The Russellville Democrat., 1882-03-30
HISTORY OF THE WEEK.
BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS GATHERED
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 THERE are said to be 5000 refugees from the overflow at Yazoo City.
 Two BURGLARS were lynched by masked men at Rawlings, Wyoming
 THE coronation of the Car is now set down to take place in August. Ea
 A FORMIDABLE strike has taken place among the operatives in the Lawrence, Mass, factories.
 A ROMAN newspaper urges an Italian al- liance with Germany and Austria as against a Franco Russian war combination,
 VIM. BELoHMAN, convicted of the murder of Patrick Hughs, at Cincinnati, has been sentenced 10 be hanged July IA, next.
 PoNDs extract comoauy's works, at Will iamsburg, N. r., burned. Loss on stock and building reported at Sl00000. Mostly covered by insurance.
 THE Crystal Palace Theater, Mars eilles, France, burned. Loss 1 900 000f. The act DTS had great difficulty in escaping from the burning building.
 THE American Tract Society report re. ceipts for the year, $376, ,9S9 expenditures, S375, t35. Of the receipts, S104 ,939 were do- nations and legacies.
 WsILs the Emperor William of Germany was leaving the academy his foot slipped on the stairway and he fell. His right el- bow and knee are slightly confused.
 CORN is growing finely in Texas, and never looked more promising. Small grain is in good condition, and without some uEtoward mishap will yield heavily. FREDERICK PALMER late auditor ol New ark, N. J., has been sentenced to tha state prison for twenty years, for obtaining money from the treasury on forged war rants. s=.sa..
 IT is stated that Bismarck, in answer to some question relating to internal affairs, replied that his time and strength were fully occupied in preserving the peace of Europe.
 THE barque August Lautres, from Will mington, N. C., for Liverpool, with 1892 bales of cotton returned to port in tow with carg on fire, having been struck by lightning.
 A cABLFGBAM from Geneva, Switzerland, says child belonging to oIe of the high est Bernese families has been kidnapped 50000 francs is demanded for the return of the child on pain of it's death.
 THE ship Screamer, from Philadelphia tor New Orleans, with coal, went down in @ gale. Three of the crew sank with the ship. The remainder of the crew, twelve men, two mates and the captain, were picked up by brig lying by.
 A PARIS correspondent believes Bismarck thinks seriously of letting the tense rela- tions between Germany and Russia take their course. No confidence, he says, is felt in Berlin in the alleged wish of the Czar to remain friendly with Germany.
 NJ. F.. DICKSON, of Chicago, started for Washington with petition for the pardon of Sergeant Mason, 2,400 feet long and said to contain 120, ,000 names. It was elaborate ly gotten up and required two expert pa- per hangers two hours to fold it properly.
 August Guengel, an old miser, was found dead in his house at Dubuque, Ia. He died from want of proper food and other com forts of lite. He has not taken a warm meal for months, although abundantly able to do so. He leaves property esti- mated at $3 3000.
 A TERRIBLE disease has broken out among the horses in Boston, supposed to be at tributable to blood poison from refuse salt used on the car tracks. At first the disease has the appearance of scratches in an az gravated form, but finally the flesh rots away and the hoof falls of.
 JupsE GARDNER, in the superior court of Chicago, has decided that certificates of membership in the board of trade must be treated by the courts as property, and hence subject 10 levy to satisfy judgments of creditors and must be regarded ss assets where members are bankrupt.
 A HANDSOME sum has been subscribed at Washington by various departments for Sergeant Mason's family. Petitions for ex- ecutive clemency are pouring in from all quarters. His counsel is confident that be has discovered points in the proceedings of the court martial that will invalidate the proceedings and sentence.
 THERE is later intelligence in the shape of the official report of Lieut.. Melville, of the Jeannette arctic exploring exped ton to the Secretary of the Navy, dated Yak utsk, Siberia Jan. 6, but nothing form the lost party of the crew beyond some fur ther particulars of the separation. There is little to encourage hope that the missing will be found alive.
 A YOUNG Englishman, D. Owens, at- tackel a young lady with a knife, and stabbed her nearly to death, at Tanpa, Fla. He was captured and placed in jail but within an hour was taken out by mob and hanged to shade tree in the court house yard, where the United States court was in session at the time. The mayor and sheriff protested and Lieut. Davis, of the garrison 10 rescae the prisoner, but be- fore the troops arrived Owens was dead man.