The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-07-05


gland some time ago, arrived safe y at Chi
cago recently, having made the voyage
across the Atlantic and through the Lakes.
She will for the future run between To-
ronto and Port Arthur.
THE North German Lloyd steamer Wer-
ra, for Bremen for New York, which re-
Gently went ashore at Dungeness, but was
assisted off and taken to Southampton
and placed in dry dock, after bling exam
ined and found all right, sailed for New
York.
AT Chicago during the convention it has
transpired that ex-Mayor NJ. A. Smith, Of
Philadelphia, while taking bath, had his
room entered by a sneak thief who stole a
diamond stud valued at 5000 and a gold
watch and chain valued at $500 The police
have the matter in hand.
THE Postmaster General has removed
twenty post-offce inspectors. This was
made necessary by the reduced apprOpria-
ton for this service for the fiscal year be-
ginning July l. Ten more will also be re-
moved.
THE total number of Presidential post-of-
fees in operation (Fer department report for
July l, 1851 is 9, 502 increase during the
year, 1GG; aggregate allowance for salaries
OF Presidential postmasters for the next
fiscal year, a, 2O2, 400; increase, $500, 100;
total gross receipts of Presidential post
Offices for the year ended March 81, S3S,-
49S, 12l; increase, $ 559.
PRINCE FERDINAND has RENTED the SEN
tence OF Imprisonment imposed upon Major
Popoff, who was convicted of completely
in the frauds in the Bulgarian War Office.
THEODORE CASTOR, farmer, was at
tackled on his way home from Kingston,
Iowa, the other night by three brothers,
named Drost, who demanded his money.
He shot one dead, fatally wounded another
and thinks he hit the third, who escaped.
THE London Daily NeWs says that the
French Government has purchased Max
m's new repeating gun, which fires sixty
rounds minute.
A HEAVY storm was raging at Atlantic
City, N. j., on the 2Sth. The wind blew in.
land thirty to forty-fve miles an hour and
was gauged at sixty to seventy miles twenty
miles out at sea. 1t was regarded as the
most severe wind and rain storm in four
| teen years.
| A DISPATCH from Kronstadt, Transyl-
vania, says that mob comprising 1000 per-
sons made an attack upon legal commits
| sion which was engaged in amalgamatin g
| small agr cultural holdings in Fondyar,
! twelve miles north of Kronstadt A judge
| and notary were wounded. The members
OF the commission made their escape with
difficulty. A bystander was killed.
A SHOCKING affair occurred recently near
Marty, Tenn. Wendell Whitcomb was at
| his barn kllng rats with shotgun. he
| fired charge at one of the vcrmin, but the
missiles went wide of the mark towards
the porch of his house, where his two young
daughters were sitting. The shot struck
both, killing one instantly and fatally
wounding the other.
| Tup Neyy pOaI have adj
vanced prices about twenty-five cents q
ton on interior and Western business.
| TIE brass workers strike at Cincinnati
| has been declared off. The men quit work
several weeks ago for a reduction in hours,
but for want of support the strike has
come TO an end.
JOCKEY WooD in his suit for libel got
one farthing damages at London recently.
He was accused of pulling Sir George
Chetwynd's horses by the Licensed Vtctuat
| erS Gazette.
THE Duke of Marlborough married Mrs
Hamlnersley, at New York, on the 29th
Mayor Hewitt performed the ceremony.
THE large water main between George
town and Washington broke the other
morning leaving the fashionable section o!
the capital without water.
THE internal revenue collections Of the
past eleven months were over s., 600, 00t
larger than for the same time last year.
ROBERT H. CowDREY, Union Labor can
ddate for the Presidency, has issued his
letter OF acceptance.
Hoes and cattle in and about st. Tam
many, La, are dying by wholesale of 6
disease resembling tuberculosis. No rem
cdy for the disease is known.
YALE defeated Harvard by twenty -four
lengths in the four mile boat at New Lon.
don, Conn, on the 29th.