The Russellville Democrat., 1879-01-09

tend Medical Lectures at Louisville.
 -Mr. Hurlbutt, our artist, Is happy
 I'll fine boy at his house is tie prolific cause of his joy.
 Miss Rhoda Poe, of Clinton, has been visiting relatives in our little city for some time.
 --Capt.J. ". Russell goes down to Little Rock this week to attend tine meeting of the Grand Masonic bodies.
 MT. II. $. Eagle has recently re- turned from visit te his former home in Michigan, and favored us with call. v Owing to the fact that Co.-Judge Wilson could not leave home this week there was no term of county court last Monday.
 Ut is remarkable fact that last Tuesdays Gazette did not make sim gle allusion to Hon. R. W. Jolinson's candidacy for the Senatorship. II "A lot of corn, about 300 bushels, Twas sold at public outcry on the street last Friday and was knocked off at 40 cents per bushel. EA~t--beats~ ~ruising NcuTrur. /
 Capt. James Harkey has been quite sick at home for several days. We are pleased to know that he is now convalescent,. and hope to see him at his accustomed business place again soon.
 = From the Little Rock papers we learn that Mr. Caldwell Bradshaw is reading law in the office of Gen, New ton and will attend the law lectures in that city this winter.
 We have noticed for several days that our friend, A. NJ. Wilson, held q very high head, and have wondered if some rich uncle had left him big bo- manga. But we now learn that it is even better than that, being nothing less than bouncing boy.
 We direct attention to the advertis- ment of splendid books by MT. Gerber. These books are sold only by subserip- tion, and Mir. Gerber will wait on you at your residence, or when in town be can be seen at the store of J. M. White & Son. Mir. Gerber is also agent for the DEMOCRAT and when in the country will solicit subscriptions for us. Through the kindness of the Conn " Clerk we are enabled to furnish our readers in to-day's paper, an abstract of the tax books of our county as made up for 1878. The abstract as compared with similar one for 1877, shows pro gress and prosperity in our county. Nrhe total vatue of real and personal llproperty has been enhanced ill value almost ten per cent. and yet the aggre- gate amount of the tax we are required to pay is not quite as much as It WAS in 1877.
 We have received a communication from Mir. J. c. Wallace, intended as a Areply to our comments on the County IlSaat contested election case. But for Tits great length and the late hour at which it was handed ill it would have appeared in to-day's paper. We will give it entire, punctuatim ct literatum, next week; although we are of the opinion that large portion or it will \ be of very little interest to the public, Ibeing, as it is, mere invective direct led against the editor of this paper, of I no concern to the public and wholly unnecessary in replying to any state of llfacts set forth in our previous article. llAs Mir. ". thinks his duty to his clients Drequres him to pitch into us, however. we shall give him the full length of the rope this time, as we fear no harm from l his inyectiVe.
 | We learn from Mir. J. D. Rushing ] that the fine farm residence of Mir. K. Potts came very near being destroyed by fire on the morning of the 7th inst. The flre originated rather mysteriously l in chamber up stairs where there had
 been no fire for some days. The fire
 was fortunately discovered in time to extinguish it before any damage was done, further than shght injury to the carpet and bedding.
 l SPECIAL NoTICE.-We have to in
 form those of our subscribers who find cross mark after their names, that
 their subscription has expired, and un-
 less they renew in the regular way, we l will have to strike their names from
 our books. We have to pay cash foI supplies used in the management oi | our business, and to enable us to dc Athis we must exact prepayment from Hour patrons. For the new year ouI vmotto will be: 'In God we trust"- other people must pay cash!
 Owing to the fact that we missed lone issue of our paper on Christmas llweek, local items accumulated on hand Ito such an extent that u good many were unavoidably left out. Amongst
 those left out were some which We re- sret, and especially one acknowledg'
 ine our thankfulness for still being
 klive after taking a Christmas dinner Vat our good neighbor's, Mrs. k. B Potts. We don't believe any more tha
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