The Brookhaven leader., 1886-07-29
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
OVER five thousand silver trade dollart
in the treasury at Buffalo, N. Y, were
sold on the 23d for 70 400 cents each.
A CIVIL SERVICE examination is to bt
held in ST. Louis on the 1th of August fol
assistant examiners in the patent office.
A STATUE of Gladstone, to he erected or
College Green, Dublin, by the people o.
Ireland, is suggested by the FreemGn' s
Journal.
THE Uaited Ie,aRd urges the Irish peo
pie TO tender granl ovation TO the Ear
Of Alb rdeen on his departure from tn,
country.
STEPHEN BRoDIr, boothlack. twenty
three years of age, jumped from the Brook
lyn bridge into the East river on the 23d
and was fished ont uninjured.
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Coon rain fell on the 23d in Southwest
ern Kansas, covering large area and in
Guiding some districts which had not beer
visited by the preceding showers.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has received
from Prince Bismarck a large photograph
of the German Chancellor, framed in oal
and Learing the Princes autograph.
THE remains of United States Consu
Rogers, who died at Vera Cruz five year
ago, are to disinterred on the 1st of Au
gust and brought back to his home il
Nebraska.
THE House naval affairs committee ha'
decided to add as an amendment to the
Naval Establishment bill the provision fo
the building of a dynamite gunboat e
cost $3j0,000.
SENATOR ALLISON says that if vote
can be reached upon the Oleomargarin'
bill, the condition of business will be sucl
that Congress can adjourn without delay
the latter part of the month.
TIE sureties of Cashier Thomson of th
Provident Savings Bank, st. Louis, hav'
made proposition to settle the deficit
and Receiver Thompson has filed a peti
ton for instructions and advice from the
court.
JOE JEFFERSON, the veteran actor, an
his wife have just returned from salmon
fishing trip to Canada, where they had tht
finest of sport. Mr.. Jefferson is now rest
ing at his home on Saddle brook, Hobo
kuS, n. J.
THE bus mess failures throughout the
country during the seven days ended The
23l, as reported by telegraph, number, fol
the United States, 100, and for Canada
"a, total of 1Si, as compared with tota
of 1873 the previous week.
IT was children's day at the White
House on the 10th, and few of the callers
upon the President were accompanied by
less than two of their offspring, and ont
fond mother introduced seven young hope
fuls to the chief magistrate.
SIR MICHAEL HICKS BEACH and other
memhers of the late Tory Cabinet will OPP
pose the admission of the Duke of Argyle
and Goschen into the new Cabinet, and
will urge that the Duke of Abercorn he
appointed Viceroy of Ireland.
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THE American Consul at Paso del NOrte
Mexico, has been instructed by Secretary
Bayard to demand the immediate and un-
conditional release of A. K. Cutting, the
American editor imprisoned for publish
ing an attack on Mexican citizen.
The Para Rubber Shoe Company al
South birmingham, Mass, posted a notice
on the 23rd that its factory would be
closed on July 81. No limit to the shut.
down is announced. During its continu-
ance, / 100 hands will be thrown out ot
employment
WEST ELIZABETH, mining town twenty
miles south of Pittsburgh, Pa, Is sorely
affec ted with malarial fever. 1t broke out
four weeks ago, and on the 20th there were
over sixty cases. Up to that date only
one death had occurred, but several were
in serious condition.
ARGUMENT will be made at the meeting
of the Pennsylvania Board of Pardons at
Harrisburg for a rehe earring of the case oi
Milton Weston, the Chicago capitalist,
now undergoing Imprisonment in the Riv-
erside penitentiary for completely in the
Murraysville gas-well riots.
Count ISNARDs has been sentenced al
Marselles, France, to one months impris-
onment for violently opposing the police,
having often previously been convicted of
similar offenses. The other persons ar
rested in connection with the rOyalist riots
were sentenced to shorter terms.
A DISPATCH from Fort Bowie, A. T..
states that the hostiles have sent word
that they desire to parley with General
Miles. Orders have been sent to Lieuten-
ant Park to cease the pursuit of the In
dians until the result of the parley is as
certained. Geronimo rs wounded.
THE Civl-Service Commission has is
sued an order prohibiting the private Sec
retary of an appointing or nominating
officer, or the officer who, in the absence Oi
an appointing or nominating officer, acts
in his place, from being either chairman
OF secretary of board Of examiners.
E. c. MONTGOMERY carried the head OF
an Apache into Clifton, Ariz., on the
evening of the 21st. Montgomery was at
tackled in the divide between Eagle creek
and Blue river, about forty miles above
Clifton by three Apaches Besides the
one whose head he carried in, he thinks
he killed or wounded a second.
THE Tennessee commissioner of Agri'