The Russellville Democrat., 1879-05-15
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The Fort Smith Daily Independent did not last long, only about six num- bers having been issued until it sus- pended.
 COX, the murderer of Col. Aston, has been found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment in the State peniten- tiary for life.
 The Indian question is now en- crossing the attention of the cabinet. All we have to say in the matter is, let justice be done the poor red man-his history is record of many wrongs and perpetual hardships.
 The supreme court having sustain ed the validity of the '"rhurman act" in regard to the Union Pacific railroad, that company will now be compelled to pay back the money advanced by the government which it has so long tried to evade.
 While we editors down here in Dixie are feasting on new garden vege- tables and ornamenting the fronts of our white vests with fantastic splotches of strawberries and cream and striping them off with the juice of the luscious peach, the northern editor way up in Gods country is contemplating his old seedy overcoat with an economical air and wondering if it will hold out until the winter is over. @ A
 We may have remarked the same thing time or two before, but we still persist in giving it as our opinion that as long as the farmer neglects to make his own bread and meat, and instead of so doing mortgages his cotton crop and stock to his merchant for these neces- saries of life, just so long will he be q slave and a serf-. instead of being which, he might be, If he would only pursue the right management, the most independent, happy and comfortable man on Gods green earth.
 ANOTHER VETo.-Contrary to all reasonable expectations, and contrary to the hope which he had inspired by signifying in his former veto message that he would not seriously object to separate legislation to prevent military interference at elections, the de facto president has again interposed his voto to prevent the freedom of elections. The independent bill entitled Gan act to prevent military interference at elec- tions" was returned to the house by the president on Monday with his ob- jections to it's approval. Like whip ped spaniel the president now crouches at the feet of the stalwarts, and the country need no longer expect any. thing from him which is not in strict accordance with stalwart views of propriety.
 If if is true that all the fools are not dead yet, 1t is consoling to have an oc- easional evidence that all the sensible people are not dead either, and we take pleasure in citing our readers to two instances which illustrate the latter fact--that of Old Si, whose head is em- inently level on the 'exodus" question, and that of "Mariar," Nevada woman, who don't believe in worthless hus- bands. Here is what Old Si and "Ma- riar" have to say:
 'I tells you dem publicans gwine ter fool dem niggers; gest shure as you born. Dem niggers spects when day steps of dc steam boat in Kansas dat dar will be United States Marshal stanin dar holin a mule in one han an forty acre land deed in de odder. When I leaves de sunny souff for Kansas days got ter tic de mule on de forty acres land and sen me deed sined up wifi Souff Brigadiers, den I nos Is gwin tef git em. Now you hear me-"
 The Silver StaUe, Nevada newspaa per, prints this card: "My husband, Jim barney, the ugllest man that ever