The Russellville Democrat., 1882-05-11
News CondensatiOns.

The regular proceedings in the star route trials began last Thurs day.
 The Toluca section of the Nation al railway of Mexico will be opened in fifteen days.
 The democrats made large gains in the municipal elections in Indi- ana. last week.
 Marshal Bazaine is about to pub fish a history of the "Siege and Ca pitulation of Metz"
 Congressman Jones, of Texas, will run as an independent candidate for governor of that state.
 The new cotton exchange building at St. Louis was opened last week with interesting ceremonies.
 The steamboats on the Rhine are to carry electric lights so that the night passengers can see the scenery.
 Mir Gladstone has announced that the charge of reasonable practices against Parnell would be withdrawn.
 The Newburg, N. H., cotton mills have shut down, owing to strike, and 400 hands are out of employ ment.
 A missionary who was shipped to Japan at cost Of $750 has shipped To America enough idols to bring $7,000.
 The country uses over ..300,000,- 900 postal cards year. This is 100000 day, or several tons every A hours.
 A bill is pending in the Massachu- setts legislature restricting the issu ance of liquor licenses to one for every thousand.
 The graduating class at Lane The Ological Seminary, Cincinnati, Ohio, numbers fifteen, all of whom have re- ceived calls to preach.
 Rear. Admiral John Rodgers, Uni ted States navy, died on the 5th lnst,, at his residence on Georgetown Heights, near Washington, D. C.
 The twenty eighth annual session of the Western Unitarian conference began at Cleveland, Ohio, last Fri day. Ten states were represented.
 Reports from various points in the fruit belt declare that the recent heavy frosts have destroyed two thirds of the peach crop and other fruits.
 The funeral of the late Horace Maynard transpired last Friday, and was attended by the largest con course of people ever witnessed in Knoxville.
 A fire occurred at Dallas, Texas last week, destroying one brick and five frame houses on Jefferson and Main streets. Total loss, $20,000; half insured.
 Under the redistricting bill recent ly passed by the Missouri legisla- ture, the republicans secure one dis trict and stand u chance of carrying five districts.
 Washington Post West Virginia will elect her four Congressman on the second Tuesday in October, bill to that effect having passed both houses of Congress.
 It is rumorcd that Senators Hill and Brown, of Georgia, wlll resign on account of ill health, and that Gen. John B. Gordon will be appoint ed to one of the vacancies.
 Col. E. II. Cole, a railroad king and president of the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia railway, has resigned, after thirty years active service in railroading.
 At Montre Carlo the administra- ton of the Casino sent magnificent bouquet to Queen Victoria a: Men tone. It was returned at once with the brief answer, "Declined."
 Charles Ford. one of the murder. CTS of Jesse James, passed through Chicago last week in company with two detectives, to hunt for some members of the old James gang.
 Late advices from Labrador give a gloomy account of affairs along the coast. In some harbors not an ar. tlcle of food can be purchased and the people are reduced to the verge of starvation.
 A wonderful discovery of native copper and silver has been made seventeen miles southeast of Lara mic City. It will run sixty to 100 per cent copper, with gold and silver in paying quantities.
 A dispatch from Fort Madison, Iowa, dated the 4th, says that Polk Wells and Cook, robbers and high waymen, who recently escaped from the Iowa Penitentlary, were recap tured near that place.
 A beautiful marble monument is now to be erected in Charleston, $, C., to the memory of the young poet, Henry Tinrod, who died in 1867. It will bear an epitaph select ed from his own writings.
 The state superintendent of insu- rance in Ohio has refused to issue license to the National Life Insu rance Company of New York to do