The Russellville Democrat., 1877-07-26
-Messrs. Rand. McNally & Co.

hensive maps of the Eastern country that we have seen. Send 25c. and get one sent to you postpaid.
 We detest apologies, but we feel that we should make some ex- cuse for this weeks paper Press of outside business has allowed us but very meager space of time to de vote to getting up matter for the pa per this week. Hence it is as it is.
 Those of our merchants who have shipped wheat to St. Louis and received sales thereof, complain that it has netted them less money than they would have realized had they sold it to the houring mills at Little Rock.
 The weather clerk must have been in most unusually capricious mood last Saturday morning. It seemed that we were having Noyem Der in July. The mercury sank to 56o, and those who had removed their heating stoves found the yicin- ity of the kitchen stove very desira- ble.
 The case of Shinn & Evins vs. Goodman & Stirman, wherein the former prayed for an injunction againet the latter to restrain them from ferrying at Norristown, was heard on appeal before Judge Mans field, at Ozark, last Saturday. The Judgment of the lower court-Coun- ty Judge Thach-was affirmed, and the injunction granted.
 Bright as the scintillations from the burning meteor as it courses its brilliant way athwart the midnight sky was the radiant beams of light shed abroad in our sanctum last Monday afternoon, from the bright faces of the fair trio, Miss Bettie Lewis, Mrs. R. B. Potts and Mrs. Mark A. Moseley, who, in company with our gallant young friend James Shinn, honored us with pleasant visit. We are always proud to be the recipients of such calls, and only regret that they are so few and far between.
 --HoRsE SToLEN.--On last Mon day morning week ago, Prof. Pat rick missed his horse out of his lot, but suppesing that he had jumped out and returned to his old range in the bottom, he felt no uneasiness about the animal. Wednesday he found that the horse had not been seen in his old neighborhood, and his suspicious were aroused that the animal had been stolen. Upon en- quirv it was ascertained that Mr. Sid Bradley had about this time, lost a saddle and bridle from his premises. Putting these two cir cumstances together there was but little doubt left that thief had been about. Upon further enquiry 1t was found that one Hiram Hirst, a young man who had been going to school to Prof. Patrick, had been seen passing up the Clarksville road riding the missing horse, on We'd nesdav of last week. He had kept the hsrse tied out some where from Monday night till Wednesday, It is supposed that he would stop in Johnson county, where he had been working formerly at mill, and if properly managed he will yet be caught.
 We hadn't time to count the ''drummers" who infested our town this week, but we think there were a few less than seven hundred. Some of them represented houses near us, some of them represented houses far away; but most of them represented houses heretofore unknown of, and unheard of by our merchants, and after the smooth -tongued represent atives of these houses pass on their way, like the flower of to day which fades and passes away tomorrow they will be heard of and remember ed no more until they send another drummer around, for they seem to he destitute of that business tact and sense which ought to suggest that fl they want to secure the patronage of our merchants and build up a business with our country they should make the names of theiI firms as familiar as household words by advertising in the local paper They may scorn to place their cards in an humble country newspaper but we have noticed that it is those 1