The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-04-29
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The loss is very heavy with only a partial
insurance.
WILLIAM o. MCDOWELL testified before
the Congressional committee on the South
west strike In Washington on the 2lst.
Jay Gould and his son George left New
York on the same day for Washington to
appear before the committee.
Hon. WIN. L. WEST was confirmed by
the Senate on the 21st as Governor Of Utah
to succeed Governor Murray.
THE Queens proctor has intervened in
the divorce case of Crawford VS.. Craw-
ford and Dixie, and the case will be re-
opened.
LORD SALISBURY Is convinced that the
nation will Indignantly reject Gladstone's
desperate scheme" for the government of
Ireland.
HosTILITIEs have begun between Tur-
key and Greece by a vigorous little fight
between outposts, In which the Turks were
ingloriously put to flight.
ALL hope of recovering the bodies OF the
Nanticoksm miners has been given up, and
the search has been abandoned.
JAY GOULD appeared before the select
Congressional committee at Washington
on the 22d, and detailed the status of at
fairs on the Southwestern roads and the
causes leading to the strike, from his
standpoint.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND, In a message to
Congress, recommends the appointment of
three commissioners TO act as a board of
arbitration in labor troubles.
THE Irish Land Purchase bill was issued
on the 22d. 1t covers twenty six pages.
AMONG the nominations confirmed by
the Senate on the 22d were those of Chas.
E. Gross, to be Governor of New Mexico,
and w. s. Rosecrans, Register of the
Treasury.
THE judgment of the court of inquiry in
to the Oregon disaster was in favor of the
owners and officers of the vessel.
A GREAT Liberal mass meeting, presid.
ed over by Labouchere, was held at st.
James Hall, London, on the 23d, at which
resolutions iDdorsing Gladstone's Irish
policy were adopted.
FATHER ABRAMJ. RYAN, the "poet priest
of the South" Is lying critically ill with
brain fever at st. Boniface Church in
Louisville, KY.
FRANCE, it is semi ffieially stated, will
refuse TO join the powers in the plan of CO.
ercing Greece into disarming.
IT has transpired that custom house
officials at Odessa, Russia. have been de-
frauding the government for years. The
amount embezzled Is placed at several
million rubles.
EDWARD T. SHAW, who for twelve years
has carried the mail between the local
post-office at Beverly, Mass, and the rail-
way station, was arrested on the 22d. He
confessed to having systematically robbed
the mails for several years, taking between
1900 and 5000 letters and obtaining up
ward of 81 800.
A MAN named Uransky, an emigrant
fell from a train at Antelope Station on
the Missouri Pacific railroad, forty miles
east of Cheyenn on the 22d. Both his legs
were cut off, and he died in a few minutes.
He was bound for Butte, M. T.
SINCE the Introduction of natural gas
into Pittsburgh, Pa, the outputs of the
mills and factories have been increased
twenty per cent, large number of new
plants have been erected and nearly ten
thousand additional men have been given
employment.
A LARGE number of leading business
men of New York have signed a call for
a special meeting of the Chamber of Com
merce, with a view to taking action rela-
tive to the labor disturbances now in ex-
istence there.
THE African Society at Naples gave a
banquet on the evening of the 22d to Henry
M. Stanley.
THE Solicitor of the Treasury has in
structed the United States district attor-
ney at San Francisco, Cal, to bring suit
against the Sierra Lumber Company to re-
cover about $2,2ls,000 damages, arising
from the conversion of timber and lumber
taken from public lands.
Hon. VIM WHITLEY, associate judge of
the Superior Court of Delaware, died on
the 23d of hemorrhage of the stomach after
q lingering illness.
THE Spanish sanitary council has au-
thoriEed the practice of incubation for
cholera.
A FIGHT took place In East Flanders on
the 23d between gendarmes and striking
watchmakers, in which the rioters were
routed and several were arrested.
THE total imports of dry goods at the
port of New York during the seven days
ended the 23d were valued at g 1863 ,608,
and the amount thrown ON the market g.
292, $40.
THE last stone in the pedestal on Bed.
loe's Island, on which will stand Bar
tholdi's colossal statue Liberty Enlight-
ening the World" was laid on the 23d.
The statue will be unveiled September 3.
A socIALIsTIc mass. meeting of German
workingmen was held in New York on the
night of the 23d to denounce ''the capital
lists and the police who were endeavoring
to crush Herr Most and his workingmen."
THE Municipal Council of Stry, Galacia,
has been dissolved by imperial order on
account of culpable negligence in failing
to provide the town with fireengines.
LORD SELBoURNE publishes a letter, in
which he attacks certain features of Glad
stones Home-Rule bill and pronounces
the measure hopelessly faulty.
A SENSATION has been created in Ire
land by an offer of the trustees of the
Symes estate to turn over the lands to
the tenants at a sum equal to twelve years
rent.
MRS. FANNY SMITH, who lived near Key
port, N. j., In q fit of mania on the 23d,
killed one of her children and seriously
wounded three others with an axe.
DIR. FRIscH, the Austrian delegate sent
to Paris to investigate Pasteur's hydro
phobio treatment, advises the medical pro-
fession Of Austria to adopt the French
mans method.
AN attempt to blow up the church of San
Lius at Madrid, on the 2sd. was partly
successful.