The Russellville Democrat., 1886-07-21
NEWS AND NOTES.


 The primary elections held in Georgia resulted in the choice Of 8 majority of the Gordon delegates. The State convention meets on the 18th.
 -The most significant fact in the English elections so far is that con. siderably over a million voters in the United Kingdom have voted in favor of granting Home Rule to Ireland With such force behind him, Mir. Gladstone's triumph is but short time postponed.
 -Advices from New Zealand tell of disastrous earthquake by which, so far as known, one hundred and twenty persons lost their lives. Hundreds of farms were rnined, and ID many places lhe cattle are perish ing for want of sustenance, gases from the earth having destroyed the herbage.
 The Unionists have majority of 13l over the combined GladstonIte and Nationalist vote. The Conserv- atlves have . plurality of seventy five oyer the Liberals of every pat tern, and as stated above, a clear lead of two over all the other parties and subdivisions combined. Eighty. eight constituencies have still to re- port
 Hon. Randolph Tucker, Of vir- ginia, having announced his inten- tion to retire from public life, his constituents are endeayoring to i'm duce hIm to reconsider his determi- nation. It IS to be hoped they will succeed in their efforts. Randolph is one of the most efficient members of congress and one of the ah,; a-x- poDents of true democsa~,.
 = The Washington correspondent of the C;-oinnati Times, points out tha. turing the fiscal year just end ed, cotton has yielded a larger amount than any other article ex- ported. The Times heads the ar ticle Cotton is Still King.n That article says: Cotton, the staple product of the south, has brought more money to this country from abroad than any other one article or class of articles exported-vcs. twice or three times as much"
 John Kelly thought Tilden too old and frail to run a second time as president. John Kelly is dead. The stalwart Chandler wrestIcd the pres idency from Tildsn. Chandler isl dead. Grant, il is said, would have arrested and imprisoned Tilden if he had attempted to claim tie office he had been elected to. Grant isl dead. Hancock was chosen as 8 more likely man to live through the presidency than Tllden. Hancock is dead Hendricks seemed to have long life ahead of him as compared with the man at the head of the ticket Hendricks is dead. Sey- mour, Mcclellan, all the old candI dates are dead. Meanwhile Tilden thinks there is nothing so invigorat ing as working away before the mast on his yacht
 The following Is the concluding paragraph of the report Of . majori- U of the committee that invesfiga ted the Pan Electric case:
 "Resolsed, That full, fair and exhaustive investigation has failed to adduce any evidence which tends to show that Attorney General Gar land, Solicitor Goode, Secretary La mar. Indian Commissioner Atkins, Roilroad Commissioners Johnson or Harris, they being tue officers named in the Pan Electric publications Of the newspaper press, which gave rise to this investigation. sIid any act, official or otherwise, connected l with the matter investigated, which was slisnonest. dishonorablc or cen surable.r
 This Is but a summary Of the re ! port. which covcrs the ground so { clearly as to leave not the slightest ground for charge of white uash- ing.