The Russellville Democrat., 1888-08-09
THE reduction in the pubic debt for r,yx, q or<rvr.oa fad q 12T 9q2

 July aggregated $4. f3T, ,298
 IT is reported that during the last half ot July 117.000 Texan cattle, the majority of which were destined for the eastern ranges of Montana were sent into that State. Stockmen express themselves as pleased with the prices now paid for Montana beef in Chicago.
 DURING the month of July 2S,690 immi- grants arrived at Castle Garden, an in- crease of 1,246 over July of last yenr.
 THE constitutionality of the ..ocai- Op' ton License Act of Now Jersey was af. fir,sesi Q, ...1iss Court of Errors and App pesi,ss 1f Trenton, on the 3lst-
 THERE were, on the 1st, in the vaults of the Treasury Department 2f5, 7g3, 765 silver dollars.
 ON the 3lst the race for the Stewards Cup, which was run at Goodwood, En- gland, was won by Tib; Bismarck, second, The Shrew, third.
 ON the 2d, in his testimony before the Senate Indian leadership committee, Ex- Governor Pound of Wisconsin said thera was not enough land in the Gear O'Reille reservation to give all the h. diaps their allotments in severalty.
 CANDLEMAs won the race for the Ches- terfield cup at Goodwood, England, on the lst. Lisbon, second; Dante, third.
 THERE had been 2s, 352 more immigrants landed at Castle Garden, up to August 1, than for the same time last year.
 OS the 1st a novel steam generator, a new departure in steam boiler construc- tion, the invention of Mir. J. Mckim Chase, q well-known master mechanic of Washington, was successfully exhibited in that city. Steam was raised from cold water in twenty minutes, and to two hundred pounds in thirty minutes.
 AN emphatic denial is made of the state- ment that the English Government had withdrawn the new magazine rife from use in the army.
 ON the 2d the race for the Goodwood cup was run at Goodwood, England Roda won, with Osrie second and Timothy third.
 SOUTHEAST of Grand Forks, Dak., mill- ions of cut-worms are devastating the wheat fields.
 IN Annoy, China, cholera seems for the present to be held in check, but at Chang Chow it is reported that 30lO deaths h i've occurred in the last sixty days.
 NEWS under the date of July 1j, from Wakamotoa, Japan, says the volcano of Mt. Iwahassi suddenly burst into activity, and in short time fifty-six houses in Iwasenura were destroyed. A telegram received on the l6th says that the erup- tion still continued with great destruc- tion and loss of life. About four hundred persons and thirty houses in . village called Bira were buried under the sand and ashes thrown out by the volcano. Among those buried were some fifteen visitors at the hot springs in the neigh borhood.
 THE Austrian and Hungarian govern ments have decided to suspend the trial by jury of Anarchists for one year.
 ON the 2d a windstorm in the town of Lake, near Chicago, did considerable damage to buildings in course of erection. Six cottages, just nearing completion, were wrecked, entailing loss of 10000, and many sheds, fences, small barns and trees were blown down.
 ON the 2d the arrangements for wed ding between George Blair and a young lady of Berlin, Wis, were all knocked in the head by the prospective bridegroom, who at the last moment decided in favor of morphine rather than matrimony. Latest reports say he may recover.
 THE 3d was the last day of the Good wood (England) race meeting The feat ure of the programme was the race for the Goodwood stakes, a handicap of twenty sovereigns each, with f500 added, which was won by Stourtead, Clancnttan second, Fealty third.
 Ar Marquette, Mich, number of men working in the Duluth, South Shore X Atlantic railway shops and on the line of the road, were laid off, on the 2d, pre- l iminary to turning over the line to the Canadian Pacific which has secured con- trol of It.
 ON the 3d the National Plumbers con- vention, in SC ssiou in Boston, adiour ed after electing John Nj. Hugot, of Boston, as National district w. F.; Rich lrd O'Brien, of Washington, secretary and treasurer, and John W. Dougherty dis trict Nj. W.
 A WICKED LOOKING section Of s-pipe, two feet long and plugged at both ends, was sent by some grim wag to Inspector Bopfield, of Chicago, over the Nickel Plate railroad, on the 31.
 ON the 3d, Orr, of the Brooklyn Base- Ball Club, was laid off as captain, and suspended without pay, by Manager Byrne, until he gets ready to play. He reported sick, on the 2d, was excused, and then went to Coney Island.