The Russellville Democrat., 1888-07-19

the democratic primary election just
 held 17S7 voters participated, leaving
 l344. Of these fully ten per cent. will
 vote for the democrats in September.
 If there is any comfort in this showing
 for the followers of the union labor de-
 fusion they are welcome to it.
 -The advertisement of Geo. Taylor & Go. cotton factors and commission
 merchants, He Walnut street, St. Lou. Is, occupies space in our colums to-day. Among the business men of St. Louis,
 none stand higher for probity. business tact and energy than do Geo Taylor & Go. With ample means and abundant
 facilities they can handle expeditous- | ly all the business instrusted to them.
 FOR SALE.-One good iron safe. | tf R. R WILSON.
 From a letter written 2d inst, from
 McGregor, Iowa, we learn that Capt. Scott and Misses Emma and Katie How ell arrived there safely and contem- plated starting on the 9th inst. for St. Paul, Minneapolis and the great lakes
 where they will remain the summer. Their friends will be glad to know that the trip has been one continual round of pleasure, contributing largely to the health of each.
 Best hay forks at
 | Miller & Robinson's. There was large crowd in town Monday to witness the counting of the vote of the primary election by the county central committee. The zeal and interest manifested by the friends of opposing candidates made the oc- casion one of striking interest. When the vote was at last announced by the committee the result was accepted with a degree of grace quite creditable to all | concerned. Several speeches were made and pledges of support and earn est work in behalf of the ticket were given.
 -Rubbers for fruit jars, call at Miller & Robinson's. Last Saturday Tom Bynum, late of Choctaw Nation. aged l5, arrived in town riding mule and saddle which he offered for sale at $20, g price so ri- | diculously low that suspicion was aroused and Bynum was taken in hand by deputy sheriff Oates. Soon after he confessed to stealing the property from a Mir. Gray in Johnson county, near Lamar. Sunday Deputy-sheriff Tol- | bert of Johnson county came In look | ing for Bynum and he was turned over to him and carried back to Johnson | county for trial.
 For cane mills call and examine Miller & RobiIson's. Tine annual report of the financial 1ft ivy q Ad a q . where, shows that the expenditures of the county since last report has been | $6, ,91O. 92, including the sum of $760 for taxes erroneously paid Collector Fowl CT in 1872 and ordered refunded by the court. The amount of outstanding indebtedness is $6,314.02, considerably less than enough to pay the taxes for | 1888. This is the best showing the county has ever made and speaks we'll for the safe and economical admin istration of the present officers.
 When you want anything in the | line of furniture, go to
 Jho. A. Erwin & Go. The total vote in the primary elec- tion of 1886 was 1281, in last Saturday 8 election 17S7, gain of 5O6. The gains were made principally in Griffin, Lib erty, Martin, North Fork and other northern townships. The democrats who went of with the wheel have all or nearly all. come back and swelled the party vote to high water mark, 2 number far greater than is required | to elect in September. The opposition had as well call off, hang | their banners upon the outer wall and let the cry be "Get out from under the democratic avalanche" They will be showed under so completely in Septem- Der that nothing save Gsbrels trump can resurrect them.
 -The best stock of furniture, wall paper, baby carriages, window shades, pictures and everything usually kept | in furniture stores at lowest price. | Jno. A. Erwin & Go.
 In the face of the striking array oi irrefutable testimony contained in the affidavits published In last weeks pa- per touching Mir. Wharton's celebrat- ed speech, that individual and his ad. herents have been reduced to the dire and humiliating necessity of pleadinR 2 that their denial was only intended to cover the LANGUAGE imputed to MT. | Wharton, and not the sentiments and
 ideas represented as his, the greater part ot which is admitted to be true, Now, we submit was there ever great CT piece of buncOme or better illustra' tion of Shakespeare's Much Ado
 about Nothing?" After denying every.
 thing in the most emphatic terms on
 hill top and in the valleys, in public
 and in private, when the unmistakabls
 evidence of their duplicity confronts
 them resort is made to the weak and
 frivolous plea "you did not quote the
 language correctly" Poor Wharton,
 and poor cause that needs to be bol'
 stered up in such manner.
 -wilkey & Steuckel will give away one watch on the last Saturday in eaci month. Every purchaser of one dollars worth of jewelry Is entitled to ticket The number getting the watch will al
 ways be published in the DEMOCRAT.
 The colored masonic picnic and barbecue last Thursday in Terrence grove was very successful and credit able to the management and all partic
 ipating. Addresses were delivered ir the afternoon to a good sized mixed
 audience by Joseph Hart and
 Lon Surrat, both we'll informed
 colored men. The subject
 touched upon chiefly was that of edu cation and intellectual advancement and was handled surprisingly well by
 both speakers. evidencing study ant preparation. One proposition laiC down by them needs to be impressed upon the mind of every colorsd citizer In the south and cannot be repeated tot
 often. It was that the rights of the
 colored people could not be obtained
 through the ballot alone. but throngf diligent labor in the direction of meat
 al and moral development through
 school and church influence. By re quest Messrs. Lawrence Russell ans
 Horace Bradley gpoke for few min