The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-05-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned by Telegraph and Mail.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

lHh NOSslscne Z5ltung, OF Berlin, says
that the American Commissioners to the
Samoan conference are instructed by
their Government to demand the neutfala
ity OF the Islands and the administration
OF Samoan affairs by Samoans. AMI to
Urge the right to establish a coaling sta:
tion at PIgo-Pago.
AT the annual meeting Of the National
Liberal Club Mr.. Parnell was elected life
member by large majority.
CHAUNCEY NJ. DEPEw has been examined
by the Senate Committee regarding the
working of the Interstate law. He
Fink and President King.
GEORGE FRANefs TRAIN SAYS he intends
to test 1O0 days.
The President has made the following
appointments: Theodore Roose ve 1t. Of New
York, and Hugh s. Thompson, of South
Carolina, to be Cvil-Service Commits.
sioners and Frank w. Palmer, of Chicago,
to be Public Printer
THE pallium was conferred upon Arch.
bishop Janssens by Cardinal Gibbons In
THE Count Tolstoi, Russian Minister OF
the Interior who died recently, was q
brother of the celebrated author.
THE Scotch Irish Congress opened at
Columbia, Tenn, on the Sth. The exer:
cises were opened with masterly grafton
by Proctor Knct;, Ex-Governor of Ken
tuchy. He was followed by short speeches
from DIR. John Hall. the eminent New
York divine; Hon. James F. Johnson, of
Alabama. and Judge Scott, of Illinois.
THE British House of Lords has again
rejected the Deceased Wife's Sister bill.
The Prince Of Wales voted with the minor
ity. The vote was 147 TO 100.
FATHER DAMIEN, the famous leper
priest of the Sandwich islands, died April
10. He gave up all to Christianzs the
lepers.
REPRESENTATIVE LAIRD of Nebraska,
who has been seriously ill for some
months at Washington, has almost re.
covered.
GENERAL WILLIAM S. HARNEY died at
orlando, Fla, on the OH in his eighty
rinth year. He was the oldest West Point
graduate.
Ex-SEcRETARY OF THE NAVY WHITNEY
was presented in the British House of
Lords recently on invitation Of the Ear
OF punraven. Ex-Mayor Hewitt of New
York, Is a guest at Blenheim Palace, the
seat OF the Duke OF Marlborough.
THE President has appointed Asa Mat
thews, OF illinois, to be First Comptroller
Of the Treasury. vice Durham, resigned.
He Is the present Speaker Of the Illinois
House Of Representatives, which office he
has held for several terms He was
Colonel Of an Illinois regiment during the
war and subsequently, held the Office of
collector OF internal revenue for the
Peoria district
MISS HELEN TRENHOLM, a niece of ex-
Comptroller Trenholm, of South Carolina,
eloped re Gently with Wilson W. Brenne-
man, clerk in real estate office at Wash
ington. The couple went to Philadelphia.
Miss Trenholm was eighteen years of age,
and one of the bellies of West Washington.
The President has appointed Ebert E.
Kimball United States attorney for the
Western district of Missouri. and George
E. Reynolds attorney for the Eastern dis
trict
JOHN p. SALISBURY. Secretary of State
of ID Delaware, died on the 10 h at his home
in Dover. lie had been i'll since his re-
turn from the New York centennial cele-
bration. He was the eldest son of Chan
cellor Willard Salisbury, who was United
States Senator from Delaware during the
war.