The Russellville Democrat., 1878-09-26
LOCAL NEWS.

~NSN 1ottou iS SVhihS III quitV lively.
 --Our town council has been petition- cd to appoint a public weigher.
 Now Is the time today in your win ter supply of wood or coal.
 The editor is attending Court at Dover, in the capacity of juror.
 --ouita Coal l2ll4 cents by the wagon load. LYON X WELLS.
 Capt. John II. Haney and family returned to Little Rock last Saturday.
 The Mcfarland Comedy Troupe is on the road again, having exhibited at Prescott and Hope recently.
 Master Charlie Buck, who has been to Hot Springs for some time, is back home again.
 A Catholic priest and five Sisters of Mercy, passed up the road on last Saturdays train.
 The Railroad Company are tearing down the old platforms at the Depot l and erecting new ones. 7H n '8H
 --Mr. R. c. Cooper, of our county, | who went to Hot Springs several months ago tor the benefit of his health, is back home again, looking much in- proved. ss,
 The Railroad Company are, we are glad to sec, grading up the road-bed at the crossing of River Street so that teams will be able to cross the track the whole width of the Street.
 -wELcoME BAcK.-Mr. Mark A. Moscley and family arrived from Illi- hois last Saturday. Mark says he is. glad to get back to Arkansas again and he don't think ba will ever leave here again to hunt better place. l All the children who are readers of the Western Methodist, and many older l persons too, will learn with sorrow that R. W. Blew (s'Uncle' Bob') the publisher of that paper, is among the dead at Memphis.
 There is now a good demand for bacon in our county and decided scarcity of the article. It seems to us there is more money in raising corn and pork than there is in growing so much cotton. MuE
 Bring along your job-work of all kiuds-letter heads, bill heads, visiting cards, business cards, labels, legal blanks, bills of lading, posters or any thing else. We will duplicate Little Rock prices.
 Ut is rumored that the Dover people will contest the recent election which resulted in the removal of the County Seat from that place. This will only be prolonging the agony, for the senti- ment of the people of this county has for several years been strongly for q change, and the majority who want a change will never let it rest until they get it. HF.
 The Ft. Smith Herald notices the appointment of James Potts to survey the Indian Reservation, at the mouth of the Illinois Bayou, and comments thusly:
 A good selection in MT. Potts. We presume that after the preference given to actual settlers shall have been used, some fancy spots on the grand old site will be open to actual settlers.
 "A petition signed by most all the members of the the town council has been forwarded to Prosecuting Attor- ney Byers asking that the indictment against Mir. A. K. Rankin, ex-Marshal of the town, for embezzlement, be dIs- missed, Mir. Rankin having settled up in full.
 -Messrs. Eddie Shinn and Johnnie White left for Bethany College, W. Va, last Monday, accompanied by MT. Jas. II. Shinn. who accompanied the boys avowedly to see that they got through all OK, but we suspect that 'the girl he left behind him'' when he came away from there had something to do with his trip. t-a S@ s9efG5
 Grand Jurors serving at the present term of Pope Circuit Court: c. G. Oates, Foreman; W. l.. Price, A. B. Williamson, II. D. Bonds, c. N. Benne- field, Jos. Staggs, R. F. Williamson, Jno. Darr, A. N. Zachary, II. l.. Shinn, W. B. Young, Robt. Shirley, W. J. Johnson, Thos. Carter, E. J. Pullian, J. l.. Burns.
 -The Ft. Smith Herald gives "little lively" Atkins the following notice:
 With little more ditching, Atkins will be one of the highest and prettiest places on the Ft. Smith road Atkins News. ......
 We have heard of engines, cars and trains being ditched, but we never did think it was healthy for them. With a town it may be little different. "Spik- ing" in our opinion, would be of more benefit to Atkins than "ditching."
 There was, we understand, repre- sentative of the Sunday Illustrated Herald (Hot Springs) in town last week. We don't know whether he thought we all had the yellow fever at the DEMOCRAT office, whether he had done something mean and supposed we knew all about, or whether he was a