The Russellville Democrat., 1889-03-21
PERSONAL AND GENERAL


 represent his government in the Samoan conference.
 THE rumor that the iron mills of Pitts burgh, Pa., would be compeled to shut down because of the low price of the man. factured product, is denied.
 THE agitation of the Irredentists is re- viving in the Italian provinces.
 THE Pope has disagreed with the French Government in the selection of candi- dates for the vacant bishoprics in France.
 A CABLEGRAM announces that Prof. Fran cois Yerby, of Louvain, Belgium, has ob- served white region on one of Saturn's rings, visible against the dark portion of the planet.
 THE Comptroller of the Currency, on the 18th, authorized the City National Bank of l Sulphur Springs, Tex; the Peoples Na- 1 tional Bank of Paola, Kas., and the Ma tional Bank of Coatesville, Pa., to begin l business, with capitals respectively, of l S100, 900, $50, 900 and S100,00O.
 RIGHT HON. ARTHUR WELLESLEY PEEL, | Speaker of the House of Commons, has arranged for visit to Parliament of the American base ball players now in Lon- don. They will visit Parliament in 0 i body.
 THEODORE R. TIMBY, of New Y York State, claims to have been the inventor of the revolving turret, and asserts that the 1 credit of the idea has been wrongfully l given to Ericsson.
 EMPEROR WILLIAM expects to remove to the Friedrichskron by the 1st of May. 1 THE Due d'Aumale had an interview with President Carnot at Paris on the 1 12th. He warmly thanked the President 1 for resembling the decree of exile against l him.
 PRIVATE letters received at Berlin from Zanzibar say that Stanley, according to native reports, is marching rapidly toward l the East coast of Africa. 1 VICE. ADMIRAL JAUREs, of the French navy, died on the 18th. The cause of his i death was apoplexy.
 THE National Supreme Assembly of the l Royal Society of Good Fellows opened its 1 biennial session at Providence, k. l., on the 18th. Twenty-one States were repre-. sented.
 | SECRETARY TRACY, on the 18th, formally accepted the silver service presented by | citizens of Chicago to the United States cruiser Chicago.
 THE Montana & Canada railroad. ex- tending from Helena, Mont, to the Cana l dian line, has been incorporated at l Helena.
 l THE Warren Tube Works, at Warren, | O.. which cost S250,000 to erect three years l ago, have been appraised at S30,000, and will be offered at sheriff's sale April l3.
 THE Cabinet meeting, on the 18th, last ed about an hour and a half. All of the members were present. It was decided | that the Cabinet meetings shali be held | Tuesdays and Fridays at l2:3o ?. m. A LONE highwayman held up stage | gNf Ca I,,tg DO, Cal, on the 12th. A man wearing a mask and a slouch hat appeared suddenly at point on the p-grade, leveled TO- volver at the driver and ordered the Wells Fargo box thrown of. The driver | complied, and was then ordered to move on. The passengers were not molested. THE total coal product of the country for 1888 was 145 8631 "A tons, valued at l s20S, I29, ,S06.
 JOHN ROBINSON, father of the long three Robinson brothers, died at Knoxville, Ia., on the l2th, aged seventy-three He was nearly seven feet in height himself.
 THE Paradise Club of anglers of New l York has concluded the purchase of TO- l 900 acres of forest and fifty trout lakes in various parts of the country. THE German Reichstag was opened on | the 14th. Prince Bismarck was present but did not speak.
 | TIE Masons of Now York will observe l April 24 as day of thanksgiving for the | final liquidation of their debt of Sj00,0O PROBATE JUpGE MARSHALL, of Buffalo | County, Dak., who was arrested charged | with perjury in negotiating loan, had his examination at Chamberlain, on the | 14th, and was acquitted.
 IT is said that Russia is alarmed at the l t, .It dl | Germany on the part of the Balkan States, and that she will take immediate steps towards counteracting this tendency. JOHN l.. ADAMS, the Macon Ga. forger, l who had lasted for twenty seven days, died on the 18th.
 | A LARGE portion of the village of North Branch, Minn., was destroyed by fire on the 18th.
 SCARLET FEVER is epidemic at Lapare, Dak Many children have died, and there are many hopeless cases. The communi- l ty is terror-stricken.
 STEWART, EsrEP X Co.'s twenty four pot window glass factory at Marion, Ind, was burned on the 18th. Loss, S5j,- OO0.
 THE shutdown of the King Philip and American Linen Mills, at Fall River, Mass, on the ltth, added over 2,000 to the number of idle operatives there
 THE Paris La Bourse, supporter of the Copper ring, admits that the crisis is ap- paIling, and says that the mines will re- strict the output for two months. AN east-b bound freight train on the St. Johnsbury & Lake Champlain railroad was derailed near Jonesbridge, between Worthwhile and Wolcott, Vt, on the lith' Sixteen heavily loaded cars fell into La- moille river and were badly wrecked.
 TIE famous Belgian statesman, jurist and politician, NJ. Mathieu Nicholas Jo- seph Le Clercque, died on the 18th, aged eighty three years.
 THE President gave a reception to the Diplomatic Corps on the l4th.
 JUSTICE MATTHEWS, of the United States Supreme Court has suffered another re- lapse.
 TIE Austrian frigate Saida, command ed by Chevalier de Becker, a first class war vessel, carrying six hundred men and many cadets, and being in use as school ship of the Austrian navy, arrived in front of New Orleans on the 18th. She is mak- ing tour around the world.
 ADviCEs up to the 10th seemed to indi- cate the undoubted capture of Willie Tas' colt. the murderer of Banker Shell, in Chicago. His capture is said to have beer made in the vicinity of Lake Winnipeg, Northwest Territory.
 THE grand jury at Missoula, Mont. failed O. tind true bills against either J. k l Clifford or Dr. Cunningham the parties charged with killing an Indian at Demers' vile recently, which cems near causing an uprising aud they were accordingly discharged srOm custody.