The Russellville Democrat., 1879-06-05

The Camden Beacon man re- ceived ripe luscious peaches .ou the 22d ult.
 Decoration day was observed throughout the United States this year with more enthusiasm and feel ing than ever before.
 --Eads, of jetty fame, is at last to get the $500,000 due him on his work at the mouth of the MississIp- pi River. The payment has been ordered.
 It is reported that Jefferson Davis has been offered $400 per night by New York Lecture Blu reau to lecture in the principle cities of the North.
 The defacto President returned the Legislative appropriation bill to the House last Thursday with an other veto message, stating his ob- jections to the bill.
 President Hayes (with the de- facto always understood must have a fine lot of veto messages on hand by this time. He has not sent one in now for nearly three weeks.
 Ohio fires the first gun in the Sherman boom by giving Judge Taft, Grants friend, back seat. Chas. Foster, the man nominated, was not the choice of the third term CTS and stalwarts.
 -Itis an easy matter to let ambi- tious men usurp authoritv-central- ize power,-put on imperial airs, &c., but to throw off the yoke when the bow is once bent around the neck and the fastenings made secure, is qulte another and a far more diff cult matter.
 President Newman. of the Ar kansas Press Association thinks Supt. Harbin, of the Memphis and Arkansas River Packet Co.,, acted in bad faith in breaking his engage ment to take members of the Asso- citation from Little Rock to Pine Bluff on the eve of the meeting.
 We regret that our limited space forbids the publication of some of the able speeches made by the Ar kansas delegation in Congress. With as small sheet as ours, there are many good things which we can not reproduce without excluding all local news and everything of local interest.
 James Howard, the man who murdered his wife last January, Tn Franklin County, was found guilty ofmurder in the first degree at the recent session of Judge Jacoway's Court at Ozark, and will expiate his terrible crime by hanging. The 25th of July is the day set for the execution.
 The Washington House, Hagers- town, Indiana, was destroyed by fire on the morning of the 29th ult The fire originated on the lower floor and made such rapid headway that the sixty or seventy persons in the upper stories were completely cut off from all means of escape and were compelled to climb down the porch pillars. Some half dozen per sons are missing and are supposed to have been burned in the ruins.
 By dint of a great deal of perse- verence the DEMOCRAT has succeed ed in showing up the ridiculous at titude in which the people of Little Rock are placing themselves by do- ing homage to every struggling street singer, patent medicine ped dler, and strolling horsebackman, so forcibly, that the absurdness of the thing has even dawned upon the mind of Opie Read, and he has been dosing out some cutting reproofs to Little Rock society for their follies and senseless foibles. Give 'em thunder, Opie!
 The delinquent tax-list the Rus sellville DEMOCRAT did not send out last week k--according to promise is & neat job and reflects credit on the office where it was not published. Atkins News.
 Well, Bro. Bell, we, like almost all other mortals here below, are subject to disappointmcnts. The foreman of our office was absent almost the entire week at Ozark Court, and it was simply impossible for us to "come to time" on our promise. But,