The Russellville Democrat., 1888-09-27

IT is said that halibut banks have been discovered in 100 fathoms of water one milo from tho shore of Queen Charlotte island, in the Northern Pacific, where fish seven feet long are secured in great numbers.
 THE first bass- ball club in America the Knickerbockers--waso organized for ty three years ago, April 23d-
 THE United Typothet@ of America-the employing printers of the United States and Canada--met in second annual ses- sion in New Y ork, on the 18th.
 THE cotton operatives on strike in Bol- ton, England, have accepted the masters terms. and resumed work.
 THREE THOUSAND cases cf aannel were sold at auction ir New Fork, on the 18th, the prices averaging from 14k to 14k cents per yard.
 THE SS,0o0. 900 suit of the Hooking Val- Icy Railroad Company against Stevenson Burke and his associate, ex-directors of the company, has been decided in favor of defendants. Judge Burke viii bring suit against the company for heavy dam- ages.
 THE International Literary and Artistic Congress, in session at Venice, declared that authors copyrights should include tho right of translation.
 TWENTY deaths and 156 new cases marked the 18th as the most terrible day up to that date of the yellow fever plague ct Jacksonville, Fla
 THE Cherokee Strip Live-St Asso- citation after passing resolutions turning over to the Cherokee Council all the im- provements, fences, etc., in the strip leased by the association, adjourned it's session at Caldwell, Kas on the 18th.
 ON the 20th Mayor Les of Denver, Col, forwarded $1,950 to Jacksonville, Fla, being the amount subscribed in that city for the aid of the yellow fever sufferers.
 DURING the late National encampment the total number of G. A. R. tickets de- posted at the Columbus joint ticket agency for excursion privileges was 20, : 900. At St Louis last year the number was 1000.
 THE Secretary of the Treasury ren- dered decision, on the 20th, that jute bagging exported as covering of cotton can not be re-imported free of duty, but is subject to 8 duty of 1H cents per pound, unless it is washing bagging, and only fit to be converted into paper.
 THE New York Producs Exchange has decided to make the opening hour in that city each day 10:30 a. m., and the closing hour :15 p. m.
 AFTER a weeks session at Minneapolis, Minn., the Lutheran Council of North America adjourned, on the 18th, to meet at Pittsburgh, Pa, October F, 1889.
 ON the 18th one death from yellow fever occurred in Jackson, Miss, and three new cases were reported on the 2oth panic and exodus followed which threat ened to depopulate the town.
 STATE HEALTH OFFICER RUTHERFORD of Texas made an official announcement on the 20th, that there had not been a case of yellow fever in that State.
 ONE death from yellow fever occurred at Decatur, Ala, on the 20th, and people were reported leaving the city in great numbers.
 PUBLIC confidence in health certificates issued by health officers at Southern points was utterly destroyed by the pub- lication, at Me mphis, on the Fist, that the inspection Is farce, and that certificates have been openly sold to whoever would buy by the health officers at Huntsville, Ala, and Jackson, Tenn, at prices rang ing from fifty cents to one dollar each.
 ON the Fist the district attorney of New York gave Herr Most two weeks in which to sustain his appeal taken almost year ago from a sentence of one years
  prison. He has been out on bail, and seems to have forgotten hls responsi- bility to the court.
 DECATUR (Ala) yellow-fever refugees are not allowed to stop at Nashville, Tenn.
 ON the Fist the Secretary of the Treas ury accepted bonds offered to the amount of $2, ,645, 900.
 AN imported stallion for which Stokes & Whitehead, English ranchmen, in Wyoming, paid $7,000, was shot and killed on the 20th. The animal had been sick a couple of days with lung fever, and as there was no possible chance for recovery, 1t was killed to end its misery.
 THIEVES in the Texas Pan- handle, 1t has been discovered, have been running hun dreds of head of stolen cattle eastward via St. Joseph, Mo-, and selling them.
 TWENTY THREE new nurses arrived at Jacksonville, Fla, on the Fist and were put to work.
 ON account of lamentable lack of lucre in the military chest the Sultan of Turkey has had to give up the idea of autumn maneuvers of the second class reserves.