The Russellville Democrat., 1882-06-15


 Stone county.
 Berry receives the instruction of Union county.
 The democrats of Searcy county expresses their preference for Berry.
 The country papers are beginning to inquire: "How will we celebrate the Fourth of JulyT
 The track of the Paramore road is now laid a distance of nineteen miles south of Pine Bluff.
 Franklin county has produced summer turnips, this season, that measured 2l8 inches in circumfer- ence.
 Van Buren Press: The old John Austin store house is being taken down. Another old landmark pass ing away.
 Ozark Democrat: The probability of having a plentiful supply of food for man and beast next year is de- cidedly good.
 Philadelphia Signal: The wheat crops in the surrounding country is the finest ever raised, and is about all harvested.
 Mir. Fred. l.. Dean, late ot Spring l field, H., has established newspa- per, The Radical, at Hope, Ark. It is republican in politics.
 Newport Spectator; A citizen of Izard county last week received BPS m scrip for seven wolf scalps he had taken from litter of the varmlnts.
 Springdale Enterprise: Abe Bag gett showed us bunch of Mediter ranean wheat, six feet high and con taining twelve finely developed l heads.
 MT. L. J. Rogers, one of the eff cient locomotive engineers of the Little Rock and Fort Smith railway, was presented with handsome copy of the Bible, last week, by his broth CT employees.
 Prescott Picayune: Gen. Church ill has appointed Mir. c. E. Royston, sheriff of Hampstead county, to fill the vacancy occasioned lnlthat office by the death of Col. James w. Will Hams.
 Van Buren Argus: It Is said that dog fennel cut green and properly cured makes most excellent hay. We know a gentleman of Alma who sold the crop on small lot for $500. Many and many ton could be cut from our side streets and commons.
 The Ozark Democrat, of June 8, contains the following: It is report ed that two children were drowned in Big Mulberry, near Mulberry town, on last Sunday. Both boys and one about and the other. IA years old. They were sons of MT. Elison.
 Ozark Democrat, Sth; Four or five hundred people in Ozark last Mon day, and not an intoxicated man to be seen. Can it be possible that citizens of Franklin county would exchange the good results of the three mile law for the bad effects of saloons? God forbid.
 Fort Smith Elevator: An old sub scriber brought to this office, last week, two turnips, the largest being 3l5 inches fin circumference and weighing 9 pounds, and the smallest being 27 inches and weighing 75 pounds. The seed were sown on or about the last day of March.
 The Van Buren Press has the fol | tpt in, f. tn T berries cultivated by Mir George Beers, of Crawford county: "They were large size, round and plump, and measured l! inches Tn di- ameter. The plant has been culti- vated two years from the wild one taken from the field. They are namcless and we will call them "Bccrs Proliflc."
 From all over the state, we have advices of the abundant yield of the wheat crop, and the following from the Ozark Democrat Is but one of many similar items we find in our exchanges: Chris Steele, of White Oak township, comes to the front , with as fine specimen of wheat as we ever laid eyes upon. The heads measure from 6 to inches in length and there are from to ' grains in each mesh.
 A cotton manufacturing company has been organized at Fort Smith with q capital of $l00,00O Already $25, ,000 is subscribed. The officers are J. L, Filley, president; Henry Reutzel, secretary and treasurer Directors B. Baer, c. F. Bocquln, , P, II. Skipwith, Frank Parkes, W. J. Echols and V. Dell Work will be commenced as soon as forty per cent of the capital is subscribed
 Mir. Gaylor and wife, of Logan county, lost their three months old babe, on the l4th inst. It seems, says the National Springs Star, that the parents and their six children started in the wagon to neighbors about two miles distant When about q quarter of mile from home tho team became frightened and I after runnino a shnw listaupa cpl.