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The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-07-05
MISCELLANEOUS.
ReUistrutiOn Notice.

The Board of Registration Of Lincolr
county will open the registration books 10
the several election precincts IN Lincoli
county on the days and the places iollow'
ing: .
July 10th, at Ellzy's store, In Beat o
for Macedonia Precinct.
.JuIy I7tb. at Caseyyillo, in Beat D.
10Th, at Hyman's sheep shed, Beat 4
for Adams Camp Ground Precinct
July goth, at Lard's mill, in Beat 4.
August 9th, at Bog uechitto, Beat L..
7th, at Male Academy, Brookha'
ven, for Warren's precinct.
August 9Th, at Courthouse.
OH, at Montgomery, Beat /.
10th, at Little Bahatice, Beat z
llth, at Fair River Store, :,
18th and 18th, at Halls old
place alias J. j.. McDavitt's, Beat 8, Tor
Halls Precinct.
August 18th and 18th, MeComb's school
house, for McComb's School House Pre-
cinct.
The territory embraced in the McComb's
School house Precinct consists OF township
5, range 0, east; also e4 of township 0,
range S, east.
The territory embraced in Halls Pre-
cinct consists of township 6, range Q, east,
and e1 of township 8, range 8, east.
At the Courthouse, for review, Oct. 31st
and Nov. LIST, I'd, Sd and 5tb.-
The boudaries of the Election Precincts
remain as they were established last year,
except McComb School House Precinct
and Halls Precinct.
The last five days are for correction of
all errors and mistakes, and to register
those who, from any cause, failed to regis
ter at their precincts.
A complete new registration is required
in Beat 8 on account of a change in the
precincts.
BY order oftha Board of Registration.
w. II. HARTLEY, President.
June 28-3t.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-07-05
Gen. WoOdford's Address.

We have read with much interest the
address delivered by Gen. Stewart l..
Woodford before the literary societies
of the University of Mississippi at Ok
ford. He is one of the foremost Re
pubiicans of New York, and We were
surprised when informed he had been
invited to make the address. In fact
all were surprised that SO bitter a Re
publican as Gen. Woodford was known
to be had been selected to speak to
Democratic boys in a Democratic State.
But the boys knew what they were do
ing; they selected an orator regardless
of his politics, and all who heard the
speech were delighted with it. THE
tenor of the address was obedience tc
law-toleration and respect for MAORI
ties"
Gen. Woodford was Hospitality enter.
tain while at Oxford, and we hope car.
ries back a better opinion of the South
ern people than he entertained when
he came within'our borders.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-07-05

Hayes is q frand.
We have often said 1t and again re-
peat it.
He lie the most ~stupendous fraud OF
this or any other age.
He is q fraud in ways than one.
As a man he is a fraud.
As n gentleman of yeraoity he is q
fraud.
As a President he is decidedly fraud
ulent.
Tn taking the votes OF South Carroll
ma and Louisiana and kicking over
board Chamberlain and Packard he
confesses to have perpetrated a fraud.
But as a civil service reformer he is
the biggest fraud yet mentioned. He
has spoken against federal office-hold-
ers participating in political campaigns
and entered his protest against it, but
the following named officials and Radi-
cal bummers are still in Office.
Look over the list and if, after read
ing it, you don't pronounce Hayes a
fraud, you ought to be put in the same
yoke au.I made do service for his Fraud
ulency for the next four years:
Gov. r. G. Mccormick, Secretary of
the Republican National Committee, is
now Assistant Secretary of the Treas
ury.
The Hon. VIII C~umback, member OF
The same committee, is Collector of In
ternal Revenue in Indiana.
Capt. Elihu Enos, Of the same con :
mittee, is postmaster at Waukesha.
Chauncey l. Filley, of the same COM
mittee, is postmaster at st. Louis.
Gov. Edward f. Noyes, of the same
committee, is to be minister to France.
E. w. Keys, Chairman of the Repub-
lican State Central Committee of Wis
consln, and through whose e%xertions
that State was saved to the Republi-
cans, is postmaster at Madison.
Daniel Shepard, the lively Secretary
of the Republican Committee of Hi
nois, holds o position in the Chicago
post-office.
Gen. A. T. Wikoff, who led the fight
in Ohio as Chairman of the Republican
State Committee, is pension agent.
Last and least, one of the editors of
the Memphis A~Ualanche, a Hayes or
gan, is postmaster at Memphis.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-07-05
Sixteen Instead of Eight.

In last weeks issue we published o
notice to the effect that the Democratic
majority in the next Congress would be
eight. A Washington correspondent
now puts the number down at sixteen
Democratic majority. He says a copy
has been made of the pay certificates
for the Forty fifth Congress, as furnish
ed by Clerk Adams to S~ergeant-at-
Arms Thompson, and constituting his
vouchers in account with the United
States Treasury, and given to some Re-
publican papers as the roll of the next
House made out by Adams. The list
shows q Democratic majority of sixteen,
| with seven members to heax from. Nc
further changes have been made, and
none will be until the time comes fol
making up the roll. What that will
be no one yet knows. In the Colorado
case the law is all against Belford, and
Patterson's title to the seat turns on
the construction of an enabling act.
The Supreme Court of California has
given Pachero, Republican, the seat
in the Fourth District of that State,
and Wigginton has appealed. The
contest in the courts over the Third
District in Missouri is in much the
same shape. The record of Florida,
and the Fourth and Sixth Districts OF
Louisiana are covered by conflicting
certificates from the rival Governors.
Adams will probably follow the ex-
ample set by Hayes in this matter, and
recognize Nichols and the Democratic
Congressman.
The country is safe. 1t would be
very nice for Mr.. Hayes to organize the
House with o Republican Speaker, and
his greatest ambition is in that direc-
top, but o Democratic majority of six
teen is more than he can overcome, and
he had as we'll at once give up all hopes
of a Republican Speaker.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-07-05
SA0N for. Two NHHp.1ereIS.

Gov. Stone has offered a reward of
5000 each for the apprehension of VIM.
A. Turnage, charged with the murder
of John Hall, in Lafayette county, and
Charles D. Evans, charged with the
murder Of Daniel Burns, in Marshall
county.
Turnage is eighteen years old, about
5 feet, 8 inches high; light sandy hair;
smooth face; high cheek bones, light
complexion; blue eyes; large mouth;
wart or fesh-colored lump on lower e1-
tremity of right ear; mole or wart in
dimple of chin.
Evans is twenty>six years old; five
feet, six or seven inches high: weighs
about one hundred and thirty~fve or
forty pounds; heavy set; stands erect;
carries his head a little dropped to the
right as he walks; quick spoken; large
blue eyes; light hair; mustache and i'm
perial; prominent forhead; a man OF
more than ordinary intelligence.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-07-05
Hayes and the Eenuhl1cnn ma.

s'HN =
Since n last issue several notable
political events have transpired.
lst. The Presidential order prohibit
ing interference by Federal Office hold.
ers, IN the management of caucuses and
conventions. With this, and as illus,
trating the Presidents sincerity. it
should be mentioned that Secretary Nc
Crary, of his Cabinet, started on the
same day for Iowa to manipulate the
State Convention. A further illustra.
ton may be found in TIE removal of the
Collector Mt Baltimore and the appoint
ment i'll his place of the most skillful
Republican politician in Maryland.
Great is civil service reform.
2nd. The action of the New Hamp-
shire House of Representatives IN tab
ling a resolution approving the South
ern policy and the reform professions of
the administration. This wal done by
the full Republican vote.
3rd. On the 2Sth nit. the Republi
can State Convention of Iowa treated
Mr.. Hayes in very much the same way
they would have treated Mr.. Tilden, if
the latter were Presi 'ent. They tabled
the following resolution by q three
fourth vote:
Resolved, That the called Southern
policy which has been inaugurated and
pursued by the present National Adj
ministration is in accord with the priu-
clples of the Republican party.
The people of Iowa don't know
Hayes as a Republican. They believe
in the party, not in him. He is the
tail, and is to be wagged, not the dog
that is to wag the tail.
To these things, all of them signii-
cant, must be added the New England
trip of the President and members of
his Cabinet. This is as purely a po-
litical affair as the others. But the at
tentions thus shown have not the actual
political significance that the action of
representative Republicans of New
Hampshire and Iowa, noted above, pos
, sesSes.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-07-05
q Wealthy EnlnreN yUnn.

Ben. Montgomery, a slave Of Col.
Joseph +. Davis, brother of Hon. JEFF
ferson Davis, died n few days ago. The
New Orleans Times has the following
to say of this Industrious colored man
After the war Montgomery bought
the '"Hurricanes' estate, one of the
most superb properties in Mississippi,
for which he paid $500, 900. This prop
erty included the "Huricanes' and the
''Briarield" places, the latter the home
of Hon. Jefferson Davis during his res>
ideEce in Mississippi. The Ursina es-
tate, on Palmyra Island, was bought by
Montgomery from Colonel Wood, of
Jefferson county. Mississippi. This
gave him the main ownership Of that
famous island. the other plantation
there being owned by the heirs of Gen.
Quitman. 1t is doubtful if any colored
man in the South possessed such abili-
ty as Montgomery. He was we'll known
in this city as a thorough planter and
an accurate and prudent man of bust
ness His sons inherit the paternal es-
tate, and in some measure his business
characteristics.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-07-05
The High Joint Commission of
Eincoln County.

A rare instance of political legerde>
main has t~ranspired in Lincoln county.
and the p%ernicious example of the High
| Joint 8 to 7 Electoral Commission, at
Washington, has been boldly and def
antly initiated by the 6 to 4 High Joint
Democratic County Executive Commit
tee'of Lincoln county. And what be-
comes of the people of that county, is
the question.
On the 18th day of June, the Demo-
cratic Executive Committee of Lincoln
met in Brookhaven, and by n vote
of 6 to 4 refused 10 call a county. con
v~ention of the Democratic party to ap-
point delegates to the State Convention.
This majestic High Joint Committee
then proceeded to appoint ten delegates
to the State Convention, and as if to
show to what extent usurpation could
go, they instruct these ten delegates to
vote for Capt. Gwin for Auditor, and
pass a resolution declaring it the sense
of that committee that Gen. Lowry is
the choice of the people Of Lincoln
county for Governor. This dune, they
call a county convention, to meet on the
2lst of July, to nominate county officers.
The Office of Governor is nearly as i'm
portant as that of county officers, and
Just why this committee had so keen a
sense of the peoples choice for Govern
or, and did not have sense enough to
know whom they wanted for county
officers is what perplexes us, and will
perplex the democrats of Lincoln
county. Why not save expense and
k,o,L1a onl cny1 tho oo1pO pf thu onr,
mittee to Jackson, in a letter instead of
appointing ten delegates who are sup
posed, by the arrogant instructions of
the committee, to have no sense.
From the start this Lincoln County
Committee has made, we shall expect
to hear, OF its next meeting, that it has
resolved to disband the State Conven-
ton, to name the Governor and other
State officers, and in anticipation of a
vacancy, to elect q United States Sena-
tor. The ten delegates to the State
convention are men of high character,
some of whom we know personally, and
others by reputation-such, for exam
pie, as J. B. Chrisman, Hon. r. FL.
Thompson, John M. Girault, etc, and
while these gentlemen are men of integ-
rity and Intelligence. they are sent rs
mere MISUNDERSTANDING up and
handcuffed, and sent to Jackson to car
ry a message from, and to reflect the
sense of the Lincoln County Executive
Committee. Why trifie thus with the
intelligent delegates? Why not send a
mule to Jackson, with a note pinned to
his tail, to reflect the sense of this tow
ering High Joint Committee.
It is proper to state that the Comet
and LEDGER, both in the interest of
Gen. Lowry. have protested against
the action of this High Joint Commits
e e.-P0rt Gibson ReretHe.
WEST POINT has a Law and Library
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-07-05
ACandidate from Each District

"A Ca from bIslch District
A Lee county correspondent of the
Clarion makes the following sugges
ton, which strikes us as being a good
one:
Will you allow a subscriber to make
a suggestion through your valuable
paper that he thinks would harmonic
the whole people of our beloved Mis-
sissippi. 1t is simply this: Let our
delegates meet in State Convention
with the understanding that they first
nominate a candidate for Governor from
the State at large; and then n State
officer from each Congressional District;
and when each District gets a mar
nominated for an Office, ballot for no
more from that District, and so on I'M
til each District has n of our State
offices. Then one can complain.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-07-05
Is.

The law of 1877 says that the person
presenting an account to the Board OF
Supervisors for allowance shall have
marked thereon the particular section
of the law under which the allowance is
made, citing the page of the code or
acts where such law. may be found.
This is q matter Of interest to the
public, and those having accounts
against Boards of Supervisors should
follow the above directions or no allows
ance can be made.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-07-05

If so, send it to this Office and get
The LEDGER until January LIST, 1878.
Every person should be posted during
the campaign, md an opportunity for
cheap reading is now offered. Send us
YOUR name and dollar. In no case
win a campaign subscriber be entered
pom our books unless payment is made
in advance.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-07-05

The newspapers are now publishing
sarcastic advertisements of the Hilton
dynasty. One card announces tina
Certificates of baptism in Stewart
Methodist Church, at Garden City, SCI
curing for the summer months admis
sion to the Grand Union Hotel, Sarato-
ga, can be had for S.. Liberal dis
counts allowed by the package of fifty
or over. Call on or address 81. H."
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-07-05
ANNOUNCEMENTS
For FZ00fer.

We are authorized to announce j. E.. Jagers as
a Democratic candidate for reelection for fioater
for Lincoln and Amite counties, at the NOvem-
Der election, subject to a decision Of q conven-
ton OF these counties,
We are authorized to announce e. L. Tarver AZ
a candidate for Floater for Lincoln and Amite
counties, subject to the action of the Democrat
ic party of these counties.
We are authoritative announce j. d. Burke as
a candidate for Floater to represent the counties
Of Lincoln and Amite in the Legislature, subject
to the action Of the Democratic party.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-07-05

We fully endorse, as should every
Democrat, the following resolution
adopted at a Democratic Convention in
Noxubee county:
"We will regard any Democrat who
offers himself as an Independent candi-
date, as an avowed political enemy, and
will treat him accordingly"
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-07-05

The Office OfLieutenant.GOver
nor.
The drift of public sentiment as ex-
pressed by the press, is against the
proposed amendment abolishing the of
fee of Lieutenant Governor. The peo-
ple have seen the while it will save at
most but $500 to the State Treasury, it
will rob them of the power to choose
the person who will become Governor
in the event of a vacancy in the office.
This would sacrifice a fundamental
principle for an Insignificant considera-
tion.-CldrtOn.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-07-05
Rewarded.

MI. r. A. Thompson. of the Ara-
lanche, has been appointed postmaster
at Memphis, and on the 18th fled his
required bond in the sum of $108, 900.
Ed,
Hayes did right in rewarding the AU-
alanche. It had bolstered upon his
fraudulent administration with a super
abundance of gas. 1t has its reward.
There are a few other papers in the
South that have not yet been rewarded,
Mr.. Hayes. Don't forget them.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-07-05
Com promising Crime.

The President is irritated over the
indictment of Wells and Anderson fol
perjury in connection with the Louis
lana Returning Board. The Presidents
idea was that all matters of this charac-
ter were condoned by the Matthews.
Foster bargain. - Washington Iele'
gram.
The above shows that Hayes was
willing to compromise a crime. Such a
man is unfit to occupy any position
within the gift of the people.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-07-05

The ship Gov. Morton, with a cargo
of four thousand, six hundred bales
of cotton, and one thousand, two hun
dred slaves, was burned at Southwest
Pass last Monday morning.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-07-05

THE suit brought against Jacob
Thompson, of Mississippi, by Zach.
Chandler for several million dollars on
account Of Indian bonds, has been dis
missed by the Attorney-General.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-07-05

Coop authorities estimated the last
cotton crop in the United States at -four
millions one hundred thousand
bales. 1t turns out to be four millions
five hundred thousand. The crop
in Egypt and India was larger than ex-
pected, and there is enough, of raw pro-
duct to last until the beginning of the
new crop year. The wal in Europe
has caused a falling off in consumption
and a decline of price. Neither q scar
city nor q rise is to be expected oon
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-07-05

WE presume that the Clarion has
not heard of any of the many murders
that have taken place in the State with
in the past week, as it has nothing to
say about them.-Puot.
If there was more than one murder
two negroes killed at the same time-it
was the Pilots duty to inform the pub
lie. A newspaper should give the news.
The Pilot has an elastic conscience.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-07-05
The Electoral Commission.

To the Editor Of the Sum
S1R:-A correspondent of the Ctncin-
natl Enquirer has published some OBJ
servations, which he attributes to me,
but which are Of little moment, except
SO far as they carry the implication that
Mr.. Tilden favored the measure by
which the Electoral Commission was
created.
will take this opportunity to say
that it is within my personal knowledge
that Mr.. Tilden was not in favor OF that
measure. Very truly, etc.
WILLIAM DoRsHEIMER.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-07-05

THE Republicans have at last been
compelled to admit that the charges
that have been made by the Democrats
for years that the treasury bureau OF
printing and engraving has been a per>
feet hot-bed of corruption and an asy-
lum for political favorites, is true.
Next.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-07-05
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Sale
Decree rendered
August 4, 1874

LIB Coffey Decree rendered
oil VS. Augusta, 1874
W G Chamberlin.) for $5OS
BY virtue Of decree of the Chancery Court in
the above stated cause, /. the undersigned Mas.
ter and Commissioner in Jhancery, VIII on Mon
dou min 10th. 1877, at the courthouse door In the
town Of Brookhaven, between the hours pre-
scribed by law, sell at public outcry, to the high
est bidder, for cash, the following lands, to-wit:
South 4 section 6; mex nwA and neA swA sec
zion S. all in 6, range s east, in Lincoln coun-
ty. Mississippi, or so much Of said lands as may
be necessary to pay said decree and costs Of suit.
J.. N. BUCKLEY,
.une145v Commissioner.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-07-05

THE st. Louis Globe Democrat has
nothing to say against Mr.. Garfield, ex-
cept that it "believes him to be a con-
temptible, lying %hypocrite." 1t puts it
mildly.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-07-05
FO,. Assessor.

We are authorized to announce 2. T. Champlin
for the office of Assessor of Lincoln county,
subject to the action Of the Democratic party.
We are authorized to announce Allen Scar
borough as a candidate for Assessor OF Lincoln
county, subject to the action of the Democratic
party.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-07-05

GEN. RoBT. Lowry holds thirty in
his hand and the knob which makes
thirty-one, and the crib is yet to be
counted. We suspect he'll be count
ed ill.," shtand Argus.
Well, calls we'll that ends WE'LL"
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-07-05

HE General of the army announces
that Drexel 4 Co. will charge 6 per
cent. per annum for advances of pay
for July, August and September. OFF,
GERS may draw on them for IS per cent.
Of their pay.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-07-05

Mr.. B. E. CARROLL, Of the Newton
Ledger, has been in city for q day
or two prospecting. Times.
Don't confound The LEDGER and
Bulle1in. There is but one LEDGER
published in this State and it is The
BRooKHAvEN LEDGER.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-07-05

MARY JANE HARDEsTER, of DrraEt,
Miss, has called a meeting of the heirs
of the Jennings estate at Richmond,
Va, July 18th, 1877.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-07-05

r. G. PATTY, of Noxubee county, is
the latest mentioned candidate for Au-
ditor. From the hungry aspirants to
that Office, one would suppose "there's
millions in it."
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-07-05

The Commercial says Gen. Woods
ford, of New York, who delivered the
Commencement address at the State
University last week, is visiting DIR.
Walden, at Walden Station. He will
probably visit Vicksburg and New Or
leans before returning to his Northern
home.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-07-05
For Sheriff..

We are authorized to announce A. Q. Cox as q
candidate for reelection to the office of Sheriff
of Lincoln county, subject toIthe action OF the
Democratic party.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-07-05
LAWSCH00L.
Law Department Of Washington
University,
st. Louis, NRo-

FACULTY:
Rev william G Elliott, ID ID, President
and Chancellor of the University.
AND LECTURERS:
Henry Hitchcock, Ii. D, Prof of Real
Prop Law, and Provost of tho Law De-
Albert Todd, A NJ Lecturer on the
Law of Real Property as applied 10 Con-
Alexander Martin, A NJ, Professor of
Admiralty, Marine insurance ana Mari-
time Law.
Samuel Reber. A NJ, Prof of the Histo-
nv and Science of Law, Cons Law, Iorts,
Equity and SUGGESTIONS.
John NJ Krum, A M,Lectureron Grim
inal law.
Real Property law,
Chester H Krum, 4 b, Professor OF the
Law of Pleading and Evidence.
George NJ. Stewart, A NJ, Professor OF
the Law of Contracts, Sales, Bills ana
Notes and Bailments,
Regular annual session will open Octo-
Der 10th, 1877.
TUITION:
Tuition fee is $50 per term, payable IN
every case in advance. ~.
There are six free scholarships In ms
school. three for Junior and three for senior
class. There are no extra charges
Students are admitted to either class, on
examination, until the Christmas recess
For particulars, address
s GEORGE NJ. STEWART,
Dean Of Law Faculty.
203 n. Third street, st. Louis, Mo.
amy377-2y.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-07-05

FIVE men were taken from Kentucky
jails on the I'd inst. and lynched.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-07-05
Chairman State Elk. Comm

WE have received a pamphlet enti>
tied american Currency" We have
put it by for winter reading.