The Russellville Democrat., 1888-07-26
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

IT is reported that Sister Mary Frances Clare, better known as "The Nun of Ken mare," has renounced Catholicism.
 TIE Senate, by a vote of p to 21, pass- ed the bill placing John c. Fremont on the retired list of the army as Major General. Five Democratic Senator's Butler, Call, Gray, Gibson and Hearst voted for the bill.
 ON the 18th R. A McD onald, indicted for perjury in connection with his suit against the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Day. ton railroad, appeared before Judge Shroder, of Cincinnati, and gave bond in the sum of $2,5o0, with ". B. Smith and Albert Netter as sureties.
 THE National Republican Committee have selected the four story brick house at No. 91 Fifth avenue, New York, as head : quarters. They will move in as soon as the building can be otready.
 AN absolute divorce has been granted to Fanny l.. Davenport, the actress.
 ON the 1Ith General Boulanger was feverish, but improved later.
 Es is said that negotiations are in prog ress with a view to the betrothal of the Prince of Naples, the only son of the King and Queen of Italy, to Princess Clementine, the youngest of the three daughters of the King and Queen of Bel gium. The Prince of Naples will not be nineteen till November, and the Princess will be sixteen on the 30th.
 THE second son of the Czar, the Grand Duke George of Russia, is about to enter the Imperial navy. He was seventeen last May, and is a very bright clever lad.
 ON the 18th the German squadron es- corting the Emperor passed the island of Dagoe at 6:39 q. III.
 THE celebrations of the rev olution at Grenoble, in the Department of Isere, were attended by President Carnot.
 REPRESENTATIVE COLLINS, of Massachu- sets, is reported as saying that he posi- lively will not accept a Congressional renomination
 THE Pope states that he does not intend to leave Rome, and expresses regret that his last note to the Irish clergy in regard to the political situation should have been misinterpreted.
 ON the 18th the German yacht Hohen- zollern, with Emperor William aboard, entered the Roads at Crons tadt, Russia amid volleys of salutes from war-ships and forts. The Hoheuzollern was re- ceived by the Russian yacht Djerava, on board of which was the Czar
 THE President has approved the Agri- cultural and District of Columbia Ap- propriation bills.
 GENERAL ANNENKoFF, the constructor of the Trans Caspian railway, has re- ceived the decoration of the Order of Alexander Hevsky, in recognition of his services in building the line.
 IT was reported on the 18th that Geo. H. Staynor and Henry s. Ives, the fugitive New York financiers, were "guests" at the Clifton House, Nigga Falls, Ont. They declined to see any one.
 THE Senate has confirmed Oscar E. Req, to be register of the laud office at Bis marck, Dak., and Thomas Parker to be postmaster at Albion, N. Y.
 Ir is said that Colonel Lamont's late visit to McGrawville, N. Y., was to verify a report that important papers relating to the Cleveland campaign of 1881 and the Hill campaign of 1885. had been stolen from his house. He found the report to be true, and employed number of de- tectiyes to search for the missing papers.
 THE Berlin Nordhausea GG&ette has been confscated on account of it's answer to articles referring to Dowager Empress Victoria which had appeared in French papers. The editor will be prosecuted.
 THE Earl of Erne, England, has been chosen grand master of Orangemen throughout the world.
 GEORGE w. HAzELTrSE, of Jamestown, N Y, who was serving an eight-year sentence for the killing of Mamie Thorpe, of Long Island, III Baltimore, July l9, 1881, has been pardoned by Governor Jackson of Maryland.
 ON the 18th Sister Mary Frances Clare Cusack, better known as the "Nun of Kenmare," denied that she has left the Catholic church, and demanded the name of the person who started the report, which, she says, is false.
 ON the 20th the House committee on agriculture failed to reach vote on any of the food adulteration bills before it.
 ON the 20th General Thomas |. Young died of dropsy, at Cincinnati.
 ON the night of the 10th John S. Mars, another of the men implicated in the alleged frauds in connection ith the contracts for teas and other articles in tho Brooklyn navy yard, was arrested, and is said to have made rather an im- portant statement
 WHILE out boating with the son of her landlady, unknown to her husband. on the 18th, Mrs. P J. Fully, young mar ried woman, was carried over the Ameri- can falls at Niagara and lost
 REV. FATHER GELLTGANs was released from the Limerick (freland) jail, on the 20th, where he had been imprisoned under the Crime act. On leaving the jail, Father Gelligan made $ brief address to inc crowd that had assembled to witness his release.
 TIE nomination of Mir. Melville w. Fulier. of Illinois, to be Chief-Justice of the United States Supreme Court was confrmea by the Senate, on the 2otl. The