The Russellville Democrat., 1877-04-19
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

in town hOHu"y'
 A few scattering bales of cotton s,ill continue to come lh..
 little Rock had two sensations ,,st veck-a suicide and duel.
 When will spring chickens be ,,pe? We are waiting patiently.
 We have heard nothing said ,.ot about any May day festivities. What about it?
 Mai. J. W. Smith, of the firm of Kellogg & Co.,, Little Rock, was in town Monday.
 A heavy rain storm visited this section last Tuesday evening. The 1rsjn continued to fall all night.
 We are waiting with calm pa .innce to see what the new council will do for the streets leading into the east end.
 MT. J. w. Wilson, staunch citizen of the Glass Village neigh borbood. paid our office a friendly 
 visit last week.
 We learn from Postmaster Er- win that the post office here will be money order office on and after .July lst'
 What say our farmers and others in regard to holding County Fair w. la f1 ipt If pnn1I nay our Oranges to take this matter into consideration.
 Just as soon as the waters sub side and the ground gets little dryer we propose to go fishing Ali who want some nice perch or trout had better let us know.
 Some of our State exchanges . come to US very irregularly. Send along your papers regularly, breth fen. we wish to see all of you every week.
 -Messrs. Cole & Dow, one Of the leading Dry Goods establishments of Little Rork had the misfortune to sustain loss by fire last Thursday night. They were partially insured.
 We are indebted to the Publish CT for splendid piece of new music eatitled ''Diury Gallop," by Will. NJ. Stephens. H. D. Brown, Springfield, Mo, is the publisher.
 We regretted very mnch to hear the sad news of MT. John Whiso- Iants death. His remains were committed to mother earth last Mon. day by his brother Odd Fellows of Atkins.
 The Russellville Printing and r Publishing Association will hold their ] st Quarterly meeting for 1877, at the store Of J. L. Shinn, next Fri day evening, the 20th inst. All members are invited to attend.
 Mrs. W. G. McKinnie, of Cleve land, Ohio, accompanied by her two daughters, Miss Linnie and little Mamie, are in town visiting relatives. We wish them a pleasant stay in our little town.
 Sunday being a most delightful day church goers filled the places of worship to overfowing last Sabbath. Rev. Mir. Crawford filed the pulpit in the morning and M'. Shannon in ]. the evening.
 Now would be a splendid time to do some work on the streets. The ground is scft and easy to blow and scrape, the new city dads need some thing to give them good start. of, the streets need working,-all things are favorable; let us have some street improvement.
 Our correspondents in, the va nous townships in the county would do us favor now if they will send us in reports of the progress being made in farming, such as the extent of acreage of the different crops, the prospect and condition of crops from time to time, &c.
 We move, insomuch as the town council show no disposition to do sanything else in the premises, that f they establish ferry and appoint a ferryman, and make 1t his duty to be pun"tually on hand whenever it rains SO that the inhabisants of the east end of town can get home with out wading knee deep to get across the low syag west of Oak street. Ing WHEAT PRosrECT.-Mosi all of our exchanges report the pros pect very favorable for good aver Se wheat crop throughout the State This is cheering. In our own coun. ty there are some fields of late wheat | which do not look so well, but ma lorty of the reports we receive indi | cate fair average crop. ALLEN & BLACKBURN.-This is We understand the style of the new hrm which will occupy the store house near the depot. These gentle men (tbe former with his family have come to our town to locate ant make their homes amongst us. We extend them hearty welcome, ano Il wish they may flint a pleasant ant agreeable hone, and cordial recep uoA among our citizens.