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The Russellville Democrat., 1886-04-08
To the Democracy of Arkansas

To the Democracy of Arkansas.
Responding 20 the appeals Of
friends in nearly every county Of the
state, / hereby announce myself .
candidate for state superintendent Of
public instruction, subject to your
action in convention, June 80, 1886.
In doing this, it is but right that
| should state who am and nv plea
for action. / am native Arkansi-
an, and democrat by birth, by suf-
fering, and from conviction. ! have
been an active teacher in the public
scLoo Of Arkansas and other states
for more than fifteen years. My life
work has thrown me into actual cen
tact with the duties of the Office,
both in Arkansas and in Kentucky.
l have no claim on the Office, but
should ] be selected by your votes l
promise you the full exertion Of all
my energies, and that l will visit
each county of the state during my
term Of Office in the interest of the
public schools. / hold the ednca-
tional interests to be Of paramount
Importance; that state education OF
all children in the primary and in
termediate grades IL true principle
and the only anchor for brighter fu
ture hopes; that high schools In eve
ry county for those who are fitted
therefor by thorough training in tho
lower courses are important factors
in developing manhood and Of rails
ing the standard Of citizenship. and
should be fostered; that state uni
versity for the higher education Of
our youths is in consonance with
true civilization and the logical out
growth OF the principles of true edu
cation; that trained teachers are de.
manded In any system of education,
and that the force of the demand is
Increased when the state takes up the
work Of general primary instruction;
that moral education is of greater
value than mere intellectual develop
nlent, but that Lo antagonism exists
between them, and that Arkansas
has just cause for pride in the efforts
she has made towards realizing these
splendid principles. Her system Of
schools is good and is doing grand
work. That greater work and
warmer love upon the part OF all
school men 10 sll that is needed to
make the system model OF excel
lencs. ! believe, that to the absence
of these two factors, work and love,
is To be attributed all the iuperfec-
lions which thinking minds see in
our public schools.
Appealing 10 my work in the past
as q pledge, l promise all my labor
and the fullest exercise OF NY higher
sympathies for the fullest develop
ment of our s.ats plan; and to raise
my voice in every part of Arkansas
to excite these dormant factors
among all school officers and patrons.
This eau do and will do should you
trust me with your sufirages.
The salary OF the Office is $1,000,
and will not justify man without
means, in making an active canvass
of every county Of the state nor in
announcing in all Of its papers. 1t
would please me to do these thlngs,
but l cannot have my pleasure. !
ask nothing but fair consideration
my of announcement by my fellow
citizens and will calmly abide the re-
suit. Respectfully,
The Russellville Democrat., 1886-04-08
Permanent Employment

Will be given to capable and reliable
lady canvasser reeidiug in this place.
No investment required. Goods sell all
the year round. References necessary.
Write to j. B. HULiNG CO., III Mon-
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week at this season. Steady employment ~
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kErsIN6ToN fLAcouE AND PANEL ART to1
[Knickerbocker Buiiding). 1871 fremont st'
Boston, Mass, p. .. Box 5,2o8.
The Russellville Democrat., 1886-04-08

Friend.

Not only shortens the time Of la
Dor and lessons the intensity OF
pain, but. 1t greatly diminishes the
DANGER to life OF both mother and
child I'd leaves the mother in =
condition highly favorable to spec
dy recovery. and far less liable to
Flooding, Commissions, and other
alarming sym ptoms Incident to
slow or painful labor. Its wonder
full efficacy In this respect entities
it TO be called Tho Ne hers Friend
and to he ranked as one Of the life
saving remedies OF the nineteenth
century.
From the nature OF the case, 1t
will OF course be understood that
we cannot publish certificates con-
corning this remedy without woun
ding the deiicacy Of the writer's.
Yet we have hundreds OF such testi- \
monials on file, and no mother who
has once used II will ever again be
without IL in her time OF trouble.
Send for our treatise on Health and Happ
ness Of Woman" mailed free.
The BRADGIELD REGULATOR Co.,
Atlanta, Ga.
The Russellville Democrat., 1886-04-08

Correspondence Of the Democrat.
CAGLEsvILLE, April 5, '86.--Aprill
The flower mouth, and half inch OF
snow, changeable weather, little Of
sunshine and much wind and paiu +;
fitful and chsngeable like human
lives; and in fact in 80 many other
WAYS do our lives resemble, in so
much are they governed nv the diff
iereat elements OF nature that we
read in these things quite sermon.
Farmers are quite busy justnow,
many have planted corn, but it's
the general opinion that it will have
to be planted over. $. There has
been a good deal of sickness in this
locality recently. Your correspond
ent wedges being the yictlm
of an attact Of fever which was any
thing bunpleasant :. The dark an
gel OF death has again invaded our
community, taking for its victim
Mrs. Sallie More, wife Of Mr. John
More. Mrs. More leaves husband
and seven childred, Eve oil whom are
under four years Of age. She was a
lady beloved by all who knew her,
and consequently leaves host Of
friends to mourn her departure. The
bereayed have our coincidence Z.
The peach crop Is almost an entire
failure in this community i. Dept.
Sheriff Young was around last week
summoning witnesses to attend cir
cult court. VERUs ANXIOUS.
The Russellville Democrat., 1886-04-08

j Il Bowden, NJ r Grimes, Ber
Chronister, J A Miller, j B Sinclair,
Ben Mann, j L Reese, r y Love, $ H
Rye. J J Brown, IA D B-ewn, J a
Erwin. Judge Cunningham deiiv
IIered an elaborate charge to the grand
Jury, instructing them as TO their
! duties, and they commenced their
labors at o'clock >. N.
Petit jury AZ empannelled and
sworn, j A Rachel, Alex Brinplc, w
B Rollow, G S Bell. Jesse Stegall, J
r Reed. s 5 Drake. w j Campbell,
j A Eubanks, Tom Mourning, w H
Garden, N B Brooks, ] T Whorton,
W f White. Van Tomlinson, Robt.
Dickev, r S Trnltt, 4 B Hurley, Jas.
H Frye, G w Vaughan, A Howcs, J
H Shinn.
The attorneys are: Hon. A. s. Nc
Kennon Clarksville, H. s. Garter.
Bob Bullock, Dardanellc, Davis d
Son, Wilson Il Granger, w. G. Ford
RussellviIle, Jeyner 4 Gill Atkins.
1t will be impossible for me TO get
any further information upon this
subject IN time for the next issue,
but will endeavor to give full de-
tail for you next week.
REPORTER.
The Russellville Democrat., 1886-04-08

TSEAL. SIMON p. HUGHEs,
Governor Of tho State OF Arkansas
BY the Governor:
+. B. MOORE. Secretary OF State.
4 Little Rock dispatch ssys: An
other aud the last Of the fraudulen,
claims administrators, John w. Har
per, OF Magnolia, was brought to Lit
tie Rock FRIDAY and lodged in the
Penitentiary pending trial. Harper
until he vent into this scheme was .
rising young man, and stood we'll In
his neighborhood. A brief review Of
the crooked transactions Is as fol
lows: When Arkansas became q
State, settlers who had "squatted''
upon Government lands were allow
cd to enter their claims under pre-
emption act, paying the Government
so cents per acre for their homes.
Several years before the war, the
homestead act was passed by Con-
gress, allowing any citizen to locate
homestead at I2A cents per acre.
This act also provides that where
certain homes had been paid for
under the presumption act, II the
person desired to homestead by
properly presenting the fact re-
bate would be paid to the claimant
amounting 10 All to the so cents per
acre he had paid, less the l2t cents
per acre required under the home
stead act. These claims were being
prepared by many persons Ii the
part or the State when the
war came. The war between the
States cut Of further prosecution Of
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-15
THE LATEST KILOGRAMS
WASHINGTON.

The senate has confirmed the nomin-
alton of Hugh Smith Thompson, of South
Carolina, to be Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury.
ONE million dollars have just been add
ed to the river and harbor bill in the
shape of an appropriation for New York
harbor.
The president has approved the act to
forfeit the lands granted to the Atlantic
and Pacific Railroad company to aid in
the construction of railroad and tele-
graph line from the states of Missouri
and Arkansas to the Pacific coast, and to
restore the same to settlement.
In the deficiency bill reported to the
House Thursday, is provision for the
payment of $3.50 to Mrs. Eliza G. Hend-
ricks, widow of the late Vice President,
being a sum equal to one years salary,
with allowances for mileage and station
cry.
WHILE the general deficiency bill was
Monday under consideration by the house
of representatives, Mr.. Springer stated
that the decrease in federal expenditures
during the fiscal year just closed was 1922
100000, according to statements by treas
ury officials.
SECRETARY MANNING and family, in pass
ing through Washington for New York,
late Saturday evening, received in their
car the congratulations of President
Cleveland and seven members of the cabi-
net. The secretary has apparently re-
covered entirely from his recent stroke.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND Tuesday sent to
the house twenty vetoes Of private pen
sion bills. In one of them he takes occa-
sion to allude to the calm, steady, and af-
fectionate regard of grateful nation to-
ward the soldier as preferable to the
noise made by politicians who pretend to
be above all others his friends.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-15
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

The schooner America, grain laden. is
ashore five miles south of Cross Village,
Mich.
A FIRE at Ovid, Michigan, burned the
store OF Il. M. Buckley and three others
adjoining, the losses being about $780,
OOO
AT HaVerhill, Mass, lad named Bap
tiste was shot dead by playmate while
celebrating the Fourth. The claim of
accident was made, but the shooter has
been arrested.
On the Both of June, at Apalachicola,
Fla, fierce gale wrecked houses and
leveled trees, causing loss of $1,000.
Six persons were drowned in the bay.
FIRE at Newport Wis, Thursday de-
stroyed the postoffice, two stores, and two
dwellings, the total losses aggregating
$4,000, with but $4,000 insurance.
SIX boilers in colliery near Plymouth,
Pa, exploded Thursday, scalding two
men wrecking the boiler-house, and
damaging many buildings in the neigh
borhood.
GENERAL NEWELL GLEASON fell down
stairs in his residence at Laporte, Ind,
Tuesday morning, and was killed. He
was distinguished for services in connec-
ton with the Army of the Cumberland.
Two seamen who arrived at Key West,
from Havana, Wednesday, report the loss
of the schooner Sea Gull, of Key West,
and all hands, on the north side of Cuba,
on June 28th.
A MUNoIE, Ind, special says: A fire
Wednesday night consumed a block of
buildings in the business center of the
town. The losses aggregate $4,000; in
surance light. Several persons we're
Frustrated by the heat and are in criti-
cal condition.
The Academy of Music building and
Goode and McClintoc blocks at Denver,
Col, were destroyed by fire Tuesday
morning. The losses aggregate $180,0O0
with about $4,000 insurance. Thomas
Enright, an aged man, persisted in the
flames.
CHARLES RoTHBAoK, 81 years of age,
took an old pistol to celebrate the Fourth
in Baltimore. It exploded, and the ball,
entering his brain, killed him almost in
stantly.
FIRE is raging in the forest along the
Zealand Valley Railway, New Hampshire,
owned by j. L. Henry. Three camps,
100000 feet of spruce, about two miles
of track and 1000 cords of wood have
been burned. The damage is about
$4,000
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-15
CRIME.

IT is probable that the citizens of
Tuscola, Illinois, will lynch Henry Wild
man for the murder of his wife.
The motion for new trial in the case
of Brooks, alias Maxwell, who killed
Preller, was overruled, Wednesday, at ST.
Louis.
In a fiat at No. 1872 West Tenth street,
New York, Wednesday morning, John
Warner, an aged man, killed his son, IA
years old, as he lay eleeping, and then
blew out his own brains.
AT Canton, Ohio, Monday night. Hattie
Adams, fallen woman, attempted to kill
her recreant lover and his paramount, and
few hours later shot herself, in1icting a
fatal wound.
WILLIAM Brown, the head Of gang of
Canadian counterfoiters arrested at Co
burg, carried in his pocket large amount
of false money and orders for packages
as high as $1,000 each.
The Lestourgeon brothers, dairymen
of Centralia, H., have been arrested for
brutal and cruel treatment of an orphan
boy in their service who was placed with
them by a New York association.
AT Providence, R. l., on the evening of
the Fourth, Joseph E. Nolan, Is years,
discharged shotgun at two girls, Agnes
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-15
Two Old CrOnies.
New York Herald.

An honorary member of the Fat Mems
club alighted from hanson at the white
house door shortly before 1 o'clock on
Wednesday and asked to see the presi-
dent. Being known, he was shown up
stairs, and was passing the open door in
to the cabinet-room when he saw the in
ner door open and simultaneously heard
the greeting:
"How're you, Shang?"
How're you, Grover" was the quick re-
tort.
And the two old friends waddled to-
ward each other in the friendliest man
ner.
Mr.. WIS. Bissell, of Buffalo, the former
law partner of Mr.. Cleveland, is one of
the ioliest men in the country. He was
here at the wedding and left for New
York on the night train after the cere-
mony. He went back to Washington to
tell his old companion the latest stories
that he had heard, and the two friends
had long smoke and played game of
dOminOeS,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-15
GENERAL NOTES,

The first through freight train on the
Canadian Pacific Railroad left Montreal
yesterday.
The Forest City Band, of Rockford, ILL.,,
has been mustered into the service of the
State militia.
COLONEL GEORGE B. CoRKHILL, who con-
Quoted the prosecution of Guiteau, died
Tuesday at Mount Pleasant, Iowa.
NUMBERS of young cattle are dying in
De Witt County, ILL.,, of disease called
"blackleg."
The flour output at Minneapolis last
week reached $4,000 barrels, against
140,870 barrels the preceding week. The
market rules dull and unsettled.
The Lake Shore troubles still hang
fire. Three box car loads of meats were
taken out of the Stock Yards Wednesday.
Twelve men were discharged for refus-
ing to load cars for transportation over
the road.
The visible supply of wheat and corn is,
respectively, 26,195,38O and 9,198,957
bushels. Since last report wheat has
been reduced 1,289,2S5 bushels, and corn
has decreased 269,286 bushels.
GEORGE W. PORTER, secretary of the
Baltimore Board of Trade, and publisher
of the Journal of Commerce. died sud-
denly Monday morning Of heart dis
ease.
CATTLEMEN from Kansas and Texas are
negotiating with the Usage, Ponca, Paw
nee, and Otoe Indians for lease of all
their available grazing lands at few cents
per acre.
DANIEL SLOWER, farmer living near
Dalton, Douglas county, ILL.,, has killed
40 rattlesnakes on his farm this Spring,
and exhibits 450 rattles in confederation
FOREST fires in the Erie (Pa.) district
are destroying bridges, fences, buildings,
and lumber. The army of men and boys
who are fighting the fires are in danger of
being encircled by the flames.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-15
Everyday Life in Georgia City.
Atlanta Constitution.

We have several persons in Georgia
who are related to George Washington on
the side of his mother, Mary Ball, and
others related to him on the side of his
sister Elizabeth, who married Fielding
Lewis. There can be found here in At
lanta gentlemen who have descended from
Jonathan Edwards, the great theologian
and first president of Princeton, and who
are, therefore, of the same blood as the
brilliant and daring Aaron Burr. We can
find here, also, the descendants of Lady
Godiva, the heroine of one of Tennyson's
favorite poems. Mingling in our streets
every day may be seen men whose an
cestors battled against each other in the
war of the roses; crossed swords when
the English met the Scots on Flodden
field; butchered one another under the
nicknames CT Roundhead and Cavalier
and wrestled in death grapple on many
a CORY field in France and Germany. But
time has wiped out all differences and all
look alike and think alike.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-15
Not Married.

This is an actual fact. Two st. Paul
commission men were travelling on the
cars. The coach was crowded and one of
them had to sit in seat with a lady who
had kindly offered it to him. The other
found a seat directly behind him with
gentleman. As soon as Mr.. Drummer
was seated beside the lady she began
talking to him-she was loud-voiced
person, and asked so every one in the car
heard her:
Are you a travelling MANI"
Yes, marm," said the c. t. blush
ing.
riedsn
=, They do; | know great many of them
that are" said the c. I.
You do" said the lady.
1es marin; most of my friends are
married men,"
O'Well, have lived in hotel all my life
and never met one that said he was mar
ried," said the lady.
That's strange" said the C. L. modest
ly.
"Are you married?" asked the lady in
a loud voice that was heard all over the
car.
mo, marin; I'm not" said the c. t.
blushing.
The train had come to dead stop at
station just as this last question was ask
ed and answered
When the G. T. in the back seat reused
up nudged his friend who had been inter
rogated by the lady, and said: 'By the
way, G-,did you stop at S-this morn
mgr"
No; why?"
Il left there last night, and your broth
er-in-law said he had just received tele-
gram from your wife saying that Bonnie
was very sick, and If he saw you to tell
you to come home at once"
The reader can imagine what followed
1t would be useless to attempt to describe
the commissions that seized upon the entire
car.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-15
FOREIGN.

EUROPEAN newspapers regard Russias
action at Batoum as reply to Englan DIS
sympathy with Bulgaria.
IT is expected the Indian government
will reimpose import duties, owing to the
continued decline in the rate of ex-
change.
The widow Of Schulze LIE Litch, the
political economist, has been burned to
death at her home in Berlin.
NJ. DE LEssEPs states that it is posi-
bic to complete level canal at Panama
within three years, at cost of 100000
600 francs.
WITH his paw on Ireland and licking
his chops over the bones of home rule,
the British lion presents striking pic
ture of animal satisfaction and compla-
cancy.
A cabinet council will be held on Tues
day to decide on the course to be pursued
IN view of the result of the elections
CHOLERA returns Wednesday are as
follows: Venice, new cases, 1 DEATH
Brindisi, l89 new cases, II deaths;
Latiane, 20 new cases, 26 deaths; San
Vito, 80 new cases, deaths; Tontrna,
76 new cases, 81 deaths.
DELEGATIONS from the British and col
onial chambers of commerce, at a meet
ing held in London on Wednesday,
adopted resolution declaring that the
reconciliation of silver would relieve the
depression under which trade is now stag
gering.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-15
A Popular Hand-Shaker.

An old stager who has shaken hands
with many lady Of the white house tells
Us he likes the way Mrs. Cleveland shakes
hands better than any presidents lady of
the past, says a Washington letter. Said
he: Mrs. Cleveland shakes hands as though
she meant it. She looks you in the eye,
and tries to catch your good will before
she puts out her hand. She grasps it
firmly and gives it a perceptible shake.
She uses the whole arm, aud does not
shake only from the wrist or the elbow.
Mrs. McElroy was to stiff and stick-like.
Miss Cleveland turned her face away from
you when she shook hands with you, and
she did not appear to be at home. Mrs.
Cleveland feels that she is doing the hon
ors of the white house, and that she has a
right to. She acts as lady would act
who was presiding over her own home,
and she is apparently as cordial in her
peSfureS
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-15
A Phlegmatic Editor.
San Francisco Chronicle

Mr.. McRoberts, now editor of the Leeds
Ems land) Mercury, was at one time a re-
porter IN this city. He was the most
argumentative and at the same time the
calmest man that ever struck the town.
He would stop work at fire to argue.
Mr.. McRoberts was on his way home ear
ly one morning when an American citi-
zen suddenly popped upwith pistol lev
eled at his head, and said:
"Throw up yer handsr
"Why?" asked Mr.. McRoberts, undis-
turbed.
Throw them up"
"But what for?"
"Put up your hands, insisted the foot
pad, shaking the pistol. "Will you do as
1 tell your"
''That depends" said Mr.. McRoberts.
If ye can show me any reason why
should put up ma hands, no say but
what l weell; but yer mere requaist wad
be no justification for me to do sac alb
surd thing. Moo, why should you, com
plete ftranger, ask me at this 'oor O. NOR
MIN, on public street, to put up ma
hands?'
Dash you" cried the robber; eff you
don't quit gabbin' and obey orders, I'll
blow the top of your head offs
''Whaat! Faith, man, We must be DOT
o. yer heed. Come, moo puir buddy"
said Mr. Mr.. McRoberts, soothingIy, cool
ly catching the pistol and wrestling it with
a quick twist out of the mans hand,
"come, moo, an FL chow We where they'll
take care O. We. Hechl Dinna ye try
tae fecht, or, ecod, I'll shoot We. By the
way, We might as we'll put up yer hands,
an jist walk aheed O. me. That's it.
Trudge away, noo."
And so Mr.. McRoberts marched his man
to the city prison and handed him over to
Capt. Douglass.
at wudna be a bad idea tae pit him in
strait jacket" he said serenely to the
officer. "There's little doot but the buddy's
daft"
And he resumed his interrupted home
ward walk.