The Russellville Democrat., 1878-10-17

" ilIAhtobIiJ iito o 4Sn paper called the Smooth Coon.
 -General Gideon J. Pillow, aged 72, died at Helena, Arks., on the 9th inst.
 Mulberry bridge on the L. R. & F. s. Ky. was destroyed by fire on the Sth inst. Trains were stopped only one day.
 The Republicans seem to have death grip on Iowa, They carried the State straight-out on the Sth inst, by q majority of about l5,000
 The Forrest City Courier be- lieves strongly in discharglng that "debt of gratitude" due Hon. Elisha Baxter by making hlm our next U. S. Senator.
 Gen. N. B. Pearce, of Benton county, will be a candidate for the position of Secretary of the Senate, when the next State Legislature meets.
 A new paper to be called the Columbia County Banner will be started about the 1st proX. at Mag nolia. Unfurl the Banner to the breeze, and long may she wave.
 Let every Democratic voter in the State remember the Congression- al election on the 9th prox., and go to the polls and vote. Dunn. Slem- ons, Cravens and Gunter-giye them rousing vote.
 -Donan, the gifted editor of the Bentonville Advance, has drawn q priZe-we sec his name among the list of grand jurors, drawn for the November term of United States Court at Fort Smith.
 --Thos. F. Oury, who will be readily remembered by the press gang as the editor of the Forrest City Fines, has gone to Wittsburg and will soon start paper there to be called the Chronicle" We wish you abundant success, Bro. Oury.
 Col. Jno. NJ. Bradley, an inde- pendent candidate for Congress in the Second District, now stands charged with compounding felony by mol pressing a criminal prosecu tion while he was States Attorney for corrupt consideration. Bad for Bradley.
 If you think 1t requires no tact or talent, or good management, or business capacity to run a newspa- per successfully just look at this The San Antonio (Texas) Herald, q daily paper which six years ago was valued at S20,000, was sold last week at auction and brought only $500.
 The Little Rock Democrat eR- ters a strong and earnest protest against the abolishment of the office of State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Correct We will war rant that Prof Mitchell will keep the Democrat level on the educa- tional question.
 The demurrer submitted in the case of State vs. Reynolds 65 Nc. Cornell, bringing into question the eonstitutlonality of the local option law regulating the sale of liquor, was oyer-ruled in our Circuit Court. The defendants submitted their case, and so it will not go up to the Supreme Court as a test case.
 The Hot Springs Telegraph thinks all of those anonymous letters which the Gazette is publishing landing Col. Bob Johnson to the very skies, are pretty tolerably thin, and mildly intimatcs that they are written by the versatile pen of the Gazette editor himself.
 The Congressional elections in Ohio, Indiana, Iowa and West Vir- ginia, which occurred on Tuesday the Sth inst, took pretty much all the starch out of the Greenbackers' banner. Tn fact the day was a per feet Waterloo for them. Where that party expected to elect dozen candidates it has elected but one, ,- that one in West Virginia. We ac knowledge we are surprised, We gave them credit for more strength than they hayc displayed.