPOSITION no FINANCE COMMITTEE.
LlrrLE Rock, June 27, 1877.

LITTLE ROCK, June 2l, 1877.
 SIRs: As 6 feasible and fair plan of funding and compromising the State debt, we propose the following: There are now outstanding of old
 bonds lssuei to the State and Real
 similar bonds bonds issued for funding ''''''O' debt under act las ed in 1868, by
 which old bond3 'ssueA Co state
 and Real Estate banks were fund-
 cd n new six per cent bonds, leav-
 . ne Holford bonds a,eA,5lo.Oo The Real EstGte bank actually re-
 cCived, on the hypothecated hOl-
 ford bonds, Si2i ,33G, which, with
 interest, now amounts to s07.9s2. .Os Making, in all, an undisputed debt
 The legality of this debt, or of any part of it, has never been dis puted by any one, SC far as we know.
 Now, we propose to settle the entire debt of the State, excepting that part of 1t due to the United States, the outstanding scrip, and the ten per cent and Loughborough bonds, in new six per cent. bonds, having thirty years to run, for the NEF5A sNbN sum VT PA3NVNtNAN.
 This will be the amount of new bonds to be issued, which will nom- inally exceed the. amount of the undisputed debt by the sum of $272,- I72.92.
 But the real amount of the new bonds, estimating them on the basis of six per cent. bonds, will be less than the amount of the undisputed debt above mentioned, for we pro. pose that the new bonds shall not draw six per cent. from date, but that the interest for the first years shall be as follows: For the first year the interest shall be at two per cent, for the second year three per cent, and for the third year four per cent. winch will be an annual reduc- tion from the interest of the first thgee years ot the following amounts For inc first year SlGo 000 For the second year 1s0NUl Dor inc third year e000O In ail gsa COG which will make the new bonds, estimating them on the basis of six per cent. bonds, tos aM amount less
The Russellville Democrat., 1877-09-27
THE ADAMS -REDFIELD PRO-
 POSITION.
MAJOR ADAMS LETTER.
 LITTLE Rock. Sep. ,. IS.
10 His EXceIloncy, Gov. ". R. Mil-

To His EXcellency, Gov. w. R. Mill
 Ter, President Finance Board of
 Arkansas, Little Rock
 DEAR SlR; Herewith l send you letter from Mr. Fishback to the editor of the Gazette, which was handed me by Col. Mitchell, in which Mir, Fishback states that the Adams and RedGeld proposition is one and three quarter millions too much. Will you please give the statement us made when the finance board consented to recommend to the legislature an acceptance of 8 propo- siLion, if made by the bondhodeis, s, to surrender all the unfunded 5s and G's. the funded 6's, including the "llollords,' Che railroad aids and the leyees, for $L000,000, of course making allowance, as then, for tue difference in interest the first three years 1 would also re-
The Russellville Democrat., 1877-09-27
Murder Win Out.

A few years ago "August Flower
 was discovered to be certain cure .ol Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint, few thin Dyspeptics made known tO thuil friends how easily and quickly they had been cured by it's use. The grQlt merlts of Greens August Flower te came heralded through the country H. one sufferer Co another, until, without advertising, it's sale has become in. mense Druggists in EVERY rows in the United states are selling it. No person suffering with Sour Stomach Sick Headache, Costlvcness, palp
 tion of the Heart, Indigestion, loA spirits, etc., can take three does ViJl- out relief. Go to your Druggist, J. N harkey & Bro, and get bottle for (. cents and try it. sample bottle lJgts
The Russellville Democrat., 1877-09-27
BTARIEIED.

On Sunday the 23d inst, at tho r. i- dence of the brides father, Andrew Tate, at NorlistOwn, by C. F. Bdru' ', Esq, Mitchell Mccall to Miss sagl [ ate, all of Pope County.
The Russellville Democrat., 1877-09-27
Letter from J. T. Harrison on
 the State Debt.

DR. M'GuIRE: As you indicated a desire for some statistics of our State debt, the following is submit ted. From Gov. Miller's Special Message to the last Legislature, the debt is stated: (p. 465.)
 Floating Debt, $9f0,4 Bonds held by U. S. < int, 1,737,956 New Bonds, (Debt of ls74l 5l5,6SS Old Unfunded Debt, exclu
 sive of debt due |. S, aS5, 335 New funded debt, 4,Ia5,510 R. R. aid bonds and int, 7,T57,f45 Levee Bonds, 2,751,1IS
The Russellville Democrat., 1877-09-27
TotaI debt est. to Jnly l. sl7.75311

Total debt est. to July I, $17,753,l1S
 To the above we may safely add as underestimatcd, the amount of Scrip refunded and not collected of the tax of 1S75-near $500, ,000-the tax be- ing reduced to one mill instead of five mills, on which the Governors estimates were made This will make the debt really about $1S,0O0, 000.
 If you will now turn to page 36 of Auditor Miller's report to the same Legislature, you will find that of this debt there in due on the Holford Bonds $l, 5,090, or at the time of Gov. Mlller's estimate, near $2,O00- 900. To get the undisputed debt: Take Floating Debt about SI 200, 900 Debt due the U. S., 1,757,956 New Bonds, 5l5,6SS Old bonds & funded debt, 2,500,OO0 Total admitted debt about, 5,953,64i
 To this add what mary consider due on the Holford Bonds, $I2I,336. and interest from date about the year 1887.
 Having given the debt in detail, I shall, in the balance of my statement drop off fractions and odd figures, and present some calculations em- bracing the amounts approximately due. in each case.
 l understand that in late state ment Mir. John D. Adams estimates the debt of the State can be settled, and all the bonds cancelled by pay ing $l, ,000,0 0,000-an amount less, bv $2.000,000, than the deht usually al mitted to be due and binding on the State. How such statement can be made in the face of Governor Miller's message and estimates, IS beyond my comnrehension; but as | have not seen Mir. Adams reported statements, and desire to do injustice to no one, l propose to investigate some other statements that have gone to the public and have been re- peated so often, and from such high authority, that many persons have no doubt been led to suppose that there was no doubt of their correct ness. The statement,in effect, will be found in Gov. Millcr's special m sss- age; in the letter of Mr. Adams in reply to Col. Fishback, of a late date, and in the columns of the Gazette newspaper, often repeated for sever. al years. It is, that the whole debt
The Russellville Democrat., 1877-09-27

NTOTlCE is HkRERT GVEN THAT
 N application will ne made at Che Octou.r lelt teim of tite Pope county Court for u continuance oi the Toad c0lamenglur at Nui- rtsaowu and MteVsecfiu@ Che IiHlc Rock 'l3 ". smith Railway at or near --- -iucIair'. E, and snoMn a tha p.d AUii,ary ratl, ul i..' ground D, ta having hcpOnp Nattta4 8Hi u#
 uucoaeaty. <, 1T. bfCkEN. atld 9tllcif.
The Russellville Democrat., 1877-09-27

JUG tTt0IIOn OT such m oIIlcef, As ] presume no portion of our population would be willing to pay the interest on bonds fraudulenty obtained, or disposed of in violation of the con stitution or laws of our State." c.
The Russellville Democrat., 1877-09-27
J. ID. BATTENFlELD. Edltor.
THURSDAY MORNING. SEPT. a7, ts77.

RUssELLyILLE, ARB
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The Portland daily press., 1877-01-19
CITY CLERKS OFFICE,

H. /. ROBINSON, City Clerk.
The Portland daily press., 1877-01-19

AT the late convention of colored citizens
in Rhode Island, letters were read from two
men whose names have become historic in
connection with their early and answering
battle in behalf of that long-sufferng race
In few scathing lines William Lloyd Garri-
son draws striking portrait of the Bonrbons:
''The coored people are justified in regarding
the Democratic party as their relentless enc
my-at all times, under all circumstances, in
every issue, and to the full extent of its su-
premacy. Ruled by the slave power while
slavery existed, ever ready to make any con-
cessions demanded by it, in sympathy with
the rebellion from the time of the firing up
on Fort Sumter until the surrender of Lee,
opposing every measure necessary to the sue
cess of the loyal cause, condemning alike the
proclamation Of emancipation and the con-
stitutional amendments in furtherance of the
rights of all classes, it still retains its base
subs elvency to the South; and, deaf as an
adler, it will not hear; blind as bat, it will
not see; insensible as a stone, it will not ac-
knowledge anything of wrong done to South
ern freedmen" Wendell Phillips, as usual,
terse and aggressive, takes occasion to de-
nounce Tilden's counterfeit reform, and to
acknowledge his trust in the policy OF Gov
ernor Hayes: 81 like the flag Hayes holds
the old Republican one-which means a Just
nation and perfect protection to all races; so
l cling to him aud his side. If his rival sue.
ceeds, we must grid ourselves for another
grapple with caste. If Tilden wins, it is by
rum in New York and revolvers in the
South.'
The Portland daily press., 1877-01-19
"LOndOn's Water Supply"

10 TIE EdltOf or the PreSS
Your ''item" of to-day on New River, one of
the many water companies of London, is de-
fectve in facts and in dates. S,r Hugh Mid
dleton did not fail 10 bis enterprise, nor did
King James finish the work
De Laune who wrote in 1851, says of the
New River, "This famous work brought by the
liberal charge and exquisite skill of one wor-
thy man, Sir Hugh Middleton, Knight and
Baronet, citizen and goldsmith of Lou
don, deserves an everlasting memorial
Queen Elizabeth granted power to the citi-
zeus by act of Parliament for the cutting and
conveying of a river from any part of Middle
sex or Hartfordshre to the city of London,
with limitation of ten years, time for the per-
formauce thereof, but she died before it was
undertaken. King James granted the like
without limitation of time, and when others
would not undertake it, Sir Hugh Middleton
did with infinite pains and vast charge both
begin and finish it, He brought two springs
near Ware in Hartfordshire, from whence
IN turning and winding course, it runs
three score miles before it reaches the city.
At the north side of the city, at Islugton he
built a large cisteTn to receive it aud from
thence it is disersed in pipes to the
highest parts of London. in the lower
rooms, ard in tie lower parts in their
higher rooms" The water was car
ried over the valleys in open troughs sup
ported or wooden arches. 1t was begun in
1908 and finished 10 five years
De lame says: "Tbe brave adyenturer deser-
yes statue to eternize his name and transmit
his memorv and keen il Trash lika his w atarsp
This last paragraph is my excuse for troubling
you with this vndication. W. G.
Windham, Jan. II.
The Portland daily press., 1877-01-19
Cost toCity.
PROsPECT, CAsCO AND HANOVER
SIS, SEWER,

Beginning at point in the centre of Casco ST.,
11S #, nOrtherly from north line of Congress St.,
thence through the centre of Casco ST., dist of
4l35 # to point 25 it, south of south line of Cum
berland ST., thence a to left, distance of
III It to centre of Cumberland St., thence with
reversed curve distance of 71s it. to point in the
centre of Hanover ST. 2E h north of the north line of
Cumberland St, thence a direct line through the
centre OF Hanover St., distance of 403 ft., to a
point tt north of the north line of Portland ST.,
where it enters old sewer.
Again, beginning at point in the centre of Pros
pect St, 90 it, east of east line Of Oak St. thence
through the centre of Prospect ST., distance of
24O 5 IT,, to west line of CascO ST., thence with
curve to left, distance of % f., where it enters
brick connection between u and Is in Pipe. The
sewer in Prospect ST. is of " inch cement pipe, LAID
# deep throughout lin Casco ST., from point of be-
ginning TO point IL IT, south of north line of Pros
pect S., is of 12 in. the remainder of 15 in. cement
pipe, laid ft. deep in Casco St. and #. deep in
Cumberland and Hanover SITS. Total length 1928 5
#.
COSU VI
City's proportion, twO-ffths ........... 2,O3O 46
sum 10 De assessed .........,......... 3,0S5 81
Area assessed, 164i14 SO. it.
Sum to be assessed on portion all ledge.
Area 134 O6S SO. it., Rate per 100 So. it.
Sum to be assessed on portion all earth
AIea 30 34S So IT, rate per 1U0 So it. S0.75. 227 6l
The Portland daily press., 1877-01-19

THE Democratic noise over dispatches sent
to the disputed States by the Republican
National Committee is ear-splitting, but it is
great cry and no wool at all. The report
that any of the dispatches advised the man
ipulation of ballots is absolutely false. When
it became evident that the election hung
upon the result in the doubtful States des-
patches were sent to Florida, Louisiana,
South Carolina, Oregon and California, ask
ing "can you certainly defeat all Democratic
attempts by fraud, false counting or bribery
to capture your State? Answer" To an
interrogation of this nature no man can pos
sibly object. Another despatch to Florida
says "If your State has gone for Hayes the
Democrats will leave nothing undone to take
it from u.s. All Inay depend on your vigil
ance. Be on guard everywhere. You must
watch and get in and announce the true re-
turns from every locality without delay.
Spare no pains nor proper expense 10 carry
these points" The inculcatiOn Of vigilance
to secure true returns has not heretofore
been regarded as crime. Subsequent de-
velopments show that the warning was neces-
sary. Another despatch says: "Oregon is
reported Republican, aud will elect Hayes.
Telegraph several citizers of integrity in Ore
gon to watch and get In and have announced
the vote from every locality. The Democrats
will press Grover; hence the importance of
no delay in establishing the result" This
despatch is an eminently proper one. The
Democrats did ''press Grover" as the Cronin
iniquity shows. The putting upon watch of
''citizens of integrity" is not the course usu-
ally taken by those contemplating fraud
The other dispatches are of the same tenor.
When it becomes crime to warn people
against pickpockets then the dispatches of
the Republican Committee can be condemned
as criminal-but not till then.
The Portland daily press., 1877-01-19

WHEN we read the bloody record made up
by the murderous white leagues, the wonder
is, not that the prescribed and hunted freed
men OF the South did so little, but that they
did so much. The purpose of these red
handed representatives CT modern Democ-
racy was to secure "united South" through
the agency of rapne and intimidation.
Their purpose was thwarted by the votes of
tens OF thousands of enfranchised slaves,
who risked their lives to vindicate their prin-
ciples. After such demonstration of he
roic patriotism, it would be inexpressibly
degrading if whole nation should succumb
to the threats aud bravados of few brawl-
ing demagogues.
The Portland daily press., 1877-01-19
Men and Women.

Sir Vernon Harcourt is described in "Madcap
Violet as like a Virgiian verse-six feet long
aud sonorous.
Nilsson owns six lots in the southern part of
Chicago, and has just given the required land
for the widening of an avepue on which they
are situated, without waiting for the usual
legal process of condemnation.
Prince Napoleons latest mot on the present
situation iu France: "We live at present under
the rule of the hungry In the vicious circle
which time and again we must traverse till we
attain the usual end, the ministry is a sort of
station where we stop for refresbments-that is
all. People stop there just as long as there is
something to eat, no longer
Gail Hamilton says galy that her experience
with free passes has been of the most short,
slender and spasmodic kind, but so far as it has
extended it has been Que of unalloyed delight
SIT has always seemed waste" she says can
didly, ''to pay money for going from place to
place, because you want all your money to
spend when you get there. 1 have never yet
refused railroad pass, and, Heaven helping
me, l never willr'
H. w. Vanderveort a romantic young
sehoolmaster in country region OF Long
Island, married clandestinely Miss Addie John
SOD, the daughter of Abram johnson, of
Woodsburg. When the ceremony had been
flushed, the young persons resolved to brave
the matter out, and melt the parents by their
tears and supplications. But the parents were
surprised, and didn't melt The mother beat
the daughter aud the father kicked the young
man cut of doors and off the premises, not
even stopping to open the gate. This expert
ence seems to show that the old plan of getting
at safe distance and asking the parents to
relent by mail is the best.
Swinburne says of Carlyle that he has wor-
SHIPPED every galows that ever was erected, ex-
cept the cross of Chrst; and in this style
rallies the preacher of the divine right of the
strong for his lately y-born philanthropy: eyes
he who has so many words and so loud to
speak on behalf of Bulgaria, had never word
of belp, had never a word but of scorn for
Paris or for Hungary or for Poland; for Italy
he never had word. That nation or that
province, were it never so abject or so wretch
ed, should be proud for once and happy which
has kndled in the spirit of man so famous
and so strangely strong of heart its one solitary
spark of impersonal compassion"
The Portland daily press., 1877-01-19
AND STATE STREET
SEWEE.

Beginning at point in the centre of Cumberland
street, Sc feet eastery from east line of High street.
thence ery through centre OF Cumberland street.
distance Of AS feet, to east line of State street,
north line OF Cumberland street, thence northerly
through centre of State street, distance OF 7O4 feet
to south line of Portland street, thence with curve
to left Portland street, distance of rs ieet
norhne of Portland street, thence on direct line
distance OF II feet, to point 80 feet westerly from
west llne State street, produced thereto, where it
empties into gully in behring's Oaks.
Tie sewer is OF IL inch gazed pipe in Cumberland
street and thereIrom, distanc ce Of COZ feet
thence ID inch do TO the north line of sherman
street, distance of 257 feet thence 1S inch do,
The Portland daily press., 1877-01-19
"A. GOODWIN, c.. C. E
City of Portland.
IN BOARD OF MAYOR AND ALDERMEN,

IN BOARD OF MAYOR AND ALDERMEN,
January I'd, 1877. {
Ordered, That the assessments contained in the
foregoing report of the City Civil Engineer be made
upon the lots adu tant to the therepdescrbed
towards defraying the expense of constructing and
completing the and that the City Clerk give e-
gal notice of such assess ment returnabe at the AL
dermens room in Portland on the 18th day of Feb
ruary next, D, 1877, at 73U p. m, aud certify
the same to the City Treasurer for collection and
is hereby determined that the lots assessed as atore-
said benefited by such in proportion the
rate of such assessment, and that said assessments
do not exceed such benefit, do they exceed in the
whole, two thirds Of the cost of said sewers, and we
deem them just and reasonable
Read and passed.
Attest: H. 1. ROBINSON, Clerk.
A true copy,
Attest: HI. ROBINSON, City Clerk.
The Portland daily press., 1877-01-19

THE able Democratic editors who have
been so remarkably luminous and volumin-
nous on the momentous subject of reform
are strangely reticent concerning that $4,000
check, and its connections. Their sublime
unconsciousness of this beautiful theme is
as curiously interesting as it is touchingly
The Portland daily press., 1877-01-19
State street from sherman to Grant street.
CONGRESS AND MELLEN STREET
SEWER.

Beginning at a point in Congress street 5 feet
nortbery from the centre thereof, and distant 223
feet from west line of State street. or on the eastery
line of the passage way between land of heirs of l..
Fitch and f j, Rollins thence westerly through
with the centre, distance of 452 feet to east line
of Melien stteet; thence with curve to right dis
tance of 45 feet to north line of Congress street feet
through Melen street on parallel line with and
feet eastery from centre distance of sS feet where
it enters old Sewer in the centre of Melen street.
Total length 585 feet The first so feet of Sewer is
of II inch, the remainder of Is inch cement pipe
laid Sc feet deep at point of beginning, 1875 feet
north line of Congress street, and SIS feet deep at
terminus.
The Portland daily press., 1877-01-19

MORNING sTREET AND EASTERN
PROMENADE SEWER

Beginning at a point in the centre of Morning
street and f17 feet nCrthwesterly from the north-
west line OF Promenade; thence southeasterly
through centre of Morning street, distance of AIT
feet to northwest line OF Promenade; thence on
to night distance of SO feet to southwest line
of Morning street and centre Promenade; thence
southwesterly through centre of Promenade
distance OF 210 feet to old sewer. Total length,
695.5 feet
The sewer at point of beginning is feet deep,
s feet deep at line of Promenade, 6 feet deep at
southwest line OF Morning street, and feet deep at
terminus. Cement pipe IL inch
Cost of Sewer ,.................S SGS1.1S
City's proportion ,,,.....,........ S22706
Sum to be assessed. ........... .S45412
Area assessed eG7. GO sqr #,
Rate per 1L0 Snr. Fl. Sn.68 o. 100.
The Portland daily press., 1877-01-19

We do not read anonymous letters and commun-
cations. The name and address of the writer il
ali cases Indispensable not necessarily tor publication
but as guaranty Of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
ncatione that are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1877-01-19
CITY ADVERTISER ENTS
CITY OF PORTLAND.
Sewer Assessments.
CONGRESS- & CHESTNUT STREET
SEWER.

Beginning at point in centre Of Congress Street
and centre line of ane between First Parish Church
lot and l. p. Farrington's lot, produced thereto,
thence northeasteIly through centre of Congress
street distance of 1893 feet to point; thence
Congress street. thence norihwestery through centre
OF Chestnut street distance of 1854 feet where it
enters old sewer.
Sewer at point of beginning is 10 feet deep, feet
deep at point OF curve feet deep at line of Congress
street, and 8 feet deep at teri mus.
The sewer is of cement Pipe l2 inch in Congress
street, and Is inch IN Chestnut street.
Cost of sewer, er,......................S3 S3057 81
Guys proportion. ................... S1O19.2O
Area assessed front land 7191s sqr #.
(Baek t 1920 - sc
Rate per 100 sqT. # (Front land) $2.55 5-100
O. 90 Back } 1.75
Cost of Culvert west corner of
Congress and Chestnut street. 9i.50
Cnst tnC N
The Portland daily press., 1877-01-19

62.-The tenant or occupant, and in there
should be tenant, the owner, any person having
the care Of any building lot of land bordering not
more than one hundred and fifty feet any street,
where there is any foot-way or sidewalk, shall, after
the ceasing to fall Of any snow, if in the day time
within three hours, and if in the night time, before
ten of the clock of the forenoon succeeding, cause
such to be removed from such foot way side
walk, and, in default thereof shall forfeit and pay
sum not less than two dollars, more than ten
dollars and for each and every hour thereafter that
the same shall remain on such footway sidewalk,
such tenant occupant owner or other person, shall
forfeit and pay sum not less than one dollar, nor
should extend more than one hundred and lfty feet,
on any street land, it shall be the duty OF such
such from the footway sidewalk for the space
Of hundred and fifty feet, according to the pro-
visions and subject to the penalties aforesaid