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The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-04-10
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

A RECENT dispatch from ST. Peters
ourg to the London Daily Telegraph
saws the Gar had been attacked by a
sudden illness
THE Democrats made gains in the
municipal election at Chicago on the
1st The new Board of Aldermen stands
"a Democrats to 81 Republicans with
two Independent Democrats and one In
dependent Republican.
THE seventy-fifth birthday Of Prince
Bismarck was celebrated with much en-
thusiasm in Germany on the 1st
THE Democratic ticket of Milwaukee,
Wis, was elected by 5000 majority on
the 1st Peck, the humorist, is the new
mayor. The Bennett school law had
much to do with the turn of the election.
THE Czar and Prince Bismarck have
exchanged friendly letters in which
hopes of prolonged peace are prominent
features
THE British expedition recently sent
out against the Somalis having failed
to accomplish its mission another expe-
dition has been started from Alden.
GENERAL THOMAS G. ANDERSON, a
lNCPuDiiSah POAAoiSA"A, SNA
many years deputy collector of New Or
leans cand a member of the famous
Louisiana returning board from 1874 to
1876, died recently, aged seventy.
AGITATION was reported spreading in
three or four places of the Russian EN-
pire among the peasantry, notably in
Finland and Poland.
THE Berlin correspondent of the Lon
don Chronicle telegraphed on the I'd
that partially successful attempt had
been made on the life of the Gar.
In the Ontario Legislature at Toronto,
Can, Mr.. Graham moved the passage of
a resolution calling on the Canadian
Parliament to take steps looking to
closer trade relations with the United
States.
SIR FRANCIS DE WINToN, president OF
the British Emin Pasha relief COM
mittee, is bitterly indignant at Emin
Pasha's course in entering the service
of Germany and charges Emin with
absolute want of gratitude.
Dom PEDRO was reported unwelL
THE Brazilian Bishops will shortly is
sue a pastoral refusing to consent to
the separation of Church and State.
SENSATIONAL charges Of corruption by
school book Hobbies have been made in
the Iowa Legislature.
RUSSIA has notified Turkey that IL
will enforce first lien on the proposed
new Turkish loan in order to secure the
arrears of the war indemnity.
THE House Committee on Naval Al
fairs has favorably reported the McAdoo
bill to prevent the enlistment OF aliens
in the navy.
The bill to give the widow of the late
Maior-General Fitzpatrick s1ooper month
has been favorably reported to the
House.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-04-10
RADICAL REFORM.

Startling Changes Proposed In the Con-
fession of Faith by the Revision Com
mittee of the Cleveland Presbytery.
CLEVELAND, O., April 2.-The COM
mittee OF the Cleveland Presbytery yes
terday prepared report on the revision
of the Confession of Faith, recommend
ing several radical and startling
changes. The committee recommends
the exclusion of the statement of
sovereign, eternal and unconditional
reprobation of any of Gods creatures"
approves clear expression of belief
that none dying in infancy shall eter-
nally perish; disclaims the certain
damnation of all the heather world as
part of the faith; desires the elimina-
ton of the mention of Roman Catholics
as necessarily idolatrous, and advocates
the striking out of the assertion that
the Pope of Rome is the anti-Christ
The committee recommends that the
love of God and the missionary duty of
the church be emphasized in the con-
fession, and the adoption, in co-opera-
ton with churches of short creed, not
to display the confession, revised or un-
revised.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-04-10

Emin PdShd. the command OF
German officers for Victoria-Nyanza.
Emin's decision meets with strong disfa-
vor in Zanzibar.
LONDON, April ..3.-The Times corre-
spondent at Zanzibar says six hundred
Soudanese have arrived to serve under
Major Wissmann and were Immediately
dispatched to Bagamoyo. At sunset
Tuesday evening body of men paraded
the streets of Zanzibar spreading broad
cast proclamation printed in European
languages, signed by Emin and ad-
dressed to the whole Arab population.
The proclamation sets forth that Emin
is not in sympathy with Stanley in any
way nor with the English in the recent
civil action against Tippoo Tib.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-04-10
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES

LAwLEssNEss and violence have
again made their appearance in Rowan
County, Kentucky, but this time the
warfare is not of feudal nature. but
grows out of the manufacture and sale
of illicit whisky. The United States
revenue men made a swoop week ago,
destroying various stills, and things
are now being made decidedly uncom-
Portable for the people who are thought
to have given the Government informa'
tion.
A LARGE and enthusiastic meeting OF
citizens was held at Little Rock, Ark,
on the 4th, for the purpose of organic
ing a permanent Exposition and Fair
Association.
THE official announcement of the pur-
chase of the Erlanger system by the
East Tennessee will be made on April
Is next, when the stockholders of the
latter will meet to ratify the deal.
About So, 900 will be paid for the
road.
A NEW counterfeit $40 note is being
put in circulation, and has been success
fully passed in st. Louis, Chicago and
Cincinnati. 1t is on the Germania Ma
tional Bank of New Orleans, letter
sc" bank, No. $50, series 1882.
THE gubernatorial campaign in
Georgia has been formerly opened by
w. ]. Northern, president OF the State
Agricultural Society, who announces
himself as candidate.
The number of failures during the
irst quarter Of 1890 was 1928 against
3311 last year, with decided decrease at
the East, the South and in the Pacific
States, but increases in the Middle and
Western States.
THE President on the 4th approved the
urgency deficiency bill for Government
expenses for the fiscal year, ending
June 1, and the joint resolution provid-
ing for the relief of the Mississippi flood
sufferers.
IT is said that none of the avowed
candidates for Surveyor Of the Port at
Memphis will secure that plum, and
that Hon. Emerson Etheridge is slated
for the place. The Secretary OF the
Treasury and Mr.. Etheridge were IN
Congress together in the long ago.
ANOTHER Illicit distil1ery was cap
cured near BurnsNlle, Miss, on the 4th,
making three within week that have
been run aground,
ACCORDING to the report of the State
Roard of Agriculture the wheat crop OF
Missouri will not exceed So per cent.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-04-10
suicide on q Train.

wAUKEsHA, Wis, April 2.-The door
of one of the car water-closets on the
Wisconsin Central railroad was burst
open at this point this morning and the
dead body of a man found on the floor.
He had hung himself to hook with q
red pocket-handkerchief In his strug-
giles he broke the handkerchief and fell
to the floor, but not in time to save his
life. From papers found 1t is supposed
his name is Frank Schmidt, about thirty
years of age. He had tickle. from
Spokane Falls to Detroit; also papers Of
citizenship issued at Detroit on March
% Of this year.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-04-10
A LONE HIGHWAYMAN.
He WAS After Big Game, but Only Go
Eighteen Dollars.

He WAS After Big Game, but Only Got
Eighteen Dollars.
SAN DIEGO, Cal, April S.-The Alamo
stage was held up near Ensenda, l..
Cal, by a lone highwayman with a
Winchester, who ordered the nine men
in the stage to throw out the Interna-
tional company's bullion, which was to
have been shipped by that trip. 1t hap
pened that the S25, 900 which was to
have been shipped had been detained.
Major Zeimpelman, of the Ell Paso mine,
however, had S. 900 in bullion with him,
and other passengers had about $4,000
more. but all they threw out was eight
cen Mexican dollars. On learning that
the treasure was not aboard, the high
wayman ordered the driver to proceed,
which he did. Afterward the stage
went back to the spot and search was
made for the bandit but without avail
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-04-10

yo,l water which flooded the New
o,on. A END OF the Hudson river tunnel
Ia, oay very troublesome and every thing
to s.' toou,a be thought of was employed
a "p .ne leaks. Two divers descend
lin. ana after spending considerable
,eedads gave up the search. They sue
ioo,s however, in closing one of the
bovas Then Engineer Moore used a
sscn..s method of finding the leaks. He
lona ea = number of water rats and tied
capsh. pieces Of oakum to their tails,
Tbs ~. N the middle by piece of wire.
as.aes taes we're then forced into the
ra,s ta,, through the air pumps. The
As iLaOi,owing the current of air. found
crey,ssaSs saas, and, passing through the
stonras sses, left the oakum behind This
pumpia. 'ne 'ngress of air to enable the
p'ng to proceed with success -
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-04-10

NJ JULES SIMON, one of the French
delegates to the labor conference at
Berlin, was surprised at the extent of
Emperor Williams knowledge. He said:
The Emperor has greatly changed. lie
has been falsely represented to us for
some months If the labor conference
has no immediate practical result it will
be useful in spite of skeptics; it will be
the signal for new departure. Prince
Bismarck introduced himself as 4 am
Bismarck"
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-04-10

IN accordance with the view expressed
by the Emperor of Germany recently a
Cabinet order has been issued forbidding
duelling in the army except in cases
where council of men Of honor, to
which all the circumstances shall have
been referred, shall declare that a duel
,e nacesSarV.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-04-10

L.,
w. ~ the Strand, London, the other day
'isount Hinton. the son and heir
y la. hari Paulett who has made himself
hO'Ofloos : by playing tho part of clown
- p"ntomimes, and who has also under
svae S., Imprisonment for robbery, was
win i.uing an organ, accompanied by his
az nN when an aristocratic-looking gen.
10 uan approached him and endeavored
Il. PERSUADE the erratic viscount to de-
ST., onerlng him a clerkship on the
soo,, ,A exchange. The offer was loudly
bnea bpnsna In the presence of some five
va." ieo peor's. Hinton then became
my. MY excited and swore that he would
t,,Sa r after his course of life until his
was er ea', ules, All this time Lady Hinton
way collecting coppers
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-04-10
RECORD BREAKING.
A Passenger ON the City OF Paris, when
She Broke the Record, Talks.

A Passenger on the City OF Paris, when
She Broke the Record, Talks.
New York, April 2.-The Sun has the
following special from Indianapolis:
Concerning the disaster to the steamer
City of Paris, HI. d. Pierce, of this city,
who was passenger when that ship
made her famous passage inside of six
days last August, says the strain upon
the engines and the machinery was so
great as to attract attention, and finally
a number of passengers, who had
crossed before, held meeting and called
in body on the chief engineer, who de-
clined, perhaps properly, to permit a
committee to go below in his depart
ment for any purpose, and refused also
to communicate any thing regarding
the revolution of the screws
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-04-10

The peasants of the Government of
hazan, Russia, incensed by the con-
anaed foggings to which they have
Oeen Unfortunately subjected by
Inc district chief, Nordevinoff. re-
aliated by attacking that official
ma administering to him a severe
whipping with his own instruments
u torture. The police had to res
rae Nordevinoff and were stoned for
~ .neir pains and driven from the scene.
me Gar was deeply panied at receiving
si sae news of the summary treatment OF
HS representatives
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-04-10

THE Treasury Department has rem
iered decision on an appeal by John
Wanamaker, OF Philadelphia, from the
assessment of duty at the rates of As and
5Oper cent. ad va'orem on certain bead
ornaments imported by him. The arti-
cles consisted of squares and strips Of
cotton net embroidery. The appeal on
the articles embroidered with metal
thread was allowed and duty fixed at 20
per cent, ad valorem, while the articles
embroidered with beads were held to be
dutiable at the rate assessed.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-04-10

THE House Committee on Indian AT
fairs has discussed the question of the
Acknowledgement of white adopted
citizens Of the Chickasaw Nation,
taking up for consideration Mansur's
Dill recently introduced, which declares
vOld the disfranchising act OF the
Vhckasaw Legislature, and Repre-
sentative Mansur. Judge Wilson and
senator Fall, of the Chickasaw Senate,
we're before tho committee, and Mansur
represented the injustice which is being
Frpetrated upon worthy citizens.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-04-10

EDWARD DAMN, of the United States,
Is making sensation in Berlin by an
exhibition of a monster balloon for war
purposes. The balloon is called the
Bismarck. 1t is lighted by electricity
and is capable of signalling at tre-
mendous distance. The machine will,
it is said, be adopted in the German
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-04-10

ALETTER received in Winnipeg from
Hudson bay, in the Athabasca district,
saws great distress existed among the
Indians near Lesser Slave lake during
the winter, and in some cases the red
skins killed and ate their children and
dogs, and all kinds of domestic animals
we're used for food, from the effects of
which many Indians died.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-04-10
MISCELLANEOUS.

SPECIAL INSPECTOR DAVIS reports the
Cherokee Strip entirely free of would-be
settlers.
BY an explosion of fire damp in a
shaft at Nanticoke, Pa, the other day,
three miners were killed and eight Sc
riously injured.
THE Pacific mail steamship China has
lowered the record from San Francisco
to Hong Kong to twenty days
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-04-10

posal to enter the
German service in
Africa at a salary OF
$1,000 per annum.
He has abandoned
his contemplated
return to Europe,
and will leave Baga-
moyo by the middle
of April with a
large caravan and
200 Soudanese under
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-04-10

md ana sh .l elections for cities of the sec.
out NJ u .nird class were held through.
lst Tesota Thn and South Dakota on the
no lioa. ne principal issue was license o,
prineinlse t tne supporters of the latter
Of tss p's being victorious in fourfiftb,
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-04-10

COMMISSIONER KERcHMER OF the North
wost mounted police of Manitoba, has
hoen accused of brutality, tyranny and
onnression in the Canadian Parliament
A. Investigation was likely.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-04-10

Tur Garfield Memorial Association
IA. sent out a general invitation to all
Or organized bodies in the United States to
participate in the memorial dedication
!. CLEVELAND, O., May 30.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-04-10

IN consequence of the meat famine in
Perlin purveyors are urging the Bundles
ratb to repeal the law against the i'm
oortatjon of foreign meat. The restau-
rants have raised the price OF meat 20
-, cont
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-04-10

DIVERS have found that large hole
-.s nounded by the broken machinery
!" ,be bottom of the steamship City OF
p,ris The vessel has been pumped
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-04-10
EMIN's TREACHERY.

Emin Boy Enters the German Service In
Africa and Announces that Hs is Not
In sympathy with Stanley In Any Way,
Nor with the English.
ZANZIBAR, April 2.-Emin Bey has
inally accepted Major Wissmann's pro-
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-04-10
CURRENT COMMENT.

ruv six thousand iron miners OF
Northern Wisconsin and Mich'sah ns'o
orcauized union.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-04-10

THE one thing of which man should
never be weary" and in the doing OF
which should never Faint" IL right
doing. 1t viii always pay to do right,
no matter under what circumstances. or
at what sacrifice. or against what temp
tations TO the eontrary.-N. Y. In3s-
penk
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-04-10

rur Northern Pacific railway direct
-. have ratified the formal lease OF the
wisconsin Central railroad.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1890-05-10
FIRE THIS MORNING.

At 2:3O O'Clock this morning the
house Of Mr.. G. b. Dwight, LcIeo,
caught fire. Mr.. Dwight was alone,
his family having gone TO Kauai on
n visit. When he retired in the eve
ming, he left lamp burning in the
parlor adjoining his bedroom, as
was customary. He was awakened
by the smoke and heat, and found
the parlor furniture and mats burn
ING and the room full of smoke. The
lamp had probably exploded, but
fortunately there being no draught
of air the lire was slow. Mr.. Dwight
with the assistance of 4 few neigh
bors managed to put out the fire
with buckets OF water. No alarm
was rung. The paIIor furniture was
entirely burned and fixtures in other
rooms damaged. The loss Is esti'
mated at between 5000 and $500
covered by insurance.
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HlL0 COURT.

The Hilo Court opened on Tues
day May 7th, ut 0 o'clock q. N.
The case Of the Crown vs.. Mills
and Others, charged with murder,
was called. II look the whole of
the day TO empancl jury. When
the panel was complete and the jury
sworn the Court adjourned until .
O'Clock the next day, Following
are the gentlemen sworn: A. W.
IIcydtmann, J. Purvis, c. T.. Cobb,
l.. ]. Weight, John Bohenberg, C..
McLcnnan, Jas. DcvcreauX, John
Sherman, Chas. Lehman, l.. Blais-
dell, John Nicholas, W. Il. McCub-
bin. The trial proceeded on We'd
npsdav.
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The Celestial Empire news
paper, published in Shanghai, says
that "the the tea plant has been
crown with great success in the
island of MADEIRA. 1t was FIRST in
,roduccd there by the late Governor
Of Macao, Niscount dc Paco IL ARGOS,
ten years ago, who also engaged
some Chinese experts TO instruct
and teach the natives of the island
how TO manipulate the tea leaf. "
i there anything in the soil or eli
mate Of the Hawaiian Islands to
prevent the successful introduction
of the tea plant here; There is no
apparent indication that either soil
or climate is unfayorahlc. Let the
experiment be tried.
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FOREIGN NEWS.

London, May 2, The Portuguese
Minister for Foreign Affairs has re-
piled to DIR. G.. p. Loring, the United
states Minister here, accepting the
principle of arbitration prepared hy
the United States Secretary of state.
He suggests that the questions as to
whether the DCiagOa railway claim
is Sr is not one for international ar
bitration shall hc referred To some
impartial friendly nation. 1t is
further put forward that If it he de-
cidcd in the affirmative, the same
arbitrator might decide on the terms
and basis of a settlement. In case
of the arbitrator deciding negative
". the arbitration would be between
the Portuguese Government and the
Delegoa Railway Company.
London. May. 2.--'rhe Emin Re-
lief Committee gave a reception in
honor of Stanley this evening. The
Prince of Wales presided. Among
the quests were many members of
royalty and other distinguished per
sons. Stanley paid n high tribute
to the devotion and courage of his
associates. The Prince of Wales
proposed vote of thanks to STAN
ley, which was adopted by acclama-
ton.
Washington, May D. \ large
number of inquiries have been re-
cciycd hv Republican members OF
the Ways and Means Committee re-
epccling the date Of the probable
passage of the Tariff bill. The date
fixed in the hill for the beginning OF
its operations is July lst next, and
from the statements contained in
these communications it appears
that the buiuess of the country is in
very unsettled condition in an
ticipation OF unlocked for changes
in the tariff. 1t is stated that the
sugar trade in particular j. depressed
and disturbed.
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DANGER or ELECTRIC LIGHTING.

Electric lighting with Us is young.
Hitherto we have experienced none,
or but little, Of the mischief which
NAV result thcrctrom. We have,
however, experienced enough to
teach Us that there is danger OF
electric lighting proving TO be
something besides n benefit. An
electric light wire coming in contact
with a telephone wire has destroyed
u telephone instrument, and came
near TO setting ablaze the house in
which the instrument was placed.
several instances have occurred Of
electric light wires coming in con-
tact with trees and other substances,
and causing insignificant fires. Tn'
hing as these cases may have been
in their results, they should serve to
warn rs Of the constant presence Of
the danger of greater evil.
American experiences have fur
mshed large number Of cases Of
The eyer-present danger. Upwards
Of a hundred deaths in the city OF
New York alone, and numerous fires
have abundantly illustrated the Sc
rious risks of having imperfectly, in
oulated electric light wires about.
one case is recorded in which
through such wire falling on a
telephone line q switchboard Of 5000
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wIr6s in telephone central was
burnt out, the building badly dam
aged, and n city suddenly deprived
of its telephone communication for
two weeks.
Edison. the great electrician,
frankly admits the perils of electric
lighsirg. lie mentions a case in
which the underground conductors
of the Edison Illuminating Company
in New York became crossed, aud
the current. which was passing
through them ut comparatively
low pressure. melted not only the
wires, but several feet of IRON tub
ing in which they were encased, and
reduced the paving stones within q
radius of three or four feet 10 n
molten mass.
Edison expresses the opinion that
there is only one way TO remedy the
danger, and that is TO regulate the
tension of the electric light wires rs
! the pressure OF steam boilers is re-
gula,cd, in accordance with police
regulations. Authorities seem to
agree that the absence of danger
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A WORTHY RESIDENT LEAVING.

Mr.. I.ivc.cv Ward leaves for the
Colonies on the outgoing steamer.
His departure is ncccssitated hy the
demands at private business. The
many warm admirers Of the young
gentleman will regret his being
called away. Mr.. Ward was for
some time connected with the Edu-
caiional Department ~ an assistant
teacher and would undoubtedly have
achieved great success had he re-
maintd in the profession. Resign
ing his position he sought employ
mcnt with the Tramways Company
and has been in their service from
the inception of the undertaking 10
the present time. He is granted u
three months leave Of absence and
leaves with the hearticst good wishes
of the company's officers for his
success and early return. His con-
neclion with the Tramways has
necessarily brought him into contact
with the general public and his
genial and sunny manner coupled
with his unnagging zeal in the dis
charge OF his duties has won him
universal regard. At all times, Il,
ali hours he has responded to tho
demands upon him and has filed ar
onerous and responsible situation il
manner crcditablc to his youth
Should lie remain abroad he vii
| leave behind an enviable reputation
and should he return will doubles
find many agreeable avenues of EN-
! plOymcnt open 10 his choice.