The Russellville Democrat., 1879-03-27

hcsstS .. t'Hiiih3 hursHHils anu buSt, of Atkins. were in town last Monday.
 We had an agreeable call from Mr. -- Carter, late of Mississippi. this week.
 =-Station-ageht Howell has returned from Hot Springs looking much inn proved by thes "trip.
 Capt. R. j. Wilson will leave for the markets tomorrow to lay in com plete stock of spring and summer goods.
 We regret to hear of the severe sickness of our townsmen, J. E. Evants and H. Clabe Howell. Hope they may speedily recover.
 MT. J. A. Keafney; of Alma, has succeeded Mir: Reynolds in the tele. graph office at this place. We welcome Mir. K. to our midst.
 w. H. Evans, the man who came in our midst about month ago, bromA ising to revolutionize the meat market business, has decamped, leaving some little bills unpaid. Pass him around.
 -Messrs. Sam Churchill, D. L. Bour- land, and Geo. Robertson, three tip-top drummers, and genial, good fellows were in town this week, in the interest of their respective houses.
 It is encouraging to note the many improvements going on in our midst. The carpenters, painters and white wash men are all at work, and evil dences of thrift are seen in every di- rection.
 MT. W. J. Reynolds has rendered his resignation as telegraph operator and will no longer be connected with the office at this place. MT. R. has made host of friends here, and the best wishes of them all will follow him wherever he goes.
 If we only had have thought of it in time we would have sent a man from Pope county to the recent great walk ing match who could have beat the whole outfit of them. We have citi- zen of our county, MT. Tom Nordin, who, after the surrender, started from Dallas, Texas, to his home in this coun- ty. He walked the entire trip, without riding a single mile, and made it thro' in eleven and half days as fresh and nimble as ca deer in walk" the dis ten miles. How is that for pedestrl- anism?
 W. McAnnally complains Of an unfair attempt that is being made to deteat him for the office of town marshal by the circulation of the report that he has not been a citizen of the town for thirty days preceding the election. Mir. McAnnally claims that this is a gross injustice to him, as he has been a citi- zen, having his residence and business here, ever since the month of September and has never ceased to be here only during an interval of a few weeks at two different times during the latter part of. winter, when he was called away on business.
 We noticed some very fine hay hauled to town last week from the farm of Mir. J. NJ. Bradley. It brings fifteen dollars per ton and finds ready sale. This is certainly much better than rais- ing cotton at seven-and-a-half cents per pound, and it is surprising that more attention is not paid to growing the grasses by our farmers. Many of the farms all over the county have patches on them which would make fine mead ows, but instead of yielding few tons of hay each season as they might do, they are given up to briars and bramble thickets, disfiguring the farms and ben efitting the landowner not particle. All such patches and spots should be cleaned off and put into meadows. They would then be not only profitable, but would also ornament the farms and en- hancc the value of the lands.