The Russellville Democrat., 1877-08-02

squarely out as genuine Greenback paper.
 The South Western Press says work has been commenced on the narrow guage road between Hope and Washington.
 The junior proprietor of the Prescott Dispatch has turned gran ger, and offers his interest in that staunch little paper for sale.
 The Nursery for August, laden with its usual rich store of good ar ticles for the little folks is at hand, and when we say all our little folks should have it we mean just what we say. It is but $1.60 per year.
 The Saline County Digest in its Directory of the State Immigration Societies gets the name of Pope county's Secretary wrong. It should be R. B. Wilson, not Weston, as the Digest has it.
 The New York Evening Ex- press is pitching into Hon. S. J. Randall, with vengeance. The Express will find it has undertaken q very large contract when it tries to make Mir. Randall out Repub- lican.
 -Carrol County farmers will have County fair this fall. When all the counties in the State do likewise 1t will be a great stimulus to the farmers, and will go furthur than anything else toward getting them out of the old ruts.
 --Variations in temperature have a marked effect on human constitu- tions, abnormally checking the se- cretions in some, and forcing the cxcretions in others, making . cor rectlve or regulator necessary, which can be found in HOME STOMACH B1r- TIERS.
 -Saline County organized an I'm migration Society on the 23d ult., with the following officers: Hon. A. H. Rutherford, President; John A. r. Bingham. vice-president; J. P. Henderson, Recording g-sect'y; W. A. Webber, Corresponding sect'y; F. M Trammell and D. s. McCray, Asst or.-sect's; Thos. Pack, Treas.
 TIE Ono DEMocRAcY.-Els where in to-day's paper we give the platform of principles adopted by the Ohio Democrats assembled in State Convention. The resolutions are brief, concise and strong; and from our knowledge of the situation in Ohio, will give the Democracy the inside track.
 A UNIQUE DIsTrNcTIoN.-At al colored camp meeting over in Ten nessee, the other day, a hymn was sung which read like this:
 70, who can tell de sin see,
 No one but de Lord an me.
 Sing Glory Hallelujah!
 "A 'oatin down de narrow stream,
 Oh, sin Is milk, religion cream.
 Sing Glory IIalleluIahn
 After the present great strike is over and the participants settle down to sober life and sober second thought, we think that they will agree with Us that their remedy is not in the torch, but in the ballot. For years the times have been get ting harder and harder for the labor ing classes. Such is the inevitable consequence of the policy which the dominant party has pursued. There has been no let up at all, but a con tinued and steady march from bad to worse. If hard times be thus protracted under one party's rule, it would beyond doubt help matters to change the party rule.
 Some people say if the railroad strikers cannot live and support their families on the wages paid them by the railroad companies they should quit railroad labor and go to something else-iarmlng for in- stance. There never was greater nonsense. What does one of those Irish railroad laborers know about farming? Not enough to be worth twelve and a half cents day to farmer. They know nothing else but to railroad it. They have stood the toll and born the seryilc labor of building a network of railroads all over the United States winch has