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, 1879-07-26

The Now York Criterion Comedy Company
opens at iavory's on Sept IS.
biolllo Maef1cr Steele hns contracted to travel
with the Florcnccs next season.
Fred Vokes Is to be manager Of the next sea-
son at Drury-Lano Theatre, London.
DaYard Taylor's "Don Cnr1os" Will probably
be pJnycd next season by Lawrence barrett.
It is now said That Linda Dletz goes to the
London uaymarkcs with Mr., and Mrs. Dan
croft. :
They say that Annie Ward Tiffany goes to
Eusope rext scason to fulfill q professional en-
gnEcucnt.
Tile Union Square management contemplate
producing next season nlay Just finished by
the popu'nr Barsloy Campbell.
Mr.. Mccullough will pass q part Of tlso
present mouth at Susatogn. Mr. Jefferson and
his family arc at Sauan beach, N. ].
HI Sargent has onpaecd the Knights for
two years. In Englan! he opens with Them Mt
the Prince OF Wales TlHutre, Birmingham, On
! Monday.
The Philadelphia Walnut Street Theatre
graduated three cniliug men last scason,-
Charles Walcot, Harry Meredith, aud Atkins
| Lawrence.
The yellow-teycr scare Ia blocking the game
nf managers Of Southern business, and mas q
depressing influence upon the general outlook
" ~ "
hJuu1blcs,n the title Of n new operatic COM
| cjly will be produced an Monday vi this Walnut
Street Theatre, with Vcu!o Clancy, Lizzie Har-
| rold, anl Larry Hunter In thu CAST.
"Lo Cbapltre dcs Fcmmcs," comedy in
| three nets, bY Co1snicr, at tho Trotetomc Thea.
tru Fyaucats aul " Un Soul Anlour,n by Louis
Leroy, at the Gymnase, aro tho latest parisan
dramatic noyultles.
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| This Is the way III which the French critics
somsote nsoes .T,ern s" v,T n H. .1 ppo,nea Icy
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HAnca' t"ls WI o' ~ iaas" '"' VI '4' VIZ
Anna Dickiuson's new play, With which she
| thinks Of starting, fa nearly completed. 1t ia
said to 10 very strong aud equally original. both
iu subject and Treatment The chief character
Is woman OF the lower rank In life. anu the
part Is spoken Of as having been drawn with
cluaruess nnd artistic finish. Mtss Dickinson
beglus her scas0l,, accordlnE to ureaent nrtapge-
lnonts, At tho California Theatre, supt. q.
| rho t,t,o,.Ipu .c,.,papcnents havn h.ep IN nj,
fran, liz r"asst f,oinrnfn ihentrs stoc nn."'
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PEUSOTAIa
in THU cotnmr three inft nr ttss 25 eenfl pe IN
ssrtfsn. Each addtifnnalhne. 10 ctnfs.
DERsOSAI-A WORK. SfaNAS WISHES TO NAER
i tho 4c1ualntAnfo OF Catholic young Indy Wild.
0w with sOtte nrans; object, Uatrmony. Address \
y. Tribune office.
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CITY REAL EHTATEs

FOR eALE-tLtdSnI3 rAI.y. on ILLINOIS CEN.
= trAt !taifDM. ~ RrEr.. t~o.thtrda EDot wteAt.
land. unarf cul:iFa;ton. hasnre dhe ff,htr. Hare
chance to get bafEalh AdaseA4 ~, Ttihnnu office.
I'OR sALt:.-Ots EXCHAStIT-FOt; CIE3E I1f10I,.
i eFty. heat lands In Northern t:rntral 7esar in.
The Russellville Democrat., 1879-03-06
A GOOD WORD FOR ARK.

From a private letter from friend in Kansas we make the following extract:
 "* We'll, Ithink no call, in vitation Or inducement will ever tempt me from Arkansas again. Its climate is the friendliest (except that of Florida or Cal. ], in the U. S. Its people-well am southern man, and you know how to apply the old saying Birds of feather" &c. Your people are we'll of if they only knew it. Many of them do. There is 100 per cent. more good neighbor- ship and good society in Ark. than in Kansas. My son tells me he knows only two gentlemen here who visit each other. The people havn't time. It takes everyone here scrat- ching all the time to keep above ground. Yet have seen but two women op these streets that were dressed as poor women ought to dress. This is bad sign. In Ark. rich men can't be told from poor men by their dress; here the poor cant be told from the rich by their dress"
The Russellville Democrat., 1879-03-06
TAX LODGING.

An erroneous Idea prevails amongst large number Of our citi ze1s that making q return or state ment of personal property is a mere matter of form, but if one or two ex- amples were made of some of our most prominent citizens by bringing them before the grand jury on 2 charge of perjury the disease of tax dodging, which has become an cpl demic, would be brought to sudden stop.
 The above paragraph is from the Post and Dispatch, of St. Louis, but the evil which It alludes to is treva- lent Tn other States, besides Saint Louis, and Missouri. There is not town in Arkansas--well, hardly n town--which has not from twice to three times as much merchandise as is ever listed for purposes of taxa tion. It is duty every citizen owes his State to pay his just share of taxes, and we believe with the Post and Dispatch that the grand juries should once in a while investigate this matter.
The Russellville Democrat., 1879-03-06
LEES ATTACK UPON SENA- TOR WALK KER.---WuAT IS THOUGHT OF TT.

To show the attitude in which Representative Lee, of Newton coun- ty, has placed himself, and to let our readers know what is thought of his attack upon Senator Walker, we clip from the State press the following ex. pressions upon the subject;
 All that is necessary to convince one of Lees guilt is to look at his face. The Almighty is too good to permit an honest man to wear u countenance like that of Lee of New. ton. Il. K. Democrat.
 We don't think there is a man in the State that believes word of the statement of the drunken and degraded member of the house from Newton county, Lee) in regard to Senator Walker. For some purpose, the whole story was manufactured, which IS alike disgraceful to al. con cerned. Lees presence In the leg islature is disgrace to the body Van Buren Press.
 Lees own testimony bears the evidence of purjury on it's face. He swears he was so drunk he don't know what was said or done, and il he was not a radical, elected by yo. ters knowing what he was, he would be disgrace to his constituents. That he IS vile puppy, whose oath smells of the pu,rid vomiting of per. dition, every body believes, and that he should ne expelled from the body his presence disgraees is what all honest people of the State demand. Independent Arkansian.
 There is not an honest man iu
The Russellville Democrat., 1879-03-06
DISCRIMINATION IN RATES
 OF NSPORTATION.

We call the the attention of our legislature to sec. 3, art. 16, of the Constitution of the State of Arkan- sas. It reads as follows:
 All individuals, associations, and corporations shall have equal rights to have persons property transpor- ted over railroads, canals, ,sturnpikes; and no undue or unreasonable dis crimination shall be made in charges for, or in facilities for transportation, of freight or passengers within the State, or coming from, or going to, any other State. Persons and prop. erty transported over any railroads shall be delivered to any station, at charges not exceeding the charges for transportation of persons and property of the same class, in the same direction to any more distant station. But eXcursion and commu tation tickets may be issued at spe. cial rates.
 Now what we call upon the present leglslature to do IS to enact Such legislation as may be necessary to put the provisions of that section into full force. We are as firm a friend to railroads as anybody; we want them to have a perfectly fair showing, and are opposed to the State imposing unjust burdens upon them. But at the same time we be- lieve the railroads owe the public fair, impartial treatment; and our observation has taught us that such law as that contemplated by the section of the Constitution above quoted is needed. We hope the
The Russellville Democrat., 1879-03-06
"CONTEMPTIBLE IGNO-
 RANCH"

When the vote was taken in the house last Wednesday on the motion to indefinitely postpone the bill to abolish some of the state offices, among the number, the office of state superintendent of public instruction, Mir. Bobo, of Monroe, got up and showed his brilliant intelligence CD by severely criticising the newspa- pers of the state who had opposed the aholishment of that office. He said they exhibited "contemptible igno- rance.
 As the DEMOCRAT has been one of the most jealous supporters of every measure calculated to build up our public school system, and has stoutly opposed the egregious blun- der of trying to run the system with out an efficient head, we feel com. pletcly demolished, to have this as tonishingly astute statesman, this sage and sagacious scholar, this rare and remarkable reasoner, this lordly and learned legislator, reach after our scalp in this manner.
 o. Bobo, Bobo. Why hast thou thus demolished us?
The Russellville Democrat., 1879-03-06
LoUGHBoROUGH BONDS.

We are not to be understood IS being one of those who are opposed to the State making any creditor who may lend us money to carry on the State Government perfectly safe and secure in the loan. We are op- posed to borrowing money at all, to run our State Government, UNLESS THE NECESSITY IS ABSOLUTELY so IM- PERATIvE THAT IT CANNOT BE AVOIDED; but if it must be borrowed, we are not opposed to making our creditors secure. We cannot for a moment, however, believe that there is longer any necessity that justiiies the bor- rowing of money at the exorbitaat rate of interest which is demanded of the State. We believe that the necessity which, in the past, may have in a measure justified that policy. has now passed away, and we think it the night of folly for us ,o continue longer to use our credit in- stead of our resources. We had just as we'll commen nee right now to live within our own means and pay as we go. With taxable property of $90,- 000,000 we can be independent of the money lender if we only will.
 In our opinion it shows bad man agement for us to say to the world that we cannot exist without some money lender takes compassion on us and carries us along; and for us to offer to barter away our very birth right, as is done when we negotiate the fatal Loughborough bonds, is to show that we have neither states. manship. prudence, nor confidence in our own people. We warn opr present General Assembly that the people of the State will most bitterly condemn the enactment of that iniquitous measure, and will hold to a strict accountability all who lend their aid to the measure.
 The minority report on this meas ure speaks the right spirit. Messrs. Gatewood, Wilmington, Thornton and Watson deserve the thanks of the people for the decided, clear and forcible protest they have entered against the re-enactment of the measure.
 We give the text of their report in another place.
The Russellville Democrat., 1879-03-06

lication for twelve month. There are many thousand newspapers in the land; but by no means as many as there will he fifty years hence. The damp, fresh sheet, daily or weekly, at your door, gives you the world in miniature. Some peoplt. are all to prone to depreciate thetr own local papers, and magnify the merits of ont-of-town newspapers as the community in which it is pub. lished will support. And if people will subscibe and pay for q paper, they can always he supplied with prime article. We do not respect a person who either himself speaks or permits others to speak sighting. ly of local newspaper. Citizens have slight obligation in this mat ter as We'll as publishers. It is their duty to be loyal ito the press. and sustain 1t in all 1t does which is hot prejudicial to the interests of the community.
The Russellville Democrat., 1879-03-06
IN BEHALF OF THE WIDOW
 AND THE ORPHAN.

There is one bill before the Legis- lature which, in behalf of the widow and orphan, we ask that honorable body to enact into a law. It is the bill introduced by Mir. Quarles, of Philips county, requiring a more efficient method of advertising legal matters appertaining to estates, guardianships, &c. It also applies to sales of mortgagcd property. Un- der the present law most all notices of this kind are given by posting notices. The new law will require the notices of this kind to be given through the newspapers. Under the present law an administrator or a mortgagee, in place of SELLING prop. erty, almost give it away. They get a few posters printed, (paylng there for about as much as it would cost to make publication in the paper where everybody would see it, and post them up to be blown down by the first breeze, and nobody ever knows when the sale is to come of or what IS to be sold. The property is knocked down without any com. petinye bidding, and the interests of the estate or the mortgagor thus sacrificed. All notices now by law required to be given by posting bills should be required to go into the newspapers. It is the only way to give publicity to them. Anything that IS of sufficient importance to neeS And iaing at all should be pub manner winch will be elf cient. The day and time when a man can make the public aware of anything by posting a notice on | blacksmith shop or pine tree is past. People now look to the news paper for such things, and the law should require all matters of that kind to be published by advertise ment Tn some newspaper having a good circulation.
The Russellville Democrat., 1879-03-06
REWARDS FOR CRIMINALS.

Below we give letter from Gov. Miller Tn regard to tue offering of regards by the State for the appre hension of criminals. We think the letter is timely and aims at the cor. rection of practice which has grown into positive evil. We heartily endorse. the stand Coy. Miller has taken on this subject, and commend his action in the premises {:
 ExECurIvE OFFICE,
 LITTLE RocK, ARK, Feb. 2S, '79.]
 The practice of applying to the Executive for offers of reward for apprehension of criminals has grown to such an extent as to require some regulation. It is the duty of the proper executive officers of the local. ity to see that offenders against the law are duly proceeded against, ar rested and held for trial; and unless in .he case of criminal who has fled the State, it is only when every measure necessary in. order to an arrest has been faithfully and per sistentty pursued, without success, that the offer of reward becomes justified.
 In the future, it will ordinarily be necessary that applications for re- wards be accompanied by the writ ten statement of the prosecuting at torney for the judicial district, or in case of his absence, from the county, by the sheriff, clerk, or other proper county official, setting forth the cir cumstances of the offense. together with a statement, which should pro ceed from the sheriff, of an adequate search Or pursuit and the reasons why the offender cannot be arrested in the ordinary course. Excep: m particular cases, no regard can hence forward be paid to applications for rewards, unless upon compliance with these requirements.
 W. R. MILLER. Governor.
The Russellville Democrat., 1879-03-06
UNFORTUNATE.

House Bill No. l36, an act to au- thorize the issue of Bonds to provide means for carrying on the State gov ernment has passed both houses of our general assembly, and will we presume, meet the approval of the Governor.
 We have no disposition to impugn the motives of those members who voted for the measure, but we do most seriously deprecate this action, and doubt the wisdom of the policy adopted. It IS fraught with too much danger, and brings too short lived relief. The next legislature which meets will find the same ques. tion staring them in the face. The loan now to be negotiated will by that time have been consumed and
The Russellville Democrat., 1879-03-06
HOW THEY STOOD.

Last Wednesday the Senate bill to abolish the offices of Commissioner of State Lands, Superintendent of Public Instruction and Adjutant General came up in the House fer the action of that body. A motion to indefinitely postpone the bill was made by Mir. Fllppin.
 Alter protracted discussion upon the office of Superintendent of Pub lie Instruction, the mction to indefi. nitely postpone was carried by the following vote:
 Yeas-Messrs. Askew, Barnett, Barker, Barry, Blackwood, Brown of Lee, Brown of White, Burke, Carter, Conway. Coody, Creekmore, Gun ningham, Fishback, Flippin, Fraser, Furbush, Gillian, Greening, Hanly, Hare, Hobson, Holder. Hudson, Jam. eson, Lee of Howard, Lee of Newton, Mainard, Miller of Clark, Montgom- cry, Murphy, Paine, Pindall, Quarles Riddick, Richardson, Taylor, Thom. as, Tyson, Washburn, Weir, Mir. Speaker--42.
 Noes-Messrs. Archer, Black of Boone, Black of Randolph, Bobo, Braly, Bumpass, Burns, Davidson o' Izard, Demby, Feltnor, Harrison, Holifeld, Jordan, Joyner, Keith, Kemp, King, Lowdermilk, Lowe, Mack, Martin, Mcconnell, McCrack- en, Miller of Conway, Minor, Moore, Morris of Carroll, Morris of Stone, Owen, Priddy, Roden, Simmons, Steel, Stubbs, Turner, Walker of Washington, Warner, WilIiams-3S.
 Absent and not voting-Messrs. Brewer, Brinkley, Britt, Cluck, Da- vidson of Sharp, Dawson, Dickinson, Holmes, McMurtrey, Stanley, Tate, Wright--l2.
 Thus the office of Superintendent of Public Instruction IS saved and the State is spared the odium of striking a deadly blow at the com mon schools of the State.
 
 All honor to the brave Forty two .
The Russellville Democrat., 1879-03-06
Little Rock and Fort Smith
 Road.

The following correspondence, which we have been permitted to publish, will show the amount of work done and lands sold by the above named road during the last three years; and will also give an intelligent idea of the vast benefits and advantages that railroads confer upon country.
 LITTLE ROCK, February 20 1879. Hon. R. T. Kerr, Ark. State Senate:
 promised to give you some fig ures from our land department, showing what we have done lately, and have now the pleasure of sub hitting the some to you.
 In 1876, 1877 and 1878 we ex. pended for advertising, printed mat. ter of all kinds, postage and expens- es not including taxes) as follows, namely: In 1876. $45, 723.72; in 1877 $46,613.33; in 1878, $62.753,s6, az. gregating $l55, ,090.9l for three years.
 During the same period we sold of our railroad lands, to parties from outside the State (imm,grants): in 1876, 1,S70.74 acres; in 1877, 15,309- Al acres; in 1878 30.IS4 Fl acres gag gregating 47.364.S6 acres in three years. The whole amount of land sold during this period was 136,004.- 65 arres, so that it cost us $l.13 to sell this land.
 The sickness last summer and fall in Tennessee and Mississippt hurt us terribly, and it will be sometime yet before we recover from the effects Of that. But from what I know, ov- CT 00,000 aacres of private land have been sold to..immigrants that we have brought into the State, and the Uni ted States land officers report that they have never seen business more brisk: so that, though we have not gained directly as much as we ought to have done, we have made the gain indirectly.
 There is no necessity of my telling you, senator, or anybody else, who travels up our line with his eyes open, how much the country is i'm proving-faster than any other part of the State. l only want to show you what it has cost to make the start.
 Some one remarked in the house on Tuesday that the high price ask. cd by the Little Rock and Fort Smith railway for lands was the cause of the state not settling up.
 In some instances know that our lands are valued too high on the books, but have instructions that, if at any time find our land valued at higher prices than adjoining land or same character, shall make the necessary reduction, and, having the power to do so, l always do it. As for our terms, we give almost terms asked for by actual settlers.
 Should you, or any of your friends wish to see the figures on our books l will gladly place them at your ser vice, and in the meantime. I am as always, yours truly, W. D. SLACK,
 Land Commissioner.
The Russellville Democrat., 1879-03-06
RAILROADS IN ARKANSAS.

Every word of the following IS plain. palpable truth:
 The railroad future in Arkansas is rosy with hope. There comes to the front the. Pine Bluff, the Ouach. ita, the Kansas City roads--roads all over the State. The money arrange. ments are complete for building the Kansas City road by way of Benton ville and Fayetteville; the gentlemen who are to build this road have 160 miles in profitable operation from Kansas City to Joplin, pointing right to wards Little Rock. With such a power pushing from the north and all of Arkansas pulling at the south end, 1t looks to us as if the road can be pulled through. The assurance is given that if Arkan sas through her Legislature. speak ing for the people, proves her words by her acts, and shows that the peo pie do want railroads, that the cars on that road shall be running to Fayetteville before the close of the year 1879. The imediate.and mani fest advantages to the whole State by the completion of this road, can not he estimated.
 The music of locomotive whistle is the hamburger of civilization, of enterprise, advancement and success. The long dark night is giving away before the coming dawn, busy and happy people win succeed to our sparscly populated and down trod- den State--wealth, manufactures, development are quickly coming. When the material resources of Ar. kansas are developed she will be as an Eden in beauty and productive ness-an Illinois in fertility and ex. tent-a Massachusetts in manufactur. es and products--a Virginia in navi. gation and navagable waters, The future is ours, and we can make it what we will. We believe the voice of the people Is onward and up ward.-L. R. Democrat.
The Russellville Democrat., 1879-03-06
-----7-7-----7-l- - - TAXING RAILROADS.

Is it better for our State and peo. pie to secure the investment of capi- tai in railroad building in our State, and get the roads we need -get the thousands and thousands of new corners which these roads will bring get the lands DOW lying waste and idle put into productive state-get the new manufactories, new machin- cry, and new capital, to be invested in all kinds of business, which will follow in the wake of the railroads get the better schools and school houses which a more dense popula. tion will secure us--get the large in. crease in the amount of taxable prop erty in our State-get the civiliza- sion, intelligence and refinement which follows the development of new countries;- it better to get all these things, we ssk, by offering inducements to capital, or is it bet ter to say to capitalists "keep away from here, we don't want any of your money invested in our country" and keep the States growth and develop nent retarded and stinted, while all around us the march of progress and the advance of civilization goes on?
 We would like for some of the gen tlemen who arc so strenuously oppos- ed to the policy laid down in our article of last week headed "Taxinq Railroads" to answer this question.
 You had just as we'll tell us it would be to the advantage of Arkan sas to dam up all her navigable water courses, as to tell us it is dis. advantage to the State to have rail roads. This opposition to railroad building is relic of old fogylsm and back woods ignorance with which we have no patience. It is of close akin to the sentiment which would burn the public school houses, abolish the system of free education for the masses and remand the people back forever to state of semi civilization more in keeping with the dark ages than with the progressive spirit of the nineteenth century.
 We have no quarrel to make with any one who may differ with us Tn these views; so long as such an one attacks our judgment and condemns the policy, it is all right; but, when such an one impugns our motives and intimatcs that we are moved by any other motives than the best in- terests of our State, THEN we have to inform him that he is laboring uader a delusion which only lacks the giving of expression to it to con stitute as black lie as ever escaped the lips of the veriest Ananias in existence.