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The Russellville Democrat., 1883-02-01
salaries of state officers.

salaries of state officers.
 The bill providing for tho admis- sion of patients to and discharge from state lunatic asylum, was passed.
 The senate has been doing good work, and making credible advance ment in the disposition of business. HoUsR.
 The house put in Tuesday consld- ering senate bills, and doing little talk. They spent some time trying to raise the salaries of janitor. Wednesday the house did nothing distinctive. A few bills were read a second and third time, and few were referred to committees. The repre- sentatives are waiting for the grand wind up.
 Thursday the house received a comm lnication from the Attorney. General, giving his reasons for no, prosecuting the ExTreasurer. His argument seems to be very plausible
 The house proceeded to read g few bills the second and third times had few debates, did nothing gen erally and adjourned. Relying as we are compelled to do, on synop tical report of the proceedings, fol 1 our information, we can have but ( meager idea of what our legislature is really dolng.
 The house took up the day Friday reading and discussing senate bills The bill to appropriate funds fol carpeting the halls and repairing furnituae, was passed | The house seems to be down to it: work, and is disposlng of business a' expeditiously as possible.
 Saturday the house reconsideret its resolution Tn reference to the Ex Treasurer. The matter stands witt the house as it did at first. That august body, called tho house of representatives, passed on' bill on Monday and that was 10 pro vide for the purity and freedom o the ballot box.
 The main trouble in the house Il simply this; Too many of those as piring gentlemen are riyaling Cic ero.
 The majority of the members vii be wonderfully surprised if they have to lie down and die withou having gone to congress. They dlt one sensible thing however, ane that was to refuse to take that ex cursion to Fayetteville 70 look at tho State University. If Lat house vii lay down it's speaking proclivities and get down to business, we vii have more work and less nonsense If things go on as they are nov going, we will have to change tn, appellation to Miscellaneous hous, of non-representatives.
The Russellville Democrat., 1883-02-01
STATE NEWS.

Many merchants of Mountain Home have adopted the cash system in conducting business. and will sell no more goods on credit.
 Paris Express: There are 46 farm CTS, 19 lawyers and newspaper men in the present legislature. We have not learned the occupation of tine others. The Gazette says that our Dr. Priddy is the friendliest looking man in the house.
 The new railway postal cars for the night servlce of the Iron Noun tam road between St. Louis and Texarkanna will be ready for use February l. This arrangement doub. les the posta, facilities for every town along the hnc.
 Eureka Springs Republican: On and after February lst, regular through trains, with Pullman par Tor and sleeping car, will run daily to Eureka Springs. This conven fence is not enjoyed by any othel resort in the south- west.
 Forrest City Times: MT. Georg, Pearson has been on a trip to Rus sellyille, and is perfectly "caIries away" with the new cotton mills a that place. These mills were put u, at cost of about seventy five thous and dollars, and although they ar scarcely et in good running order they have engagements for all the can manufacture during the seasor
The Russellville Democrat., 1883-02-01


 HAVING an hour of leisure one day last week, and desiring to learn more abou. our town, it's institutions, and various interests, we strolled over to the Melrose Cotton Mill. This in stitution has been before the public almost weekly ever since it's estab- lishment, and we can safely say that the "half has never been told" The Mill was built by stock company, and was at first considered by many 8 mere business venture in which there was great risk, but now it is an established institution, with all the indications of a grand success. There is not more than two thirds of the machinery yet running. and it has not run long enough to be sufficient ly smooth to show it's capacity for producing a fine article of goods; the operators are raw and inexperienced, and yet the managers find ready market for the goods in the East and West. The factory is turning out some very fine four-ply rope for which orders have been coming in two months. The fears are, not that a market will not be found for the goods produced, but that the factory will not be able to supply the de- mand. A company in Cincinnati, Ohio, is now negotiating for all the thread the mill can make, and if they can be assured of the success of the factory, and satisfactory arrange ments can be effected, that company will put up branch factory here, for the purpose of making cloth. There can be no doubt as to the sue cess of the Melrose Mill The work ing of the machinery cannot be des- cribed and delineated on paper; if you want to know. how it works you must go and see. The superinten- dent is polite and accommodating. When all the machinery is running, we will give the capacity of the mill.
The Russellville Democrat., 1883-02-01


 TIE indifference of the south is clearly manifest, not only in the manufacturing interests of the coun- try, and the great publil enterprises of the nation, but also in the liter ature we read. Who, of thinking turn of mind, and disposition to glean from the whole field, and love of the productions of his own coun- try, has not felt with degree of lamentation, the paucity of southern literature? We have produced no historians, and no scientists of any note. There is gentleman in Nash vile, Tenn, however, who is at pres ent engaged in writing history of Tennessee that will be published in four or six volumes. This work, if properly executed, will entitle the author to the appellation of Histori- an, and will gain for him celebrity, above any southern author. We have ever since the settlement of the south depended on the North and East for our literature. The south ern people have devoted themselves to money getting, cotton growing, and such pursuits as demanded the attention of the whole people, and that too, the whole year, and there fore have not had time to write books. There are some newspapers, -dailies and weeklies, in the south as good as there are in America, but newspapers do not constitute the lit erature of the country. And we have no monthly publications of a high character, no LEADING literary and scientific magazines. We have some good schools, the alumni of which clearly show, that the fault is rot ir our schools. It cannot be want o scholasticism. It must be bare neg ligence. But we only started out tC say that we want literature dis dinctly southern. We want a maga zine devoted to Southern Literature to Southern Biography, Southerr Science, and Southern Romance. l we had any journalistic aspirations it would lead us in this direction for we feel that it is an enchanting field, over which hang the brightes laurels.
The Russellville Democrat., 1883-02-01

ONE member of the legislatur, wanted the chaplain of the house to preach every Sunday in the Rep resentative Hall. There is no doubt but that the representatives all need preaching while they are in Little Rock. We venture to say the repre- sentative who made such a motion does not pay his minister at home He slmpl y wanted the minister who gets $6 day for praying for tho Legislature, to earn his money.
The Russellville Democrat., 1883-02-01

OUR idea of a successful farmer has already been insinuated, since we have been pushing the pencil fol the DEMOCRAT. The idea is to live at home The majority of the far mers of this country imagine that nothing but cotton will buy land, nothing but cotton will buy horses, nothing but cotton will buy clothes, nothing but cotton will pay debts, and following the delusions of such an imagination, those who purchase, contract for larger tracts of land than are necessary, in order to have space to grow cotton. Those who rent, labor under the same delusion, and endeavor to advance themselves in the same way. This mistake is first in taking hold of two much land. Buy just what you actuslly need, and when that is paid for, and in x good state of cultivation, widen your bor- ders. Instead of planting so much cotton, put in about two or three acres, and diversity all the rest of your crop. More money can be made on small farms by poor men than on
 
 large ones, and the expenses of con ductjng a small farm are much less than that of large one. There will be less need of mortgaging, and the farmer will not be bound down to the cotton field all the year. He will have some time to improve his mind, and live happily generally. We will say more on this subject.
The Russellville Democrat., 1883-02-01

TIE majority of the public men of this age, are inherently afraid of the temperance question. It seems to us that the question might be resolved into legitimate shape, and hence into legislative shape. It cannot be settled by moral suasion; it can only be settled by statutory provis- ion. If all the peace loving people, all the people who love good order, all the people who really and truly love their country, were to rise up and enroll their names for prohibi- tion, there would be no more trouble over this matter.
The Russellville Democrat., 1883-02-01

IF you want favor from a man button-hole him, stick to him, hang around him, day in and day out speak highly of his relatives, and i you can without being suspected speak highly of the man himself pat his children on the head, and al such little delicate attentions. Ant If he is refined, sensible first clas. gentleman, he will get disgusted witl you in less than week, and if vol are genuine, frst-class gentleman you will not do such a thing. 4 good test of gentility.
The Russellville Democrat., 1883-02-01
Does Politics Change,

We know men who boast of Jeffer- sonian Democracy, and others who boast of Fremont Republicanism.- Our doctrine is that, politics is noth- ing more nor less, than policy, and as the interest of the government fiuctuates, so does the policy of its administration If the government should become fossilized, or rather if the principles of the government should reach perfection and crystal ize, and the managers of the affairs of the government should at the same time arrive to a degree of per lection in their knowledge of politics, then we might all come to a stand still. But as certain stones contin- ue gradual change till crystaliza- tion is attained, so does science, lit erature and government. If Keno phone and Aristides were here with 
 their old ideas, and if they were to read one of their essays on Democ- racy, it would not be owned by our Democracy as orthodox. If the democratic principles of Solon were proclaimed in this age, TREASON would come from the lips of our most orthodox politicians. The rolling ages have buried these old theories forever in the oblivious ocean of the past. Jefferson was a great man and succeeded admirably in making his impress upon the tablet of tho age in which he lived. He left dec larations on record that convey ideas but this nation cannot be governed by such ideas to-day. The tendency of his age was not the tendency of this age. We have broader, and more comprehensive views of tho l StttilSt oi s,oNSi hhichV- Wt 'HaNN a,A vanced in the science of politics al well as in other sciences. We have preeedents and examples of history to guide us that he did not have There is a hundred times the mum Der of people to be governed, to b, legislated for, and in the behalf of and a IT ltiplicity of interests de mandlng attention now, that Mir. lief ferson never dreamed of, Politics il
 improving all the time, and he wh, would keep abreast she age must re alize the fact. Our politics is tha of Democracy, and in this res pect we want to walk side by sid
 with the leading principles of tha policy. There are men who ar stereotyped in the old doctrine, an will never get out of it. If you wan to understand politics, you mus study it as you would a science.
The Russellville Democrat., 1883-02-01
The new year has opened

The new year has opened tragical- ly. In the first half of the first month we have had the appalling loss of life at the Newhall House fire in Milwaukee, the terrible railway disaster in California, in which a score or more of passengers were roasted to death, powder mill ex- plosion in the same State, killing twenty seven people, and the awful collision of the Cimbria and the Sul. tan in the German Ocean, sending nearly 400 people to the bottom of the sea. If the other months keep up this rate of disaster and death, 1883 will be "the terrible year" of the century.-Post- Dispatch.
 We have frequently remarked the very remarkable manner in which the year was ushered in, and the sue. cessive disasters. The year was born amid the deaths of great men
The Russellville Democrat., 1883-02-01

The Russellville DEMOCRAT is eight years old. It is good paper oi high standing and influence and is generally on the side of truth Ozark Democrat.
 We thank the Democrat for this very complimentary notice. Howev- CT, the latter clause is somewhat du- bious, and we intend hereafter, that it cannot be said GENERALLY, but al ways on the side of truth. As edit or we have something to do, and it must be done.
The Russellville Democrat., 1883-02-01

WE receive at this office thirty or more papers, and it is an actual fact that cannot be disputed, that the DEMOCRAT contains more original matter than any of them. We do not pretend to say it is better, but it is purely it's own. We have a certain pride in the paper, and want to get it up so that it will be interesting and beneficial to our readers. Every body ought to take some paper, and we believe every man ought to take his own town or county paper, it will be worth ten times the cost price in learning your Aildren to read, and instilling in their minds public spirit. The old ought to read the papers so that they may know what IS going on around them. The mid. die aged ought to read the papers tc keep the patriotic fire burning in the domains of their patriotic nature, te keep posted in the common affairs ol the world, to be able to instruct theil children and bring them up for. God and their country. The young ought to read the papers that the patriotic fires may be kindled in their souls
 that their minds may be expanded
 improved, and slowed with usefu
The Russellville Democrat., 1883-02-01

Fms mortgage business is simply lamentable, it is alarming, and there must be some steps taken to rectify the whole concern. It is not only 2 disastrous business transaction, we mean individually, but t is calami- tous nationally. It brings OUT State into disrepute, and capitalists look upon us with disgust, and think ol us. in a monetary sense, with min
 gled disgust and horror lndividu
 ally it is not only an injudiciouf
The Russellville Democrat., 1883-02-01
 MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

The political world is enjoying a standstilI. A great treat to the American people to have Hull in the great broil of office seeking. Aspir- ants are sharpening their tools.
 MT. Conkling is rising again. Men who have great intellect and great force of will cannot be kept down. MT. Conkling will be in poli- tics again in s few years with for tune.
 Souther. people are waking up to their own interest. They are be- ginning to see that manufacturing in- stitutions constitute the only means that will effectually develop the south.
 The Indian Territory is gaining an enviable reputation and position in the rank ofcommerce. Her pecan crop for 1882, was $27,o00, and dry and green hides, sleerskins, furs and wool, $217000. Immense.
 Mrs. Theodore l.. Hilton, of Beech CT scandal notoriety, is hiring her self out as nurse for the sick. Her husband was once great lectur- CT, and often received $1200 and $1500 night.
 Hon. l. G. Harris, has been re- elected to the United States Senate by the Tennessee legislature. Mir. Harris is a man of pronounced abili- ty and will do honor to his country, He has been in public long time, and his record is good.
 Frank James, the notorious mur. derer and train robber, is about tC become respected citizen. He has been arraigned for murder and rob bery, and discharged in one or two cases. This is the modern way o1 doing things.
 William H. Vanderbilt is invest ing large sums of money in Pennsyl vania oil lands. He has millions and can invest in anything he de sires. If all that money was turned to some good account, it would be , great factor in the civilization of th' world.
 Western desperadoes are continu ally committing depredations or trains and travellers. It does seen that some measure might be invent ed and set on foot that would proven so many robberies. Robbery is common roma nee of Western travel Since Mir. Sexton inaugurated tn crusade against "mashers" in St Louis, the war has become interest ing. A boot and shoe clerk took on of those LOVELY men and fairly mop ped up the sidewalk with him. Ina IS right, boys.
 The steamer Cimbrin, Hambur ship, was run into by another steam CT, the 18th inst, and sunk. Owe three hundred lives were lost. Tn collision was on account of the dens fog. Tue list of disasters for thi year is appalling.
 NEW York has man who is evj dently, as big fool as Dr. Tanne and he is anxious for the world know it. He bet $500 that he coul live 30 days on quails, and confin himself to two quails day. Up the present. writing he has stood tl racket" eighteen days, and think that he will either die, or undere metamorphosis. However, the featl CTS are not growing out yet.
The Russellville Democrat., 1883-02-01

knowledge; and that they may have
 topics for conversation when they come together. Read the papers and know what is transpiring about you, and you will be inspired to noble deeds, by reading of the deeds of ot there
The Russellville Democrat., 1883-02-01
Notice for Publication.

Land Ohice, DardaneiIe, Ark, Jan 2S lSS3
 Notice Is hereby given that the following named SC stler has nfed notice of his intention to mako final proof Tn support of his clam, and that said proof will be made before Co. Judge of Pope Co.,. Ark, on 3t March 1883, viz:
 George J. Green lid entry No. g914 for the c qr Of nc ar & nc ar Of se ar sec 3a tp 10 20 W.
 He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon, ,and cultivation of. said land, viz:
 B II Ashwortb, II H Linzey, W J Bullock mch1 T. Nj. GIBSON.
The Russellville Democrat., 1883-02-01
Henry B. Milner, Editor.
NINTH YEAR.---NO. B.

WE want everybody to read this number of the DEMOCRAT. Read it all and if you are not benefited, read the next issue.
The Russellville Democrat., 1883-02-01

My heavy boots shoes rubbers arctic will be sold Overcoats for and boys at cost. Purchasers will have the benefit experience in buying goods for this market by getting them the figures that paid, just make for the stock of spring goods which will soon be here. Come and look through stock and get prices and will be convinced that mean what | say. A word to the wise is sufficient.
 M. JACOBSON.
The Russellville Democrat., 1883-02-01
PRICE FIVE GENTS. .
The ePeople's Friend

determined sell for the 30 days the balance stock which and purchasers the benefit of the profits by selling actual cost the following goods:
 
  UNDERWEAR M @ Soc OnowI50 COsTl
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-01-17
The Nickel Plate.

Cleveland, OHIO, 16.-A special de-
spatch from New York states that Will
liam 81. Vanderbilt caused the Lake
Shore Railroad Company to issue be-
tween S6,000,000 and $1,000 600 in
bonds to pay for the Nickel Plate stock.
He brought and proposed this scheme
at the meeting of Lake Shore directors,
held some time ago, in Erie, because the
laws of Ohio and New York prohibit
the consolidation OF company lines. Hon.
II. B. Payne and AmssA Stone, Of this
city. protested and resigned. These
gentlemen we're seen to-day AMI asked
about the truth of the report. Mr..
Payne said he resigned as director of the
Lake Shore last noon. TIE resig.
nation was final. Stone said his health
was poor and be had not attended the
meetings Of directors for 8 long time,
but if occasion should arise when the di.
rectors have no quorum they have 8
document authorizing them to put some
one in his place. Both gentlemen
declined to give the aesson for resigning
or say anything concerning the rumored
issue of Lake Shore bonds, to buy the
Michel Hate.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-01-17
The Edmunds' Amendment.

New York, 16-The Herald editorialIy;
1t is evident that before any Roadway
can be made against polygamy in Utah,
Congress must pass law with more eff.
fective provisions than in any law nov
in force. 1t is practically impossible tC
prove polygsmous mGrriaget. These
marriages are performed secretly with no
record available as testimony, nor is il
practicable to establish marriage By
evidence ofthe parties to it. The Ed.
munds bill provides for meeting these
difficulties. It will leave the Mormonl
little loophole for escape from prosecu
ton for their fragrant violation of law
1t oughtto be specially passed.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-01-17
Governor Butler.

Boston, 16.-Tha mayors clerk sent to
the postofice for a letter detained for
postage. The letter was postmarked
January 18th and read;
Mayor Palmer:
am going to kill old Ge7erner Butler
in five months and twenty-eight days
from to day. Then / will choole you for
governor of old Massachusetts,, sent
him warning. have sworn.
(Signed.) CHARLES GUITEAU I'd;
Governor Butler explains in regard TO
cutting off newspapers in the executive
department, 1 found the state was paying
in the neighborhood of 500 for news
papers for the executive, which we're use.
less to me, in this: First, they did not gel
on my files till after left the Office fol
the day; second, that 1 ought to have nc
time to read them; third, that buy fol
reading at home such papers as I need
and therefore l cut off the expense.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-01-17

A Freight Train leaves Ogden daily
for Butte at sos am, giving daylight
ride through Cache Valley, and regular
freight train arrives daily at Ogden 3
I1.05 an. from Butte.
W. B. DODDRIDGE, supt.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-01-17
CriminaI Careiessuess.

Chicago. 16-Through carslessn ess on
the part Of an engineer on the Lake
Shore passenger train at Englewood, this
morning, it Was allowed to run into a
switch engine Of the Rock Island road.
Both legs OF the engineer of switch en-
CINE were cut off. Other employees were
less Injured, and the passengers were
seriously shaken up.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-01-17
Fire Record.

New York, 16.-Tweedle Hall, at AL
bany, burned this morning. The fire
started in MacCommon's music store,
under the hall, and spread 80 quickly to
the stage that within ten minutes the
fire was beyond control. The hall was
entirely ruined. The property was as.
sessed at $3.50, COO total loss, $500 900;
insurance, $500. coo.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-01-17
Illinois senatOrship.

Springfield, 16.-The vote for United
States senator in the Senate, stood,
Cullom, 80. Palmer 20; in the House,
Cullom IS, Palmer 70. This not being .
msjority there must be joint ballot to.
morrow, when Cullom will probably be
elected.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-01-17
The Michigan sena.OrshIp.

Detroit, l6-The result of the sens.
terisl ballots to-day: House - Ferry
45 (; Stout, 81 scattering, II. Senate
Ferry, IA !: Stout, IS; scattering, 5. Ag
gregate, Ferry, So; Stout, fusion, 81
scattering, %. Necessary to choice
IS. Joint ballot Tomorrow.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-01-17
Cable Clicks.

Berlin, 16.-Bismsrck is opposed to
allowing any facilities for the return of
German emigrants after tLey aTn natur-
allied as American citizens, as they then
obtained exemption from military SER
vice.