The Russellville Democrat., 1890-06-19
 PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

ON tho l1th the Lord Provost and the Town Council presented Mir. Henry M. Stanley with the freedom of the city of Edinburgh.
 HoS. THos. c. PLATT was blackballed by the Harlan (N. Y.) Republican Club on the ilth.
 As A result of the charges that the New York Mercury is libelous publi- cation, the Dominion Post-Offi and Customs departments have ordered that all importations of that paper be sent to the customs officials for examinat tion.
 GEORGE r. BLACK, representing the jewelry house of Jonas, Dorst & Co.,, Cincinnati, was drowned, on the night of the 10th, in the Mississippi river at Memphis, Tenn.
 IT has been discovered that under a long-forgotton resolution passed by the Board of Supervisors Of Marshall Coun- ty, Ia., bounty of $50 with six per cent. interest on deferred payments is due to every soldier who enlisted from that county during the rebellion. It will take sG0, 900 to pay tho claims thus created.
 MR. FULLY, editor of the Roscommon Qreland) Herald, has been convicted under the Crimes act of publishing an article denouncing land-grabbers, and has been sentenced 10 three months inn prisonment, without hard labor.
 ROBERT II. WALLACE and J. R. Low itg, the two men who robbed the pro- prietors of Wallace's Monthly Magazine of $50, 900 and fled to Cuba under as sumed names, were brought back to Now York, on the l1th, by detectives
 THE base price for pudding during the next scale year in the mills of Pitts burgh and all Western and Southern points will be S5. 50 on a two cent card, the same as this years scale. This fig ure was decided upon finally at a session of the convention of the Amalgamated Association in Pittsburgh on the 9th.
 IT is estimated that the highwaymen who robbed the mail-car on the North orn Pacific road at New Salem, N. D., got away with about Sl0, 900 contained in registered packages. At last ac- counts they were making for the Black Hills, pursued by cavalry and citizens.
 TIE class-day exercises at Vassar College began on tho 10th, and the days programme included the interest ing ceremony of planting the class tree on the lawn. The twentv-hfth anni- versary of the institution was celebrated on the llth.
 A CAUCUS of Republican Senators, held on the evening of the 10th, chose E. K. Valentine, of Nebraska, as the successor of Sergeant-at-Arms Cana day, whose resignation, previously ten dered, takes place on the 30th.
 TIE president of the Senate laid be- fore that body, on tho 10th, petition of the West Africa Steamship Company of New Orleans, asking an appropria- tion of s50o,000 to establish line of mail steamers between New Orleans and the west coast of Africa.
 Two slight shocks of earthquake were felt at San Diego, Cal, on the 11th
 WARRANTS for the arrest Of the spectators of the McBride-Larue fight, in San Francisco. in which the former received injuries resulting in his death, were issued on the 1lth.
 HE unfestrlCtSu sdic or ilQuOr III the town Of Ellsworth, Me. during the visit of circus, on the 10th, resulted in disgraceful riot between local toughs and the circus people.
 GOVERNOR BURLEiou of Maine was renominated by exclamation at Augusta on the l2th.
 TIE House committee on banking and cure ncy, on the i2th, heard argu- ments in favor of the bill to carry into effect the recommendations of the Pan- Amerisan Conference and of the Presi- dent for tho establishment of an Inter- national American bank.
 IN the Eyrand case tho authorities at Havana have plaeod the murderer at the disposal Of the French Consul, with assurance thatall aid would Do rende red to secure his safe authorization for France.