The Brookhaven leader., 1886-04-08
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.

News from Everywhere.
THE President has approved the act au :
thorizing the appointment Of an acting
assistant treasurer.
IT is stated that Lake Michigan at Chi
cago is gradually rising at the rate of
about four inches year.
SEVERAL leaders of the Belgian Social
lists at Paris were arrested on the 31st
while attempting to hold a meeting.
PRESIDENT GREvY of France has signed
decree raising the fund for the relief of
the poor to S., 500, 600, making it larger than
ever before.
THE late Countess Chambord left g ,500,-
900 in cash, deposited with the Roths-
childs, besides vast and immensely valu-
able estates in Austria.
A PARTY of Mexican customs officers re-
Gently surprised band of smugglers near
San Fernando, killed their leader and cap
tured large quantity of goods.
THE PuU Mall Gazette says Gladstone is
riding straight for fall, and unless he
modiiles his Irish scheme the country will
have neither home rule nor Gladstone.
AT Indianapolis the Central Union Tele-
phone Company are preparing to abandon
the field on account of the recent decision
limiting the amount they may charge for
service.
DIR. BRADIN, who attended Neal, the by.
droph0bia victim, at Newark, N. j., got
some OF Neal's saliva in a cut on his finger.
He has gone to Paris to be treated by
Pasteur.
THE visible supply of grain in store and
afioat in the United States and Canada on
the 9th, was as follows: Wheat, 49,774,-
300 bushels: corn, Is, 797 ,O73 bushels; oa is,
1850 800 bushels; rye, 5l5 ,6JG bushels; bar
ley, ,039, ,70I bushels.
THE Jeans Manufacturers' Association
of the Ohio valley met on the 29th and
decided to cut working hours from eleven
to ten hours q day, advance pay five per
cent. an hour and to curtail production,
owing to the state of trade.
ate on the Goth a bill appropriating 500, 900
for the erection in Washington of a monu
ment with appropriate statuary to COM
memorate the illu 'trious public services of
the late Abraham Lincoln.
THE Secretary of War received a dis
patch on the 1st from General Crook con-
firnine the reports of the surrender and
-
OF his band, but giving no details in addi-
tion to what has already been published.
The Steinitz- z-Zulertort chess match
wound up at New Orleans on the night of
the 29th with another victory for Steinitz
giving him the championship of the world.
The game was the eleventh played in New
Orleans and the twentieth of the great
match.
GOVERNOR FORAKER of Ohio on the
3lst appointed the Cincinnati police
commission, as follows: Two years,
Thomas c. Minor, Democrat; Geo.
r. Topp, Republican; four years, Robert
S. Morgan, Republican; Milo G. Dodds,
Democrat.
AT late hour on the 30th Secretary
Manning's physicians reported a slight
improvement in the condition of their pa
tient. He had rested quietly and comfort
ably during the day and evening, and
altogether, they said, hewas doing as well
as could be expected.
THE Reading (Pa.) iron works, in re-
sponse to the petition presented by the
men, advanced wages fifteen per cent,
excepting puddlers, who will receive three
dollars and half instead of three dollars,
beginning on the 3D. The employees mum
ber some two thousand.
NEAL, the keeper of the Newark, IN. J0
dog pound, who was bitten by Spitz dog
some weeks ago, and who had suffered the
tortures of hydrophobia for four days, died
on the 30th in violent parOxySms. An at
tempt to treat him by the Pasteur method
failed because not made in time.
A FIvE-DoLLAR counterfeit brownback
National bank note has been discovered,
purporting to be an issue of the Central
National Bank of Norwalk, Conn, and
giving the charter number of the bank as
40i. This bank has never issued note
of the series of 1882, and its charter num-
ber is 2,342.
THE total number of rioters killed during
the recent rioting in Belgium has been as
certaned to be twenty-six. 1t is probable
that the persons arrested for melting the
strikers to violence can not be punished,
as it is doubtful whether the mere act of
melting to riot is punishable under the
provisions of the penal code.
THERE was no change in the condition
of Secretary Manning on the ID. His ply
sicians would only say, when interview
that their patient was a little better or a
little worse, as the case might be. 1t is
known, however, that the Secretary is par
TALLY paralyzed, and can barely move his
arms. There was no danger, however, of
an immediate change in his condition.
SECRETARY ENDICoTT received a dis
patch from General Crook on the 3Oth con-
firming the news of Geronimo's surrender,
and it was read to the President. Subse-
uuently General Sheridan called on the
President, and, after a short consultation,
a dispatch was sent to General Crook,
presumably containing definite instruc-
tions how to deal with the surrendered
chief.
The total values of the exports of mer-
chandise during the twelve months ended
February 2S, 1886, were 1868, ,723,574, and
during the preceding twelve months $74s,-
sos POI, a decrease of 4,S79,627. The total
values of the imports of merchandise for
the twelve months ended February %,
$3.50 wera S1O- III 70l and for the preced-
0g twelve months $604, ,2S9, 40, an increase
It ~, 222 ,26l.
ORDERS have been issued from the War
Department ma king the following assign