The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-09-02
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.

News from Everywhere.
ACCORDING to Bradstreet's weekly re-
view business is booming everywhere.
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REV. HENRY WARD BEEcHER has recov-
cred from his recently-announced illness.
BRIGADIER- GENERAL JoHN NEWTON,
Chief of Engineers, U. S. A, has been re-
tired at his own request.
In an encyclical letter to the Bishops of
of Hungary the Pore says the church
alone can cope with Socialism.
THE Government viii not initiate pro-
ceedings for indemnity for Cutting, claim
ing that he must do so himself.
A DESPERATE effort is being made in
Madagascar to pay the French indemnity
claim, and terminate French occupation.
GEORGE CHAMBERS, an ex-councilman
of Pittsburgh, Pa, proposes to swim the
Niagara whirlpool rapids without artificial
aid.
A NATURALIzED American citizen (Cu-
ban bornl named Poublec is held at Ha-
Ndud On CudISe VI IItuSOHdDle COu-
spiracy.
ANARCHIST PARSONS, from his cell in
the jail at Chicago, has addressed an open
letter of reproach to Master Workman
Powderly.
BULGARIAN troops in Eastern Roumelia
have declared in favor of the deposed
Prince, and tho movement for his restora-
tion is spreading.
THE revolutionist provisional govern
ment in BULGARIA. has been overthrown,
and Prince Alexander is reported on his
way back to Sofia.
THE deposition of Prince Alexander of
Bulgaria is said to have taken place in the
night The prince is supposed to be a
state prisoner in Russian hands.
TIE official estimates of the Prussian
crops state that the wheat yield will equa |
% per cent. of the average crop; rye, 81;
barley, o.; oats, 1O1, and potatoes, %.
PARNrLL spoke in the House of Com
mons on the 9th and introduced his
amendment to the reply to the Queens
speech. The ministers decided to op-
pose it.
Mr.. BAYARD, in his negotiations with
Mexico concerning the Arrcsuris case,
will tr at the matter precisely as if the
murdered man had been a native born
American.
A PORTION Of the mansion of Judge Rice
at Bushmont, near Lixnaw, County ker-
~, was wrecked on the 23d by an explo-
sion Of dynamite. A similar outrage was
| perpetrated on a Protestant farmers
! house at Gortican, Londonderry.
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THE issue of STANDARD dollars from the
mints during the week endel August 2l
was $647, 727 The issue during the corre-
| spending period of last year was Sj13,497
The shipments of fractional silver coin
since August amounted to S4o5, 81.
GENERAL II. p. RANSOM, prominent
citizen of Lexington, XIV, and formerly
general manager of the Kentucky Central
railroad, del at that place on the 24th.
1t is supposed he suicided by taking large
amount of morphine. No cause is as
| signed.
ADvICEs from Adelaide, Australia,
state that the wheat crop in South Aus
tralia viii yield, according to the latest
estimates, an average of seven bushels to
the acre. There have been copiou3 rains
throughout the wheat-growing region,
and the ram continues.
L. GovINDA Row SATTERY, a Hndoo
who made himself obnoxious by making
blaSpbemous uterances a gainst Christian
ity has been committed to the county jail
upon the complaint of the Ocean Grove
IN. J.) Camp Meeting Association for dis
turbing religious services.
ISAAC f. MACK died at Chicago on the
Esd. He was born in 1906 at Spring gfeld,
Mass. He was the principal of the first
free school at Cincinnati for two years
and afterward went to Rochester, N Y.
where he founded the free schools and was
superintendent for eleven years.
ADvICEs from Tamatave say that French
influence in Madagascar is meeting with
scyious obstacles. Public opinion is alb
sorbed in the conclusion of a treaty Civ
ing an English company the right of COL
lecting customs, working mines and COIN
ing money in consideration of u loan of
$5,000,00).
REV. DIR. KANE, the Protestant clergy
-nan in Belfast who declared that unless
the police were immediately disarmed
two hundred thousand armed Orangemen
would relieve them of their weapons, is
again out with declaration charging the
magistrates of Belfast with criminal par
leying with lawlessness.
GOVERNOR HILL of New York on the
23th granted the requsition made by the
Governor of Pennsylvania for the surren-
der of Daniel Brown, charged with per-
| jury. The Governor found that the pris-
oner fled from Pennsylvania to Canada to
avoid arrest for his crime, and is to be re-
garded as fugitive from justice.
SEVERAL vessels from the Georges and
from the Grand banks arrived at Glouces-
| ter, Mass, on the Goth, and reported that
on August % they encountered a gale of
| great energy. The gale is reported to
have been the worst that has swept over
the banks for years, and it is feared that
much damage was done and many Hves
| lost.
| THE sessions of the German American
Journalists Association in New York
| came to an end on the 25th. Their next
meeting will be held in some Western
| city, Among the officers elected were
the following presidents: A: H.
| Siesel, Wisconsin,; Thomas Kirchhoff
| California; C. Won Heinfelden, Illinois
DR.. E. Praetorius, Missouri; #. Essenecke
| Ohio