The Russellville Democrat., 1888-07-26

IS Winnipeg, Man., it is reported in of- | ficial circles that the Behring's sea difi- culty has been all bnt settled between England and the United States, the latter country now accepting proposition made years ago.
 ON the i7th the annual convention of the Emerald Beneficial and Literary As- sociation of North America began it's sess sions in St. Patrick's Hall, Baltimore, Md. FOR violating the Bait act Magistrate O'Reiliy, of St. Johns, N. F., on the 17th, fined the captains of the French 'bank- ersv Virginia and Amazon twenty dol- lars each, besides confscating the schooners.
 TIE offers of bonds made the Secretary of the Treasury, OF tiie ..sstn, aggregated over Si, 900, 900, but none we're accepted. fT is said that the Maharajah Holkar of Indore has just married damsel in her twelfth year and thus excited the keen indignation of his other wives. ON the 17th waterspont passed from the ocean through the town of North Beach, Fla, doing considerable damage to boats in the harbor and houses in it's track.
 Ir is reported from France that forged 100-franc notes of the Bank of France have been discovered in circulation.
 THE American Mechanics of Pennsyl- vania will hold their next State conven- tion at Harrisburg on the third Tuesday in July, 1SS9
 ON the 18th the National centennial of the origin of civil government in the Northwest, at Marietta O., closed with 'sOhio Day." the most numerously at tended and enthusiastic of tho celebration.
 AL. / ID I.) Hospital occurred on the 18th. It is constructed on the cottage plan, and cost $20, ,000
 ON the 18th an earthquake shock, with out damage, was felt at Dumfries, Scot land.
 IT has been decided that the great double-scull race between Teemer and Hamm and Gaudaur and Mckay will be rowed on the Round Bay icourse. Severn river, near Baltimore, Md, August or 8. The managers of the course are to offer purses to be contested for by other oars- men on the same day.
 SCHEDULE of campaign rates will shortly he issued by the Pennsylvania Railway Company. The heavy passenger traffic expected during the presidential contest has necessitated the arrangemen of special tariff to provide for the transportation of large bodies. The new rates will probably be one- half the pres : ent tariff.
 THE State Gazetteer of California, for 1888, just issued, gives the population of the State at the present time as over a million and half. Tho official census of 1880 placed the population at about half that number.
 OS the 18th, the man found murdered at Westfield, N. J., several days ago, was identified as Edward Miller, recently coachman for John F. Lawrence, a wealthy New York business man residing at Westfeld, It is supposed by the au- thorities that Miller was murdered for his money. 4'@t sitA*A q
 ABOUT 3,0o0,0 feet of lumber was de- stroyed, on the 18th, by fire in the lumber piles on the docks of Montgomery, Cham- paign & Co.,, at Lakeside, Mich. A large proportion of this was choice stock, and the loss can not fall short of $60 900, about half of which amount Is covered by insur- ance. Ge
 Oy the 20th all the Indian Commission, with the exception of Judge Wright, of Tennessee, left Bismarck, Dak., for Standing Rock agency, and held their first conference with the Indians on tho Fist. Ns Na
 CoMTE DE PARIS reply 10 adeputation of Parisian workingmen, who called upon him at the Sheen House, was published by Le SoleH and other Royalist papers, on the 2oth. The police have made no attempt to interfere with the sale of the papers.
 ACCORDING to the report of the director of the mint for the year 1887 the product of gold amounted to $33, 000 900, and of sil- yer to $l53, 900. Coinage of the hints during the calendar year amounted to S60, ,3T9, 15l. H8
 SELECT committee of the House of Commons has recommended the closing of all public houses throughout Ireland on Sundays hereafter, and at nine o'clock on Saturday nights. 5 asNa al
 AT Per ham, Minn., the grasshopper war continues unabated. Although over 10 900 bushels have been caught the farmers are still catching them at lively rate. None to speak of have flown. s2A{.
 THE steel cruiser Charleston, the first Government vessel ever built on the Pa- cific coast, was launched from the ship yards of the Union Iron Works, San Francisco, on the 18th, and was witnessed by an immense crowd. atl