The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-10-14
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
Flows from Everywhere.

" lOO VI I'LL IN Il .
Flows from Everywhere.
COMMISSIONER CoLMAv complains Of
apathy among the States which should
issist him in destroying pleuro-pneu-
nonia.
LONDON newspapers are devoting con :
siderable space to Lord Randolph Church.
ll's sudden adoption of the Chamberlain
programme.
| FOUR more persons have died from the
Effects of the La Mascotte explosion on
The Mississippi, bringing the list of death s
now up to thirty.
| THE Pope has pefitioned the Queen Of
Spain to pardon General Villacampa and
he officers associated with him in the
recent uprising at Madrid.
JACOB RoMEIs has been nominated for
Congress by tn Republicans OF the Tenth
| Ohio district. Thus Hurd and Romeis will
| fight the battle over again.
MARCUS kATz murdered John Rataza-
dol in dance house in Jersey City, N. j.,
OH the morning of the 9TH. The quarrel
was about some women present
THR cultivation of tobacco in Germany
is decreasing owing to the system of taxa
tion. The decrease in the number of
planters is 1200A, compared with 1885.
THE ROYAL Inniskillen Fusileers, sta
of A 6ra
for service in Africa, and in the riot that
ensued on the 7th a number of soldiers and
police were wounded.
NATURAL gas was struck at Fairmont,
w. Va, on the sth. 1t is said by expe-
rienced gas men to be the largest we'll in
tie country. The noise from the rush of
the gas can lie heard from six to ten miles.
THE French Institute met on the 7th
and accepted the bequest of the Chantilly
est atcs by the Due d'Aumale. The insti-
tute adopted a resolution declaring graft
tude for the Due d'Aumale's patriotic
generosity.
THE French Government has ordered
Prince Enrique de Bourbon, fugitive from
Spain, where he is under sentence of i'm
prisonment for insulting the Queen, to be
inferred in the department north of the
River Loire.
THE Bulgarian Government hns notified
foreign consuls at Sofia of General Kaul-
bars action in trying by bribery and in
timidation TO induce the military COM
mander at Rustchuk to release the polit-
tical conspirators.
THE American Consul at Kingston, Ont,
having been asked by. the the United
States Government to report if any dis
ease existed among cattle it that district,
made close investigation and has report
ed in the negative.
THE New York Court of Appeals handed
down decision on the 5th confirming the
sentence of the lower court in the case of
ex-A Alderman Jaehne, who was convict ed
on charge of bribery in the Broadway
Railroad franchise.
THE Admiral commanding the British
squadron on the American station te)e-
graphs that the distress in Labrador is
exaggerated and that the wants of the
distressed people in both Labrador and
Newfoundland have been relieved.
AT a Cabinet Council at Madrid, on on
the 7th, Queen Christina signed the decree
committing the sentences of the condemned
insurgents. The Queen also signed de-
cree freeing the slaves in Cuba from the
remainder of their terms of servitude.
THE illness OF ex-senator Withers, now
United States Consul to Hong Kong, is of
an unique character. DR.. Lennon, one
of his physicians. calls it entero colitis,
which is an infammatory affection of
both the smaller and larger intes tines.
THE Dominion Government has just is
sned an order forbidding the SARGE In
dians to leave their reservation. This
tribe has long been giving trouble to the
settlers, but it is expected that prompt ac-
ton on the part of the mounted police will
put an eni to further depredations.
UP to October 1 the aggregate fire waste
for the United States and Canada in 1885
was $50, 900 900, against $7l, ,500,0 900 for the
same period of 1885, so that with October,
November and December yet to be heard
from, there is no likelihood of a lower
figure than 800, 100000 to be charged for
fires in 1886.
THURSDAY, the 7th, was the greatest
dav in the history of st. Louis in point of
attendance at her dual attractions, the
Fair and Exposition. At the former the
attendance was over hundred and forty
thousand, while at the latter nearly fifty
thousand people visited the building dur
ing the day and evening.
THE Spanish Cabinet was in session five
hours on the 5th discussing the sentences
of death imposed by the court-martial on
the leaders of the recent revolt, and finally
decided to advise the Queen to commute
the sentences. A petition for the pardon
of the rebels, signed by 5000 merchants
and tradesmen, is published.
THE general distribution of the new
one-dollar silver certificates began on the
4th, and will be continued until the de-
mand, which is very great, has been en-
tirely supplied. The notes are being
printed at the rate of $4,000 a day. The
new two-dollar silver certificates will not
be ready for issue for two weeks yet.
AT meeting of the trustees of the Pea
body fund in New York on the 7th, the
following executive committee was APP
pointed: A. H. H. Stuart, Senator Evarts,
Chief Justice Waite, ex-President Hayes,
Jas. d. Porter, Chairman Winthfcp.