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The Russellville Democrat., 1881-07-21
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are expected to be embodied in the governor of Q growing and progress siye state, it must i,e confessed that Gen. Churchill is sadly lacking. If he was possessed of every other qual- ification, his utter want of stability, firmness and moral courage, as evi deneed by the wholesale abuse of the pardonlng power which has characterized his administration, is sufficient to preclude the possibility of his re election by an intelligent and esder-loving people.
 Another objection that is very strongly urged against tn governor is his connection with the so.called Little Rock ring. Now, be it under stood, 1 know very little about this ring business, and in fact, know but little about rings in general. l don't even know of my own personal knowledge that there exists such a thing as a State House ring, but there is one thing 1 do know, the masses ot the people of this state have by some means gotten the idea in their heads that there is a political ring at Little Rock, that this ring or machine has for years manipulated and controlled to a great extent, the government of the state; and furthermore they have it in their heads that Gov. Churchill belongs to that ring. How true or false this impression may be it is not for me to say, but at any rate it would be the hardest matter in the world to convince them to the con. trary.
 What the people want is a man for governor who lives outside of Little Rock, who has not been ex- posed to the corrupting influences that are said to exist whereabouts; they want no worn out, broken down politician: they want no chronic of fee hunter; they want a man who Is not actively engaged In politics one who is not, and has not been, trying to ride into office upon the merits or dcmerits of the Fishback amendment or any other hobby. They want a man of dignity and re- cognized ability, who is willing to accept the high trust, not for his own personal aggrandizement and pecuniary gain, but for the good of the people, and for the credit and honor and the advancement and prosperity of the state. Such gov ernor the state needs, regardless of what may be his views upon the Fishback amendment and the settle ment of the state debt.
 Yours, ORLANDO.
The Russellville Democrat., 1881-07-21
THE OHIO DEMOCRACY.

The Ohio democrats in conven tion assembled last Wednesday nominated the following state ticket For governor, John w. Bookwater of Springfield; for lieutenant gover nsr, Edgar M. Johnson, of Cincin. natl, for supreme judge, E. F. Ring. ham, of Franklin; for state treasur. or. A. T. Winslow, of Cleveland for attorney general, Frank C. Dougherty, of Highland county; for pubic works, John Grove, of Def ance.
 The platform is an admirable one, the man blanks being:
 The equality of all people before the law; equal taxation; unpoliticsl Legislation and free and pure bal. lot as the corner stone of free insti. tutions; opposition to monopolies and subsidies of all kinds; the strict est economy ia the national, state and local administrations; that labor may be lightly burdened; tho main. teaance and advancement of the
The Russellville Democrat., 1881-07-21
VOORHEES, ON GARLAND.

A Gazette correspondent recently interviewed Hon. Dan. Voorhees,, al Hot Springs on various topics. IT answer to the following question he said:
 How, senator, does the represen tation of the south, at the present time, compare with the ante bellum standard? Is the south as ably rep resented now as then2
 Take the average representation throughout the south, and it is bet ter represented, in the aggregate oi talent, now than then. True, the south has no Clay or Calhoun in the present congress, no brilliant but CT ratio John Randolph, of Roanoke but the aggregate of sound wisdom and legal learning is with the pres. ent representation. Take your owr senator, Garland, for example, and despite the legal reputation of Thur. man, Mcdonald, David Davis, and others, senator Garland is universal ly acknowledged as the best read and best equipped lawyer in the United States senate. His opinion on legal question, stated in the senate carried more weight than that of any other senator. Garland reads law as others read light lltera ture-for very love of it. His lega reputation was made national in ar guing the constitutionality of the test yotc case before the supreme court of the United States, and il was regarded as equal to any lega argument ever made before tha tribunal. Judges Field and othel judges of that court coincided with that vlew. Senator Garland is one of the ablest and foremost among the public men 1 have met, and Ar kansas should be proud of him, ant will honor herself by keeping him il the senate as long as he elects tt stay. These are not my persona views alone, but are those of the ma jority of the senators who know Garland.
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common school system the ndvoca- cy of a civil service reform whereby officers shall be held to their public trusts to be administered for the public good and not for spells to be enjoyed as the reward of partisan zeal or service.
 In consequence of the inharmon- ious elements of the republican par ty in the state, the democrats with the above ticket apd platform have an opportunity fer success not enjoyed by them for years. The democrats are hopeful and feel that they have g fighting chance and are disposed to make the most of it.
The Russellville Democrat., 1881-07-21
Russellville, July 20.
DOVER DOTS.

Editors Russellville Democrat:
 The weather is hot and still heat ing,
 The health of town and vicinity il reasonably good considering the very extreme hot weather, with no ice tc go with it, but we have some of the best water-pre-haps.
 Under the new law regulating ths practice of medicine thiry eight physicians have registered in Pope countv-twenty-eight made proof ol continuous practice and ten on cor tificates from the examining board.
 Mir. B. F. Bayliss had tho good luck last week to recover the papers that were taken from his safe. They were found by some boys in the field on the Stout place. Mir. Bayliss sup posed he lost $70 in county scrip and charged the burglars with that amount, and $75.50 being returned, he has given them credit for the $5.50.
 Some Of our neighbors in the vii cinity of Mir. Eudy's had their curi- osity somewhat startled over a very singular occurrence last week on the old Gray place. Sometime between Saturday evening and Monday morning hsls some four feet square and three feet deep was dug In the ground at the east end of the smoke house on the side of the public road. Mir. Eudy made careful examina- tion of the excavation and says some pot or other vessel has been taken out; but who it was or what it was dore for is where the trick comes in. There is no one living on the place, and has has not been for some years, save an occasional reuter-. The bus
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POTTS STATION NEWS.

Editors Russellville Democrat:
 Hot! Hot!
 Crops good but need rain. A great many hogs are dying through the country, supposed to be cholera.
 The masonic order at this place meets every Saturday night before each full moon.
 MT. Twiggs Brown, near this town has the finest milk COW in the county The postoak shingles sawed by Oates & Parker, are goed and are only one and half miles from the railroad.
 The first step toward patronizing home industry is to take your coun- ty paper where you can see the diff ferent kinds of business that is car ried on through the advertisements it contains.
 Lumber is being placed on the ground for commodious school house in school dist. No. 45. The firm of Boggess, sTowell < Co.,, will soon have their new store house ready to move into. One Mir. Adams, physician, is coming soon from Tsnn., to form . copartnership with Dr. R. H. Will Hams in the practice ofmedloins. l don't know what Col. Elgin does with all the Singer Sewing Machines he gets but they go, and he keeps ordering more. Cheapness and easy to run l guess is what takes them. | Uncle Naley Falls, MT. Harvey Oats and lady made their return from Eureka last week where they have been spending the past few months, greatly benefited we hope. { VIOLA Tour.
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THE LIQUOR LAWS.
Editors Russellville Democrat:


 The reasons why I am opposed to the Arkansas prehibitory liquor laws 1st. These laws seek to make total abstinence a test of good citizenship, hence, are basod upon falacy, and g misconceived idea of morals and order of things.
 2d. Those laws seek to prohibit, and not to regulate. by imposing wholesome restrictions on the whis. key trafic, but fail to do either.
 Sd. These laws will increase drunk enness and diminish sobriety, for as they are tho mediums through which the druggists monopolizes the entire whiskey trafc, so will drug stores spring up all over the country, and in most instances be degraded to the level of the common groggery, and as purchases must be in greater quantities, so will be the increased tendency to debauchery. And while the tendencies to solitary drinking will grow as ever, the like of around the corner" ''behind the house" drinking will be unheard of before. 4th. These laws are experiment. al, and their consequences will be so detrimental to both business and morals, that it will create revulsion of feeling stronger than that which animated their enactment.
 TARGET. Russellville, July 20.
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WHO IS RESPONSIBILITY

It is said that Guiteau is a luna tic. If this is true, then he is not responsible for the shooting of the President, and the question arises, who IS responsible?
 It seems to be conceded by all that his act grew out of the state of society existing at the North. For such state of society SOMEBODY is certainly responsible, and that res possibility can rest upon no one but those who have governed and bro't society to this state. The Republi- can party has been in power. both in the Federal and State govern ments of the North for the last twen- ty years, and to the means and meas ures of this party are to be attribu- ted, not only this, but all the calam- ities that have befallen the country during that period. The leaders of this party have been Grant, Blaine, Cameron, Logan, Sherman, Conkling and others, and upon them rests all the responsibility.
 Unless society is radically chang ged, by the uprootal of all the perni- cious influences which new mould its disposition and by the clensing Of the cess-pools of corruption into which the Federal government and State governments of the North have been sunk, we may expect Guitsaux more frequently henceforward.
 The Republican party subverted the Constitution and behold the re- rults.
The Russellville Democrat., 1881-07-21

Up to the hour of going to press President Garfeld's condition is re- ported as being very hopeful, and the impression of the attending physi- clans is that the danger is over. The physicians are now considering the propriety of removing the President by boat to Old Point Comfort, and thence about first of August to Long Branch. The President is getting weary with his confinement at the White House, and Mrs, Garfield says every hour is replete with care, illness and danger, and she, too, is anxious 70 get away.
The Russellville Democrat., 1881-07-21
STATE NEWS.

Col. Bill Barry has the pluck te accept the marshalship of Fayette- vile.
 Negotiations are under way to re. move St. Louis furniture factory tc Little Rock.
 It has been discovered that rich coal beds underlie the busy little town of Morrilton.
 All the furniture of the gambling house at Hot Springs, was gathered Tn the street and burned on Thurs. day.
 L. Washington. . mill hand at Alma, was killed on Thursday by James Embry, discharged employ ee whose place he had filled.
 Josephine Williams, lunatic temporarily confined in the jail at Helena, was kicked to death by Temple Russell, q cell-mate, on Thursday.
 Dr. W. D. Cubage, of Montgomery county, was shot and killed on We'd nesday at Silver City by James Bur. nett, whose wife was improperly in timate with the doctor.
 Sam Murphy, of Harrison, who ran for congress on the republican ticket at the recen. election, has been appointed postmaster at Eure- ka Springs, vice Johnson, removed. The office has been raised from ln- significance to third class.
 In Pine Bluff, Saturday morning, Deputy Sheriff George R. Withers was killed by Arthur O'Connor, a bar tender. The tragedy caused great excitement. Withers belong ed to the prominent Virginia and Alabama family by that name.
 The project of building a road from Little Rock to Shreveport has been revived, and this time, judging from the gentlemen who compose the officers and board of directors of the organization, there is money and energy enough interested to put the scheme through.
 Gov. Churchill has issued a pro- clamation offering reward of $500 each for the arrest and conviction of the parties who assassinated Mar shal w. D. Patton and Deputy Sher- if Mount at Fayetteville on the night of July 3. Tue double murder grew out of feud of sixteen years stand ing and which thus far has resulted in the death of six persons. The tragedy has stirred Washington county as it was never reused be- fore and it is feared that matters can not be adjusted without further bloodshed. A large number of ar rests are contemplated and owing to the excited state of public feeling it would be dangerous to confine the parties m the jail at Fay etteyille, as lynching would be like Iy to speedily follow. It ia under stood that the state authorities will not rest until the vendetta is com pletely wiped out.
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THOUGHTS GUBERNATORIAL Editors Russellville Democrat:

T Editors Russellvills Democrat:
 A year hence the political caul dron will be bubbling and boiling at lively rate, and I notice thai some of the papers of the state arc already looking around for suitable material out of which to make a gov
 ernor. It seems to me rather early to open the canvass, but as the sub ject has been broachsd I hope l will not be accused of presumption in al- luding to it.
 am satisfied there are a goodly number of men in the state who are possessed of the requisite qualtica- tions to fill the Executive Chair with credit and distinction. It is not the purpose, however, of this communi- cation to single out any particular one of them, to pass lengthy eulo- gy upou his merits and to press his claims for this distinguished posi- tion. Neither is It my purpose to ShSb dly QuQuC iSnCSbtSu upOu Juc character or merits of anyone; but as free speech is one of the liberties vouchsafed to the people of this great and glorious nation, will in dulge Tn 8 little off-hand prediction in regard to this gubsrnatorial ques- tion.
 I am no prophet, nor am I, so far as have been able to trace the gen salogical llne, the linesl descendcnt ofone, but l am willing to venture this prognosticatien, viz: that the present Chief Executive of Arkan- sas will not be elected for a second term. Before proceeding to give a reason for this prediction allow me to say that so far as the personal character of the governor is concern ed, and as concerns his valor upon the battlefield have not word to say. 1 have the utmost respect for those noble traits of character which his friends and admirers tell us he possesses, but in those varied attributes and qualifications which
The Russellville Democrat., 1881-07-21

The New York legislature succeed ed in electing successor to T. Platt last Saturday. in the person of War ner Miller, q member elect of the lower house of the 47th Congress. Conkling's successor has not been named, and the fight over his place goes bravely on.
The Russellville Democrat., 1881-07-21
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

Congressman Speer, of Georgia, has recently performed two sensible acts. He has denied an intention to act with the republicans in organ izing the next house, and on the 14th he was married to the accom- plishsd daughter of Dr. Morgan, of Washington city.
 The N. Y. Sun opposes the sub scribtion now being raised tor the benefit of MT. Garfield. It says that while the president still lives with hopes of recovery, and having great official patronage in his hands. it looks like a bribe.
 Professor Weisss, of New York, has been occupying himself in the ghastly experience of shooting corp ses, in order to ascertain the proba- ble course the ball fired by Guiteau took after entering the Presidents body.
 An Ann Harhor astronomer re- ports discovering still another con- ct. He says it's center is much con densed, and that it is evidently mo- wing slowly. Dr. Swift, of the uni versity at Rochester, believes this this to be that rollicking old fellow that looked on the world in 1872.
 In a recent card published in the Gazette, Major John D. Adams, sta ted that Postmaster General James a short time ago in the presence of 8 responsible party said, there is not & single charge against you in the postoffice depal tment, there will be none and your record as a mail con tractor is as fair as that of any other mail contractor in the service.
 The supreme court of Michigan has just rendered an important de- cision in a grain gambling case. One person having lent another money, with agreement to share the profits, in an attempt to get up a corner on wheat, the lender sued to recover the money. The court held that such combinations entered into to artificially effect the price of any necessity of life were illegal, and any money advanced in the purchase of such contract could not be recover ed.
 At late meeting ofthe American Chamber of Commerce Senator Gar land, of Arkansas, was elected an honorary member by 8 unanimous vote. The election was on the re- commsndatlon of the commercial law committee, and was of course intended ss @ compliment to the senator's great legal abilities which during his four years in the senate have obtained national recognition. The compliment was ss graceful as deserved.
 The Chicago imitator of Tanner, on Tuesday completed a fast of 45 days. Tanner and his imitators have all been howled at as senseless idiots, but whereas they may be monomoniacs, it is certain that good will surely result from thelr exam ples. They plainly and forcibly il. lustrate the fact that men may live comfortably with far less food than is customary for them to gorge. | Men dig their graves with their teeth, and the bulk of human ills can safely be attributed to the abuse at the digestive organs by overload. ing.
The Russellville Democrat., 1881-07-21

The following interesting history of the word "Stalwart" is given Blaine invented It. Garfield gave it popularity in his celebrated speech against the crime of starving the government. Conkling apprepria- ted it, and Guiteau spoiled it.
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Guiteau, the would-be murderer has now got into quarters where he can't swindle boarding house keep CTS.
The Russellville Democrat., 1881-07-21

The first bale of new cotton was received at Houston, Texas, on the 9th inst, from Myersvllle, De Witt Go.
The Russellville Democrat., 1881-07-21

Seven men were murdered by drunken Indians at picnic near Fort Gibson last Saturday.
The Russellville Democrat., 1881-07-21

The country Is saved once more The assassin's intention failed. Pres Garfield will recover.
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Nothing will be done toward in dieting Guiteau until next fall.
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All the star route cases go over un- til next October.
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COUNTY COURT PROCEEDINGS.

COUNTY COURT PROCEEDINGS. The Hon. County court was open ed on Monday morning rersuant to adjournment and continued in ses- sion until Thursday evening and considerable business was transact ed. In the first place was the al. lowing of claims vs the county and which are too numerous to mention in detail, though many of the claim. being small will not aggregate any considerable amount. Where most of the men, women and boys in a county are before the Grand Jury, and the fail is kept full of violators of the law, it naturally follows that heavy county expenses will follow. There is remedy for all evils, and in this case it is, Prohibition.
 Comes $. G. Harris and 49 other citizens of southwest corner of Mar tin township and files their petition praying court for the formation of . new township and the court being sufficiently advised in the premises it was ordered that said new town ship be formed and known as Sand Spring township, with the voting precinct the Sand Srrng school house, and that an election be held at the voting precinct on the 20th day of August, 1881, for the election of township officers. Also sad ter ritory was formed into new school district to be known as Sand Spring school district No. 57, with J. M. Wilcox, T. B. Mo5ley and c. J. Mood appointed directors, and post office at Cabin Creek.
 Petitions were filed by F. P. Her w, E. A. Darr and 500 others from Atkins, and by w. w. Breashears and 68 others from Caglssville, the object of which is to prohibit the sale of whiskles at their respective places after the expiration of licenc- es heretofore issued.
 The resignation of John Torbet as constable of Clark township was ac- cepted by the court and an election ordered to be held on tho 12th of August h said township to elect a constable
 By consent of the parties concern. ed Valley district No. 34 was divid- ed forming a new distrie. from the eastern portion to be known as Critics district No. 5S. The new district holding the directors, Win. ston McAnally and W. J. Mathews were appointed directors for the old district No. 34.
 Comes D. R. Wheeler, ct al and asks the court for new school dist. as shown by accompanying plat herewith filed and which is granted and known as '.Bruton" district No. 59, D. B. Wheeler, D. M. Battenfield and c. L. Bruton appointed direc- tors, postofiice, Scottville. With four or five new districts formed since the property has been given in to the assessor in the old district, what shape will the next personal tax hosk appear in2 Well should smile! This free school business is about played" h some localities. SCRAP.
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LEWIS ALLEN !.

mess is just so--if this toolishness of fellows coming around boring holes in hollow trees and h the ground and carrying off half bush el of gold. more or less, (espeeially less ), at time contrary to the peace and dignity of the State of Pope, is not soon stopped, this whole country will be dug up and washed out in search of hidden treasures--in fact the only thing lacking now is for some one to do the work.
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RUssELLyILLE, ARK.

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The Russellville Democrat., 1881-07-21

Col. Bill Barry has the pluck to accept the marshalship of Fayette- vile.