The Russellville Democrat., 1889-02-21
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

l A BILL was reported to the Senate and | placed on the calendar on the 12th, appro- priating S20,000 for the construction of l an iron bridge from Fortress Monroe to Elizabeth City, Va.
 | TIE Opportunist journals of Paris re- | joice over the adoption of the bill for the | scrutin d'arondissement by the Chamber 1 of Deputies.
 A GENERAL quarrel ended the banquet | given, on the 11th, by the Republican Club of Madrid to celebrate the proclamation | of the Spanish Republic of 1873. The meeting had to be quickly dissolved by | the officers.
 LIE REPUBLIC FRANCAIs of the 1lth says: "lye armed the Republic yesterday. We | will not disarm it tomorrow by voting | for the revision of the constitution" LIE TEMPS, in commenting the early | presentatio of the budget, says 1t is de- sirable for the interest of the Paris Ex- hibition to vote it as soon as possible.
 THE Hamburg Nachrichten says that Count Herbert Bismarck will never be- come Chancellor.
 THE Senate committee on epidemic dis eases made a favorable report on the l2th, on the bill introduced by Senator Harris to provide for the establishment of National Board ot Health. HE UtdIluh Dtlptc ilt lulet t9tdlc Commerce Commission in the complaint of Coxe Brothers against the Lehigh Val ley railroad closed on the 18th. President Wilbur and John Taylor, traffic manager of the Lehigh Valley road were examined about coal transportation rates. This closed the submission of testimony.
 CoLoNELRoUTH GOSHEN, Barnum's giant, died in New York City, on the 12th, of dropsy. He welghed about 630 pounds.
 THE Republican Senators held brief and rather unsatisfactory caucus on the l2th. There was not Q large attendance, and no action of any kind was had. Several matters were discussed, among them the Texas outrages resolution and the Chandler resolution for the investiga- ton of outrages in Louisiana.
 THE President sent to the Senate on the 12th, the following nominations: Lieu tenant Colonel F. M. Heyl, Inspector General, to be InspectorG General with the rank of Colonel Major Henry w. Law ton, Inspector General, to be Inspector General with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel Captain Joseph II. F. Sanger, First Artillery, to be Inspector General with the rank of Major; Eugene E. White, of Arkansas, to be an Indian Inspector
 A COLLISION occurred, on the 11th, on the Norfolk & Western railroad, near Pearlsburg, Va. Owing to misconcep- ton of orders on the part of the men in charge of an east-bound train, two freight ' trains came together with terrific force. Euaineer LiudawoOd was instantly kill ed and the hremen of both trains were seriously hurt. The trains were badly wrecked.
 THE new courthouse just completed at Donaldsonville, La., at cost or 12O,Oo, was burned, on the 18th, and many valua- ble records were lost
 TIE G. A. K. convention at Boston, on the 18th, elected'GeO. l.. Goodale depart ment commander.
 THE London Contemporary Review, which contained the article on the Bis marckian Dynasty" has reached it's eighth edition--something unprecedented in journRlism
 THE suspens sion of Jos F. Rock, a mem- Der of tue New York Stock Exchange since lsS2, was announced on the ex- change on the 18th.
 THE liabilities of Wm Browne & Co.,, wool dealers of Boston, are stated at S6,- 000, and assets at Sl0.500. A committee of creditors was appointed on the 18th.
 THERE is a hitch in the negotiations for the release of the missionaries held by the natives for ransom at Zanzibar, and they are stlll in captivity.
 ON the 18th, Mrs. General Harrison re- celyed a handsome doll which has been voted to her at a fair in Philadelphia.
 DUFuR, the wrestler, won three out of five falls and the match in his contest with Ross ct Amesbury Mass, on the l3th
 AN electrical joint stock company will shortly be organized at Vienna with 9 capital of 100000 aorins.