The Russellville Democrat., 1889-08-15
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| CAPTAIN JAMES H. RIGBY, a Grand l Army veteran, who commanded the fa- nous Rigby battery which rendered ef- | fective service during the war under Gen. eral Mcclellan, died suddenly at Balti- more, Md, on the 5th. He was tifty-seven | years old.
 STEPHEN G. SHARP, Democratic candi- | date for Treasurer of Kentucky has been I reelected by between 5000 and 40,0 900 | majority. The Democrats gained eight | and possibly more seats in the Legisla- | ture.
 HE trouble in Bolivar County, Miss. | is not yet oYer Information has been re- ceived from the sheriff of that county that Weissinger, who killed an editor at Rose- dale, and who had escaped, took refuge at Concordia, where. surrounded by | friends. he defied arrest. ON a two- mile circle track the startling speed of two miles minute was main- tained for about ten miles by the three- ton motor of the Electro Automatic Transit Company, of Baltimore, at their grounds at Laurel Md. This speed equals three
 miles per minute on straight track. David G. Weems, the inventor, conducted the experiments.
 BARRETT LANGsToN was shot and killed the other day at Landlords, near Charles ton, s. C, by Captain J. w. Laud ford. Langs on was unarned. Landlord ac- costed him about reports he had circu- lated about the formers family. Langs- ton offered no denial wereupon Landlord shot him. Both men were prominent in the county.
 THE new Kentucky Legislature will con- sist of 104 Democrats and 24 Republicans, a Democratic gain of 12. A SPECIAL from Bonham, Tex, says: While a camp meeting was in progress on Willow Branch, north of here on the Red river a party of men rode up on horseback and be yan firing into the con- gregation. A panic followed and some of
 the men in the congregation returned the fire. For awhile a regular battle ensued. The cause of the attack was not known. The preacher finished the sermon strongly
 guarded
 THE Galveston News has published the
 last of its crop reports. The reports were
 almost unanimous in chrOnicling the best
 corn crop for years, while the yield for
 other grain was fully up to an average.
 The cotton crop was a splendid one.
 POSTMASTER LEWIS and the Republican
 leader, Colonel Buck, were burned in eff Zy
 at Atlanta, Ga, the other night in the
 BitetuNt bA aDSAt APsVfV HtOtAh. AhN
 action was the result of the appointment
 of a negro in the delivery depai msnt
 where q white lady was employed ns
 clerk.
 A SPECIAL from Laredo, Tex, gives a
 descr ptiOn ot the Tasco [ suspect under arrest there, tallyng more closely with that of the much-sought fugitive than has
 been the case in any previous capture.
 THE great tunnel at Cumberland Gap
 which trayerses sections of Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia, has been for
 mally opened.
 GENERAL HENRY DUPONT, since 1850
 head of he extensive guupowder manu-
 featuring firm of T. I. Dupont, De Ne
 mours & Go, oied at Wilmington, Dol,
 on the Sth.
 BENJAMIN F. SPANDAUERr who was the
 principal witness against Mrs SurTat,
 hanged in Washington in 1865 on the
 charge of conniSing at the assassination
 of President Lincoln, died recently in the
 Maryland enitentiary.
 PRoF. W. K. PERRY of the American
 Balloon Company made an ascension at Mount Holly, N C., twelve miles west of Charlotte, the other day. He was severely injured in descending.