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The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-01-31
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

THE National Woman's Suffrage Asso-
citation met at Washington on the 2lst, be-
| ing its twenty first annual convention.
| THE Kansas Legislature has chosen
Preston b. Plumb to succeed himself as
| United States Senator.
SENATOR COKE has been reelected in
Texas.
| A MESSENGER from Khartoum says that
35, 900 of the Mahdi's followers left there
in d cember last for a final attack upon
Egypt.
BY the Electors not signing their names
on the envelope containing the Electoral
returns from Texas the returns were re-
fused by the President of the Senate.
The messenger returned in all haste to
Texas where the Electors would have to
reconyene and go through the formality
again, with possibility of the returns not
being in time 10 be counted. Other States
were reported in the same predicoment
CONGRESSMAN BURNEs, of the Fourth
district of Missouri, was stricken with
paralysis on the floor of the House at
Washington on the afternoon of the 23d
md died soon after midnight at Wizards
Hotel. His health had been failing for a
year past
w. ID. WASHBURN was elected Senator
by the Minnesota Legislature on the 23d,
Notwithstanding charges of corruption and
bribery in manipulating the Republican
caucus, the Investigating committee de-
claring that improper influences had not
been used by Washburn or his opponent,
Senator Sabin.
THE Spanish Government has issued a
decree granting amnesty to all press and
political offenders, including the soldiers
L.. -.,., AIal lii =.
1886.
The Czarna of Russia is affected with n
kind of palsy which began at the Borki
railroad wreck and has been steadily
growing worse.
A MEETING of the National Council of
the National Union League has been called
at Washington, March ., for the purpose
of strengthening the Republican party,
especially in the South.
The Lord Mayor of London gave BAN
duet on the oath in honor of Dir. Phelps
the United States Minister. There were
25o guests, including Lord Roseherry,
Lord Salisbury, Lord Coeridge, Sir James
Ferguson and many other literary and
scientific celebrities.
REPRESENTATIVE SPRINGER, chairman
of the Committee on Territories, has re-
ported another omnibus bill providing an
enabling act for the admission into the
Union of the Territories of Arizona, Wyo-
ming and Idaho.
CHARLES r. SHEPARD, the noted book
publisher of Boston, Mass, died recently
aged sixty years.
REV. BOYD VINCENT was consecrated
as assistant Protestant Episcopal Bishop
of Ohio at Cincinnati on the 25th.
In the Indiana Senate the Democrats
unseated Carpenter, Republican. because
of charges of bribery. His opponent was
not given the place.
On the reassembling of the Texas Elect
oral College severe criticisms were made
ON the action of Senator Ingalls, in reject
ing the first returns sent to Washington
because of alleged informality. The re-
turns, however. were amended and for
warded
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-01-31
Cherokee Citizenship.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26-The Secretary
of the Interior has received from the At
torney General an opinion in which it is
held that North Carolina Cherokee Indians
who have been admitted to Cherokee
citizenship by the Chief Justice of the
Cherokee Supreme Court. under the law
of the Cherokee Nation, Indian Terri
tory are citiz-ns of that Nation and are
entitled to all the rights and privileges of
such citizenship. Notwithstanding subse-
quent adverse action by the Cherokee
Council. The Attorney General holds that
the Council has no lawful right to super
wise the act of their Chief Justice in this
matter. 1t is said that there are large
number of Cherokees, some of them very
wealthy, living in the Nation, whom the
Council refuse to recognize as citizens and
have sought to dispossess them of their
DrODerty.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-01-31
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

SEVERAL Alliances in Mississippi have
resolved to raise their own tobacco.
STEPS are being taken to establish cot.
ton seed mill at Forrest City, Ark.
OPPONENTS of the River and Harbor Bill
assert that it will not pass the House.
The contract for fireworks to be used at
Washington on the night of inauguration
day, has been awarded. The cost will be
$1l 900.
A BILL is being prepared by the Senate
Committee on Epidemic Diseases, provid-
ing for the establishment of National
Board of Health in connection with the
Treasury Department.
REPUBLICAN members are a unit in their
opposition to an extra session of Congress.
Democrats, too, think there will not be
any, and say that the reason for it will be
not from any exigencies for it.
THE little town of Newport, county seat
OF Cooke county, Tenn, is all excited over
the discovery that Ben Profiitt, ex trustee
of the county, is short from $4,000 to
1000.
TIE Southern Construction and Quarry
Company, of Nashville, Tenn, was on the
26th awarded the contract for building the
Custom House wharf at Charleston, s. c.,
for Sl32, 600
THE Board of Trustees of the Arkansas
Summer Normal School held their first an
nual meeting in Little Rock on the Goth.
The school is to be erected on Mt. Nebo in
Yell county, the highest point in the State.
JUDGE J. ii. WYNN, who has since
March, 1856, occupied the bench in the Cir
cult Court of the Fourth Judicial District
of Missi, sippi, has forwarded his resigna-
tion TO Gov. Lowry.
Born branches of the Arkansas Legisla-
ture have adopted resolution instructing
the Arkansas Representatives in Congress
to vote for tie bill in Congress to provide
for a deep water harbor on the north west t.
ern coast of the Gulf of Mexico.
The White Caps have made their first
demonstration in Dallas, Texas Their
first notice was served upon an inoffensive
negro woodchopper, who was ordered to
leave town at once.
The section of country above Sh=eve-
port, La, is threatened with overflow. The
bottom swamp lands are all under water,
drowned.
THE combination Of Southern pig iron
manufacturers has been effected. 1t is TO
be known as the "American Pig Iron
Storage Ware Company" with u capital
of II 100000.
RICHARD SMITH, Choctaw Indian, was
hanged at Fort Smith, Ark, on the 25th for
the murder of Thomas PriDgle, Of Ohio.
last March. Geo. B. Miledon, the hang.
man, has presided at sixty executions.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-01-31
The NEW NAVY.
Easy Enough to Build Ships Bat Hard TO
Obtain Heavy Gums.


-, Obtain Heavy Guns.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26-In It's report
upon the Naval Appropriation BILL the
House Committed on Naval Affairs sum-
marizes the present condition, and future
prospects of the navy Of this scHntry,
saying: with regard to q new navy,
Congress seems to have settled upon o
policy of appropriating toward its con-
struction about S. 900, 900 per annum.
Your committee believe that this will
build up navy as fast as prudence die
tates. Our Navy Department and our
ship building are utilizing, as far as may
be, by every means in their power, the
knowledge acquired from the costly ex-
perience of other nations but they must
acquire experience Uf their own. Too great
haste on the part of the Governmentwould
Inevitably result in confusion and
waste and tfiost probably In combina.
tion instead of competition among ship
builders. Besides it would be an easy
matter in this country to build ships more
rapidly than we could supply them with
armament Of domestic manufacture. Even
in England, with all their facilities, there
is loud complaint that the Government
and all their contractors are unable to sup
ply guns as they are wanted. The manu-.
facture of a modern high power gun Is not
only an expensive but slow and tedious
process"
The committee says that the appropria-
tion of S635. .000 for extending the gun plant
at the Washington NAVY yard, which has
proved to be insufficient, will, taken In
connection with other aims, be all that Is
necessary to put three different navy yards
in condition to build the hulls OF the finest
modern vessels, armored and unarmored,
as we'll as for the complete equipment OF
great plant for the assembly of heavy ord
nance. Satisfactory progress is being
made by the private contractors for sup
plying heavy gun and armor plate for
guns and for rapid fire machinery guns.
The committee closes: at will be seen
that Congress by the passage of the bill
we report will have taken the last step
necessary to render tts Government abb
solutely independent of the world in the
matter of the building and equipping a
navy. 1t has been the constant aim Of the
committee and OF the departments to pro-
vide for ships the bast of their classes
guns equal to any in the world. There is
ample competition among bidders for the
construction of engines and machinery,
and in this matter American enterprise
and ingenuity seem likely to lead the
world. To get from a vessel of the type
of the Vesuvius a speed of twenty knots
an hour seemed, when Congress made it an
absolute requirement, difficult task, but
| it was undertaken and that vessel on its
recent trip showed the wonderful speed OF
| 1.64 knots.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-01-31
rexa. Electoral college Meets.

AUSTIN, Tex, Jan 26-The rejection of
the Presidential Electoral return of Texas
by Mr.. Ingalls,, President pro tens. of the
Senate, created a comn,otion hers. The
opinion as voiced by State E!ector Wood,
is that the action of Senator ingalls,
in refusing the returns was absolute
ly unauthorized by any law found
in the revised statutes of the United
States, and that his object was to de-
lay the count as evidenced by Mr.. Hoar's
resolution introduced in the Senate, be-
cause one or two Republican States were
behind with their returns. The action was
without any grounds of law or sense and
an outrage on the rights OF the States and
Texas in particular. The Electoral Col
lege. however, met and corrected the re-
turn, putting it in full legal shape aud
Colonel Robertson, the messenger, left
kusiin for Washington Thursday night
and barring accident will reach that city
Sunday morning.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-01-31
Widow Murdered.

JACKSON. Mich, Jan. 26.-Mrs. Mary II.
Latimer, a widow, living with her son, r.
Irving Latimer, a druggist, was shot twice
in the head after retiring lastnight. After
the first shot she evidently crawled out OF
bed and staggered to the window, but be-
fore she could raise the window she was
shot again and fell back dead. She was
found lying in a pool of blood.
Irving Latimer went 10 Detroit previ-
ously, stating to his clerk that he was go-
ing to act AS pail bearer for some deceased
friend. No message had reached him up
TO noon, and his friends don't know where
lie is There is as yet no clew TO the MUIR
derer,
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-01-31
DUN'S REPORT.
The Usual WeskIs Review on the state Of
Trade in the C0Sntry.

The Usual WeskIs Review on the state Of
Trade in the Country.
NEW YORK, Jan. 26-R @. Dun a Co.'s
weekly review of trade says: ''The state
Of tfads Is unusually perplexing, for, with
general Complaint Of the dullness, there
are evidences that the tolrme Of trans
actiSns Is large. The payments through
banks lass seek we're 25 per cent larger
than for the correspond ding week last year
at New York and IS per cent. larger at all
other cities. Railroad earnings also show
that traffic Is large. The demand for
money is sufficiently active at nearly ali
interior points, moreover, to indicate that
4 large business is in progress. Yet 1t is
undeniabls that the prevailing temper Is
one Of disappointment at the result Of
business since the new yesf began. and
this is not wholly explained by The steadily
declining prices Of products. at Southern
points, after some depression, trade op-
pears to be improving. In the Northwest,
trade Is fully equal to that of last
year, and at the same points clearly
larger. The supply df money seems to be
everywhere ample for legitimate demand
There are no indications of general TN
soundness or over -straining OF commercial
credits. In the great iron industry con-
sumption for all other than railroad pur-
poses appears to be larger than ever; but
there Is serious disturbance. In conse-
quence the Iron Age reports general
weakening which there is no use In blink
ing al" " and holds that furnaces which can
not face without loss a decline OF
fully 81 from present prices may wisely
suspend production. At Western points
Southern iron is offered at prices equiv
alent to $12 at Birmingham, which is con-
sidered equal to ST. for Pennsylvania iron;
and large sales are reported at prices be-
low published quotations. A decline in
the price Of coke is considered probable,
and the anthracite coal market continues
weak.
The decline in wheat continues, the price
having fallen ~ cents for the week. As
the prices reached this week were 931s to
93I cents there has been some buying for
export, though not as yet for Great
Britain. Corn has fallen cent and oats
are lower. Pork products have also de-
clined, mess about 80 cents per barrel;
lard 20 and hogs 10 cents per 100 pounds.
Cotton is a shade lower, with sales of 421,-
900 bales, and coffee y cents higher, with
sales of 233, 900 bags. The market for cop
per has been dull, and tin is lower at 2lK
cents; lead is also weak at 1880, but
spelter is quoted at cents. There is little
activity in groceries, but the sugar market
favors holders. The general average of
prices has fallen 8 of per cent. for the
week.
The supply of money here increases
both by remittances from the interior and
by excess of treasury disbur sements over
receipts, which reached il, 100000 for the
week. The exports Of merchandise from
New York show gain Of IL per cent. for
three weeks. The stock market is never
theless so firmly sustained that the aver
age decline in prices has been only 81 cents
per 800 for the week.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-01-31
BY THE RIVERS OF BABYLON.
The Expelled Boomers Patiently Waiting
For the Uncle Samaiekites to Take Their

The Expelled Boomers Patiently Waiting
For the Uncle Samaiekites to Take Their
Departure.
GAINESVILLE, Tex, Jan. 26.-Reports
state that the soldiers sent from Fort Sill
for the purpose of clearing Oklahoma of
boomers have about completed the work
and that the expelled boomers are now en-
camped along the southern boundary of
the territory from which they have just
been driven.
The number of boomers that were en-
camped in the Oklahoma country prior to
the arrival of the soldiers on Wednesday
is estimated variously at from 5000 to
5,O0) and some place the number as high
as 1000. They came from all parts of the
country and so confident were some of
them that they would not be disturbed in
their occupancy Of the country on account
of the probability that the Springer bill
would soon bect me a law, that they went
to work at once to build for themselves
comfortable homes.
The expelled boomers are many of them
in poor circumstances, but they are re-
ported to be quite cheerful and bear pa
tiently their vexations and disappoint-
ments in the hope that the days are num-
bered till they will be allowed to enter
again and enjoy in peace the coveted land.
Some of the expelled boomers now en-
camped near Purcell have threatened to
re enter Oklahoma as soon as the soldiers
have left, but they will probably not have
the opportunity soon TO carry this threat
into execution, for the soldiers are now
guarding the southern boundary of Okla
homa and will continue TO do so for some
time. 1t is also reported that United
States soldiers are also guarding the
northern boundary to keep back tha BOOM
ers that would Otherwise come on that
eide
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-01-31
PITH AND POINT.

Thy friend has a friend, and thy
friends friend has a friend; be dis
Greet.
"A hesitating, vacillating man
never dies with any celebrity. because
it takes him so long 10 come to con-
clusion.-Texas Siftings.
Some men are like silly hats. So
long as they battle against the wind
they are smooth enough; but with the
breeze Of fortune at their backs a
thousand rough places bristle up that
were never seen before.-Puck. =,
1T is not the least advantage of
friendship that by communicating our
thoughts TO another we render them
distinct to ourselves, and reduce the
subjects of our sorrow and anxiety to
their just magnitude for our own con-
templation.-N. 7. Ledger. I
Whatever amuses serves to kill
time, to lull the faculties and to Danish
reflection. Whatever entertains usual
ly awakens the understanding or
gratifi es the fancy. Whatever diverts
is lively in its nature, and sometimes
tumultuous in its effects. ,
The responsibilities OF life are
gauged not by what we are, but by
what VIC may become. The man who
has ventured only to the limits OF his
conscious force has only reached the
threshold of his possible attachments.
F. G. Clark. :
An idle word may be seemingly
harmless in its utterance; but let 1t be
famed by passion, let it be fed with
the fuel OF misconception, of evil in
tention, of prejudice, and it will soon
grow into a sweeping fire, that Will
melt the chains of human friendship,
that will burn to ashes many cherished
hopes, and blacken more fair names
than one-Charles A. Dickey. Y
AT least seventy per cent. OF the
troubles we meet with in ordinary life
are imaginary. That is the difficulties
seen worse and worse as we ponder over
them and try to see how bad they are.
We can make just what we like OF our
everyday life. If we look for the dis
agreeable features we'll get them null
tiplied a dozen times. If we think
only OF the bright, happy parts OF life
we will find just what we are looking
for.-Rural New Yorker.
In the employment OF men, that
class of labor that is purely mental
commands higher price than does that
class where only physical strength is
wanted. One brain may design a
steam engine, but more than one is
necessary to build it. Hence, then,
among brain workers experience and
originality are factors of success.
Neither can we gauge mans worth
commercially speaking-by lapse OF
time. for one man with frosty locks
may have travelled a shorter distance
along the highway Of observation than
his neighbor with half his years.
American Engineer.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-01-31
DIPLOMATIC STATE DINNER.
Foreign Representatives Dine With thu
President of the United States.

President OF the United states.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2G.-A state dinner
to the diplomatic corps took place Thurs.
day evening. President Cleveland
escorted Mime. Romero. wife of the
Mexican Minister, to dinner, and Mrs.
Cleveland followed on the arm of the
Italian Minister. The other guests were:
Mrs. Carter and the Mexican Minister.
Countess Leopoldin Won Arco- Valley and
Senator Sherman, Baroness Rosen and
the Minister of Austria Hungary, Miss
Bayard and the German Minister,
Mrs. Sherman and the Turkish
Minister, Countess de Sponne OK
and the Argentine Minister, Madame
de Hur.ado and the Minister of
France, Mrs. Laughton and the Japanese
Minister, Mrs. Herbert and the Chinese
Minister, Madame De Varras and the
Netherlands Minister Madame De Guz-
man and the Secretary of State, Madame
De Perez Zeldon and the Hawaiian Minis
ter, Madame Mutzua and the Spanish
Minister, Countess D'Arschot and the
Minister from Costa Rca, Mrs. McCreary
and the Persian Minister, the Peruvian
Minister, the Danish Minister, the Charge
d'Affaires of Belgium, the Chilian Minis
ter, the Charge d'Affaires of Brazil, Mr..
McCreary, the Minister of Nicaragua, the
Charge d'Affaires OF Corea, the Charge
d'Affaires of Sweden and Norway, the
Minister of Switzerland, the Charge
d'Afares of Great Britain, the Charge
d'Afaires of Russia, the Minister Of CO.
lomhia
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-01-31
JAPAN'S SOVEREIGN.
The Mikado's Ancestry, His Personal Ap'
pearance and His Habits.

pearance and His Habits.
The Mikado has the bluest blood OF
any ruler on the face of the earth. The
present dynasty of Japan runs back TO
the gods and His Imperial Majesty is
the 121st Emperor OF Japan. The
Japanese have their history and their
mythology, and the present Emperor
comes from Jimmu Tenno, who was the
first Mikado, and who ruled Japan $50
years before Christ was born. This
man was descendant of the sun god
dess, and Mutsuhito, the present En-
peror, traces his descent directly from
him. Japanese history gives the story
of each of the 120 Emperors between
the two, and if you will think moment
you will see how far back $50 b. Z. is.
This was before Rome had become an
empire. England was unknown even
to the Romans, and hundreds OF
years were yet to elapse De-
fore Caesar penetrated Gaul. The
present Emperor was born at kiota,
November 3, 1852. He was declared
heir-apparent to the throne when he
was eight years old, and he succeeded
on the death of his father in 1867. He
was crowned in 1868 and was married
at the age of seventeen in 1869.
His Imperial Majesty is now thirty
eight years old. Let me tell you how
he looks. He is taller than the aver
age Japanese and his appearance is
not half as imposing now as when he
wore the rich Japanese costumes and
sat cross-legged on his mats of state.
He has a dark brown cafe-au-lait COM
plexion and his eyes, which look out
through almond slits, are of a brill
liant black. His hair is very thick
and he parts it in European style. 1t
is combed well up from good fore
head and His Majesty's eyebrows
have the decided arch which Is indica-
tive of Japanese beauty. His nose is
large and inclined to fiatness. 1t has
the wide nostrils of the Japanese and
His Mai jesty's lips are thick. He is of
medium size, but is inclined to stoop,
which imagine may come from the
earlier part of his life having been
spent in sitting upon the floor. He
wears a mustache and chin whiskers
and these, like those of most of his
race, are thin. The Court Chamber
lain tells me that for the past sixteen
years he has worn nothing but Europe
an clothes, and has TO large extent
adopted European ways His dress
is that of General of the
army, and he takes great pride
in military matters He reviews
his troops several times year and Is
thoroughly up in the organization Of
his armies. When he goes out to ride
he Is always accompanied by his i'm
perial sHards, and he has lately pur'
chased several new state carriages
which are the wonder of Toxic. =
Frank G. Carpenter, in Chicago Times
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SHERIFF HAY and posse went to Bul

SHERIFF HAY and posse went to Bull
creek, near Jeffersonville, Ind, early
the other morning, ran the steamer
Minnie Bay up to old Harrison Ho-
gan's shanty and threw the electric
light rays upon it. Hogan came out
to give battle, but seeing the odds re-
treated inside. Hogan's hired man
begged him to surrender, and the old
man barred his breast and asked the
sheriff to shoot him. He had nc
friends and had been beaten out oil ms
wealth and did not want to be further
abused. Finally he surrendered Ho-
gan had hitherto successfully resisted
arrest. giving battle a number OF times
and putting the officers TO flight, though
he is seventy-fve years old. Much
commiseration is felt for him.
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Compared with Robesp,erre.

PARIS. Jan. 26-In the Chamber of
Deputies yesterday, NJ. La Marselle, a
Conservative, asked whether it was { rue
that the mayor OF Brie had been suspended
for inviting to luncheon a Monarchisr-
NJ. Lambert DeSt CIo.x. Premier Floquet
replied in the affirmative. He said that
the mandate of mayor did not permit
than to join in faction manifestation, the
ultimate object of which was the over
throw of the Republic. NJ. La Marsele
retorted that NJ. Lambert's predecessors
were Liberals and he created much laugh
ter at NJ. Floquet's expense by saying "At
your age RoDespierre had already been
'gui .lotined"