The Russellville Democrat., 1888-10-04
PERSONAL AND poLrrICAIA

EPHRAIM $. WELLS, O. SeN York. the manufacturer and original irtroducer of Rough on Rats,r suspended on the 25th. The embarrassment is said to be owing to losses through injudicious expenses in advertising.
 ASSOCIATE JUSTICE STANLEY MATTHEWS, of the United States Supreme Court, was reported better, on the 20th. He was still regarded by his friends as a very sick man. His ailmont is catarrhal diarrhe a, but he has been in bad health for severa months.
 NATHANIEL LIBBEY died at Warren, N. H., on the 25th, aged ninety three years and six months. He was a pensioner of the war of 1872.
 A LETTER has been written by Do n Carlos, the Spanish Pretentef, denying that he is negotiating for reconciliation with the Spanish Government.
 ThE betrothal is announced of Prince George of Greece to Princess Marguerite, daughter of the Due de Chartres of France.
 THE President has proclaimed as a military reservation the tract of land in California near San Pedro bay, now a public reservation by cession from Mex. ico.
 THE trial of Mr Edward Walsh, editor of the Wexford (Ireland) People, who was arrested in August fol offenses under the Crimes act. was postponed uhtil No- vember, on the 2ash,
 NOTWITHSTANDING announcements to the contrary Governor Hill Of New York will speak in but two places in Indiana Mitchell and Lafayette, October l2 and i3 specdvely.
 PRISoE BISMARCK, from errors of fact and date in the published extracts from the late Emperor Frederick's dairy, is led to doubt their authenticity.
 JUSTIN MCCARTHY has pub lished an in. dignant denial of Mir. Chamberlain's as. sertion that Irish leaders have profted by the Nationalist agitation.
 AFTER the close of the investigation into Representative Stahluecker's con- nection with contracts for materials for the Congressional Library building, on the 27th, the committee voted unanimous ly to report 6 complete vindieation exon- srating Mir. Stahlnecker from all charges.
 VIM. II. PlrT, professor of chemistry ln he Buffalo (N Y High School, claims have discovered a proce35 for refining oil petroleum, which til now has refused 10 give up it's extra charge of sulphur.
 ALTHOUGH she admirss H sine's poetry the Empress of Austria explains that she withdraws her donation Co the Heine monument fund, at the request of the Emperor, in eonseqHence Of Heine's in suits to the Hohenzoilerns.
 KfNGwooD (N J.) intelligence to the gTth, represents Mr Garreu's condition as more favorable and his appetite good.
 TIE New York Saa says that General Harrison's contrlbd,Ioa to the Rspu blie- an National cam paign fund was S730.
 BIsHoP YoUNG, of tho Church of En- gland, has forwarded to tha Dominion Government at ottawa aa appeal in be- half of the starving Indians in the North west Territory, whose condition here : ported us truly dep'orable.
 HENRY Nj. sTANLsY's interpreter, Far ran, has signed q statement withdrawing th- cuarge of undue severity made by him against he iate Major Barttelot. Farran admits that he was acau ated by spite in bringing the accusatioIs
 Ar Felixdoff, Germany, ou the 2sth, shot from one of tho guns narrowly missed striking the head of the E uperor |.
 ls consequence Of Mir. Ohamberlain's speeches iu denunciation of Mir Glad stone, his portraits on the walls or the various Liberal clubs are being removed to the rubbish lofts.
 ON the 2Sth committee of the Lower House of the Austrian Diet reported against the proposal to give an official reception to Emperor William of Ger many on the occasion Of his approaching visit
 PREsrDEHr ApAsis in his address to the students of Cornell University, on the 27ti, said in referenc to the practice of hazing: IF any sophomore intends to lav hands on q freshman, l invite him, without delay, to get lci ITS of introduce ton to some instiiuss ia need of more students"