The Russellville Democrat., 1888-08-02

| Lower California, that gold Is being found there in ex celent ore bodies.
 ON the 25th the Secretary ce the Treas ury accepted only S1,000 four per cent. bonds at S127S.
 IT is reported tn at the object of the plot i which was recently discovered at Rust chuk, Bulgaria, was to murder Prince Ferdinand. Two of the ringleaders, Boyetoff and Ivanhoff, were arrested on | the 18th
 1 ON the 2eth the Secretary of the Treas ury accepted s25,000 fk per cent. coupon | bonds at I2I 2-5
 IT is denied by the Cologne Gazette that 1 the German Government intends to pro- test against the Socialist congress which l it is proposed to hold at Paris during the exhibition there next year.
 BALTIMORE, Md, according to the school census. just completed, has 110, 73l school children.
 Sur was begun by Nathan Myrick in the United States Court at St. Paul, Minn., on the 26th, for interest on Sl1, 32l, the purchase price of bill of goods | sold by plaintiff to the Sioux Indians, 1 in 1861, but which was not liquidated until | 1885.
 THE Southern Railway & Steamship Association has resolved to renew thelr present neutral agreement for the main 1 tenance of rates, for another year from August 1.
 IN Montreal, Can, for some months past large number of young French Canadians have met twiee week in large hall to drill, play cs#ds and drink. They profess to be forming a corps to fight for Boulanger.
 AT Brunn, Austria, the strike was ended on the 26th, an advance having been conceded by the masters.
 TIE delegates of the German Wagner societies agreed to have their headquar- ters in Berlin instead of in Munich. ON the 25th the contract for piping natural gas eighteen miles to Peru, Ind, was let, the work to be completed in sixty days Over fifty miles of pipe is neces- sary to complete the work. and the plant will cost more than S200,000. An immense force will be employed.
 ON the 27th the suit in New York of the Webster Loom Company vs. E. s. Hig- gins Ss Co.,, for infringement of a patent process of carpet weaving, which had been pending fourteen years, was decided in favor of the plaintiff, but only six cent damages were awarded instead of $30 GOO, GOO.
 Ar Toronto, Ont, on the 26th, John Madill, merchant of St. Mary's, Ont, was presented with a solid silver tea service, flor honorable and unusual conduct" in paving his creditors balance of ten cents on the dollar, and to which they were not legally entitled. At the time of his failure his estate paid ninety cents on the dollar.
 AT St. Etienne, France, thousand miners employed in the coal mines struck, on the 27th, and it was expected that tho strike would spread. | AN investigation of the Whisky Trust was begun by the House committee on manufactures on the 2lth. Ar Montreal, Can, James Guest wholesale wine merchant made an as- signment on the 26th. Liabilities, S2o0,- l 900; assets not stated. The loss of s50,- 900 by fires during the past seven months was the cause of the assignment. | ON the 27th evictions from the estate of | Captain Vandeleur, in County Clare, Ire-
 land, were again suspended, and it was 1 thought that negotiations would be en- tered into looking to settlement of the | remaining cases without resorting to l ejectment.
 | Ar Hong Kong, China, during the week
 preceding July ?, ninety deaths from
 
 l ON the 26th the Wisconsin Press Asso- 1 citation arrived at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich, | over the $500" line in special train. | There were 150 editors and friends. They
 were received by a committee of citizens | given an excursion down the St. Mary's river, and reception at the City Hall. l AT Sandown Park, England, on the 27th
 the great eclipse stake of flo,oo0 was
 won by Orbit; Ossory second, and Mart | lev third
 ON the 26th, at a conference of the glass | bottle blowers and manufacturers held in Pittsburgh, Pa, the wage scale for the l ensuing year was amicablY arr nged, and
 the 5000 workers i'll the West will resume
 operations when the fires are started in l the furnaces September l. The scale
 slightly advances wages on novelties, but
 otherwise 1t is the same as last year.
 IT is estimated that 100000 or 100000
 dozen is the number of cans of peachss
 that will be packed at Baltimore, Md, this year.
 ON the 27th the Secretary of the Treas
 ury accepted $500 coupon and S500 regis tered4H per cents at 1071.