TrFN ADVOCATE.

LITTLE RoeK. pro. II, 1881.
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 We are authorized to announce DAVID WALKER Esq. of Washington co. as can didate for Prosecuting Attorney for the

 Sd Judicial Circuit.

 The laws of tie last session of the Le-

 gislatnre, are withheld from us by the ex- ecutiye; and consequently, we are not

 able to:present any ofthetn to our readers. When 1t shaii suit His Excellency to de- liver a copy for publication, is very m 2 Scertain----possiblY he may have put his VETO upon the public printing, for the

 purpose offarther increasing his popular sty.

 In consequence Of the inapedsd state of rayig alton, from the great quantity of float ] ing ice, which for several days has been passing down the Arkansas, the Steam Boat Laurel has not been able to roach

 this place, although 1t is eight days since

 che Jeff the Post. Our paper consequent ly has not been received, and our patrons will have to indulge us for again issuing a

 small red sheet.

 It is a fact essential to De known thoHgh-

 out the country that no Officer but the

 Governor, and Jndees of the Superior

 Court can administer tke oath of office tn Ia Justice of the Peace-Phe power Of

 swearing into office is 1egislated from eve

 ry other officer By the law of 1929 the County Judges and Justices of inc Peace possessed authority Q administer oaths of office, but as the Justices of the Peace, elected in Is29 became legally dead, be-

 fore the Justices elected at the last ses-

 sion possessed legal existence, their an-

 tlsorIty died with them, and as the County

 Judge became extinct before the lst day

 of December, there remains no authority

 but that given by the Organic Law by

 which the newly elected Magistrates cea be sworn into office.

 