The Russellville Democrat., 1890-09-18
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

TIE fortieth anniversary of tho ad- mission of California into the Union was celebrated in San Francisco, on the 9th, in an imposing maRner
 ADvIcEs from Armenia state that the Kurds arc destroying crops and raiding villages while the Turkish authorities remain passive making no attempt todriye out the invaders.
 REV. ADoLPH DoELIiNG, secretary of the Northwestern Orphan Asylum at Green Bay, Wis, pleaded guilty, on tho sth, to stealing q watch and two dollars from tho residence of Rev. Phelps of St Louis, Mi,h., whose daughter ho was engaged to marry, and was sentenced to the penitentiary for one year. He pawned the watch in Grand Rapids and used the proceeds to make up q deficiency in his cash &C., count.
 TnE United States Steamship Bald- more, with tho remains of Captain Ericsson on board, arrived at Gothon- burg, Sweden, on the 9th.
 MRs MAnALA K. PAUL, of Boston, a widow aged eighty-two years, was
 
 cross the railroad track at sharon. Mass.
 TIE offer of Secretary Windom topay one years interest on the four-per-cent. bonds went into effect on the 10th, and q flood of bonds poured into the Sub Treasury in New York as soon as the doors were opened. In tho first hour over Ss, 00o, 900 in bonds were presented and S4, 600, GOO more were offered before the close of business.
 TIE grand jury of Queens County N. r., voted, on the 10th, to indict Mayor Gleason of Long Island City, for as sault in the second degree, for vicious attack upon newspaper reporter.
 CAPTAIN z. l.. TAINER of tho United States Fish Commission steamer AL batross says that unless the Govern ment prohibits seal catching on the Prebylov islands fur-bearing animals will be extinct before two years.
 A HUMAN body, supposed to be that of Baron von Strauss, an Austrian no- bleman, has been found in the Moran mountains in Washington, half de- voured by wild animals and carrion birds.
 CnAuNcEY NJ. DErEw and Archbishop Corrigan were among the prominent arrivals at New York from Europe by the White Line steamer Teutonic on the 10th.
 A WORKMAN who fell from tho third floor of building in course of eonstruc- tion in Buffalo, N. Y., on the 10th, was saved from fatal injuries by striking on tho head and shoulders of passing woman. The woman sustained bruises about the back and sprained ankle.
 JUDGE LAcoAmE, in tho United States Circuit Court in New York City, on the 10th, refused to grant a writ of habeas corpus iu tho ease of Shibguia Juglao, the Japanese murderer, who is now in solitary confinement at Sing Sing under sentence of death by cleo tricity,
 JoHN GREEN, farmer who lived near Seymour, Ind, aged thirty-eight was engaged in blowing out stumps with dynamite on tho 10th. He had bas- lxetful of cartridges on his arm and was placing ono in a stump when it ex- ploded prematurely, tearing him into atoms, But few fragments of his body could bo found.
 FoR the third time since the great Charleston earthquake vast volumes of black smoke, running to a height of 800 feet have recently been regularly emitted from the seven mountain peaks of tho Blue Ridge chain, near Ashyille, N C. Many of tho people have be- come 50 alarmed that they say they will leave the neighborhood. TnREE men entered tho Second Na- tional Bank at Bay City, Mich, on the 10th, and two of them went c tho teller and book keeper and engaged them in conversation about banking business, Tho third slipped around to the back ot the book keepers desk and stole a pack ago of bills amounting to s5, 400 which was ready for shipment, and got away with it.
 RUSSIA has given orders to the Gov- ernors of Siberia to prevent any further immigration of Chinese into that prov nce
 FonEsF fires are doing enormous dam- age in the Caucasus. Large detach- ments of troops arc being employed by the Russian Goycrnmons to aid tho To- ,al authorities in stopping the spread of Tho eonaagratloa