The Russellville Democrat., 1882-05-04
News Condensations.

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 Chinese are pouring into British Columbia at the rate of 700 week.
 Five Liberal members of Parlia- ment will shortly be created baronets.
 The Khedive of Egypt positively denies that he intends to abdicate in favor of Halim Pacha.
 Armitage Brothers, coffee planters of Ceylon and London, have failed. Their liabilities approximate f250, GOO.
 Mir. Lowell, the United States Min ister to England, was one of the pail bearers at the funeral of MT. Dar- win.
 Rev. J. K. Burr, D. D., one of the American revisers of the New Testa- ment, died in Trenton, N. J., aged fifty six years.
 A correspondent at Rome tele graphs that the Pope is seriously in. disposed and that his physicians urge change of air.
 There are two thousand immi- grants at St. Paul, Minn., destined for Manitoba, waiting for the subsi- dence of the Red River floods.
 The reports circulated in New York to the effect that Victor Hugo had had stroke of appoplexy are entirely unfounded. He is in the best of health.
 From three to six presses are kept constantly running on Webster s quarto dictionary, iu order to supply the demand, which is in excess of thirty thousand copies yearly.
 Michael Coody, one of the trichi- nosis sufferers at Bridesburg, Pa., died Monday, making the third vic tim so far. The Lutz family show no signs of recovery.
 An anonymous proclaim ation, dat ed Barcelona, has been addressed to the Spanish Senators and Deputies, threatening with death those who voted for the treaty with France.
 Gov. Hawkins has received prop osition from the holders of the Ten nessee bonds, proposing to compro- mise the debt at sixty cents on the dollar, and not graded interest of four, five and six per cent.
 The case of ex-Gov. Franklin J. Moses, of South Carolina, charged with swlndling residents of New York and Brooklyn, was postponed in the Court of General Sessions un- til the May term.
 The poorer Jews at Odessa are said to be marrying at the rate of one hundred and fifty couples per day. They imagine that if they are mar ried land will be given them free in America or Palestine.
 A wealthy company of miners from Arizona Territory are building steamer at Victoria, and intend to pass four years in prospecting the coast line of British Columbia as far north as Alaska for gold and silver.
 Great preparations are being made at Louisville for the coming race meeting. A large number of cele. brated horses are already on the ground, among them the fine stable of the Dwyer Brothers. The meet ing will bn one of the most brilliant ever held on the famous old track.
 The Forestry Congress met in Gin. cinnati yesterday and organized by electing Hon. George B. Loring president. Among the vice presl- dents elected were Hon. Horatio Seymour, of New York; Gov. Hamil- ton, of Maryland; John Soule, of Dis trict of Columbia, and Gen. Wick ham, of Virginia.
 Hon. Joseph S. Smith, the Demo cratic candidate for Governor of Ore gon, was the first Democratic Con gressman from that State after the war, carrying it by over 1000 major ity In 1868, in the face of large ad- verse majority in 1866. His majori- ty for Governor will probably be no less.
 Last weeks arrivals of immi- grants from abroad at Castle Garden amounted to l9, ,505, making about 50,000 for the three weeks of April, against II ,575 for the corresponding period of last year. The importa- tions of foreign goods for the week amounted to $l1,274. .S32, against $8,54O,4ll same period last year, and from January l to the close of last week $159, ,5S6, l04, against $l30, 125, ,26l same time last year.