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The Brookhaven leader., 1891-01-01
THE CHEROKEE STRIP.
The Purchase Not Yet Complcted-Foilyo OF
Entering With the Certainty of Expul-

The Purchase Not Yet Complcted-Foily OF
Entering With the Certainty of Expul-
sion.
WAsIuNGToN. Dec. 27.-The boomers
who entered and settled in the Chero-
lee Strip would do well to move out at
once. Dispatches announce that boom
erS have entered the Strip under the
impression that the Cherokee Com
missioners have concluded negotiations
for the purchase of the lands. The fact
is that the Commission has not reached
an agreement with the Cherokees. The
agents of the Indian Office have been
instructed to notify settlers to move off
the land and to stay off.
Under the law these settlers have TO
right to occupy the land until the sale
is made, and the purchase ratified by
Congress. No official communication
from the Cherokee Commission has been
received for several days at the Indian
Bureau. but the last indications were
that an agreement would be
reached soon. Some additional in
structions were, several days
ago. sent to the Commission
by the Secretary of the Interior, and
the expectations are that before the
roses bloom the Commission will have
succeeded in purchasing the Cherokee
Strip Even should their negotiations
be successfully concluded by February
it is hardly probable that the purchase
could be ratified before the adjournment
of Congress
When this matter finally comes be-
fore Congress it will probably create
considerable discussion because there
will be good deal of opposition to the
opening of these lands, as there was
when Oklahoma was thrown open to
settlement. The session of the present
Congress is short and there are many
measures of great importance to occupy
the attention of the Legislators. So the
boomers can scarcely expect that the
Cherokee Strip will be officially opened
during this Congress.
The probabilities are that the Fifty
second Congress will have to wrestle
with the Cherokee Strip purchase and
till such time when Congress may rat
ify the purchase the boomers will be
kept out of the Strip.
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-01-01
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

THE Hon. Henry Watterson was on
the Goth appointed the Kentucky me M
Der of the Democratic National Com
mittee by the State Executive Commit
tee, to succeed the Hon. ID. McIenry,
deceased.
CHARLEY, the little of w. p. Timber
lake, of Jackson, Tenn, fired Roman
candle into his mouth on the Goth, which
came near being fatal. An artery was
ruptured, but the loss of blood was
stanched and the little fellow saved
from bleeding to death.
CHIEF JUSTICE w. d. SIMPSON, of
South Carolina, died on the Goth. lie
was an able jurist and one Of the purest
of public men, and his death is a shock
to the entire State.
THE business failures number 300 in
the United States this week against $40
last week and 237 this week last year.
The total number of failures from jan
uary to date is 1,O5S against l, 100 in
like portion of 1889.
THE Edisto Phosphate Works, located
near Charleston, S. c., were destroyed
by fire on the Goth. The loss will ap-
proxmate $500, 900.
THE heaviest storm of sleet ever
known at Lexington, KY, occurred on
the Goth. Shade trees and telegraph
and telephone poles were broken down.
THE Ohio Oil Company, which is the
land department of the Standard Oil
Company, has increased it's capital stock
from SO, 500, 600 to 5000, 600.
UNITED STATES TREASURER HUSTON
has reconsidered his resignation and
agreed to retain his present position
until the end of Mr.. Harrison's term.
A GREAT deal of commotion exists
among the colored people of Redtield,
Ark. Some one has been holding secret
meetings, at which the negroes have
been told that the Government was go
ing to move them back to Africa, and
all their expenses would be paid. The
negroes are quitting work, secretly dis
posing of their property, and getting
ready to move when "Uncle Sam" gives
the word.
A GIGANTIC conspiracy to food the
United States with counterfeit silver
dollars has been unearthed at Pittsburg'
Pa. The money was brought from New
York City to Pittsburg by gang OF
Italians employed to pass it.
THERE were five failures in Little
Rock, on the Goth.
THE new State of Washington wants
aegro Immigrants
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-01-01
AN EASTERN BLIZZARD.
The Atlantic Coast Is Treated 90 n Regular
BIIzzard-IIeavy Snowstorms and Cold
her

The Atlantic Coast Is Treated 20 n Regular
BIlzzard-IIeavy Snowstorms and Cold
Weather.
New YORK, Dec. 27.-The predicted
snowstorm arrived on schedule time,
and yesterday morning pedestrians
were few and far between and the sur
face cars made poor work of it in spite
of the fact that four horses were trying
to do the usual work of two. Naviga-
ton on the rivers and in the bay was
seriously interfered with.
iIy nightfall over a foot and half of
snow had fallen and there was still no
sign of let up, in fact the storm
seemed to be gathering force every
hour.
Yesterdays storm on the water was
much worse for navigation than the
heaviest fog. Every thing in the line Of
steam craft was interrupted and the
movement of vessels propelled by sail
was suspended altogether. The snow
fell so rapidly on the upper bay that
even the revenue cutters hung close tC
their wharvcs adjoining the Staten
island ferry house and did not venture
out. A peculiar feature of the storm
violent on the land there was scarcely
any on the water. The sea, too, was as
smooth as the upper Hudson in mid
summer, and the snow was left in COM
plete possession.
A dispatch from Point Pleasant, \.
j., says heavy storm of binding snow
is raging along the entire coast from
Sandy Hook to Cape May. The air is
so thick with snow that it is difficult to
look any distance out to sea.
Reports continue to be received from
all parts of New York State, showing a
heavy fall of snow and consequent in
terruption of traffic. In the Mohawk
valley the storm is unusually heavy.
At & o'clock last evening more than
eight inches of snow had fallen at
Amsterdam and it was still showing.
BUFFALO, n. Y, Dec. 27.-Thursday
night was the coolest of the season, the
thermometer registering about 10 de-
grees above zero. A heavy blizzard be-
gan early yesterday morning and the
snow drifted badly in places. Later in
the morning the wind subsidcd and the
snow continued falling steadily all day
without drifting. Railroad travel was
greatly impeded.
RoNDoUT, n. Y, Dec. 27.-The Sc
verest storm of the season set in early
yesterday morning and snow has been
falling continually since. About eight
inches on level has fallen along the
upper Hudson. The thermometer is
below the freezing point.
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-01-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail.
CONGRESSUONAI

WHEN the Senate met on the 22d no quorum
was present, and II was fully half an hour
before one was secured. The bill to estab-
lish record and pension Office of the War
Department was reported and passed. The
conference report on the Sioux reservation
bill was agreed to, and the House amend
ments to the deficiency bill Striking out the
pay of Senate clerks) was disagreed to. The
elections bill was then taken up and Mr.. Hig-
gins favored and Mr.. Voorhees, opposed it i'm
lengthy speeches. Adjourned. The pro-
ccedings of the House were unimportant
District of Columbia business being under
consideration.
AT the expiration OF tho morning hour in
the Senate on the 22d Mr.. sherman reported
the caucus bill to provide against the con-
traction of the currency. Placed on the cal
endar. Mr.. Call then addressed the Senate
in opposition to the elections bill, speaking
for four hours. Mr.. Mcpherson took the
floor, but yielded to Mr. Adrich, who gave
notice of his intention to move an amend.
ment to the rules to close debate on any bill.
Laid over. Pending Mr.. McPherson's speech
against the elections bill the Senate ad-
tourned until next day. Soon after the
House met the Speaker announced appoint
mcnts to vacancies on several committees
and the House adjourned until Friday.
IN the Senate on the oath Mr.. Edmunds Of
fered resolution extending the laws OF Ne
braska over the Territory of Oklahoma until
July l, 1891, the Legislature of the Territory
having failed to enact code of laws. OBJ
tections were made and the resolution went
over. Mr.. Morgan addressed the Senate in
opposition to the elections bill, and the Sen
ate then adjourned until noon Saturday with
the understanding that at that hour the Pre-
siding Officer should declare the Senate ad-
journed until Monday.
THE Senate was not in session on the 26th.
The House only met according to ad-
journment, with only a few members pres
cnt, and adjourned until Monday.
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-01-01
One of the Bravest Deeds.

An incident of the battle of Waterloo,
heard from the great Duke himself, was
told by Lord Shaftesbury, the philan-
thropist, to the late Sir George Burns,
in whose biography it is given by Mr..
Edward Holder. At one moment in the
battle the Duke of Wellington was left
alone, his aids-de-camp having been
dispatched with messages. A gentle-
man in plain clothes rode up to him and
said: Can be of any use, sir?" The
Duke looked at him and instantly said:
'Yes; take that pencil note to the com
manding officer" pointing to regiment
in the heat of the engagement. The
note was taken and delivered, its bearer
galloping through the thick of the fight
to execute it's commission. After the
battle the Duke made every inquiry, but
never could find out to whom he was in
debted for this brave service. He told
Lord Shaftesbury that he considered
this one of the most gallant deeds that
had over como under his notice, seeing
that it was done without prospect OF
honor or reward. d.-London News
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-01-01
Miscellaneous.

Mrs. JEFFERSON DAVIS has received
$4,000 subscriptions to the life of her
husband.
A FEW days ago, while sinking the ar
tesian we'll at Pascagoula, cypress log
was struck at distance down of fifty
or sixty feet.
BRANDON is making an active cam
vass in the interest of the Millsaps Col
lege, and will make a fight to secure it's
location there.
Mrs. REBECCA ROBINSON, of Mag
nolia, is dead, at the age of "a years, 10
months and IS days. She had been an
invalid for three years. Previous to
that time her health was excellent. She
was known throughout the country for
her many noble deeds.
Mrs. FRANCES L. BELL, an old and
honored resident of Grenada County,
died at Grenada on the 23d. Although
Mrs. Bell had been sick two days, and
was in her 10th year, her death was
sudden and unexpected.
JUSTICE HARRIS last week rendered
lIlO Slly VI odOAoOh
for $3.50 for a setter dog, the property of
]. c. Julienne. During the dog days
the police were ordered to kill all un-
muzzled dogs, and Julienne's dog was
killed by the City Marshal. The case
was appealed and will doubtless go to
the Supreme Court before the power of
the city to enforce such an ordinance is
settled.
KosCIUsKo has the distinction of buy
ing more cotton than any town in Cen
trail Mississippi. The compress, which
has capacity of 400 bales per day, is
crowded to its utmost, and is run night
and day, with fully thirty days work in
sight.
The body of negro named Jackson
was found lying in a road near Ratt-
lifts Ferry, ten miles east of Canton,
last week, with his head almost severed
from the body. The murder was sup
posed to have been committed for the
purpose of robbery, as the man was
known to have about $500 on his per-
son.
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-01-01
MISCEILANEOTS.

DUBUQUE, Ia, is rejoicing in the pros
pect of having 100000 stock yards and
a big packing house.
THE abnormally cold, foggy and wet
season has increased London's annual
death rate from eighteen to twenty-six
per thousand the past week.
THE French journalists who assisted
the Nihilist, Padlewski, to escape after
the murder of Seliversl1off, have been
sentenced to terms of Imprisonment at
Paris.
AT test of steel manufactured at the
Carpenter steel works, Reading, Pa, a
one-inch bar broke at the strain of $685.
s33 pounds. being about 10000 pounds
in excess of the highest record authori-
tativelv known. The test was made
under the supervision of Government
officers.
THE Russian Government has ordered
the construction at Fedoroff's ship yard
at Nicolaieff of a gigantic ironclad of
12.4SO tons for the Black Sea fleet,
which is being strengthened in every
way.
A SPECIAL from Petersburg, Va, says
it is reported that the five negroes who
were arrested for the murder of DIR. E.
H. Riggin, in Mecklenbourg County,
and committed, were taken from Jail
and lynched.
THE Louisville-Cincinnati tobacco
trust has fallen through and all the
property has been conveyed back to its
original owners. The capital stock of
the corporation was S5,000,O00
THE steamer Curier from Heligoland
weat aground near Helsinger, great
bell, Denmark. Six men We're drowned.
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-01-01

Heman & Co., Council Bluffs, Iowa, has
suspended. The assets are reported at
100000; liabilities, 100000.
RAILWAY strikers in Scotland are ac-
cused of attempting to wreck train
between Glasgow and Kilbride
SOME of the leading Philadelphia
manufacturers refuse information to
census officers.
AT East Chicago, Ind, Christmas
morning, while "A masquerade party was
in full blast at the Tod Opera House. a
fire broke out, creating terrible panic
Fortunately no one was seriously hurt.
ISAAC Il. SAwTELLE has been convict
ed at Dover, n. H., of the murder of his
brother Hiram. lie was sentenced to
be hanged July 1.
THERE is a split in the English Saliva
ton Army over Darkest England" :"
which, it appears, was not the concep-
ton or the writing of General Booth,
but was the scheme of his right hand
man, Commissioner Smith, who has re-
signed.
THE Savannah, (Ga.) Fire & Marine
Insurance Company has wound up its
affairs. Threatened adverse legislation
was the principal cause of closing up
the business.
FOREPAUGH's Theater and the Masonic
Temple, Baltimore, were destroyed by
fire Christmas day. The loss was heavy.
FRANK f. DICKINSON and Minnie
Brundage fell through the ice while
skating on a mill pond near Ann Arbor,
Mich. Both were students at the Mich
igan University.
A WOMAN was killed in New York the
| other day by a hat pin entering her
brain when she fell on the sidewalk.
BUSINESS failures tDun's report for
the seven days ended December 25 num-
bered 1888, compared with 4Of the pre-
vious week and 2SS the corresponding
week of last year.
Two persons suffering from lcprosy
have been inoculated at Madrid with
lymph according to the method of DR..
Koch. The doctors of the hospital
where the lepers are being treated re-
port that the patients have apparently
been rapidly improving since the new
remedy was applied.
TIE Westinghouse embarrassment at
L
bankers advancing the firm $500. 900.
Mrs. JOHN DIEDRICH and her three
children pcrished in a fire at Rochester,
n. Y, recently.
TIE abandoned farms in the State of
Maine number 1910
FIRE in Weyaumega, Wis, the other
morning caused the death of Orrin En-
mis- and did much damage.
GUSTAV LARSON, a laborer, lost him
self in one of the big sewers of Mime
apolis and wandered three miles before
he could get out. lie was badly pois
oned
THE Canadian Customs Department
has imposed fine Of $50 on the German
sealing schooner Adele, which was
seized at Victoria, i. c. The vessel was
charged with making false clearance.
TIE fourth annual meeting of the
American Economic Association com
menced at Washington on the Goth.
THE 600 employees of the Pullman
works at Chicago have been notified of
a reduction of ten per cent. in wages.
SEVERAL vessels went ashore off
Rhode Island during the storm of the
-OJn. nree Scdlncn were tIoN Icd'
A REPORT from Pine Ridge Agency
SAYS that after council in the Bad
Lands the Indians had resolved to sur
render.
THREE locomotives have arrived at
Matadi, the terminus of the Congo rail
way.
BY an explosion of boiler at Kelly e
Wells lum ber mill on Black river. forty
miles from Newport, Ark, two men
were killed. Another man and woman
were severely injured
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-01-01
Personal AND POLITICAL.

THE President has nominated Henry
i. Brown of Michigan, to be Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States vice Samuel Miller, de-
ceased.
HENNEssY defeated Scully, Parnell's
candidate, at Kilkenny, by majority 81
001.
THE Gaulois announces that Emperor
William has decided to visit Paris. He
will travel in strict incognito.
THE Tariff Reform Club had a great
banquet at Madison Square Garden,
New York, on the night of the 23d, the
principal speaker being Ex-President
Cleveland.
ten days visit.
THE French Government has asked
the Chamber to vote 1880, 900 francs for
the encouragement of the silk-worln
raising industry in France.
THE committee of the French Cham
ber of Deputies have reported against
the consideration of the Mareau bill for
the abolition of the taxation of titles.
THE President has issued the World S
L ar pFOcldlIld dIIOH.
THE President has vetoed bill for
the erection of public building at Bar
Ilarbor, Me.
REVOLUTIONARY movements are re-
ported in Peru.
URUGUAY is about to impose higher
duties on imports.
THE Archbishop of York, England, is
&c
cover. DR.. William Thompson is now
over 20, and has been an extremely busy
man, both in church and educational
work, and is an author.
NJ. PAUL DE RoULEDE has succeeded
in forming a new Boulangist party with
eleven Deputies. These include NJ.
Lauer; the well-known Boulangist, and
NJ. Merry, the Republican. The party
will adopt Socialist programme.
CHAIRMAN JONES, of the Republican
State Central Committee of Illinois,
says that the right of five Democratic
Scnators-elect to sit in the Legislature
will be contested. The Legislature
is almost evenly divided, with three
Farmers Alliance men holding the bal
ance of power.
The Archbishop of York, England, is
dead.
HEINRICH SCHLIEMAN, the noted dis
coverer of ancient Troy, is dead, aged 6S.
THE great National Indian Congress
met in Calcutta on the Goth.
THE interference of the priests in the
North Kilkenny election has greatly dis
turbed English Nonconformist Liberals.
JOHN PINKERToN, member of Parlia-
ment for Galway, supporter of Mr..
Parnell, announces that he will resign
his seat if his constituents desire him to
do so. because of his allegiance to Mr..
Parnell
w. d. SIMPSON, Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court of South Carolina, is
dead.
UNITED STATES TREASURER HUSTON
has reconsidered his resignation and
agreed to remain in his present position
until the end of Mr.. Harrison's term.
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-01-01
LIFE IN HELlGOlAND.
The PatriarchaI System Still Exists and
Is Rigidly Observed.

Is RISluiy observed
The women of Heligoland are, gener-
ally speaking, small and gacefully form
ed and present a remarkable contrast to
their tall and strapping mates. The fe-
male loveliness is unfortunately some
what transient, no doubt owing in large
measure to the inferior fare and rough
work with the nets. No idea of female
suffrage is ever likely to enter a Heligo-
lander's head. His idea of the relation
of the sexes is the old one that the man
is the head of the wife and that
women, take them as you like, are an
inferior order; they are kind and court
eous to their women in all respects, but
there is no doubt who is lord and bread
winner. The patriarchal system has
scarcely died out Each lus-
ty, broad-shouldered son, though
he may have passed his
twenty-frst birthday, is required togive
all or nearly all his earnings to his IA
ther so long as he lives in his fathers
house. When he marries and takes up
house for himself then only does the
patria protestas come to an end. Heligo-
landers as rule marry young; there
are more women than men, and it is not
difficult to find mate. Housekeeping
is not an expensive job, and there is
plenty of money to be earned if man
is intelligent and industrious. 1t may
be some time before the young husband
has boat of his own, for boat costs
925 (they are all built in the island),
but he can always hire one, paying for
it's hire about S5 per cent of the pay
ment he himself charges
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-01-01
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.
FataI Result of q Joke.

A trifling affair caused mans death,
near Kenton, Tenn, few days ago.
Lewis Thompson struck George French
in the head with n breast yoke and
killed him. 1t seems that Thompson
had recently married, and applied to
another man for washing for his wife,
and, in a friendly and joking manner,
French said he was going to marry and
get wife TO support him, whereupon
Thompson took offense at the remarks
made by French, and from this the
trouble started and resulted in French's
death. Thompson fed, but was capt
ured shortly afterward and safely jailed
at Troy
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-01-01
Four Lives Lost in a Fire.

ROCHESTER, n. Y, Dec. 26.-This
morning about o'clock Mrs. John
Dietrich, of No. Orchard street, and
her three children, Libbie, aged years,
Jacob, aged and Louisa, aged IL
months, were burned to death.
How the fire originated is a mystery.
Mrs. Dietrich had arisen at o'clock to
start a fire ip the kitchen stove, and
awakened her husband soon after with
an alarm of fire. She rushed in to save
her three children and perished in the
flames. Her husband and one son es-
caped.
The firemen saved the house from ut
ter ruin.
The Brookhaven leader., 1891-01-01
MISSISSIPPI MATTERS.
The Ordinance of sece..Ion.

An ante-bellum relic, one which re-
tween the States, is on exhibition at
Memphis, and is attracting universal
attention. IL is an autograph copy OF
the ordinance of the Mississippi Conven-
tion which declared the secession Of the
State in January, 1861. The deliberate
ly and carefully worded document now
reads like a romance, although at the
time it was a document full of startling
realism. The document and the names
of the signers are as follows:
An ORDINANCE to dissolve the union between
the state of Mississippi, and other states.
united with her under the compact cntit.e1
tho Constitution OF the United states Uf
America:
The people of the State of Mississippi
in convention assembled, do ordain and
declare, and it is hereby ordained and
declared as follows, to-wit:
Section /. That all the laws and or
dinances by which the State Of Missis-
sippi became member Of the Federal
Union of the United States of America
be and the same are hereby repealed,
and that all obligations on the part Of
the said State, or the people thereof, to
observe the same, be Withdrawn, and that
the said State doth hereby resume all
the rights, functions and powers which,
by any of said laws or ordinances, were
conveyed to the Government OF the
said United States, and is abSolved from
all obligations, restraints and duties in
Cured to the said Federal Union, and
shall from henceforth be free, sover-
eign and Independent State.
Sec. ?. That so much of the first sec
tion. of the seventh article of the Consti-
tuition of this State as requires members
of the Legislature and all officers, execu-
tive and judicial, to take an oath or an
affirmation to support the Constitution
of the United States be and the same is
hereby abrogated and annulled.
Sec. 3. That all rights acquired and
vested under the Constitution of the
United States, or under any act of Con-
greSS passed or treaty made in pursu-
ance thereof, or under any law of this
State, and not Incompatible with this
ordinance, shall remain in force and
have the same effect as if this ordinance
had not been passed.
See. 4. That the people of the State
of Mississippi hereby consent to form
Federal Union with such of the States
as may have seeded or may secede from
the Union of the United States Of
America upon the basis of the present
Constitution of the said United States,
except such parts thereof as embrace
other portions than such seeding
States.
Thus declared and ordained in con-
vention the 9th day of January, 1861.
WM $. BARRY, President
+. A. POPE. Secretary.
In testimony of the passage of which
and the determination of the members
of this convention to uphold and main
tain the State in the position she has
assumed by said ordinance. it is signed
by the president and members of this
convention, this 18th day of January,