The Russellville Democrat., 1889-10-03

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 Tur New Hotel Princeton at BuenG , Vista, Col, was destroyed oy nre on tne qith; loss, S20o, o90.
 NrvKRors branches of the Irish Ma. ,ionaI League have been suppressed in Waterford and Tippe rary.
 rrvrwErY frosts in the valleys of Swift ysrlapd have wrought wholesale destruc- tion of the grape and tobacco crops. ava -
 TIVE captain of the Spanish crew capt. -rsJ bv inc RifIians has died from the affects of ill-treatment by his captors.
 Tvr Frperor of China and the Supreme Co,rcjl are debating over a memorial osking the expulsion of Americans from Y that country.
 EXTENSIVE forest fires are raging in the Redwood forests south of San Frau- cisco and near Santa Rosa, Cal, and much valuable property is endangered
 THE will of the late S. $. Cox, of New Work was filed for probate on the 22d. All inc real and personal estate is left to his widow. The will is dated August %, 1sss,
 LATE reports from various localities in tbe State of Florida indicate that the storm of the 23d was disastrous one to property although no further loss of life is reported
 JUDGE GRoFF, the new Commissioner of the General Land Office, took the oath of office, on the 26tli. and assumed the duties of his new position. A number of changes are expected in the office soon.
 A CABLE dispatch was sent from Mad rid to the Spanish Minister at Tangier, on lhe 9lth, iustructing him to press upon the Sultan that reparation must be made for the insult offered to the spanish flag. Nor only Boulangists but men of all political shades in France agree that the returns from Moutmartre were so manip- uated as to count the doughty General ont after the people had given him handsome majority.
 DufEBtldSlbI sued a proclamation prohibiting meet ings in the streets. There have been some collisions between the strikers and the police number of the former were slightly injured.
 Fx- SURGEON GENERAL JOSEPH BEALE, |. S N., died in Philadelphia, on the 24th, aged seventy-ive. He entered the navy as an assistant surgeon in 1887, was made Surgeon General in 1873 and placed on the retired list in 1876.
 THE War Department has detailed Lieutenant Chas. Totten, Fourth Artil- lery, to report at Yale University, where he will be stationed for the next three years to instruct the students in scien- tiiic and military engineering.
 IS the Sabbath Observance conference in Paris, on tho 25th. letters were read from President Harrison and Mir. Clad stone. The latter attributed his long life with preserved faculties in great part to the privileges of Sabbath rest.
 A SHORTAGE of SGO, 900 has been discov- cred in tue contractors office of Rich- i. mond Va, but owing to the failure of the city auditor to make an annual re- port of the office, it is said that the bonds men will not have dollar to pay
 LUCINDA ALDRIcH, a sixteen-y year old school girl, of Springfield, O., left school, on the 23d, being dismissed before the regular time, and mysteriously disap- peared. She was a gem of propriety, and her absence can not be accounted for.
 THE Berlin Tagblatt says that Emper- or Williams reply to Minister Phelps will find 0 wide echo throughout Ger. many and America, and will confute the views expressed by section of the Ger < man press during the Samoan complica- ton.
 ELIZA Cook, the English poetess, died, on the 18th, at Wimbledon, where she had been living in seclusion for many years, subsisting chiefly upon the liter ary pension of f100 per annum which she obtained in 1864. She was seventy one years of age.
 FISHER and Nary, charged with robbing inc Rio Grande Western express at Thompson's Springs, Utah, some time ago, pleaded guilty at Salt Lake City, on the 27th, and were sentenced to the peni tentiary, Fisher for seven and Nary for five and half years.
 UNITED IRELAND, Mir. O'Brien's vigorous organ, declares that it is plain that Mir. Balfour's University scheme is the price offered by the British Government to the Pope in return for the Persico rescript issued from Rome. This view has also been expressed by Mr. Dasltt.
 FATHER DAWN, the Catholic priest who was most diligent in rendering assist anee to the sufferers of the recent disas- ter at Johnstown, Pa, died at the St. James Hospital in Denver, Col, on the ! 26th, of acute stomach trouble. His re- mains were sent East for burial. THE letter of Major William Warner declining the appointment as Commis- | sioner of Pensions was made public on the 25th. 1t is dated at Washington, September lG, and says that business en- gagerlents which he has no right to yio- late alone prevent his acceptance. As
 - THB Mississippi Republican State con- Mention. on the 25th. nominated General Jpmes R. Chalmers for Governor; W. C. Eathison (colored), for Secretary of
 ate, and James D. Lynch, (white), for
 |Atenant- Governor. The convention largely attended and much enthusi-
 prevailed.
 Two BODIES were taken from the debris at Johnstowu, Pa., on the 27th. One was identified as that of Mrs. Ed Swineford, of St. Louis, who met her death on the day express. A section of Grandview Cemetery has been purchased and all the bodies of unknown dead will be trans ferred Co that place.
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 lS his letter Co the sabbath Observ- ance congress, in session in Paris, Presi- dent Harrison says: "Experience teaches me that workers with head and hands need such rest as tho Sabbath alone can give. Man, whether regarded as an animal or as an immortal being, should be assured that rest