The Russellville Democrat., 1882-02-16
THE NEWS CONDENSED.
HAPPENINGS or THE PAST WEEK FROM ALL PARTS OF THE
 EARTH.
CuIIed, Rewritten, Classified and Con- densed-Interesting Items Picked up on the Shores of the Worlds
 Ocean of News.

q
 Ind, while trying to rob saloon.
 TIE Mississippi senate appropriated $50. 600 for encouragement of immigration.
 THE sultan has sent for samples of American improved agricultural imple-
 mems.
 The senate of Virginia, by vote of 23 to 9. passed to engrossment the bill abolishirg the whipping post.
 Ar Leeds, England, Tobin, the Fenian was found guilty and sentenced to seven years Tenal servitude.
 MR. JAMES GORDON BENNETT telegarphs the secretary of war that the Herald cor
 respondent is almost at Irkutsk.
 A VACCINE farm capable of turning out 5000 points daily, has been established
 near Chicago, and is doing lively busi-
 ness.
 A CHTcAGo commission man has myste-
 riously disappeared. No uneasiness is felt
 however, as be is found to owe some
 Sl5,000.
 A SPECIAL Chicago and Alton train nadt
 the run from Chicago to.St. Louis, Tuesday
 in seven hours and forty five minutes,
 gu ckest on record.
 THE mayor of Philadelphia says he will
 not grant license to any place of amuse
 ment which has gar room attached or in
 which liquors are sold. A COUNTERFEIT silver dollar bearing date
 of 1S43 has been discovered by Chicago
 bank. It is the most dangerous known,
 and is made in Central Illinois. A PERSON giving the name of C. F. Frey,
 and representing that C was in the malle-
 able iron bu-iness at Grand Rapids, Mich.
 swindled banks of Buffalo, out Of small amounts.
 A CONSTRUCTION train ran over aband- car on the Missouri Pacific near Waco night before lsss, killing four persons, including Mai. D. w. Washburu, the great railroad | builder.
 CHICAGO detectives on Wednesday arrested Jack Brush and his gang of six men who came there last week from New York. They ire no'ed i'rgers, and they worked the trade by raising cheeks. HENkY c YARMOUTH, agent of the AGsms EKpiess company. at Blauds burg, Ky, V ho ii.appear~d December [, with SIS, ,0O0 of the company funds, was arrested at Philsdel-
 phia Wednesday afternoon. A Fokr WAYNE, Ind, special say. The l family of August Yaeger five in all, were l found in the northarn part of the city ix great agony from trichinoss, caused by eating raw ham.
 THE New York Tribune ruthiessly tears 1 open the archltt ctural secrets of a new r l story building that is just being constructed | in defiance ot the provisions of the building 1 law and the experience of the old World
 building confagration.
 l MR. SPRINGER delves farther into the | Blaine diplomacy by calling on the presi- 1 dent for information as to how the repub- 1 lies of North and South America came to be l invited to send commissioners to Teace congress in Washington. l ALTHOUGH Secretary Folger pronounced | incorrect the rumor that the resignatiOns 1 of prominent officers of the treasury depart ment had been called for, officers of the department think changes are contem- plated.
 THE Washington Star says the destruc- ton of the Jefferson school should put an
 end to the mania for erecting great, showy ' shams of school houses of shot tower
 height and topped with an inhammable l lumber yard in the shape of mausard l roof.
 TIE insurrection in Yemen, Arabia, is
 gaining ground. Numbers of Arabs have l deserted the Turkish standard. The insurg- | ents are in possession of the principal in-
 terior towns a.d occupy positions from
 which they can only be dislodged by lage 1 force.
 | TIE New York Times threatens that if l the system of rates dissdvantageous to New 1 York shall ever he revived, means will be | found i'll that city for building "a freight l railroad to the West which will cut under | the figures of all the old lines" | A CoLoR,D man'Teach Lawrenceville | III on the S:h, and stated that he had 1 found Il re dead bodies in the woods seven miles above here, near the bank of the l Embarrass rive-, All the men had their
 faces downward. The bodies were well ! lecomposei and unrecognizable. | FoR some time past Durango, Col, has been flooded with counterfeit standard dol. 1 ars. Wednesday evening the sheriff captured JiR Bush, 8 former member of | the notoli lus Allison gang, Jack Mcintosh, | Wm. F. EytrLs, prominent merchant. and ! TWO gamblers, together with their moul6s and stolen bullion from which the bogus mon y was made.
 TIE provisions of the Russo-Chinese treaty are difficult of fulfilment Gu the Kulia frontier the inh abitants of the dis tricts retroceded are averse to Chinese rule Several revolis have been quelled by the l Chinese with the customary barbarity. The l Chinese government undertakes to dredGe Warung bar and clear the channel to Shanghai.
 THE Lima correspondent oi the Panama
 NftI ftftfL ItfutQ, NFllte lDat one Bl Ane worst l features for the Psruvians is the fact that ! their troops in the field Jan. 4, had devel- 1 oped strong tendency to revolt and mur- der their officers Three times this had 1 been done or attempted and further trouble ! of the same sort was apprehended. SENATOR Morgsn's bill lu aid oi the Gulf and Chicago Air-Liue Railway company proposes to grant the state of Alabama for | s road 10 be constructed by that corpora. | ,ion, the right of way through public lands | iu Alab ana together with fifteenth sections | Ol public lands along the line, the lands tO l bc sold by it to said railway company, or such other railroad company as the legis. ! lature may designate prior 10 Jauua'y 1, S3 al Sl.1j per acre for coal lands; in other
 cases not more than 2j cents per acre The proceeds tn be de-o'ed to common school 1 purposes. IJ is also provided that actual seltlers vi hin the limits of the Immigrants | be entitled To enter lOO acres each upon the payment C s2 90 per acre for coal lands, or
 Sl per acre for othsr lands. THE popular notion is that Queen Vic. toria's fortune is something fabulous. : Of course she IS wealthy, but the de-
 mands upon her position are many and large London Truth says that when
 Prince Albert died, many Of the state
 departments were m debt; these debts
 have been paid of, Some of them
 such as that of the Master of the Horse.
 foI which El0OO0 per annum is allowed
 always have to borrow from the other
 departments as from the privy purse.
 The Qneen really does not put by as