The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-10-11
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

ROBERT HAMILTON, or COVlnGt0n, Ky,
has been nominated by the Republicans as
Speaker Carlisle's Congressional opponent.
ATT""IEl GENERAL LANGLEY, of Nova
Scotia, declares that majority of the peo-
pie of that province are in favor of reci-
procity with the United States.
THK Government of Peru has rattle! :ne
treaty of amitc, fcIhflerce and navigation
with The ''nited States.
HdN. LEVI ?. MORTON, Republican can
didate for the Vice Presidency, published
his letter of acceptance on the ID.
ACTING SECRETARY THOMPSON has tele-
graphed the provisions of the Chinese EX-
cluSiOn act to collectors Of customs, plo-
mitigating the law and instructing them
to see to its strict enforcement.
BISHOP WILLIAM TAYLOR, of Africa, who
has been visiting in Springfield, ILL.,, does
not think that there is any present cause
for alarm as to Henry NJ. Stanley'S fate,
f. ID. WIGGINTON, of California, has been
unanimously selected by the executive
committee of the American party to fill
the vacancy occasioned by Judge Greer'S
declinaton of the Nice-Presidential noml-
nation.
The Emperor of Germany met the
Emperor of Austria at Vienna or the 3D..
The city was decorated and the Emperor
MET with an enthusiastic reception.
THERE being no opposition the cleo
tiOn for Governor and state officers
passed off quietly in Georgia on the 3D..
Governor Gordon and the others officials
were reelected. The amendment 10 the
Constitution increasing the number of
Supreme Court Judges from three to five
was adopted.
So 10 ;lrl l,l,,b 80
Baptist Association some little futter was
caused by a letter from the church at
Lower Merton, which announced that
Robert J. Burdette, the well known humor-
list, had been licensed to preach.
THE reception to Mr., Blaine at Adrian,
Mich, on the 4th, was bonanza for pick
pockets and robberies ranging as high as
800 were reported. The police by mis-
take arrested John Rtchic, of the Chicago
bureau of the Associated Press. and Frank
Crawford, of the New York World, on sus-
picion.
MRS. FOLSOM, the mother-n-law of the
President, is back in Washington from
visit to Mrs. Lamont in Maine.
THE Tdgebldu says it learns that En-
peror William disagreed with Prince Bis
marck as to the advisabiity of criminally
prosecuting Prof. Geffecken and that he
was also dspleaSed with Bismarck's re-
port on the affair. The Chancellor, the
TdgebldU says, threatened to resign if the
course suggested by him were not fol-
lowed.
THE funeral Of ex- Assistant Postmaster
General Richard A. Elmer occurred in
New York City on the lth.
ONLY four votes were cast i'll Georgia
against General Gordon for Governor in
the recent election.
DELEGATIONS from Grand Rapids and
Muskegon, Mich, from Tifiin, o., and from
jay County, Ind, We're received en- masse
by General Harrison at indianapolis on
the 4th.
CoQUELIN and Nine. Jane Hading, the
famous French actors, arrived at New
York on the 9TH from Rio Janeiro.
Tom KING, the noted English pugilist
who defeated Jem Mace in 1862, died in
London recently.
GEORGE RUDD, a New York artist, is
missing in Italy and is believed to have
been lost in the Alps.
SENATOR SHERMAN, in recent letter to
Erastus Wiman, advocated a political
union with Canada. He did not think the
present time appropriate for commercial
union.
The monument TO General Pickett was
unvailed at Richmond, Va, on the 9th.