The Russellville Democrat., 1878-05-23
Jacksonville. Florida. has had q

Carolina uttcfance of admiration. oa'
 A company has formed to, make speaking dolls on tine photograph plan. gi o3 ggsgao3 ss ai Do
 A Higganum (Conn. } couple have recently been married for the third time, after being divorced twice.
 A Washington letter-writer says Mrs. Hayes refuses to allow card playing in the White House. . While out hunting near Knoxville, Tenn, recently a pack of hounds at tackled flock of sheep and killed B.
 It is an odd circumstance that the bark Azor, which has just taken a colony of freedmen from Charleston for Liberia, used to be slayer.
 Minneapolis is the last town start ed in Coloradoss Itniss located 36 miles northwest of Canyon City, near the mines of the Rocky Noun tain Mica Company.
 A Boston variety theater adver- tlses the special engagement of "Jennie Franklin, the famous daring shot, and principal in the recent terrible catastrophe and innocent killing of woman on the stage at Pawtucket." 7@ss hsl aat3sl A lawyer in Keokuk Iowa) court room disagreed with his colleagues as to the management of a case. He stood up, had an officer bring him a glass of water, and then, with much dignity, washed hls hands, saying, "Your Hon will please bear witness that wash my hands of this affair.""
 According to Coy. Emory, of Utah, polygamy is on the declinea sIt is attributable neither to missionaries nor to bibles but atoWthe growth among Mormon women ofa taste for extravagance and dress. The result is that the average Mormon finds it about all he can do to maintain one wife.
 Some soldiers who visited Ami mas City, Col, few days ago res cued a Mexican boy who has been a slave of the Navajoes for l5 or l6 years. The Navajoes would not give him up but the boy wanted to go to his home again and the soi- diers made up their mind to take him if they had to use force, and consequently the Indians gave him
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 A brutal mother threw her 5.ycar- old boy from a@bridge into the rlver at Milwaukee the other day, and leaned on the railings to watch his death struggles, exclaiming;. sIt your father won't support you, drownw The child's clothing bnoyI ed him up until the shorrifiedssby7 islanders could rescue him. The woman was promptly arrested.
 Two Franklin, (Mass,) lads, 12 and IA years old, respectively, the sous of prominent citizens, had tiicir heads turned by dime novels the other day, and started out with two pistols and little money to seek adventure. After tramping Is miles, supporting on fried moss, and spend ing a night in the woods, however, they were glad to return home. Every lady should subject her toilct-powder to this test: Place q teaspoonful of the suspected powder in a glass and add the juice of a lemon. If eflervesccnce takes place it is an infalliblc proof that the powder is dangerous, and it's use should be avoided, as it will ulti- mately injue the skin and destroy the beauty of the complexion.
 A baby has lately been born near New Bremen, O., with three eyes and ouly one car, The eye and ear on thc right side of the face are cor rectly placed, but where the left ear should be is nothing but smooth and solid flesh, and the extra eye is about midway between where the ear isn't and the other eyes. The eyes are perfect in sight and action, and the boy ! seems healthy and bright. g9 inf
 The penalty for theft in Japan is graduated according to the amount stoien-lnverting the rule common in Englandand America. No pun ishmsnt isA inh.cted 'ifgthe tlreif is able and willing to pay for the apsep erty stolen, or if his friends will do