The Brookhaven leader., 1886-09-09
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PRINCE ALExANDER's name has heen'
stricken from the Prus sian army roll.
REPUBLICANS of the First Iowa district
nominated Ex-Governor John II. Gear for
Congress.
THE Pope has accepted Frances propo-
sition regarding the papal nuncioship in
| China.
PREPARATIONS were in progress at Sofia
for a joyful welcome of Alexander. He
expected to reach there on the 81.
| ZANKOEA, Russian, and the leading
spirit in the Bulgarian revolution, has
been arrested at Sofia,
THE illinois Republican State conven-
ton nominated John X. Tanner, of Clay
| County, for State Treasurer, and Richard
| Edwards, of Bureau, for Superintendent
of Public Instruction.
The Russian newspapers declare that
the Bulgarian nation must belong to the
Russian party.
! In the single scull. race between Hanlan
and Courtney at Jamaica Bay, Long
Island, on the lat, for purse of $1,000,
Hanlan won with ease by ten lengths.
Hanlan has cabled 500 forfeit to London
for a match with Beach on tho Tyne.
JUDGE POTTER, Of the New York Su-
preme Court, has granted an absolute di-
vorce to Edwin Mayo, the actor, from his
wife Jennie, to whom he was married
February Is, 1888. They separated in Au-
gust, 1884. Mr.. Mayo charges his wife
with infidelity. She did not appear to de-
| fend the suit.
THE Cincinnati &; Eastern railroad was
sold by order of court on the 1st for $780,
0j0, to Stephen Feke, Geo. Briger and AL
bert Meter, who composed a purchas-
ing committee representing majority of
the bondholders
The revolutionary troops at Sofia have
surrendered to the loyalist troops and
their officers have been placed under ar
rest.
CHARLESTON. s. C, suffered the most
severely by the earthquake of the 31st and
lst, and the destruction of life and prop
erty in that city was appalling. Thou
sands of people are homeless and many
| thousands more were afrail to re-enter
their homes by reason of their insecure
condition.
! One of the most extensive parades ever
seen in Cincinnati was witnessed on the
| 1st by 200 900 people. 1t was on the occa-
sion of the opening of the exposition. The
procession was made up of military, civil
societies and industrial exhibits. 1t re-
| CURED nearly three hours to pass a given
! point.
| THE reduction of the public debt during.
August was Sl,9l0,659.02. The small re-
| duction is attributed to the heavy extra
ordinary payments authorized by Con-
| gress, but on the other hand the receipts
| have exceeded the average for August by
nearly S5,00o000.
THE annual convention of the National
! Tanners and Hide AMI Leather Dealers
Association opened at Boston on the 1st.
James f. Mooney, of Chicogo, presided.
A PLUMBERS lockout is in progress at
New York. 1t is net their season, any
| how.
Earthquake shocks were felt at Malaga
and other points in Spain on the 1st.
JUDGE j. R. STEWART IS the Democratic
nominee for Congress in the Fifth Georgia
! dist Tict.
THE Indiana Republican State conven-
tion met'at indianapolis on the 81. made
nominations and adopted platform.
THE conference for the protection of
literary property will reassemble at Berne,
| Switzerland September 6.
S. NJ. STOCKsLAGER, assistant Commits
sioner of theJGeneral Land Office, has with
! drawn from the congressional race in In
i~diana. .... 3D.. .... ..
ANDREW CARNEGIE offers $4,000 for the
| establishment of free library at Edin.-
! burgh Scotland, On certain conditions.
THE Republicans of the Seventeenth
| Illinois district no ominated Major Robert
! McWjlliams for Congress.
| Six master builders were injured at
| Barcelona, Spain, on the I'd, by explo-
| sives placed under the tables where they
were holding meeting.
| Two men were killed in a collision ON a
! logging railroad, near Crawling, Mich, on
| the ID.
| PHILIPPOPoLIS was galy decorated on
the ID in honor of the return of Prince
| Alexander. The lattcr started the pre-
| vious evening for Sofia, where he was
| warmly received.
/ AT Pesth, on the ID, the bi-centennial
| anniversary of the retaking of that city
| from the Turks by the Austrians was
celebrated in magnificent style.
| THE new silver certificates will be ready
| for issue by the Government on the 1st of
| next month.
A BATTLE between revolutionists and
| loyalist troops at Radomir, in Eastern
ROumelia on the I'd, resulted in the defeat
of the revolutionists with heavy loss.
A. N. WILSON, the Atlanta (Ga.) ex-
| postmaster who refused to be removed,
lswGs forcibly elected by post office in
spector on the ID.
/ A VIGOROUS Home Rule campaign is to
be conducted during the parliamentary re-
cess by prominent Radical members of the
House of Commons, assisted by the Par
nellites.
A THREsHINGMACHINE boiler explosion
at North Greenbush, N. V, on the I'd, kill
| ed two men and wounded several other
persons.
PRINCE ALEXANDER sent very submits
sive letter to the Gear, upon resuming the
government of Bulgaria, to which he re-
ceived an exceedingly curt and menacing
reply.
THERE are strong indications at Wash
ington that the State Department is not
pleased with the part Consul Porch took
in the Sedgwick matter. "ar 1"n~
THE latest accounts show that ten white
and twenty two colored persons were
The suffering and damage to property are
even greater than at first reported. -...
THE wholesale stores of j. F. g. B. Gar
ret, dealers in paper and printing materials
at Syracuse, N. Y, were burned out on
the ID. Loss, $4,000; we'll insured.
JrpOME r. UupD a farmaY.t livinor i,r