The Russellville Democrat., 1877-10-25

ooHH M. Harian, Ol henLucky, to Ill the vacant place on the Supreme Court bench.
 The Arkansas Pocket Mirror, a new paper published at Pleasant Plains, Dr. Ed. Martin, editor, has reached our table. It is a red hot greenback paper ala Brick Pomeroy.
 The Hot Springs Telegraph, since the issuance of the last state ment of the Finance Board, thinks the Adams Redfield proposition looks more than ever like a Greek horse.
 The Arkansas Traveller says it understands from reliable authority, that the Legislature will be conven- ed before January 1st, 1878. Alas, for the poor tax payer.
 MT. J. B. Bezzo, of Yell county, formerly editor of the Dardanelle Ar gus, but of late years lecturer for the Oranges of Yell county, died at his home in Yell county. on Saturday Oct. 13tlr
 The differences which lave exis- ted for some months between the St. L. 1. M. & s. and the M. & L. R. rail ways have been adjusted, and the low cut rates have given way and the old rate been restored.
 --Danl. F. Beatty is certainly the most persistent and cheeky fellow we ever heard ofin his efforts to get newspapers to advertise hls pianos and organs for him, at starvation rates. When will the newspapers come right down to business and make such men pay for their adver- Using in money, just as they do their home advertisers?
 John W. Forney, has retired from the editorial harness. For al most half century MT. Forney has wielded the pen on the public press, and his retirement makes vacancy in the ranks, which will be hard to fill. Few men attain a wider repu- tation as great public journalist than has Mir. Forney.
 The White County Record, pub lished at Searcy, by our good friend Col. Jake Frolich, has just rounded mp it's eleventh year. Here's our best wishes, Bro. Frolich, for a bet ter and more prosperous volume next year, than any proceeding one. We hope some day to get up as good a paper as the Record,--a big hope, but we will struggle to realize it.
 Dispatches dated London, Oct. 17th, state that on Monday the 14th inst, Gen. Heymann, of the Russian army, with 10000 infantry, carried Olyapete, the key to the Turkish po- sition, by assault, cutting the Turk ish army Tn two. Mukhar Pasha fed and took refuge in Kars. Three divisions constituting the Turkish right being completely surrounded, surrendered. Seven Pashas and 32 guns, with thousands of prisoners were captured. The Russians will at once push on and the seige of Kars will commence.
 The Editor of the Star of Hope, after studying the statement and cal eulations of the Finance Board on the Adams-Redfietd proposition, makes some figures of his own, and don't make it pan out as the Finance Board does. He makes it out that by the adoption of the AR. proposi- tion the State will really pay sur plus interest and excess of principal enough to amount to $l,630,000. This he says is the difference be- tween accepting their proposition to get rid of bonds already declared il- legal, and letting the matter rest just as it is.
 On the I2th inst. death sentence was passed by Judge l. c. Parker, of the U. S. District Court of Wes- tern Arkansas, upon three men for crimes committed in the Indian ter litory. Thomas Robinson, a white man, killed another white man, Pat rick Cannon, July 2oth, 1877. Wm. I. Meadows, also white, threw train from the track of the M. K. & T. rail road Tn Jan. 1877. Joshua Wade. a negro, committed rape under agra vating circumstances upon a Choc- Jaw woman, on the 2d of June, 1877. The three doomed men are to suffer the death penalty at Ft. Smith on Friday, Jan. Is, 1878.