The Russellville Democrat., 1886-12-01
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.

There were ls9 failures in the United States during the past week.
 Lake navigation is practically at an end, owing to theIecent storms.
 The Vim parish (Louisiana) court house burned, with all the records. O'Donovan Rossa has been retired from leadership of the Fenian Brother hood.
 Lawrence Bethune, of Amargo, N. M.. has been sent to the penitentiary for robbing the mails.
 Investigation shows that the Conti- mental hotel fire at Chicago was the work of incendiaries.
 The Memphis water-works were sold on the 27th to Bullock & Co.,, of New York, for $500,000.
 The jail at Somerville, ,Fayette county, Tennessee, fifty miles east of Memphis, was destroyed by fire on the 27th.
 The inside history of the packers strike, as published at Chicago, places Master Workman Butler in an nnenvia- ble position.
 A system of weather service similar to that of the government is to be estab- lished by the Union Pacific railroad all along it's lines.
 A new political club. modelled after i the Manhattan of New York and Iro- auois of Chicago, is being organized at Washington.
 The schooner North Star, of Hamil- ton, Ont, loaded with coal, sunk off Stony Island Friday night in eight feet of water. Crew saved
 J. tS $. B. Sachs, wholesale boot and shoe dealers and manufacturers, of Cin- cinnati, assigned on the 27th. Liabili- ties, S300,000; assets. S200,000.
 Wm. Herbert, late president of the First National bank at Glen Rock, Pa., was arrested on the 27th, charged with embedding the funds of the bank.
 The lighthouse board in their annual report, recommends an appropriation of S20, ,0OO for the establishment of light house and buoy depot at Memphis.
 Henry George, of New York, is ar ranging for the publication of weekly paper, to be called the Standard, de- voted to the interest of all who work.
 The stove-moulders at DeHaven's foundry, Pittsburg, have struck against a reduction ordered several weeks ago. Foundry closed and about 150 men idle.
 It is stated at the treasury depart ment that the new g. silver certificates will be ready for general distribution in 1 limited quantities about the end of this week.
 I s. H. H. Clark, formerly manager of the Union Pacific railway, has been ap- pointed first e-president of the Mis- souri Pacific railroad, vice H. M. Hoxie, 1 deceased.
 1 A passenger train on the Missouri i Pacific collided with freight train near Greenwood, twenty miles east of | Kansas City, on the 27th. Two postal clerks killed.
 { North Carolina's official vote returns i six democrats, one labor candidate and one republican to congress. The average democratic majority on the state ticket l is about 23,000.
 I The internal revenue bureau states 1 that the revenue from tax on oleomar- garine, which went into effect Novem- ! Der l. will amount to about S400, ,000 for the present month.
 It is intimated that Secretary Man ming, in his report, will recommend ? 1 percent. refunding bond for the benefit of national banks wishing to continue their circulation.
 l The municipal council of Paris, I France. has requested United States ! Minister McLane to intercede with the governor of Illinois in behalf of the con- demned anarchists of Chicago. The bills of the house of representa- lives for decorating the capitol with mourning on the occasion of both i Grants and Hendricks death remain unpaid for want of an appropriation. The steamer Alaska struck the Ore : gon, near Detroit, on the night of the 27th. with such force as to cause the captain of the Oregon to beach her on Bois Blanc Island to prevent her from i sinking.
 i A special from Montague, Mich., says 1 the bodies of the men lost on the l schooner Knowlton were found there 1 this morning, and $l0O0, known to have i been on the person of the captain, was missing.
 The bureau of statistics at Washing 1 ton reports the value of our imports for the year ended October 3l at $655, ,S39,- 1 TIC. against $572, ,427 ,37S for the preced- ing twelve months, and exports at S697, ,02l ,s63, against S7l6,672,611. 1 A syndicate of business men of St. Louis have purchased the mining prop erty near Silver City, N. M., known as the Bremen mine, and have organized company with capital stock of So,O0O,- GOO. The property embraces ls0 acres,
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