The Russellville Democrat from Russellville, Arkansas • 1

IAMEI n. .1 Elitor. DEVOTED TO LOCAL, POLITICAL, COMMERCIAL, AO.RICCLTtJ«.iL AVD LITER YUY IXTELLICIEYCE. B. F.

JOBE, Busliirss Manager. VOL. II. POPE THURSDAY, JANUARY 18. 1877.

NO. 50. KELLOGG DX1LERS IN BOOKS, STATIONERY, BLANC 313X3 AN3 SHEET MJSiB. Sole Agents in this Slate for HTMISWAV OARLT3RV PIANOS and MASON ORGANS, licit we sell at Prices 0:1 ter is. Ol.D Pianos taken in ex for Ux.s.

Subscriptions received i'or any Newspaper or Periodical at the Publisher's Prices. i our price, before sendins vein' elsewhere, at we are prepared to duplicate Ixnils ami Chicago Prices for BLANK BOOKS STATIONERY. DEMCKLA MARKHAM STREET, LITTLE RTX I -s (fimloii I.An,]itm-’u sailed Emope on the 13thinst. Tile Russian frigate Sretlfir.il has arrived at Norfolk, with Duke Alexis in command, i. Boone County Record lias changed hands, Sir.

J. M. Robinson having sold the entire eoneei'n to Col. .1. II.

Dauglu rtv, no ill hen liter he editor and proprietor. Much success to the new proprietor. Legislature of 1874 75 appropriated $100,000 to pay expenses of the State militia. Ol this stvnn only has been during the entire administration oi Gov. Garland.

Gazette of the Rh announces tl death of r. jo. E. Jamison, tormer editoi of the Arkansas Traveler, sit Con.vay, on last Saturday Morning. We are sorrv, indeed, to hear this sad news.

report of Auditor Miller shows that oil adjusting Tieas ton's accounts, it was found that lifter him credit lm amount turned over to his sue censor, he was indebted to the state the sum ni" in Script ami $14,557.86 in U. S. Currency. Expenses the Auditors icpoiiit appears that the lolai umottiH lor who Auditors war.aula has Leon lor flu' two ears ending Sept, the SOlli )876, is $1,185,331.41. Of this sum $521,556.38 was for ape vial purposes and not For eurrent leaving for current ex peases for those two years $663 775.03.

Heavy li 0 1 suit of Rev. Stewart Holtiu sou, of Louisville, against the Si. Louis L). nioerat, the pioprie i filial paper confessed jlldg metil on the 11th inst. in the Mini of $30,000 ami agreed to pay all costs of the suit, including lawyers fees.

Representative Brown, in of the iepidiliean house ol Louisiana, from ernmi. In qrt his neat written a letter to IHMISC n'llionull elected by the let iirniIty bom lie did l.ol believe ell would '( not ask I'm' a linisssoti. see that Senator ldidlic tins intro dined a bill to amend section 1 mid 2 of til tide Oof lb' State in relation to tin Exemption law. Tin cm mptions allowed now me cntiieiy too ln and a proposed mueii'lnient uttiiiir tliem down to a rensonu tile lie lire will meet the ap val of ilie tenths ol people ol tie Slate. Front tbe report of tbe State Land Commissioner we yet the following flumes: No.

acres of land in county reported lor (cited since 00, Sep. i4 7ti7.LI Noof acres donated since Sep. 30. 1874 440.00 No. ael'i't; sold since Sep.

30,1874 280.00 No. redeemed 170.00 1 till No. lie I in pe i. lotdeited since '05 1 1.504.19 Total No. acres now vn iiit mid subject to Total No.

acres i i state forfeited. 4.418.999.9J Total No. acres now vacant and subject to .1 we get the following figures in regard to county: For year 1ST acres i oi land taxed. 111.354.36 For year Totai value of lands with structures thereon "74 if 184.041 For 1875 009.358 Total value of city or tow lots wii.li structures the icon 1874 90.225 For 187.7. 90.8i8 Total value of personal property 326.124 I For 1875 511.395 No.

of Polls 1874. 1.474 i 1875 1 857j T. lal value of taxable piopeity real and peri sonai, 1874 977.419 ilo. 1875 1.219.438 This shows an increase in our illation liable to pay a poll tax wilhir the two years of near 20 per and an increase in our I ixabie property of near 25 per cent. report of tile Adjutant ieneral shows; the total rink and file of the state militia is 13.8J2.

as Major-Gt nerais l.rigadier Generals 14; Colonels 17; L'eut. 11; Captains tOO; 1st Lieuteiitints 218; I Lieutenants 202; enlested men total State owns the following aims: Needle gulls 1.102; shot guns til; muzzle loading 79, Par mt guns 2, Scige gnus 1. mail arrangements must be nut of joint somewhere. Our eastern mail is very irregular. Paper and documents I'n Washington ami from Xi York which should he re ccived regularly every day, come strangling along in hatches three or four days heliiml time.

Mr. S. I). lias retired from tlm editorial corps of Hi i a id tin lied the entire control of that sheet over to son Mr. W.

.1. Lewis. Tin new proprietor has associated li i in so 11 with Mr- II. (J. ISoswortli, and those two gentlemen will hereafter steer the desiiin of the Mail.

May they succeed to tin lull lease re of I cxi ic'-i atioiis. GOV. Mll.l.oo The inaugural address of Gov. Miller, although not Irngiht, liril.iant nor piolouud, is a ilortiient of which no honest, earnest man ni ed he Without lieilig clothed in any stipcrUiious language, or loaded down with i Ideli sounding phrases, it lias the lug of that kind of a message. lii li, above all others, sh ubi lie i esteemed I his fellow tin' sincere' In i atliings of an earnest man, completely iden- title'll willi truly devoted to I lie interests of ins State, and; people.

There is good sound se use and prudent discretion in ceery uttei anee, and no one who knows Gov. Miller can thiukthere i aught of dissimulation about his message. Wegive the document nt full length in to day's paper, ami rec oinmend that each of our readers peruse it, and after having done so, lesolve in his own mind that his wh de conduct as a citizen da ling Gov. udiniir.sti alion be such as will conduce to the end spoken ot by Gov. Mil- when lie say his am i I nt ieit will be an to serve the state, as to contribute in some degree, greater or less, to i- social, intellectual and mu V.iia.! grow ill ativuucciuout.

GOVERNOR MILLER. on. W. R. Miller was duly in niigurated Governor of the Sint of Arkansas, in the presence of a joint session of the Senate and House, on Thursday, January 11.

The oath of office was administered to him. and at the same time to Treasurer Churchill, and At tornev General Henderson, by Cheit Justice English. And thus is a new ndministra tion of i he State Government born into existence. We congratulate our new Gov ernor upon bis ascension into the Gubernatorial highest state office within the gift of his fellow-citizens; and we wish him an administration, pleasant, bril limit and and an adminis tration which will be alike creditable to himself and honorable and profitable to our state. Mat lie, when lie quits the high office up bn widen lie now enters, quit it carry.ng with him the same es teem, respect and confidence which his fellow citizens now repose in him, increased and a tig.

mooted many fold. We likewise greet each of om other new State officers with oui congratulations and the good wishes. SOMEili'lNijr Bli DONE. The frequency with which the press of the state lias of late been called upon to rccoidiheat ornpt cd taking of human life ad over the stale, admonishes us that: there is not that, fear of the pen ally of it violated law existing I milling tin- class who cxhimt tins wanton disregard for human Iito I and total depravity of which is necessary lo restrain and subdue the unlawful, violent and: malicious propin.sitics of these i vi! doers. The latest ease 1 hieit has come to our kriowl- edge is that recorded by the Harrison limes, wherein Col.

Dan T'nilinght and his brother were both shot and seri misty wounded by one lliil Rowland, of Double So rings. From' the version given by the Times we cannot evade the conclusion itiat the assault was a most malicious unjustifiable the fact or Kjdiium Fulbrig'il having testified before the grand iury constituting the offense for wjiieh his life was ntti mpted by I Rowland. 'The existence of this state of a flairs is conclusive i deuce that there is something wrong somewhere, and we lie lieve the wrong to lie at the doors olbiiir officials. Our laws for the suppression and punish mem of crime, are good and stniiui iit. but we believe there a slaei, nes.s oil tile pidloi i til' util cials in the execution of laws which renders the violation them by the lawless and evildisposed, a thing of niiieli more frequent occurrence than would he the ease if mu laws were streii uoiish eiiloreed.

No law Ims any virtue unless there is a penalty prcsci liied for its violation, and it'tlie enforcement of the laws is ic-li as to give reason to believe that tlieie is very little of the penalty being enforced igninsi the violator, then we may took for frequent crimes. The rriiue of attempting to take human life is not rigidly enough followed up a id punished. Among the score of eases which have nr- Ltirred vviiliiu the past how manv men have paid the penalty, if their crime? It is now the general impression that when a murder is committed in nine cases nit often a few hundred dollars will secure the escape of the murderer. Sometimes he escapes from the guard or Jail, sometimes lie succeeds in getting his trial put off from time to time until the principal witnesses can he got nut of the way, and aiiei trial, he iimls no effecting Ins escape; so that ill nine eases out of tell the prohibil uv now is tin tlie mu'derer es i capes the penalty of Ills eritih This ordoi of things should be just revet sed, and the certainty of imui-dimeut should he impressed upon the min is ot all. Would I our legislature not do well to look I niter this matter, uud provide some laws requiring more strict performance of duty outlie part' of officials for the more rigid en- foreemcnt of the laws? It strikes us that something of tIlia sort must he done if we would have the voluinn of crime -more especially the taking creased.

LIX If XT OF FI CIA LS. I The commissioner of State Lands in his biennial report to the Governor, in enumerating! some of the difficulties which he has met in the discharge of the duties of Ins office says: last provided in the general revenue law, that the Assessors should assess the number of acres of land in culti cation in each county, amt that the clerk shall forward a state- incut of the same to the Gomtnis sioner. So far I have received reports from only about half a dozen. In the great majority of eases the Clerks report that the Assessors failed to make any returns. There should lie some way in which to reach delinquent officials of this kind.

This list, is too imperfect, to even attempt any statement in this We fully agree with the Commissioner that cadi and every! official should he held to a strict and exact discharge of every, duty pertaining to his office, ami that there should be a penalty mr ever queney. If men do not! think they are competent to dis charge the duties of an office, or if they think the emoluments of the office are not sufficient to justifv them to devote time enough to it to perform every duty, let 1 them resign or remain in private life. Alluding to this subject, Governor Garland in bis very cellcnt message says: There has been complaint as to the performance of duties by several county uno township oln-j c. is iii llic state, anil in some instances considerable dissutisl'nc- lion mnnilcateil. While section i li7 of article 7 of the 1 i lortimplafes that all officers of I 'his class shall he reached tor a failure for any cause ti perform duties of their ullice, yet some legislation is in led in order to have a coitain well defined pre I re.hue by which the object of the i- to he attained, and build provision be made for tin suspension fruin 1 ifllce of the pa accused mi'il I hearing in the case can be If there was a way provided for die removal of officials for dclin- jnency in performance of duty, i md if an example was made (if a few score of them we think it have decided salutary ef- feet, and the public service rcu icreil mncli more efficient.

HOdlMsllhVB IiX llilf MS. Among other proceedings the full of diis mouth, i .1 1 V- relating to homestead entries were :1 This being a matter ol 1 interest, and nearly concerning j1 many of oar readers, we take this 1 opportunity to lay before them the text of the two acts, Tile li st act, known as House hill I W. 2041, and entitled tu to 1 Am. nt 2291 of the Revis 1 Statutes of the United Si.iti s. 1 in relation to proof required in liomestead is as follows: Re it emu ted, That the proof of resident'', oeeiipation, or i ulti vation, the atlilaeil of lion die1 nation, and the outli of allegi tnee inquired to he made In see.lou ill it.

vised Statutes I may he made before the judge, or, in his absence, Indore the elerk, if any court of record oi the conn and State, or distric and Ter ilory, in which the lands are sit luted; and if said lands are situ tied in any unorganized county, mi ll proof may he made in a sim Inr manner in am adjacent conn- in sai State or Territorv; and lie proof, alii 1: it, and oath, when io made and duly subscribed. 1 shall have the same force and cT feet as ifiuatle h. lore the register ar receiver of the proper land dis- Drift; and the same shall he trails milted by each judge, nr the clerk if his court, to the register and 1 rec eiver, with the1 f. and charges allowed by law to him. And the register and receiver ehall he entitled to the same fees for exam ming and approving said testimo- 1 nV a- are now allowed by law for a the same service.

Sec. 2. That said proof, lavits, and oaths shall he properly filed in the land nflh by the reg ieter; and copies thereof certified 2 to the register shall be evi deree of their contents in the courts of any State or of the Unit ed States. See. 3.

That if any witness making such proof, or the said applicant, making such affidavit or oath, swears faiaely as to any materia! matter contained in said proof, affidavits, or oaths, the said false swearing being willful and corrupt, shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and shall be liable to the same pains and penalties as il he had sworn falsely before the register. The good sense and practical utility of this act is at once apparent. Much inconvenience and loss of time to parties desiring to avail themselves of the benefit of the homestead law will be obviated by this act. The second bill known as House laill No. 2114, is in relation to land titles, and is as follows: be if enacted That when a party shall contest successfully the validity of the title to any under the pre-emption, Homestead, or timber-culture ads if United States, he shall Hive priority of right for filtcen lays to file his declaratory slntenint on or enter the land over winch the contest was had from he time tile said party shall have mlice of the final decision there Sec.

2. That it shall be duty the register of the land office adore whom such contest was hail, tile filing of said decision in office, to give notice thereof to of the contesting parties, by written or printed notice, ot said leeision, to be sent bv mail to heir respective post office ad be scs, which shall lie furnished the contestants at tile time contest is made. And the is required to keep a rcc I vhich shall be legal evidence of ts recitals. The necessity for nn enactment some nrotectioa, similar that afforded by this bill mound ties contestant, and guaranteeng them a chance to rive some lonefit from the successful result if a contest winch always in some well as loss of time, has long t'ii dcinuuded as a matter ot pia'it justice. Tli.

disap and loss which has not in frequently been ex jicrieiieed by Uilties contestant, by la id favorites of la ml ollieeis, sti'j) dug in and beating said coutes ants out of the laud over which be contest was bad, may be on iivly obviated by the nn-sage of his law. These two lulls now tan 1 as laws of the United States full ton and cfleet. iov.oarl.vmh i message of (in dan an able and elaborat d. tit, ml shows conclusively that the iriter is fully couvcrMuut with very detail and vninutiu of the lliee to which he has evidently i i i I i'. Ill'S 1 till' I' st attention.

Tlie suggestions nil leeomniendations tie Governor and eoutaiue I in is message aie well worthy of lie attention and consideration ol lie Genera'. Assembly, and slum lilt'll forethought and research. The Governor joins the mdiior in siii sting the ity for extending tlie time lie ween the date fix'd, after which lie lit lists of lea! estate re he returned and the list uhlished by tlie clerks. This reeoininendutioii of the tmost importance an I should ut be overlaoked by the general ssetnhly, for it is utterly ilde in many eases for the lists hepuhlishel within ill time o.v fixed In law. The opinion i concurred in by the Governor i ml Amlitor that it would lie liel i to require the counties to fur i ish all necessary blanks, state unis, assessment lolls and tax ooks needed by the clerks and i sscssors under the revenue law.

tcfurring to tlie report of the mnmissioner of State Lmds the lovernor savs the recommenda ion of that officer that it should made penal to cut timber on ny of the lands belonging to the tale is highly proper, and lie; hinks a comprehensive and etrin enf law sh uhl he passed on abject. The Governor from the recommendation of the Land Commissioner as to lling school holds nml real estate hank 1 lands for cash. Speaking of the subject of fm migration the Governor sits he believes that the state is now able to move energetically in tlii.s cause; and he to ihe judgment of the General Assent lily- whether a bui-eau for this pur pose shall be organized in connection wiih an agricultural, mining and manufacturing bureau ns contemplated by article 10 of the Conasitution, as heretofore su gested by him, or whether it shall be an adjunct to the Land Oiiiee. In regard to educational mat tern Governor Bays: views 1 entertained and express- ed on this subject in the caQt.iss of 187-1, I lev not been wenkered 1 in the least, but all subsequent reflection on the subject Ins strengthened me in I hem, and I ardently hope that the legislature will exert itselt in every possible way to aid, foster and -build up permanently, genera1, suitable and efficient system of tree The governor repeats the same recommendations made by him to the adjourned session of the last Legislature, wherein lie advised a change of the law in regard to the publication of legal notices. The state finances receive due notice, and the discussion of the same a considerable potlion of the Governor's message.

Oil subject lie says: the estimate tint have been made, it will appear 'hat it will require the taxes of between two and three more years retire' the outstanding Treasurer's war runts, provided the pn sent rate of'taxation is and that' no forthor issue ol ful warrants is made. It is deliberate ion of the Boa id (tiir board of linai ee, of whirii (lie Governor is one) it will lie better for 'lie State to continue tile policy Mint, lias been pi; sued since its organisation, of borrow big nionin' to ay current expenses until uii the outstanding Treasurer's war rants are taken up and cancelled, rather than to renew tlie system of more warrants and tims bringing about a further and constantly increasing depreciu lion of such pa; The: result of that depreciation would be, that our public institutions of charity would perish for want of support; ollieial salaries would be reduced so low that good men of fair abilitii would lie compelled in decline the public erviee. an 1 the State would have to pnv cn ha need prices for even thing pur lia si hi i i. In the end tl would have to adopt, under nog Itnnted Mien It i the same pod ry ivhleh is non being siiece-' fully acted upon; or otherwise Lite State Government ivouid lie i niiie so (dogged with ii able and uneumuit paper its to rendei all its operations dillieult if not hopelessly impraet it board has even reason to believe that tile percent bonds iif the State could of it as mtlell as seventy live tents hi the dollar, but it may easily be shown tluit so It a in. I of raising money is lar mu tin'll that of loans at rate of interest va mil higher him It at paid for the loan nrgn- dale 1 in I 'To.

will lie no leci-'sitv for continuing these beyond the next two vein on the fiovoniitr regard the settlement of the liass of the debt of the state, the bend, al'ti i the niosi iliormi Hint tl.cv have been to give the subject, are the ih it no lii.nl action diotild he a ken at, i hi The board express ceiingH as to the general result, ind says the undevc! iped resources of out stale, and lie advantages of free govern neut, we doubt but that a a few years her finances will lie a satisfactory condition, and' hat no stain will rest upon Many other points of interest ire lunched upon bv he (h vci nm. dl of which we cannot give in his article. Thus with this mes luge closes the adininistrulion O' governor (iai land, alike lionm ile to liinriv If and devoted an troStable to the State. We con jrutulate him upon tlic bonoialiu Le haa iLadc. VifOLXOX HZLL.

N. FONTAINE. JEROME HILL. HILL, FONTAINE tt CO A Wholesale Grocers, N33. 360 AMD 36S FRONT STREET, MEMFPMI3, TENN.

REPRESENTED BY JAMES A. PAINE. C. H. COLE.

H. L5. D01V. COLE and BOW, WIIOXjIDSA X.H5J SHOES AND CLOTHING, Little Arkansas. Guarantee to Duplicate St.

Louis, Louisville, or Memphis rrieca, thereby saving freight ir the huyer. Our various departments "ill be fottu 1 com pi in particular. U. ADAili. JOHN r.

BOV It. ADAMS INSURANCE AGENTS ROOM No. I. STODDARD RriRDLVG, LITTLK ROCK. LARGEST FIRE INSURANCE AGENCY IN THE STATE, Representing over- $43,009,000.

Liverpool and London ami Globo Insi rnmT. Company, of England, ijaciit Fire Insuiaucc Company of Fujian.I, 10.0b0.000 I of Nin th America, I lelpliia, 1704), i Cotnpnuy of Hurt ford, Amci Inone New York Fuad Insurance Company, SanIrnocisco, e.v im) Total Aa-eta, 48.000,000 Risks Written the State. CO PTOX GIX HOUSES AND CONTEXTS INSURED. PHI I Jl jl £11- DEALJUS IN Hardware, Cutlery, Iron, Fiaiis, riiitoto or ex cl Xb Cum Packing, Plows, and Agricultural A It E. Mm A for ff BROWN'3 PHCFNTX, a fmiih't er.d Needle i ix V-' A I I II.

I 1 Cotton Press, Sti tub's WbpAt ami Corn Mills, Bell's Sugar M-II-. OXXuA.X?TX»X;:3?t Kor circulars anil Infnriuulinu atbirrss, BROTHERS. LUtlo Rock. H. A.

HOWUI.E. JOHN OIDSON. I HANK BGWBLE, i 3 Goimsiission AND COTTON FACTORS, JUKAl.UtS IN Groceries, Liauors, Cug srs No. 20 MARhil sT.f lATVi.V IMX K. AI Iv Agents tor t-1 i gT, Yarn a ml irro.

PROYISION WiF. Irl Unlit- t-rifH a HuWy. 'I Siocli livt'i i in i In-i'l ot II hies, Peltries, Wheat an.I AH KhrU of Taken fi Gwa-eries. For 1 wiii giye Sapurlor Bargains. ON ill'l HtNAN 1 A I A- laical £5:11 NUl it.

is hereby jriven that appliatiou will be i' In tin ticiii'i'iil i-soinbly ol Alkali a ii- nest ei'inn lor I In' a hi "ill aim csiablistiiiic' ibe line bcwecn 111 ciiiintii's id alnl olinson thus: eoininiMKiiiff in tli lliblle the ul tin Ark Hiver Mini rnnniic' north on the llie ti. Veen In nji'i's .1 and i the inn between townships and in; lii'lit'i' a isi l'onr mill's, thence nnrib i it Ii the section lines to est 11, T. 11 ranae VV, Uiei.i'O east two miles witli ec. lines to line bet ween ill ml 2i, thence imini with said line to the Ve.wton comity inti. December ls'H.

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