The Russellville Democrat., 1881-10-13

%-~e-'~%e@ t~asf ASAA AA~ Bluff last week come to grief, on ac- count of the bridegroom turaing loose the eontents Of shot gun into ths crowd. Fred Ness, the leader of the party, was seriously injured and several others slightly.
 ] -Guiiean ssys of the shooting Fl shot the President without malice or murderous intent deny any lia bility in this case.s It has been said thas lying well stuck to avail eth man much, but in this in. stance no amount of persistence in this course will save the miscrexnt's neck.
 The National Farmers Alliance at Chicago on Thursday adopted resolutions opposing monopolies, condemning free railroad passes. ia voring an income tax, demanding impartial laws for regulation of freight and passenger transportation and declaring tue adulteration of ] food s crime.
 Judge I. C. Parker, of the U. S. court at Fort Smith, recently made an important decision, as it deter mines the fact that the acts of the de facto state governments in 1861. while in secession, are duly recog nized by the supreme court of the U. S, when not in hostility to the U. $. authorities.
 The ground. and dwelling Of ex Gov. Clayton, at Little Rock, has been selected as the location for s 1 6rsi class male and female school to be modelled sfier the Oberlin college, of Ohio. The school is to be made s leading institution in the south west, and will be under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal church.
 The three boys who plllaged train On the Iron Mountain railroad near Hope, were srraigned in court fast week and pleading guilty, were each sentenced to the peaisen tiary for seventy years. Thls will dispel the ides that has found lodge ment in soma quarters that AIksn- sss Is state Of lax morals and loose justice.
 The September lssUe of the Ar ksnsas School Journal has reached our table. I. contains the yaledic- tory of J. R Weathers and the salu- tstory of Prof. J. L. Denton, who as sumes editorial charge TRe Jour, nal is more than ever entitled 10 s rousing support, and which we feel certain will be accorded il. Prics sl per annum.
 The sale of cotton futures has become so deneralizing to legIti- mate trade that there is great de- naRd for abatement Of the evil by imposing severe pshslass and de c.aring such contracts void. Last year there were twenty one million bales of cotton sold in futures, more than three times the anonat of sc ;Gal cotton raised.
 --Guitsau's autobiography ocn- tains the astounding statement that he wants 10 marry. He says: "I want sn elegant christian lady of wealth, under thirty, belonging to q first class family. Any such lady can address me in perfect conf dsEce." To the credit of American woman be ii said, that not one of them has been esptivated by his ap peal.
 The Gazette certainly stands g: the sead of the Stsis press ia shs use Of irony. Its recent chapters on the Perfect Gresnbaeker," are mod el examples of this figure of speech. The fitness of the subject no doubt, 1 served to bring ont Us very best tai ! snt in this regard, and this talent wss exercised, we imagine, without reference 10 the especial delight of the perfect greeabaeker.
 The indictment agsins; Guiteau 1 fer shooting Garfield was formally l presented on the Sth inst The 4 document embraces eleven counts. The fiith and sixth are Inc ones up- < on which the prosecution will mainly 1 rely. They dssc-iss the shooting as having been done "wiih malice 4 aforelhozghS with a pistol, infies ing one mortal wsand, from the sf- fects of which the President died"