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

THE President was formally notified on
the 26lh OF his denomination to the Chief
Magistracy.
THE motion of censurc Of the Salisbury
Government for its action under the Crimes
act in Ireland was defeated in the British
House Of Commons on the Goth by 366 TO
273
TIE Presi lent has nominated Oscer E.
Rea, of Dakota, to be register Of the land
office at Bismarck, d. l.; William d. Ny
ers, of Missouri, to be agent for the Indians
OF the Kiowa, Comanche and Wichita
agency, in the Indian Territory.
NINE Government officials Of Seoul,
Corea have been beheaded in the streets
by the populace. Foreigners have taken
refuge at the Consulates. The outbreak is
attributed to Chinese instigaton.
THE recent Presidential election in Mex
leo exhibited no opposition worth men,
tioning to the present incumbent, General
DiaZ.
CoNGREssMAN CIRCUIT has been unanl,
mously renOminated by the Republicans OF
the Second Vermont district.
THE New York Prohibitionists' meeting
at Syracuse adopted platform and nomi-
mated State ticket, headed by W. Martin
Jones, of Rochester, for Governor.
THE President has allowed the act to
allow the Paris, Choctaw a. Little Rock
railroad to go through the Indian Terri,
tory to become a law without his sigma
ture.
A CHICAGO dispatch saying that General
Harrison had selected Colonel Dudley as
his personal representative on the Repub
lican National Executive Committee is de-
MED by the General.
REPUBLICAN Senators have expressed an
opinion that the vetong power so exten-
sively used by the President is danger
Gus abuse of his prerogative.
THE contemplated removal OF General
Sheridan from Washington was postponed
temporarily because of rain.
THE Democrats of the Second Kansas
district have nominated John t. Burris, OF
Olathe, to run against Funston.
Tue Democratic committee Of notifica-
ton wal ed upon Judge Thurman at Co
lumbus, o., on the 2Sth. In his reply the
Judge n ghty praised the administration
of President Cleveland.
A MASS meeting was held in the Acad-
emy OF Music, New York, on the 2Sth, tC
ratfy the denomination of President Clcve-
land. Hon. John g. Carlisle was the prin
cipal speaker.
The State convention of the Iowa Union
Labor party recently chose Presidential
electors and nom mated the following State
officers: Secretary OF State, J. b. Vincent;
Auditor, Z. n. ,Farnsworth; Treas
urer, James Rice; Attorney-General, j. NJ.
Williams son. Congressman Weaver and An
derson were indorsed as candidates for re-
election.
The Repu blicans OF the Twentieth Ili-
nois district have nominated e. w. Smith
to succeed George R Thomas.
STATE SENATOR ID. s. HALL has been nomi-
mated for Congress by the Republicans OF
the Third Minnesota district.
WILLIAM III. BAKNUM, of Connecticut,
has been reelected chairman OF the Demo
cratic National Comm ttee.
The official canvass of the vote OF the
Oregon Congressional election resulted as
follows: Hermann, Republican, 81, $40;
John NJ. Geary, Democrat, 254l3; George
NJ. Miller, Prohibition, 1874. Hermann's
plurality, 7,407.
TIE Secretary of State has officially
called the attention of the British Minister
to the case of the American ship Bridge
water, uulawfully seized by the customs
officials of the Dominion of Canada a year
ago and detained for eighty-one days at
Shelburne.
THE second meeting cf the Republican
campaign was held in the Metropolitan
Opera House at New YORK on the 29th.
The National ticket was ratified Roswell
G. Horr, Of Michigan, and Robert g. Inger-
soil were the principal speakers.
THE President has accepted the resigna-
tion OF Lieutenant Emery II. Taunt, of the
navy, who was convicted by court martial
in November, 1887, of absence from duty
without leave, and OF disobedIence of or
dara and sentanced IN dismissaI