The Russellville Democrat., 1878-10-10

many thanks for mammoth sweet potato sent to the Business Manager of the DEMOCRAT. It made the beam flip up at AZ lbs.
 MT. J. H. Robinson, of the we'll known firm of Kirkland, Humphrey & Mitchell, is in town doing all he can to serve tile patrons of his house and to advance the interests of the firm.
 1.-The well-known and popular rep resentative of that excellent St. Louis house, Messrs. Gilkeson & Sloss, is in town. We refer, ot course, to our handsome and lightning business friend, MT. D. l.. Bourland.
 County Court convenes at Dover on the 21st of the present month. The Justices of the Peace of the county will be expected to be promptly on hand to attend to the levying of the taxes to meet expenses for the current year.
 It seems we were mistaken in an- nouncing last week that Prof. Wm. $. Spear would commence school at Atkins on Oct. 21st. That gentleman informs us by note Chat he will com mence school at Gum Log on the 2lst. We regret having made the mistake.
 --FoR, OR AGAINST LICENsE.--The question of license or no license to sell liquor by the drink will be submitted to the people at the Congressional elec- ton on the 9th day of next month. Those who want licensed saloons will vote "For License;" those who wish saloons prohibited will vote Against License"
 Divine services Sunday morning at II o'clock at the Presbyte church by Rev. c. W. Reeves, of Dardanelle. Subject of discourse, ''Thou art Peter, and on this rock I will build my At night there will be services at the Methodist South Church, by Rev. Jerome Harrelson.
 Thus far there has not been sim gle case of yellow fever in Little Rock. The health of the city is excellent. The precautions of the Board of Health and city authorities are continued with the utmost vigilance, and there is now hardly the remotest probability of the dire disease reaching our fair City of Roses.
 We stated last week in speaking of the case of the State of Arkansas vs. Mcconnell & Reynolds, now on trial in our Circuit Court, in which de- murrer had been submitted bringing into question the constitutionality of the local option liquor law, that Mir. J. w. Toomer, of Dardanelle, was counsel for the defendants. We should have said Messrs. Wallace and Toomer. No injustice was intended our gifted young friend Wallace.
 Mir. Nat. s. Graves, who will be remembered by many of our citizens as former telegraph operator at this place, and who has for some time been at Houston, Texas, has gone to Mem- phis to help manage the wires there. The scourge has been hard on operators and the conduct of our young friend Graves shows him to be hero and a true humanitarian. We wish him we'll and fervently trust he may escape the attack of the fearful scourge to which he nobly subjects himself ill respond ing to the call for operators at Mem- phis
 -''The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, ,"-that was the text one of the Oak Street boys talked to his sweetheart about last Thursday night as they took their last swing on the gate for this season.
 -SHoor THAT HAr.-A prominent Little Rocker spent several days in our town last week. He wasn't putting on any particular airs (never does put on airs anyhow) and didn't have his seven- story hat on. A prominent Fort Smither met him in one of our stores. Prominent Ft. Smither HAD on his silk stove-pipe.
 Prom. Ft. Smither.-"Good morning MT. s.; fine store you have"
 Prom. l.. Rocker.-"Hem!- !-Ah !- Yes!-I-"
 Salesman, dnterrupting)-"Col. D. this is Judge E., of Little Rock"
 Prom. Ft. Smither.--Oh !-Ah!-Yes Let me see!-SO it is. Excuse me Judge; DIDN'T KNOW YOUR HAT"
 Moral: Look at the MAN and not the HAT; for it is not ALWAYS convenient to have our silk hats with us.
 The following premiums for field crops are offered at the Arkansas State Fair which commences at Little Rock on the 2lst inst:
 Best bale cotton, $50; 2d bestbale cot. ton, $50: best bushel wheat $l0: (Spe- cial premiums amounting to $50 are al, so offered for the best two bushels of wheat.) Best bushel oats, 80; best bushel rye; $5, best bushel barley, S5 best bushel millet, $5; best raised corr in ear, white, $5; best raised corn ir ear, yellow, $5; best bale of timothy hay,5O pounds or more, $5; best bale of prairie hay, not less than 100 pounds,