The Russellville Democrat., 1882-02-09

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 TIE governor of Tennessee has issued sDTeelamation urging general rneoi nation ia view of the fact that small pox prevails around and outside the borders of the State. hGa
 HE trial ofC A. Thomas, indicted in the graveyard insurancs case, Buffalo, N. Y, came 10 sudden stop by Anthony Smith, juror, developing symptoms of in- sanity.
 TIE London Stqndurd, Duily Telegraph, Morning Post and Times, express satisfaction at the conviction of Guiteau; but all, with more or less severity, critieise the conduct of the trial.
 A COMPANY has been organized to build State house costing Si, 800, GOO for the State of Texas. The company is to receive as compensation part of the State, or 3 0o0,- coo acres thereof. ,rta
 CONGRESSMAN ALLISON has introduced a bill to provide reserve fund Of $l20, ,000, 900 three four hs gold coin ard bullion, and the rest silver dollars, for the redemption of treasury notes.
 NINKrE EN new cases of smallpox in Pitts burg and five in Allegheny were reported to the boards of health. Twenty-tour deaths from tbe dis eise occurred in the tat ter city la VI ek. a%f
 NEARLY fifty years since, Mrs. Judith Twombly, Of l. well, Mass, removed from ner side with raz)r, q cancer which e& tended to 'he h me and weighed twenty pounds A feg days ago she died, aged 103 years.
 rnK king of Greece met a cold reception at the opehiug of the chamber. Even the people on the streets did not shout. Faro psan sovereigns seem to be having lone. some time of it, anyhow.
 TIE Herzogovinian uprising has assumed such maguituds that the Austrians are moving 5000 men into Dalmatia. The. rebels don't appear to be afraid to close with such troops as they run across.
 THE gnational board of health has de clared small pox epidemic in the United States, and ordered an inspe,tio of several important quarantine stations to ascertain if the rules of the board are enforced.
 FLEMING; one Of the directors of the City of Glasgow Scotland Bank, who evaded ar. rest at the time of the trial ot his col 'eagues, and who recently returned to Eng ! and from America, has been arrested. CHARLES BorToE, of St. Louis, was found dangerously wounded ons the Chicago and Alton railroad trsck near Springfield, III. He claims that he was shot by tramp whom he had met. His condition is criti- cal AN engine and six freight cars on tbe l Wisconsin Central railway were thrown from the track at c llby. Wis, doing much damage and badly bruising Conductor Geo. ! Fisher. Others narrowly escaped seri ous ! injury. ------'
 TIE New York poultry dealers are in a 1 state of reyo acainst an ordinance prohib. iting the sale Of "undrawnn poultry or | game. they say the best marksters won't l buy draw bird because they are more liable l to be musty.
 | A TRAMP ravi her, near LoganspoTt, Ind, was pursus d Caueht, hanged and eremated l by mob oi farmers. The sheriff delivered | the ashes to the coroner. wh O held an in quest under manifest difficulties The cause of death was hard to determine. -a
 IRE trea ury investigation at Washington | has practically reached an end The major [ ity report will not reflect upon Secretary sherman, but will recommend that all purchases made from the contingent fund of the treasury shall be Itemized.
 BEPREs aNrArIvE McCurd's bill providing for appointmeut on the basis of distribu. ton Of additi, ,nal Representatives accord ing to he new method of Col. Seaton, Su- perindent of Census, changes the numbyr of Representatives allotted tLe several States as follows: California five, instead of six (as provided for in other bills; Flor. Ida one, instead Of two; Rhode Islsnd one instead of two Pennsylvania twenty -nine instead of twenty eight; New York thirty. four, instead of thirty.three.
 CoNs REssNEY from the north vest deel are 1 the Cobb bill to forfeit to the government all lands granted railways which have not complied with the terms of the grant Is 6 scheme of the Unien and Censral Pacific ! aIasf, 2 fhr~s Pacific. Again 1t is said the lands of the west being settled so rapidly, many mem. bers of congress think such as have not passed legiiimately into the posse ssion of the railroads should revert to the gOvern- ment and be openel to settlement. Meni- hers of congress from the section of oonn- try that will be benefited by the construes tion of the Northern Pacific will stEenu. Ously oppose this pill and all others caleu. lated TO interfere with the progress of that ] road.