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The Russellville Democrat., 1879-03-06

the State will be in just the same condition that she now is. We fear the best plan has not been adopted, but we fervantly trust that no disas ter may come to the State from the adoption of the measure, and that the dangers lurking behind this plan of raising money may be pas sed safely over.
The Russellville Democrat., 1879-03-06
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 Always shake the bottle before us- ing.
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The Russellville Democrat., 1879-03-06
 The reputation which Col.


 The reputation which Col. P. Donan, editor of the Bentonville Advance, has acquired as lecturer, is giving him quite a celebrity. The Post and Dispatch of St. Lotus, says:
 Coi. F. Donan, of Arkansas, is now in the city on his way to Chicago. He has accepted a proposition of the Slayton Lecture Bureau, of that city, to deliver his famous lecture on w oman" next season under it's aus. piccs, and is going up to complete the details of the contract, the terms ot which are the same as those given to Wendell Phillips and Schuyler Colfax.
The Russellville Democrat., 1879-03-06
-<
 SOUND IDEA.
Denocra

The Prescott Dispatch hits the nail fairly on the head in the follow ing remarks, and there can be no good reason why the idea advocated should not be carried out:
 We favor retrcnchment in every department, we want to see Arkan- sas free from debt, and ir a pros:sessr r ous condition, and .i...ss..I ..i...s. that the present legislature will do something for the relief of the people. Let them provide means whereby the number of senators and representa- lives can be reduced. Our legisla. ture has too many great men in it, it takes them too long to legislate. They cannot get their ideas collect ed, cannot unite upon propositions-- they fail to pass good and wholesome laws. We have too much talk, too many efforts at legislation, and no good results from their assembling together. Let the number be diyid. ed by two, (even fonr wouldn't hnrt) and then more. would be done, there wouldn't be so many to speak. Then again, let them meet only once in four years, that Is often enough, the laws passed now are repealed be- fore the people understand them. So much legislation, and so many electious do much towards running the country into bankruptcy. Let us have less of both, and we will experience better state of affairs.
The Russellville Democrat., 1879-03-06
THE BRIBERY INyEsTIGA-
 TION.
Roots Runs.-- Walker on the War Path.-Furbush and Dawson Want BloOd.--An Ugly
 Outlook.

AitcT tue uiTtCb cuMBo Oi Itpic- sentatives Furbush and Dawson against Logan H. Roots, last Thurs day, of having tried to bribe them and others to vote for Col. Johnson, Mir. Roots suddenly left for the East, in order, as was asserted, to avoid being investigated luther. The L. K. Gazette on Saturday, for the fret time, alluded to the subject and inn pugned the veracity of both Fur bush and Dawson. Immediately af ter the opening of the session on Saturday the former rose and made the following strong declaration.
 Il tried to keep out of this, out of out of this investigation. Now, SIT, if that paper means to say 1 have lied, ard that is the way I under stand it. l want the House to inves- tigate the matter. 1 went into the bank at the solicitation of Col. Roots. He had me sent for. He offered me s2,000 to vote for Col. Johnson. He Is the scoundrel, the whelp, whom l signed blank after blank for. These internal thieves try to make me out liar; they had better jump into the Arkansas River than try that. They did offer me money, and now for th,s paper to say have lied--get Col. Roots, bring him back bring him before the bar of this house, bring him where he will have to face the members: and then if he can face the house, and if he has the cheek to say he did not send for me and offer me the money, I will have no more to say. 1 intend to make good what say. I want him sent for. He is somewhere m the United States New York or Washington-and you must get him. Send for him, l tell you"
 MT. Dawson followed with this bold challenge:
 l refer to an editorial in the Ga- zette. l want every fact and every truth brought to the front. l want the House to put it's powers in force. and bring everything out referring to Col. Roots. He Lad left the city as soon as he heard they (Messrs. Fnrbush and Dawson) were to go before the committee. If Col. Roots said he lied, it had become person al matter and would be very quickly settled.
 There will have to be done consid- erable soothing to smooth over the acerbities of this investigation. An other wretched phase in this matter is the testimony of w. R. Lee, who swore that Senator elect Walker of. fered him and his friends money to- vote for him. The testimony howev- CT, will find little credence as Lee himself acknowledges to have been drunk at the tune.
 Senator Walker met Lee next day on the street, and when the latter held out his hand the Senator re- pulsed him with the words:
 "You perjured scoundrel, I do not speak to llars like you."
 "All right" said Lee, "you need not speak to me then"
 The head lines and all, of the above article, are taken from the Weekly New Era, of Ft. Smith, and as that paper Is entirely disinterested, being republican in politics, and feeling no solicitude for either side of the fight, it's conclusions mag be taken as un. biased. -
The Russellville Democrat., 1879-03-06

We are sorry to see the ugly at titude in which Representative Lee, of Newton County, has placed him. self in the course of the bribery in. vestigation. His story can not find much credence as he acknowledges teat he was drunk at the time he al leges he he'd the conversation with Senator Walker.
The Russellville Democrat., 1879-03-06

The following article from the New York Times is respectfully referred to newspaper readers and borrowers: "One thing is certain. the world would be dreadfully dreary were the local newspapers suddenly to die. The American people, we believe, would actually become wild If all newspapers should cease pub.
The Russellville Democrat., 1879-03-06

Arkansas who knows Judge Walker and Lee of Newton. who will hesi tate to say that Lee's story is utter ly false and Judge Walkers state ment true in every respect.--L. R. Democrat.
The Russellville Democrat., 1879-03-06

Both houses of the general as- sembly of the State have now passed the bill to abolish the useless office of Adjutant General, and the bill now goes to the Governor for his ap- proval. We'll done, gentlemen, of the general assembly!
The Russellville Democrat., 1879-03-06

P. Donan.~Editor of the Benton vile Advanbe, comes out over his own signature, in his paper of the 22d ult., and denouncas Mir. L. F Cunningham, the attorney of the yop. lin railroad. as swindler. william and q would be assassin.
The Russellville Democrat., 1879-03-06
-The Forrest Cily Courier ha

The Forrest City Courier has entered uponTi its second year. Mfr Stewart, the present editor is mak ing it an excellent paper--live, pro gressiye. and ontspoken on all ques tons of public interest. Success to the Courier.
The Russellville Democrat., 1879-03-06

After long interval of time we are once more receiving the Monti- cellonian. Glad to get it again, and hope you will not cut Us of any more, Bro. Gotham.
The Russellville Democrat., 1879-03-06

Thompson says you may talk of your water cures, your movement cures and your blue glass cures, but there is nothing like the sinecure, after all.
The Russellville Democrat., 1879-03-06

present General Assembly will give thls matter that consideration which its importance demands.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-18

John Wesley.


Among the figures conspicuous in the
history Of England in the last century,
there is perhaps none more worthy of
careful study than,that of John Wesley,
Make all deductions you please for his
narrowness, and still it remains that no
one SO nearly approaches the fullness Of
stature of the great heroes of Christian
spiritualism in the early and Middle
Ages. He had more in common with St.
Boniface and St. Bernardine, of Sienna
with st. Vincent Ferrer, and Sayanarola
than any religious teacher whom Protest.
antism has ever produced. Nor is the
rise of the sect which has adopted his
name-the "people called Methodist"
was his way of designating his followers
by any means the most important OF
the results of his life and labors.
1t is not too much to say that he, and
those whom he formed and Influenced,
chiefly kept alive in England the idea OF
supernatural order during the dull ma.
teriaIism and selfish coldness of the
eighteenth century. To him is undoubt
edly die the Evangelical party. Re.
Iio Imer a and insou dir;nu 4 tbev oo"ei' AID
frar h;m, o on nartiomIar 5octr;ncs "n Su Il de
U Und fran, @ G ~ I% that fmmdamontn t.uo, "e
f i'rn rol;a; iro ", anrara;o @ mb;oh thon tarn, @
od uthe u'v uo,y I h;rtL" T. !, aasv @ NOW aa !,
W. ,o nc" ridi,o G ' +ho 10 r"a no" h,
esl oolo m"'' ~ M oie'9Ie 4ehod Pi ~
oGe eooy W orer ae ths;r so,,r ] W
the;r tl"i iannrant % ~ fanntcism % to detect onc
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-18
RAD AT THE BEST.

At the best it is probable that the
Russian political prisoners have anything
but an agreeable time of it, 1t is not
the custom and never has been for mon.
srchial or autocratic governments to deal
gently with those who seek to undermine
their authority. Revolutionary agents
resort to violent measures often times
with recklessness and foolhardiness anc
mercilessness that loses them thu
sympathy of mankind, and very natu
rally invokes upon their heads when, de
tected, the most mereiless punishment
Just now Europe is very much excitef
over the reported treatment of kussiar
political prisoners on theiS way to exil'
at Saghaiin. A short time since $50 pria
oners were shipped from Odessa, The!
were chained together in small groups
and then locked up in iron cages lik
those used in transporting wild animals
The ventilation was bad and the die
worse. A fearful mortality was tn
inevitable result Another vessel hsvinl
On board $50, was detained few days a
Port Said, where the suffering from hea
was so very terrible as to cause the deatl
of a large number of the unfortunat
exiles. On one vessel in the same ser
vice, $50 prisoners died and $50 wer
landed in dying condition.
These political prisoners are OF all age
and conditions of life Many OF then
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-18

Abiding to an article in the Art Jour
nal in which the writer declares that WON
en- are degenerating, the Rockland Couri-
er says:
"The woman who lives next door fur.
nished an example of this fact yesterday
She got up at four O'Clock and built two
fires, lugged four hods Of coal from the
cellar, did the weeks washing for family
of six before seven o'clock, prepared the
morning meal, impartially licked three
small children and got them ready for
school, potted several choice plants, set
black patch into the cupola of her hus'
bands gray pants, read four chapters of q
New York Ledger continued story, visited
neighbour and learned how TO cut her
new cloak in the latest style, cooked
boiled dinner and chased book agent
out of the yard with broom, and all be
fore twelve O'Clock. The American WON
an is indeed degenerating."
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-18
A Joke Of Foote.
fTemnla Rarl


Cumberland was q frequeRter Of the
British Coffee-house, which was great
resort of North Britons, as we'll as some
of the most famous men of the time,
Foots, Garrick, Goldsmith, Reynolds.
Here it was one day suggested that he
should write a comedy with Scotchman
in il, as companion to his Irish Major.
He objected that he had never been in
Scotland and knew very little of the dia-
lect "Give your Scotchman character"
remarked one of the company, "and take
your chance for dialect. If you bring a
Roman upon the stage, you don't make
him speak Latin" "No, no." cried Foote,
"and il you don't make him wear breeches,
Garrick will be much obliged to yon.
When | was in Suanraer, went to the
kirk, where the Mess John was declaim-
ing most furiously against luxury, and, as
heaven shall judge me, there was not a
pair Of shoes in the whole congregation.
From this conversation originated the
character Of Colin Macleod, in his next
comedy, "The Fashionable Lover" pro.
duced in I772 it was success, and became
his tavorite work.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-18
A Ncwsboy's Work.


John King, lame newsboy, who has
hobbed around the streets of Cincinnati
all his life selling newspapers, has just
donated :, 500 valuable books to the Pub
lie Library of that city. Though yet
called newsbov, he is 80 years old, and
is no ordinary character. The CONNER
cial says at one time he was induced to to
change his occupation, and lost 5000, all
his savings. He returned to Cincinnati,
resumed his old business and paid the
debts OF his firm dollar for dollar. lie
lives in cramped up room, alone with
his books, which had so accumulated as
to fill almost the entire space. Measures
ought to be taken to brighten the remain
ing years of one as deserving as John
King, Secretary of the Newsboy's Union
of Cincinnati.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-18

The largest library in the world is stat
ed to be the National library, at Paris,
which in 1874, contained 100000 printed
books and 10000 manuscripts The
British Museum and the Imperial library,
at St. Petersburg, both contained about
100000 volumes in 1874, and the rela-
ton is probably the same now. The Roy
al library of Munich contains 100000
books. The Vatican library, at Rome,
is enormously supposed to be among the
largest, while, in point OF fact it is sur
passed, so far as the number of volumes
goes, by more than sixty European col
lections.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-18

Seventeen hundred and seventy-six
years ago our forefathers crossed the
ocean and planted May flower on Ply.
mouth rock" shouted patriotic and
slightly inebriated orator, on the glorious
Fourth. "You have all the points, but
their arrangement is slightly discomhob-
erated,' interrupted a matter offset audit
or. "Arrange them to suit yourseli, them
replied the orator Which remiads us OF
the saving of "that boy" 10 his father,
when the family were assembled sor wor-
ship: Bring me the bible, my son" said
pater familias. The son went into an ad-
joining room and returned with a grave
countenance and Webster's dictionary,
and placed the latter on his fathers lap.
The old gentleman took his spectacles
from his pocket. wiped them and placed
them on his nose, and solemly opened the
book in his lap "You young scamp" he
shouted, "you knew you were bringing
me the dictionary" "Well, pa" said
young hopeful, still wearing his grave
countenance, "the words are all there
can't you put EN- together SO as to make
'em read right"
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-18

Lucy had bean little improved by those
who had the rearing of her; she was a
gin of excellent disposition, but her
education had been commonplace. In
the society of the old lady her good gifts,
both head and heart, expanded rapidly.
The passionate desire to render herself
worthy of her husband, whom she adored
almost as some superior being, made her
an apt and docile pupil.
A few years thus spent, and you would
would scarcely have known her again.
Her piety was deep, and had become a
habit, part of her very soul; her under
standing, naturally excellent, bad been
developed and strengthened; the most
earnest desire to perform her part we'll,
to do good and extend virtue and hap
piness, and to sweeten the lives of all
with whom she had to do, had succeeded
to thoughtless good nature, and sort of
instructive kindness. Anxiety for her
her husbands health, which constantly
oppressed her; sort of trembling fear
that she should be bereaved early of this
transcendent being; this it was, perhaps,
which enhanced this earnest, serious tone
of one so young.
ITO BE CONTINUED.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-18
A Trick Of the Clairvoyants.
(Scribpers Monthly.)

In drawing out the facts of personal or
family history, clarvoyants do not always
ask direct questions, but rather make
statements with an implied Interrogation,
to which the victim, oftimes entirely un-
consciously, responds by word or look or
gesture, or perhaps by all three; and, at a
later stage of the interview, these secret
facts are artfully given back to the vic.
tim, who has no recollection of having
previously impaired them, and will moi
believe that he has done SO, but prefers tc
believe that he is in the presence of Di.
vinity.
1t is not only possible but easy for a
practical adept to draw out in this way
minute and elaborate details of secret
family history A few years ago, while
connected with one of the public institu.
tons Of this city, made number of ex
periments in this line. / told the patients
afflicted with various forms of nervous
and allied disorders, not to tell me about
their symptoms, nor give me any facts ir
| their cases, but to let me tell them; and
then would proceed to indicate, after the
manner of clairvoyant the locality of
their maladies, and the history Of Their
troubles. In the majority Of cases was
successful, and made out the diagnosis to
the satisfaction of those who sought my
advice, and with good reason, for nothing
that could do prevented them from telf
ing me, although | asked them no ques
tons; unintentionally and unconsciously
they would guide me at every stage OF
the interview. BY little practice any
one could easily acquire this art; and Ions
study, such as professional clairvoyant'
bestow upon this subject, develops grea
skill in thus managing and deluding thu
unwary and non-expert.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-18

FRACTIONAL silver money seems to be
accumulating in the United States Treas
ury with tolerable rapidity, the state
ment for August 1st showing that there
was $12,731,7 1856 then on deposit there.
On the 1st of July the Treasury con
tanned S,9O3, ,401, and on the 1st of June
$6,S13,5S9. 1t will thus be seen that the
subsidiary silver coin has nearly doubled
in the Government vaults in two months
This rapid accumulation will doubtless
continue during the current month al
least, but the only thing proven by the
circumstance is that we have too much
fractional silver money in circulation
and its flow into the Treasury is the re
suit of the law of last session, providing
for the conversion of subsidiary coin into
full Iegal-tender silver dollars. The glu
thus cures itself automatically.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-18
Napoleon and the AutOmatOn.

When Napoleon came to Berlin, the
figure was furnished up again for his en-
tertainment He played against it in
person. "The contest" says Walker,
twas marked by an interesting circum-
stance. Half dozen moves had barely
been played, when Bonaparte, purposely
to test the power of the machine, com
mitted a false move. The automaton
bowed, replaced the offending piece, and
motioned to Napoleon that he should
move correctly. Highly amused, after a
few minutes the French chief again
played an illegal move. This time the
automaton, without hesitation, snstched
off the piece which had moved falsely,
confscated it, and made his own move.
Bonaparte laughed, and for the third
time, as if to put the patience of his an
tagonist to a severe trial, played false
move. The automaton raised his arm
swept the whole of the pieces off the
board, and declined continuing the
game"
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-18

are torn from homes of sfluence and re-
6nement, and naturally succumb to the
hardships and deprivstions of prison life
in a very short time. A St. Petersburg
correspondent of the London papers still
insists that the reputed reign Of terror in
Russia and of cruelty to the suspected
are greatly exaggerated, but it seems that
these reports are sufficiently well authen-
ticsted, Notwithstanding Mr.. Stoughton
and these correspondents, to warrant the
British House of Commons in consider
ing the matter as an international or
humanitarian question. The secresy with
which the Russian Government acts in
all its prosecutions of political suspects
undoubtedly adds greatly to the terror
inspired in the public mind and give
origin to vague reports of horrors that
are only suspected, but the most rose
colored reports are bad enough.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-18


Mr.. Albert Schwill, contrary to all ex-
pectations, did not receive the nomination
for the Senate in place of Mr.. Moerlein,
who declined. The successful candidate
was Mr.. Charles Fleischmann, the well
known distiller.
The vacancies on the Democratic Sena-
torial ticket will only be filled in the early
part of next month.
TThe Volksblatt1
The case of Mr.. VIM. l.. DeBeck shows
how desirable it is that a stricter response
bilty be had among the city officials so that
it could not be left to the caprice of one or
the other whether he was to account for the
moneys received by him or not.
The Freie Presse.
The nomination Of Mr.. Fleischmann means
an increase of at least | 900 votes for the Re-
publican ticket in this County.
According to an ION dit the Democratic
Executive Committee has postponed the
filling of the vacancies on the Democratic
Senatorial ticket ON no other ground than
to leave a chance open for Mr., Hassaurek,
who will arrive here in few days.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-18

Mr.. Moody has touched the heart of a
Baltimore burglar. The Office of ]. A. L.
Graham, lawyer, was broken into and
robbed Of cash box containing 500 Mr.
Moody preached sermon on restitution
and the thief happened to hear it. He
picked not pocket; he took not drink
he went to the lawyers house and left
with a servant spool box care
fully tied up and containing $40, accom-
panied by letter stating that he had
been seized with remorse aud would pay
back the remaining $50 as soon as posi-
Bile.