The Russellville Democrat., 1877-07-12
GENERAL ITEMS.

English imports are largely increasing. The potato bugs are attacking the beans.
 Egypt exports more rags than any, thing else.
 The young ladies take degrees at Cor nell university. The public library of Boston now con- tains 314, ,265 volumes. Rural Kentucky continues to clamor for the whipping-post. Germany is the principal buyer of Kentucky bluegrass seed. There are upward of 5000 churches in the state of New York. The government still owns one fifth of all the land in Alabama. The best education one can obtain is the education experience gives. The Knoxville Tribune has absorbed ten different papers in it's days. The attendance at the Philadelphia permanent exhibition is very meagre.
 Colorado is shipping wild sage to the east, to be used for medicinal purposes.
 Christians should be humble and thankful, watchful and cheerful.
 Epidemic catarrh is killing horses and mules in Mississippi in large numbers. The twenty pound Emma mine shares have been sold in London at one shilling each.
 Waco, Texas, has shipped thirty-five thousand five hunded bales of cotton this season.
 A boy in Salem, Mass, died last week from lockiaw resulting from the filling Of tooth.
 No use looking for Swift's comet. It is 2O,0O0,000 miles away, and still tray Ieling from us.
 A Marshall, Mich., saloon bartender made his three year old boy beastly drunk for the amusement Of his patrons.
 The clipper Canterbury has sailed a race from New Zealand to London in sixty.five days, the fastest time on record.
 The San Jose (Cal.) Mercury says that "the stubborn fact is presented that the grain crop this year will not suffice for horse -feed.'
 An ice-machine in Dallas, Texas pro- duces ice-cakes thirty feet long and six feet wide, weighing from 10000 to 12,- 900 pounds each.
 The small, finely favored American herrings, which have been very rare for thirty years, are now caught along the New England coast.
 Brigham Young now has fifteen wives IL. pI ,rntaattnn Ha has had forty.five children. The number of his grandchildren he does not know. There is a movement south of the "divide" in Colorado to separate that portion of the state from the northern section, and organize the new territory of San Juan, with it's capital at Pueblo This movement is doubtless due to the enormous and over-crowded population of Colorado.
 Of the forty members of the gradua- | ting class at Williams cole ge, twelve are | to be ministers, seven lawyers, four phy- sicians, three business men, three teach CTS, one journalist, and the rest are undecided. Every man is free tfader, and there are ten who class tneG ss-ves as independent in politics. A Battle Creek, Mich, tramp was given a breakfast at the house of Judge Hall. says the Journal, but Mrs. Hall noticed that he did not eat, aud present. lv he got up from the table. The host ess asked him if he was sick. No, | ain't sick, but am going to go where l can get decent breakfast"
 Chinamen in California are themselves NI IL lnl. Coal mines in Amador county are worked by Chinamen from the interior of China, who speak a dialect that the rest of their countrymen in California cannot understand, accept $l0 month wages and board themselves.
 Torpedo balloons are proposed by corresponden. of the Scientific Amer ican. The idea is to float the balloons over the enemy, and drop the torpedo by means of electricity sent over wire. It is calculated that a city could be totally de troyed in this way by dropping a sufficient quantity of nitro'glycerine' | Centenarians continue to turn up, Tn spite of theories that they are impossible
 4 banquet was recently given in Rich mond, England, to Mir. Edward Morgan, of Brougham House, Willesder, by members of his family and number of friends, on his completing his tooth year. The figures are attested by record in very old family Bible. MT. Morgan. who is in vigorous health, was t Max, lTT0