The Russellville Democrat., 1878-08-01

county VIII put out county ticket of their own this year.
 Judge Mansfield declines to be- come candidate for the Legislature from Franklin county.
 There IS not one single good reason that can be advanced why the Countyseat should remain at Dover
 The Treasury department ex- poets that the coinage of silver for August will be between three and four millions dollars.
 Judge William Allen declines to accept the Republican nomination for Congress from tire 5th Congress ional district of Ohio.
 Sitting Bull is still in She Brit ish possessions, but the latest ru- nor in military circles is that he IS contemplating raid South and re- turn to Montana.
 The north bound freight train on the Iron Mountain railroad met with an accident at Higginson, 45 miles from Little Rock, on the 25th inst, resulting in the death of Robt Wilkinson, the engineer.
 The ink-keg must have been empty when the last issue of the Sa- line County Digest was printed. It looked pale and slckly, but if we could have read it, we doubt not, we would have found it as full of good reading as usual.
 The indomltablc, irrepressible, Newman, announces that he will soon commence the publication of the Daily Pine Bluff Press. We wish you ample snccess with your enterprise Bro. Newman.
 Dover has been the Countyseat now for about thirty nine years. The people think it is now about time for n change to some location, which like Russellville, will be convenient to the majority of the people who have business with the county officers.
 Mir. J. A. c. Jackson, editor of the Randolph Scalpel, took unto himself wife, in the person of Mrs. Kate A. Martin, on the 18th ut. Here's to your good health, Bro. Jackson, and to your family's good health; may you all live long and prosper.
 If Russellville had 50G0 inhabi- tants instead of 1000, It would afford just five times as good market to those who have anything to sell. Vote the Countyseat here and help build up at least one good market town in the county.
 The President of the Board of Health, at New Orleans, reports to the Surgeon General of the Marine Hospital Service, at Washington, that the existence of Yellow fever in New Orleans, is an undlsputed fact. Twenty one cases and ten deaths had been reckoned on the 24th July. Carbolic and disinfcetants are be- ing freely used, and the pestilence of an epidemic will be avoided, if possible.
 If the County Seat is removed to Russellville, and the Courthouse and Jail located on the block of land offered as free gift for that pur- pose, we venture the assertion, that when a criminal is committed to jail here, there will be no one bold enough to risk assisting ia, jail de- livery.
 Gov. Rector, one of the largest s7Specrants under the New Madrid claims, proposes that if the people of Hot Springs would petitien and pro cure the passage of an Act of Con gross confirming his title under the "New Madrid" claims, he will give bond to sell to other claimants at whatever price may be named by the Commission, on ten years time at six per cent. interest.
 The Gazette, Col. Bob Jonhson' $ organ in his efforts to again get into office, catches at every straw calcula- ted to weaken the chances of any of Col. Johnson's opponents. It is Tn this spirit that that paper seizes up on the article in last weeks Immi- grant hoisting the name of Judge Mansfield as a candidate for the U. s, Senate. The Gazette sees that if