Year: 1875

out of the ante room O1 the SCHOOL house don't return it before next Wednesday, we will certainly give his name to the public and let him take the consequences.

 We publish elsewhere let ter from B. F. Butler, giving his views on the rights of the colored man under the late congressional enactment on this matter, which may perhaps be worth notice as coming from such an extreme man as the writer. It will be seen that even he does not claim that it gives the colored man any ad- ditional rights, but is only in tended to enforce the observance of what rights he claims the col ored man had already, before the passage of the act.

 Elsewhere will be found the proceedings of 8 meeting held at Bellefonte, Boore county, on the 22d ult., for the purpose of con sidering the propriety and prac- ticability of railroad from liar rison to DardaneIe. We are glad to know that the citizens of the fine county of Boone seem to be awake to the importance of this enterprise. More and better thor oughfares of travel and transpor- tation is what we need to bring Arkansas ''5ut of the kinks" and we are gladt see this matter agi- tated. We can have one of the best states in the Union in ten years if we can get this spirit of public enterprise properly awak- ened up and set at work. We wish all success to this and every other public enterprise.

 Misses Tennie Williamson and Mollie Thompson will accept many thanks for the sweet and fragrant geraniums sent to our sanctum on last Wednesday even ing. We can assure our fair friends that their dainty floral offering brings cheer and encour- agement to us in our humble eff. forts to make the DEMOCRAT wor- thy, at least in q small degree, of support and friendship it is re- ceiving; for to know-as these sweet aowrets betoken-that the refined and intelligent fair ones deem our paper worthy of remem- brance, is indeed gratifying, and is the greatest compliment we can receive. We accept your offering, ladies, with pride; and trust that the pages of the DEMOCRAT may never be sullied with any word or thought that will cause it to lose your good will and friendship. Really we don't like to be considered importunate on the subject, but we are getting a little ashamed of the small array of professional talent represented in the advertising columns of the 1 DEMOCRAT. Not a little town in the state, which does not reflect through its newspaper, more pro fessional talent than Russellville. We want it distinctly understood, however, that it is not because Russellyille is destitute of profes- sionals. We have them--lots of them; and we are constrained to believe. too, that they are too sen sible to hide their light under bushel, and we expect every day to receive about 6 column of pro- fessional cards. They are little careless, you know.

 We would like to have it un- derstood once for all that the col-, umns of the DEMOCRAT is no place for correspondents to indulge in personalities, or to gratify their own personal inclinations by pa rading before the public their per sonal correspondence. This is no part of journalism; we do not use the columns of this paper for our own personal correspondence, or settle personal mGtters through the paper, and we shall certainly not permit others to do so. All communications of this discrip- tion will most assuredly fipd the way into our waste basket.