The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1888-11-08

In New York City library, reading
| room, industrial classes and other suit
able means for the mental and moral i'm
provement of the working girls, together
with day nursery for the care of infants
Of the poor of the city. is soon to be
| erected.
ON the 31st articles Of incorporation
| were placed on record by the National
Jockey Club OF w ashington.
| sHE Cologne (German) Gazette asserts
that the nobility of the Caucasus medi-
tate an emeute against Russia upon the
| first opportunity, and that the official ac-
| counts of the Czar's late reception by the
mobiles are untrue.
| 1T is reported from Paris that American
residents there are indignant over the al
| legged intention of the State Department
| at Washington to recognize the right OF
! foreign courts to administer the property
| Of Americans dying abroad according to
| the law Of country in which the death oc-
| ours.
| 1T is reported that Foreign Jews en-
| gagged in farming in Poland, have been or
dered to quit the country within a month.
| THE State Department has been ad-
vised of the accession of the Grand Duchy
of Luxembourg to the International Red
| Cross Association.
| THE defendants claim that the evidence
| given by the police reporters witnesses
for the T'imes) before tho Parnell Com
mission was decidedly favorable to tho
| Parnellites.
BETWEEN Octob er 0 and November l
| 1882 persons were carried up in the ele-
vator of Washington monument and
| 2,354 walked up, m aking total of 9, 1885
| who assembled the shaft.
DURING the month of October the total
coinage executed at the mints was 9003,-
| $50 pieces, representing value of s., 371, :
| $50 OF these pieces, 1873, $50 were gold
representing g, 0SS, $50; ). 500, 900 were sill
yer, of the value of So, $50, 900, and 3, 370
900 were minor coins, of the value of S33, :
| 70o
1T is announced that the operations of
the Council General of Alsace- Lorraine
will be conducted hereafter in the Ger
| man language.
AT Birmingham, England, in the NUM-
cipal elections, on the 1st nine wards re-
turned seven Unionists and two Glad
stonians. The elections were contested
on po litical party lines.
The first section of the Trans African
railway from st. Paul de Loanda to Am
baca has been inaugurated.
THE harbor of st. Petersburg was re-
ported frozen on the 3D. closing nayiga-
ton.
GERMAN newspapers are questioning the
import of the Czar's recent visit to Sevas-
topol Attention is drawn to the signif-
canoe of former visit to Sevastopol,
when, upon the Czar's return to the cap
ital war was declared upon Turkey.
ON the 31st the schooner Mystic, which
was supposed to have been lost with her
entire crew. passed Eagle Harbor, Mich,
all safe.
AN Irish attorney at Denver, Col, says
he has received information from London
that q commission will soon be sent to
America to take testimony in the Parnell
and London Times case.
THE decrease in net earnings of the
Union Pacific railroad for September
caused considerable surprise in financial
circles.
On the I'd the steam whaler Brasher ar
rived at San Francisco from the Arctic
ocean, bringing information that the thir-
teen whalers which were caught in the
| ice pack in September had been extri-
Gated, and were safely on their way to the
| whaling rendezvous.
For the mouth of October the sales of
leaf tobacco in the Danville IVA. mar
ket amounted to 1, 1913, S43 pounds.
On the ID the Brotherhood of Locomo
tive Engineers, in session at Richmond,
Va, adopted a proposition approaching
labor federation. No member of one
brotherhood shall take the place of a
member Of another brotherhood in case
of strike.
The forthcoming report of the Post.
master General will show that in spite OF
the re cent reduction in letter. postage,
the service is rapidly getting back to
self -sus tanning basis.
On the 1st riot, in which several per-
sons were severely injured, occurred at
Middleton, County Cork, Ireland, be-
tween the police aud mob who rescued
a man under arrest
On the night of the 1st, during torch
light procession in the City of Belgrade,
Servia, stones were thrown at the win
dows of the Austrian Legation, some of
which were broken.
HERBERT l.. CRITCHETT of Daniels az
Critchett, real estate and auctioneers OF
Boston, has disappeared leaving a large
deficit, amounting to $4,000. Mr.. Dam
iels, senior member of the firm, thinks
his personal loss will be Sl0 900.