The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1884-01-10


the world, rumors Of which, in ,
commercial way, they have some
times heard.
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS
The Texarkana oil mills are valu
ed At $780, 600.
Newport has an Academy Of Mu
sic.
The average attendance Of pupill
at the varions Little Rock schools il
1845.
The Log Hut, lately published q
Camden, now appears at Ho
Springs.
Jas. H. Crawford, a prominen
merchant and Alderman OF Arkansas
City, is dead.
A little baby of Mr.. Robt. Clair
of Texarkana, poisoned itself WITH {
spool of green silk thread.
An election for two justices of tht
peace has been ordered Tor the 18lt
inst, in Glass township, Jackson
county.
A Mr.. jackson was accldentall,
shot and killed last week near Cen
ter Point by a gun dischargine
which lay in the lap of q friend.
Mayor Linde, Of Hot Springs, has
issued an edict, prohibiting the
playing Of pico in that city aftel
January LIST.
The Waldron Reporter says the
cotton yield of Scott county this
season will be $4,000 bales or 4,00(
in excess Of last season.
BENJAMIN Taylor, OF Morriltop
Ark, has patented q car coupling
which seems simple and practicable
enough to revolutionize the old mar
killing method.
1t Is expected that definite meas
ufes will soon be taken to insure The
early contraction of the proposed
narrow-gage railway from Malvern
to Pine Bluff.
The Misses Mcbride, OF Pine
Bluff, were in our city during III,
week passed. They have been on d
visit to there sister, Mrs. w. j. AL
exander.-Van Buren, Argus.
j Jacobson has moved his STOCK
to Perryville, and will soon move his
family. We regret tc give Mr.. ia
cobson and family up as they arc
good citizens. -Morrilton Headlight
M. L. Yeatman, formerly editor
and publisher OF the Little River
Herald, has purchased the old Hope
Radical material, and will move it tC
Lewisville, where he will soou com
mence the publication Of paper.
The Good Templars celebrated
the downfall Of King Alcohol in
Greengrier on the first, bv an in.
stallation Of officers and a dinner
The dinner, Notwithstanding the ex-
treme cold, was decided success
Ledger Democrat.
A call has been published for Q
meeting Of the citizens of Van Blu
rem, W be held at the court house on
Thursday evening, the 10th inst, tc
take steps toward the organization
OF Building and Loan Association.
This is good and important move,
and we hope every man in town will
favor it and attend the meeting.
Van Buren, Argus.
George Washington, the first pres
ident of the United States, never
saw q steamboat. John Adams, the
second president never saw a rail.
road. Andre jackson, the. seventh
president, knew nothing about the
telegraph. Abraham Lincoln, the
sixteenth president, never dreamed
Of such thing as the telephone. ~
Ozark Democrat.
The sermon delivered at the NJ. f.
church by Rev. J. L. Massey last
morning, was appropriate to
the closing year, and was sprinkIed
throughout with beautiful gems of
eloquent thought, awakening in lis
tening minds feeling Of sadness for
past evils and q desire to walk more
circumspectly in the year to come.
Enterprise.
Rabbi Benson, of Little Rock, at q
meeting Of the Eclectic Society. at
which a discussion of prohibition
was in progress, asserted that "the
snuff. dipping and morphine-eating
10 which the women are addicted
who circulate petitions In the inter
Bst Of prohibition" we're grearter
evils than whisky-drinking. This
attack upon ladies' en-
gagged In work in which the purity
of their motives cannot be question
ID, was extremely ill-bred and IN.
gentlemanly in Rabbi Benson, who
was promptly subdued by Judge