The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1888-04-19


On the 10th the people of Georgetown,
D. c., celebrated the Inauguration of Free
bridge communication with Washington
/ with speech making and a civil and mill
tary parade.
THE Regent of Bavaria has donated
| 5000 marks to the sufferers by the foods
in Germany.
THE Comptroller of the Currency, on the
/ 9th, declared second dividend-fifteen
/ per cent.-in favor of the creditors of the
Fifth National Bank OF st. Louis, making
in all, sixty-five per cent. on tie claims
presented, aggregatis4g S9Sf ,og2.
In Jersey City, N. j., a company has
| been organized with capital stock Of 81,
100000, to manufacture and operate arial
ships.
IT is said that the movement to send to
France statue of George Washington as
present from the ladies of America is
well under way. The names of the statue
committee of prominent ladies will soon
be published. The French newspapers
are unanimous in the expression of salts
! faction with the project.
Ar San Francisco customs officials
seized about four thousand dollars worth
of opium at a warehouse just as it was be-
ing carried from the wharf.
! IT is said the President and Secretary of
| the Treasury have decided that they have
authority to purchase bonds, and that the
Bond Purchase bill would, in consequence,
] be shelved.
/ MUsKEGoN LAKE was reported free from
| ice on the 18th, and lake navigation gener-
| ally has been resumed.
EIGHT brewers of Newark, N. j., signed
the agreement demanded by the workmen,
| IN fba The braxvarc, ,,ool ie ha dlx,
broken.
Two THOUSAND people went from Tuam,
County Galway, on the 18th, to plow and
SOW the lands OF Mrs. Badkin, at Cloonda-
room, whose tenants have been served with
notices of eviction. They were accom-
panied by wagons laden with beer and
| provisions. A detachment of police ac-
companied the campaigners.
/ THE trunk-line presidents, in long
conference in Commissioner Fink's office,
in New York City, on the 18th, failed to
agree upon revision of rates on export
freight shipped through inland cities.
A bill was introduced III the Senate, on
| the 18th, identical with the Bryce bill in
the House, to define and establish an an
chorage ground for vessels in the bay and
| harbor of New York.
SENATE BILL appropriating $4,000 for
making survey and estimating the cost
of removing Smiths, Petty's and Wind
mill islands from the Delaware river, be-
tween Philadelphia and Camden, was
| favorably reported in the Senate on the
18th.
House bills having special assignments
to days covered by the protracted dead
| lock lost their standing.
The report of terrible railroad acci-
J dant OF To ha jc do
to have been without foundation.
ON the 18th receiver was appointed
and an accounting ordered of the assets
of Imre Kiralfy by Judge Bookstaver, of
New York City, at the suit of David Good
man.
OK the 18th George Burton, of East Liv-
erpool, o., drove his wife from the house
and installed dashing widow from Tren-
! ton, n. j., in her place. The female
] friends of the abused wife to the number
of 300 drove the guilty pair away in per-
| feet storm of stale eggs.
| DURING March, 1885, breadstuffs exports
! from the United States aggregated So
O40, 743, a falling off from last year of S.
| 060, $50.
| On the 18th the strike of Italian laborers
on the Meriden 6 Waterbury railroad was
ended by the company paying off the men
and discharging them.
! On the 18th the buildings of the Liberal
| Club, erected in Birmingham, England,
| in 1876, at cost of f64, 200, were sold at
auction for f2,300- 600 less than the
| cost of the ground upon which they were
erected.
| DISTRICT ASSEMBLY No. 81 Knights of
Labor of Philadelphia have issued cir
cular to the friends of organized labor,
asking for contributions to assist in pay
| ing off the indebtedness incurred in the
| late strike in the Lehigh Valley coal
region.
| BUSINESS failures for the seven days
ending on the 18th, as reported by h. G.
| Dun & Co., were: For the United States,
300; for Canada, %; total, 222, as COM
! pared with 227 the previous week, and t75
| for the corresponding week of last year.
| THE British Government proclaimed the
! twenty meetings proposed to be held in
/ County Glare, Ireland, on the 18th, under
| the auspices of the National League.
| On the 18th the Chicago & Atlantic rail-
road reduced its passenger rate from Chi
| cago to Boston from nineteen to seven
| teen dollars.
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