The Russellville Democrat., 1889-03-28
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL SENATOR SHERMAN, of Ohio, has been sued for delinquent taxes, amounting to $1, ,74S.12 on railroad stock.
 A LAWSUIT at Waterloo, Ia., over four calves, has already entailed costs amount ing to S25,000, and is still on.
 THE members of the Ac, off expedi- ton, who were taken to Seb,, topol on Russian man. of war, have been allowed to return to their homes. Achinoff him. self is detained on board the vessel.
 THE German bark Johanne Auguste, from Moodyville for Montevideo. has been lost and her crew landed at Valparaiso.
 MARY ANDERsoN's physician denies that his patients mind is affected.
 MR. GoscHEN announced in the British House of Commons, ou the 10 n, that the government intended to appoint a com mittee to fully investigate the matter of emigration.
 WHrTELAw REID says he will try to so arrange his private business that he can accept the appointment of Minister to France, rendered to him by the President.
 IT is claimed that the recent victory in Remington, England, over which the Parnellites have been so jubilant was won, in fact, by ths Socialists.
 IT is reported that the New Jersey Steel and Iron Company contemplate the re- moval of their extensive works from Trenton, N. J., to Chattanooga, Tenn.
 SIMON JENNINGS, a member of the Con- necticut Legislature, president of the Jennings Bit and Augur Works at Deep River, one of the largest manufacturers of the State, and whose fortune amounts to $500, 900, was taken to private insane asylum on the 20th.
 As PREMIER TIszA was leaving the Aus trian Chamber, on the 20th, he was pelted with stones by group of political oppo- nents.
 THREE more students have been arrested t Berne, Switzerland, for complicity in he secret manufacture Of bombs.
 lN the British House of Commons, on the 20th, Mir. Matthews, the Home Secre- tary, announced that Mr. Parnells coun- sel would be allowed the same freedom of access to Irish prisons as was allowed the counsel for the Times in working up their case for presentation before the Parnell Commission.
 JOHN MCCAFFREY, an employe of the Olds Wagon Works in Fort Wayne, Ind, was struck on the head, on the 18th, and completely scalped by flying spoke.
 RIoTs occurred in Wales, on the 20th, over the collection of tithes, and many persons were injured.
 REPRESENTATIVE VALENTINE, of Me- braska, is the latest candidate for the office of Public Printer.
 Ir is said that Secretary Windom has rendered the position of Supervising Architect of the Treasury to prominent Western architect.
 MR. CLIFFORD LLOYD writes to the Lon- don Times advocating the abolition of the office of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and the Dublin Bureaucracy; the granting to Ireland of large measure of county government (retaining the police as an imperial organization), and the read justment of taxation. If both parties in England were to agree to this, MT. Lloyd thinks, there need be no misgivings as to the result.
 THE betrothal of Count Condeohore to the daughter of Count von Taafe, the Austrian Premier, was announced on the 21st.
 Mss FANNY DAVENPORT, the actress, made successful personal intercession in behalf of the Memphis hotel clerk who stole S25, 900 worth of diamonds from her two years ago and was sent to prison for six years; secured his pardon and re- lease; sent for him, gave him two hun dred dollars and lecture, and bade him "go and sin no more."
 THE six-year- old daughter of Charles Schneider fell from a passenger train, about mile west of Westcliffe, Ont, on the Fist without serious injury.
 A SHOCK of earthquake was felt at smyrna, Asiatic Turkey, on the 22d.
 THE Russian Government has under consideration the proposition to appro- priate the sum of 10000, 900 roubles for increasing their naval fleet.
 THE Bank of France, on the 2lst, de- clared dividend of forty francs per share.
 Mas. LAYGTRY has fully recovered from her recent illness.
 C. F. HUNTINGTON is negotiating for ships to establish a line between New York and Brazil
 THE engagement of Justice Gray of the United States Supreme Court to Miss Jeannette, daughter of Associate Justice Stanley Matthews, is announced.
 BETWEEN January i and March 20 there were fifteen duels and sixteen suicides at Monte Carlo, the Italian ambling re- sort.
 WILLIAM PoHLMAN's livery stable, and that of J. II. Manor, adjoining, in St. Louis, were burned on the night of the 21st, entailing loss of S2O000. Besides the buildings a large amount of hay, grain, harness, etc., and eighty horses and mules were burned. The loss is only partially covered by insurance. Incen- diarism is suspected.
 JoHN BklaHr, the English statesman, was reported worse on the 22d.
 Mss KlrTY l.. THOMPSON and MT. Ewuldu8 l.. Berry, a nephew Of Senator Berry, of Arkansas, eloped from Wash ington, on the 2ist, went to Baltimore, were married; returned to the home of the brides mother and confessed what they had done, received the parental blessing, aDd all were happy