The Russellville Democrat., 1882-08-10
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

N~CNf~AhA AA@hA T h~AN ' h-N NPA's
 Cord wood taken on subscription to the DEMOCRAT. Apply at this office.
 Wagons and buggies always on hand at k. J. WILSON'S.
 Primary election on Saturday, August 10, and don't let it escape you.
 Do not fail to call and patronize the new Soda Fountain. It is "nobby."
 J. ". WELLS.
 -FoR RENT.-My dwelling with four rooms, good well of water, ,and garden, on Oak street. $. C. WELLS.
 -Bargalns offered in Sorghum Mills and Eraporators. Apply to
 K. J. WILSON.
 Will our farmer friends in every township keep us advised as to the con dition ot the cotton crop during this month";
 All persons wishing to join the RuSsellville base ball club, will please meet at Ed Bernard's, Friday, Aug. T.! {, at 80 D. m.
 -Messrs. J c. Aver & Co.,, of Lowell, Mass, have issued neat series of al- bum cards, which collectors will treas ure. Send them ct. stamp for full set.
 The DEMOCRAT learns with regret of the continued illness of Edna, the love ly babe of Mr. and Mrs. J. II. Shinn, and hopes it may soon be restored to health.
 For q sample of excellent grapes, the DEMOCRAT corps is placed under ob- legations to Mrs. Sallie Latta, of Lon don, to whom we tender ou" gratitude for the compliment.
 Let everybody go to hear Ed. Rob ert Graham preach at NJ E.church $. to- night. Ton will. be greatly edified, for Eld. Graham is one of the most mo- ted divines in the land.
 The average newspaper is now keeping account of the receipt and weight of watermelons so as to know to whom to award the premium for the largest specimen of the aqueous fruit.
 Bill Nye's Boomerang" the great humorous paper of Laramie City, Wy oming Territory, Is before us. The Boomerang" is we'll worth the sub scription price. Read advertisement.
 MT. James Boyd, on Monday last, brought to this office twig about twan- ty inches in length, on which were for ty fair-sized peaches, and he told Us that nine fell off while he was coming to town.
 Ill seems to be an almost foregone conclusion that the smokers emporium IS at the new drug store ot John W. Turner & Co. There the smoker will find the best brands of cigars at pepu- lar prices.
 Read the annual report of Prof. Jones' principal of the Russellville graded school, which contains several thoughts that will furnish food for re- tiection on the part of parents and guardians.
 The Fort Smith Herald is authority for the statement that sleeping coaches are to be placed on the l.. R. & Ft. $. railway about the first day of Septem- Der, but fails to state whether they will run to St. Louis over the Iron Noun taln or Frisco roads.
 Two onions, one red and one white, raised from seed sown Feb. l4th, 1882, were placed on our table last Friday. These fine specimens each measured twelve inches in circumference, and were from the farm of MT. F. M. Ivey, on Buck mountain in this county.
 It affords us pleasure to notify the readers of the DEMOCRAT and public generally that the new steamboat for the Norristown and Dardanellc ferry Is rapidly approaching completion at Little Rock. When completed the new craft will be the best, for the purposes intended, on the river. In response to request we made two weeks ago, Mir. W. R. Hudlow, of Moreland, writes that his machine has threshed and cleaned this season $500 bushels of wheat. This is good show ing for one machine. Will others re- port, so that we can place before our readers the sum tstal of the Pope coun- ty wheat cropY
 The other evening, little girl of our acquaintance heard member of the band prdctioing music, and, after listening intcntly for A few minutes, she remarked "I wish the band would come aud PROMENADE us," We hope the gentlemen of the band will not for get that little girl, when they arc again out serenading.
 At the last meeting of the board of school directors, it was ordered that the public graded school be opened for the next term on the second Monday in September instead Of October, as here tofore announced. The session will continue nine months, the board hay ing perfected arrangements to secure that end, and it was thought advisable to open the school earlier and close next year before the advent of warm weather.