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The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1888-03-29
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
FOR GOVERNOR,

We are authorized TO announce John G.
Fletcher as candidate tor Governor of Ar
kansas, subject to the action Of the democratic
state convention.
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Wanted.

Ten tons of old castings, will pay 25c
to SOC. tper 100 pounds delivered, and
will pay sc. 10 Zoe. per pound for old
brass and copper. SMITH 81 SETTLE,
Russellville, Ark.
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throughout the state.
Arkansaw Testimony.
Gaylord d Hale, druggists, Osceo-
la, Ark, Nov. 20, 1886, write:
"Messrs j. c. Mendenhall & Co,
Evansville, Ind, Gentlemen, The
Certain Chill Cure is giving better
satisfaction than any fever and ague
medicine we handle. We sell under
a positive guarantee, and have never
heard OF a single case where it failed
to give satisfaction" Sold and war
ranted by j. NJ. Harkey IL Bro.
mar 30.
Why is the world like music2 Be-
cause it is full of sharps and flats.
Simmons Liver Regulator
is what the name indicates "Regu-
lator" OF the most important organ,
the Liver Is your Liver out of or
der2 Then is your whole system
deranged, the breath offensive, you
have headache, feel langnid, dispir-
tied, and nervous, no appetite, sleep
is troubled and unrefreshing. Sim
mons Liver Regulator restores the
healthy action Of the Liver. See
that you get the Genuine, prepared
by j. II. Zeilin & Co. mar 81
A dog with bone knows no friend
Williams Australian Herb Pills.
If you are Yellow, Bilious. constipat-
ed with Headache, bad breath, drowsy.
no appetite. look out your Liver is out
of order. One box of these pills will
drive all the troubles away and make a
new being of you. Price 20 cts.
ly. j. w. WELLS, Agent.
Ayers Cathartic Pills are known
to be the safest, surest, and best
purgative medicine ever offered to
the public. They are mild yet GER
tain in their effects, give tone and
strength to the stomach, and keep
the system in a perfectly healthy
condition.
The worlds fair-Women.
CoUGHs and colds come unlimited.
but you can quickly get rid OF these,
with few doses Of DIR. j. III. Me
] LEANS Tor Wine T.nno, Pai.- "a
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FOR COUNTY JUDGE.

We are authorized to announce J T. Bullock
as candidate for reelection to the office OF
county and probate judge, subject to the action
OF the democratic party.
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At Yardell, Newton county, Ark,
March 8, 1888, Mrs. Sophia Shinn,
wife Of Capt James M. Shinn aged
about 70 years.
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FOR TOWN MARSHAL

=" are authorized 10 announce " . NJ. Peeier
candidate for reelection TO the Office Of
F0Nn treasurer at the ensuing April election.
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No house without its cross.

IICdtHcHI Cau bc piSsCIiDcu ioI IL
Sold by w. G. Weimer. II
No house without its cross.
Mr.. c. w. Battell travelling man
representing Messrs. S. Collins Son
d Co., printing inks, New York, af
ter suffering intensely for two or
three days with lameness of the
shoulders and back. completely cur.
ed it with two applications of Cham
berlain's Pain Balm. 1t cures lame.
ness and rheumatism when all other
treatment fails. Guaranteed and
sold by w. G., Weimer. tt
The dank and decaying vegeta,
tion of regions newly cleared of tim.
Der, exposed to the rays of the sun,
Is sure 10 breed malaria. DIR. j. II
McLean's Chills and Fever Cure, by
mild and gentle action will radically
cure. 80 cents bottle. u
An in(n) keeper-a jailer.
THERE are many accidents and
diseases which affect stock and
cause serious inconvenience and loss
to the farmer in his work, which
may be quickly remedied by the use
OF DR.. j. II. McLean's Volcanic Oil
Liniment. d
Five new business houses have
been opened at Morrilton this year.
THE most delicate constitution
can safely use DR.. j. Ii. Mclean,
Ia. Wine Lung Balm; it is sure
remedy for coughs, loss OF voice, anC
all throat and lung diseases. t
Foot rule-Avoid tight shoes.
LIFE will acquire new zest, anC
checrfulness return, if you will i'm
pei your liver and kidneys to til,
performance OF their functions. DR.
J. III. McLean's Liver and Kidne,
Balm will stimulate them to health
full action $l.00 per bottle. t
Fortune and glass break soon, alas
TAKE one OF DIR j. II. Mclean
Little LAYER and Kidney Pillets a
night before you 90 TO bed and yol
will be surprised how buoyant an,
vigorous you viii feel the next day
! Only % cents vial !
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AGUE BUSTERS ' Sa as sy.s.- . - Ss .i q:
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ORGAN DRAWING!
April 20. 1888.
Our Offer.

:, a. old subscribers who pay up
za~slr subscriptions to the end of the
present. year, and all new subscribers
VINE pay for one years subscription to
tne DEMOCRAT before April 2sth, 1888,
WIN DC given numbered ticket entitl-
ing the holder to a chance at our sIs2 :
w organ, without extra charge. It is
nlse-class instrument and will be
s g,Heh FREE to some luekey subscriber OF
, n paper. Now is the time to get
me musical instrument for nothing.
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Success results from merit. Halls
Vegetable Sicilian Hair Remover is
placed before the public solely on
its merits. Its success is indisputa.
BILE. apr 5.
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AGILE RIISTFRS c.,s yos. c I'm . I. s
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Arkansaw Testimony.

Measles are unusually prevalent
throughout the state.
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An idle man is the devils pillow

Whooping Cough may be kept un-
der complete control and all danger
avoided BY frequent doses or Cham
beriain's Cough Remedy. No better
treatment can be prescribed for it.
Sold by w. G. Weimer. If
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The worlds fsir-Women.
CoUGHs and colds come unlimited,
but you can quickly get rid OF these,
with few doses Of DIR. j Ii. Me
Taan's Tor Vino T.nno, pai., -
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simmons Liver Regulator

Why is the world like music2 Be-
cause it is full of sharps and flats.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-10-10
Temperance News and Notes.

Louisville, KY, has six saloons to each
church.
A vile drink called pskoe has been intro
duced into Marseilles, and is circulating over
France. The man who introduced it has
made big fortune.
In the country at large we spend $50, ,000,-
900 year for strong drink and only $780,
BOO for home an foreign missions. In New
York city there are 10, 000 saloons, but only
SOD places of worship.
Beer is still King in England. According
to the latest parliamentary returns, $500 O0O
was received for beer lice1seS in England last
year, and as an Indication Of where the prof
its 60 it is announced that Lord Lansdowne
has just sold three Of his finest pictures, two
Rembrandts and Cuyp, for $3.50, ,0e0, to Sir
Arthur Guinness, who has made his money
in brewing beer.
The temperance people Of New Hampshire
are taking advantage Of the nuisance act'
passed by tine Legislature last winter, to
make the country very uncomfortable for
liquor dealers. The act declares that any
building. place or tenement that is resorted
to or used for the illegal sale or keeping for
sale of spurious or malt liquors, wine or
cider shall be considered q common
nuisance" The prosecution began almost as
soon as the act went into effect, and has been
such as to greatly alarm the saloon ele-
ment." The number of voters required to
secure an injunction against saloon, was
found in nearly all the large towns and cities,
and In many Of the smaller ones As a con-
sequence. the liquor nuisance has been abated
in many sections of tho State.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-10-10
A Petition to the Worlds Rulers.

A Petition to the Worlds Rulers.
The following petition addressed to the
governments o. the world, has been circu-
ated by the w. c. T. T.:
We, your petitioners. although belonging
TO tho physically weaker sex, are strong Of
heart TO love our homes, our native land,
and the worlds family OF nations.
We know that clear brains and pure hearts
make honest lives and happy homes, and
that by these the nations prosper, and the
time is brought nearer when the world shall
be at peace
We know that indulgence in alcohol and
opium. and in other vices which disgrace
our social life, make misery for all the world,
and most of all for us and for our children.
We know that stimulants and opiates are
sold under legal guarantees which make the
governments partners in the traffic, by &C
cepting as revenue portion of the profits. and
we know with shame that they are often
forced by treaty upon populations, either
ignorant or unwilling.
Weknow that the law might do much, now
left undone, to raise tie moral tone or So
ciety, and nder vice difficult.
We have no power to prevent these great
iniauit:es beneath which the whole world
groans, but you have power to redeem the
homer of the nations from an indefenslble
completely.
We therefore come to you with the united
voices Of representative women or every
land. heseechrn rng you to raise the standard of
the law to that OF Christian morals to strip
pway the safeguards and sanctions of the
state from the drink traffic and the opium
trade. and to protect our hom:s by the total
prohibition OF these curses Of civilization
throughout all the territory over which
yu,.r government extends.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-10-10
Curious Collection of Pens.

A. man in Denver, COL, named Lyon,
got an idea some years ago that it would
be fine thing to collect all the odd
shaped pens he could find. So he started
in, and to day he has lot comprising
over IoU different varieties. About
twelve different metals are represented
in the collection. Then there are mum.
Der of wooden pens and lots of odd
quills. The collection embraces speci'
mems from England. Ireland, Scotland,
Germany and other European countries,
besides America and Canada. There are
pens pointed fine enough to make line:
of microscopic dclicacy, and others in.
tended for men who use the first per-
sonal pronoun a great deal in their cor
resDondence. Some are in shape like
shovels, others resemble section OF
stovepipe and Others are delicate and
diminutive. VatUe.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-10-10
A Daring Amateur Lion Tanner.

"An announcement was made by the
crier," says the South Wales Nesos, THAT
man named William Samuels, local
inn keeper and the champion boxer Of
Wales, would enter den of lions at
Messrs. Wombwell's menagerie. At 8
o'clock the band played: 'For he's a
jolly good fellow and then Samuels
walked up to den containing lion
aud about dozen lionesses. Mr.. Bos.
took, the manager, mounted platform
and informed the public that his old
friend Samuels had volunteered to per-
form deed of daring such as had never
been done in the menagerie since its es.
adjustment in 1905.
1.-THE announcement was received with
great cheering. Samuels seemed to have no
feelings of uneasiness. Attired as prize
fighter, and with blue rosette on his
breast, he appeared at the entrance to the
cage, and, cudgel in hand, boldly en-
tered it. The lions appeared in no way
to relish this intrusion, and it looked as
though Samuels would have warmer
welcome than he bargained for. Pos-
sessed apparently with nerves of steel,
the man walked undaunted up to the end
of the cage where the animals were hud-
died together, awaiting only the slight
est encouragement to spring on the in
truder, and held his cudgel threaten
ingly before the nose of the ierccst.
Grow!s of rage greeted this act; but
Samuels, in no way discomposed, walked
among the animals, and made them fly
right and left before him. This he did
several times, aid on one occasion acted
so rashly that grave fears were enter
tained for his safety by those in charge
of the exhibition. These-who, as q
precaution were armed with red hot irons
were ready to act promptly, when
Samuels again obtained the mastery over
his savage companions, and showed his
fearlessness of them by firing loaded
pistol at their faces. Then, his courage
maintained to the last he went to the gate
and waited in a dangerous position
while MIR. Bostock presented him, amid
the cheers of those present, with aunique
chain composed of spade and crown, and
with a certificate recording the fact that
he had accomplished his purpose. I'm
mediately afterward the band played :
See, the Conqucring Hero Comes" and
Samuels was borne in triumph out Of the
menagerie and through the streets"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-10-10
The "Punnetn Of Old England.

The word "punnet" is given in Eng
lish markets to various sizes OF what we
would call small measures or baskets.
For instance, a radish punnet. If in
tended to hold six hands," is eight
inches in diameter and one inch deep,
and twelve. hand punnet is nine inches
by one inch, and sea kale punnet is
EIGHT inches diameter at the top, aud
seven and half at the bottom, and two
inches deep. Fruits and vegetables are
sold by the sieve, hand, bunch, bundle,
bushel and pottle; the latter is used fol-
strawberries, and is long taperIiIng 6as.
ket, supposed TO hold half gallon, but
rarely holding more than one quart. The
system of measuring, pract;sed in our
markets is most absurd and unsatisfac.
tory to purchasers, but that in general
use in the English markets is no better.
-Neu York SIN.
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A Spaniard Kills Fifty Malays.

A correspondent says that a mob in
the village of Antique, near Hiolo. IN
the Indian Archipelago, attempted TO
kill Priest, and fifty of them were sue
cessively shot down and killed. The
village, which is near Manila, is in
habited by several thousand natives. The
only white men are Spanish Priest,
and another Spanlard, who lived some
distance away on his own estate. There
has been for some time past. bad feeling
between the natives and the race that
holds them in sui. .ection, and recently
mob Of the natives attacked the Priest,
intending to put him to death by tor
ture. The other Spaniard, who was
quickly informed of what had occurred,
took his rifle and cartridges and fastened
to the rescue of the Priest. As soon as
he arrived at the Priests dwelling,
which was surrounded by black mob
bowling for blood. he opened fire on the
crowd. He picked out the biggest and
and foremost men and shot them down
one bv one. When he had used up fifty
cartridges fifty dead blacks lay before
him. -.
The natives, awe stricken, fed in ter
ror, crying that the Spaniard was as
sisted by the evil enc, and that he had q
gun that could shoot forever without re-
loading. They did not even come back
to gather up and bury their dead, leaV'
ing this duty to the two white men.
It is believed that had it not been for
the craftsmanship and nerve displayed
in this case the natives in the neighbor-
ing provinces would have risen and mas
sacred the Europeans living there
,Gjn11nors Free Press.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-10-10
Early Saratoga Days.

In letter to the Cincinnati Engusrers
describing New York's famous health
resort, Saratoga Springs, the we'll
known correspondent Gath, says: You
may be sure to find new spring here
every year you come, though you should
live to be one hundred years of age.
The earliest spring was Natures own
revealment, the High, Rock, which,
flowing out of swamp, had deposited
tufa, or impure msgnesia, along its sides
until there had arisen cone three or
four feet high, entirely made out Of the
droppings of the water. It was easy to
determine the age of this cone from the
amount of organic matter deposited from
each gallon. Hundreds Of years had
that cone been in the course of forma-
tion. At that time the ruling Indians
of America were the Five Nations or Six
Nations of 1roquois, who lived at no
great distance from these springs; if you
cut across the country from saratoga to
Schenectady, or little above it, you are
in Iroquois land. The British Govern.
ment, knowing that these Indians con-
trolled all the other tribes from this
Atlantic to the Mississippi River and be-
yord, gave them a superintendent who
was equal to the superintendency OF all
the Indians in the country-Sir William
Johnson, an Irishman. johnson, OF
course, had to be half Indian to get
along with the savages. He got drunk
with the Indians; he danced with the
Indians. In the course of time old
Johnson felt the ravages of disease. He
had gone out to New London to bathe
in the sea water, and that seems to have
been one of the earliest watering.places
in the country. At last the Indians,
considering that they were to lose q great
and good friend, as we'll as numerous
gilt buttons, red shirts, doses of whisky,
etc.. concluded to take him to their
medicine spring, which had been the
cure of innumerable drunken Indians,
whose stomachs had yielded to- the
attacking power of rum, brandy, etc.
They put old johnson on litter, other
wise a stretcher, took him by concealed
trail through the woods some thirty
miles, to the High Rock Spring, which
was down in swamp, and its surround
ings extremely dirty. -, -. ,
Johnson drank the water, felt Its agree
able effects, and put it on record that
here was an extraordinary fountain OF
health and restoration. ,.,......, 49,
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meeting in Scotland was eulogizing goodness,
there were hanging around the edge
of the audience some OF the most depraved
men and women, and the minister said moth
ing about mercy for prodigals. And de-
PRAYED woman cried out: your rope is not
long enough for the like Of u.s." Blessed be
God. our Gospel can fathom the deepest
depths and reach to farthest wanderings, and
here is rope that is long enough to rescue
the worst: "Whosoever will"
But why take extreme cases, when we al!
have been or are now the captives Of sin and
Emancipator drop our shackles and take q
throne You have looked at your hand and
arm only as being useful now, and a curious
piece Of anatomy, but there is something
about your hand and arm that makes me
think they are an undeveloped wing.
And il you would know what pos.
sbilities are suggested by that, ask
the eagle that has looked close into the eye
of the MONDAY sun; or ask the albatross that
has struck its claw into the black locks OF the
tempest; or ask the condor that this morning
is descending to the highest peak OF Chin
borazo. Your right hand and arm and your
left hand and arm, two undeveloped wings,
better get ready for the empyrean.
'.RIse. my soul, and stretch thy wing,
Thy better portion trac,."
There have been chains famous in the
fastened the prisoner of Chillon to the pillar,
into the staple Of which I have thrust my
hand. on the isolated rock Of the Lake Of
Geneva; such as the chain which the
Russian exile c!anks on his wav to the mines
of Siberia: such as the chain which Zenobia,
the captive queen, wore when brought into
the presence of Aurelian. Aye, there have
been races in chains, and nations in chains,
and there has been world in chains: but,
thank God, the last one Of them shall be
broken, and under the liberating power Of
the omnipotent Gospel the shackles shall
fall from the last neck, and the last arm, and
the last foot. But these shattered fetters
shall all he gathered up again from the dun
geons, and the work-houses, and the mines,
and the rivers, and the fields and they shall
again be welded and again strung link to link,
and polished and transformed until this world,
which has wandered of and been recreant
world and lost world, shall by that chain
be liftsl and hung to the throne Of God, no
longer the iron chain of oppression. but the
golden chain of redeeming love. There let
this old ransomed world swing forever! Roll
on We years, roll on ye days, roll on ye
hours, and hasten the glorious consummationI
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-10-10
The YarsatiIeIndian

OF all misunderstood and misrepre-
sented people, I consider the North
American Indian the most 80. BY some
he has been painted an incarnate fend;
by others he has been represented as q
sage and stole, his mind stored with
philosophy, in demeanor grave, taciturn
and delighting in solitude, his body
capable of great endurance, and his;
spirit sustained by unfinching courage.
BY such Wrestling, twisting and mis-
representation AZ would make q poem
out of the multiplication table, or an
allegory out of problem Of Euclid,
his childish fetishism has blossomed into
a sublime theology. His myths, which
are like the dreamings of insanity, are
remodeled to resemble legends of the
lives of the saints, with dash of the
Arabian Nights. With language OF
but little more than a hundred words
he has become the author of sublime
poems, dealing with the abstract and
The complex. Even gentlemen OF the
Masonic fraternity have discovered that
he has anticipated the signs and secrets
of their order. He is described as
stoical, yet it is an every day affair to
see full grown Indian buck sit down, :
lifs up his voice and weep over the most
trihing disappointment. He is called
taciturn and loving solitude, and yet he
will chatter like magpie; gossip is his
principal business in life, and he will
ride for miles to be the first to tell any
news; while there are not sufficient
inducements on this whirling globe to
influence him to live solitary life for q
single month. He is supposed to be-
naturally brave and physically strong,
but he is not, nor does he pretend oven
to himself to be either.-Forest and
Stream, "a
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-10-10
He Did 1t,

It is an unusual wit which enables its
possessor to be as funny in speech as he
is on paper. W. s. Gilbert, author of
the "Bab Ballads" is evidently ready
at any moment to thrust or parry.
Once, in leaving large reception, he
stood in the hall, waiting for servant to
bring him his coat and hat. AS he
fingered there a ''heavy swell" descended
the stairs, took him for servant, and
called out to him: "Call me four
wheeler" .r
Mr.. Gilbert put his glass in his eye,
looked blandly at the young man and
said:
"You are four wheeler"
"What do you mean2" cried the other.
"You told me to call you a four
wheeler, and 1 have done go. I really
couldn't call you handsome (hansom),
you know"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-10-10
A Bottle Told the Tale.

As the northbound passenger train on the
Columbia and Port Deposit Railroad was
passing Cold Spring, Penn, one morning re,
Gently, the body Of man was discovered
lying on the roadbed. The train stopped and
the train hands found the body badly mutt
lated. The head was severed from the body,
one hand and. arm cut off, the shoes torn
from the feet and the body otherwise cut up.
Close by the body was lying an empty bot,
tie. The clothing of the man was of good
material. and it is thought he was not
tramp. The man is supposed to have been
run over by southbound freight train
about midnight. The empty bottle is, no
doubt, g satisfactory explanation OF the
cause Of the accident,