The Russellville Democrat., 1877-11-01
VOL. III.

reached depth of $500 feet.
 The Boston letter carriers are to ioin in walking tournament.
 There are nine men accused of murder in the jail III Galveston, Tex.
 --Boston's income from liquor li- censes this year will amount to $250- 900.
 They succeeded in excluding liouor from the Lexington, Kentucky fair.
 -Kcntucky squirrels are swim ming the Ohio river in great droves bound for lndianna.
 The Probate Judge in Jefferson county, Alabama, has been impeach- ed for drunkenness.
 It will cost $6l7, ,393 to improve the Mississippi river from the Des Moines Rapids to St. Paul,
 kentucky reports two petrified honey combs-one of freestone and one of limestone formation.
 Missouri papers report that figs and almonds mature in the open air Tn the southwestern portion of their state.
 The Calvert Texan wants the 5000 conyicts of the Texas peneten- tlary organized into military corps and turned loose on Mexico.
 The Sons of Honor of New Or leans behave so badly in their social gatherings that neighbors nave ask ed the police to drive them out.
 A floral wreath in front of the desk of the presiding officer Of the New York Republican Convention bore the motto "Harmony."
 A Springfield habitual "drunk and disorderly" plaintively appeals that Police fines be reduced to suit the exigencies of the times.
 A traveller lost his watch at White River Junction the other day and It was found at Wells River hanging to the fringe of a lady's shawl.
 --One of the most interesting ob jects destroyed in the Patent Office fire was Whitney's cotton gin, the invention of which built up the cot, ton trade of the South.
 -American travellers do not bring home from Europe as many trunks as they were wont. Custom house officers are required to examine ev- rything, and they do.
 A family residing near the Lcb- anon Valley Railroad, Pennsylvania, is composed of three blind old ladies and the son of one of them who has been an invalid for thirty years.
 An old horse who has run loose In the streets of Marblehead for some time, deliberately committed suicide on recent evening by walk ing overheard from one of the wharves.
 A cat in Allegheny, Pennsylvania sprang upon young man as he en- tered room, and attempted to scratch his eyes out. His brother came to his assistance, and she bit of the end of his finger.
 A Pottsville woman, thinking she heard an unusual noise in her parlor, stepped into the room and there discovered her COW, contented ly chewing her cud, and complacent- ly looking at herself in the mirror She "shooed' that COW out.
 A man Tn Springfield, Massa- chusetts, sold his horse last June, bat the blacksmith he had employed has sent in his bill for shoeing, &c., monthly, with unvarying regularity ever since. We hope that man is President of a gas company.
 It is said that $i0,000 of the $lO0,OO0 given by William II. Van Q derbilt to the men of the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad company has not yet been distribu- ted, the number of workmen entitled to gifts being less than was estima ted at first.
 A Baltimore lawyer sued his minister for a fee of $50 for legal sarylces, and the jury found that he was worthy of his hire. The cler- gyman testified that he consulted nm as friend and a member of his congregation, and that he did not expect to be charged for it.
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