The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-12-30
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

OJucI pdIlS Ol MS uOUN. ana IS giving MIN
great trouble in his knees and legs.
THE ant!-rent agitation is spreading in
Ulster.
THr Jo"rHdt de 81. PetcrSbourg says Rus
sia's refusal to accept the candidacy of
Prince Ferdinand of SaXe-Coburg -Gotha
for the bulgarian throne, is not due to
personal objections.
THE private banking house ofN G.. Hush
& Co, at Minneapolis, Mimi, suspended
pavmert un the 21st. The liabilities are
not yet known. The cause of the failure
is said to be the necessity of Hush to carry
the paper of Jackson 4 Collins. owners OF
the Puritan Iron mine, on which he was
indorscr 10 the amount of S3OO,O00 or S4O0.-
COO,
HItL NJ ssELL, who was lynched in Ohio,
on the 2lst, formerly lived near Shelby
vile, Ill.
NJ. De LEssEPs says that it will cost
131jD0,0oO francs to complete the Panama
canal.
BY fall Of rock N Conucll's mine, at
Scranton, Pa, John Rodgers, assistant
foreman. was killed. and John O'Iiara had
his back and leg broken. John Nee and
Anthony Doughcrty sustained fatal inju-
rics. and Michael Gallagher was slightly
hurt
THE President has granted pardon in
the case Of Tampa, Lowich and Hietitet,
three Pima Indians, now undergoing a
sentence Of five years Imprisonment in
the Arizona penitcntiary for a murderous
assault on two white men in that Terri
tory in 1888.
THE flagship Tennessee has been in
spcctcd and put out of commission forever.
WILLIAM p. SHINN was elected vice
President of the New York q y ew En-
gland railway.
JACQUES. the English faster, has given
up the attempt after an abstinence of
tWcnty-one days.
HEARING on the motion for q stay of pro
ccedings in the McQuadc case at New
York has been postponed until the 2sth.
MOTHER MARY, of st. Bernard, one of
the sisters of the Good Shepherd and for
mcr,y of st. Louis, died at Milwaukee on
the 22d
THE French Minister of Foreign Affairs
will only receive the Bulgarian deputation
as private persons
MANY of the German railways are still
completely blockaded by the snow storm
which has been raging over a large part
of the empire.
THE trial of Rev. Waldo Mesaros, charg-
ed with an attempt to criminally assault
Philadelphia, on the 22d
THE British steamer COrmorant. from
New Orleans for Bremen. is ashore at the
Isle of W Wight, and will probably be "a total
wreck
THE principals seconds, referee and
twenty eight spectators of IA prize CHIT
were arrested on Staten Island, n. Y, on
the 22d and were committed for eXamna-
tion.
GLADSTONE and his colleagues have, it is
reported, agreed to support the Govern
ment in all legal efforts to suppress the
antlrent campaign.
THE cases of Lloyd and Hamilton, charg-
ed with train-Wrccking at Kansas City,
by request of defendants will go from
Wyandottc to Miami County, Kan, for
trial, and viii come up in March next.
A BUILDING is to be erected at Sioux
City, Ia, in memory of Rev. Geo. G. Had
dock, who was assassinatci at that place.
GADBAN EFFENDI. special Turkish envoy
to Sofia, will remain in Bulgaria despite
the efforts of some Of the Powers to have
him banshed.
PAENELL thinks it improbable that the
plan of campaign has procured abatemcnts
in rents, whore everything else failed, as
has been asserted.
JAKE ScHAEFER says he Will challenge
the world to a contest with the cue at any
kind of billiards.
ROBERT DEsPOSITO was shot and mortal
ly wounded at New Orleans on the22d by
James Cook, a notorious hoOdlum. Des-
posito, it is alleged, has killed two men.
BRUCE, the burglar who several weeks
ago broke into the Church Of the Sacred
Heart at South Bend, Ind, and stole the
famous golden crowns, has been given
seven years in the penitentiary.
GOVERNOR Hill of New York has issued
an executive order pOStpOning the cXecu-
ton of Mrs. RoXalana DrUse, under sen
tcnce of death for the murder of her hus-
band, from December %, the date fixed in
the sentence, till February -, 1851
TIE City Hall and Opera-hOuse at
Cheboygan, Mich, were destroyed by fire
on the night of the 22d Loss, $4,000; no
insurance. The city Jail, located under
the City Hall, contained two prisoners,
one of them an idiot named Doggy Dumas.
Both were burned to death.
THE steamer Rhynland, from Antwerp,
which arrived at New York on the 22d, re-
ports that on the 2lst, while abreast of
Nantucket, she passed the sea mon
ster reported by the steamer Thing
yalla. 1t proved to be a dead whale
of gigantic size, floating about fifteen feet
out of water. 1t had apparently been dead
for a long time
DILLON and his associates appeared in
court at Loughrea on the 23d, and were
discharged.
WM. WARNER. ofNewtown, Conn, killed
Mrs. Mary Lynch on the 23d, and then shot
himself
A VEIN of gold is said to have been DIS
covered near Spring Hill, Livingston
County, Mo.
WN. SCHULTZ, a farmer, who resided
near CataWba, No, was kicked to death
on the 23d by vicious horse.
Ex-Governor PIERCE of Dakota has ac-
cepted the position of associate editor Of
the st. Paul Pioneer Press
AT meeting held recently at Sydney
New South Wales, 5000 was subscribed
for evicted tenants in Ireland.
II. p FoRwooD, a former well-known
cotton merchant, of Louisville, KY, has
been adjudged insane.
BY the burning of their farmhouse, near
Savbrook, O., on the 23d, Caleb Russell,
his wife and a demented son lost their
lives.
TWELVE persons were injured in rail
Way accident on the Asheville q Spartan
burg road, near Asheville, n c., on the
23d.
Mrs. JESSE JOHNSON, wife of a young
lawyer at Knoxville, Ia, threw herself
into the lake at Chicago on the 23d, and
was drowned.
THE engineer of the British steamer
Suez, at New Orleans, and three China
men were fatally burned on the 23d by an
explosion of gas in the coal bunkers.
THE eightieth anniversary of Emperor
williams entry into the army will be cele-