The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-08-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned by Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

AMI
RIGHT REV. Bishop SEYMOUR was mar
RED to Mrs. Harriet Atwood at Trinity
Church, New Y ork, on the 23l.
MINISTER TERRELL, now at Brussels, ha s
recovered from the recent injury 10 his
knee.
LEGITIME has appealed to Mr.. Thomp-
son, the American Minister in Hayti, to
arbtrate his differences with Hippolyte.
SECRETARY NOBLE has ordered an in
vestigation of the recent rerating of PEN
sions by Commissioner Tanner.
ELLIOT F. SHFPARD. in behalf of the
American Sabbath Union, asked the
North Dakota Constitutional convention
recently that provisions encouraging Sab
bath observance be engrafted in the Con-
stltution. The one-house plan was de-
feated.
AN order has been issued by the French
High Court of Justice depriving General
Bou anger and Count Dillon of their civil
and political rights and declaring them
ineligible for election to any office.
IHE German Admiralty has uncovered
a perfect nest Of corruption within the de-
partme9t, involving many high officials.
A number Of naval officers were arrested
at Berlin and at Kiel on the charge OF
wholesale bribery. One of these on being
taken into custody shot himself dead.
NJ. DUPONT, Boulangist member OF the
Chamber of Deputies, recently attempted
to make speech at Port Liable, Finis-
terre, but was attacked by q mob ami
stoned. A number of his teeth were
broken and he was driven awav.
REV. FATHER JAMES CURLY, the vener-
able director of the Georgetown Cd. c.
College Observatory, died on the 23l. He
was born in Roscommon County, Ireland,
October -, 1896 and was at the time of his
death the oldest priest in America, per-
haps in the world. He was connected
with the Georgetown College for sixty
two years.
EX- KING MILAN arrived in Belgrade on
the 24th. He was met at the station by
his son. King Alexander, the Regent the
members of the Servian Cabinet and the
foreign representatives..
Mr. AND Mrs. GLADSTONE celebrated
their golden wedding on the 25th.
THE Executive Council of Massachusetts
is busy making preparations for u grand
reception to President Harrison on his
way to Bar Harbor Me.
THE ProhibitiCnists of Ohio held a mon
ster meeting recently at Hane,vilie in
honor of the twentieth anniversary of the
formation Of the party.
BISHOP WALSH, of London, Ont, has
heen selected for Archbishop of Toronto
by the Pope.
THE Idaho Constitutional convention
arrived at the decision to cut Of all Nor
mons from the right of suffrage.
The Parnell Commits ion has adjourned
to October2.
SECRETARIES WINDOW and Tracy have
returned to Washington from New York.
DAVID w, WEARE, of Missouri, a chief
of division in the Pension Office, has re-
signed and an Indiana man has been ap-
pointed his successor.
LABOUCHERE's amendment to the Royal
Grants bill was rejected by the British
House of Commons by 39S to 156.
LIE SOIR, of Paris, asserts that Bou-
langer, fearing he Will be condemned, is
going to New York avoid extradition.
SECRETARY WINDOW has appointed So
lon Norton. of BIffalo n, Y, to be in
spector of customs in the Cleveland, o.,
district.
THE Chippewa Indian Commission is
having great difficulty at White Earth.
Several stormy sessions have been held.
Up to recent date not a single signature
to the Nelson bill hal been secured,
REV THOMAS G. STRONG, of Ithica, N. Y,
has lost his reason and will be committed
to the Binghamton insane asylum. He
was formerly president OF Wells College
and has occupied prominent pulpits in the
Reformed Church.
EDITOR WEST of the Chicago Times,
after pro'racted fight, has concluded to
retire from the management.
The wedding gift of Mrs. John w.
Mackay to Princess Louise was a pair of
earrings costing $1,000.
IN two test cases the New Hampshire
Supreme Court has decided that the law
requiring licenses for the practice of med
icine and dentistry is unconstitutional.
THERE was report current that Mary
Anderson, the actress was really suffer-
ing from mental disorder and was con-
fined in private lunatc asylum in Eu-
rope.