The Russellville Democrat., 1889-01-24
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Ar it's meeting on the 17th the Senate committee on commerce ordered fayora- ble reports on the Presidents nomina- tions to places in the Marine Hospital service.
 REPRESENTATIVE NICHOLS, of North Carolina, is candidate for Public Print CT. He is a practical printer, member of the Typographical Union, and will re- ceive the indorsement of great many members of the House. I N
 ON the 18th Henri Wolff, a. cszf1 e ( Dutch mronaut, ascende.s ss4tebl l1l61@x< Belgium, in q balloon accyl0x3 {4 tby Lieutenant Daniel. The BdEI68N Was driven seaward, and it is feared that it's occupants are lost
 CHARGES have been filed with the House judiciary committee for impeachment proceedings against Judge Barnes, of Tombstone, Ariz., for resorting to gag law.
 H 0s the 7th Hon. Geo. D. Wise served on Edmund Waddell, Jr., his answer to the latter's notice of contest in the Congress sional election in the Third (Va.) district
 M. DE LEssEPs has been elected presi- dent and his son Charles vice-president of the new Panama Canal Company.
 REPRESENTATIVE SYMEs, of Colorado, recently appeared before the House com mittee on appropriations and made an argument in favor of Prof. Powell's scheme for irrigating the arid lands of the West
 ON the f7ih Mir. John Bright, who had been improving, suffered another relapse. BISMARCK is suffering from indisposi ton in consequence of exertions at the opening of the Reichsfag.
 PERRY S. WEsTFALL, editor and proprie- aF tb Tu Sr.t -1,. Evening Mail, died from the effects of paralytic stroke, on the 18th, aged fifty five years. He was one of the most suc- cessful newspaper men in the State, and man of integrity and moral worth.
 Os the l6th the President sent to the Senate the nomination of John Earring ton, of Minnesota, to be collector of cus- toms for the district of Minnesota.
 w. D. WAsHBURN received the nomina- tion for United States Senator from Minnesota by the Republican caucus at St. Paul on the i7th.
 TIE appointment Of Colonel N. k. Buckle as Adjutant- General of Indiana created vacancy upon the Indianapolis Board of Police Commissioners, which was filled by the election of Harry s. New. of the h. dianapolis Journal, son Of Colonel John C. New.
 FORT DODGE tIa.) special says: "The movement for the organization of a so- ciety of Democratic veterans of the war is not confined alone to Indiana. Active steps are being taken for the organization of camp in this county, and eighty-One members of the proposed organization have already been obtained.p
 ON the 18th, at a joint caucus of Repub- lican Senators and Re presentatiyes at Harrisburg Pa., it was decided that the proposed prohibition amendment to the Constitution should be passed at once, and that the question should be submitted to the people al a special election to be held on June 18th next
 STATE SENATOR GEYsER, of Toledo, O., permitted a newspaper correspondent to take the copy of a speech which he in- tended to deliver next day in the Legis- lature at Columbus. The correspondent failed to return the copy and when the question came up, the Senator could not deliver his speech,
 Os the 18th the two houses of the Mich- igan Legislature elected James McMillan Senator, giving him 70 votes, against 8 for Melbourne II. Ford
 THOMAS A. STEVENS. the all-around-th world bieyclist, who hos announced his intention of penetrating Africa in search of Henry M Stanley, started from Lon- don for Zanzibar on the 18th.
 TIE fund to pay the expenses of Parnell in bis litigation with the London Times amounts to e80,500.