The Brookhaven leader., 1886-10-28

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Jones river.
HENRY COMBS, agent Of the Long Island
railroad at Westhury, l.. l., was arrested
on the 18th. There is large deficiency in
| his accounts.
! EMPEROR WILLIAMS health is said to be
improving. He will attend the cutting of
the first sod of the Baltic and North Sea
canal in November
AN immense exodus of men toward
Wnukaringo, in South Australia, is in
progress, in consequence of the discovery
of alluvial gold there.
SEVERE earthquake shocks were felt on
the % in South Carolina, North Caro-
lima, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, at
W nshington and Cincinnati.
IT is possible that the annual pageant in
honor of the lord mayor of London will
have to be abandoned if the Social Demo.
cratic federation insist on taking part in
the procession.
IT is eatimated Mt the Treasury that the
! ultimate issue Of the new one and two
dollar silver certificates may aggregate
$50 100000 and of five-dollar silver GER
tificates $GO,OOO 900.
THF Masonic temple that cost the MEM
bers Of the order in Cleveland $4,000 to
build, was lie iicatel on the 10Th by the
Grand Lodge of Ohio. Several thous and
people attended the services.
IT is stated that the Czar has made an
agreement with the Porte by which he
has obtained permission to fortify the
Dardanelles and to occupy Bulgaria and
Roumelia with Russian troops.
NJ. LOCKREY, French Minister of Com
mercc and Industry, has informed the
guarantee committee of the proposed ex
hihition that the necessary capital of
22,jOO,OOO francs has been obtained.
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j. J. GEAGHAN, assistant State Dairy
and Food Commissioned of Ohio. has
sworn ut warrants for the arrest of sew
eral prominent grocers at Dayton whom
he caught selling butterine for creamery
butter.
THE Inman Steamship line has gone into
voluntary liquidation, and it is probable e
that before long the entire outfit, consist
ing of the feet of fine vessels and docks in
Liverpool, will pass into the hands of new
owners.
In the Vermont Legislature on the 10Th
the Senate gave Geo. f. Edmunds 90 votes
for United States Senator and W. Fl. H.
Bingham !. The vote of the House stood:
Elmunds 19a; Bingham, %, and w. G.
Eeasey, s.
THE issue of standard silver dollars
from the mints during the week ended Oc-
tober 1G was 1851, ,O4; same week last
year, 81 ,020,710. The shipments of frac-
tioral silver coin since October !, amounts
to sos, 1S9.
S, r. HUBBArD principal keeper of the
lifc-saving station at FIRE Island, N. Y,
who is charged wish Gecreting goods from
the wreck of the steamship OREGON, has
rendered the resignation TO the Secretary
of the Treasury.
THE Duke Of Devon shre's Limerick
tenants have now all paid their rents.
Some of them held out, hoping for a
creator reduction than the twenty per
cent. otfere them, but they paid up when
he threatene them with 81 jectment.
JUDGE GOEBET. of the Cincinnati Pro-
bate Court, has accep ed the offer of
Judge IIoadlv to pay the trustees of the
estate Of Archbishop Purcell TG2, 100 in full
satisfaction of his liability as bondsman
for j. B. Mqnnix, defaultng assignee.
A SENSATIONAL publication of secret
W ar history, in which the inside facts re-
garding the "Northwestcrn conspiracy"
and the attcmpt to release Southern pris-
oners in the North will be brought to
lieht, is about to be made at Louisville,
Ky.
Hon ABRAM S. HEWITT, Democrat C
candidate for Mayor of New York, has
written an open letter to Henry George,
Labor candidate for the same office, in
which he declines the latter's challenge to
n public discussion of the issues between
them.
WHILE firing a salute in honor of the
President at Frederick Sburg, Va, on the
21st, a cannon was prematurely dis
charged, and James Wheeler, who was
ramming the charge, was terribly burned
and mutilated, and is expected to die of
his injuries.
SINCE September /, 1885, twenty vessels
belonging to the Gloucester (Mass) dis
trct fee, aggregating 1,IGl,O tons,
valued al S164 900 and insured for $11S,46),
have been lost. Tho lives of 1O4 men have
been lost, leaving twenty-five widows and
fifty fatherleSs children.
The Attorney General has given an
oDinion in regard to construction of
section . of the Oleomargarine Act
which is in effect that oils or simples used
in the manufacture of oleom argarine are
not subject to tax, unless made in imita-
ton or semblance OF butter.
The United States Circuit Court grand
Jury at Boston reported four new indict-
ments on the 21st containing 100 counts,
charging embezzlement, making false en-
tries and frau iulent withdrawal of funds
against Richmond ]. Lane. ex-president
of the Addington National Bank.
DANIEL w. SToUr, a well-kuown char
acter seen on the streets of Columbus,
Ind, every day, led by little girl, re-
ceived notice on The 10Th hat he had oeeh
allowed one of the largest pensions on
record, amounting to $l0,426.66 arrears
and seventy two dollars per month.
THE cabinet meeting on the 10th was
attended by all the members except Sec
retaries Lamar and Whitney. The Treas
urv Department was represented by Sec
retary Manning for the first time since ne
was taken sick in May last The Cana
dian fisheries complications, and the