The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-07-08
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Evory~here.

News from Everywhere.
THE President has signed the Fitz-John
Porter bill.
THE Marquis of Lorne Will contest the
Seven Oaks division of Kent in the coming
election as a Gladstonian candidate.
THE Mexican Government has extended
for three years the concessions to the Tex
as, Topoohampo & Pacific railroad.
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IT is calcula ed that the imperial revenue
of Germany for the fiscal year 1856 will
fall II 100000 marks below the estimate.
THE American fishing schooner City
Point was seized at Shelburne harhor,
Nova Scotia, on the 1st, by a Canadian
cruiser.
HoNoRARYdegress have been conferred
on DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes and John
Bright by the Oxford (England) Uni
versity.
A NEW directory issued at Chicago indi-
Gates, it is claimed, population of 10000
for that city, an increase Of about $4,000 in
the past year.
T. SULLIVAN and w. Murphy, Parnen-
ties; John Bright and Joseph Chamber
lain, Unionists, were reelected to the
British Parliament without opposition.
THE London Financial Nc,os, which has
been opposed to Mr.. Cyrus w. Field, pub
fishes his picture and congratulates him
on his victory in the libel suit against
Truth.
THE President, on plea of the pressure
of public business, declined an invitation
to attend the ceremonies in Baltimore at
tendant upon the conferring the beretta
on Cardinal Gibbons.
EXPERTS are busily engaged on the
books of the Chesapeake & Delaware
Canal Company to discover the extent of
Treasurer Robinson's defalcation. The
usual woman appears in the case.
THE Rcpublj9te Fr0HcatSe takes occasion
in announcing the resignation of General
Laussier. military governor of Paris, to
accuse General Bouanger, Minister of
War, of aspiring to dictatorship.
THE Lower House of the Bavarian Par
lament, by unanimous vote, has given
200, 600 forms to Prince Luitpold to enable
him to maintain a roval establishment
consistent with his rank as Regent
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THE issue of standard silver dollars from
the mints during the week ended June 2G
was 5j0,604. The issue during the cOrre-
spending week of last year was 424, ,494.
The shipments of fractional silver coin
since June l amounted to spas
AT meeting of the corporation of Yale
College on the 2Sth it vas voted to confer
the degree of LIB. on Miss Alice r. Jor
dan, who entered the law school under the
clause in the catalogue admitting attor-
news at law of any State to the senior
class.
IT is stated that in consequence of Fenian
threats Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain has had
his residence placed under the guard of
detectives, and that he has detectives
armed with revolvers accompany him on
all his journeys between his house and
the city.
FORCE of British troops. with two bat
teries, has had severe fight with !, 800
Burmese rebels, strongly entrenched, near
Tummoo. The fight lasted five hours.
The British, failing to dslodge the rebels,
retired. Several officers were killed and
wounded.
IT appears that one of the reasons why
Republican Senators voted against an APP
preparation for continuing the publication
of the rebellion records Is that good
deal of matter concerning Fitz John POr-
ter's case since the war had been compiled
and inserted.
THE long-pending troubles between the
proprietors of the Philadelphia rolling
mills and their employees have come to a
crisis. There is a general shut down, re-
sulting in the banking of the fires in four
large concerns in the city, which will di-
rectly affect 800 men.
THE census takers, appointed to enroll
the Cherokees, by blood, entitled to a share
of the S300, 900 proceeds of the lease of the
Cherokee strip, closed their work on the
Goth. The sum will be about sixteen dol
lars per head. The payment will COM
mence in a few days.
plorer, was among those who shook hands
with the President an the 30th, and he
was accompanied by his father in law.
81 was here tifty-twO years ago." said the
latter to the President, "and shook hands
with General Jackson"
SECRETARY LAMAR represented the Cab
met at the ceremony of imposing the be-
retta upon Cardinal Gibbons at Baltimore
on the 3Oth. President Cleveland sent by
Rev. DR.. Chapelle, pastor of st. Matthew's
Church in Washington, a personal letter
congratulating the Cardinal.
LAST year 19,067.1S0 imperial gallons of
beer were exported from Munich, Bavaria,
or 4,646, ,629 imperial gallons more than in
1884. This is an increase of SO per cent.
The consumption of beer in the town of
Munich during the year was 24,9S5,6S2 i'm
perial gallons, or 80 4-5th gallons per
head
REPRESENTATIVE DOCKERY has received
letter from j. 7. Child, the new Minister
to Siam. Mr.. Child mails from Hong
Kong, and doesn't express himself as if
he was sick of the job, as has been report
ed. $50 far we have had a pleasant
trip" Mr.. Child writes; ''the fastest on
record.'
THE Congregationalists of the United
States are to make an effort on Sunday,
July 4, to pay off a debt of $4,000 carried
for the past two years by the American
Missionary Association, the National be-
nevolent society, through which they are
doing great educational work among the