The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1889-04-11

/ HON. FRED DOUGLASS visited Lne JACK
| sonville (Fla.) Exposition on the 4th. He
received an ovation at the hands OF the
! colored people.
Mr.. ROBERT T. LINCOLN has accepted
the English mission, and will leave the
United States in about five weeks.
THE President is making arrangements
TO go on fishing trip. 1t is probable he
will go down the Chesapeake, with Secre-
| tary Window, on revenue cutter, to be
gone two or three days.
THE President has appointed Joel B.
Erhardt collector of customs at New York
City.
THE United States steamship Atlanta
has been ordered to proceed from Aspin-
wall to New York to participate in the
Washington Centennial Inauguration
ceremonies.
GOVERNOR BULKLEY of Connecticut
granted a reprieve OF two weeks in the
case Of John II. Swift, the Hartford wife,
murderer, sentenced to be hanged on the
9th.
THE reduction Of force at the Govern
mont printing Office, which always fol-
lows the adjournment of Congress, has
occurred. The force will be further re-
duced.
PRESIDENT HARRISON, on the 9Th, issued
q proclamation, recommending April 30
next, the date of the centennial celebra-
ton of the Inauguration of President
Washington, as special eenten NAL
thanksgiving.
JAMES GALLERY, of Pittsburgh, one of
the wealthiest and best.known meu in
Western Pennsylvania, died suddenly at
his residence on Highland street, on the
5th, presumably of heart disease.
Tup American ConntOi ci ianAre 10 tha
Samoan Conference have engaged pas
sage for Europe on the Umbria, which
sails from New York ON the 10Th. Mean
while they are frequently at the Depart
ment of State consulting with the officials
and studying the protocols of the last con-
ference.
THE Secretary Of the Navy has formally
accepted the gun boat Yorktown, now at
the League Island Navy Yard. The ac-
ceptance was made subject to the special
reservation OF $4,000 and two other res
ervations, one of 5000 until the compile
tion Of the electrical lighting plant, and
the other $500, for six spare propeller
blades.
GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT BELL has APP
pointed the following assistant superin-
tendents in the railway mail service:
w. II. Lamb, of Missouri vice w c.
Hickman, of Kansas; J. s. Smith, of Wis
consin, vice L. J. Moss, of Iowa.
MARTIN THOMAS, prominent grocer of
Lancaster, Pa, was found hanging in his
stable on the morning of the 5th. His
suicide was the elimination of financial
troubles. He was forty-seven years of
age, and leaves wife, but no children.
WISE and Morrill,, of the Boston Base
ball Club, have been sold to the Wash
ingtons.
II was rumored in Washington, on the
9th, that the Nipsic had been floated.
AID is asked for the burned out farm
ers in the neighborhood of Lawrence,
Oak.
AMONG the sufferers by the late prairie
fires in Dakota were one hundred fam
lilies in Brule County, who lost every thing
they owned, and are in great distress.
The action Of the Chamber of Deputies
in voting for the prosecution of General
Boulanger is viewed as a death blow to
himself and followers by the Opportunist
and Radical press of France. The gov
ernment will prosecute Henri Rochefort
and Count Dillon for their connection
with the Boulangist party.
THE Washington Light Infantry of
Charleston. S. c., will take part in the
centennial pageant in New York, and will
march under the original crimson battle
flag of Colonel William Washington's
cavalry. This flag was actually in the
battle of Cowpens and Eutaw Springs,
and is the only revolutionary standard
extant in a condition for use in parade.
A FIRE, which originated in a gambling
den in Attica, o., on the morning Of the
9Th, destroyed SO, 900 worth of property.
THE Royal Geographical Society has re-
Gently received a letter from Henry NJ.
Stanley. The letter relates to the geog-
raphy of the portions of Africa through
which he passed on his march to Il MINIS
province. 1t was read before the society
on the Sth.
IT is reported at Toledo, that the Stand
ard Oil Company has been busily en-
gagged of late in leasing additional terri
tory in the Ohio oil fields, and intends
to build an S-iuch pipe line, one hundred
miles long, to extend from Cyguet to
Cleveland, where the Ohio product will be
refined and put upon the market side by
side with Pennsylvania ole
THE North German Gazette, comment
ing on Boulanger's fight, says; This
last retreat will not increase his prestige.
He would rather play the role of pre-
tender than submit to arrest