The Russellville Democrat., 1889-08-08

THE Shah of Persia bads farewell to the


 to his departure from England. SEVEN shipwrecked Norwegian sailors have been picked up by the steamer Mag. ara and landed at Vera Cruz, Mexico. THE full court at Winnipeg, Man, has given judgment that Burke, the Cronin suspect, must be returned to Chicago. THE British Columbia River Gold Dredg- ing Company has been registered in Lon- don with capital of f40,000 in order to purchase Gibson's rights to dredge for gold in forty-fve miles of the Frazer river.
 CHOLERA is reported as prevailing at Bessarabia.
 IT is reported from Berne, Switzerland, that Germany has revoked the recognition of Swiss neutrality. ADvIcEs from Assouan state that the advance of the dervishes is continuous, though slow. A skirmish had occurred between Egyptian patrols and dervish outposts, during which sixty dervishes were killed.
 THE Spanish Government has advised the Pope that in case he finds it necessary to leave Rome he should find asylum in Portugal. It is understood that the same advice has been given to the Pope by Austria.
 CAPTAIN L. DUvARGE, who shot Con- sular Agent V. F. Nj. Stanwood at Ana kade, Madagascar, last November, has been found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to ten years imprisonment
 THE remains of General Lazare Carnot, grandfather of the President of the French Republic, have been exhuned at Madgeburg, Germany, where they were buried. They will be reinterred in the Paris Pantheon. The body was found in a wonderful state of preservation.
 THE American ferry steamer J. l.. Beck with has been fined S400 by the Canadian authorities for doing coasting trade, which consisted in conveying some Sum day school children to picnic.
 DR. ". A. HAMMOND Is experimenting with Dr. Brown-Sequard's elixir of life. The elixir is concretiou of animal nerve tissue which is injected into the veins. Dr. Hammond says the old man on whom he is testing the remedy seems to be growing younger
 MACHINE gun exploded on board the training frigate Couronne, at Heyeres, France, recently. Eight persons were killed and seventeen injured.
 THE Wabash system. as it has for sew eral years been called has changed it's name and hereafter will be known as the Wabash railroad. The old officers of the Wabash Western have assumed authority over all the lines reaching from Kansas City to Omaha. St Louis, Chicago, Toledo and Detroit. The officers of what has been known as the Wabash East, under re- ceivership, have retired from the service of the road.
 THE Shah of Persia visited Buffalo Bill's Wild West show in Paris and was much interested in the performances.
 THE treasure, footing up about $200, 000 lost on the steamer Granada off the west ern coast of Mexico, has been recovered.
 EvARIsTo CARAzo, President of Nica- ragua, is dead.
 SNOW storms and icy rains prevail throughout Switzerland and the streams are beyond their banks
 THE island of Crete is reported to be in a state of anarchy as the result of the present uprising.
 THE Algerian, merchant vessel, sunk at Aultsville, Ont, the other day. The crew and passengers were saved.
 THE Emperor of Germany arrived at Dover, England, on the 1st
 THE July sanitary reports to the Marine Hospital Service from Philadelphia and Chicago show that the latter leads the former in population and is the second city in the Union. The population is placed as follows: Chicago, 1 100, 900; Philadelphia, 1,0i0, 245.
 LIEUTENANT TAPPENBEcK, the African explorer, has fallen a victim to fever.
 THE Royal Grants bill has passed the committee stage in the British House of Commons, all amendments being rejected by large majorities.
 THE price of "The Angelus"-5S0, $50 francs-has been paid to the French Min- ister of Fine Arts. and Millet's picture will soon be brought to America. Several European artists expressed an opinion that the picture was any thing but the grand work of art as generally thought.
 THE miners of Durham, Eng. have voted by majority of one to accept the 10 per cent. advance offered by the mine owners
 IN a ukase the Czar of Russia has ap- proved the late Count Tolstoi's reform policy.
 BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the seven days ended August numbered 2l0, compared with 216 the previous week and 216 the corresponding week of last year.
 ENGLAND has annexed the Union and Phenix groups of islands in the Pacific ocean.