Year: 1877

--Messrs. Rimes & Ross have as. sumed control of the Arkansas Vi dette. Success to the new proprie- tors.

 The State Immigration Society is at work like beaver. God speed the good work, and may our next legislature have sense enough to do something for the cause.

 The Arkansas Watchman is a new democratic paper just started at Beebe, White County, by Samuel Crabtree. We have not yet seen the paper, but see it highly spoken of by other papers.

 The United States Man of war, Huron, was stranded in gale twelve hours out from Fortress Monroe, last Saturday morning. The crew consisted of l5 officers and 119 men. Over 100 lives were lost.

 So far as we have ever heard the readers of the DEMOCRAT in our own county expressing them selves on the subject about 9 out of every 10 endorse our position on State Finances.

 Tine Bonneville Enterprise says the wife of Prof. Mclaughlin met with very serious accident on the 18th inst. While burning leaves in theyard her garments caught fire, and before they could be extinguish ed she was badly burned.

 Present indications point to the triumph of wrong over right once more by the seating of Kellogg in the United States Senate instead of the rightful owner, Judge Spofford.

 In the South Carolina contested case Butler is likely to get the seat

 There is general complaint among our planters that they cannot get labor to save the cotton crop. It is pity that while there are thous- ands upon thousands of unemployed persons in the United States who are destitute of their daily bread, the cotton crop should go to waste for want of hands to pick it out.

 We want the people of our coun tv to be thinking about the perma- nent Fair Association, and be ready to take stock liberally in it. There will be a chance soon to show your hands, and we want to see every cit izen do his whole duty. It is the biggest paying thing our people can put their money into.

 The people would do well to re- member that the adoption of the Adams Redfeld plan will necessitate an extra session of the Legislature, which means an increase of the ex- pcnses Of the State Government for the next year of some $50,000 or $60,- GOO. That $6 per diem is too great q temptation to the average Arkan- sas Legislator, and once get the Legislature together and they will stay there as long as possible. The fewer meetings of such Legislatures as we have lately had the better for the people

 We think we can discern a grow ing belief among the more intelligent masses of the people of Arkansas-a belief, which is at no distant day go ing to make itself heard-that there is too much expense attached to the running of the State government. Every thing has settled down, and we think we see feeling among the people that there is no sense in pay ing three hundred thousand dollars per year to have the State govern ment conducted.

 We huve no Insane Asylum, no Immigration Bureau, no public works going on, and we ought to cut down expenses. The people are THINKING about this, and pres ently they will sPAEK OUT.

 The Gazette says the repudia- tion papers have abandoned the as- sertion that the Adams Redfleld plan recognizes the illegal bonds. As for this paper we have not aban- doned this objection to the plan of the scalers, for we still say that under that plan it will cost the tax papers of Arkansas a good many hundred thousand dollars to get in the illegal, fraudulent and spurious bonds. The assertion that we get in the whole batch of indebtedness, good, bad and indifferent, for just the amount of our good indebted