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The Brookhaven leader., 1889-06-27
The Injustice of Protection.

A conversation with a shop-girl is
recorded She made 1920 year. 1t
cost her for board sos 90 and to dress
$111.50. Asked why she spent SO
much money on her clothes, the reply
was: ''The bosses make US dress nice
and it costs half our wages. hope
you will help US an / that the Govern
ment will make the price of dress
goods come down" Mr.. Meriwether's
apt remarks are: This salesgirl prob
ably does not understand ten lines of
political economy, but, forced by the
nature of her occupation to spend n
large portion of her meager earnings
on dress, she wants the Government to
help her by making the price OF dress
goods come down The principal way
for the Government to accomplish this
is to abolish the high-tariff taxes.
That is the first step that is being de-.
manded by the wage-earners. both
men and women, the more they reflect
on the way protection protects them
by raising prices on all the reces.
saries of life." = Lee MeriwetheF's
..Story Of Tramp"
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-06-27
Twenty-seyen Bodies Found.

JoHSsTowN, Pa, June 22-The bodies
of twenty seven persons were taken from
various places of the wreck yesterday.
In cellar near the Presbyterian Church
a family of six persons wee found, the
husband and wife c.asped in each others
arms, their little ones lying on either side
of the parents. All were too much de-
composed to be identified. The bodies
identified were: Henry Pritchard, Mary
and Maggie Benford, sisters Of the propri-
etor of the Hurlbus House, L. j. Tracy
and Minnie F. Harris. daughter of the
chief ofpolice. Daniel Stoner, of Altoona,
came here yesterday morning and dropped
dead while looking at the body Of rela-
tive taken from the ruins at the viadnes
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-06-27
FIGHTING FOR SPOILS.
Our Pecksnir President and the Two Sen.
ators from Illinois.

atOrs from ILLINOIS.
There will be two influential gen.
tlemen at the meeting of the next Con-
gress who are likely to make Presi-
dent Harrison put in very uncomfort-
able time. They represent the great
State of Illinois in the United States
Senate, and they claim the right to de-
termine certain Government appoint
ments in that State, according to the
views once held by the President
when he was a Senator. Senator Far
we'll is particularly exercised in mind
over the way he has been ignored as
to Illinois appointments The Presi-
dent never consulted him or Senator
Cullom about the Minister to England
or the collector at the capital of the
State. Hence, both Senators are in
an unpleasant frame of mind at what
they consider an implied insult. Mr..
Farwell has already expressed his
sense OF the situation in very
emphatic terms: Il am tired
of shillyshallying, and, as l re-
marked to the President the
last time l saw him, have no de.
sire or intention of getting down upon
my knees and begging for favors. II
looks very much, then, as if there was
a sultry time ahead for Baby McKee's
grandpa from the Illinois corner OF
the Senate. Indeed, there is excellent
ground to believe that the admins
tration will be subjected to a fire OF
hostile criticism from many leaders OF
its own party for its failure to satisfy
the demands of the boys. Even Wana-
makers lord high executioner does
not expedite business to suit them, al
though he has already beaten the
record. We may look for the oblitera-
tion OF the surplus in short time
after the ffty-frst Congress convenes
by reckless appropriations and free
scope to the horde of jobbers that the
return OF the spoils party will bring
back to Washington. Harrison may
be obliged to throw open the doors OF
the treasury, as well as of any choice
offices he has left, to satisfy all COM
ers. particularly those two Illinois
Senators whom he has unfortunately
offended. 1t Is not the pleasantest
thing in the world to hold the bag in a
grand party grab game. On.
W Arpus
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-06-27
a HEATED RESPONSE.
a Request Concerning Patrick Egan Meets
With "A Hot Rebuke From Governor


A Request Concerning Patrick Egan Meets
With Hot Rebuke From Governor
Thayer.
LINCOLN, Neb., June Ex-Governor
Thayer upon receiving request from the
British Association. of Boston, that he as
sist in securing the recall of Minister
Z 5an from China, wrote a letter rebuking
that organization sharply for attempting
10 blacken the name of Mr.. Egan. The
Governor defended the Minister warmly
and is very bitter in his denunciation of
the course of the association.
In the course of his letter the Governor
says: 'Who constituted you and your
associates judges of the motives and
actions of men? By what authority do
you arraign the President and Senate of
the United States for the appointment
and confirmation OF Patrick E san as Min
lister to Chill? Thank God they are not
respons BILE to such intolerably insolent
biGots as you and your associates have
proved yourselves to be by the Ian
guage used in this circular. l have
known Patrick Egan ever since
he located in the city of Lincoln
years ago. II has always proved him
self to be an upright and honorable man,
a good citizen in every respect. You can
no more tarnish his reputation with your
vile ISLANDERS than the foul bird of night
can assail the eagle. To vent your rage
and your venom at Mr.. Egan's appoint
ment you have seized the weapons of a
defeated-yea of n vile London fishwife-
defeated, despised and uprinciped SLAM
derer, and you call him by opprobri-
Gus names, which fact always furnishes
evidence that the party using them is COM
pletely wol sted in support of bad cause.
You say Mr., Egan is a political Arab; l
say he is an honorab BILE and honored Amer
lean cit zen, and l take pleasure in re-
minding you that he is Envoy Extraordi-
nary and Minister Plenipo!entiary of the
great Republic of the United States to the
foremost Dart of South America.n
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-06-27
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

THE Hon. James D. Richardson, of MUIR
freesboro, Tenn, representing the Associa
tion of Old Line Wings, has received from
Ex-President Cleveland a letter in reply
tc an invitation extended by the associa-
ton to be present at Fourth of July bar
becue. Mr.. Cleveland states that he has
arranged to spend the day in Massachu-
setts and therefore cannot come to Tennes-
see.
COMMISSIONER HoRD, of Tennessee, will
issue a circular letter to the cotton growers
in Tennessee, in which he will urge them
not to sell their cotton seed for less than %
cents bushel.
Gov. EAGLE, of Arkansas will order
special election to be held in st. Francis
county some time in July, to fill the
vacancies existing there in the offices of
Sheriff and Assessor. Forrest City, the
scene of the recent riot, is the county seat
of st. Francis. Sheriff Wilson, it will be
remembered was killed in that riot, ana
the Assessor has since resigned.
A GANG of horse thieves struck the neigh
borhood of Elgin, near Newport, Ark on
the 2lst and carried off four fine horses,
saddles and brides. A posse was organ
lied Friday morning to overtake theih.
The robbers are supposed to have struck
for the st. Francis river bottoms and some
think for Tennessee.
THE recent small offerings of bonds has
resulted in steady increase in the treasury
surplus, which, according to the United
States Treasurer's statement issued on the
22d, is S65, ,225, 900.
- bad
County, Ca, went on the oath to the jail at
Dalton, Ga, and demanded the keys OF the
jail from the sheriff. They were after
young Taylor, who killed his step-tather'
State Senator Fields, in an alteration
near Dalton. The jailer gayeup the keys,
but Taylor was not to be found. The
sheriff, having heard of the mob, had re-
moved his prisoner to place of safety.
A. C. GREEN, agent for the Jenny Elee-
trio Light Company, CT indianapolis, Ind.'
who has made Fayetteville, Tenn, his
headquarters for the past year, left that
CITY ten days ago with $1,000 on his person
to go to Indianapolis. Telegrams re-
ceived reveal the fact that as yet he has
not reached his destination. 1t is believed
he has been foully dealt with
IT was ascertained at the Pension Bureau
Mt Washington, on the 22d, that kilograms
from the United States pension agents at
Augusta, Me-; Topeka, KS; Detroit, Mich;
Boston, Mass, and New York City that
the funds with which to pay army pensions
were exhausted, and that no further pay
ments of pensions could be made until after
July /.
MRS. r. E. HAYES was in an exceedingly
critical condition ON the 23d. Itis thought
she cannot recover.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-06-27
BAD FOR BURKE.
The Expressman Identifies Him rs One of
the civilians Brothers."

the civilians Brothers.'
WINNIPEG, Man, June 22-The link
connecting Martin Burke wita the Cronin
murder was completely established last
evening when Martinsen, the expressman
who hauled the furniture to the Carlson
cottage and who arrived here Yesterday,
identified him among ifty-two prisoners
and citizens who stood in a semi-circle In
the Jail yard. as one Of the Williams
brothers" who hired him to move house,
hold goods from Clark street to the
Carlson cottage in Chicago. The identih-
cation was complete and beyond all
doubt Martinsen walked before the men
and picked out his man at first glance.
Chief Hubbard, of Chicago, has been
notified to this effect Burke stood the
ordeal we'll; he never flinched and main
tanned the same stolid demeanor that had
characterized his actions since his arrest.
When Martinsen passed down the line
Burke stood twentieth with his hands in
his pockets and his eyes averted. Mar
tinsen glanced quickly in his face, marked
his number on a slip of paper and passed
on examining the faces of the other men.
After completing the invest CATION he re-
turned to where the officers and counsel
were standing aud held whispered con-
versation.
Counsel Howell was heard to remark:
eve are satisfied. We will not want any
body else to identify the prisoner, but be
positive of the number"
Chief McRae says they now have clear
sailing and he believes there will be no
further difficulty in presenting sufficiently
strong evidence to secure BuIke's extra
dition.
Telegraphic dispatches are passing be-
tween Chief Hubbard, OF Chicago, and
the officers here. In one message Chief
Hubbard stated that extradition papers
for Burke were now en- route and would
bs pushed forward with all speed possible.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-06-27
SLAIN IN AN OLD SHED.
A Flash of Lightning Kills Farmer an
His Team-His Hired Mans Narrow Es

A Flash of Lightning Kills Farmer and
His Team-His Hired Mans Narrow Es-
cape.
LIBERTY, No.. June 22.-During the
heavy rain storm Thursday afternoon
about four o'clock Robert Bush farmer
who lived four miles west of here, and a
hired man with a team of horses took ref
uge in an old shed when lightning struck
it, xii ing Bush and the two horses and
rendering the hired man unconscious. The
hired man did not regain consciousness un-
Ill dark when he found himself pinioned
to the ground by the body of one of the
horses and the neck of the other lying
across his legs and hips, while the cold
form of his companion lay by his side
He could not extricate himself, but after
reganing suffi Il ant strength began crying
for help. His cries attracted the attention of
TWO farmers living near who released him.
Bush and the two animals were dead and
Ihs hired mans condition is critical as he
is suffering from the effects cf the shock
and the horses falling on him. He lay
under them over three hours. Bush's re-
mains were bun led yesterday afternoon.
He was thirty-two years of age and
leaves wife and three children.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-06-27
BLACKR.JRN-CHANDLER.
That Ear-PuIIinG Episode in the Senate
Committee Room.

That Ear-PuIIine Episode in the Senate
Committee Room.
CONCORD n. Il, June Ex-senator Will
liam E. Chandler, in a letter to the Re-
publIcans of New Ham pshire, denies that
in his quarrel with Senator Black burn in
the Committee On Indian Affairs, Febru-
ary - last, Senator Blackburn pulled
his ear, draggel him from his chair,
or hauled him INCREASINGLY about
the room. He also denies that he begged the
other members of the committee to protect
him, and declares that he was calm and
cool throughout the alteration. He say
that Senator Blackburn, after making
threats of personal violence, started to-
wards him and was male to sit down by
the other members of the committee.
BLACKBURN LEAVES 1T TO WITNESSES.
LOUISVILLE KY, June 22.-Senator
Blackburn, when shown Senator Chand-
ler's card, stated that Mr.. Chandler's ver-
sion was not correct He declines to say
any III ng further, and remarked he would
leave it to the three others who witnes sed
the difficulty to make statement il they
chose.
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-06-27
MISCELLANEOUS.

THE Civil Service Commissioners say
the Chicago post office is the best they
have examined.
ONE of the patriotic Sons of America"
attempted to pin badge of the order on
the lapel of President Harrison's coat. The
honor was courteously refused.
BISHOP O'DwYER, of Limerick, has
threatened ecclesiastical penalties against
the parties boycotting Knock Chapel.
THE Michigan Legislature has passed a
bill making passenger fares grade from
two cents up in proportion to the gross
earnings of the roads.
THE Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe rail-
roads approximate gross earnings for the
first week in June were $500, 4Oi-an in
crease of S42, ,902 over the corresponding
week last year.
The United States vessel Constellation
was hauled off the beach in Chesapeake
bay in pretty good shape. 1t was said at
the Navy Department thatth commander
of the Constellation was responsible for
the accident and it was probable that a
court of inquiry would be ordered to ascer-
tain the facts in the case.
THREE postal cars were wrecked, three
men killed and sew eral others injured by an
accident on the Panhandle road, near
Steubenville, O., on the 10Th.
THE men employed in clearing the ruins
at Johnstown struck on the goth for more
pay and less abuse from overbearing fore
men.
OsrRoG, on the Black sea, near Odessa,
mas been nearly destroyed by fire. A
thousand people have been made home
less, and the damage is estimated at 200, :
300 rubles.
GREAT CONSERVATION has been created
among the farmers of Marion, Ind, by the
appearance of a small green bug that
threatens to demolish the wheat, oats and
rye crop. The pests appear upon every
head by hundreds and sap the life out OF
The grain.
O,DoNovAN Rosa has been arrested a
New York for criminal libel in accusing
P. s. Cassidy Of being British spy ete'
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-06-27
Now, while there can be no honest

Now, while there can be no honest
objection to granting deserving vet-
erans OF the late war public support
and without questioning the propriety
of the present Pension Commissioners
policy, it is evident that the people
must pay not only as heavy taxes as
they are now paying but heavier.
Within the next ten years there will
necessarily be a great change in the
popular policy OF the Government.
The pension roll will have to be made
strictly a roll OF honor, which will in-
clude the suppression of Corporal
Tanner (recent Pension AgenD and
his like, or the Republican party will
have to change its cy.-Providencs
(R- l. journal Und. Rep)
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-06-27

III 10 eStliudI6u W lIlS treasury OO-
partment that at the present rate of
payments the bill for pensions for the
fiscal year will amount to over a hun
dred millions. II this rate of increase
would be maintained for the next ten
years the disbursements for pensions
at the end of that time would be about
$3.50, 900, 600.
The receipts from customs taxes last
year amounted to about $219, 600. 600
and from internal revenue to about
1924, 900, 000-a total of $343, 900, 600.
II the disbursements for general pur-
poses and these do not include those
for the reduction of the public debt
should not increase at all in the
next decade and the present
rate of increase in the disburse-
ments for pensions should be main
tanned, there would be a call for $70,-
600, 200 more than the present revenue
atforcs. 1t naturally follows that if
the expenditures for pensions increase
at such pace as that set by the new
commissioner there must be no cutting
down of the revenue. This seems a
strange statement in view of the state
ments that have been made concern
ing the injurious existence Of the sur
plus,
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-06-27
An Awful OuintupIe Murder in Mon

HELENA. ii. T., June 22--Saturday last
the body of a middle-aged woman, who
had been shot in the hack, was found by a
COW boy in a wild and unfrequented spot
on the Judith river. On Tuesday the
bodies of two men, a sixteen year.
girl and a six-year-old girl were discov-
cred 100 yards above the same place. All
were shot in the back except the
child which was strangled. Near by were
founl the remains of burned trunks and
camp equipage. Every thing by which
the bodies might be identified was de-
siroyed. The victims are supposed to
have been family of emigrants from
Iowa or IllinoG
The Brookhaven leader., 1889-06-27
RANK ExTRAvAGANCE.

An Independent View of Republican Prof
lIgacy and Hypocrisy.
These figures taken from the Ma
tional Treasury reports are interest
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-06-13
Merit Wins,

We desire to say to our citizens, that for
years we have been selling DR.. Kings
Kings's New Life Pills, Bucklen's ArnIca
Salve and Electric Bitters, and have new
or handled remedies that sell as well, or
that have given such universal satisfac-
ton. We do not hesitate to guarantee
them every time, and we stand ready to
refund the purchase price, if satisfactory
results do not follow their use. These
remedies have won their great popularity
purely on their merits. T. I. Meade &
Co, Druggists.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-06-13
A Safe Investment.

Is one which is guaranteed to bring
you satisfactory results, or i'll case of
failure q return of purchase price. On
this safe plan you can buy from our
advertised Druggist bottle of DR..
Kings New Discovery for Consumption.
1t is guaranteed to bring relief to every
case, when used for any affection of
Throat, Lungs. or Chest, such as Con-
sumption, Inflammation of Lungs, Bron-
chitis, Asthma, Whooping Cough,
Group, etc., etc. 1t is pleasant and agree
able to taste, perfectly safe, and can al
ways be depended upon
Trial bottles free at 7. T. Meade & Co.'S
Drug Store.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-06-13
AN OBNOXIOUS ORDINANCE
Petition and Demand to and
of the Mayor and of the Of
ficials of the City of
BrOOkhaven, Lincoln
County.

Know all men by these presents
that we, the undersigned citizens of
the county of Lincoln, State
of Mississippi, do for reasons
herein set forth, petition To the
honorable Mayor and Board OF
Aldermen of said city of BroOkhaven,
that if in your deep love of learning
aud the immense mass of accumula-
ted wisdom, you deem it absolutely
necessary to enforce the act known
and petted in the city as the Hog Or
dinance; yea, if it is absolutely neces-
sary to the peace or dignity of the
city, or to the elevation of honor OF
the now already far-famed officials of
said city, we beg of you, we pray OF
You, to put all of your brains togcth-
er for just this once and hunt for the
rights of the country people, put
your brains together just one time
and try to see the utter impractability
of the enforcement of this act, with
out an encroachment on the rights of
the country people. While the official
brains of the city are thus herded,
we beg of your honOrs to look to the
inducements of our hogs to trampl5
on your holy ground. Think of the
hundreds of bushels of corn that is
being hauled out of town every day
in sacks which leak it out from the
stores to the place of its destination.
We petition you that you repeal this
act at once.
If you ignore our petition, we de-
mand of you to enclose the corpora
ton, and cause to be placed across the
public passways such distractions as
will prevent the mingling and com
mingling of the city and country
stock
We demand furthermore humanity
in the application of the club, welded
by the hand of the city marshal over
the heads of the country people when
a little out of the way by a too
long inhalation of the poisonous gass-
es whiclfare still emitted from some of
the old dead barrooms of the city.
We demand restoration of our hogs
we have been openly robbed of. And
last but not least we demand at once
a cessation for this infamous theft.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-06-13
Shiloh's Consumption Cure.

This is beyond question the most sue
cessful Cough Medicine we have ever sold
few doses invariably cure the worst
cases of Cough, Group and Bronchitis,
while it's wonderful success in the cure of
Consumption is without parallel in the
history of medicine. Since it's first dis
covery it has been sold on guarantee, a
test which no other medicine can stand.
If you have a Cough we earnestly ask
you to try it. Price 10 cents, so cents
and S1.00. If your lungs are sore, Chest
or Back lame, use Shfloh's Porous
Plaster. For sale at the City Drng
Store. Q)
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-06-13
ShiIoh's Catarrh Remedy.

Shiloh's catarrh Remedy, a marvel Gus
cure for Catarrh, Diptherla, Canker
Mouth and Headache. With each bottle
there is an ingenious Nasal Injector for
more successful treatment of these com
plants without extra charge. Price so
cents. Sold at the City Drug Store.
1)
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-06-13

To THE EDITOR-Please inform your
readers that have II positive remedy for
tie above named disease. By its timely
use thousands of hopeless cases have been
permanently cured. shall be glad to
send two BOTTLES of my remedy FREE to
any Of your readers who have consump-
ton if they will send me their express
and postoffice address,. Respectfully,
T. A. SLOCUM, NJ. c.,
1S1 Pearl ST., New York.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-06-13

Whether on pleasure bent or business,
should take on every trip bottle of Syr-
up of Figs, as it acts most pleasantly and
effectuaiiy on the kidneys, liver and
bowels; preventing fevers, headaches,
and other forms of sickness. For sale =
SO cent and 81 90 bottles by all leading
druggists.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-06-13
BuckIen's Arnica Salye.

The best Salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever
Sores, letter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains
Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and posi-
lively cures Piles, or no pay required. 1t
is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction,
or money refunded. Price 25 cents per
box. For sale by Z. I. Meade Il Co,
Brookhayen. Miss.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-06-13

Why do so many people We see around
MS seem to prefer to suffer and be made
miserable by Indigestion, Constipation,
Dizziness, Loss of Appetite, Coming py
of the food, Yellow Skin, when for rs
cents we will sell them Shiloh's Vitalizer,
guaranteed to cure them. Sold at the
City Drug Store. ~