The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1895-04-12
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
"ou eyi Telegraph and Mail


PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
AT Boston on the Sd there were va
ScPuons and patriotic addresses =
nonor OK Rev. 5. NJ. Smith. author :,
~ n'nerlca.' me Delegations from the pub.
nc schools, the Harvard Glee club ana
noted musicians participated.
AhE governor OF Missouri has issned
Psociamatton convening the THIRTY
cignth general assembly In special scs.
sion April es. ''e''aA seS'
NON. BUCK KHGoRE, the new Indian
territory judge, was banqueted at Ard
t9' .nore' J. l., on the 3D.. Large delega-
lions were in attendance from Purcell
anu other points of the Chickasaw
DN-CoNGREssMAN William L. Wu-
SON. OF West Virginia, took the oath 20
once as postmaster-general on the Al
Ohiei Justice Fuller appeared at the
post ofhce department and admins
tered the oath in the presence of the
principal officials OF the department
iHE president and his family have
~Een up their residence at Woodlev
ana will make that their home until
their departure for Gray Gables for the
summer. The president will visit tha
white house Tuesdays and FRIDAYS To
meet his cabinet.
1T is stated by persons in a position
to speak with authority that as soon
as venezuela is convinced Great Brit
am mas finally decided not to arbitrate
or settle the boundary dispute as sug-
gested by the United States through
Ambassador Bayard, the southern re-
public will resort TO force.
THE upper house of the Prussian diet
mas referred 10 a special committee
the proposal of Count Won Mirbach for
an international conference on the
currency question.
The spirit of war rose high az the big
cuban mass meeting at jacksonville,
Fla, on the 4th. Gonzalo de Quesada.
secretary of the Cuban Revolutionary
society Of New York, was introduced
and lifted his audience into state of
HENRY HAMMOND, the abolitionist,
died at Danielsonville. Conn, recently.
lie was born in 1914. He was instru-
mental In forming the first anti-slavery
society In Connecticut. and in 1s47 was
associated with Salmon T.. Smith, of |
New York, and others, in forming the |
Buffalo platform. His res
idence i'm Pomfret formed link in the |
underground railway"
The suit in London of Oscar Wilde, |
the English author and apostle of
against the marquis OF |
Queensberry for libel, was withdrawn /
by the plaintiff. Oscar Wilde was after
wards arrested, a criminal action being /
brought against him.
A SPECIAL from Washington said that
he United States supreme court i'm the
income tax case had reversed the deci-
'ion OF the lower court. but the income
ak law as a whole was upheld only by
/ divided court Under the decision to
De handed down by the court, il was
aid, all incomes derived from rents
we're exempted from taxation by the
ederal government, and all incomes
derived from state and municipal bonds
we're similarly exempted.
IT was stated on reliable authority
hat Japan had proposed the following
conditions for the conclusion of peace:
rhe Independence of Corea; the cession
4 southern Manchuria, including
Port Arthur; the cession of the island
4 Formosa; the opening of Chinese
'orts and rivers to commerce; the pay
nent of an indemnity of 100000. 900
en- and the occupation of strategic
'oints until the. indemnity shall have
'een paid.
THE democrats and populists elected
be mayor and all the city officers and
early all the councilmen at Perry, Ok,
nd the old city council, which was re-
has adjourned without count
ng the vote and declaring the result
S required by law, causing q muddle.
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