The Russellville Democrat., 1888-09-13
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

 Berlin, andDhis betrothal to the Princess Sophie is said to give unfeigned pleasure The Vienna papers regard the event as of political importance.
 IT is reported that Captain J. H. Peter kin, of Columbia, s. C., has ordered ex- tensive machinery for the purpose oi making wood bagging for cotton, to take the place of jute. He asserts that he will be able to make 200 900 feet day and fur nish 1t at five cents yard. If he is suc- cessful the Cotton Bagging Trust will amount to nothing.
 AN order has been issued by General Booth to the Salvation Army in England and America for the observance of a week of self-denial for the benefit of the cause. From the accumulated savings of the army during this period the General expects to realize @, 900.
 SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR VIM. K VILLAS opened the Democratic campaign in Wisconsin by speech at Milwaukee, on the 9th.
 ON the 9th W. L. Scott was unanimously nominated for Congress by the Demo. cratic convention at Union City, Pa His course in Congress was indorsed by em- phatic resolutions.
 JUDGE NEy, of Iowa, has rendered @ decision that under the Prohibitory law of that State man can not lawfully manufacture cider for use in his own family.
 SPEAKER CARLISLE did not attend the great Democratic meeting in New York on the 9th.
 As THE result of an irreconcilable split in the convention, two candidates for Congress were placed in nomination by the Tenth New Jersey Democratic Con- gressional convention, on the 9th.
 IT is said that August Belmont offered Bryant, owner of Proctor Knott, St0.0o0 for the now famous colt with contin- gent of S10,000 additional If he won the Futurity stake.
 THE Duke of Edinburg, it is reported, in an interview with the Sultan, discussed the question of the passage of an English fleet through the Dardanelles in the event of Russian occupation of Bulgaria.
 ON the 9th Surgeon General Hamilton returned to Washington from his visit to Atlanta and Camp Perry, Fla.
 IN answer to an appeal from the yellow fever stricken people at Jacksonville, Mayor Hewitt of New York issued [ proclamation in their behalf on the 9th.
 LESTER WALLACE, the actor and theat- rical manager, died at Stamford, Conn, on the 9th.
 . SURGEON GENERAL HAMILTON is report ed in constant receipt of telegrams from the municipal officers of Southern cities indorsing his plan of action.
 A PAPER written by Count De Lesseps was read recently before the British As- sociation at Bath, England. The Count declares that he Is confident of complet- ing the Panama canal, to contain ten locks, by 1890.
 LORD CLAsRIcARDE, it Is announced, is completing the work of eviction on his estates by leveling to the ground the houses of tenants who have been evicted.
 UP to the 9th the Parnell fund in lre- land amounted to fi,S2i.
 ARCHBISHOP WALSH has forwarded to the National League fi,532 sent from America Australia and New Zealand, to be applied to the relief of evicted ten ants.
 ON the 9th the announcement was made that James Redpath, of Abolition fame, and now editor of the Worth ADsericaa Re . vieso, was married, on the lst, to Mrs. Corpenning the widow of Major Corpen- ming, of New York. The lady is well known in Washington society.
  Demo cratic meeting in New York City, on the 9th, Judge Thurman was taken so i'll that he had to be assisted to his hotel, wbe-e he was placed in the hands of a physician.
 AT Jackson, Mich, on tho 9th, Manly NJ. Walker was arrested, charged with frandulently securing campaign funds from Democratic post office employees.
 THE papal nuncio at Brussels has been instructed by the Pope to aid Cardinal Lavigiere 10 convoke an international conference on the suppression of slave trading. His Holiness promises to send legates to the conference.
 BARON OPPEsHEINER, of Cologne, Ger many, is reported to have subscribed IA, GOO marks to the Emin Bey relief ex- petition fund. stipulattng that the money shall be used for relief and not for colon A,