The Russellville Democrat., 1881-06-02

buried in the debris, which was completely developed by the hot flame of the burning fluid Water was used freely by the fire de- partment but was of no avail.
 South.
 THE President will be at Gettysburg Deco ration Day.
 1NJUNcTIoNs are out to suppress lotteries in Kentucky.
 IT is said the barge lines between St Louis and New Orleans are to be consolidated.
 THE Kentuckians are now making an other effort to secure new constitution.
 THE Austin (Tex.) Statesman reports the shipment of black walnut from Jefferson, Texas, to Bremen, Germany.
 THREE prisoners who were confined in jail at Decatur, Tex. made their escape by prying off large iron brace and cutting their way through the prison wall. HAyNEvILLE (Ala.l Examiner: We notice millions of locusts all over this section of the country. They eat the leaves of trees grass, etc., but have not bothered the crops as yet.
 AUSTIN (Tex) Statesman. It is reported that an old negro blowing on farm in An derson county, turned up 5000 in gold, supposed to have been buried there twenty years ago.
 PROMINENT gentleman of Dallas, Tex. have perfected preiminaries for the organ ization of Texas society of ex- confederate soldiers from Missouri. The objects of the society are of social nature, to meet in an nual conclave and enjoy the reunion pleas ures of old comrades.
 THE Mt. Sterling (Ky.) Sentinel says w. T. Prather, Sheriff of Magoffin county, has received a communication from Kansas officer asking for the whereabouts of one Milton Stephens, former resident of that county, and who moved West few years since. He is charged with having murder ed his wife and three children.
 THE papers in the case of the United States vs. the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad have been forwarded by the solic- itor of the Treasury to the United States District attorney at Nashville, with direc- tions to bring suit at the present term of Court. The amount involved aggregates $300000. being the principal and interest of certain unpaid bonds of the railroad pur- chased by the Government for the Indian trust fund.
 AN Arkansas City, Ark special to the Little Rock Gazette says three prisoners broke jail there. They cut a hole in the bottom of the jail. Water is about three feet deep around the jail Two guards were on watch, but did not discover the flight u1llil mOIHluS Olie pTloOueT, WnlIe man was charged with murder in the first degree. He and one of the others have not yet been captured. One charged with larceny was captured near town, and Sunday night two more prisoners escaped, one of whom, Ben Paxton, was under sentence to be hung June r for killing Johnson. All colored. THE New Orleans interstate military drill was continued by contest in company drill, free to all companies of twenty-four men, using Upton's revised tactics for infantry. Seven companies participated The Judges were Capt John I. Rogers, First Lieutenant Henry Reed and Second Lieu tenant V. H. Bridgeman, of the 2d Artillery | U. s. Army. The prizes were, first $l 900, and second $500. Each company was given forty five minutes for it's evolutions. The | first prize was awarded the Chickasaw | Guards, ofMemphis, Tenn, and the second | to the Crescent Rifles of New Orleans The | following is the score, $500 representing perfection: Chckasaw Guards 3,SI0; Crescent Rifles, 790; League Guards, 3,720; | Houston Light Guard. 3,7l0 Vaudry Rifles, 3540: Mobile Rifles, 3,430; Nichols Rifles, | 3050. The day was fine and great crowd present, including large turnout of ladies in handsome toilets. The exhibition was held at the Fair Grounds, where necessary accomodations were provided, and the affair | wound up with promenade concert and ball at night. The electric illumination was failure from some defect in the ma chinery.
 THE Democratic state central committee of Arkansas called together to prevent the threatened split in the party, has been in session at Little Rock. The meeting failed utterly to unify the Democracy of the state. | The committee is made up principally of anti. amendment men, and many amend ment members refused to attend, thus | tacitly announcing that they would not be | bound by any action the committee might take. The political situation is regarded by many of them as critical, and the action of | the committee is not considered as tending | to heal the breach between the factions | Prominent Democrats say that the matter will go directly to the people for adjust ment; that the amendment will be a lead. | ing issue in the next gubernatorial canvass and that everything will hinge on the seiec- | ton of delegates to the state convention. A BILL was served on the comptroller of | Tennessee by the sheriff of Davidson county | enjoining the funding board from carrying out the requirements Of the one hundred and three funding act. The bill alleges | that the Mineral Home railroad bonds and | bonds issued for war interest and war purposes were illegally issued that the | funding act was procured by bribery that members of the legislature were speculating
 in Tennessee bonds when the act passed;
 that one member received BIO 900 and an- other $l5,000 for voting for the act The | bill further charges that the act is unconsti- tutional because it appropriates the revenue for ninety nine years while the constitution
 prohibits appropriations for longer than two | years also, because it confers judicial powers on executive officers to pass on the illegality of the bonds; that by the coupon feature the school fund is diverted from its