The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1888-02-23
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.


On the 2lst the President and Mrs.
Cleveland accompanied by Colonel and
Mrs. Lamont, and Secretary and Mrs.
W hitn sy, will leave Washington for
short visit to Florida, stopping en- route
for an hours drive through Savannah,
Ga. They will spend one day at Jackson
vile aud one at st. Augustine, and return
to Washington on the 10Th
On the 18th forty thousand people as
sembled in Hyde Park, London, to attend
the public reception to ex- Lord Mayor
Sullivan of Dublin and Mr., o'Brien.
On the 14th the Mayor of Cork was SEN
fenced to fourteen days for assaulting
police sergeant at plan OF campaign
meeting on the 18th ult.
On the 18th the House committee on
agriculture decided to report favorably
the Hatch bill to create new executive
department to be known as the Depart
msnt OF Agriculture. The bill as reported
is amend 81 by striking out all reference
to the inclusion of the Labor Bureau in the
new department
Ir is reported that Gustav Ranger. the
wsll-know cotton merchant of New York
and Galveston, is financially embarrassed.
The pigeon shooting match at Long
Branch, which closed on the 18th, was
with a score Of A. Wertzgner, second,
scored As, and Stc'. third, 45.
On the 10Th r.. G. Evans, a young law
yer of Minneapolis, Mimi, was chosen to
succeed Senator Davis on the National
Republican committee.
OK the 18th, in Dublin, j. d. Pyne, N.
p, was convicted of melting Tss istapce to
the baliffs, aud sentenced to three
months imprisonment. At the close of
tho trial he was arrested on a similar
charge.
ON the 10Th Mr.. Herbert Gladstone, in
tho House of Commons, taunt ted the gov
ernment on its utter failure to prevent
tho progress of the plan of champaign, or
TO uppress the Irish National League.
On the 21st the Interstate Commerce
Commits sion will begin the investigation
OF the matter of the inland iransporta-
tion of immigrants, based ON the com
plaint of James C. Savorv 81 Co. against
the trunk lines in New York City.
FoR his evasive statements in the House
of Commons concerning secret foreign
treaties, Sir James Ferguson has been
severely criticised,
On the 18th Messrs. John Dillon and
Wm. O'Brien were in their seats in the
House of Commons, looking sunburnt and
healthy. Is
THE fisheries treaty, said to be salts
factory to all parties, was signed by the
commissioners on the 14th.
CUSTOMS officers have been instructed
by Assistant Secretary Maynard that at
quarantine stations under control OF State
local authorities the Federal customs ofli-
GERS must not interfere with reasonable
state or local laws; but where such regu-
lations conflict with Federal laws, the
customs officers must perform their duty,
and the Federal laws must be enforced as
supreme.
The inquiry by special congressional
committee in to he cause and conduct of
the great Reading strike continues. Cen
oral Manager Whitney OF the Reading
Coal & Iron Company was before the
committee on the 16th.
UNDER FoREIGN SECRETARY FERGUSON
continues to be pressed by Mr. Labouchere
for information as to the existence of for
eign treat les, securing only evasive re-
plies
ON the 10th, on resuming the debate on
the address in the British Parl ament, Mr..
O'Brien said he neither felt wounded nor
dlsgraced by his late imprisonment.
ACCORDING to the London Lancet, Or.
Mackenzie's latest report will not do much
to allay anxiety concerning the Crown
Prince. The diagnosis has been and con-
tinues to be uncertain.
OK the 10th DR.. Mackenzie entered his
protest against the course Of treatment
pursued by the German doctors in the case
of the Grown Prince.
OK the 10th Premier Tirard left the
French Chamber Of Deputies in disgust,
dec airing he would resign because Of an
adverse vote on the appeal OF tho govern
ment TO take into CON onsidera5ion the ques.
ton Of reducing the saiaries Of treasury
paymasters.
KEMP, Of Australia, aud Edward Han
Ian, OF Canada, ase matched to row for
the ehampl0hsh Of the world.