The Russellville Democrat., 1883-02-08

Mrs. Maggie Rose, of Danyille, is visiting friends in Russellvilie.
 We arc in receipt of some new script card type and handsome line of visiting cards. Orders for cards filled on short notice.
 The literary meeting was fail ure again. We will never have a literary people at that rate. We feel like certain philosopher who sad: aRead nothing and you will know nothing
 The suit of Fay Tor vs. the state that was appealed to the supreme court from Pope county, was rcvers- ed. It was appealed from the decis- ion, that the prosecutor and his bsndsmau were held tor the cost of the suit.
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 seems to be slightly off it's base, but the "boss" place in town for drugs at bottom figures, is
 JoHN w. TURNER X Co,
 Famous" New Drug Store.
 --MoRE MEAT AND BETTER MEAT.- J. R. Wesson, proprietor of the Main trcet meat market keeps a supply of fresh meats on hand, and asks q share of public patronage. This is good shop and ought to succeed.
 -I have recently had published a little book on new subject. Every body ought to read it. In paper covers 10 cents; in board backs 15 cents. Apply to H. B. MILNER,
 Russellville, Ark.
 MT. w. s. Wofford, commercial tourist for Center & O., is in the city this week. We understand that Mr. Wofford will soon remove his family to this place, and make Rus sellville his headquarters. Such ln- telligence IS hailed with great pleas ure by thelr many friends in our city.
 The ever popular "old reliable" meat shop of Atlas Hartsell, on lief ferson street, continues to furnish its numerous patrons with choice meats, sausage, etc. Hartsell is equal to all demands, and no man goes away hungry.
 Misses Jennie and Belle Erwin, of WelIsburg, West Va, who have been visiting the family of Mir. J. M. Haney of this place, left last Friday for Hot Springs, where they will join thelr parents. They made a number of friends while among us, and their visit will be remembered with pleasure.
 The boys had a regu,ar skating carnival just below our office We'd nesday morning. It may be observ. ed that our boys are much larger than the average American boy, and especially when there is ice to skate on. We have no objections to boy, however, if he be forty years old, for if the printers would allow we would be a boy ourself.
 If you desire to see the august senators and representatives of the great state of Arkansas, walk down to the depot on the 24th of this month. The tax payers are charged up with the time it takes those gen tlemen to go up to Fayetteville and return. We suggest that some of our Ciceros go down and speechify little at them while the train is getting It's breath at the depot.
 We suggest that there be an eff fort made by our citizens to have the legislature stop off here and spend few hours in our town. They will leave Little Rock on a special train about o'clock in the morning, and reach this place by 12, and if we could induce them to stop a few hours, they could take in all that is of public nature, we will vouch for some one to make little speech of welcome. What do you say gentle men?
 The corn extractor whose name is w. H. Watt, turned out to be grand fraud. He represented to man whose name is Porter, doubtless in glowing terms, that there was a regular Vanderbilt fortune in the corn extracting business, and on ac- count of hls shrewdness, he succeed ed in getting Mir. Porter to believe his story. MT. Porter paid the ex- tractor S7 90 for recipe, that he was told would enable him to per form successful operations on the toes of the suffering. Mir. Porters suspicious were aroused by the ac- tions of the Dr., and when the corn man failed to fulfill his promises. Porter began to take steps for his arrest. The chiropodlst seeing the predicament he was in, paid back the money to the credulous Porter, and skipped. Good bye Dr.
 The snow got off a good joke on several of the boys, and horse got the boys off of . crudely constructed sleigh. Two young men combined thelr mechanical genius and worked hard-the boys say on Sunday--to construct sleigh that they might luxurlate on Ice, and take some of the fair ones out to dissipate the i'm