The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1889-04-18
NEWS AND NOTES.

NEWS AND NOTES
A Summary of Important Events,
ex-senator PLATT's son has entered
General Trscy's law Arm in New Yori
City.
The Bank of France, on the 21st, de
cIaxed dividend Of forty francs PEI
share,
REPRESENTATIVE RANDALL Is confinet
70 his house by On attack of gout, but i
not seriously i'll.
THR report that an attempt had beer
made 10 assassinate the Gar Of Russia
has been neither contradicted nor af
frned, but is widely credited.
GENERAL f. +. NTLLEN, the Irish agita
TOR, died at his residence in New Yorl
City on the 10th. he had latterly been al
attache of the New York Herald.
SIR CHARLES RUssELL's speech befor
the Parnell Commission is to be printed
N phamphlet form for circulation through
Great Britain, America and the colonies
LAwRENCR BARRETT announced from
the stage Of the Detroit Opera House, ol
the night of the l1th, that Mr.. Booth woulC
rejoin the company at Cleveland on tn
i4th.
TIE Board Of Health of New Orlean,
rasa1ntfnn IN tha lIth aHy-ia
ing the Governor to issue his annua
Quarantine proclamation to take effec
May /.
CLAUS SPRRcxEIs, when asked, on the
18th, II he had joined the Sugar Trust a
reported in New Yerk, replied: 81 an
not In the trust and never will be at an!
price"
GRAND dinner was given on the nigh
of the 10th, at the Merchant Tailors' Hal
in London, 10 Mr.. William Henry Smith
the government leader in the House o
Commons.
A BRITISH Central African company II
being formed in London with the pur
pose OF developing the Zambesi country
by the building of railways, eto. The
subscriptions, on the llth, amounted to
100000.
IT was rumored in Bucharest, on th'
l1A, that an attempt was made on the Isl
to assassinate the Gear, and that he was
In fact, wounded by the explosion of {
bomb. The most strenuous efforts wert
made at 81 Petersburg to suppress th'
facts.
MARY ANDERSON arrived in London OF
the 18th. She declined to comment OF
the criticisms Of the newspapers in re
gard TO the state Of her health, but laugh
tngly remarked: "Do | look like giving
up yet"
THE legislative memorial exercises FOL
General Sheridan were held at Albany, N
Y, on the 9th. General Wager Swayne, o.
Ohio, delivered the Grafton, and Genera
Sherman and General Alger also made
appropriate remarks. There was dis
Enguished audience.
1t has boen discovered that, owing to {
faulty construction OF the law recently
passed. In regard to the city government
Trenton n. j., will be without q mayor
for three weeks, and that the newly -au'
thoilSou lAA . anu PSfAN"
can not be appointed.
CARDINAL GIBBONS, on the 10th, mailed
10 the Catholic clergy OF the Baltimore
diocese letter calling attention to the
celebration OF the centenary Of the inau'
yuratioR of Washington as the first Pres
idcnt Of the United States, and enjoininG
sn appropriate observance Of the day.
TIE funeral of Rear Admiral Patterson
hook place from his late residence In
Washington on the 1lth. A large num-
Der of army and navy officers and friends
and acquaintances OF the deceased at
tended thu funeral. The remains were
Inferred in the Congressional Cemetery.
A FIvE-YKAR-oLD boy named Tobias
Hipper died, on the evening OF the 18th
at his parents residence, in New Yorl
City, from the effects of beating re-
peived at the hands Of three older boys
one of whom lives in the same house witt
The Hippers, and the other two next door
HERBERT g. Stout. a railway mail clerk
on the route between st. Paul, Mimi, and
Council Bluffs, Ia, has been arrested
charged with stealing letters containing
money from the mails. His stealiugs had
been going on for nearly eight months,
aud amounted to several thousand dol
lars.
IT was brought out in the proceedings
of the Stewart will case in New York, on
ole 9TH, that mourning goods for the Hill
ton family were charged to Mrs. Stewards
hotel account; also that her bills were
not rendered to Mrs. Stewart in time to
allew her to take advantage of the dis
souat by paying within thirty days.
PRoF. HOLDEN, of the Lick Obssrva-
tory at San Francisco, states that accord
ing 10 computations OF the orbit of the
comet discovered by Prof. Barnard, the
comet will become seven or eight thou
sand times "a bright as at present, with o
distance Of about 4, 900, 900 miles from the
sun, and 1t should be carefully observed
Dn May 26.
DIR. TANNER the most aggressive OF the
Irish members OF Parliament, is employ
ing the remnant OF his liberty before his
imprisonment under the Crimes act in q
vigorous campaign in various parts ol
England. His appeal is fixed for April
~ Ut CAoHtnei, Dut ne Is uelsThlueu thh
be shall be heard before he goes behind
prison walls.
RECENT developments leave no room fol
doubt that a branch OF the wing of the
italian Camorra, known as La Malta, il
Row in working order ia Boston. Its
meetings are held almost nightly, gener'
ally in q North End bar-roOm, having {
large room IN the rear, or in one Of seyera
tenement houses. Its members are active
In passing counterfeit money.
A sRSsATION has been created in Gies
sen Germany by the trial OF a notet