The Russellville Democrat., 1879-03-27
EDITORIAL NOTES.

at the recent session of the lcgisla- ture, will be found in full on the first page of to-day's paper.
 Several parties have been fined in Little Rock under the new law against cruelty to animals. The wretch who will abuse poor dumb brute ought to be fined.
 The Alma Herald emphatically denies the statement made last week by the Atkins News to the effect that it (the Herald) is soon to be sold under the hammer to satisfy an execution.
 Ut would look very democratic in democratic Congress to pass law making postmasters clectable by a vote of the people. The President would still have more patronage left than he ought to have.
 -Ex-Congressman Wiltshire is a candidate on the greenback ticket for the Mayoraliiy of Little Rock. Mayor Fletcher will be candidate for reelection on the regular demo- cratic ticket.
 The estimate placed upon Sena- tor Garland in the U. s. Senate may be judged of from the fact that he has been made Chairman of the Con- mittee on Territories-one of the most important committees in the Senate.
 It is now confidently believed that the work will be commenced on the extension of the Kansas City, Joplin and Little Rock Railroad by the first of the incoming month, and that it will be completed as far as Fayetteville before next Christmas.
 The residence of Mir. k. D. Hooper, of Magazine, Logan County, was destroed by fire on Wednesday the 18th instant. It was the finest in the county, having just been com pleted at scost of between $4,000 and 5000.
 The Democrats of the whole na- tion look to their representatives in Congress to now stand firm and res olute in their demand for the abol- ishment of the test oath, and the re- peal of the law permitting federal supervisors and marshals to control elections.
 The fine new hotel building of Mir. Elsey, of Ozark, which was just receiving the finishing touches, was destroyed by fire last Thursday morning. The fire is supposed to have been the work of an incendi- ary. Loss S5.000. No insurance.
 MT. Porter, member of the Di- plomacy Company which was to have appeared at the Grand Opera House in Little Rock last Friday night, was most foully murdered by desperate named Curry, at Marshall, Texas, on Wednesday the 18th inst. MT. Bar ramore, of the same Company, was also wounded by the same assassin.
 Reports that Sitting Bull and his 2,000 warriors again threaten an invasion over the Canadian border, has caused some activity in the war department at Washington. The 18th infantry has been ordered from Atlanta to Bismarck to keep up a patrol of the border threatened by Sitting Bull.
 MT. E. Urquart, through whose energy and enterprise, manly, the Little Rock Oil Mill was established and put on sound footing, now pro. poses to erect and put in operation at an early day a cotton mill. The Capital City would do we'll to aid and assist such men as MT. U. in the enterprise, as it would add largely to the industrial importance of the place.
 The contest for Speakership of the new house was "short and sweet" The boasted ''balance of power" which the Nationals, or Greenback- CTS claimed they would lhaye, didn't amount to a row of pins. On the first ballot the Democrats gave Randall IA votes against the Re- publican's 125 for Garfield while the Greenbackers gave Wright 13.
 ONE Coop WoRD.--The Fort