The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1886-04-22
NEWS AND NOTES.

May l, to remain . month.
There will be no change in the
Office Of public printer until congress
adjourns.
--Messrs. Moody and Sankey
close in the South next week ard
will then retire to their homes for
rest.
The river At Memphis, Tenn, 10
above the danger line ten inches and
within twelve inches 81 The 1882
mark.
Mr.. Powderly gets only 81, 500 q
year for devoting his entire atten-
tion TO the interests Of the Knights
OF Labor.
The total loss by the Key West,
Fla, fire, is estimated at 81, SOC, 900,
upon which there was only $4,000
insurance.
The friends OF Judge Poland
confidently expect that his brass
buttons will shine in the Governors
chair Of Vermont.
The officers chosen at the late
municipal election in BrinkIey are
all, With one exception, barely old
enough to hold Office.
The Connecticut Legislature has
passed bill exempting from taxa
ton the property of Union soldiers
to the amount ct $1,000.
The majority report Of the In
vest'gating Committee Of the Ohio
Legislature, condemning Senator
Payne, has been adopted and will be
forwarded to the United States SEN
ate for action.
Some careful statistician has fig
ured out that it costs the government
So 900 J ear for the support Of each
American Indian. Redskins come
high, but the American people are
bound to indulge in them.
Mrs. Ada Kepley ran against
her husband Henry B. Kepley for
school trustee at Etiingham, Illinois,
April 8, and defeated him by IL ma.
jority. Such an occurrence has new
err been known before and in this re-
spect it is novelty.
Speaker Carlisle has appointed
the following committee toinvestigate
the causes and extent of the labor
troubles In the West: Messrs. Cur
tin of Pennsylvania, Grain Of Texas,
Onthwaitc OF Ohio, Stewart Of Yer
mont, Parker Of New York and
Buchanan Of New Jersey.
Brother Talmage. the great di-
vine, took for the subject Of his re-
cent sermon those great alders and
abettors Of religion and reform, the
newspapers. In justice to Mr.. Tai
mage it shall be recorded that he
said more good things Of the news
papers than they generally cay Of
Brother Talmage.
A Methodist minister in Chica-
&c expressed desire, in sermon
on Sunday last, TO see Jay Gould
taken by the neck and kicked through
.he streets OF New York. The two
extremes have been heard from
Congressman LAWYER wants Jay
hung, and now q clergyman wants
him booted. America seems to be a
sultry place for Jay Gould just now.
Pension Commissioners Black
showed UP case before the pension
bureau investigation committee
which would certainly seem to prove
most conclusively that the manage
ment Of that bureau by republicans
had been of the most partisan and
disreputable character, and also
proving the truth OF Mr.. Blacks as
sertion that the department was
made regular political machine for
catering to the wishes of politicians
and working through immense pen
sion claims for which there we're no
just grounds for allowance, but which
the republican managers of the bu
reau pushed through for political
purposes. The case Mr.. Black re
fcrred TO was that Of one Eastwood,
who had been mustered into service
as thirty day man, but VIII. never
was In sight OF the enemy and was
permitted to go home on sick leave
after sleeping outdoors one night,
and at home he remained until he
was mustered out OF service. This
man received an arrears Of pension
amounting to $l0,l55. Among the
letters sent to the department
through the then Senator Williams
was ore calling the attention Of Sen
ator Williams TO the fact that by
giving this case his assistance to-
wards speedy granting of the pen
sion he would favor one VI his swarm
est friends in former contests The
senator, Williams, had endorsed the
papcrs requesting that il be made a
special case. General Black proved
that there was no valid
evidence in support OF the claim.
This Is the strongest evidence that
partisan influences were brought 70 |
bear TO push II through.
"A recent Washington dispatch
says: Capt. Sprague Of New York,
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