davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
National Republican., 1886-08-24
SUMMER BOARDINg,


TNHE SUMMIT HOTEL, GA1THERsBURG,
May l. Scenery and healthfulness unsir-
passed. Mineral water, fine table, pure milk
and and cream. For terms apply 20 WASH d.
proprietor ap2etf
National Republican., 1886-08-24
Legal

DATENT ATToRNEY-CHAs. ]. GooCH.
Il st. Cloud Building, 9th and SITS. N. WI
Twenty years experience. Prompt and care.
ful personal attention given 10 every case,
National Republican., 1886-08-24

NOR SALE - MARKET GARDEN AT
II Falls Church, Va.-S5Q tomato plants, 400
NO nvvius voiiuil
Church. Va. S.26
National Republican., 1886-08-24
PERSONAL,

TTWo PER CENT. 4 MONTH iNiifI'Ififf"1Ris viii, RS
Il given by responsible man for $500.
wanted for months, but payable on demand
Address BOX d5, Star ONCE. au23.9t
National Republican., 1886-08-24

AZ the b. & o. freight depot), one carload OF
mules. mules. Just arrived from Kentucky. Apply to
JOHN STONER. R,oi
National Republican., 1886-08-24
For SALE

SS-SNNeNLNe<Isry-Lcc
LNOR SALE GROCERY STORE, STOCK,
a and fixtures cor. ODD and II sts. n. w.
Apply to J. LAMKIN after 4 o'clock p. NJ. at
The Russellville Democrat., 1886-01-21
A S2O.OO Biblical Reward.

The publishers of Rutledge's s Monthly offer twelve valuable re- wards in their monthly for February, among which is the following:
 We will give $2000 to the person telling us which IS the longest verse in the Old Testament Scriptures (not the revised edltion), by Feb. 10th, 1885. Should two or more cor rect answers be received, the Re ward will be divided. The money will be forwarded to the winner Feb. 10th, 1886. Persons trying for the reward must send 20 cents in silver or postal notes, tho postage stamps taken) with their answer, for which they will receive the Monthly for March, in which the name and ad- dress of the winner of the reward, and the correct answer will be pub lished, and in which several more valuable rewards will be offered. Address, Rutledge Publishing Com pany, Easton, Penna.
The Russellville Democrat., 1886-01-21

THE action of wheel over Tn Prairie county few weeks ago, was the most timely and to the point of anything we have seen. It had oceans of tangibility in it, and prac- tical hard sense. In fact it blazed out the way and took the initial step away from the old Egypt of debt and mortgaging towards the Canaan of liberty and independence. The gist Of It's recommendation was that each farmer, if he buy on credit, should buy not more than a sum equal to five dollars on each bale of cotton he expected to grow. There IS feasibil
 ity about . proposition like this, be- cause it shows personal resolution to make sacrifices if need be, to bring the limits of debt down to an easy point of management. It shows the purpose of men who snake their es- inmates on a safe basis. A spirit of this sort infused among the people, and a resolution to die by it, will soon turn the tide in this county, and free our people from the necessl- ty of the hateful mortgage, aud the more hateful debt which it covers.
The Russellville Democrat., 1886-01-21

A GOOD deal is now being said about the evils of the present practice of mortgaging among the people. The custom is one which was aimed to serve the convenience and benefit of the poor man. It has perhaps Tn the nam failed to do It; that is, it's benefits are doubtful. It can be put aside by the personal resolution and sacrifice of the farmers, individually, sooner than any other way. Where he IS bound to appeal to it, it may serve him good purpose, but he ought not to think himself bound to do so for ordinary supplies. The man who will resolve not to mort. gage and make the necessary sacri- ..s~s.ta carry out the resolution, sink or swim, will find himself in inde- pendent circumstances after the first year. with proper industry and man. aQement.
The Russellville Democrat., 1886-01-21

corn is selling at 30c, oats 20c, wheat 75c, mast fed pork 33c, corn fed, 43c, Hour from Sc to @, family froceries cheap enough, and dry goods cheap CT, dry cows from $l2 to $l5: horses below zero. We can drive a team of horses to the pine mills in day md q half and take a load of our large crop of corn and barter 1t for lumber; first class lumber is selling at 75c, second class at Soc, and third class Ut 25c. Now, if man can't build his houses and fencing at such prices after making such crops of cotton and corn, then he ought to go to work on convict farm. Now is the time for more of those poor fel- lows about Appleton to come on while we have plenty to spare --snch as Kuhn, Canada. Cowhorn, Hillis aud Richardson and other old B's of F., and let them fight on in the up
 per story Tn that city. The Farmers Reliance is on a boom here; there is a "Gill'' and Mayo" here too. Z told them in regard to the farmers reliance that I knew it's half brother in Arkansas, and he was no account. Rah for Dixie. We have but one sort here, and we are all Dixie fel
 lows. Let's hear from you Appleton folks. JOHN ROWLAND.
The Russellville Democrat., 1886-01-21

Miss Kate Bayard, oldest daughter of Secretary Bayard died of heart disease in Washington on last Satur' day, on the very day, and almost the very hour that she had accepted an invitation to assist Miss Rose Cleve- land at her reception at the White House. Her death was so sudden that it was not known at the presi- dential mansion until the guests had arrived and all the preparations made for gay reception, and nothing was lacking except the presence of Miss Bayard. But instead of her, mes- senger came bearing news of her death, when orders were given at once by the President to postpone the reception, and close the house.
The Russellville Democrat., 1886-01-21

THE Presidential Succession bill has passed both branches of con gress and now awaits the Presidents 8 signature to become law.
 The bill provides that when there is vacancy in the offices of both President and e-President the Cabinet officers shall succeed to the Presidency in the following order: Secretary of State. Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of War, Attor- ney- General, Postmaster General, Secretary of the Navy and Secretary of the Interior. The Cabinet officer thus acting as President Is to hold 3fice until the disability of the Pres. ident or Vice. President is removed, or until new President is elected to succeed him at the end of the term of the President or Vice Presl dent whom he succeeds. The bill also authorizes the acting President to call an extra session of congress within twenty days from tue time he assumes the duties of his office, should the regular meeting of con gress not occur within that time.
The Russellville Democrat., 1886-01-21

THE editor of the Arkansas Meth odlst strikes as readily, and with as much willingness at any thing that crosses his path not altogether to his liking, as the next one, and hence il is no uncommon thing to see hlm parrying blades in the arena of com bat. Only Tn his last issue we were prom ised skirmish in the shape of a tilt with the editor of the Church Record, a periodical published at Little Rock by Rev. T. B. Ford.
The Russellville Democrat., 1886-01-21

TIE chiettain and great Tammany boss who has held regal sway over his followers for a score of years, appears to be near the end of hls re- markable career. The Sun of the 18th inst, said: "John Kelly had a sudden relapse early this week, and for several days it was thought that he would die. The crisis, however. has been passed. Kelly is certainly in a condition of physical debility. The latest and most alarming devel- opment is the gradual wearing away of the nervous tissues. He is grad ually sinking and his death may oc- cur at any time.
The Russellville Democrat., 1886-01-21

PooR Ireland. For centuries she has struggled seemingly against fate. Hot and impetuous, she is prone to ask too much, and will not be satisfied with less than all she wants. When the propitious moment arrives for large advantages in her home government, the enthusiasm born of dash and adventure instead of deliberate calculation, brings her into coalitions and party tactics which seems to waste the opportunl- ty. Ireland has the sympathy, large and full, of the patriotic and liberty loving masses on this side of the At lantic. But the cool, philosophic logic of reason would seem to argue in her case what it did in that of the Southern Confectionery whose motto was to have all they wanted or noth- ing, and it got nothing.
The Russellville Democrat., 1886-01-21
A WE'LL written reply. and one ful

A WE'LL written reply, and one full of practical logic and argument drawn from practical observation anu clear braln to Judge H. C.. Caldwell from Russcllyille, was pub lished in last Fridays Gazette. We are sorry It's length precludes it's publication Tn this issue. It handles the perplexipg question of the mort gage law in fair and able manner, and in accordance with the view of a great many people, that if you would successfully abolish the mort gage law, you must first abolish the exemption law. We hope to be able to publish it soon.
The Russellville Democrat., 1886-01-21
Iss'r it likely that the President

IsN'T it likely that the President will learn after awhile that he is only the President and does not by any means constitute the democratic party? This latter institution is big ger than forty Presidents, and when it has an idea it is very apt to have It independent of Dick, Tom, or Grover. Its idea of silver is Iusty one, and Is in nc danger of getting a black eye. It wants silver to output pretty much in the same old way and it will be apt to do it.
The Russellville Democrat., 1886-01-21
Is tho senate Senator Edmunds'

IN the senate Senator Edmunds' aew bill appointing fourteen trustees, in xpose hands are to be placed the affairs of the Mormon church, was passed. The New York World head lines it's comments on the passage of this bill with "Polygamy's Day of Ooom," and it does begin to look ke the government means business
 it's treatment of that moral piece
 rottenness. It ought to have ,een done sooner. Some reports seem o indicate that the Mormons may let mad enough to try to kick up a su ss; but If they only knew it, they would be in the very worst sort Of ,u siness in trying to make trouble with Uncle Sam. He would spank them into obedience before they could say Jack Robinson. Presi de mt Cleyeland's firm utterances, and the vigorous steps taken by congress to squelch this national sin vii evoke the gratitude Of the whole Amerlcan people.
The Russellville Democrat., 1886-01-21

THE world moves, and in moving moves many things out of their old ruts. Sometime ago an assembly of Jewish Rabbis met in New Orleans to consider some practical reforms in the belief and forms of their wor- ship which they had held for hun dreds of years. It was move to place themselves in closer proximity to tue great current of this enlight- ened thought of the enlightened age. It is also announced that Q congress of English speaking Roman Catholics will soon meet in London, at which the great practical reform is to be considered of introducing in their church service, devotions, pray CTS and hymns in the English Ian. guage in their own vernacular, in- stead of Latin.
The Russellville Democrat., 1886-01-21

THE initial chapters of "The Air of the Ages" thrilling and myste- rious love story, by James Payn, will appear in the Illustrated Graph ic Cincinnati), commencing Satur- day, January 23rd. This is said to be one of the most interesting sto- ries ever published.
 To show the high appreciation in which the Graphic is held, it may interest many of our readers to know that the Nonotuck Silk Company famous for it's Corticelli and Florence Silks, The Emerson & Fisher Com pany, large Carriage Manufacturers, and the John Shillito Company, all leading houses of Cincinnati, occu- 3 pied the choice pages of the Grand Holiday Number of that paper, pay ing the sum of several hundred dol ,.ars per page.
 The Graphic will issue, on May 1st, a grand Midsummer Number, which will be far ahead of anything yet published.
The Russellville Democrat., 1886-01-21
As was expected, license

As was expected, license was granted to sell liquor in Dardanelle the ensuing year by the county court of Yell county, and the Post is happy, and the liquor men ditto. The good people over there waged a good warfare against license, but It availed not, because of a hostile County Judge who had the power to refuse a fair consideration of the case. It is understood that the case will be appealed to the circuit court, which meets in that county soon, to see whether Judge McCall's decision is law or not. If the County Judge is sustained, it does not end the fight. It only defers it year hence, when the matter will come up for ar bitration at the ballot box.
The Russellville Democrat., 1886-01-21

0UR excellent governor will accept our acknowledgements for his very kind remembrance in favorlng us with copy of "The Products and Resources of Arkansas Compiled by Gen. D. McRae by the Direction of the Governor" It is valuable document on the native products, and resources of the State of Arkan- sas, and needs to be distributed wide. ly and studied attentively.
The Russellville Democrat., 1886-01-21
Heavy Loss of Cattle.

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 1S.--A Special to the Times Democrat from the In
 dian Territory says: "Reports from the ranges are to the effect that the cold wheather has been particularly severe on the cattle interests. In Cherokee Nation where the greater part of the stock is centered, the losses are heavy, nearly every stock man loosing number of cattle. The Mcclellan cattle company has lost many head of valuable cattle, as have also all members of the Chero
 kee Live Stock association. In the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations the loss has also been great. The cattle have wandered for miles, and in many instances have been stopped by wire fencing. remaining there un
 til frozen to death. The streams have all been frozen over for man y days, and want of water and food
 together with the bitter cold, have combined to cause the death of un
 numbered head of cattle and horses. 2
The Russellville Democrat., 1886-01-21
our Washington Lett, 1T
Correspondence of tho Democrat


 WAsHrseTos, D. C., Jan. slS. 1886
 The sterling good sense of Presl- dent Cleveland seems to crop out spontaneously on every occasion, and to make smooth the ,aths which were thought to be ruggs d and beset with dangers to his ad ministration. One of the pet theorie 3 of his enc. mics has been that fight between him and the Senate was inevitable --that that august body, with It's Republican majority would take ear- ly occasion to rejecis some of his ap. pointments, and that the war would then commence. But the President takes the metap horical wind out Of their hypothetic al sails very efiectu- ally by a few V ords, apty spoken, to the effect that all his appointments have been made on the supposition that the pr,ointees are good and honest meD., capable and efficient. If the Senaee discovers that ne has been deceived he expects that body to prompti y reject all.who are shown to be unfit. for their positions. His responsibility ends when he sends 6 name to tue Senate. Thereafter the responsibility is with that body. This is position at once so simple
The Russellville Democrat., 1886-01-21

sIialt not kill, !" Thou shalt s,e, and other things prohibited
 decalogue, because they ar b iects Of State legislation. n snaX of such reasoning is too patid knt t61 .nand argument. There aT E sol who desire to force the prst ibitis issue into the platforms of elxis!in1 political parties; but so far lere forts have been futile. Manly Of th1 States have wisely delegat4d th question to the people Of eakh par isI, county or town; and the Idsmd crats have just elected Gen. Lee oy ernor of Virginia on platform )rs viding for local option elections. st while the disciples of Bacchus al trying to kick local option out of tt country, it gains foothold in ol Virginia, the mother of President and almost the birth place of Amer can democracy, Brethren, in the spirit of unyia ing love of the right, and becau1 we value the bodies and sou of md and would do Gods will at a y sacr| flee of self, let us force thu batt1 against whisky and ceaseles4 ly fgl} this deadly foe of every churop anl of every man, woman and ctkld II the land--aye, Tn the pulpit and cl of the pulpit, and whenever an wherever we find him. God is surel with his people in all this matter.
 s.1 From New Orleans Christian Al vocate, Dec. 10th, 1885.
The Russellville Democrat., 1886-01-21

and straightforward that it is siiiIlcolt to see how the Republican majority Els tho Senate can find anything to quarrel with. In fact, it cannot well afford to quarrel with such q propo- sition.
 The committee on War claims, of which the Hon. Geo. w. Geddes of Ohio, IS Chairman, seems destined to be about the hardest worked com mittee of the present House. Fully one third of all the bills that are in troduced in the House are referred to that committee. In round nun bers there has already been wagon load of bills providing compensation for losses by private individuals dur ing the war referred to that commit tee, and ten wagon loads more are on the way and hourly expected. A e.. examination of these bills reveals the fact that most wonder ful state of affairs must have exist ed in the South during the late war. It would seem from the number and character of these bills, first, that nearly the whole of the property sSsners of the South are represented; i; second, that the Union army must -have consumed enough to support and pay all the armies of the world for at least ten years; and third, that there really could not have been any disloyal men in the south during the war. For all these bills are backed by the strongest evidence that the claimants represented were all in- tenseIy loyal to the United States during the war. One therefore nat urally wonders what there was left for the Confederate army to subsist upon after so much had been taken bv the Union armies, and how they managed to keep the field at all with such an overwhelming public senti- ment at home against them as is represented by these pills. The ex- planation seems to be that some of the claimants afore said must be mistaken as to the sentiments which they entertained at the time when their losses were sustained; and pos sihly the lapse of the time may have served to cloud their recollection as to the exact amount of such losses. It must be remembered that more than twenty years have elapsed, and it would not be strange if some of them had confounded the sentiments which they entertained in thelr younger days with the devotion which they now feel for the cause of the old flag and an appropriation; and it is just possible that some of them may have confused the sum total of their losses with the amount represented by their present neces- sities or the natural desire inherent in the human mlnd for the ncquisi tion of wealth. All these questions will have to be considered by the committee, and it will be an hercu- lean task. Of one thing, however, the country may rest assured, and that is that committee, constituted as it is, will give no just cause of complaint, and when the work Is done the Rep lblican party will have no new material for campaign thun der in the shape of another howl about the payment of rebel claims.
 $. B.
The Russellville Democrat., 1886-01-21

new and novel surroundings, being
 toasted by Lords and patronized by mobiles. But be could well afford te stand any amount of embarrassment in order to lnaugurate the beginning of new auspices in the old mother country. On this side the waters, the solid yeomany of the farmer and country has not been the recipient ol any too much preferment or official place, but 1t has not suffered as in the old country. Time is Q great leveller of things, and it will all come right by and by
The Russellville Democrat., 1886-01-21
Temperance Preachers.

MIR EDITOR: We believe that all of our preachers pray and preach and vote for prohibition. The arti cles from Bros. Black and Abbey lately published in the Advocate, and which called tor just such a course upon the part of the ministry, doubt less received the hearty Amen! of every member of the Louisiana Con- ference. The outspoken temperance clergy are the subjects of so much abuse at the hands of Q whisky blind secular press that it is refresh ing to read, now and then, outside of the columns of religious journalism an emphatic endorsement of the pull pit war upon "the whisky devil" Such papers as the Minden Demo crat Tribune, Gilmore's Sugar Bowl, the Bastrop Sentinel, the Ruston Caligraph, and about twenty others in this State do themselves gre q, honor in standing uncompromisi'a gly alongside of the gospel ministry fol prohibition and sober gov. Tn men, and people. Judge Thomas c. Lewis of Farmerville, in late issue of hi; paper-the Home Adv ocate--makc e. the following very able defense O prohibition preache,.s:
 "PoLITIcAI. P REACnERs.,
 The anti prohJ otion papers ar, now, in some Instances, attempting to cast reproach upon ministers O the gospel for preaching against tn :, liquor trafj G. In their effort to mak
 the prohibition movement politica
 one, they apply the epithet of "po litical preachers" to those minister
 who feel it their duty to advocat prohibition. We cannot see what tn
 prohibition question has to do witt
 politics in this State where there ar
 only two parties-Democratic ant Republican. But, aside from this
 there is certainly moral question
 involved, and it is the province
 yea, tho duty--cf ministers of tn
 gospel to "cry aloud and spare not, against whatever effects for evil th'
 moral st andiDg and weii-beiag of so ciety.
 The Constitution guarantees t. every clas freedom of discussion an. equal righ Is as citizens, and preach CTS, as we II as others, will continu' to exercise these rights regardless 0 ail attempts Go ''scourge them back and cut oil tl.er rations." ''PoIiti cal'' primari ly means, pertaining ts citizens or s tate policy, aud, in gen eral sense, all questions pertaining to the rights, interest and welfare Q the people nay be called political But if mini sters become ''polit'ca preachers" by advocating prohibi tion. the Su nday law and sinlila questions in the interest of humanit, and good mo rals simply because tb' State happen 8 to legIslate upon thes' subjects, the wiil also become poll ticians when they preach, "Tho'
The Russellville Democrat., 1886-01-21

forced him to yield, and took him td his house and bound him 2 He fe- peat<d this operaslon until all were secured. He thea hauled them in 3 wagon back to tho mines and was paid $50 for each one. The prisoners are said to be desperadoes. The farmer was armed only with q rifle. Jack Clifford, one Of the Little Rock and Pine Bluff Railroad train robbers, is smong the escapes from the mines who have not been recap tured.
The Russellville Democrat., 1886-01-21

A FARMER, and one who worked with his own hands was elected to parliament Tn the last election in England. This farmers name was MT. Joseph Arch, and is the first az ricultural Iaborer to be elected to that body in England. The incident was so noted that it called forth ban quet in his honor. No doubt it made this farmer feel very odd in these