The Russellville Democrat., 1879-09-11
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LOCAL NEWS.
SpecialOGer,

Fricke.
 Chew Jackson's Best Sweet Navy Tobacco.
 Mrs. E. E. Judd has our thanks for nice boquet.
 There arc just forty school dis tricts in Pope county.
 Send us 8 cents and get the DEMO- CRAr until Jan. 1880.
 MT. II. II. Julian has returned from a visit to Louisiana.
 -Justice's blanks an1 Chattel mort gages for sale at this office.
 Circuit Court will commence at Dover week from next Monday.
 There will be three cotton gins in full blast in our town this season.
 Reader if you owe us anything, this will notify you we need money.
 We are glad to zee Mir. J. K. Peri man up and about again after his re- cent illness.
 Up to last Saturday night the city cotton weigher had weighed four bales of new cotton.
 The boys who were out serenading last Thursday night made some excel lent music.
 Several new residences will be commenced in different parts of the town right Away,
 -Messrs. Fowler, Roth and Will son have gone to St. Louis this week to purchase new goods.
 -Messrs. King & Henry have their new cotton gin at Galla Creek Station about ready to put in operation.
 Mir. w. J. Berryman presents us with q specimen stalk of his cotton which Is very fine, having sixty fine bolls on it.
 Major Jno. D. Adams, one of Ar kansaw's most pubIic-spirited citizens, telegraphed sl0O from New York to the Howard Association of Memphis.
 The cotton ginning season is nearly at hand. Gin owners should insure their gins, as there is always great hazard of fire about such establish ments.
 Mrs. F. Hyatt and Miss c. Barr arc prepared to do dressmaking and all kinds of plain sewing. Ladies, give them call. At.
 A team and wagon belonging to Judge N. D. Shinn created some ex- citement on our streets last Saturday by running away. No serious damage was done.
 Cotton quotations Monday: St. Louis, firm and unchanged q. 1l3s; {; New Orleans, strong, middling 11la :; New York, quiet at 121s; Liverpool, firm at 67s@7d.
 SPECIAL PREMIUM.-We will give as special premium to every man taking any premium on any article from Pope county at the State Fair, one years subscription to the Russell vile DEMOCRAT.
 Major Barr, recently citizen of Dardanelle, and proprietor of the White Hall Hotel has become citizen of our town. We welcome the Major and his family to our town, and trust they may be pleased with our place.
 Mir. M. NJ. McGuire, the popular editor of the Dardanelle Independent Arkansian. was in town Saturday. We only caught glimpse of him as he passed along the street.
 Mir. J. M. Lloyd brought in the sec- ond bale of new cotton on the 2d inst. It classed low middling, weighed 4S0 pounds and sold to the well known firm of Howell, White & Co.,, at 1024c. It was ginned and baled by Messrs. J. D. and II. Clay yich. There has been some excitement very recently at Piney over supposed haunted house. The whole thing in all probability results from some noises made by rabbit, coon, or other small yermin which has gained entrance un- der the floor or between the ceiling.
 -J, F. McCARTHUR-Dealer in choice liquors, cigars and tobacco. Uhrig's celebrated St. Louis beer always on tap. A good ten pin alley in connection. Drinks 10 cents. Courteous attendants.
 --Messrs. Filey & Fricke, lessees . of the Excelsior Coal Mines, are now prepared to fill orders and make con- tracts for coal in any quantity, and they solicit orders from all wanting first-class coal. Price IL cents, de- llyered. Address, FILEY & FRIcKE, Russellville. Ark. [tf.
 Country produce is selling now in this market as follows: Butter 15 and 2oe; eggs SIS and Toe; potatoes 5Oc; pesches 50 to Toe; wheat Q and Soc; wool 20 and 2Sc; feathers 25 and 37I@c; beeswax 20c; tallow 5c; onions Toe; grapes Dc; chickens $l.25 to $1.50 per dozen.
 There has been very large attend af tl,A