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THE DEMOCRAT. —PUBLISHED AT— RUSSELLVILLE, ARKANSAS, livery Thursday Morning, By the Russellville Printing Association JAMES E. BATTENFIELD, Editor. KATKS OF ADYKRTlSIXGs 1 m. | tm. | fin. | 1*2 M f SquaiT .... | ‘ 3 tw i .« 7 on i *1*2 no i fyn no 2 Squares ... j i (K» i U 00 | l.s 00 30 011 :i squares ... | u) j 1*2 no | *24 oo | 40 n 1 Squares . . . I 8 (JO 17 00 1 20 00 | 30 00 1 < ol u in n ... I 38 00 I 00 00 | 00 00 | 170 0,) cards or communications of a personal character, if admissible at all, double the usual rates, and strictly iu advance. Communications for the Agricultural de partment should be handed in by 12 in. Fri day. Those intendedfor the Editorial or local departments by Wednesday noon. Advertisements by Wednesday morning. Special not ires double the above rates Editorial notices twenty-live cents a line for the first and fifteen cents for each addi t iou insertion. All transient advertisements ca.-h in advance. Marriage and obituary notices not to exceed four lines, free; over our twenty centt per line. TERMS: 1 year (in advance).$1 50 Ci months. 75 3 in nit Ms.40 Single copy, 5 cents. The Democrat is the best advertising sheet in the Mate. Its extensive circulation in the .Southwest, among the planters, mer chants and business men, renders it espe cially desirable to those who wish to reach the general and substantial public by ad vertising their respective business and in terests. The Democrat Has the largest circulation of any paper in the State, outside of Little Rock, and is not surpassed hv any other paper in the South west being circulated in nearly every town and city in the south and west, and read by an intelligent, enterprising people. The new building of the New York Tribune is nine stories high. When a man goes in and wants to know who wrote that article, he is told that the author is on the top floor with the elevator broken. uWc can detect the old rebel yell,” says the Corning Express, “in the applause that cheers on the democratic cause in Ohio.” Then why the dickens don’t you throw down your gun and take to your heels, as you always used to do?—Courier Journal. - m Hi ^ The rush'of immigration to Cal ifornia has been checked. Thous ands of eastern people had to re turn home for the want of work, and scarcely any one was satisfied with the climate. Arkansas and the South generally olTers many advantages over the West, and Northern people who come to this state will receive a hearty wel come from all good citizens. <s» After all the great excitement stirred up by Secretary Bristow about the whisky frauds on the revenue is about to end in smoke. The witnesses don’t seem to want to testify much and it is reported the suits are to be drop ped. We shall not be surprised if this information proves correct. Sensible men have ceased to ex pect anything like reform to come out of the present administration, and very likely the whisky fraud furor was a blow to make presi dential capital, and has come to grief. Rev. Olympia Brown, who is the pastor of a church at Bridgeport, Connecticut, has a husband, and you would naturally suppose that his name is Brown, but it isn’t, for if it is Brown he is afraid to say so, and calls himself Willis. When sister Brown and brother Willis get to the gates of Paradise and attempt to go Lx as wife and husband, it is to be feared that it will take more time for them to explain things to the satisfaction of St. Peter, than the hurry of business will permit him to give them.—Courier Journal. The Journal of Commerce says: “Owing to our monetary system we arc at a disadvantage with all the rest of the world, and New York feels it more than any other northern city. Ten years have elapsed since the war was ended, and our metropolis has gone back during the interval in nearly ev ery form of commercial activity. The evidence cannot be con cealed from others, eveix if we would blind our own eyes to the truth; and he is no true friend to our city who flatters the vanity ol our people with false colorings re garding our condition. From the very nature of its far-reaching connections and intimate sympa thies with out side industries and activities—now more or less pros trate or paralyzed—New York has felt more keenly than any othex financial centre the general de pression. And if some remedy is not soon applied this suffering will become chronic, and thi prostration will become perma xxent.” L Influence of Newspapers. Daniel Webster says: “Small is the sum that is required to pat ronize a newspaper, and amply rewarded is its patron, I care not how humble and unpretending the gazette which he takes. It is next to impossible to fill a sheet with printed matter, without put ting something in that is worth the subscription price. Every parent whose son is away from home at school should supply him with a newspaper. I well remember what a marked differ ence there was between those of my schoolmates who had, and those who had not, access to news papers. Other things being equal, the first were always decidedly superior to the last in debate, compositeou, and general intelli gence.” Jlst So.—Sometime during the last years of his life the late John Quincy Adams wrote beneath a portrait of himself, some lines, of which the following is one: “An age of sorrow and a life of storm.” These words were not written by a wretched outcast, dying in the poor-house, but of the marked fa vorites of external fortune. The late Harrison Gray Otis, in a pub lic speech of his latter days, said: “As I look back over my exist ence I sec a pathway of mingled roses and thorns; blit the roses has long since disappeared, and the thorns only remain.” This was the confession of a man who had everything that almost every human being of our generation thinks worth having, and is striv ing distractedly to get—health, strength, beauty, grace, eloquence, culture popularity, eight hundred thousand dollars, a palace on the most exquisit spot in Boston, and a United States senatorship. -m It is shown by the best author ities that the insects which are causing so much alarm are not grasshoppers, but locusts. They arc designated Rocky Mountain locusts to distinguish them from other species, such as the seven year locust, etc. They are indi genous to the dry, sandy regions of Montana, Idaho and other far western states, and the colonies which in long interval take their flight to other states to the east, rapidly degenerate, lose the pow cr of propagation, and become extinct in two or three years. The last visitation was in I860. The tribes now wandering in Missouri, we are assured, cannot penetrate farther east. A couple of horsemen, coming into the city the other day from the interior, overtook an old man and his wife seated in the bottom of a mule-cart Feeling in high spirits, one of the men called out: “Hello, uncle, how much will you take for your wife, cash down?” “Oh, I dunno,” lie slowly replied. “Well, name your price.” “How much’ll ye give?” he asked. “Ten dollars.” “Take her!” The horse man didn't know what to say, and was gathering up the reius, when the old woman jumped to the ground and exclaimed: “l’ass over the ducats, mister! I like the old man, and he likes me, but we are a family which can’t be bluffed by no man on horseback!” The “Bluffers” got out of the scrape by riding off at full speed.— Vicksburg Herald. A toast to Queen Victoria.— Here is your good health, Your Majesty, and your family’s; may they live long and prosper; may your boys learn to keep out oi ! bad company, and lay up money; may your disagreeable Russian j relatives trouble you as little ns is consistent with the usages ol good society; Australia continue ! to pay rent on the nail; may your cistern never run dry, and may your coal pile never give out. A famous auctioneer, after ex hausting the language of prnist in extolling a certain gentleman’s park which had to fall under his hammer, said he was bound as an honest man, not to conceal tin only drawbacks to the property which were the litter made by tin rose leaves and tire perpetual dir kept up by the nightingales. “What’s that on your back,’ once asked a London cockney o a humpback yankee sailor on i ship in the London docks. “Hun kor Hill d—n ye!” was the reply Why is a drawn tooth like tilings forgotten?—because it’s out of the itead. —--» ... Why cannot a temperance mar kiss a jewess? lie has sworn nol to taste jew lips. I The Iloppvrgrm The grasshopper; He cometh; He cometh numerously; He brings his family; Also his relatives; And his friends; Likewise his mother-in-law; And her friends; As well as those that hate her; And they are legions; The wisdom of man compnteth them not; They spread over the land; And there is no place where they are not; They nip the springing grass; They devour the fragrant onion sprout; And the savory-celery; The wheat field is left desolate; And no green 'thing remaineth where the hopper hath been; His pathway is the abomina tion of desolation; The ranchman mourneth for his green liclds that were but are not; Mayhap lie swearth; Possibly he saj’cth audibly, and crietli aloud—darueth. What carcth the hoppergrass? It troubleth him not; Ask the prophets of Kansas; And the wise men of Nebraska; And they will answer likewise; But the relief committee agent lifteth up his voice and calls the hopper blessed. Tlirt nnf rinf in m'noclmi'mnr nnm . -1 O 11 eth from the mythical western land where the glorious orb oi day sinks in roseate splendor to his evening couch. The realm of Brigham! The land of Mormons; Whence cometh many bad things and some that are good; The hopper is one of them; But he is not good; lie cometh in the latter sum mer days; In sun darkening myriads; As the winds come when the forests are rended; As the waves come when na vies are stranded; Like unto a democratic victory. —Denver News. The Scientific American has about knocked the stuffing out of the Keeley motor humbug. Three young men, near Atlanta, Ga., while threshing wheat, were struck by lightning and instantly killed yesterday. The President yesterday signed the commission of Mr. Stcinc to be postmaster at Jefferson, Texas. A steamer yesterday brought a lot of priests and other ecclesias tics, driven from Germany by the folk law to New York. The Iowa Republican State Convention adopted a platform on the 30th ult., in which a third term is strongly opposed and a return to specie payment advo The United States has become the greatest silver producing country of the world taking prec edence even of Mexico, which has hitherto been supposed to yield nearly two thirds of the world’s supply. Twenty one cities in England, with a population of over six millions, do not owe as much money as the single city of New | York, with a population of less thau a million. The Supreme Court of North Carolina has just rendered a de cision similar to that of the New York Court appeals, holding na tional banks subject to State usu ry laws. In Massachusetts and Ohio the opposite rule prevails. Senator Ingalls, of Kansas, is the latest man to give his “views” of Presidential matters to the public. He does not think Presi | dent Grant could carry a single j State were he renominated. Kan sas would go dead against him. Illinois rejoices in a governor named Beveridge. In the last five months lie has pardoned and re leased sixty live criminals, and State prisoners who expect their . turn to come next, speak of him as the Beveridge “that cheers but does not intoxicate.” Matchless Maid—the kitchen girl out of lucifers. What is the form of an escaped parrott—a polly gone. At what season did Eve cat the apple?—Early in the fall. What kind of robbery is not dan - 1 gerous? A safe rubbery of course. _ . -a- -— Where to Live. All good men should live in Archangel. All angry men in Ireland. All murderers in Kildare. All circus men in Somerset. All brokers in Stockholm. All cold men in Chili. All horticulturists in Botany Bay. All wags in the Bay of Funday. All Geometricians in Cuba. All fools in Folly Island. All perfumers in Muscat, or Cologne. All brewers in Malta. All gluttons in Turkey. All beggars in Hungary. All laconic men in Laconia. All mourners in Siberia or Wales. All confectioners in Canada. All children in Crimea. All oil speculators in Greece. All gamblers in Faroe Isles. All stumblcrs in Tripoli. All curious men in Pekin. All shoemakers in Bootan. All soldiers in Armenia or War saw. “You may talk,” says the Mil waukee News, “about marrying an heiress, a delicate human blossom 1 fairy, an angel; but give us a girl like Nancy Tcrwilliger of La Crosse, who ran out of doors the 1 ither uiglit, and straddling a horse, yelled out: ‘Good night ' ild man; I’m off for the spellin’ 1 I’ » One of our young men when he married didn't want to patronise , the baker. He said bread tasted . ever so much better made by her awn dear hands. This delighted , her. But when she wanted a scuttle of coal and he suggested ( that she get it, as the lire would feel so much better if the coal was brought in by her own dear hands she was disgusted. Women arc so changeable. An obliging gentleman, who thinks that personal favors do not ;ost much, while they make friends, was applied to by a col- ' ired man fora certificate of ehar icter, by which he might get a situation. The testimonial prov ed to be more satisfactory than Scipio himself had expected; 1 Rape is becoming a crime of 1 frequent occurrence in and around St. Louis. The law of Missouri ^ punishes this horrible crime mere- t ly by confinement in the peniten tiary. This punishment, the Dispatch thinks, has no terror for the guilty brutes, and advises the people, in such cases, until the ' State provides adequate punish- 1 ment, to be a law unto themselves 1 and bang or burn at the stake 1 this class of malefactors. Beef has come to beef hash ion able. i Fruit for balloonists—Currents in the air. Fortune turns all things to the i advantage of those on whom she smiles. Units to young bachelors: ray j your bills before you pay your i addresses. j, Politeness of mind consists iu thinking chaste and refined 1 thoughts. Vested interest—money in the waistcoat pocket. Why is a side saddle like a four quart jug? Because it holds a gallon. The saying “excuse haste and a bad pen” has been attributed to a pig who ran away from home. Jackson, Mississippi, is just now excited about a “mysterious hand.” Five aces, perhaps. A Boston paper says manufac turers linvo commenced to make band-boxes seven feet high in preparation for the coming bon net. An Iowa paper says: “Wire worms?” We give it up. Why are they? A mother-in-law is not a heav enly body, but she has been known to eclipse a honeymoon. The business of mankind would be at a stand if we should do nothing for fear of miscarriages in matters of uncertain event. The mean temperature is what disgusts a man w ith every climate. The duty of the hour—to take care of the minutes and make up the day. It is a strango fact that when people indulge in high words they use low language. Odds and Ends. The happiness or unhappiness j 3f men depends no less upon their dispositions than their fortunes. Wherever you would persuade ar prevail address yourself to the passions; it is by them that man kind is to be taken. Our repentance is not so much sorrow for the ill wc have clone is fear of the ill that may happen to us. Judge individuals from your iwn knowledge of them, and not from their sex, profession or de lomination. The gold found in the Black Hills is said to be one of very Siouxperior quality. Why is a pig the most provi lent of animals? Because he al ways carries a spare-rib or two ibout him. Mr. Dclane, editor of the Lon lon Limes, retires from journal sra and will be knighted by the !}ueen Good (K) night. It is noticed that fat men arc is a general thing, well-to do in die world. That’s because they lon't allow any lien on them, you enow. It is said that Brigham Young las acquired the title of General Yom having been called “Brigy, tear,” so often by bis numerous vife. Mrs. Eva Joyce, of Oswego, has med Mr. Albert Quonce for $1,000 ’or attempting to kiss her. Joyce ,hat are rarest are Eva the most ixnensive. “Jemima," said n fashionable niss to her friend, “I think Char ey Potts is perfectly splendid; he ■an get on my gloves, and wears ipit curies.” An experienced “coquet” once laid to a young man who touched ler foot under the table: “1 lease lon’t; my heart is old and my roots arc new.” “Meat me at the spelling match it Muesic Hall,” was the invite - ,ion written probably by one who iteppcd down and out on the first ■ound. An exchange says of a bright ittlc girl out in California that hank a pint of quicksilver, she mist have been a good looking g)lass. “One is taught to cook, but he s born to roast, especially with lie thermometer at 115,” is the vay the New York Herald refers ,o the heat in that city. What I cannot forgive in any >ody is sauntering and doing lothing at all, with a thing so jrecious as time and so irrecov irable when lost. Perseverance is not deserving >f blame or praise, as it is merely lie continuance of tastes and feel ngs which we can neither create lor destroy. A man may occasionally kiss ,he wrong woman by mistake, but vheu he makes a practice of it, he right woman finds it out, and hat’s what bothers. “Why, Jennie, you look good ..._i. *~ :.1 „ l_:_i_ ""”6“ ~“v> •• “““ >and to his wife one morning at ircakfast “Well, I’m eating as ast as I can, ain't I?” It is said that the bite of a r'oung lady will produce hydro phobia, but the young fellows langlitig over the gates o’ nights ire as reckless as ever. Dr. Hall says people should not ipring out of bed the moment ,hey awaken. And we agree with ,he doctor. In these cases a late ipiing is always desirable. The boy, who ran away from school to “go fishing all alone,” ind caught himself in the lip, says he’s got enough of fishing on lis own hook. “You take the scandal and give is the grasshopper," is the de ipairing cry of a Brooklyn news paper to an Indianapolis corres pondent who threatens some more •bottom facts.-' It is said that cloves sprinkled in an umbrella will keep it from moths. But what a long-suffer ing public would prefer to know is what will keep the same article from thieves. A Chinese cook in a Columbus family made a rat pie for dinner, mil the family ate every scrap :>f it before they knew what it "■as. Then they discharged l.im mil called in a doctor. The Cincinnati Enquirer thinks Eve must have been a very un iiappy woman. Thcro was no Alter woman to pass her on the itrcct that she might look around md see how that dress fitted in .he back. Poor Eve! MISCELLANEOUS CARDS. O. J. BLANKS, —Representing— BROOKS, NEELY & CO Wholesale Grocers & Cotton Factors, 307 Front Street. Memphis, TeHSl. MayO-yl. ____________________ H. II. MaNDKVIU.K. COI.. WM. AI.I.EN. 11 • DOWELL. J. H. DOWELL 9c CO., COTTON FACTORS —AND— ri^trw m i n«ioll McrCllfllltS, N. W. Corner Third and Locust Streets, [Mayl31y.] SCIIlt LOlllSj IVIO. Russellville Provision Store. w. P. WOOTEN, Deals Exclusively in Family Supplies, and Keeps always on Hand a Full and Complete Stock. For “The Money” I will give Superior Bargains. Stoke on Buchanan Stkeet. Cam. and See Me. MILES STANDISH, —WITH— Hill, Terry & Mitchell, Wholesale HOOTS, SHOES AND HATS, MEMPHIS, TENN. Apr23ml3 J. H. ROBINSON, Representing KIRTLAND, HUMPHREY & MITCHEL Cotton Factors, —AND— mm ■ maun, No. 114 N. Commercial St., ST. LOUIS, MO. Orders from Merchants solicited and attended to with care and prompt ness. [io-iy.] | M. B. ROYS, —DEALER IN— Hardware, Stoves, TABLE AND POCKET CUTLERY, L'arpcntcrs tools, Doors ami .Vimlows, etc. ' J OAK Ami agent for the Charter Oak Stoves. I have on hand a large assortment of FIRST CLASS COCOS STOVES, Hanging iu price from $17 to$I0. I have in connection'with my store a TIE SHOP! In which all my Tin Ware Is manufactur ed of the Best Material, Please remem ber this All job work done promptly to order. Bring me your Produce, ami with it your old TIN WAUK and have it repaired. Cash Paid for old Copper ani» Brass. M. B. HOY A, Buchanan street, Russellville, Ark. rti J. M. H Alt KEY. | DR. 0, W. I1ARKKY J. M.HARKEY&BRO., DEALERS IX DRUGS, MEDICINES, PAINTS, OILS, DYE-STUFFS, PEltFU MERIES, SOAPS, STATIONERY, FINE ROBACCO, AND CIGARS. Choice and Pure Li«iuors and Wines always on hand for MEDICINAL PURPOSES. North-east corner Main & Jefferson Streets, Russellville, .... Ark. [M-l M IS( 'ELLAN EOUS A DV 'TS. B. W. CLEAVER, Carpenter, Builder, AND TJ liclcr trtltor, RUSSELl.VIU.E-\ It K ANSAS. All Work promptly attended to and gulls faction guaranteed. conK-rof **«» * 1 -1 RUSSELLVILLE ADV’TS. J. B. ERWIN, DKALKIl IN DRY GOODS, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS ALSO A WELL SELECTED STOCK OF QUEENSWARE, GLASSWARE AND A FINK STOCK OF Sugar, Coles, Molasses, Etc,, Etc, Will Keep Constantly on hand a Well Selected stock, which will be Sold AT LOWER RATES Than Ever. As I am the only Mer chant in Russellville who sells Exclusively FOR CASH I CLAIM TO GIVE TIIE Boat Bargains!! Conic and See for Yourselves. South East Corner of Main and River Streets, Rnsselville Arkansas. J. b. ERWIN. ______ llo-l-l-y, II. CI.ABE HOWELL. C. K. HOWELL HOWELL & HOWELL, JOBBERS AND KETAIL DEALERS IN SUGAR, COFFEE, MOLASSES, TOBACCO, Flour, Bacon, Salt, &c„ COTTON IJUYEKS AND COM MISSION MERCII ANTS, Buchanan St., near Depot, Risskllville,.Arkansas [tS-lim.] PHRENOLOGICAL JOURNAL A First-Class Illustrated Magazine. Devoted to Science, Literature and General Intelligence. ,—The Brain and is Functions; the Loca tinn and {Nature of all the Organs; with directions for cul tivating, developing, improving and restraining tin. —“Signs of Charac ter, and how to Bead - _ .Them”at a glance. In the Human Face, on Scientiile Prin ciples. nknolnm.-01'"1*' Xl,,ur:l1 Hi-turv lI|1[)0I0£V" Man; Origin, Man , . .D) tiers, Customs and Modes of Life in different Tribes m.d \a tioiiH, with different Temperament* and pictorial illustrations. —The Laws of Life; in cluding education, - •, , — Training ami Discipline of Children, and the Bight Manage ment ot Lunatics, the insane, Pris oners and others. Given of all the load ing Men and Women of the World. $elKulture»S"S--^ ,, . Metuorv, Choice of I ursuits, Our National Resources etc. [inallti Mueli useful information on rlllull lending topics of the dnv . J’— i'olitieiil, not partisan— Bel gtotts, not sectarian—Rdtieation al, Reformatory, Agricultural, Com nierelai, etc. will l.e given, ami no ellorts spared to make Tin p„|1Wll. l.ouii'Ai. lor 1874, the most interest ing ever pttlilislied. TIC It MS.—Monthly, iflia year in tidvaiifo. ( lulls of ton or more’ i*> each. Single,, umbers, conu. "'I' ln™\ li,,0lul premium* are Kiveu. Aildress, i>#11. , S. J{. WELLS, 1 ublisher, iirond v\ aj, \. \ RISSET.LV1LLK ADV TS. J. G. Ferguson, j Takes this method of informing his WL friends, and the public generally that he has a nice selection t OF "'I LEY GOODS, 1 CLOTHING, HATS, BOOTS, SHOES, HARDWARE, J L A C E GOOD S, Ribbons, Gloves, Hosiery, Shawl--, Groceries, ETC., ETC., . Which will be sold at extremely *< W LOW FIGURES. F O B CASH, j t OR ’ I COTTON, All that I ask is a trial. South-east corner of Main anil Jef ferson streets, RUSSELLVILLE, ARK. IIM] _ I —.1 II i m Tr-«-v\i | R. J. WILSON fc CO., ? K E E P C O X S T A X 'I' I. Y i o n h a n il A COMPLETE 'STOCK OF DRY GOODS, I IN ALL TIIE VARIOUS DE-y PARTMENTS, SUCH AS Dress Hoods, Ladies’ llals Handkerchiefs Hosiery and Notions. AND GENTS READY M A UK If m Hats. Boots & Shoes. Stationery, Ac., Hardware, Cutlery, nails, iron, and Groceries I Received Daily. Sugar,Coffee, Syrups Salt, Flour, Meal, chooo, S„.,. Candles, Candle* ami Coal Oil highest makket run e i\ui> Jt>i cotton or other country produce, ^ H. J. WILSON &CO £+i-il •' 1 I