The Russellville Democrat., 1890-08-28
PERSONAL AND GENERAL


 'RoUGH counts" even though official, are, as the term indicates, liable to er- TOT. The report that the aggregate population of the country will be under rather than over the GA, 900, 900 mark need not be accepted as final just yet The revised connt will tell the story, and that will be at hand a few weeks hence.
 THREE of the old Missouri, Illinois and husetts-gained 23 per cent. each in population in the past ten years. The figures for the whole country are not yet all in, but it is safe to predict that not many of the States of seventy years of age or upward will beat this growth.
 RANSOM SEWERS, of Tennyille, Ga, a wealthy planter and leader of the Alliance party, was thrown from his wagon, on the 16th, and hurled head foremost against tree, killing him in- stantly.
 A CALL has been issued for a Prohi- bition State convention to be held in Des Moines, Ia., September 1.
 TIE situation in Armenia is daily be- coming moro deplorable A wholesale massacre of Christians recen ntly occurred at Moosh and outrages arc reported from other places
 TIE potato blight in Ireland has ex- tended to several districts in counties Mayo and Leitrim.
 DAVIS DALTON, the American swim mer, on the 18th, successfully concluded the task of swimming on his back from Folkestone, England, to Cape Gris-Nez, on the coast of France. He was in the water twenty three hours and thirty minutes, and at the finish was in ex- celent condition. The swimmer was piloted by boat which kept within easy reach thoughout the trip.
 ADvIcEs from Uruguay, to the 10th, state that the Minister of Finance in- sisted upon resigning and that the other ministers would follow his exam pie. The balance-sheet of the National Bank shows that $50 900, 900 have been lost
 0N tho evening of the 18th a fete was given to tho town folk of Narva, in honor of the visit of Emperor William to Russia. The city of waterfalls was illuminated.
 GEORGE SHAW and John Davis, of Senecayille, O., were killed by light ming, on the l7th, while standing in a church doorway where they had taken refuge from storm. Two other per sons standing with them were badly in jured.
 TnE city of Wilkesbarre, Pa, was visited by a terrific cyclone on the 19th Trees were uprooted and hundreds of houses were nnFooied and many demoi- ished. Several persons were killed, and the loss is counted by hundreds of thousands
 Miss POTTER, daughter of J. " Pot ter, of Lansing, Mich, was killed and several other persons were injured by a collision, on the 18th, between vest bound passenger train and a freight train at Garrison, Mont
 ONE MILLION ONE HUNDRED AND THIR- IT FOUR THOUSAND ounces ofsilver bull lion was offered to the director of the mint on the 20th, but only 466, GOO ounces were purchased at the followin 2 prices; 30, 900 ounces at sl.l945; l6, O06 ounces at si i9sT5; l5oOO0 ounces al si 20. and 25O, 900 ounces at ST 2025.
 As A result of the boad circular issued, on the 1sth by the Treasury Depart ment for tho redemption of si5, 900. 900 four-and.a-half per cent bonds the of ferings, on tho 29th, aggregated Sl, l53,- $50, at i04k- The Department also purchased sll4i 100 tour-Deg-ceHts at l2A