The Russellville Democrat., 1889-03-07
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE German Government will not allow the Bulgarian loan to be issued in Ger I many, because Bulgaria has no recognized i government
 1 THE victims of the cholera epidemic last 1 ,all in Presque Isle County, Mich., are
 ,aid to have lost complete control of their l .egs, and but few can hobble around on | ,rutches.
 l EMPEROR WILLIAM will visit England in June. t.a
 ON the 27th, Count Herbert Bismarck | and his brother William were made, 1 respectively, Lieutenant-C Colonel and Ma | ior in the German army. | THE River Seine continues to rise, and l is flooding Paris and adjacent territory. | c. D. HUSTON, the Burlington engineer who shot and killed Ed Hall, a striking | switchman, in Creston, Ia., last fall, dur | ing the great 70" strike, was acquitted on the 26th.
 | As MR. w. H. WHITE, secretary of the | American Legation at London, ap- preached the Queen during Her Majesty's ! drawing room on the 26th, portion of her head-dress, including the diminutive | crown which she wore, fell to the floor. The incident is considered as bad omen | by the superstitious. IT is predicted in Berlin that the open ing of the spring will witness the most gigantic combination of workingmen's strikes that Germany has seen in many years.
 THE German missionaries held captive in Zanzibar were liberated on the 27th. THE collections of internal revenue for the first seven months of the fiscal year ending Ja nuary 30 1889, aggregated s74,- 2G2 596, an increase of S2,66l,2Gi as com- pared with the collections for the core. spending period of last year. GREAT excitement was caused at Pots dam, Prussia, on the 2Tth, by the suicide of Lieutenant Won Breckenheim, an aris- tocratic young officer of the German army. THE Berlin Post congratulates Russia upon having found a market for her se- surities in France. It says that the gov ernment desires German investors to get good prices for their Russian stocks and then invest in German securities.
 ON the 27th, Surgeon General Hamilton of the Marine Hospital Service returned to Washington, after spending several months in Chicago.
 BEVERLY F. COLE, of Salem, N. Y.,
 chief of the Miners division, General
 Land Office, was attacked with epilepsy while going down a stairway in the In terior Department building at Washing ton, on the 26th, and fell forward frac- turing his skull. He died on the 2Tth.
 IT was reported, on the 2sth, that the victims of the St. George (Ont.) rail- road accident were doing as well as could be expected, though one or two additional deaths were looked for.
 COLONEL E. c. MCCLURE, of South Caro- lima, appointment clerk of the Post-O Office Department, died suddenly of heart dis ease at his residence in Washington on the 2sth
 TIE extensive brick works of Dehaynin, near Marchiennes au Pont, Belgium, were burned, on the 27th. The flames spread to ten reservoirs of tar, each containing 100000 gallons, all of which, with num- Der of barges in the river, were consumed.
 Two LITTLE sons of John Cottle, of Rich lands, N. C., were frozen to death during a recent cold spell.
 A DISPATCH from Burmah announces
 that the Rangoon- Mandalay railway has been opened.
 PATENTS have been issued to the State
 of Oregon for 5s,Sis acres of land under
 the swamp-land grant.
 THE Duke of Sutherland, whose wife died in England since his arrival in America in November last, has obtained q license to marry Mrs. Blair, mem Der of his travelling party.
 FATHER KENNEDY was re leased from ] Cork iail. on the 2sth, the term for which
 he was sentenced having expired.
 FATHER CLARK, parish priest of Avoca, Ireland. was arrested, on the 2sth ulder the Crimes act, and will undergo six
 weeks imprisonment iD Wexford jail.
 EIGHTEEN TnoUsAsp Russian troops are n assed on the Afghan frontier.