The Russellville Democrat., 1888-02-02
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.


 ON the 2jtb, i'll the Massachusetts House of Represen tatives, the constitutional prohibition resolution was passed to be en- grossed, in concurrence with the Senate, by a vote of 160 to 70, with one pair, being six more than the necessary two-thirds.
 On the 25th Hon. Charles F. Daly, president of the American Geographical Society, was before the Senate committee on foreign relations, and made an argu- ment in favor of the bill introduced by Senator Edmcnds, to incorporate the Maratime Canal Company of Nicaragua.
 THE report that he would like to have the Democratic National convention held in New York is emphatically denied by President Cleveland.
 ON the 26th Mir. Thomas OConnor's $ lStqr, in long leader, denounces the House of Peers, and lords in general. It says they are worthless lot, and do the country no good, and that England will know no progress until the very name of peer is done away with.
 SENATOR MANDERsoN's "Grand Army" Pension bill, which has been framed to overcome the Presidents objection to the Dependent Pension bill, which he vetoed last year, has been unanimously opposed by the Senate committee on pensions.
 IN the House the bill to create an execu- tive department of agriculture and labor, which failed last year for want of time and the Presidents signature, has been approved by the committee on agriculture, and will be reported very early.
 ON the 25th the anniversary of the mar riage of the German Crown Prince and Crown Princess was celebrated at San Reno. Englishmen and Americans con- tributei many bouquets.
 IN Mexico the presidential campaign is fully inaugurated. Diaz appears to have the lead in the race.
 FoR acting as president and secretary of a proclaimed National League meeting at Tarbert in November last, Mir. Kennedy and Mir Fttzgibbon, of Tarbert, County Kerry, Ireland, have been sentenced to six weeks each at hard labor
 IN Denmark United States Marshal Franks, of California, has identified A. J. Benson, in jail at Copenhagen, as the party wanted in California for fraudulent land surveys.
 IN the Chamber of Deputies on the 26th, Sig. Crispi, Italian Prime Minister, re- plying to an interpolation, said there was no truth in the statement that the French Government had discharged all Italians employed in the national facto. ries.
 ON the 26th, on motion of Senator Vest, of Missouri, the Senate passed that gen tieman's bill to increase the pension of the widow of General Frank P. Blair from $500 to g., 900 per year. A similar bill in the interest of Mrs. Logan, widow of Gem eral John A. Logan, was also passed. The House commit tee on pensions now has pending bill to pension Mrs. Logan.
 ON the 18th the Grant monument com. mittee in New York adopted the draft of a circular to be sent to all architects and sculptors who may desire to compete for the honor of designing the memorial to General Grant. The estimated cost is S5O0,00O instead of $500, ,0O0, the original figure.
 ON the evening of the 26th a reception was given by the President and Mrs. Cleveland at the executive mansion tc members of Congress and the justices oi the District and United States courts Mrs. Cleveland was assisted in receiving by Mrs. Fairchild, Mrs. Whitney and Mrs Don NJ. Dickinson.
 ON the 28th Chas. c. B. Walker died al Corning, N. Y., and there is genera mourning over the loss of one who, for ( quarter of q century, was the formosi man in business in Southern New York. Colonel Walker had suffered from a long illness. He was sixty three years old and was born in Drewsville, N. H., Jan uary 27, 1894.
 ON the 27th George Clark, president of Typographical Union No. & of St Louis and ex-president of the International Typographical Union died from typhoid pneumonia
 INFORMATION which the Baltimore Sun professes to have from an authoritative source in New York is that Archbishop Corrigan has resigned as trustee of the Catholic University to be established in Washington.
 MR WALTER TILsoN, of Monticello, has been sued by Miss Aldora J. Hill, of Clin- ton, H., for S, 900 damages for beach of promise.
 IN Belgium Baron De Worms, of En gland, is agitatlng the abolition of ths sugar tax.
 A CIRCULAR has been issued by Mir Glad stone from Florence to his followers in Parliament indicating that an exciting session is approaching.
 FRIDAY, the 2Tth, was the twenty ninth anniversary of the birthday of Prince William of Germany, oldest son of the Grown Prince, and be was appointed . Major-General and commander of th, second brigade of the infantry guards
 oS the 27th Thomas Gardner the pro prietor of the Chicago Form Journal, why was arrested last April by the Unitec States postal authorities for afraaduienl use of the mails m conducting lottery and gift enterprise, was found guilty il tne United States District Court at Chi