The Russellville Democrat., 1889-08-22
GENERAL.

THE water of the upper Mississippi river is lower than for years and navigation is seriously interfered with.
 THE gross earnings of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad for July were $1, ,STs, 399; decrease from same month last year, $170, TBS. Gross earnings of the rail- roads in which Atchison has a half in- terest, S109, 496; decrease, S12,500.
 THE members of the French Ministry have requested Mir. Gladstone to postpone his visit to the Paris Exposition until the President and all the Cabinet can meet him.
 AN international convention has been called to meet in Madrid, April, 1890, to devise means for the protection of in- dustrial interests. The object is to amend the international law relating to trade marks and affording greater protection to manufa cturers.
 THE Emperor of Austria visited the Em- peror of Germany on the 18th.
 THE vote by which General Boulanger was found guilty of conspiracy was 206 to G. The High Court also found him guilty of high treason by a vote of 198 to 10.
 REV. MR. CRosETT, an independent mis- sionary in China, whose life work was grand in self sacrifices, died recently in that country.
 ACCORDING to United States Consul Falkenbach, of Bremen, Germany, 10, 652 children under fourteen years of age are employed in the factories of Saxony and 24, III in all the large establishments of Germany.
 THE condition of the King of Bavaria grows continually worse. All nourish- ment is administered to him artifically.
 FRAU SCHULZ, the popular actress of the 1 IN hot h1..1 1zlH ALa other night on the stage immediately after the fall of the curtain. An unhappy love affair was supposed to be the cause of the suicide.
 WHILE on visit the other day to the town of Remschede Westphalia, the venerable Archbishop of Cologne was in- suited and stoned by crowd of anti Catholics.
 THE French High Court has sentenced General Boulanger, Count Dillon and Henri Rochefort to be deported to forti- fed place.
 THE London coroner's jury in the case of Alice Mackenzie, the last victim of the Whitechapel fend, has returned q verdict of murder by an unknown person.
 THE Mexican Government has refused point blank to grant concessions for negro immigration.
 IT is rumored that an important agree ment has been entered into between En- gland and the Shah by which the passage of British troops through Persia will be permitted.
 IT is alleged that M. Washington, French Ambassador to England, has been instructed to sound the English Govern ment on the question of extraditing Boulanger, Count Dillon and Rochefort THE new steamship Friesland wa,s launched on the Clyde recently. It will run in the Red Star line from Antwerp to New Y ork
 THE Monon railroad has made a cut in Grand Army rates to Milwaukee to one cent q mile.
 HE health of the Pope is causing con siderable uneasiness in Europe.
 IT is reported from London that Miss Anderson, the actress, is recovering her health.
 BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the seven days ended August b numbered 2l3, compared with 2)1 the previous week and 219 the corresponding week of last year.
 A MANIFESTO signed by General Bou- | langer, Count Dillon and Henri Rochefort is published. It calls the action of the Senate court an orgie of arbitrary rules, calumny and mendacity, and declares | that in spite of fresh coups d'etat prepar- ing in the dark the signers have continued confidence in the electorate of France. THE British Government has withdrawn the Tithes bill.