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The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-12-30
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

MRS. MARY MARTIN, of Toffeyvile, \.
j., built fire in the stove and started Tor
| the grocery. During her absence George
Messenger and Thomas Flynn, two well
known thieves, entered her house and
stole the stove. They were arrested with
their hot booty.
PLEAS FRYOR, on the 18th, at Lookout
Station, on the Cincinnati Southern rail
| road, shot and killed young man about
nineteen years of age named Buck jack
son.
CAPT. GEORGE II. RHEA, one Of the old
est steamboat men in the West, and for
several wears president and large owner
of the Mississippi Valley Transportation
Company, died at ST. Lonis on the oath,
aged 20 years.
d. B. HODGES, of Nashville, Tenn,
PLAYED twelve simultaneous games Of
chess, on the 18th, with members of the
Louisville Chess Club, winning nine, draw
ing two, and losing one.
JOHN MoFFAT, one of the best known
temperance workers in the country, died
at St. Louis on the 25th.
SARAH VICTOR, the life prisoner in the
Ohio penitentiary, who had served nearly
twenty years of her sentence, was par
doned by the Governor on the 9th.
A FIRE in the louisiana Cotton Yard, at
New Orleans, on the 25th, destroyed 1880
bales of cotton. The loss is estimated at
$4,000; fully insured
ALL the brakemen on the freight trains
ON the Mobile and Ohio railroad are on q
strike.
A FREIGHT train on the Memphis and
Charleston road was ditched near Ether
ton Station. Engineer Mahoney and bis
fireman were killed, and the conductor and
a section boss were wounded.
Ike RIVERS, negro politician, bit a
Chicago Alderman named Jones' underlip
and nose off during political debate on
the 18th.
DEs MONS had a 100000 fire on the
26tth, in queensware store.
Two BARS of silver, valued at $1,000
were stolen from Pacific Express car al
st. Louis on the 18th.
A SINGLE sheet of paper, p inches wide
and seven and three-quarter miles long
has been made without break in a paper
mill at Watertown, N. Y.
zen. JOHN "A. LoGAN uleu d1 w ash'hB'
con on the Goth. His death, which came
with startling suddenness to his family
and friends, had not been unexpect by
his physicians for some days.
SOME unknown man in the waiting roon
at the railway stationat Huntington, Ind.
on the 25th, stabbed John Hart, colored
in the throat, severinglsthe jugular vein
and causing almost instant death. The
murderer escaped.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-12-30
xLlXTH CONGRESS.

IN the Senate on the 10Th among the resolu'
tons presented was one by Mr.. Vest, from the
Merchants Exchange OF st. Louis, asking leg
isation for the increase of trade with Central
and South America; one by Mr.. George, in
structng the judiciary committee to inquire
into the power of federal courts over railroad
receiverships. The Pacific Railroad Funding
bill was was postponed special order until
the second Tuesday in January.
number of bills were passed, in
cluding one for the examination OF claims or
the State Of Missouri on account OF payment to
her militia for services in suppression Of the
rebellion .. In the House q resolution was re-
ported calling on the Secretary OF the Treasury
for information regarding issuance OF treasury
notes. A resolution was offered regarding duty
on sugar and molasses. The States were called
for the introduction of bills. resolution
was introduced calling for correspondence
relative to the expulsion of Amerl-
can citizens from Russia. Mr.. Hiscocks mo-
tion to suspend the rules and pass a bill relat-
ing to duties on tobacco was lost. The bill
amending the statutes making annual appro-
priation to provide arms and equipments Tor
the militia passed. A message was received
from the President in relation TO the Australian
international exhibition.
In the Senate on the 21st the Supervising
Architect of the Treasury, asked for more vault
room for storage of silver The Union Pacific
report was presented resolution was passed
providing for a holiday recess from the ed
until January a. The Interstate Commerce
bill was considered .......In the House an error
in a vote of the previous day was men
toned. The recess adjournment resOlu
ton was agreed to. The Indian Appropriation
bill was reported and referred. A resolution
was reported regarding the ventilation of the
House. The Army Appropriation bill was CEN
sidCred in committee of the whole and passed
The Invalid Appropriation bill was reported
and referred. The Senate amendment 10 the
Crge";J A. ,EC.>ncy bill was concurred in
IN the Senate on the 22d a number OF bills
were reported from committees. A resolution
OF Mr., Dawes regarding customs duties and in
ternal taxes was adopted Adjourned until
January 4.......In the House conferees were
appointed on the bill increasing the militia ap-
preparation The bill passed granting the ST.
Paul. Minneapolis Manitoba railway right or
way through the Indian reservation in Dakota
ana Montana. The bill passed granting TO San
Antonio, Tex, portion of the military reser-
walton adjoining that city. The Oklahoma bill
was taken up and debated. Adjourned until
January !.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-12-30
LICK TELESCOPE
The Delicate Grinding Required for the
Great Lens Of the Instrument.

Great Lens Of the Instrument.
There is something almost romantic
in the design and construction of the
monster Lick telescope. Being the
greatest work ever undertaken, present.
inc difficulties that had never before
been encountered; inviting and suffer-
inc drawbacks and disasters that SEEM
ed to be sufficient to stagger the most
persistant and painStaking skill; watch
ed from day to day by a whole world
of anxious observers; lowered over and
carcsScd by the united wisdom of a gem
eration-the lens has come into the
world with its great cyclopcan eye
ready to pierce the mysteries of the
heavens. Captain Thomas Fraser,
superintendent of the observatory,
furnishes some hitherto unpublished
and highly interesting informa-
ton concerning the grinding Of
the crown-glass lens, and the plan
adopted for transporting it from Cam
bridgeport, Mass, to San Jose. On the
subject of the grinding, he says that
the closest measurement at command
was the ll0.000th part of an inch; but
on grinding the great lens it was dis
covered that even this infiniteSimal
fraction was two large. still finer
measurement was required in reducing
the lens in numberlesS places to u
thickness GtSelf unequaD that would
exactly concentrate parallel rays or
light filling Il circle three feet in diame-
ter to Il point little larger than pin.
In order to reduce the tine measure
ment already at command, the fol-
lowing ingenious arrangement was en-
ploved by Alvin Clark 4 Sons, makers
of the lens: A gas jet was placed before
| a mirror. which sent the rays of light
| through the telescope to the great lens,
thus magnifying the rays. The magni-
fled light, passing through the great
lens was still further immensely
magnitied, and after having passed
through this lens, it was observed
| through second telescope and thus
further magnified. In this way the
| least failure of the great lens to con-
centrated perfectly was detected, and
there was also determined the amount
of glass in it, at any given point, that
had to be ground off in order to secure
perfect focus. Thus measurement
of the 1000, ,000th part of an inch wa
secured. 1t took very little grinding t.
/ remove so small a thickness of glas:
from given point, a gentle rubbing
with the thumb being sufficient, as the
| glass is softer than common window
| glass. -B0StO3 Transcript.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-12-30
COUNTERFEiTERS AT WORK.


CHICAGO, Dec. 21.-For several months
Chicago, Minneapolis, st. Paul, Milwaukee
and other cities OF the Northwest have heen
flooded with spurious silver dollars SO
closely resembling the genuine article
that even experts were deceived.
United States secret service detec-
tlves suspected the owners Of house
near Pullman. The building is one
story cabin and leased by three wnitC :ne".
Saturday, detectives intercepted a box
shipped to Minneapolis and found it con-
tanned POO frst-class counterfeit dollars. In
the place near Pullman, they found only a
negro, who said the white men had left an
hour before Upon searching the house
they found fifty sheets of platinum
a box containing a number Of first
class dies, small machine used for per-
fecting the milling around the edges OF
coins leather bag containing q quantity
of composition white metal, package of
silver leaf and a small melting furnace, and
in addition four dies of $50 gold pieces.
The counterfcits are the most deceptive
ever known and deceive experts, They cor
respond in weight exactly with the United
States dollars and have the genuine ring
when tested.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-12-30
RUSSIAN USURERS.
How They Cypress the Poor, strugsnne
and Eespondent Peasantry.

How They Cypress the Poor. Struggling
and Respondent Peasantry.
Russia is fast verging toward land-
lordism in its most pronounced form.
and the people are being, divorced
wholesale from the soil which their
fathers titled and by which alone them
selves can live. In another generation,
at the present rate of progress (or
derredation), there will be on one side
an agricultural proletariat Of sixty or
seventy millions, on the other class
of koulaks and 'mir-caterS, holding
all the land and virtually owning those
bv whom ii is cultivated The present
system is based on the bondage OF the
npasants. K0ulabS (usurers) and land
lords lend their money, taking as Sc
curity the hvpothecation Of the borrow
er's future labor, and once i'll debt the
Russian peasant is never free. He be-
comes the bOnd-Slave of his creditor,
who exacts his pound OF flesh with Shy
lock ferocity.
But the debtor, when his creditor is q
landlord, has a simple yet effective way
of avcnging himself. He works as little
and Intellectually as he knows how. The
free laborer does twice as much and
does it a great deal better, and for this
evil there is no remedy except one that
is worse than the disease it is meant to
curc-a well-paid Overseer for every
bondageman For the peasant who is
working off a debt does not fear dis
missal-wants it in fact, and the gov
ernment allows no one to use the rod
but itself. The kOulak, or local usurer,
is in a better position than the big land
lord. A peasant himself, he works in
! the fields with his bOndsmen, and can
SEQ that they work. Being, more
over, man of Importance in
the village, he is naturally moro
feared and better served than the abb
sentee owner. 1t is obvious that under
these conditions agricultural progress
and scientific farming are quite out OF
the question Bondage labor is cheaper
than any other, cheaper even than
machinery. Besides, who would in
vest money in labor-saving machines
when he can lend it out at two or three
hundred per cent. per annum. 80 l.
comes to pass that land owners and
usurers grow rich, cereals are exported
and the peasants die. Hardly a year
passes that parts of Russia are not de
yastated by local famines. Instances
of anthrOpOpo hdgy often occur, the
wretched peasants being reduced tC
such straits that in their desperation
they eat human flesh-literally prey on
each other.-COr. San FrdAetSed
| Chronicle,
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-12-30

SOME ONE entered the stables OF W. VI,
Comter, proprietor Of the American House,
at Bloomfield, N. j., on the 23d, and cut a
large piece of flesh, three inches in depth,
from the right foreleg Of the colt Frank
C., valued at 5000
CLARA QUAsT, a little two -year-old child,
living at No. 1850 Third avenue, New York,
while playing on the floor of her mothers
apartments on the 23d, picked up a screw
which she put in her mouth to swallow.
The screw lodged in the little ones larynX
and chokod herto death.
THERE is much rejoicing among the
Gladstonians over the prospective break
up Of the Conservative Unionist coalition.
JOHS EDWARDS, senior partner OF the
firm which began the publication Of the
Daug AdcerttSer at Portland, Me, more than
fifty years ago, and the oldest printer in
Portland, died on the 23d, aged eighty-five
years lie was born IN Boston and went
to Portland in 1914.
The Pray Manufacturing Company of
Minneapolis, MINI, assigned on Tie 22d TO
GaOez B. Robinson. Liabilities, $4,000;
assets, $150,O00. The company has been i'll
financial difficulty for some time, and was
unable to reach satisfactory terms with
| its creditors.
THE President has declined to interfere
| in the case of James O. Z. Burnside,
| charged with delrauding the Government
while holding the position of disbursing
| clerk of the Post-Oftice Department Be
fore his trial Burnside was adjudged in
| sane, and has since been confined in The
| Government asylum for the insane.
The Russian Government has discov
! cred the existence of an extensive Nihilist
| a, h.,,. oh
principally workmen in the large factories
in St Petersburg, Moscow and Vladimir
| Many members Of the organization have
] hnnn arrested.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-12-30
Revenue Returns.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.-The collections Of
internal revenue during the first five
months of the present fiscal year amount to
$4S, ,0O5 500, S792, 500 less than during the cor
responding period of the last fiscal year.
There was a decrease of S2,641, GA in the
collections on spirits; an increase of $507,-
4S9 on tobacco; an increase of Sl,041,095 on
fermented liquors, and an increase of S75,-
223 on miscellaneous objects. The collec-
tions on oleomargarine up to November 30
were $225, 300 The total collections during
November were $675, 734 greater than those
for November, 1885. There was an increase
of SlOl ,939 on spirits; of Sl99,012 ON tobacco,
and of s166.015 on fermented liquors,
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-12-30
ENJOlNlNG THE SANTA FE.
4 Stockholder Afraid His Property viii De-
preCiate.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, Dec. 21.-Injunction
proceedings were begun here to-day before
Judge Brewer of the United States Su-
preme Court, against the AtChisOn, Topeka
q Santa Fe Company. Charles Venner,
of Boston, who holds $4,000 of stock
of the company, filed papers asking
that the company be enjoined from build
ing line from Kansas City to Chicago,
and from guaranteeing the bonds of the
Atlantic & Pacific Company. The case
came up here on a demurrer. The Santa
Fe representative said his company owned
one-half the stock of the Atlantic q Pacific,
and consequently it had right to guaran-
tee the bonds of that company. He
denied that the Santa Fe intended
building from Kansas City to Chi
cago, but insisted that if the company
owned the bonds of any company intending
to build such line it had the right to guar
antee these bonds. The object of Venners s
suit is said to be to prevent the depreciation
of the company's stock held by him. He
claims that the company issued more stock
than it's charter allows, and that conse-
quently his holdings have deprecated in
value,
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-12-30
A QUEER CARGO.
The Steamship werra Brings over an As
sortment of Birds and Beasts.


NEW YORK, Dec. 21-The steamer Wcrra
came into port yesterday with queer car
90. She had on board three gigantic
horses, twelve wild boars, 800 English
pheasants, 5000 canafica, fifty wild rab-
bits and girl and a boy each about
four days Old The Vera had a. very
tempestuous passage. She left Brc-
men on the Sth and at once Tdn into u
storm which lasted all the way to South
ampton. At the English port a large mail
$50 bags-was taken on board In the
English Channel they had fair weather, but
afterward encountered heavy seas and
gales. The vessel could not make more
than 500 miles a day. In mid-ocean two of
the steerage passengers gave birth, one
&c gitl the other to q boy. \
storm was bowling at the time. Tho
infants were named for the ship
Werra The three horses are im-
ported by farmer III the vicinity OF Chics.
90 for the Improvement of stock. They
come from Altenburg. and are of the huge
proportions of the Flemish dray horse. The
wild boars, it is said, were caught in the
Hartz mountains. The purpose is to liber-
ate them in various parts of the country, SO
as TO introduce the royal sport of pig
sticking" Some of the boars will be sent
TO Judge CatoA's deer farm at Ottawa, III.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-12-30
Germany and Russia. .

BERLIN, Dec. 2l.-The North German Ga
zette welcomes the indications of a better
feeling between Russia and Germany as
shown in the recent article in the St Peters
burg Messenger. The two nations, says the
Gazette, recognize that there are permanent,
binding interests common to both. 1t at
tributes the press chickering's to the infiu-
ence of partisans of a policy of revenge
against France 1t rejoices that the Mes
senger recognizes that the German policy is
ever directed toward peace with unshaken
confidence in the wisdom and frmness Of
the Gar
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-12-30
Hanged and Not Burned.

ToCCoA, Ga. Dec 2l.-The reported burn.
ing of Frank Sanders, the murderer of
five members of the Swilling family, proved
to be incorrect, as he was returned to Jail.
Yesterday, however, party of l20men sur
rounded the Jail at an early hour and battered
down the door and took Sanders to a cOnven-
lent place and swung him up. 1t has devel-
oped that Mrs. Rachel Baty, who lived in
the neighborhOOd, was an accOmplce in the
crime, and that it was the design of Sand
ers and herself to get married with the
money thus gained The woman has been
put in Jail. There are fears of another
lynching
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-12-30
NEW NATURALIZATION LAW.
Senator salisbury Proposes to Increase the
Tests Before Acceptiong Aliens Cit

Tests Before Acceptiong Aliens as Cit
iZens.
WASHINGTON, Dec. Ex-senator Sauls-
bury yesterday introduced bill providing
that after any alien should have resided in
the United States for three years he might
present his petition for admission to citizen
ship the petition to be accompanied by the
affidavit of citizen that the petitioner had
lived three years in the United States and
one year within the State III which
the application might be made and
that during that time he had be-
haved as a man of good moral char
acter. Upon the presentation of the petit
ton the court is required to grant a certifi-
cate stating the facts, whereupon the peti-
toner shall be subject to all the duties Of
citizenship and have all the rights thereof,
except that he shall not be entitled TO vote
until two years have elapsed since the issu-
ance of his certificate. Minor children Of
foreign-born citizens shall have the rights
of citizenship, provided they have lived
three years within the United States No
person shall be admitted to citizenship who
can not speak the English language.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-12-30

THE Pension Appropriation bill, which
was reported to the House from the
committee on appropriations on the 2lst,
provides for a total expenditure on ac-
count of pensions of $40. 6.35f,50J. The esti-
mates were $15. .254.50), and the appropria-
ton for last year $76,075,2)0.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-12-30

TIE Supreme Court Of the United States
on the Dist granted a motion to advance
the important bank tax case of the Mer-
camille National Bank against the city of
New York involving the question of the
legality of State taxation upon National
bank shares
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-12-30

A CoMNUNIcATIoN from the Secretary OF
the Treasury was laid before the House on
the 2ist, in which he says the capacity OF
vaults already constructed for the storage
of silver dollars is now practically eX-
hausted. There is, therefore, he says, a
practical necessity that provision be made
for the storage of silver dollars at the
earliest practicable day.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-12-30

SIX wooden store buildings were burned
in Pittsford, Mich, on the 2lst. The los
crs are: Mrs. Perkins bazaar; Miss Snau-
bic, milincr; F. W. Weldon. harness
shop: Bates Hotel and furniture store.
The place is small and without fire ap-
paIatUs.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-12-30

A BOLD robbery was committed at tht
First National Bank in Milwaukee WIS
at noon on the 2lst. F. g. Bigelow, the
cashier, who was engaged in signing =
new issue of fivc-dollar notes, when aoou'
half through with 5000 lot, went ''
dinner, leaving the notes on the desk. ol
his return he discovered the money nae
been stolen by some unknown person
who unlocked the door Of his ROOM
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-12-30

FoREFATuERS' day was celebrated in
Washington on the 22d at All Souls
church. Hon, George b, Loring presided
and made the opening address. Speeches
were also made by Hon. Geo. s. Boutwell,,
Senator Sherman, Governor Long and
Lieutenant Greely.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-12-30

TIE officers having in CUSTODY VIM.
Mussel. murderer of old man Christman
arrived at Eaton, o, on the 21st, and the
prisoner was safely landed in jail. A
crowd of five hundred people made rush
on the party, but were held at bay by the
officers with drawn revolvers. An unsuc
cessful raid was made on the jail and an
other was feared to be imminent.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-12-30

ESTIMATES have been made of the cost Of
q storage vault of Sl00,0M,000 capacity
within the court yard of the treasury build
ing at Washington. For double steel
lined vault the estimates are Sl06,613, and
for simple vault without steel lining they
are $.1,S4
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-12-30

COMMISSIONERS ATKINS has decided not
to remove the Indian Supply Bureau from
New York. A branch Office will be opened
in St Louis each year, and st, Louis mer-
chants WIl be given an opportunity to
enough.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-12-30

THE President has approved the act
making appreciation to supply the def
cheney in the appropriation for public
printing for the fiscal year ended June 30
1887.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-12-30

A LARGE, welldressed man, bearing the
marks Of long debauch, was arrested IN
Cleveland, o., on the Goth, at the saloon OF
Duncan Ross, the athlete. The man regis
tered as James b. Cleveland druggist,
of Oneonta, N. Y, and claimed to be
"a nephew of the President, but was never
tbeIess fined ten dollars and was sent to
the work-house for thirty days.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-12-30

Loan RANDOLPH CHURCuuI's rcsicna-
ton as Chancellor Of the Exchoqucr cx-
cites almost universal unfavorabIe com
mcnt in England
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-12-30

THE President has granted pardon in
the case of All IIoot and Simmotz, two
Umatilla Indians, who are now confined
in prison at Salem, Ore. for the murder
of a white man. They are in bad health
and are not expected to long survive their
release.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-12-30

a YACHT race for I.Gn guIuCas is an
nounccd Tor TIE coming season to cele-
brate the Queen Of England's jubilee.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-12-30
Compiled from Various Sources.

LORD SALISRuRY. it Is reported. has re-
ncwod his offer &c 'hc British Premiership
TO Lord darlington.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-12-30

An epidemic OF the disease known as
'pink-cyc' prevails among the horses in
Buffalo, \. Y. Tne street railroad com
paujcS nave cighty-scvcn horses on the
aivli list
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-12-30

A GENERAL tie-up Of the Brooklyn street
cars occurred Oh the 23d, and considerable
Inconvenience resulted