The Russellville Democrat., 1888-10-18
Personal AND POLITICAL.

MELVILLE w. FULLER, of Chicago, was
sworn in as Chief Justice OF the Suprem Q
Court of the United States on the sth.
j. Y. WILLIAMSON, of Philadelphia, has
decided to endow a great industrial
school where boys can be educated and
trades taught free of charge.
Mr.. MOODY, the evangelist, will spend
the winter on the Pacific coast, and is ar
ranging series of meetings in San
Francisco, Portland and other cities of
the coast
Mr.. TIMOTHY HARRINGTON has been
subpnn9d as a witness for the London
Times in the Parnell case. He is cited to
produce the books and papers of the Irish
organizations of which he was secretary
in the years 1879 to 1888.
SENATOR EDMUNps denounces as a for
gerry and fraud the use OF his frank in
sending Henry Georges campaign tracts
to Republicans in Texas
THE report of the committee appointed
to Investigate the operations of the Civil
Service regulations were submitted on the
10th.
OK the 9th John j. Donovan declined q
unanimous nomination at the hands OF the
Eighth Massachusetts Congressional Dis
trlct Democratic convention, but was
afterward induced to accept
THE London publishers OF DR.. Macken-
zie's book have received orders from Ger
man booksellers and librarians for II, 600
copies OF the work.
Ok the 9th fourteen Sioux chiefs in
Guiding Sitting Bull, Gall and John Grass,
passed through Aberdeen, OAK, for Chi
cago. where they joined party Of fifteen
others from various agencies, and pro-
ceeded TO Washington.
Mas. PARSONS, widow of the executed
Anarchist, will visit England and make
addresses. She will leave October 81, in
tending 10 return the latter part OF No
vember.
SENATOR HARRIS, of Tennessee, the
leading member, in the absence of Sena-
tor Beck, of the minority of the Senate
finance committee, said, on the 10th, that
Congress would probably adjourn on the
18th.
EMPEROR WILLIAM arrived in Rome on
the 1ith, and was received by King Hum
bert He paid his respects to the Pope
on the 18th, and afterwards returned TO
the Prussian Legation, and proceeded
thence to the Quirinal.
OK the 10th Jud ge Thurman received a
telegram which caused his immediate de-
parture from Washington for Colum-
bus, o.
Mrs. CLEVELAND returned to Washing
ton, ON the 11th, from her trip TO the
Adirondacks, accompanied by her moth
or, Mrs. Folsom, and DR.. Ward and fam
lily
SPEAKER CARLISLE accepted an invita-
tion TO address a Democratic mass-meet-
ing in Baltimore, Md, on the 18th.
IT was proposed at a conference be-
~. 1.srlr ~ Ia Ion "A
and Senators Allison, Hawley and 9TH
ers, on the 11th to adjourn Congress on
the goth or 22nd inst.
oREPLY had been received by the Sem
ate up to the 18th 10 tho resolution calling
upon the President for copies Of all COM
munications relating to the Chinese treaty
and the reported failure Of the Chinese
Government 20 finally agree to the treaty.
On the 11th Hon. Allen G. Thurman left
Washington for his home in Columbus, o.
THE Pail Mall Gazette charges Sir
Charles Warren, Metropolitan Police
Commissioner, with erasing the writing
that the Whitechapel murderer left on a
wall at the scene of one or ithe murders
before 1t had been photographed.
In his defense against the aspersions
of the German doctors, DIR. Mackenzie
complains that he was placed at marked
disadvantage by being refused access TO
important documents which were avail
able to his assailants.
On the 1Ith Joel I. Earhardt was NOM
mated for mayor of New York by the Re-
publican county convention. John w.
Jacobus was nominated for sheriff.
ADJOURNMENT is the most interesting
topic now being discussed in Washing
ton, and an early dissolution OF Congress
is probable
on the 12th the President vetoed the
bill granting a pension 70 Sarah q. Wood
bridge, on the ground that the precedent
should not be established OF granting q
pension to soldiers widow after re-
marriage, while the second husband sur
wives.