The Russellville Democrat., 1880-05-13
Ho for Cinc,nnati!

We left home on the 23d day of April for tue s.queen city" of the west to attend the sitting of the gen. sral conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
 We left Atkins at II, p. m., and reached Little Rock at 2:30, p. m.
 We remained in the .City of Ros- es" until the 18th inst., in the mean time took in the republican conven- tion. It instructed for the .'silent man., Of course.
 We'll will not leave Little Rock without speaking . word for her. The merchants and business men generally, say that Little Rock is in better condition than eyer before; everything was life, and l believe . new era has dawnsd on our fair State, but I must not stop here.
 At 2:30, p. m., we boarded the St. Louis Iron Mountain and South. ern railroad, taking one of those ex- ceilent Pullman Sleepers and was bounding over the hills and plains of Northeast Ark. at the rate of 30 miles an hour; but IS much of our trip to St. Louis was in the night. we were unable to judge correctly Of it's merits. We reached St Louls at s, a. m., and only stopped long enough to do justice to a square meal in the excellent dining hall at Union depot.
 Si. Louis is a great city and bids fair in the near future to be the me tropolis of tho west, if in fact she is not already.
 At 9, .. m., we left St Louis in one of those magnificent parlor cars on the Ohio and Mississippi road, ran through the tunnel under the city, crossed the river on the great bridge and launched out into the al most boundless fields Of wheat in tue great State of Illinois. This is the finest farming country l ever saw; just as far as one's eyes could see was one unbroken wheatfield, and it looked remarkably well to us for the time of year.
 Passing on through Illinois we reached the "Hoosier State," and we must say that we were not favor ably impressed with Ind. It was very broken and worn. many of the farms abandoned altogether, but l suppose we did.not see the best part of it. The only thing of any inter est to us was the town of North Bend, the home of Gen. Harrison, who was elected President in l840.
 We reached Cincinnati at 9, p. m. and put up for the night at the Reed house, a splendid hotel on the European plan. This morning at 9 a. m., May lst, we attended the opening of the general conference, by Bishop Levi Scott. The roll was called by Dr Woodruff, secretary of the last general conference. About four hundred persons answered to their names, over three fourths of the whole work. The session bids fair to be one of the most interesting in the whole history of Methodism. We'll we are here, but i. seems like we had stepped back to the first of March, the leaves just beginning to put out, and am told that corn planting time is not here yet. We'll this may suit some people but it does not suit a man who has been raised in the sunny south." l be- lieve Ark, all things being taken to- gether. to be one of the best States in the Union. And I would say to the homeless of this, and all other crowd ed cities, come to Ark. where the government will give you . good home, in one of the best climates in the known world. Cincinnati is a great city, containing about three hundred thousand inhabitants. More anon. w. ". BRAsHEAR.
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