The Brookhaven leader., 1886-11-11
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

! pany's works at Baltimore were totally
| destroyed by fire on the 81. The works
| had just been placed in the hands of an
assignee; loss, between $4,000 and 800,
| 900.
ONLY two members of the Cabinet,
| Messrs. Whitney and Villas, went home to
vote. There were much fewer absentees
| from the departments than has been usual
at previous elections.
| Hon. JOHN G. CARLISLE, present Speak
CT of the National House of Representa-
| tives, is reported to have failed in secur-
ing reelection to Congress in the Sixth
Kentucky district. The official count is
required to verify the story.
THE Pipher House at Loogootes, Ind,
was destroyed by fire on the night of the
! ID, and John G. Gates, the newly elected
county treasurer, and John Burch were
burned to death. Several others, includ-
ing Mr.. Pipher, were severely burned.
MISS EMMA DEusTER, daughter of ex-
Congressman Deustcr, of Wisconsin, and
Baron Paul Won Paumgarten, secretary of
| the Austro- Hungari legation at WASH
| ing ton, have been formally betrothed, but
the nupiial5 will not be celebrated until
next summer.
NINE. GERsrER GARDINI has become in
sane in consequence, it is reported of the
loss of her voice after her recent confine-
ment.
Mr.. HENRY w. CANNON, who resigned
the position of Comptroller of the Cur
rency to become vice-president of the
National Bank of the Republic, has been
selected for the presidency of a National
bank in New York City.
A TRAIN on the Erie road ran into a
party of Italian laborers at Hawkins, N.
Y, on the Sd, killing two and fatally
wounding two others.
| Mr.. SEXTON has been declared elected to
the British Parliament for the Western
division of Belfast, the petition of Mr..
Haslett, Conservative candidate, to have
the seat vacated on the ground of bribery
having been denied.
PAsTEUR has informed the French Aca-
| denny of Science that he has treated dur
ing the past year 3, 400 persons who have
Leen bitten by animals, and that only ten
have died.
| THE German Aid Society of Wisconsin
| are agitating the question of securing an
| amendment to the American Constitution
requiring all foreign born persons to re-
| eide in this country five years before be-
! ing allowed to formally declare their in.
| tentions of becoming citizens.
ALL the great lights of the British Lib
| eral party were at Leeds on the Sd in at
tendance upon the meeting of the National
! Liberal Federation. Mr.. Gladstone's
health would not permit him to participate,
and he was represented by Sir William
/ Vernon Harcourt.
FIVE HU NDRED miners struck for an ad-
vance of wages at Mt. Carmel, Pa, on the
4th.
A MEETING of the American Sunday
School Union began at Cedar Rapids, Ia,
on the 4th
A NEW question is raised in the oleo-
margarine seizures, as to what shall be
done with the stuff.
CRIME is said to have decreased in
Kerry, Irel and, owing to a reduction OF
rents and General Buffers system OF
watching suspects.
SIX of the crew of the bark Tres Auroras,
from Barcelona for Havana, were picked
up by the schooner Annie B. 1utchison,
and wers landed at New York on the 81.
The Tres Auroras sunk October 10.
THE strike and lockout in the Augusta
! (Ga.) factories involving three thousand
hands has been terminated.
THE sloop yacht Atlantic, built at a cost
of $50, o,00), to compete for the Queens cup,
has been sold for $500.
SIX persons were killed and thirty 9th
ers were more or less seriously injured by
| the explosion of the boiler on the steamer
| Cartogo Nova, at Newcastle, England, on
the 4th.
T. V. POwDERLY denies the recently
published statement that he is free
trader, and says he is a protectionist
from the top of his head to the sole of his
foot.
| MARIANA BARCENA, an eminent engl-
neer, has been sent by the Mexican
Government TO study the cause of the
continued eruption of the volcano at
Colima.
JOHN BRIGHT refuses to accept the prin-
ciple Of political clubs "that wherever the
leader of a party goes the whole party is
bound to follow"
VINCENTE RESENDEs, the Mexican who
killed his wife a few days since on the
Mexican National railroad, was executed
without trial at New Laredo.
A FIRE at Memphis, Tenn, on the 4th,
| destroyed the Chickasaw COoperage Com
pany's works, entailing a loss of about
500 900; insured for $4,000. Eighty
men are thrown out of employment.
CHARLES HOFFMAN was instantly killed
at Castleton, N. Y, on the Attn by his
horse running away and throwing him
from his buggy.
ALDERMAN McCABE, of New York, has
been declared insane by council of ex-
pert physicians, and he will be sent to
| one of the State insane asylums.
j. B. EFFORT, postmaster at Olive Hill
KY, has been arrested for purloinIng
valua BILE letters. He was held in S1,OO(
bonds to the spring term of court at Louis
| vile.
DIR. THOMAS j. HARCoURT, Cincinn at
dentist, and supreme treasurer of the
| Knig ghts of the Golden Rule, is reported tc
be $4,000 short in his accounts. He is
| also short in his accounts as treasurer OF
the Universal Brotherhood.
THE authorities of Cook County, Illi-
nois, think they are on the track of the
murderer of Henry Muno, who was re.
Gently found dead in Rogers Park.
Two new asteroids have been discov'
cred by Dr. Palisa.
In the National Horse show at New
York, the first prize for trotting stations
was awarded TO K ing Cossack, owned by
the Cation stock farm, Chicago
DISPATCHES from Cabul say that the
Ghilzais recently surprised and annihil'
ated a regiment of Duranis, who were
going TO Calul, near Mukhur. The Chill
zai insurrection is spreading.