The Russellville Democrat., 1883-02-01

| in this country than money. Every body almost that wants to buy must go it on tick
 1 Now is the time. Cannot TO- main much lOnger-everything at first cost. IL. REICH. New York Cash Store.
 GOOD CHANGE
 For safe investment in an estab- lished and paying business. Mrs. A. NJ. Roys offers for SALE her stock of Hardware, consisting of Shelf Hardware, Cutlery, Stoves, Tin Ware, Timers Stock, Timers s Tools, Flows and all kinds of farm ing implements, Doors, Sash and Blinds, and also good stock of gro- ceries. For terms apply to c. W. FEY.
 Manager Roy's Hardware.
 The wheat crop is not very en- couraging, and promising in these parts at the present writing. The continued freezes have torn up It's roots, and thinned it out generally. However, there is time enough yet, and with a favorable spring the yield may be abundant.
 A continued rush at the great closing out sale of
 l.. REICH'S
 New York Cash Store.
 The people of Fort Smith are still wrangling over the recent ac- tion of the Board of Health in refer ence to the disbanding of schools and churches to prevent the spread of scarlet fever. Those concerned are saying some pretty hard things, but we hope collision may be quar- antined The opponents ought to keep cool Tn the discussion.
 It is pretty well known through out the state that the Little Rock and Fort Smith railway has been one of the largest factors in developing the resources of the state and to bring in immigration. But very few people have any correct idea to what extent this railway has beue fited Arkansas within the last few years.--Daily Arkansas Democrat. Our doctrine has always been, that the greatest, best and surest way to develop the resources of a country is to bring people into it. And the railroad is the best means of transportation. Encourage i'm migration.
 The question has been settled by the force of argument. The boys of the Round Table Club had for dis cussion the great question that ef- fleets the destiny of this great southern country, and after a spirited debate, it was decided fatal ly for the country. The proposition was: "The public school is more beneficial to the country than the cotton gin." The judges, after con sidering the arguments produced by both sides, decided in favor of the cotton gin. Prof.'s Jones and Shinn had best gowhere the cotton grow eth not, and where the gin roareth not, and where the man doth not mortgage everything to get bread to eat while he works in cotton.
 We have been told that the soil in thIs part of the state is very eff catious in the production of Irish potatoes, and surely the climate of this latitude, is all that is necessary for the production of this staff of life. Potatoes can always be sold at reasonably good price, and consider ing the fact that the yield per acre is generally large, it might be made profitable business. There is plen- ty of legitimate evidence that it will beat cotton, and the work is not half so much.
 Some good fellow, or rather some peculiar fellow, or rather than either of the above, some fellow who is far behind the spirit of the age, who will wake some of these damp, gloomy mornings, with the moss grown over his back, wants to build | a wall between Russellville and Oar danelle He is afraid the cars will run over him and kill him, perhaps, for we are sure he need not be afraid of our citizens. It is not necessary to construct such e wall on our ac count, for there is no danger of any of onr citizens emigrating to that point. The fact is we don't like walls anyhow.
 The newspapers are literally tceming now with reports oi successful southern industries. It Is being demonstrated that the best place for the manufacture of cotton is where It grows. The farmers in the south have always paid freight on the goods they wear from the south to the north, and then back again. When we get out of such ridiculous way of doing things and earn to live at home, we will be hap Dy, and these old Rip Van Wrinkles will not be clamoring for wall be ween them and railroads.
 We don't need any more old fogy { lotions about taxation.