The Russellville Democrat., 1889-01-24

TIE suit of the Emigration Commits sioners against the New York World, for libel, has been dismissed. A LONDON firm, says Paris paper, has offered the Carthusian monks of the Chartreuse la Grande E3,000,000 for the secret and the monopoly of the manufact- ure and sale of the famous Chartreuss cordials.
 DURING the present year three large men, -of-war will be built by Russia.
 THE Naval Appropriation bill has been completed. In addition to the two new vessels provided for in tho bill, it appro- priates S1,600, 900 for armament and S625 900 for a gun-plant at Washington.
 RuMoRs are rife in Suakim that the dervishes are massiug at Khartoum, with view of marching on Dongola, and that the Mahdi is contemplating the invasion of Egypt.
 IRE Anarchists attending the Peace Congress in Milan, decided to foment general revolution in Europe in the event of a war involving any of the continental powers.
 TIE Sutro tunnel was bid in by the ttin- nel company at the foreclosure sale at Virginia City, New, for S1, ,325 300.
 Ar Hamburg, Germany, on the 16th, in the international skating contest for the Ladies' Gold Cup, Joseph F. Donoghue, the American champion, finished first, making the distance--fye miles-in the very fast time of 16A minutes, which sur passes all previous records for the same distance.
 F. s. HIGGINs, station agent for the Rock Island railroad, and agent for the United States Express Company, at Bevington, To s. Fl. shortage in express company funds of S950 and in railroad funds of S250. Hig- gins leaves an invalid wife and two chil- drep in destitute circumstances.
 DURING December exports of principal articles of provision from the United States aggregated in value S9,s69, 7S2, against SS,025,354 in December, 1887, and for the twelve months ended December 31, 1888, were valued at SS106l, ,137, against Ss7, ,29S, ,616 in 1887.
 RAINS in Wisconsin have melted tlie snow, and logging operations have again been brought to standstill.
 THE operating room of the main office of the Western Union Telegraph Company in Washington is undergoing extensive repairs in order to meet the demands which the inauguration will bring upon the office.
 THE statement publish in the Novoe Vremya, of St. Petersburg, that Austria, under an agreement with the Porte, would occupy the second portion of the Sandjak of Novoe- Bazar, in Bosnia, is denied by the Vienna Fremdenblatt.
 THE Chesapeake &S Ohio Railroad Con- pany mortgage for $30,000,000, made to the Central Mortgage Company of New York, and placed on record on the l6th, was the largest mortgage ever recorded in Kanawha County, W. Va.
 MRS. B. J. CLARK and Mrs. M. J. Wright are under arrest in New Haven, Conn, under an old Blue law which provides for the punishment of fortune-tel
 THE body of the wife of half- breed named Rolade, buried near Winnipeg, Man., sixteen years ago, was exhunied, recently, and found to be perfectly petri- fled.
 ON the 18th the coldest cold wave of the season was reported from the Northwest. Neche, Dak., reported 42 degrees below zero; Morris, Minn., 30 below, and Grand Forks, Dak., 9 below.
 THE Weavers' Union of Fall River, Mass, on the night of the 18th, decided to draw up resolutions asking for an ad- vance of wages; also conforming the board of trade for refusing to, listen ta the, wishes of the weavers as expressed by the union, and advising strike in the event of continuance of the present policy of the manufacturers.
 THE site for the New York State chapel to be erected on the Gettysburg (Pa.) bat tlefield has been selected. It is in the southern portion of the National Soldiers Cemetery, on the hill where the summer house now stands. The proposed building is to cost S100,00O, S50000 of which has al- ready been subscribed.
 THE directors of the Pullman Palace Car Company have declared the regular quarterly dividend of two per cent, pay able February 15.
 THE German steamer Lubeck, from Sa- moa, arrived at Sydney, N. S. w., on the 1Tth, and reported that all was quiet in Samoa on the Sth inst.
 THE Bucharest Epoca states that 0 mo- ton will be introduced in the Roumanian Chamber of Deputies for the impeach- ment of the Bratiano Ministry.
 ON the 18th a shock of earthquake was felt in portion of the Lehigh valley and in Western Edinburgh, Scotland, but no damage was done.