The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1890-06-06
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

IN all probability the President and
his family will summer at Cape May
Point, N. j., either with the Postmaster
General. who has cottage there, or in
a cottage that is being specially con-
structed for his use.
OK the 2sth Mark Stanheld, proprie-
tor OF the Victoria Hotel, Of New York
City, and well-known to the hotel men
all over the country, died at the Vic
toria. lie had been i'll for several
months
on the 27th the trienniaI meeting OF
the General Synod Of the Reformed
church in the United States convened
ia the First Reformed Church at Leb-
anon, Pa.
on the 29th the House committee on
agriculture reported to the House the
Agricultural bill, which carries an APP
preparation Of 81. 100, sO0fo the Agricnlt-
ural Department proper, and the regu-
lar yearly appropriation OF s64s,ooO for
the State Agricultural Experiment sta
tions. The estimates submitted by the
department we're 81, POS 430 and the APP
propriation for the current fiscal year
are 81, 0s4.770
MAJOR PASITzA, on trial at Sofia
charged with having conspired against
the Bulgarian Government spoke, on
the 29th, in defense of his alleged fell
low-conspirators and himself lie had,
he said, gwen a life's devotion 10 Bul-
raria, and death, or worse, ignominy,
would be welcome to him we're he guilty
Of treason to her.
THE various governments OF Europe
are conducting negotiationswith a view
To common action for the suppression OF
Anarchy. Germany is taking the lead
ing part in the matter, and the only
hindrance TO the complete success Of
tho plan Is tho refusal OF Switzerland
10 agree to the extraditiou OF Anarch-
list refugees
EMPFRoR WILLIAM has forbidden the
Berlin magistracy to receive money for
the purpose OF erecting memorial OF
the late Emperor Frederick. This or
der is given, the Emperor states, for the
reason that he himself intends TO de-
fray the expenses Of erecting the me-
mortal.
A LARGE numbe OF persons, estimated
at between thirty and forty, mainly
women and children, lost their lives at
Oakland, Cal, on the 30th, by the care
lessness OF a bridge-keeper in permit
ting an engine and tender and one
crowded passenger car to plunge through
an open draw-bridge into the. deep
waters Of an estuary. :
AT meeting Of the members OF the
executive committee OF the National
Republican committee in Washington,
on the night OF the 30th, ii. G. Payne,
Of Wisconsin, was chosen to fili the va
cancy caused by the death OF Colonei
Goodloe, of Kentucky, resolutions OF
sympathy and regret for whose deatn
were also passed.
DECORATION DAY was generally and
very elaborately celebrated throughout
the country, the ceremony Of chief at
traction being the dedication OF the
Garfield memorial at Lake View Ceme-
terry, near Cleveland, o., which was az
tended by the President and many
prominent officials.
THE United Presbyterian assembly
at Buffalo, N. ", on the S0th, referred
the Wisconsin Bennett law to a COM
mittee. The Blair Educational bill
and the ''Original Package" bill In Con-
gress we're indorsed. Princeton, lnd.'
was chosen as the next meeting place.
IN the trial Of Major Panitza and his
co-conspirators at Sofia the Bulgarian
Government represscd many proofs o.
Russian completely in the plots and
brought forward only such evidence a.
was necessary to show the guilt Oh tne
prisoners.
Rev. DR. TALMAoE delivered prayer
at the soldiers monument in Greenwooc
Cemetery. Brooklyn, on Decoration
Day. 1t is estimated that there were
sc. 600 visitors to the cemetery.
FIVE persons were killed BY Lightning
at Hamburg on the Soth. :.
ONE person was drowned, one mil
and two mill dams were swept a"a'
and the city was flooded by cloud
burst at Arcadia. Wis, on the Soth'
THE senate finance committee negal
Tho consideration of the House Iarii
hill on the 40th, and made consider
abe progress with the chemical tchoa
| ulo. tho first on tho list