The Russellville Democrat., 1890-01-02

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 RUSSELLVIl TIE New York City Southern Society, on the 26th, adopted formal resolutions of sorrow for the death of Henry W. Grady.
 !. TnE commanders of the Western mili- tary districts of Russia have been or dered to form plans for the mobilization of their forces
 A RIOT occurred at Jessup, Ga., on the 25th Two white men were killed and two others seriously wounded, and sey- eral negroes are reported killed.
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 THEphysicians attending Emin Pasha said, on the 23d, that it would not be safe to move him from Bagamoyo for three weeks. He is slowly recovering from the effects of his fall.
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 PRIVATE advices received in London, on the 23d, from Rio de Janeiro state that feeling of distrust among the civ ilians and discontent among the soldiers prevailed throughout Brazil.
 TERRIFIc gales visited New York, Pennsylvania and other States, on the 26th, doing untold damage to property and causing the loss of many lives, with personal injury to scores of others.
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 THERE are now upwards of eleven thousand idle workingmen in the Char leroi district of Belgium and the strikes are slowly increasing. The men are all peaceably disposed and no disturbances have occurred.
 THE new Pacific Mail steamer China sailed from San Francisco for Yokohama and Hong Kong on the 26th. Captain Seabury said he would endeavor to make the voyage between that port and Yokohama in fourteendays.
 CHARLES ALBERT AsHBURNER, the geologist, of Pittsburgh, Pa., died, on the 25th, at the age of thirty-fve. He attained more than national celebrity by his invention of method for survey ing and representing the geology of coal beds
 TIE citizens of Atlanta, Ga., paid tribute to the memory of Henry Grady, on the 26th, by public meeting at De- Gives Opera House, presided over by the mayor, and at which addresses were delivered by many prominent people of the State.
 THE condition of Henry w. Grady, of the Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution, was much worse on the 2lst. It was be- lieved that he was suffering from pneu- monia, and in the exhausted condition of his nervous system the gravest fears were entertained.
 TIE famous Hosford will case at Min neapolis, Minn., involving s, 900, 900, has finally been settled. The contestants and the widow, Mrs. Carrie M. Hosford, after fighting in the courts for nearly three years, have agreed on the basis proposed by Mrs Hosford. ss
 BY the recent fire which destroyed the German theater at Pesth 264 per sons are deprived of employment, many of whom are suffering for want of food and proper shelter. The other theaters in the city are giving performances for the benefit of the sufferers. EDISON sent photographic doll as Christmas present to Archduchess Eliza beth, daughter of the late Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria. The toy is said to have excited the interest of the older members of the imperial family, and its recitations, songs, etc., are in con stant demand.
 TIE exodus of negroes from the east ern part of North Carolina is again as. suming large proportions. The crops were nearly an entire failure in that part of the State, and the effect of this is to greatly increase the movement. Nine out of ten of the negroes go to the Yazoo Delta, in Mississippi.
  PURSUANT to recommendation of the Central Monumental Association, To- cal Monumental Association has been formed at Jackson, Miss, to raise funds for a monument to Jefferson Davis. Similar organizations have been formed all over the State, which are to report to the central organization.
 THEODORE T. CoNKLIN, of Chicago and particular friend of Dr. Cronin, has filed in the Probate Court an inventory of Dr. Cronins estate. Conklin is the administrator to collect, and his reports show that the only property left by the murdered man consists of library worth $500 and surgical instruments worth Sl00.
 HENRY WooDFEN GRADY, the accom- plished editor of the Atlanta Constitu- tion. the silvery-voiced orator and the sturdy champion of the New South, of which he loved to talk; the idol of the people and the personal friend and com panion of distinguished men, died at his home in Atlanta, Ga., at twenty min utes before four o'clock, on the morning of the 2Sd, of pneumonia.
 TIE National League for the Protec- ton of American Institutions has been incorporated in New York Ito secure ! constitutional and legislative safeguards for the protection of the common-school system and other American institutions, and to promote public instruction in harmony with such institutions, and to prevent all sectarian denominational appropriation of public funds"
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