The Russellville Democrat., 1881-05-12

Democrats intend 70 run JainpDell, lawyer
 and Democrat who supports Garfield'' administration, and will make his race on
 pledge to support it in Congress. Owing tc
 the nearly equal division of the two partie: 1 in the next House one seat is valuable ano l the indications are that both parties will 1 strain every nerve to get this seat.
 Foreign.
 l WOMEN are to be admitted to the lectures
 and degrees of the Spanish universities. | A MOVEMENT is on foot by the Panama 1 Canal company to secure control of the
 Panama railroad.
 1 IT is said that France has definitely re. | fused to join in an international conference
 on the extradition of ofregicides. l TIE City of Dublin has been proclaimed
 under the arms act and John Dillon, the Home Ruler agitator, is to be arrested.
 TIE British steamer Tararria of Mel 1 bourne has been wrecked on the reefs ofl
 Otago, New Zealand Eighty persons were l drowned.
 | TIE complicity of the Grand Duke l Nicholas in the plots of the Nihilists hay 1 ing been made clear, he has been sentenced l by decree of the Emperor to imprisonmen ent | for life.
 A DISPATCH from Paris says. A prominent l diplomatist at St. Petersburg reports the
 czar and counsellors disposed to adopt wig
 orous oppressive measures, having no ex-
 ample in Russian history.
 l A TELEGRAM from Galway says balifl named King was seized by a gang ot dis l guised men and roasted over fire until he I swore he would resign his office. Kings l condition is believed to be hopeless. | THE news of the death of King John oi Abyssinia will cause no profound grief in Egypt, to which country the warlike and | turbulent monarch has been menace
 and terror ever since he ascended the 1 throne.
 TIE Earl of Shrewsbury eloped with Mrs 1 Miller, of Shipley, Derbyshire. The fugi- 1 tive pair fled to Strasburg, where the lady relatives overlook them, gave the earl a
 sound thrashing and brought the lady back | to England.
 l WITHIN the last twenty days fifteen hun. 1 dred cases of small pox have been refused
 admission to the hospitals in London be- 1 cause they were full. During the same
 time 297 persons died in their own homes | from small pox.
 | A BUCHAREST dispatch says King Charles
 of Bulgarie has declined the iewelled crown
 which it was proposed to order for the con- | ing coronation and which was to cost hall
 million francs. His majesty expressed a
 wish that a crown of steel made from Turk | ish guns captured by Roumanians at Plev-
 na be used instead. A sceptre will be made of the same material after the model belong | ing to the Wallachian hero of the sixteenth | century. The ceremony will be confined | to the presentation of the crown. The king
 will not be anointed. He considers that be. | ing a constitutional monarch there should
 be no outward emblem of divine right in | the coronation.
 | A DISPATCH from Berlin says: While the | czar remains in retirement at Gatschine the | implacable enemies of his government are l dangerously busy as ever. Rumors and re-
 ports of daring operations by Nihilists in | disseminating manifestoes conveying warn
 ings to the czar continue to reach here. On Sunday last the police of St. Petersburg
 were engaged in searching for the mines
 near Seminoffsky bridge, though nothing seems to have been found. The social and political atmosphere at St. Petersburg is | growing thicker and thicker and is fraught
 with omens of another approaching storm | Private letters received here describe the | city as like a gloomy pTison-house where | little is heard of the outside world, and everybody lives in constant state of sus- pense. The chief journals still appear with
 mourning borders. The dispatch of con- victs through Moscow for Siberia began on
 the 10th inst The number to be deported
 is 2200. ---,,s.s s.-sS..ss