The Russellville Democrat., 1882-07-27
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

Ai'fAS i'hti mug A'hbbihhl
 The DEMOCRAT and Arkansaw Traveller will be sent to one address one year for $3. Send in your names and the cash.
 The. ordinance of baptism was ad- ministered to several candidates last Sunday by Elder J. P. Weaver, pastor Of the Baptist church.
 Fruit is coming into market in the most abundant quantity and is of the finest quality. Surely Arkansas is greatly blessed this year.
 MT. c. J. Owens writes from far of Colorado that he wants the DEMO- GRAF to visit him for year and it is so ordered. Thus the good work goes grandly on.
 The Duzz and whirr and rumble of machinery in the blaming and four ing mills of Russellville give the town all air of activity that attracts the atten- tion of all strangers.
 The Great West, ''Brick" Pom- eroy's paper, is published at Denver, Colorado, and gives more information about mining interests than any paper in that section. Read notice published in another column.
 Substantial improvements are being made on the thoroughfares of this city, under the direction and super vision of the efficient marshal, Mr. D.. II. Youngblood. The work done on West Main street is particularly good.
 We are authorized to state that a series of meetings will be commenced at Mt. Zion church tomorrow, to con tinue several days. On and after Sat urday. 1t is proposed to have a basket meeting every day. A good time is ex- pected and all are invited to attend.
 Our unadulterated thanks are due Mir. Bob Erwin for half a dozen of the finest peaches of the season, which he placed on our fruit table last Saturday. Long life, Bob; may you marry the girl you love and never know ought but happiness and prosperity.
 The "boss" cottsn stalk of the sea- son, pulled July 24, from the crop of Mir. Geo. E. Howell, has been handed to us. It is about two feet high and has on it about twenty-oms bolls, seven of which are almost ready to open. Who can beat it for same date?
 Fire cannot crush some men and such one is Mir. P. J. Harvlll, whose house was recently burned. With his indomitable energy and enterprise he has pulled of his coat and is hard at work building another house, having commenced it last Monday. Such de- termination to succeed will always be rewarded.
 -BIll Nye's Boomerangi is advertised in this issue, and we can cheerfully commend i. to our readers as one of the best humorous papers in the West. Two dollars will pay the subscription andfreight on the Boomerang for one year, and the subscriber will extract about $237.50 worth of fun out of it's columns in year.
 The brigade of Pope county candi- dates will move on London next Satur- day. where they will make a stand, and each one favor the people with one vol ley of words which will be fired into the crowd. The candidates are among the best men of the county. and we be- speak for them cordial welcome and respectful hearing by the citizens of London ard vicinity. The gentlemen are on a mission of peace and goodwill to all men.
 s4--THE YIELD OF WHEAT.-lt Is eul desire to place before the world cor rect report Of the wheat crop of 1882 in Pope county In order that we may do so adyisedly, we respectfully request every owner of a threshing machine, that has been operated in the county this season, to send in as soon as prae- ticable, q statement Of the number ef bushels Of wheat each has threshed, al- so the number of bushels of oats and other grain. VIII our friends aid us in collecting these statistics?
 --FREsIi FRUIT THE YEAR RoUND.- Messrs. Tatum, Sims & Co.,, Opelika, Ala, have preparation, splendidly indorsed, for keeping fruit, grapes, eggs, vegetables, etc, in a perfectly fresh and healthtul condition for over F months.-without any cutting, heat Ing, canning or peeling. Fruits, &c. saved for ten cents q bushel. Recipes for making the preparation ONLY ONk DOLLAR, sent on receipt of price. Hon. orable citizens, prominent officers iu- horse them. For agents terms and par tIculars write them.
 Two Coop PAPERS FOR S3.--By re- ference to our advertising columns, it will be seen that we have effected ar engagements by which we can furnish the DEMOCRAT ana AfkanSdW lraNeleF, for S3 per year. Now is the time for people to secure two good papers for nominal figure. The ArLansaw Trav- eler Is the great humorous paper of the south, and Opie Reads funny sketches will make a man laugh and grow fat. If you will read the DEMOCRAT and Traveller for year, you will never re- gret having sent $3 for years sub scription to both
 A ladies journal announces that marked change will take place this fall In the fashion of arranging ladies hair. We are given no hint as to the charac- ter Of the innovation, but it is rather suspected that instead of hanging the hair over the back of a chair at night, l upon retiring it will be suspended ! from nail in the ceiling. .-Norristow Herald. Our fashion reporter was de- | tailed to make d thorough scout Of the | town, and the result of his observation 1 is that the ladies are not like those Of . Gorristosn. pa,, but wear their own hair. That wicked Herald man is al- . ways slandering the lair sex.
 --J. II. PERRY has just received d large lot of fruit cans, ,-glass cans, - tin cans, and the new patent tin cans, -1all Of which he is selling lower than has ever been in this place before.