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The Russellville Democrat., 1877-07-12
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--N arlner.
 --The doctors are complaining of dull times.
 Fer nice summer drink call on A. ". Gross.
 --One more bale of cotton was brought to town last week, and was purchased by Mourning & Bro.
 And still they coine--a couple of and have located here.
 Cory Halliburton, brother of our genial Tom, who mas been making his home near Black Fox, returned to our town few days since, and says he is going to be one of the boys now.
 MT. Will Mourning. who has been confined to his bed with severe attack of rheumatism for the last two weeks, is, we are happy to state, on the streets again.
 Esq. Pollock, one of our best farm CTS, reports that wheat will turn out much better than expected in this vi- cinity but no threshers have made their appearance yet.
 Our merchants have commenced buying wheat, but only few bushels IidNG Dttll lDlO tOWIl yct. Judging from the number of sacks that Messrs. Mourning & Bro. and Harry Vim have on hand, we would suppose that they intended to buy all the wheat raised in the county.
 MT. Sam Collins, of Plummervllle, mas assumed management of the ''3- meal hotel,o and B. Jack says the mem- bcrs are all very well pleased with his hash. Mr. Rosenwater, the late pro- prietor, will loaf around for month or two and then go in business again.
 Col. Hill of Clarksville, and NJ. M. McGuire of Dardanelle, honored our town with visit last Mo nday. We are always proud to meet such clever gentlemen and hope they will make it convenient to visit us again in future.
 --M-. Newt. Holyfield has just re- ceived choice lot of family groceries and anyone wanting anything in his line would do well to give him call as he is always polite and attentive to hIs customers.
 MT. A. ?. Scarlctt, one of our best citizens, has his yard so neatly paled in that it never fails to attract the at tention of the passerby. He has one of the most desirable places in town, and if every one would follow his ex- ample ill having a yard paled their homes would look a great deal better.
 We understand that some of the farmers on the River are sowing their overtiowed lands in grass seeds, as it is too late to plant it in anything else.
 MT. A. w. Gross places us under obligations for delicious glass of lem onade given us the other day. Adolph knows exactly how to fix 'em up"- call and be convinced.
 MT. Dan. T. Reynolds, who opened store here a few weeks ago, will close out and leave for A lma this week--says he thinks he can do better up there, but we think it looks a little "promls- cuous." How is it Dan? A. 3-M. NJ.
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DOVER ITEMS,

Saxet sends us tbe following items:
 On Saturday last Dr. A. II. Scott, assisted by Drs. Kirkscey, McFadden and Kenney, performed difficult sur gical operation upon Mir. John M. Ar thur, removing from his bladder a s.one fully as large as hen egg. The patient is easy, and of his speedy re- covery no apprehensions are felt.
 A case of some interest was tried be- fore Justice Kirchoff on Saturday last. The facts in the case are these: $. w. Jones loaned c. J. Leeper $25, which was to be paid back on the 10th of June; to secure this debt Leeper exc cuted conditioned bill of sale of cer- tain horse, saddle and bridle. Before the day for payment Mir. Leeper died. At Mrs. Leeper's request her father, John lsbell, took charge of the horse, saddle and bridle. The money not having been paid at the time mentioned, Jones demanded possession of the horse which was refused and replevin suit appeared for plaintiff, and Judge Davis, fo- defendant, who demurred to the jurisdictiod of the court, which was overruled. A jury was impanneled, the testimody heard, the case argued with much ability by counsel, and a verdict for defendant was returned. Notice was given of appeal to the Cir cult Court. (The objection to the ju- risdiction of the Justice was that Leep- CT being dead, proceedings should be instituted against his estate in the Pro- bate Court.
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tection assured him while en-route and after he should arrive. Strange to say, the answer came back prompt ly from Gov. Stone, that the requisi- tion had sbeen revoked on the 17th of June, and that Gov. Miller had been duly advised of It's revocation. Gov. Stone also stated that he had sent a copy of Rusll's telegram to Gov. Miller, that he might know the status of the matter. A dispatch was soon received from Gov. Miller ordering Rushs release. In the meantime the prisoner had been turned over to Mir. J. s. Gully, of Yell county, the agent for the State of Mississippi, and he refused to re- lease Rush; and not until second dispatch came from Gov. Miller, in structing the sheriff to arrest said Gulley if he still refused to release the prisoner, was he relieved from his unpleasant situation.
 The fact of Gov. Stone having re- voked his acquisition on the 17th of June and the Governor of Arkansas sending warrant for the arrest of Rush on the 18th, is something winch we are unable to understand. It may be small matter for the clerks around the Governors office to throw important papers around and commit such blunders as this, but it is no small matter to men whose liberties are in jeopardy. If the train had left Russellville last Thursday morning at 9 o'clock in- stead of leaving at 40 D. m., here would have been man arrested, ironed and carried to the State of Mississippi ten days after the requi ton for him had been revoked. There is reprehensible loosness here somewhere certain.
 It may not be out of place here to say that Mir. Rush, since he came here last winter, has made his home at the farm of Mir. Jacob W. Harkey, one of our best citizens, and has by his quiet and gentlemanly deport- ment and his industrious and atten tive devotion to his work, gained the good opinion of all who have became acquainted with him. Mr. Harkey and his neighbors who knew Rush did all they could honorably and consistently do, to aid him in his un pleasant situation, and seemed pleas ed at his release.
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-- THE FOURTH AT DOVER.
An Old-fashioned Barbecue.
ArOusing Assembly, and Grand
 Success.

It was our happy privilege to be present at the grand barbecue at Do yer on the 4th instant, and we have no hesitation in saying that the af- fair was the most successful effort we have ever seen in the way of a barbecue. From the time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary, the Dover people have been famous for their big barbccues. They never do anything by halves, l. e. they never halfway succeed. Whenever Dover undertakes to have a barbecue it IS success, full and complete.
 So it was las; Fourth.
 Although the whole affair was got up on short notice, it was complete success.
 The exercises were opened at 10 o'clock by Hon. J. R. H. Scott ascen- ding the platform and reading the Programme, which was as follows: :.
 Music.
 Introductory address by Dr. c. l..
 Kirksey.
 Reading the Declaration of Inde- pehdence, by James Potts, Esq.
 Music.
 Grafton by Dr. R. NJ. Johnson.
 Music.
 Grafton by Lawrence Russell.
 Music.
 Impromptu Actresses.
 Dinner.
 The addresses by Messrs. John son and Russell were excellent and most happy efforts, and we very much regret that we are unable to reproduce them in our paper to day. We congratulate both gentlemen upon the well-timed and nicely de- livered addresses. By sore alilic- tion in the family of Dr. Kirksey, the assembly was deprived of the treat which his Introductory Ad- dress would have afforded.
 The dinner was simply immense, and if anybody failed to get an am pie abundance it was certainly TO ones fault but hls own, for we have scarcely ever seen more bountiful supply of eatables than was then and there served up. There must have been not less than 2500 pounds of barbecued meats, and bread, pies, cakes, pickles, &c., without end.
 The tables were in the form of a square some 150 or 200 feet on each side. The inside of the square was occupied by ladies and their escorts. After dinner bran dance was an nounced, and for the remainder of the afternoon the light fantastic toe was tipped to the enlivening music from Dr. Shaze's violin, assisted by a ban joist.
 There must have been 1900 people present, and we saw no one whose face was not wreathed in smiles.
 The barbecue at Dover on the 4th, will long be remembered as q happy and pleasant occasion.
The Russellville Democrat., 1877-07-12
On the Wing.

ST. LOUIS, July 7, ".
 EDITOR DEMOCRAT: Your special correspondent arrived in this city yes terday morning and finds it as hot as Hot Springs. The city seems to be quite lively, as a great many persons are on their way north to hunt the cool watering places. Went on Change yesterday to see how the grain market was running. Wheat advanced little and the chances are that it will remain at pretty good figures here until the crops from the great wheat growing states of the North-West begin to move and then if there should be turn in foreign affairs loOkiug to peace, the bottom would fall out of the grain mar ket in this country, therefore would advise our people to market their wheat crop as soon as possible.
 met Gen. Jubal A. Barley here to-
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THE ARREST OF B. F. RUSH.

Last Thursday morning slight ripple of excitement was caused Tn our town by the arrest of Mir. Ben F. Rush, under a acquisition from the Governor of Mississippi. The charge was assault with intent to kill, upon the person of Judge Gull ley, of Kemper County, Miss.
 The notorious and brutal Chis holm butchery at DeKalb, about which so much has been said, was Q part of the subsequent history of this same Gulley family.
 Rush, it appears, had fears of foul treatment while en-route to Missisip- pi, and telegraphed Governor Stone that he had been arrested, that he feared assassination if he returned to Mississippi and that he wanted pro
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ScOttville JOttings.
 July 3d, 1877.
UUIJ "N', hVF'' Health good, with but few except

Health good, with but few except ions.
 Mrs. Petty, our neighbor, and the mother of Mrs. R. Bonds of Russell vile, has been very sick with remit tent fever, but is much better.
 Farmers arc very busy threshing wheat, and are being well paid for their labor, they are getting an aver age of l2 bu. per acre. You made me say in your last issue 600 bus of wheat in Liberty township, when it should have been 5000.
 DIEp.-Of consumption, on Mon day night, Mrs. Malisa Boon, daugh- ter of Mir. and Mrs. Wm. Barker, Jr.
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Murder Will Out.

A few years ago August Flower" was discovered to be certain cure for Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint, few thin Dyspeptics made known to their friends how easily and quickly they had been cured by it's use. The great merIts of Greens August Flower be- came heralded through the country by one sufferer to another, until, without advertising, its sale has become im- mense. Druggists in EVERY TOWN in the United States are selling it. No person suffering with Sour Stomach, Sick Headache, Costiveness, palpita- ton of the Heart, Indigestion, low spirits, etc., can take three does with out relief. Go to your Druggist, J. NJ Harkey X Bro, and get bottle for 70 cents and try 1t. Sample bottle l0cts.
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day; he mas just got in from Hot Springs and leaves this p. m. for his home in Va. He is looking much older than he did when l saw him during the war. As you, MT. Editor, have just returned from the Springs short time ago, did not think it necessary to write them up. l leave this p. III. for Washington. City; will let you hear from me again when get there.
 Ynttre N
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state of Arkansas, County of Pope:
 We, J. W. Jones, ]. NJ. Harkey and G. T. Brown, three citizens of tho county of Pope, and househoiders therein, having thereto been appointed by G. E. Burney. . justice of the peace of Pope county, have this day valued . certain mare shown to us by c. E. Heron as an estray; said mare Is 2 bay with black mane and tail, one hnd foot white, about f5 hands high, about IA years old and we do value the said mare at thirty dollars.
 :. J. NJ. Harksy, C. T. Brown, James w. Jones, Appraisers,
 July 5th, iST7.
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ADDRESS

by M. M. Mcclure, Grand Master Of Masons of Arr kansas, at Grand Masonic Pic Mic and Celebration of Anni- versary of St. John the Baptist, at Russellvilie, Pope County, Arkansas, June Esd, 1877.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-09-10

moderation and his wisdom-barring a
few eccentricities and weaknesses-wer
always put forth in behalf of his coun-
try, and noble was the service which he
was enabled to render.
1t is useless to speculate as to the
immediate effect of M. Theirs death
upon the French Republic. 1t remains
to be said that if Theirs is taken GAM
BETA remains. From this time the
young statesman, not yet forty years of
age, comes out in bold relief as the
leader of the French Republic if Repub-
lie there is to be. 1t might be supposed
that Theirs death would disorganize the
Republicans, but it would seem as if the
party were too firmly united to throw
away victory now when the hour Of
victory seems to have almost come. Ii
was four years ago that. upon the con
clusion of convention providing fol-
the final withdrawal of the German
troops, Theirs received the thanks of the
Legislature as one s.who deserved vel
of his country" And the record viii
stand through all coming time; ant
surely, if it is true of any man. it ma,
be said with peculiar emphasis of tn
dead statesman that che deserved wei
of his country"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-09-10

The talk of peace is decidedly prema-
ture. 1t would seem to be in the last
degree improbable that Russia could af-
ford to patch up compromise with Tur-
key in the face of her all but unvarying
III-Su0ovsS III INC ueIu, anu with the TACT
demonstrated to the satisfaction of all
the world that she is not the frst-class
military power she assumed to be. That
would mean not only the paralyzing of
her Asiatic influence, and the permanent
loss of power in the state-system of Eu-
rope, but also severe enough blow to
her national prestige to be productive of
dangers to the equilibrium of her do
nestle politics, if not to the stability of
the imperial throne ITSELF The ravages
Of pestilence and the growing GOODNESS
Of possible allies are very grave obsta-
cles to any immediate success of the
Russian arms. But, were they ten-fold
greater, it is hardly possible that Russia
could afford, without putting her last
man in the field and spending her last
dollar, to confess herself worsted by a
second-rate power whose armies are large
ly manned by semi-barbarOus Asiatics
and led by soldiers of fortune.-N Y
Times.
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LOUIS ADOLPHE THEIRS.


In the death of this wonderful old
man great name passes into history,
and France loses more than royal per-
sonage. Journalist. historian, orator,
cabinet minister, senator, President--he
has filled France and the whole world
with his fame Since the death of Ma
poleon |. no one In France has had a
larger share in moulding her destinies.
nor so long and so successfully battled
for liberty and constitutional government.
First called to Office under Louis
Philippe-whose ascension to the throne
may be said to be his work-his last
Office it was to bring France through the
dark days of the Commune to the pres
ent Republic. His great abilities, his
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-09-10

rectors are Ex-Governor John B. Page|
S. B. Pettingill. Colonel A. F. Walker
J. w. Cramton and J. N. Baxter. Mr|
Baxter has been elected President, and
Mr.. Tuttle Secretary and Treasurer.
MONTPELIER, Sept. 5. Hon. HomeI
W. Heaton, well known lawyer and
banker of this place. met with painful
accident at Barre, this afternoon. Whill
examining mill property he fell upon
rock and fractured the neck of the femuI
or thigh bone He was taken to hi
residence here and attended by Surgeon
J. B. Woodward, who pronounces the in
jury a severe one. 1t will confne Mr.
Heaton to the house for several weeks.
A raft of timber measuring l39,2SO
cubic feet passed through Lake Cham
plain, the other day. 1t is said to b
the largest that ever went through thos
waters.
RUTLAND, Sept. 4. Five prisoners es
capped from the Rutland County Jail a
this place, last night, by saving off tn
iron bars in the back window. TIL
names of the escaped prisoners are job
Foster, Stephen Pike, Hylon Odell, Wm
Rix and Aditon Murray. A reward
offered for their apprehension.
Hon. R. j. Jones of Cornwall, hs
sold two bucks and four ewes to Cal
fornia man, for 5000; also, two buck
to another party for 5000. Messr
Moore and Bissell of Shoreham, ha,
shipped seventy-fve bucks to the Yves
Mr.. G. W. Mason of Vergennes, who
largely identified in the business of Blu,
ing and shipping Vermont sheep, shiI
| ped, the other day, two car loads, mos
ly rams, from Middlebury to Colorado
WINDSOR, Sept. 8. A most affectiI
scene occurred last night about 6 o'cloc
on the place owned by Henry Walk
and occupied by Dana Boyd, half mi
south of Hartland Three Corners. VIII
the neighbors were attending meeting
, the school-house, two children of M
Boyd's, aged 5 and z, were left at t
house. Taking some matches they we
to the barn and accidentally dropped
match on the hay, and in a few minu
all was in blaze. The oldest boy
/ capped and ran for help, but before 81
cor could be obtained it was impossil
; to enter the burning building. The fat
er frantically chung to his oldest b.
while the mother was almost crazed vi
!, grief as the other child persisted in
: flames before their eyes.
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THE FALLEN IMPOsToR.

The funeral of Brigham Young was
an impressive demonstration. Nearly
$4,000 persons saw the corpse while it
lay in state. 1t was arrayed in endow-
ment robes. The coffin was of Califor-
MIA redwood without ornament, the lining
white satin. The corpse rested on a
wool mattress. The arrangements were
all in accordance with written instruc-
tions given by Brigham Young in 1873,
which instructions were read at the
funeral. The tiers of seats in front of
the stand were occupied by the family
and relatives of the deceased. John w.
Young. Daniel H. Wells, Brigham
Young. Jr-. and George u Cannon were
in the upper stand. Ten apostles were
next below, and the High Council still
lower. Not less than 10000 persons
were in the building. At half-pas;
eleven the family gathered and gazed fol
the last time on the corpse. All the
wives and children, with few exceptions,
were present, and many scores of grand.
children and relatives more distant
The demonstrations of grief were few
though all seemed sad. From 9 O'CLOCK
the organ had been playing the "Deac
March in SAUL" Mendelhssons "Funera
March, and march composed for tn,
occasion by a Mormon. George Q. Can
non was master Of ceremonies, and a
noon commenced the hymn "Hark iron
affair."" sung bya Tabernacle choir of 22l
voices. The opening prayer was b,
Apostle Richards. Another hymn an,
then brief addresses by David II. Wells
Apostles Woodruff, Trow, Cannon an
Taylor. A procession was formed. whic
marched to the cemetry half mile dis
tant Four thousand persons were
line with uncovered heads. The Ger,
monies at the grave were brief, only
hymn and prayer. Brigham's first wi
stood by the grave for some time leaniu
on the arm of Amelia, the favorite. III
spectators were allowed to pass the tom
after which it was closed and sealed.
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STATE NEWS ITEMS.

At the St. Adams butter market, last
Tuesday, the receipts were fair, with a
slight advanc on the best grades. We
quote common at from ten to fifteen
cents, good to choice at from sixteen to
twenty-one cents, and selections at twen-
ty cents per pound.
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, Sept. 5. This
morning the Central Vermont depot at
Royalton, was entered by burglars thro'
the Office window. The money drawers
of the United States and Canada Express
Company and the railroad company were
broken open. No valuables were taken.
The consolidation of the Herald and
Globe went into effect, week before last.
Mr.. s. B. Pettingill is editor-in-chief,
and A. II. Tuttle, publisher. The di-
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Death has not claimed a more shining
mark, during the past year, than in NJ.
Theirs, late President Of the French Re-
public. For more than half a century
he has been the foremost figure in French
politics. His loss is deeply deplOred by
the people. London dispatch from Par
is saying: It is impossible to convey an
idea Of the grief and CONSERVATION which
prevail at the death Of NJ. Theirs. This
morning the news spread like wild-fre,
and even at an early hour, although the
weather was very inclement. the streets
were filed with people in great excite
ment. Some we're actually shedding
tears. All were giving vent to feelings
of grief aud apprehension; the death of
Theirs just now being regarded by all as
a national calamity.
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Senator Booth of California. although
elected as an Independent, generally
votes with the Republicans. He is
known as an able. honest and eloquent
man. In recent speech in California
he put few plain questions in very
pungent manner, as follows:
"Do you not believe that with the
policy of this Administration carried
out in all the departments of the Gov
eminent we can enter upon an era of
prosperity and of purity, of national
glory, such as we have never before
known? Do you not believe that il
means honesty, that it is patriotic
that while we stand together upon thi:
platform we may face the evil of to
morrow, whatever that may be? ]
know that we are passing through diff.
fcult times. / know that there is dis.
content. But 1 have faith in the Amer.
lean ideas, and have faith that the
Administration now in power will ex
emplify them in all its actions"
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Our friend Rattlcbones is greatly in
debt, and to escape his butcher. baker
and candlestick maker, moved into the
country. No sooner had he got COM
fortably settled than he was beseiged by
volley of dunning letters fred through
the mail. He has written to the postal
authorities, asking them if they will not
have placed on the post Office building
that familiar sign of "post no bills. "
Rattlebones thinks this is brilliant
idea.
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The Governor of Dakotah writes to
Washington that wheat is generally
cleaning up from 20 to 80 bushels to the
acre in that territory, and adds: "There
are now no grasshoppers, and the corn
was never so promising, and I consider
it now safe. No such general crop has
ever been produced in the Territory be-
fore, and the people are in splendid spir-
its. Wheat IS opening at seventy-ive
cents per bushel, and we shall have mil
lions of bushels for the eastern markets. y
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BUSINESS AT THE WEsT.-The follow

BUSINESS AT THE WEsT.-The follow
ing, from the Chicago Inter Ocean of
week ago Saturday. is but an epitOme of
like statements coming from other sour
ces in the West: "The jobbing trade is
active in every department, and we have
never before seen the autumn months in
augurated with such an active trade. or
with such fattering prospects for a large
and healthy business. Each day brings
a large increase of business, and buyers
are also composed of the best class OF
merchants from every section of the
West and South"