The Russellville Democrat., 1879-04-17

The voters of Logan County have voted down the proposition to issue bonds to build courthouse.
 Governor Miller has pardoned J. H. Hobbs, recently convicted and fined $22 and cost, for selling Liquor within three miles of Dover Acad- emy.
 The Hope City Times has ceas- ed to be, and from the same office, under the proprietorship of Messrs. J. H. Lowry and l.. c. McCorkle,- the former as editor and the. latter as business manager.--is now issued the Hampstead County Record.
 We have received from Land Commissioner Lear, small pamphlet containing some information in re- gard to the lands of the State, which will be of considerable interest to all who wish to know anything about the State lands. Mir. Lear deserves cred it for his zeal in making known to the public this information, and we shall take pleasure in reproducing the full text of the pamphlet--per- haps in next weeks paper.
 We have just received the first number of the Western Protestant, published at Haynesvillc, La, and edited by J. NJ. F. Hickerson, D. D., l.. L. D., formerly a resident of this { Pope) county. It is designed to be the trans Missippi organ ofthe Meth odist Church. We wish the new pa. per great success and usefulness, and take pleasure in complying with the request for an exchange.
 There has been a remarkably beautiful production--a thought up on mans future home--goiDg the rounds of the State press, credited in some of the papers to this pa- paper, and by others to the Benton vile Advance. So far as we are con cerned, we take 1t as high complI- ment, but are not presumptuous enough to think that we deserve the compliment. The production refer red to, is, if we are not mistaken, from the pen of one of the most bril- liant and highly polished American journalists, who was also a gifted poet-the late Geo. D. Prentice, at one time editor of the Courier Jour. nal.
 The Democratic majority in Congress has agreed to go into some general legislation, and as soon as the appropriation bills are disposed Of, we feel confident there will be some measures introduced which will afford the country positive assu- rances that the democratic par. ty is sound on the great financiali is- sues before the people, and that there is no need for any new party of na- tionals, greenbackers, or anything else to secure the financial reforms and relief demanded by the country.
 Among measures agreed upon will be bills providing for the free coin age of silver; the issue of bullion certificates based on either gold or silver; the substitution of green backs for national bank notes, and she prohibition of the further issue of bonds. The adoption of these measures, or even faithful effort of the Democrats in congress to pass them, will place the grand old dem ocracy still higher in the affections and confidence of the people.
 Let the good work be taken up.
 We have just received from the author (whose name is guarantee of the value and merit of the publi. cation) Wm. E. Woodruff, Jr., copy of the Arkansas Year Book for 1879. It is a very valuable reference book, containing in a convenient and compact form large amount of in- formation of much usefulness and worth preservation. The informa- tion embraces facts and statistics, carefully prepared and reliable, in regard to dates, events, official mat ters and persons, (such as full lists of State, District and County officers, and the times of holding all the Fed eral, State, District and County Courts in the State ), and much other information of general and local in- terest. We notice in the list of State institutions the Arkansas Press Association has been overlooked-- an oversight on the part of the autbor wa praenuaa ac ha a<afao