The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-03-29

THR Spanish consul was poison@l to
death in New OTisans on the 2tth list.
OAKLEY HALL, es-Mayor, has myT-
terioasiy disappeared frcm New YORK
Giss. GRANT and wife ere visiting
Cincinnati. Like Sampson, he is shorn
of his strength and can do no hsrm-
Poua members of the Cabinet voted
for Greeley. Isn't this shaking hands
across the bloody chesm?
A MEETING is 10 be held at Crystal
Springs, April 7th, for the purpose of
organizing an immigration society.
Pss New Orleans Democrat Gays the
chances FOR a fight are poor, as the fght
ing men are SD on one side.
HAVING proven false in tbs beginning
nothing good can be expected from
Hayes.
HAYES received q postal card on which
wac written Exodus, 18th chapter, %
p verses.
No court Was beld in Frsuhiin county
last week on account ot :hr sickness Of
Judge smylie.
hin T. g. SFENcEn has been tired
and acquitted of the charge Of hnrn;ng
the Court house at Decatur, Newton
county, Miss.
WE hear but little of J. NJ, olson
Wells now. He has, perhaps, retired
70 private life on the thousands he got
for counting Louisiana for Hayes.
G. W. C. Johnson, who las been
twice elected Mayor Of Cincinnati by
the Democrats, has been re-uominated
Cor his third contest.
TEE cutoff point, opposite Vcks-
burg, is fast caving away, and the new
ly made sandbar is moving of rapidly
under the pressure of the rising river,
WADE HAMPTON seems to be running
things in his own way in South Caro>
lima. He holds the Treasury and COM
Portable quarters; Chamberlain holds
the mansion.
HANps-oFF, withdraw your troops,
stand up to Your inaugural, and the
people Of Louisiana and South Care
lima will take care Of themselves, Mr..
Hayes.
JUsr before Grant forever retired
from the Presidents chair, he signed a
bill removing the disabilities Of Gen.
JOS. L. Johnston. One good act for
f1ront.
The Brooklyn Times says Gen. But
Ter, does not want to be Speaker Of the
House. 1t ia seldom that the House,
the public and Gen. Butler ere in such
profound accord.
TEE New York UernlG intimstes
that if by local self-government Mr..
Hayes did not mean Nichols and
Hampton he ought 20 have the franz
ness 10 say 50.
II lying was q capit4l crime . good
many Radicals who testified before
BontwelI's committee in this State last
epriug, OF the Mississippi erection in
1873, would long since have been hung
higher than Haman.
THR Commission ia losing ground; j;
Is coming TO be understood that there
"a 10 authority for it in law, and Nc
money to pay the expenses; it has nc
" to administer oaths, and its de-
cision will have no legal force whatever
THE Brandon Republican hoists q
us masthead, For President in 1880
Samuel J.. Tilaen." As be was cheated
out Of lis seat it would be but common
Justice to rc,nominato Mr.. Tilden il
1880.
SENATOR GORDON had an interview
with Hayes, in which the acting Presi
dent said that the Commissions to Lou
isiana and South Carolina meant til
removal Of all obstacles to the full es
Establishment and recognition Of Nieiloll
and Hampton. ~el F-.
A CORRESPONDENT of the West Poin
Tdre5tiser suggests the name Of hon
+. G. Berry for Attorney General. Der
~ would make a good officer, but Han
per is good enough for az. True, Har
per is an cratic fellow, bht he has
bushel of brains.
WorLD to God there had been NOR
fiibusters in Congress when the coun
was progressing. II there had been
fraud would not now occupy TllGen'
scat, and the Louisiana and South Car
DINA govern9ents would have beei
recognized without the interference o
q Commission.
Tug proposed Commissions meet will
little favor from either party. Tht
Radicals think the President SHOULD
no longer mince matters but recogniz'
the Chamberlain and Packard govern
ments at once. The Democrats Know
it is not the Presidents business to an
hoy them with Commissions. All the,
ask is to be let alone.
REPORTS say Evarts and Schurz vii
soon leave the Cabinet. Evarts will b
appointed Minister to the Court OF 81
james, ana Schurz Minister to Berlin
This is u movement in the interest @
the Morton school Of politicians. In
bloody-shirters want to get out OF til
Cabinet the men that are disposed +
show the South some liberality.
The vicksburg Herald says that O
last Sunday night a negro named WI
liam Allbritton, who lived near Chisum'
Well, about Elk miles from town, Will
on his way to church, was fred Oh Il
the darkness, aud a load Of small sho