The Brookhaven leader., 1886-08-19

THE receipts Of the Government since
July have been nearly A.OOO,OW in ex-
cess Of the receipts during the same period
OF ! st year. The increase was about
1000. 900 from customs and about $780,
COO from internal revenue.
The Chief Of Engineers of the army
states that it will be almost impossible to
make much headway with the work TO be
done under the provisions of the River
and Harbor bill because the season is so
lar advanced.
The Hun Earian town of Sillein has been
destroyed by fire. The property burned
includes four hundred houses, a church, a
nunnery and school. The loss is $780,
600.
FIRE destroyed Newton's planning
| at Hastings, Mich, on the 18th.
Mrs. CLEVELAND s sadly afflicted by
the warm weather at Washington, and is
anxious to get away.
\ PoYAL commission is to be appointed
to inquire into The recent Belfast riots.
| FoUE lives were lost by the capsizing of
| the ,hooner Frolic in Boston harbor.
| FURTHER Indictments in connection with
the Squire Flynn affair at New York are
! expected.
1t was expected that fifty thousand
workmen would attend the Socialist meet
! ing at brussels on the 18th.
THE loot secured by the British in Bur-
NAH was sold at auction at Calcutta for
! 100 coo rupees.
A GASOLINE stove explosion Mt Seialia,
No, on the 18th, fatally burned Cora E.
! Shepherd and caused an 5000 fire.
II 41a prft tf=I
local Government Board, has been re-
elected to Parliament.
An explosion occurred in a colliery in
! Lancashire, England, on the 18th in which
40 men were at work. Forty lives are
said to have been lost
JOHN DoUGHERTY, of Mount Union, Pa,
has invented a folding paddle which he
expects will revolutionize steamboating.
NEAR indianapolis, on the 18th, light
ming killed Mrs. Buckhart while asleep in
Led with her husband and child, neither
Of the latter being hurt.
JouN WAGNER, who has wife and
three children living at Columbus, o., shot
and fatally wounded his mistress at In
dianapolis, Ind, on the 18th.
DIR. RICHARDSON made an incision in
the abdomen Of John McCarty at Boston
on the 18th, drew out and cut open the
stomach and removed a set of false teeth
which he had swallowed. The patient is
recovering.
THE amount of three per cent bonds
hel to secure National bank note circula-
ton, included in the 140th call, issued on
the l4th, is 1856, 80.
THE school-ship Constellation, with the
Annapolis cadets on board, arrived al
Fortress Monroe on the 18Th Cadet
SchIey, of Indiana, fell from aloft on Au-
gust and was killed.
FIRE destroyed twenty-six Of the prin-
cipal business houses at Folsom, Cal, on
the 18th. Loss, $4,000; insurance, S95,
| 600.
Mrs. GEORGE DEAKENHART and her
eight year old daughter died at their home
at Ballerstown, Pa, on the 18Th from eat
ing toad-tools, which they thought were
mushrooms.
! GOVERNOR IRELAND expresses the great
est respect for Secretary Rayard, and al
the same time expires es his own views Cn
the Mexican matter in terms that are not
Lard to understand.
The grand jury ct Ncw York on the
18th dismissed the case Ct Colonel VIM. Fl,
Glider, the Artic explorer. who was
| charged by Dolly adams y tn taking a
81 eco bond from her. She asked leave to
Withdraw the complaint, ard signed q
document saying that she ID not believe
that tie defendant iut Lied to defraud
| her Of the bond.