The Brookhaven leader., 1889-03-07

the stability Of the United States owing
to the acquisition of the four proposed
new States.
THE Emperor of Germany visited Count
Won Moltke on the evening OF the Goth,
and played whist with the aged General
until late hour. +
AN even hundred members Of the Mess
achusetts Tariff Reform League attended
the first monthly dinner Of the league at
Boston on the 28th.
ABOUT 100 of the prisoners in the Bos-
ton House of Correction refused to go to
work on the 9th, and were locked up and
placed on short rations.
A BILL pending In the California Legis-
lature provides the death penalty for
ain-rObbers who cause loss of life in
the pursuit Of their nefarious calling.
FULLY 1000 colored emigrants from
North and South Carolina and Virginia
passed through Birmingham, Ala, dur
ing the week ending March !, en- route
| West.
Is an interview in st. Petersburg, on
the 95th. Count Iswelski stated that an
agreement between the Vatican and Rus
sia in regard to Poland would be reached
shortly.
ONE THOUSAND masses for sixpence is
the tnducement offered to New York
Catholics for contributions to the erection
of new church to st. Joseph, at High
gate, London.
Mr. PARNELL was reelected chairman,
and Mr.. Justin Mccarthy vice chair man
at the Parnellite meeting in London on
the 18th. The whips and secretaries were
also re- elected.
THE statutes of the Catholic University
10 be erected at Washington, D. c., were
printed in Rome, on the 9th, prefaced by
Papal brief in which @ warm eulogy is
paid to America
Mr.. BLAIxE has formally resigned his
post; on as delegate to represent Maine
| at IL . centennial Of the inauguration Of
! Washington, as President, to be held in
| New York City in April.
DIR. I. H. HAYS, graduate Of a Balti-
more medical school, has been appointed
permanent medical officer of the Bangkok
| (Siam) Hospital, which is under the i'm
mediate care Of the King.
THE eight year old son Of W. L. Free
man. of Grand Rapids, Mich, while try
ing, on the 25th, to see how long he could
hold his breath, ruptured blood-Vessel
and died in few min utes.
THE question Of removing the capital Of
| New Mexico from Santa Fe to some more
| convenient and inviting town, situated
on the main line Of a railroad, is being
agitated all over the Territory.
norrnNop ur1Y oP Naw Vnrk was Dra.
sented, on the 25th, with handsome set
of resolutions by the Albany Typograph-
| ical Union for his assistance in securing
the State printing for Union printers.
LUKE EMERSON, the Missouri horse
dealer, who emptied his revolver into
crowd in London a short time ago, hit
ting two men, was arraigned for the Sec
ond time, on the 26th, and again re-
manded.
THE present House of Representatives
expires by limitation on the 4th of March.
The Senate, being continuous body, can
remain in session at will, for the con-
frmation of appointments and othc ex-
ecutive business.
NINE persons were killed and q .-tge
number seriously injured by the plunging
of the st. Louis express through bridge
near st. George, Ont, on the 27th. The
accident was caused by the breaking OF
locomotive tire.
THE widow of VIM. L. Marcy, member
Of President Polk's Cabinet and N,cre-
tary of State under President Pierce-in
both of which positions he greatly distin-
guished himseH-died in Paris, on the
oath, aged eighty-six.
TWENTY persons in one neighborhood
In La Porte County, Ind, have been at
tackled with trichinosis, and most of them
will die. All are Germans, who, at
christening recently, ate pork which had
been improperly cooked.
THE registry offices at Alexandria, Egypt,
were burned. on the 2Sth, and the registers
of assessment and taxation of the city
and other important records were de-
stroyed. It is expected that much confu-
sion in finances will ensue.
RICHARD PIaoTr committed suicide at
Madrid, on the evening of the 1st. Officers
were Just on the point Of arresting him at
the Hotel des Ambassadors, at the re-
quest of the Foreign Office in London. He
was registered as Ronald Ponsonby, the
initials thus conforming to those on his
sachel.
THE great silver vault Of the Treasury
Department at Washington is full. 1t
contains So, 6,0O0, 900. It was intended to
hold 500, 600, 900, but the substitution OF
wooden boxes for canvas bags, made nec-
essary by the rotting Of the latter, caused
by dampness, reduced its capacity by
$14, ,000, 900.
THE marriage ceremony Of the Emper-
or of China at Shanghai, on the 2dth, was
a gorgeous, though exclusive affair. The
splendor surrounding the ceremony and
the vast sum expended in carrying out
the programme is in marked contrast to
the fact that millions Of people are starv.
| ing in the provinces,
&c. CLARKE, aged fifty years, cashier
of the Union Excavating Company Of New
Orleans, committed suicide, on the morn.
ing of the 2oth. by shooting. He was +
have been married the same evening to 4
young lady aged eighteen. A hasty ex
| .aminatiop Of his accounts showed short
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