The Russellville Democrat., 1888-09-06

from yellow fever at Fernand1a, Fla- l Mir. Merriwether, whose death gave rise
 to the report was a victim of typhoid | fever.
 THE London Times, speaking of tho l fisheries question, says: Americans have traditional respect for legality, and if the rights of the case be clear to | them, they are not likely to be tempted 1 into policy of aggression for the sake of either Cleveland or Blaine.n THE striking workmen on the Ashland l 6 Penokee division of the Wisconsin l Central road resumed work on the 18th. | IT is claimed that the meeting of Knights Templar of Ohio at Cleveland, which ended on the 29th was one of the most successful conclaves in the history of the order.
 1 Ir is reported that diphtheria epidem- | ic is raging at South Hadley, Mass, the site of the Mount Holyoke female college and seminary. Up to the 2Sth sixty four cases and four deaths had been re- ported.
 ON the 29th the Ebor handicap was run | at York. England. The race was won by Nsppa. Tommy Tittlemouse was second and Hungarian third. There were | eighteen starters. ON the 29th the bond offerings aggre-
 gated q ,927. 900, as follows: Registered Is, s, 900, at 1g9; registered 45ls, Si,922,
 0O0 at 107% to 10s1 THE price of bread in London has been
 advanced on account of the reported shortage in the wheat crop | THE fifteenth annual reunion of the survivors of the Engineers brigade of the | Army of the Potomac was held in Elmira, N. Y., on the 30th Six hundred members of the brigade were present. IT Is estimated that there were 35, 900 | people in attendance at the Grangers' exhibition at Williams Grove, Pa., on tho 30th.
 REGENT advices received from Lourenzo Marquez, walled Portugese town in Africa, on the north side of Delagoa bay, say that mutiny had broken out among the soldiers of the garrison and that marines had been landed from one of the war-ships to quell it Fighting was ex- | pected.
 l IT is reported that British. German and
 Austrian squadrons will make visit | shortly to the principal Italian ports. | THE papers belonging to Hohenburg, the retired German officer. who was arr rested at Nice, France, on the 29th, have been seized and translated. The present is the third time he has been arrested on charges of espionage. UPON the landlords agreeing to abate-
 ments amounting to thirty per cent, the tenants on the several estates about Kilmish, County Clare, Ireland, have | paid their rents and all costs. SPEAKING of the rejection of the Fish cries treaty by s'the rampant American Senate" United Ireldnd refers to Amer lea as ''the greater Ireland beyond the sea, whose vengeance Mir. Balfour's CO.,
 ercion policy has aroused" | ON the 30th the Parneil defense fund
 was swelled by subscriptions amounting | to S1 900.
 THE officials at the German Embassy in ] Paris, becoming satisfied that the would- | be assassin, Garnier, who fired harm- | less shot at the porter of the Embassy,
 was insane the incident was allowed to | drop.
 ON the 30th vessel from the West In- dies, loaded with sugar, was allowed to pass Quarantine and land at her dock in Philadelphia, though five death; from | yellow fever had occurred on board. | TIE last span of the Hudson river | bridge at Poughkeepsie, N. r.. has been l completed.
 l ON the 30th Mr. Blaine arrived In Ban- | gor Me, and became the guest Of Con- gressman Boutelle, until the Slst, when he went to Dover, where he delivered an | address.
 OS the morning of the 3lst Frank W. | Price shot and killed one of three burg . | lars who were just emerging from gro- cery store over which he slept in Clifton | dale, Mass.
 | THE authorities of St. Petersburg have warned the Crdshdon newspaper to ab-
 stain from publishing any thing reflect | ing upon the government. THE United States has been notified of | the refusal of China to ratify the treaty
 restricting the admission of Chinese sub | jects.
 | ON the 3lst a cargo of Cuban sugar 1 weighing A. 750 net tons, valued at S600, l 900, and the duty upon which amounted to | S200, GOO, was landed at Boston. | THE St. Louis Exposition opens on the l 9th.
 THE Alexandria (Va.) Cotton Associa- | tion's August report shows that the con- dition of the crop is exceptionally good l Very little damage by worms or fog ia | reported.