The Russellville Democrat., 1886-07-21
C0RfEESF F0NDENCE.
,tlenos of tlso I3e1aocxat.

i my remarks at Mountain spring on
 the "gIorioue 4th,p l pointed ont q sure way to multiply tho increase in 1 Ithe democratic rAnks; pursuant thereto tho following palra stepped Iinto the clerks office and asked Potts to give them leave to join: J. Is. Flowers and A. 5. Henderson, IWm. Davidson and Bettle Bartlett, l B. H. Bennett and Martha Crane, lWm. Spencer and Adelissie Freeman. Young folks, your Aunt Wash hopes that the experiment may return an abundant harvest. Q for q guna beautiful c atIing gun--to shoot the COW that hoIlers me up at 4 .. m. Some people may take this for poe. ltry, but it aint, there Is too much truth in it never se~~ % sn.an ; J linen struck with bee hive sssver. This lentire population has gone into that IbusiEess: and now q citizen of this 1 town doesn't look natural unless his lface is swoolen with bumps from the sting of the bees. There might be Hun to some men in that business, l but as for me and mine, we'll do without the honey and take ourn straight And now the debonair candidate takes the voter by the hand, and with deep and passion ate feeling of love shining forth from This neither eye, saith unto him, "Why how is your family? Are Mrs. Blank and the little Blanks enjoying good health? An! am very glad to hear Iit' Sich is political life Rev. H. c. Jolly preached one of the most earnest and eloquent sermons on last Sunday that have had the pleasure 1 of hearing Tn many years, not one of those sermons that terrify an indi- vidual into religious belief, but one l full of love and christianity and reason and good sense, showing to the unbellever how pleasant are the paths of righteousness. At the close ] of the sermon he called on Uncle Hicks to pray. You never heard him pray2 Well, you have missed
 a treat. If there is any case or class
 of the human family that he does
 not reach in his earnest, plain and eloquent appeal to the throne of
 Grace, I should be glad to discover l it. Mrs. B. E. Bayliss and Mrs.
 Dr. Hill were visitors in Dover on
 Thursday last the gnests of Mrs. w.
 k. White. Miss May McCune of
 Scottsville IS the guest of the Misses
 Rollow Pursuant to invitation
 Hon. J. G. Wallace of Russellville,
 accompanied by Jeff Davis, Esq, appeared in Dover on Saturday last to address the democratic club of
 this township. At 8:30 o'clock p. m.
 your Aunt Wash, appointed as q
 committee to escort the speaker to the stand, introduced that gentle
 man to the audience, who viewed
 him with enthusiasm. He said that
 he had made no special preparation
 for the occaslon; but he made q
 grand old democratic speech all the
 same, and, if he can do better by
 preparing himself, the Rads will suf | fer in the flesh ere this campaign is
 over. <. On Saturday night July 24th, the candidates for the legisla- ture are invited to address the club,
 and suppose that they will be on
 hand. We have an enthusiastic
 club, and our meetings are doing
 good ln harmonizing the party in
 this township. The ladies are es-
 pccially invited to attend our meet
 ings. AUNT WASH.
 Correspondence of the Democrat.
 HATLEY SCHOOL HOUSE, July 16.-
 Health in this part of the country is good for the time of year. Crops
 look fine except corn is needing rain.
 ... Farmers are busy threshlng
 wheat and oats. While the wants
 of tue people are being discussed by
 some of our citizens, and the inter
 est of the common class of people,
 sought, we think the subject of bring | ing about more uniform system of
 the use of text books in our com
 mon schools, is one worthy of con-
 sideration. One of the greatest
 troubles the people have to contend
 with now, is the irregular adoption
 and use of the various kinds of text
 books in the different school districts.
 Teachers, very frequently, realize
 more or less trouble in getting the
 patrons to buy the right kind of
 books. The patrons very frequently
 grumble at having to buy set of
 text books, when they change from
 one district to another A great
 many of the patrons of the common
 schools are renters, and, consequent
 ly, are constantly moving from one
 district to another, and, nearly every
 time they change districts, they are
 forced to buy part, if not whole
 set of books before they can send to
 the public school. If we had good
 set of text books selected by board
 of competent judges, and uniformly
 adopted by the state, or county at
 least, it would be measure of great
 economy to the people; they would
 not have to buy so many books, they
 could get their books cheaper, and
 merchants could keep better stock
 on hand than they can afford to keep
 under tine present circumstances. It is A considerable draWback on the