The Russellville Democrat., 1889-09-05


 the other day at the office Of the company, ! Dundee, Scotland, at which by unanimous vote, the sale of Inc railroad to c. F. l Huntington for f1s0o0) was approved. l The company had lost at the rate of f200 1 weekly and desired to consummate the
 sale as rapidly as possible. THE collapse of ths Magdeburg sugar l syndicate has seriously affected the sugar refineries at Stettin. The Hamburg au 1 thorities have ordered an investigation to discover why the proper officials had not controlled the brokers trading. THE resignation of the ruler of Cash-
 mere has been accepted by the Viceroy
 of India and the country has been placed
 under a native council | MRS. MAVERICK will shortly be removed 1 to the convict prison at Woking, in Surrey. | Her friends can visit her there once every | two months.
 THE doekyards strike at London par l tially ended on the 2Sth by the wharfers granting concessions to the men. | NJ. THIEssE, a Boulangist member of the Chamber of Deputies, has been arr rested for resisting tue police at a Bou- | langist meeting.
 THE steamer City of Paris has again 1 broken the record, beating her own best time from Queenstown by three hours and forty-nine minutes. Her actual time from Queenstown to Sandy Hook lightship was | five days, nineteen hours and eighteen minutes. Among the passengers were Russell Harrison, Andrew Carnegie, John | A. Kasson and Joseph Medill, of the Chi cago Tribune.
 A DISASTROUS storm, accompanied by | floods, has ragged at Dakayama, Japan. Tx,u- Fri ~ hac Y,tfy.- chased the Schoonmaker Company's plant of 1,500 ovens, 5,O0O acres of land and | twenty five cars.
 TIE village of Tschsrlach, in St Gall. Switzerland, was destroyed recently by the fall of portion of Mount Rulbisberg. The villagers escaped THE Brazilian Government has nego- tiated with the banks of Rio de Janeiro a
 loan of Slo, o000.0 at per cent per an- num-
 | ON August the Rush captured the British sealing schooner Lily of Van- couver while taking seals in the Behring sea. In all there have been fourteen seal CTS boarded by the Rush and warned out of the Behring sea besides six captured. THE Government of Paraguay has &C., cepted the invitation of the United Sta es to attend the congress of American States in Washington in October. A CROWDED meeting of Protestants was held at Belfast recently to protest against Mir. Balfour's latest proposal to endow a | Catholic univerity in Ireland. A SERIES of typhoons, unprecedented in their fury and destruetveness, have swept over Japan and part of China. The dam- age to property is incalculable, and the lowest estimate of the loss of life by | drowning places it at 5000. THE Comte de Paris has issued an elec- toral manifesto. He declares that his ob- ject is to snatch power from the hands of an oppressive faction. He counsels union of the Conservatives and tolerance of the Boulangists, whose programme of reyi- sion, he says, will release France from servitude and restore religious peace. CHAKIR PAsHA, the Governor of Crete. has issued a proclamation announcing that the Turks have occupied the whole island for the purpose of restoring order. and that any person guilty of resisting the Turkish authority will be severely punished
 THE Swiss Government has instituted proceedings against the authors of the re- cent Anarchist manifesto.
 MRS. MAVERICK has been placed in the infirmary of the prison at Wokihg, Eng, because of ill health.
 THE new Hamburg American steamer Columbia recently concluded the fastest trip on record from the Needles to Sandy Hook, her time being days, Is hours and 20 minutes. This beats her previous rec ord, the best, of days, 2T hours and 2S minutes.
 FIVE persons were killed in the City of Mexico the other day by the falling of the wall of a private residence.
 EXCITEMENT was reported prevailing among Americans resident in China be- cause of the influence brought to bear up- on the Emperor to have all Americans ex- peled in retaliation for the Scott Exclu sion bill
 THE British Parliament has been pro- rogued to November l6.
 A DISPATCH from Shanghai says: Ten ders have bsen received for the construc- ton of the first section of the railroad from Chinkiang to Pekin. 1t is estimated that the rails and plant will cost S70,0 900.
 BUSINESS failures (Dun's repor) for the seven days ended August 20 numbered 2l1, compared with 206 the previous week and 226 the corresponding week of last year.