The Russellville Democrat., 1882-06-08
GENERAL NEWS.
Crop reports from Kansas show a promising outlook.

l Gen. Garibaldi, the great Italian patriot, died last week at Caprera.
 The Presbyterians are shaking hands at last across the bloe3 ' schism.
 The Casey farm at Deer Park, Long Island, has just been purchased by Ulysses S. Grant.
 Capt. Schwensen, of the ocean steamer Westphalia, has made three hundred voyages across the Allan tic.
 A St. Petersburg telegram an- nounees that Gen. Albedinski in- tends to resign the governorship of Poland.
 The United States attorney gen errl has decided that further iegisla- tion is necessary to enforce the pres ent eight-hour law.
 The foreign powers are consider ing the question of holding a confer ence to bring about settlement of Egyptian affairs.
 It is reported at Vienna that the International Monetary Conference is again postponed from the coming Autumn to April, 1883.
 Farmers in the vicinity of Louis vile, Ky, report the destruction of grain by the army worm which has appeared during the week.
 The excess of exports for the twelve months ended April 30, 1882, IS Se9, ,57O, ,766; excess of imports of gold and silver coin and bullion for the same period is 11,627,506. Vice Admiral s. c. Rowan has no- tiiied Secretary Chandler that he will be ready to assume his new duties as perlntendent of the Naval Ob servatory on the 1st of July.
 Two hundred mineral land patents were issued by the Commissioner of the General Land Office during the month of May, the largest number ever issued in any one month.
 Gen. Merritt, the United States Consul General at London, writes to the journals there soliciting contrl buttons for the proposed Garfield Memorial Hospital in Washington,
 The Union Pacific has entered the list with "fast trains making the run between Kansas City and Chey- enne in twenty two hours and fifteen minutes. Faster time is threatened.
 The trustee of the Sprague estate, now advertises the property to be sold in parcels-the print works on the 18th of June, and various parcels of real estate on June 27 and July l.
 All the powers, excepting France, are agreed that in the event of Tn. tervention Tn Egypt becoming neccs- sary for the maintenance of the status quo. it should be made by the Sultan himself.
 At the session of the New Eng land Woman Suffrage association, a letter from the governor of Wyoming Territory was read, stating that woman's suffrage there was an un- qualified success.
 The national exhibition at Mos COW, Russia, opened on the lst The Grand Duke Vladimir and other dis tinguished persons were present. At banquet given that evening the Czar's health was drunk with enthu- siasm.
 The Chicago, Texas and Mexican Central railroad has been sold to the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe compa- ny. The price paid was $lG,000 per mlle, and the formal transfer of the property will be made on the first day of July next,
 There were coined at the different hints of the United States during last month 876,400 gold pieces, 2 262,090 standard silver dollars, 532,- 900 five cent pieces, and 2,330, ,O00 cents, a total of 6,050,4 400 pieces, worth $9,87S,400.
 The French authorities are greatly irritated by intelligence that Fur kish troops have disembarked near the frontier between Tripoli and Tunls in order to reinforce to a camp already existing. The submission of the insurgent Arabs is now re- garded improbable.
 A Savannah. Ga, dispatch of the 2S ult., says: In an affray last night among the hands building the bridge over the Savannah at Hardevllle, $. C., negro was killed in self-defense by a white man from Baltimore. The negroes attempted to lynch the latter, but were prevented.
 Dispatches to the Chicago Times indicate an increased production of wheat in the ten great wheat raising States of the Northwest, amounting to from 50,000,000 to 60,OOO.OOC bushels, and in the seven corn pro. duclng States, provided the weather is favorable, an increase of l50,0O0,. 900 bushels of corn, or even more.
 Timely and Proper.
 First Assistant Postmaster Gener al IIntt,, he, s,.,.ol