The Russellville Democrat., 1886-06-16
CORRESPONDENCE.
sorrespondence of the Democra.

{ Correspondence of the Democrat.
 DOVER, June 14.--The Dover Gun club practiced on Monday afternoon with the following result: R. B. Ho- gins, hits misses 3, J. w. Quinn, same. J. R. Young. 6--6, J. B. West, game, Floyd and Gus Hogins, 7-4. Miss Emma Bonds of Russell Iville, has not returned home as stat
 ed last week, but is still enjoying a 1 pleasant visit among friends and rel, atives here. Mrs. Smith, wife of our fellow citizen MT. Ezra Smith d.ed on last Thursday, and was bur jed on Friday at the new cemetery south of town. !. Every time that l say anything for the public good through your colums, some one con tradicts me-only last week l said that matrimony, during these hard times, was a fearful thing to contem- plate, and just as soon as MT A. $. Holloway read It he came right in and getting marriage license, went forthwith and led to the altar Miss Lizzie Condley, of Dover township. I now predict that If this thing lasts there will be fi0od in this country the like of which has never before been witnessed here. There IS no place like small rural village for summer fun. What crowd of men and boys cannot see to laugh at when work is done, and they are holding down the street corners at roon, there is no fun to be seen in. It stranger comes to town now and be-
 gins to tell real good yarn--like Green Wallace did for example--he IS sure to have the most unapprecia- tive audience imaginable; some will read almanacs, others sing, talk, whistle, laugh, grin and do anything and everything that will make the narrator mad enough to fight his grandfather; if the further hitches his horse in the sun, then the casual spectator is stricken dumb by the exhibition of kindness to animals; every pan accessible is captured and the animal is given gentle breeze to the great delight of all but the owner--his delight would be viola ton Of that commandment which says Thou shalt not kill" The fun always terminates though, in some sort of a joke on your Aunt Wash. To my unbounded delight the crowd will attack my sanctum, and with those beautiful sounds of musical dlscord that makes me determine to lead different life, honor me with a grand serenaae. "I ..m saddest when they sing" so are my neighbors. The fact IS that there is more gen
 uinc fun in Dover in week than any place I have seen yet. Just come up some time and tell us a good yarn. =. am glad that Col. Fletch- CT went back on that nomination for governor on the wheel ticket; and l know Bud Mcdonnell too we'll to think that he would accept the nom- ination rendered him. 1 confess that l cannot see why Col. Fletcher should first accept then reject the nomina- tion rendered him. How would it look for him to ask the democrats to support Shnm for governor again. Consistency, that test of sincerity which always evinces the manhood and principle that every aspirant to office should possess, has shown how utterly unworthy of democratic pref
 ereEce was Fletcher when Pope coun- ty in years gone by nominated him tor governor. If that great historian and severe critic Macsnlay could be recalled to human life. to write the political history of this country, what boundless scope would the apostasy of these times furnish him to criticise the political apostate. When that writer said that 'when q man apostates from one religious creed to another because that belief to which he is transferred is the popalar creed, he is unworthy Of trus. in any sphere of life; and this rule admits oi fewer exceptions in politics. in my humbles opinion he mad the whole science of human Vas cillation narrowed down to practi ieaI theory, and in the history of our own native land we have stronger argument to sustain him than the history of England could furnish hlm thirty years ago, although he had the bigotted James I, the un- principled and treacherous Charles 1, the changes during the years of the protector, the licentlous and aim
 less Charles II, the cruel tyranny of James II, and the various changes of religion and politics durlng the whole Interim between the reign of Queen Elizabeth and the final abdi- eaton of tho throne by the house of Stuart, upon which to base his prop osition. It would be well if we were to make continual application of this principle to American politics. When l find time 1 shall endeayor to plnci6afe tfliz orc sf nrfncin1a n,own