The Russellville Democrat., 1882-03-09
VOL. VIII.

The Morrilton Messenger is one of the purest and best papers received at this office. It is always welcome visitor.
 -Jacksonport and Augusta have each suffered recently from visitatlons of the fire flend, Each place lost about $l50OO worth of property.
 Last Saturday Rnbt. Taylor, sher- if, was fatally shot by Dr. Sims at Perryville. Thus is opened again the disgraccful troubles of Perry county.
 Rhode Island pays its legislators $l per day. It cannot Le denied that there is one state in the union that knows the value of an average legis!a- tor.
 The floods are causing great con- sternation to the people of eastern Ar kansas. Years will be required to re- cover from the effects of damage sus- raincd.
 Gen. James F. Pagan whose mil tary fame is well known to most our readers, WAS thrown from his buggy near Little Rock Friday, and sustained pro bably fatal injuries.
 A telegram from the overflowcd district says:
 The situation becomes desperate in some localities. and now it is only a question of provisions or early starva- ton to both human beings and stock.
 After his confirmation it is report ed that eX-Senator Conkling has de- clned the appointment ta the supreme bench. Verify these modern polite ians have ways that are past finding out.
 Lawyer Scoville is hard at work on his bill of exceptions which he thinks he can finish in a short time. The case will be argued before the court in banc about the middle of April. Scoville has small hope of securing new tria, for Guiteau.
 A wonderfully ingenious apparatus for the manufacture oi ice has been perfected by J. II. Marcey of New York. The patent freezer works like a charm and man ufactures ice cheaper than it can be harvested. Verify the world moves.
 On the 2d as Queen Victoria was entering her carriage at Winsor rail- road station, she was fired upon by one Rhoderick Mclean. Her Majesty was uninjnred and sustained no shock from the attempt upon her life. This makes the seventh attempt to assassiuate her.
 Thomas Jefferson said: "The art 0s government consists in the art of being honest'. When Jefferson was President he practically enforced this sound political maxim, but statesmen of very different mould are now and have been for years at the helm.
 The latest improvement in tele- graphy is mechanical device whereby type writer at one point, connected by wire with a similar instrument at another point, writes out any message sent over 1t with the assistance of the usual telegraph operator. A person who can use type writer can send his own message.
 Only short time ago ''science" was all the rage,-then came a mania for ''the arts, ,"-then the craze for "eeremics, ,"-and now it is "aesthet- irs, so.called. A descent from Dar- win and Spencer to Oscar Wilde is ut- terly aud unutterably utter. Is the world really and indeed becoming su- perlatiyely idiotic?
 -Rev. George C. Miln, whose recent pulpit utterances in Chicago have ere atcd good deal of excitement, inforin- cd New York audience Sunday that The church of the future will discard the belief in personal God, the belief an Hell and the belefin an immortality. In fact Mr. Miln would hardly seem to believe in anything but himself.
 Senator Warner Miller, of wood pulp fame, is bound to thrive if it is possible to do so. He is now taking lively interest in the diffusion of knowl- edge, having presented memorial asking the general government to ap- propriate $l5, ,000, ,000 for public educa- tion. A diffusion of knowledge implies more books, and that means more pulp.
 A northern exchange says that the bullet of Guiteau did more for Grant than the spartan band Of 306 at Chicago and should receive medal" There can be no question but what that bullet was heard ali along the line. and made more than it destroyed. Some officials MlIl breathe freer after the hangman las performed his office.
 The Gazette of the 9th has :he fol- lowing interesting news item:
 The supreme court yesterday. on ap- peal from the Pulaski chancery court, rendered q decree in favor of the state In the case of the State vs. Memphis and Little Rock Railroad company The road will be sold on the 30th inst. The sum sued on was $l00,0 ,000, loaned ny the state to the road in 1860, and, together with interest, now amounts to over $2Oo ,OO0, which will probably be PS'l Into the state treasury during the next thirty days.