The Russellville Democrat., 1890-09-11
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

TIE death of Hon. Edward F. Moves at Cincinnati removes a prominent hg- ure from the public life of Ohio, and one, too, which has been seen on larger fields of action. He was a gal lant soldier during the rebellion, and came out of that struggle maimed for life. Elected Governor of Ohio in 1871, he was defeated for reelection two years later by Bill" Allen, who Tod the Democratic forlorn hope in Ohio that year. He served acceptably under the Hayes administration as United States Minister to France. Governor Moves was a man of strong character and decided abilities and of an in. tegrity above all suspicion. His death is a loss to his party and State. EIGHTY miners were suffocated by an explosion at Borysla, Galicia, on the lst
 RICHARD H. FRETIIG, while bathing with bis wife at Point Lookout, l.. l., on the 31st, was carried out to sea by the undertow and drowned
 PROF. CARL LUMHoLTz, the Norwe- gian explorer, who was made famous among geographers by his expeditions in Australia, is about to explore Lower New Mexico and Arizona under the di- rection of the American Geographical Society of New York.
 JAMES o. SFABRING, a well-known politician and able lawyer of Ham mondsport, N. Y., who was tho Demo cratic candidate for district attorney of Steuben County last fall, has been ar rested on charge of perjury in connec- ton with his official duties He waived examination and is held for the grand jury. @
 TuRKIsH soldiers have expelled the Franciscan Fathers from Jerusalem de. spite the protests of the French Consul.
 CHARLES AMDEN was nominated for Governor, on the 2d, by the Democrats of New Hampshire.
 LAWRENCE LEWIS, JR, well-known lawyer of Philadelphia and the only son of the retired millionaire Robert NJ. Lewis, was struck and instantly killed by train on the 2d.
 J. J. Hn.L. president Of the Great Northern Railway Company, has given $500, 900 for the erection of great Catholic college at Groveland, the beau iitul St Panl (Minn,) suburb on the curve of the Mississippi river opposite Fort Smelling
 TREASURY officials say that while it is true that the statement of the public debt showed for August net decrease, less cash in the treasury, of only SS33,- 073, it is also true that the bonded debt was reduced Sl9. s47, 200 during the same period by tho purchase of bonds.
 TIE following State ticket was nomi- mated by the Kansas Republicans on the Sd. Chief Justice, Albert H. Hor- ton, Shawnee County; Governor, Lyman U. Humphrey, Montgomery County; Lieutenant-G Governor, A. ]. Felt Nema- ha County; Secretary of State, William Higgins, Shawnee County; Attorney General, L. E. Kellogg, Lyon County; State Superintendent George w. Winans, Geary County; Auditor, C. M. Hovey, Thomas County.
 ON the Sd Secretary Windom and tho director of the mint had a consultation in regard to the new Silver law, one re- suit of which was decision that tho department will purchase 4,5o0, oo0 ounces each month, reckoning from Au- gust l3, the date when tho law took effect
 TmE much-dreaded grippe" which caused such a mortality in this country last winter, appears to have made ire sstart, and another visit during the fah and winter is not improbable The disease Is reported to hayo broken out in Easton, Pa, and over 200 people in that city are suffering from ik