The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-04-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
CHARLES +. CHCKERING, the we'll
known piano manufacturer, died at
New York on the 23d.
BRIG. GEN. JAMES A. EAKIN, of the
United States army, was reported dying
at Louisville, Ky, of diseases incident
to old age. He was in charge of the
government depot at Jeffersonville
many years previous to his retirement.
ONE of the last acts of Queen Victoria
before leaving for the continent was to
respond to an appeal for help from the
Leper hospital on Robin island, off the
Cape of Good Hope, by ordering that
two photographs of herself, with her
signature attached, should be forward
ed to the institution.
A FIGHT has been reported between
British colonists of Guiana and Ncnez-
uclans on the frontier.
THE remains of Gen. Johnston were
laid to rest by the side of his wife in
Green Mount cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
THE returns from the elections for
poor law guardians in Ireland show
that the Parnellites are almost every
where in small minority.
THE relations between Portugal and
England are again strained over the
state of siege declared by Portugal in
Manicaland, Africa.
The finance committee of the Arkan-
sas senate has reported adversely to the
appropriation of $4,000 for the worlds
fair.
PROMINENT democrats ratified the
= e d. 10 Tntt taI
States senate at Springfield, ILL.,, on the
25th.
A BERLIN dispatch says that consider
able numbers of Germans have gone to
take service with the Chinese and
Japanese. China has ordered special
war vessels from Germany and Japan
has bought number of torpedoes from
Germany.
LORD SALISBURY has notified Presi-
dent Harrison through Mr.. Blaine that
royal commission will be appointed
to assist British merchants in exhibit
ing the products of British industry at
the fair.
A SPECIAL from Washington says eff
forts are being made to secure the re-
mission of the unexpired term of the
sentence of Commander McCalla, who
was sentenced to three years sus-
pension. The first year of the sentence
does not expire until May 15
GEN. COUNT GEORGE FREDERIC AL
FRED Won FABRICE, president of the
council of the ministry of SaNony, is
dead.
THE Spanish government has notified
the department of state that it will
participate at the worlds Columbian
exposition at Chicago.
AT Sligo Father Kearney, a priest,
made a speech violently attacking Par
nell. His address melted his hearers
to violence and at its conclusion the
speaker had the greatest difficulty in
preventing his flock from attacking the
Parncllites.
The Boersen Zeitung says that the
German emperor will initiate an inquiry
to the Guelph fund scandal. The Ma
tional Zcitung, in an article supposed to
be inspired, declares that Prince Bis
marck spent 10000, 900 marks and that
the accounts were burned.
PRESIDENT CARNoT has telegraphed
to Queen Victoria at Grasse, placing
himself and the French officials at her
service during her residence at that
place.
IT is learned at the state department
that there have been no negotiations
with Switzerland for several years di-
rectly upon the subject of an arbitration
treaty between that country and the
United States.
GEN. JAMES A. EAKIN, of the United
States army, died at Louisville, KY, on
the Goth. Gen. Eakin was born at
Pittsburgh in 1919 He was a mem
/ Der of the commission which tried Mrs.
. Surratt and bore a prominent part in
the funeral of Lincoln.
A sEMI-oFFICIAL dispatch from Chilli
! says that President Balmaceda has for
hidden foreign steamers, chiefly British
and German, to touch at ports on the
coast between Chanaral and africa.
THE life size portrait of jefferson
Davis, which the clerk of the Arkansas
house was authorized during the early
part of the session to have painted, has
been placed over the speakers desk. 1t
took the place of the portrait of George
Washington that has been hanging in
the hall the past twenty years.
SECRETARY PROCTOR does not intend
to resign. He characterized reports as
pure gossip.
CHARLES ARBUCKLE, the senior mem
Der of the New York coffee firm, is
dead, aged 5s.
PRESIDENT LYMAN J. GAGE and his
fellow-directors, who have guided the
worlds fair from the incipiency, have
completed the term of Office for which
they were elected. Mr.. Gage some time
ago declined reelection as president,
but he will probably continue mem
ber of the directory.
ALDERMAN CoLLEY, the anti-Parnell-
ite candidate in NORTH Sligo, AYERS that
the Parnellites are distributing G5
notes among the rowdies of Sligo.
COUNT ARTHUR KEssETHsrAD and
Countess Anne Fries were caught in
storm in a pleasure boat off Albasa,
Austria, and were drowned. The youth
full Count Fries was saved.
MISCELLANEOUS.
CoRRADINI & Co.. bankers and mer-
chants OF Leghorn, Italy, have failed. Lii