The Russellville Democrat., 1878-01-03

Mi. Jno. c. England has evacu- ated the editorial tripod of the Lon oke Democrat.
 All of our Congressman are at home spending the holidays with their families and friends.
 The Pine Bluff Press notes the arrival of quite number of Pennsyl- vania immigrants at that place.
 Sam Bayliss, of Benton county, is 24 years of age and makes the beam flip up at 324. Somewhat of a boy, that!
 The Bentonville Advance brags of rapidly increasing circulation. Glad to hear it, for the Advance is a good paper.
 The Carriers Address of the Little Rock Gazette is one of the neatest pieces of job work we have ever seen done in the State.
 MT. Bourland has retired from the editorial harness, and is succeed ed by Mir. c. c. Colburn as editor of the Ozark Democrat.
 The Newport News says one of the great wants of that place is tene- ment houses. This is the cry in most of the towns of the state.
 The Texarkana Democrat now comes to us in the shape of seven column quarto, and evinces other marks of improvement.
 On Monday, the 24th ult., the Evening Star, of Little Rock, was en- larged to seven column paper. The Star has always been a lively paper and it deserves success.
 The Little Rock Gazette an nounces the death of Mrs. A. H. Gar. land, at Little Rock on the 24th ult. We sincerely sympathize with Sena- ter Garland in the sad bereavment which he has been called upon to bear.
 A brute by the name of Malone, who lives near Waldron, Scott coun- ty, beat and abused his young and beautiful wife last week, and when the wife's father demonstrated with the brutish husband, he (Malone ] shot him down with a needle gun killing him instantly.
 The Tennessee Legislature ad- journed sine die on the 2Sth ult., without having adopted any meas are toward the compromise of the State debt. This is just about what the Arkansas Legislature will do if convened in extra session-fritter away twenty or thirty days doing nothing and adjourn leaving the State $5O,oO0 or $6O,o0o expenses to foot.
 One A. W. Henry, an express robber, was captured one day last week at Austin and was taken to Little Rock by order of Mir. Agee, of the Express Co.,, for safe keeping over night. He was taken to the Capital Hotel and placed in a room with two guards and lawyer. To guard against his escape one wrist was handcuffed to the wrist of the lawyer and they took bed together. In the morning the robber was gone having slipped the hondcuff and climbed out through the transom over the door.
 The Little Rock papers caution the public against two ''dead beats" giving their names as Robert Wilson and D. w. Cook, and representing themselves as ex-hotel- keepers from Cleveland, Ohio.
 Look out for them. Here is thelr description:
 D. w. Cook is a man about five feet ten or eleven inches high; rather stout; dark complications; slightly round sLouldered; black eyes; black hair and moustche, and small side wniskers; wearing black and brown mixed suit of clothes; high silk hat; is a good talker; speaks of having been hotel proprietor in Hamilton, Canada. Robert Wilson, his partner, is about five feet nine or ten inches high; light complexion; dark halr, with a small light moustache; blue eyes, little sunken; travelling for his health or looking for location; has little to say; wears black suit of clothes, with soft felt hat.