The Russellville Democrat., 1880-08-12

who are here now restored, will be able to speak more adyisedly. l have, however, from what l have been able to discover, see and hear, been led to have great faith in their virtues, and that there has been numerous and positive cures 1 am assured there can be no doubt.
 The scenery around is grand, i'm posing and picturesque. You may stand upon the point where l am located and see the majestic pine clad hills with their deep and appar- ently almost interminable hollows intsrvining the steep sides and tops, dotted as far as you can see above and below with box houses. log hassss, cabins, tents, and not unfrequently . magnificent frame hotel, one of which lies immediately in front . little north of west of my present abode and in plain and prominent view the Southern hotel, which am told has cost seven thousand dollars moro or less. five frame store houses filled with every variety of merchan diEe you would desire; indeed . city in the hills and hollows, without much regard to order in streets and passwsys, compelled to use such as nature permits as accessible, only much work has been done, however, to improve the thoroughfares, and much credit is due those exercising authority for what has been done. In the very short time since its discov- cry and settlement, . little over or near one year ago. They claim ten and twelve thousand inhabitants, al though many of these are perhaps outside of the limits of the corpora tion, which l believe, according to United States enumeration ls put down at less than four thousand in habitants within the city limits. We have here every trade and occupa- tion known in the larger cities. Ho
 tels and boarding houses without number. It is said the city has l25 physicians, more or less, with sever al good drug stores to furnish sup plies not contained in the life giving fountains. Lawyers make up their quota of the population. Preachers, editors, printers and publishers of papers, theatrical companies. trades men of all kinds and persuasion in abundance, interspersed among the thousands of decrcpit human beings seeking health will be found hun
 dreds stout, hearty and robust, who come for recreation and pleasure and to enjoy life and gratify their curi. osity and to engage Tn the gay and :ashionable amusements of the day Tn it's varied form. The theatre, the circus, music and tripping the light fantastic toe form a part and parcel of the ingredients necessary to constitute tho make up of this City among the Pines, and is not overlooked or forgotten.
 In my last letter which was short and hastily penned with nothing to write about of my own knowledge, I stated that from information, which 1 have since learned was unreliable, there were perhaps ten O. fifteen deaths occurring daily. Upon fur ther enquiry find that the death rate will perhaps not exceed that number monthly. 1 have learned that the measles have about abated, There are several cases of typhoid malarial fever which Is not to be wondered at when we take into con sideration that hundreds of human beings are living on the steep hill sides and in hollows below and that the excresence and filth necessarily occurring therefrom must wash down the hills into the hollows below, creating much impurity and an unwholesome atmosphere which is bound to create sickness and death, and unless efficient and prompt sani- tary regulations are adopted, must result very disastrously for the wei
 fare and prosperity of the city. The town lots are forty feet square, and the houses put up in many instances without regard to where the streets are or may be made. Notwithstand- ing the diversity Sf opinion the gov ernment will have to settle the land question here as at Hot Springs, and the sooner tho better for all par ties. In . population as varied and mixed, from all parts of the United States-for they are found here morally and socially I do not believe it can be cxcellsd anywhere; sobri
 ety, peace and good order prevail, and disturbances and violations of the law are few and far between, and have seen but one man, . hack dri- yer, who was uncourteous and want
 ing in proper respect and gentle manly department since left home.
 Provisions are abundant and cheap and brought in wagons to your door. Flour $l.75 per hundred; beef, SIC. per pound; bacon, ' to 9tc.; chick. ems, 10 to l5c. each; eggs. Ssc. doz. {; potatoes, 40c. Fer bushel; apples, fine and large, 20c. per bushel; cab. bage, 5 to Toe. per head; butter, 15 to 20c. per pound; onions, s1.20 per bushel; corn, Soc. per bushel; oats, scarce, $3.25 to $3.50 per hundred !; nails, 5c. per pound; iron, to 5c. i, meal, 50 to 60c. per busher; lumber,