The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-08-26

ment Tor ~ ,S02 ,43O on account OF quarterly
payment of pensions.
SERIOUS riots have occurred at Nagas-
aki, Japan, between the Chinese and Jap
anese. Five Chinese were killed and one
hundred were wounded.
In a speech in the House of Commons,
on the Goth, Thomas Power O'Connor
maintained that Lord Randolph Church
ills speeches were the original cause of
the Belfast riots.
ELI WHITNEY BLAKE, inventor of the
Blake stone crusher, and nephew of Eli
Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin, died
at New Haven, Conn, on the 18th, aged
ninety -oDe years.
GENERAL BoULANGER, French Minister
of War, has been unable to legally sup
sands of copies have been sent into the
provinces and the sales throughout the
country have been enormous.
THE opening session of the ninth annual
convention of the American Bar Associa-
ton was held at Saratoga, N. Y, on the
were present. Judge Poland, of Vermont
called the convention to order.
The East Indian Government is invit-
ing tenders at Newcastle for transports
to be ready to proceed to Bombay und
Calcutta at the end of August. They arc
to be used, it is presumed, to carry rein
forcements of troops to Burmah.
THE London Times of the 21st gave
prominence in its columns to letter sug-
gesting the prosecution for treason OF
their return to their homes of the Canadian
delegates and other British subjects who
figured in the Chicago convention.
IT is expected that the formal exchange
of the copies of the extradition treaty be-
tween the United States and Japan will
soon be announced from Toxic, and that
its PRONUNCIATION by the two governments
will take place Immediately thereafter.
THE issue of standard silver dollars
from the mints during the week ended
August II was 1860, ,427. The issue during
the corresponding period of last year was
$3.50, ,461. The shipments of fractional sill
O39.
GENERAL JOSEPH f. JOHNSON, govern :
ment director of the Pacific railroads.
who left Omaha on the 14th on his annual
inspection tour over the Union and Central
Pacific railroads, is laid up at North
Platte, having been seriously prostrated
by heat.
BY an order received at Omaha on the
18th from the Postmaster General, the
postal division of Nebraska and Wyoming
has been abolished to take effect Septem-
Der /. The new division will consist of
Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Dakota
and Nebraska.
THE Berlin North German Gazette stat es
that Prof. Brakenbush has made large
annexation in South Patagonia on behalf
of Germany. The London Standard, COM
menting on this, says it thinks that Bis
marck will have to reckon with Chill and
the Argentine Republic.
GRAHAM successfully navigated the
whirlpool rapids on the 10Th with his head
protruding from the barrel. James Scott,
swim the whirlpool rapids the same day in
a cork suit. His dead body was picked up
at Lewiston an hour later.
THE Chinese Times says, in relation to
Frances protest against the establish
ment of a papal nuncio at Pekin: "China
tolerates all religions, but she repudiates
French interference with church affairs
beyond personal protection of missiona-
ries who are French citizens"
THE acting Secretary of the Treasury
has decided that the department has no
power to extend the privileges of the i'm
mediate transportation act so as to allow
the forwarding to st. Paul of articles i'm
ported at New York, destined for the in
dustrial exposition at Minneapolis.
ORTH Fl. STEIN, the notorious journal
istic adventurer, whose exploits in st.
Louis, Kansas City and Leadville have, at
different times, formed newspaper sto-
ries, was arrested at San Jose, Cal, on the
18th on charge of obtaining money by false
pretenses from G. w. Ryder, jeweler.
THE long-talked-of convention of the
Irish National League began its sessions
in Chicago on the 18th Michael Davitt
and the rest of the Irish contingent from
across the water occupied seats on the
platform, and Mr.. Davitt and Editor
O'Brien of the Irish World made brief
speeches.
AT Dungannon, Ireland, on the 10th,
bands of Nationalists paraded the Pro-
Of fha cbnu
home rule and cursing the Queen. A riot
broke out and several persons were injured
The police had to force their way between
the Protestants and the Catholics thus
preventing desperate fight.
GALVESTON has again been devastate d,
this time between wind and water, and
the scenes of 1873 have been repeated upon
an even more extended scale. Wreck and
ruin covers the east end of the island, and
thousands of people have been rendered
homeless. At this writing it is not known
If any loss of life has occurred.
HEAVY demands are being made on the
Treasury Department for minor coin,
especially one and five-cent pieces, and
arrangements are now being made with
the mint authorities which will result in
securing a supply sufficient to meet all
reasonable demands. 1t will, however,
take some time to coin the additional
amount required.
A LARGE party of tourists had narrow
escape on the Matterhorn in Switzerland
recently. While making the ascent an
avalanche occurred and they were COM
pletely imprisoned by huge banks of
snow. Forty guides went to their assist