The Russellville Democrat., 1875-06-24
News Items.

field rifles to the state armory of Texas for Militia purposes, and possible use on the Mexican bor- der.
 About one hundred and thirty bodies have been recovered from the wreck of the Schiller, inclu- ding the Leonhardt family of Au- gusta, Ca.
 According to a recent report from army headquarters, over 1,700 men have deserted within the last ten months, being pro portion of one in fourteen.
 The Knoxville and Charleston Railroad has been finally dispos- ed of to Messrs. Thos. O'Connor & Co.,, the difficulties in the way of the purchase having been satis- factorily settled.
 Our national debt is$2, 131 ,000,- 900; the total of state debts, $390,- 100000; county debts, $lSO, ,OOO,- GOO; city and town debts, $570,- 000,Oo0; total, $3,27l,o 100000.
 The principal object of Vice President Wilson's trip to the South at this time, is said to visit the spot at Austin, Texas, where his only son, an officer in the reg ular army, died.
 The terrible fires which have been sweeping whole districts in Pennsylvania are attributed to the great drouth, arising from the reckless felling of timber, which diminishes the rainfall and opens an inviting field for the flames.
 The Inman line of steamships, which for some years has been plying between New York and Liverpool, intends to transfer some of its ships to Baltimore, with the expectation of establish ing line between that city and Liverpool.
 Merchants of New York city complain that their expenses have been increased by from $500 to $6,000 in consequence of the double postage on third class mail matter. The board of trade have appointed committee to collect facts and take measures to obtain a repeal of the law by the next congress.
 Now it is Queen Victoria who is again threatened with assassina- tion. O'Connor, who some time since made an attempt to shoot her, was found standing in the identical spot, the other day, where the former affair took place, observing the Queen. Of course he was packed off to the insane asylum.
 Capt. Lawson has astonished the geographers by discovering mountain six miles high, on the island ofNew Guinea. This is a mile higher than Mount Everest, of the Him alayan range, hitherto believed to be the highest mount tain in tho world. It is rather singular that such protuberance has not been seen before.
 The girls of Warsaw, Ky, have unanimously resolved to purchase no dry goods costing more than twenty five cents per yard, for the period of one year. Here is woman's reform movement, which if carried into effect throughout the entire south, would do more to cure the ills of short crops and high rates, than any plan we have yet seen suggested.
 One of the most recent of the sickening St. Louis sensations is that which tells of the discovery of the putrefying body of a small pox patient, in the bottom of well, from which a number of families had been getting water for some time. Strange to say, the people did not detect any pc culiarity in the taste of the bever- age. They will henceforth be proof agalnst smallpox.
 A young man left Walla-Walla several weeks since for the pur- pose of making a general tour of Northern California. Before starting he solemnly promised his friends to write back all the par ticulars of the country. But one letter has been received from him, containing two lines, which says: