The Russellville Democrat., 1888-08-09
PERsONAL AND POLITICAL

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
 IT is reported that Emperor William in- tends to meet Queen Victoria as soon as possible, probably at Baden.
 KING MILAN of Servia has asked the Con sistory to grant him legal separa- ton from Queen Natalie.
 ATTORNEY GENERAL GARLAND's family returned from Rock Enon Springs, Va, to Washington, on the 31st The Attorney General went to Hominy Hill, his Ar kansas home.
 THE Florida Republicans have nomi- mated Major V. J. Shipman, of Pensacola. for Governor.
 ON the 1st it was rumored in London that Justice Day had declined the place offered him on the Parnell Commission.
 ON the 1st Wm. L. Breeze senior mem- Der of the stock brokerage firm of Breeze & Smith, begun suit in the Supreme Court of New York City against Wm. K. Vanderbilt for alleged breach of contract in certain negotiation in Lake Shore stock. Damages are placed at S1,00o, 900 with interest.
 OK the 31st Mir. Blaine cabled from Europe: "I shall be present at the great Portland meeting August l5, and speak"
 M. DE LEssEPs, in his report, which was presented at the Panama Canal Con- pany's meeting in Paris, on the 3lst, de- nounced what he designated as the dis graceful maneuvers to accomplish the company's ruin, and begged his country men to come to the relief of that com pany by taking the lottery bonds.
 PRESIDENT CLEVELAND. Postmas ter Gen eral Dickinson and Colonel Lamont re- turned to Washington from their fishing excursion on the 3lst. All well.
 ON the 3lst Chief Justice Fuller called on the President, accompanied by Justice Harlan and Secretary Bayard. They re- mained about fifteen minutes.
 THE belief is expressed by Dr. Schwein- furth, of London, that Stanley may have reached the southern part of the exten- sive and i'll defined district of Bahr Gazel, from which there are two available routes to Wadelai Stanley, he thinks, is safe unless his supply of ammunition has become exhausted.
 IN well-informed crcles the belief 8 strengthening that the mysterious "white Pasha, " who is said to be marching to- ward Khartoum, is none other than Mir. Henry M. Stanley, and hope is revived that he may yet fall in with and rescue the great Christian soldier, General Cor don, the report of whose death at the fall
  refused to believe.
 WHEN he was laid to rest by the side of his mother in s.. Mary's Cemetary, at Pittsburgh, Pa.. on the 2d, the last wish expressed by the late Bartley Campbell, the playwright, was honored.
 BY the recent arrival at Zanzibar of two messengers bringing more definite news thnn nas been received for nearly year, quickened interest and renewed hope have been awakened in the tate of Mir. Stanley.
 ON the 2d Secretary Villas was before the Senate committee on Indian affairs and spoke in advocacy of the bill estab- fishing 6 court for the adjudication of In- dian depreciation claims to be known as the Indian Depreciation Court of Claims.
 ON the 2d Hon. Alfred Hand, presiding iudge of Lackawanna County, was ap- pointed by Governor Beaver of Pennsyl- vania as the successor of Judge Turnkey on the Supreme Court bench.
 Ex-MAYoR COOPER of New York is on his way to Paris. He will make tour of France and Germany.
 THE Cologne Gazette confirms the state ment that Emperor William will meet Queen Victoria at Baden. September 30.
 LETTERS patent, dated July 3l, 1888, have been ODthiutu DY frOl, EnSud 6fhy, of Highland Park, H., for combination of instruments called telautograph, consisting of transmitter and re- ceiver, and designed for transmitting messages by wire between dist ant points by the sender in his own handwriting; thus doing away with skilled operators.
 Ar Indianapolis, Ind, on the 2d, meet ing ot workingmen called for the purpose ol urging ex-Governor Porter to run for Governor on the Republican ticket, was captured by anti Harrison men, who de- nounced the Republican platform. and requested Porter, as friend of working men, not to be candidate.
 IT is reported that Gabell, the con- tractor who was awarded the job of erect tug the new Brooklyn post office build- ing, has failed 10 sign his contract the time for the execution of which has ex- pired. His bid was the lowest made by nearly a quarter of million dollars.
 ON the 3d Matthew Byrnes, aged twenty one, of Port Richmond, Staten Island, jumped from Brooklyn bridge into East River, sustaining shock and internal in- uries which may prove fatal He was picked mp by passing vessel and taken to Long Island College Hospital.
 Ir is reported that some of the party leaders are becoming anxious over the delay of the President in issuing his iet-