The Russellville Democrat., 1890-04-24
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

MR. PARNELL held a consultation with Mir. Gladstone, on the i4th, preliminary to the introduction in the British House of Commons by the former of notion to reject the Irish Land-Purchase bill.
 DURING a recent storm in Western Ne braska the wind blew sown grain en- tirely out of the ground over thousands of acres, leaving many farmers without seed to replant.
 A REPORT reached Milwaukee, Wis, on the night of the 18th, that the pro peller City of New York had foundered near Manitowoc, on Lake Michigan. She was known to have had at least twenty persons on board.
 IT is said on apparently good author ity that the brick-layers of Boston have signed an agreement with the contract ors not to strike within three years, and that their pay is to be increased ten cents per hour.
 MLLETT's "LiAngelus'' is now depos- tied in the vaults of the Bank of Mon- treal. The owners were obliged to re- move it from the United States or pay s30, 900 duty on it. and they chose the former course.
 THE maple-sugar crop of Vermont, which has just been harvested, amounts to about 5000, 900 pounds, which is be- low the quantity usually obtained.
 THE postal-card works at Ansonia, Conn, were attached, on the 18th, by Will kinson, Bros. & Co, of New Haven, on a clarm of Si0, 000 It is hinted that the contract made by the Government with Contractor Dagget may be overruled.
 THE Detroit (Mich.) Steel and Spring Company, the largest concern of its kind in the United States, suspended payment on the 10th, with liabilities amounting to $500, 900. A proposition to settle with it's creditors at fifty cents on the dollar, was accepted. and the works with it's four hundred employees con tinued it's operation.
 Ex-SRSAToR ANGUS CAMERON, of Wis consin, has forwarded to Washington a declination to serve as member of the Cherokee Commission. The reason as- signed is that he is too old man for the hard work required. He finds there are fifteen tribes to be treated with, and the Commission must live about four months in tents.
 F. l.. GoDKIN, managing editor of the New York Evening Post, was arrested, on the l5th, on the complaint of Peter Mitchell, lawyer, on warrant charg- ing him with criminal libel. Godkin was arraigned in court and gave $500 bail to appear for examination.
 GOVERNOR JACKSON of Maryland, on the 18th, formally removed State Treas urer Archer for malfeasance in office and repeated appropriations to his own use of the funds and securities of tho State Edwin H. Brown, of Queen Anne County, was appointed Treasurer.
 PRoF. BROOKS, the director of Smith Observatory, at Geneva, N. Y., has been awarded the medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific for his discovery of the comet now visible in the eastern heavens. This medal is the first one awarded by the above society.
 LAWRENCE VANDENARK, a lawyer who fed from Saltwater, Minn., about t~go years ago. after uttering a large amount Of paper with the forged indorsement of Dr. c D. Bull. his father-in-law is now residing and practicing his profession at Wellington, Australia
 DEVELOPMENTS show the census frauds in Lyon County, Kas., for the purpose oi raising salaries of the county officials, to date back as far as January, lsS5, and many heretofore highly honored citiaens are implicated. The testimony shows that Deputy County Clerk liar rlson was aware of the frauds being per pea4fea Several criminal pgoseantions gro probable