The Russellville Democrat., 1879-11-20
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HAYns says he win not run for sec ond term.
 MR. EvAHTs announces very poSltiyely that he would not accept the English Mission.
 IT is vulgar to call a man 'bow-leg- ged." Just speak of him as 2 parenthet- ical pedestrian.
 TIE question of cremation is again re- ceiving serious c0esidcra ton in the large cities of Europe.
 SHARox's reception to Grant cost $40,- GOO. Twenty-Five hundred people were invited, and twice that many went.
 JUDAH P. BENJAyuNE, the remarkable man. who has made name and fortune over again since the end of the war, re- gently sent q poor country editor in Louisiana 8 checl. for $500.
 MILE. SA,fAnY is considered the eighth wonder of the world in Paris, because she is a member of the Comedi Fran Caise along with sara Bernhardt, and yet remains a good woman. So says Lucy Hooper.
 DR. FALK has been nominated as q candidate for the Prussian Landtag in more than a dozen constituencies, the people not having forgotten that while he was Education Minister the teachers increased by LOCO and the pupils by 100000
 Ax interesting discovery has been made at Nassenfuss in styria. Under the soil Of a field attached 10 an ancient form a boy found a vase in and around which were 5000 gold silver and copper coins bearing the efIicies of Severus, Gallienus, F!avius, Clal'dius, Marcus, Aurclius and Probus
 Mss MAHY 4. H. GAY, a Georgia lady, complains that Mark Twain has been making liberal use of the contents of book published by her in 1858, under the title of Prose and Poetry" in the preparation of his own Tom Sawyer" To omake good her charge she is about to bring out 9 new edition of her own book
 ARTISTS say they do not crave com missions from Congress, for if a painter gets an order for a S10,000 picture he is expected to paint the portaits of lot ot COngressmen for nothing. There are often, also, expenses incident to procur- ing such commissions. In consequence about three fourths of the profits are dissipated and a Sl0,000 commission is really worth about S2,50o.
 ABOUT midnight on September 16, per sons residing near one of the public school-houses in Deadwood, Dakota were startled by the loud and distinct tolling of the sehool-bell in the tower. Many ran to the place to find everything dark, the doors locked the shutters barred and no mortal within. The scene shifts to the Overland Hotel, where Mrs. Clara B. Helms the teacher in the sChoolhouse in question, lay dying. Persons at the bedside aver that they heard her mutter Ring the bell" just at midnight. She died before morning.
 THERE are now in Germany, twenty universities, and all of them have the same constitution As they are partially supported by the State the latter claims a right of control. Inthe days of reaction which followed the Napoleonic wars and the revolutionary outbreak of 1S4S, this right was often exercised to the detriment of the universities, and if Prince Bismark continues his present policy-like experiences may befall them. But at present each university manages its own affair." and has the appointment of it's own professors.
 TIE contemplated marriage of King Alfonso Is the one topic with which the Spanish people are busying themselves. The mere question of who should go to Vienna to make the official request for the hand of the Archduchess, has occu- pied for weeks day after day, from two to five columns of each of the Madrid journals, Conservative, Liberal and Re- publican alike. \ more important ques- ton that is under discussion is what procedure is needed and what action of the COrtes must be taken under the present statutes of Spain to make the proposed marriage eiiectrfal in respect to securing all civil right in the Queen and her descendants.
 REPORTS regarding the terms of sur render of the women taken captive by the Utes who murdered Agent Meeker are conflicting In his dispatch to Ar. Schurtz, Peace Commissioner Adams stated that the women were given up unconditionally Our dispatches from Cheyenne this morning declare that Chief Douglas cXacted a pledge from Mir Adams that himself and his immedi ate kinsmen must be granted full inn munity from punishment for the part they took in the outbreak. If this last report is true, we may expect to be in- formed that all the murdering was done by the particular Indians embraced in the pardon Evidently the Utes are shrewderin diplomacy than the Secre- tary of the lnterior.- Gtobe-DemOcrdt.