The Russellville Democrat., 1878-11-28
GENERAL NEWS.

 virtually declared war against Ar ghanistan.
 An explosion of gas in a coal mine at Sullivan, Ind, on the 2lst inst, killed eight miners.
 Newport has Slave and Barrel manufacturing company, of which ex- Senator Powell Clayton is Presi- dens.
 Dr. J. II. Nowlin, father of Mir. s. II. Nowlin. of the Spirit of Arkansas, is now proprietor of the Western Baptist.
 The Camden Beacon has not been visible from this office for q long time. Bro. Holmes cant you send it along2 We miss it very much.
 Prank Gordon has taken up the pen laid down by E. E. Henry and will hereafter furnish the copy for the editorial department of the Mor. rillton Dollar.
 Charley Isham's chestnut sorrel horse. Blue Rubber" took the purs. for half-miie heats, Arkansas horses, at the State Fair, winning two out oi the three heats. Time 3l seconds.
 The exhibit made in the Educa tional Department at the State Fair was very creditabie. St Johns coi- lege and the L. k. Commercial col lege took an active interest and de- serve commendatlon.
 -Nore papers are enlisted in the sul1.ol; of Hon. J. b. Walker tor U. $. Senator than are for any other candidate.- Des Are Citizen.
 Prepare to receive the wrath of the Gazette, Bro. Matthews.
 AN OLD AKKANsAwYER GoNE.-- Major Elias Rector, of Fort Smith, well known throughout Arkansas, having been citizen of the State since IS, dIed at his home, on last Saturday. Major Rector was 76 years of age.
 " hene.er you see a paragraph in the Gazette lik" this:
 "Thc is one of the ablest edited and most popular papers Tn u State
 You may be assured the paper re- ferred to has just declared for the Hon. k. W. Johnson for U. 5. oena- tor.
 MT. Welsh, the American Min ister in London, on the 22nd inst, rendered to the British Government, in the nersnn of Lord Salisbury, the sun of $5, 300, ,000 in gold. that being the sum agreed upon by the Fisher ies Commission lately sitting at Hal flax, to be paid by the United States to the British Government.
 The Austin Triumph is the lat est Journalistic waif hoated out upon the vast sea of newspaperdom by our energetic and accomplished young friend Col. T. T. Pitts. No. Is emphatically No. l. Col, we hope your new dedgling may Triumph over all obstacles and prove mighty power in the land fpr good.
 The Weekly New Era has just entered upon it's 10th year. The fact that it IS now. and has for some time been the only Republican paper in the Stale, and is notwithstanding all this, only small, poorly support ed paper, shows that the average Rcpubiican voter of Arkansas is not much ''on the read.'
 If every voter in the United States was. su;tici nty educated to be able to read. think and reason correctly for himself, how atter.y impossible it would be for many ol the blatant demagogues, who nov fill official positions, to foist them selves upon the people. Let The young generation who will be voters in twenty years from now, all b' given the advantage of common school education.
 A FAIR QUESTION. The Gazette lays great stress upon the proposed cotton tax refunding measure advo cated by Col. Johnson. 1t seems t' be the chief and distinctive point O excellence urged as giving that gen tlcman preponderance over all hi' competitors in the Senatorial race We want to ask the Gazette if il seriously believes Congress can b, influenced ny Col. Johnson, or all, other living man, to pass such | measurcY This IS il fair ouestiol