The Russellville Democrat., 1878-11-07


 The White County Record has declared emphatically for R. w.. Johnson for the U. s. Senate.
 Mir L. A. Palmer has retired from the city editorship Of the Ga zette, and has been succeeded by Opie P. Reed.
 The total taxes in Benton coun- ty for the ensuing year are only 104 mills-6t mills of which are State taxes, and mills county taxes.
 It now appears that the report Samuel j.. Tilden is to wed Miss Nellie Hascltine, of St. Lous, is all a hoax. s. J. T. will still remain in the ranks of the benedicts.
 Judge Eakin vacated the Chan cery Court bench last Thursday, and his successor, Judge Carroll, was duly installed in office. Judge Eakin goes onto the Supreme bench.
 Judah P. Benjamin, although he lives in London and has a law practice worth $50,000 per year has not forgotten his Southern friends. He sent $500 to the yellow fever sufferers.
 General Albert Pike has been in Arkansas visiting his old-time friends here. He paid Van Buren and Fort Smith visit last week and is in Little Rock, we believe, this week. He is one of the ilustrious men who owned Arkansas as his home before the war; Since then he has made Washington City his home, and there, as we'll as here he has maintained his position as one of the greatest men of the day.
 On last Friday, for the first
 
 time in good mauy weeks, we re- ceived our Memphis exchanges,-a whole batch of them together. What fearful record of death and desola- ton and mourning and sorrow this broken link tells. It is almost with shudder that we think of it. But 1t is over, thank Heaven, and we greet our Memphis exchanges again with joy. May their afflicted city rise from it's sackcloth and ashes, and receive fresh impetus of life and business which will make her once again rejoice in her progress and greatness, and in measure, at least, heal the wound that the pesti lepce has made.
 A FINE REGION OF COUNTRY The editor-in chief of the Little Rock Democrat was very recently up our way, and on returning home he mad this to say of our country:
 The country along the llne of the Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad, shows signs of rapid improvement. All the towns on the road are grow ing rapidly, while new farms, neat farm houses, orchards and meadows serve to remind the trayeler that q new era has dawned on this portion of the State. There is no better portion of A kansas than tue region traversed by the Fort Smith road, and it is destined soon to he one of the richest and most popuous dis tricts in the south. We are glad to note the heavy increase of business on the railroad, DOW by far the best since the date of it's construction. To this railroad the country is in- debted for the great improvement everywhere visible, and we are glad to see its business and profits in. crease.
 The New York Star goes for Chas. A. Dana, editor of the New York Sun, promiscuously and se- verely. The Star says Mr. Dana is no Democrat and no friend to the South, We are disposed to differ with the Star to some extent. We think Mir. Dana is pretty sound Democrat, but like many other great men he is to great extent imprac- ticable in his political views and policies. He is what we might term political moralist-always keeping himself away up above the practical demands of the situation. His great difficulty is that he can see no good in anything, and cannot believe that any good can come out of anything unless it agrees exactly and precise ly with his political views. His un- ceasing warfare on tie present ad. mlnistration is an instance, Be