The Russellville Democrat., 1885-04-30
RUssELLvILLE, POPE CO.,. ARK, APRIL 30. 1885.
To pray, or not to pray, that's the question at Harvard.

To pray, or not to pray; that's the question at Harvard.
 On the first day of May the Capi- tai of West Virginia will b, removed from Wheeling to Charleston.
 There appears to be mean scheme on foot in Ohio .,s ..,ss,ssjjTe Minister Pcndle.on5y 5y connecting him with charge of bribery in the iiate Senatorial election. It IS not hard to guess who is at the bottom of it.
 Only thirty persons attended, the European Peace Arbitration Asso citation meeting in London. This represents, doubtlcss, the present Peace Party of the Old World. Everybody IS spelling for a fight from Cork to Constantinople.
 The words of condolence and pity that have gone m from the solid South for the stricken warrior, Ge". Grant, ought to convince the rabid, fire-eating, fanatical press of the north that the war is over. No where has there been such universnlity of sympathy for the suffering general of the north as among the soldie- boys who wore tho gray and fought under the stars and bars.
 Attorney General Garland drinks no liquor. When asked why, he re- piled that wandering through the cemetery at Little Rock he came to the graves of so many bright youn E men who began life with him, but who had fallen into dissolute habits and died, that he realized he was about the only one left. Then he changed hls mode of life and began the struggle that resulted Tn his present ucccss.--Exchange.
 Commissioner Colman, of the De- partment of Agriculture, has called convention in Washington of the agricultural colleges of the United States, to be held June "A, for the purpose of consultation as to the best means of making agricultural colleges more efficient, and to adopt such measures as will make agricul tural college farms exposition grounds for the Department of Agri- culture, SO that the effects of climate, soil, etc, upon the various crops may be more fully ascertalned.
 The wonderful vitality of general Grant has, it would seem, given him . new lease of life. Yet his physl- clans are not at all sanguine that he will last long. The end may come at any time, and suddenly. The nature of his disease is such that it's progress cannot always be followed closely. The cancer cannot be eradi- cated. and it will insidiously eat its way until it strikes an artery, and then the end will quickly come. The General has had the profound sympathy of everybody who admires courage, constancy and manly bear ing. His old foes on the field of battle are not whit behind those who fought by his side in their de votion to him in his hour of trIal. Standing at the gateway of another world he can fully appreciate this.
 A Brother of Freedom" in the Marion Vidette suggests an idea that is so thoroughly practical and business like that it is worthy of commendation. It is that the Broth CTS" at their monthly meetings make full reports of everything they have for markct-horses, mules, cattle, sheep, hogs, wheat, corn--every thing, in fact. Then have these reports published in thc,r county organ so that buyer and seller may be brought together. There is nothing like having something to sell and the next best thing is to let the world know that you have its Tn some departments of business there is over production and consequent stagnation and loss, but it is not in the raising of stock and agricultural products ny southern farmers. The trouble with them has been that they have not only had nothing to sell, but not enough for home e.-L. R. Democrat.
 Here is something from the Ga- zette too good to pass:
 w. c. Chase, editor of the Bee, a co.ored mems paper printed in Wash ington, was spokesman of colored delegation that visited the president on the 11th. Chase, who IS clerk in the wa department claimed to speak for his race, and claimed great deal for them. After hearing him patiently ant expressing his friend ship for tho colored people. the pres ident drew cut from a pigeon hole" in his desk copy of the Bee, print ed just after the presidential cleo. tion, and read the following extract from one of Chase's editorials:
 "It is time for every American ne gro in the south to make appeal to arms and to fire every democratic home where negro killers live, from palace to hut, in retaliation for foul and dastardly murders committed n the south. The l53 electoral votes of tho south were obtained through